I watched it twice, once alone and the 2nd time with my husband, and that last episode broke us!!!!! Those were the perfect imperfect parents ever!!!! I wanna be adopted by them! Why can't Yang Gwan Sik be my faaaaather (T_T) Sir, I'll never say you're annoying! EVER!
I gave it a 7.5 because it's not as bad as some might think. What some people seem to be upset about (which I understand) is that the main story is far more interesting, and I wish the drama was only about that. It would be great if the 2001 story could be its own K-drama and the same goes for the main storyline. Or they could have connected them in a better way than they did.
However, I didn't hate it because I watched it again and started to understand that it's told by the two characters (Yeong Ha and Gi Ho) when they met and were sharing their stories about their guilt for turning a blind eye (tho one of them were a young child & the other is a grown a** man)
Also, the acting was great! I would love to see more well-written female villains and serial killers. Please, more of that!
I wrote it in my review of this Kdrama, but I'll write it here again:
To some, it may appear as if there are too many stories interwoven within this story. However, upon closer look, each character embodies a distinct facet of the female experience:
- Kyung Ja represents the older generation of women who were unable to even realize their dreams, thereby dedicating their entire lives to their children and utilizing them as instruments to accomplish their own aspirations and desires that they couldn't do themselves. Hence the obsessiveness in her mind & her crazy way of holding on to God's beliefs as the women in her generation were told. You can see some of this in Mo Mi's mother as well, as she hates how her daughter wasn't good enough for her expectations.
- Mo Mi embodies the generation of women who were told to be beautiful and finding a tall, handsome, and charismatic man was the ultimate dream and the sole path to love, even if said the man turned out to be the ultimate idiot. And if she happened to feel good about herself or her body in some way, some creep will see her as a thing to claim! Nonetheless, women like Mi Mo fail to comprehend that loving oneself is the key to happiness and earning the affection of others. Thus, in her pursuit of conforming to society's superficial beauty standards, believing that it would enable her to start fresh, be beautiful, and be loved, she inadvertently destroyed herself. Consequently, she was labeled a monster despite her "new attractive appearance".
- And finally, Mi Mo symbolizes the younger generation, a girl who is angry at people "the society views on her", dreading the possibility of ending up like her mom, "the previous generation of women," and has a hatred towards her grandma's way of thinking, "the older generation of women. But in the end, she gradually grasps the reality that the world is not simply divided into black and white, decides to accept herself as she is, forgives her grandmother (Mo Mi's Mother), and contemplates how her mother's fate might have been different had the world been more understanding.
Overall, the show was crazy and dark indeed, but so are the lives of these 3 women.
I wonder why Momi never told Kyungja what her son did and that Mimo was her grandchild
For me, I think it would make things worse if she told her... Kyung Ja became obsessive in an insane way about her son, imagine she knows he has a daughter! Plus, that would also mean her daughter would know that she is the result of her father raping her mom & her mom killing him like that!
I feel like many people didn't get the idea behind "Mask Girl". for me, the main women in this show were women who wore masks for something and looked to be loved in their own way, even if it was in a twisted way!
This is how I saw at least, and I might be wrong. Overall... a solid 8!
TBH I'm not mad that the ending is sad, I've kinda prepared myself for it since the beginning, I just don't like the reason for their break up... I mean long-distance relationships are tough, but YuRim & JiWoong were having a long-distance relationship too, it was less tough than BaekDo but still they had one, and both ended up married!? So it kinda felt forced that way to me, and kinda did not make sense...
BUT this doesn't mean that I hated this drama, nope dears! I LOVED IT it gave me the same sensation & exictment I've felt when I was watching Itaewon Class every week.
and now I wanna watch Search WWW by the same writer and director ^^
Hmmm my choices for the FL might be weird, but I based it on who would make it interesting & surprising to watch along with Lee Seung Gi: Yoo In-Na Lee Hanee Seo Ye-Ji
And for the next one, she worked with him before, but I kinda wanna see it again: Shin Min-A
Did I enjoy it? Yeah Did I not understand the ending? Also yeah! So Seriously, I need answers... waiting for someone kind to help me understand ep 16, please TTuTT
Just finished ep 3 and I gotta say... The best Truck-of-Doom attack award goes to....... Vincenzo wow that really took me by surprise, it went from 0 to 10000000 real quick
I really want to take a time and say this, you really post good comment but...... have you seen her kissing scenes…
Thank you, dear ^^ And yeah, I get what you say... and in fact, I hate Hollywood kissing scene, they mostly do kiss scenes for the sake of capturing hot kiss scenes :D and I've watched many kdrama and I have to admit they got better with their kissing scene. But the thing with PSH here is... I can see her cringing from a mile away :D Her face becomes tense, her body language is just off... Her character supposedly had a big mess of feelings with that kiss (She loves him but won't see him ever again, it's his goodbye kiss to her) so for me, they made a sweet & super awkward kiss scene, when it was supposed to capture the passion and fear of losing your loved one forever! and if anyone saw that kiss scene alone, knowing 0 things about the drama, they wouldn't guess this is a goodbye kiss. But nevertheless, she was good for that role, I like her in this drama.
"My girl PSH, you know I love you right? like you are one of the first actresses who pulled me into the drama dark hole... and you're a good actress, you really are dear!
