This review may contain spoilers
Not a bad watch, but has some indefinite issues and tends to favor one gender over the other.
I can't be the only one who noticed over 70% of the cases were basically "Men bad, Women good. A Man is the reason I want to kill myself because they're so terrible!"...?
Can't get behind a lot of this shows logic. It was a constant pattern that felt like solely Men bashing for no reason. The first few cases were great, down to earth and problems anyone could face, but then it went downhill from there into the toilet.
**SPOILERS TO SOME DETAILS ABOUT ONE OF THE CASES**
The case about the girl being raped - The siblings fight, say hurtful things to each other because they were scared and felt guilty for what happened, blaming themselves and each other etc. and in the end it's *him* who needs to apologize to *her* and *he's* the one who gets absolutely reamed for it by the grim reaper? I understand she didn't want her name on the news and he was protesting something that could make her feel ashamed, but she acted like he tried to do absolutely nothing for her and partly blamed her incident on him. They both said extremely hurtful things, he's not without fault but neither is she. This drama catered to the idea that Woman can do no wrong and if they did something bad, it was because a Man made them that way.
**END OF SPOILERS**
The grim reapers seemed more compassionate to the Woman victims than the Men. It didn't feel equal.
Due to this, the emotion it's supposed to bring out doesn't hit as deep and made me become disinterested because I knew the next story and the next was going to be a victimized Woman, blaming all her life's problems on a bad Man.
It's an okay show to a certain extent, but Joon woong is barely in it as much as you'd expect and a lot of it is boring and falls flat. Joong gil needed more exploration, sadly a wasted character with great potential.
In the end, the Soundtrack is absolutely on fire. Red light is spectacular.
Worth a watch, but I skipped a lot of filler and backstories to characters I didn't particularly take a liking to. Wasn't aware the lead was the pink haired girl, and she doesn't make that many faces throughout the drama and doesn't do her grim reaper job well at all, with little to no improvement.
Joon woong was a great grim reaper and knew what he was doing, if they'd actually let him handle any of the cases. He barely does anything but stand around. Underutilized great character.
7.5 from me.
Can't get behind a lot of this shows logic. It was a constant pattern that felt like solely Men bashing for no reason. The first few cases were great, down to earth and problems anyone could face, but then it went downhill from there into the toilet.
**SPOILERS TO SOME DETAILS ABOUT ONE OF THE CASES**
The case about the girl being raped - The siblings fight, say hurtful things to each other because they were scared and felt guilty for what happened, blaming themselves and each other etc. and in the end it's *him* who needs to apologize to *her* and *he's* the one who gets absolutely reamed for it by the grim reaper? I understand she didn't want her name on the news and he was protesting something that could make her feel ashamed, but she acted like he tried to do absolutely nothing for her and partly blamed her incident on him. They both said extremely hurtful things, he's not without fault but neither is she. This drama catered to the idea that Woman can do no wrong and if they did something bad, it was because a Man made them that way.
**END OF SPOILERS**
The grim reapers seemed more compassionate to the Woman victims than the Men. It didn't feel equal.
Due to this, the emotion it's supposed to bring out doesn't hit as deep and made me become disinterested because I knew the next story and the next was going to be a victimized Woman, blaming all her life's problems on a bad Man.
It's an okay show to a certain extent, but Joon woong is barely in it as much as you'd expect and a lot of it is boring and falls flat. Joong gil needed more exploration, sadly a wasted character with great potential.
In the end, the Soundtrack is absolutely on fire. Red light is spectacular.
Worth a watch, but I skipped a lot of filler and backstories to characters I didn't particularly take a liking to. Wasn't aware the lead was the pink haired girl, and she doesn't make that many faces throughout the drama and doesn't do her grim reaper job well at all, with little to no improvement.
Joon woong was a great grim reaper and knew what he was doing, if they'd actually let him handle any of the cases. He barely does anything but stand around. Underutilized great character.
7.5 from me.
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