SylvieTheCat

Ridiculous and Very Disappointing

So disappointing with a great actor like Kim Nam Gil, but wow this was bad. It had cartoon-character villains, extreme sentimentality, silly dialogue, a caricature of a psychpathic villain, and ethically inconsistent views (both that guns are terrible and that even so when you see a horribly abused person use one you feel rather happy he/she got their revenge). The lead character is portrayed as heroic to the point of being angelic yet is also described as a former mercenary who has killed 99 people (what exactly was he doing then that makes him so morally pure today)? The sentimental twists are blatantly forecast and must have been embarrassingly bad for some of the good actors to play, and the failure of the police to arrive at or effectively cope with ongoing emergency situations was very implausible given what is shown in other k-drama thrillers.

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Too slow , too depressed, though it has a good ending

The drama had some chance of becoming a new version of the wonderful shows My Mister and My Liberation Notes but never quite got there. I slogged through 10 ultra-slow episodes of some very very depressed people and kind of wished they'd just go ahead and kill themselves or, preferably, find a therapist to give them some effective antidepressant drugs. Things finally picked up in Episode 11, and there were some events that were of interest from then on but wow, it's not clear it was worth it. The heroine was a pretty unlikeable person, and I felt very sorry for her poor husband who just could not figure out how to help her. One plus of the shtory was that some of the people who initially seemed awful eventually were shown to have more redeeming features, and the heroine was better off at the end. It has many excellent actors but I can't honestly recommend it much. I'd rather tell people to go volunteer at a women's shelter or feed a colony of stray cats. Most of the people here were so preoccupied with themselves they needed a bit of a kick in the butt to look around at the world beyond their nose.

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