BUT GURRRRRRL... them kissing scenes need to get better.... talk to someone like are they forcing you to do it? because you have the freedom to say no to any kissing scene but don't do 'em like that, it makes me feel uncomfortable watching you acting like you're forced to do it. And no disrespect, but by better, I meant you need more feeling, more passion... it's an intimate thing, so show that, please"
Those were the perfect imperfect parents ever!!!!
I wanna be adopted by them!
Why can't Yang Gwan Sik be my faaaaather (T_T)
Sir, I'll never say you're annoying! EVER!
However, I didn't hate it because I watched it again and started to understand that it's told by the two characters (Yeong Ha and Gi Ho) when they met and were sharing their stories about their guilt for turning a blind eye (tho one of them were a young child & the other is a grown a** man)
Also, the acting was great!
I would love to see more well-written female villains and serial killers. Please, more of that!
To some, it may appear as if there are too many stories interwoven within this story. However, upon closer look, each character embodies a distinct facet of the female experience:
- Kyung Ja represents the older generation of women who were unable to even realize their dreams, thereby dedicating their entire lives to their children and utilizing them as instruments to accomplish their own aspirations and desires that they couldn't do themselves. Hence the obsessiveness in her mind & her crazy way of holding on to God's beliefs as the women in her generation were told.
You can see some of this in Mo Mi's mother as well, as she hates how her daughter wasn't good enough for her expectations.
- Mo Mi embodies the generation of women who were told to be beautiful and finding a tall, handsome, and charismatic man was the ultimate dream and the sole path to love, even if said the man turned out to be the ultimate idiot.
And if she happened to feel good about herself or her body in some way, some creep will see her as a thing to claim!
Nonetheless, women like Mi Mo fail to comprehend that loving oneself is the key to happiness and earning the affection of others. Thus, in her pursuit of conforming to society's superficial beauty standards, believing that it would enable her to start fresh, be beautiful, and be loved, she inadvertently destroyed herself. Consequently, she was labeled a monster despite her "new attractive appearance".
- And finally, Mi Mo symbolizes the younger generation, a girl who is angry at people "the society views on her", dreading the possibility of ending up like her mom, "the previous generation of women," and has a hatred towards her grandma's way of thinking, "the older generation of women.
But in the end, she gradually grasps the reality that the world is not simply divided into black and white, decides to accept herself as she is, forgives her grandmother (Mo Mi's Mother), and contemplates how her mother's fate might have been different had the world been more understanding.
Overall, the show was crazy and dark indeed, but so are the lives of these 3 women.
Kyung Ja became obsessive in an insane way about her son, imagine she knows he has a daughter! Plus, that would also mean her daughter would know that she is the result of her father raping her mom & her mom killing him like that!
for me, the main women in this show were women who wore masks for something and looked to be loved in their own way, even if it was in a twisted way!
This is how I saw at least, and I might be wrong.
Overall... a solid 8!
https://giphy.com/gifs/my-post-agmheddabICHK
And it was HER! The girl who played Moon Dong Eun as a teen in The Glory!
Mark my word... this girl will be great one day!
I mean long-distance relationships are tough, but YuRim & JiWoong were having a long-distance relationship too, it was less tough than BaekDo but still they had one, and both ended up married!?
So it kinda felt forced that way to me, and kinda did not make sense...
BUT this doesn't mean that I hated this drama, nope dears! I LOVED IT
it gave me the same sensation & exictment I've felt when I was watching Itaewon Class every week.
and now I wanna watch Search WWW by the same writer and director ^^
P.S: I have no idea if they're dating anyone irl, so if they're don't come @ me, please
Yoo In-Na
Lee Hanee
Seo Ye-Ji
And for the next one, she worked with him before, but I kinda wanna see it again:
Shin Min-A
Did I not understand the ending? Also yeah!
So Seriously, I need answers...
waiting for someone kind to help me understand ep 16, please TTuTT
The best Truck-of-Doom attack award goes to....... Vincenzo
wow that really took me by surprise, it went from 0 to 10000000 real quick
And yeah, I get what you say... and in fact, I hate Hollywood kissing scene, they mostly do kiss scenes for the sake of capturing hot kiss scenes :D
and I've watched many kdrama and I have to admit they got better with their kissing scene.
But the thing with PSH here is... I can see her cringing from a mile away :D
Her face becomes tense, her body language is just off...
Her character supposedly had a big mess of feelings with that kiss (She loves him but won't see him ever again, it's his goodbye kiss to her)
so for me, they made a sweet & super awkward kiss scene, when it was supposed to capture the passion and fear of losing your loved one forever!
and if anyone saw that kiss scene alone, knowing 0 things about the drama, they wouldn't guess this is a goodbye kiss.
But nevertheless, she was good for that role, I like her in this drama.
But tbh she did her role good, and I liked how they didn't rush the love story.
It just those kissing scene were just...... flat
If you don't respect it and gonna act aggressive about it, then I have nothing to say to you
Especially young Sigma.
"My girl PSH, you know I love you right? like you are one of the first actresses who pulled me into the drama dark hole...
and you're a good actress, you really are dear!
BUT GURRRRRRL... them kissing scenes need to get better.... talk to someone
like are they forcing you to do it? because you have the freedom to say no to any kissing scene but don't do 'em like that, it makes me feel uncomfortable watching you acting like you're forced to do it.
And no disrespect, but by better, I meant you need more feeling, more passion... it's an intimate thing, so show that, please"