Taz_X

Throughout majority of this drama I felt that Ah Jin could have redeemed herself (I know that's not how it works with a true sociopath but I thought that was where the writing was going (I didn't read the source material)). There were several points were I thought she genuinely cared about some of the people around her especially after the appearance of the grandmother of her boyfriend. She seemed to genuinely care for her and I still think that had the grandmother lived Ah Jin could have grown some humanity. I also realised very early on that romantic relationships mean nothing to Ah Jin and only familial relationships could have any emotional impact on her since her parents were the reasons she became like this.

As much as I wanted Ah Jin to grow emotional attachments to people, I LOVE that by the end she was truly a sociopath with no empathy or emotional attachment to others. Her ending surprised me because I thought that we would see her breakdown from losing everyone I thought she cared about, but at the very end, seeing her not care at all gave me the chills (despite knowing what a sociopath is). I really thought they would tone down her sociopathic tendancies as the drama went on because I feel like majority of the time when there is a female lead like Ah Jin, a female lead who has no empathy, writers decide to make the female character more emotional vulnerable out of nowhere. But that was not the case here, if anything she gets worse but you don't see just how horrible of a person Ah Jin is until the very end.

The only thing I didn't like about the end was Jae O's death being pointless. He sacrificed himself so that Ah Jin could live the life she wanted, the least Jun Seo could have done was expose Do Hyeok for killing Jae O if he wasn't going to help Ah Jin. Jae O was honestly the best character in this entire drama, and way better than Jun Seo with his annoying saviour complex. When Do Hyeok was introduced I thought he was too psychotic for Ah Jin (despite one of my reasons for starting this drama being the fact that I wanted to see them as a sociopath + psychopath couple). But after episode 12, I thought they were perfect together, a match made in hell. He also seemed surprised by Ah Jin being a sociopath (I don't think he could break her as he did his ex) and I'm really curious what would have happened to them had Jun Seo not exposed Ah Jin. I really wanted to see more of Ah Jin and Do Hyeok's relationship, they would have worked so well together if he wasn't trying to drive her insane. I wonder what he would do if he ever sees her again, he still seemed really interested in her at the very end and I feel like their dynamic would change in a more positive way (in favour if Ah Jin) because he knows she's as crazy, if not worse than him.