K-Drama 
Weak story
Not fond of this season.Where do I start without spoilers...
Well to watch this season go watch season 1 at least so you understand the motives behind the vigilante group. What season 3 has become is just the opposite.
The problems this season faces is
- Lacking character development
- Case by case stories without a overarching or main plot that drives the entire season
- Principles are contradicted from season 1
- No prosecutor or police to challenge them which season 1 and 2 had
- Rushed cases and too far fetched at times
- The main lead actor starts making weird faces which I don't think he did in season 1 and 2
Watch if you have nothing better to do.
I really liked season 1 and unlike most people I felt Kang Ha-na made the entire season 1 pleasurable and would have loved to see her return in season 3 as a taxi driver member and be challenged by her mentor or another prosecutor.
It would have made a great season 3 seeing Kang Ha-na as a female lead and ultimately I would have ended that with her leaving the team and establishing a franchise and a spin-off into her own Taxi Driver: Prosecutor Kang like imagine prosecutor by day and she drives people around at night then gets cases...
Now that would hit.
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Waste of time type of ending
Was a 7.5 for me until the ending and they practically did one thing I hate in any series that doesn't focus on said concept. They pulled the old switcheroo and ended in a way I felt just makes the entire story building pointless.So this deserves a 5.5 in my eyes.
I won't spoil it but I'll say Stein's Gate explores the concept throughout the series. This series doesn't do any of that it just happens and it happens in the most pathetic way possible to end the series in a good note.
This series peaks in the middle part where they explore the past vs present and you get to understand their motivations and backstory. It was appealing and I enjoyed it because it was good pacing.
Where it falls apart is the start of the "story writer" part of the ending and it's something if you watch you'll realise how weak it is because Stein's Gate did it better and which is why you don't ever throw it in a series as something that just happens. It's too weak like if the entire series was like that then I'll be more positive because at least you build around that concept and explore that concept not what they did here.
I feel the story weakened immensely due to this.
World building was good, visuals was good, acting was good and music was kind of not my thing but it was okay minus the dub dub dub wub wub wub sounds as I was never into that kind of stuff.
I would love a spin off just focused on more shounen anime style of becoming a demon hunter that be great. I think they have some concepts here but they didn't explore any of that like how do humans get powers, how do humans level up, and such so I would actually be down to watch something akin to that but obviously this series is more about the main leads and love, trials of love etc... not how to become a top demon hunter and impress a girl who is trying to assassinate you and is secretly a demon.
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To be human vs an immortal
Simple story about immortal beings and the main male lead wanting to be human.The execution is well enough for a C-drama that I'm not fussed with the story. It did kind of rush the ending a bit and well no spoilers but it kind of felt like cheating at the end but you'll see what I mean when you watch it. There is flashbacks near the end and I mean too much flashbacks so I had to skip those. There's also a lot of irrelevant closure like some characters they're so useless that's it better to not even bother talking about them later.
The antagonist, easy to tell so there was no shocking revelations.
In my opinion "The Boys" makes a better series because it goes into a gritty world and straight through the jugular. I kind of imagine if the script writer was inspired by "The Boys" this series could have been a 10/10 for me because I can only imagine how much more gritty I would make this series and explore the core concept of this series in that nature.
Overall though the story is decent enough that it doesn't sway away from the theme but a bit too light for me to fully say it's a great story. It's a predictable Chinese script.
Fighting like I'm more into Jackie Chan style which means good fight scenes. This is about immortal beings so expect sky fairy style of fighting so lots of CGI is involved sometimes it clearly is bad CGI. There's not much choreography like it's weak but the focus of this series was never about the fighting and I'm a big time action fella so I love series and movies with lots of fight scenes and how much effort the actors put in which is very tiring like Ever Night season 1 has really good fight scenes while having like powers involved.
So I give the fighting a 3/10 and this is because when you see the most powerful immortals fight it doesn't feel GRAND. I'll say anime is possibly the best to see how grand you can make fights like even Hero Academia the fight was just like making me tear up because of how well they did it even against all odds just that struggle and the grand nature of fighting a more insanely powerful individual.
In this and most c-drama it's just weak like you can't be serious and say the end fights were any good. I would even say one fight they cheap out so hard they made the same things between both of the greats that I was like wow this was so underwhelming so that's it?
Once again fighting is not the focus of this series so I gave it a big pass but if it was about like Hero Academia style of story this would have ended up a 4/10 series for me.
The acting and cast like both main leads loved them and it's not really a lovey dovey series so I like the vibe of the tease I guess. The ending is also nice too and I really enjoyed a potential setup for further season 2 if they dive in.
One thing I will say there wasn't much supporting characters I really felt attached to so I think the script didn't do much of them justice and fact is when you fail at that the whole "here's their backstory" it kind of all falls apart. There's some shows that introduce supporting characters that I feel sad when they kill them off or I'm interested in their backstory and I just didn't get that vibe here so most of the time I wanted to just see the progression of the main leads rather than all these other support cast.
I did really enjoy the story about human kind preserving knowledge like that ain't no spoiler but it reminds me of historically like countries like South Korea vs Japan and what the Japanese did back then.
Good watch, had a good time. Would have been excellent if it was similar vibes to The Boys and just more gritty and heart wrenching. Ended on a good theme and if there's a season 2 I would love to see more from the main leads.
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Binged and Entertained
When I watched this I didn't know what this was.My metric on how good a show is basically comes down to whether I binge it or not and this I binged. It ticks a lot of categories for me as a guy
1. Cute female actors
2. Not a focus on love and smooches
3. Action, Action and ACTION
4. Supernatural
5. Good ending
Now when I started watching this I thought the concept of an app called Girigo was stupid because well it's an app. I would have preferred maybe a Jumanji concept where they find some artifact but also the story isn't really about wishes to be frank like it starts off that way but it doesn't keep the wish notion throughout but the core is about the app so I guess it works out.
I found some parts with some plot holes but overall enjoyable series that wasn't keeping me on the edge of my seat but definitely was something I wanted to finish because I was entertained. I wish they actually killed way more people off in more gruesome ways and just went crazy.
The shaman stuff is what captivated me so my favourite is the adult actors because I would love a spinoff on just watching them do shaman stuff. I wanted way more of this too like Korean Shaman is awesome and I'm really into series like that which is why I loved Supernatural like I found it funny Korean Shaman's used salt which I think Chinese Toaist uses rice instead.
My only wish is a spinoff focused on the adult actors like whoever she is, she is BADASS and great looking.
In terms of character development I will say this and that is all the female characters were written so well like every female character I saw was captivating in their own ways. Even the annoying girls I knew their characters were written to be annoying which is why I was smiling at some points... won't spoil but yea take that b***hhhh.
The male characters just the adult one was written well like you can remove all the male actors and I won't miss a thing in this show.
Thus acting wise females dominated males and I can tell the direction or the way writers are these days that lean heavily towards female empowerment shows in their work because well they wrote the males so poorly.
Music, sound effects, ambience all well done like Korean cinematography is always on point with these.
I will end this and say if you can't step over some minor plot holes and one is a major logical flaw then skip it but if you into supernatural stuff this is a very fun watch. I'll also say not a bone in me was scared but then again I've never been scared of these things like I was binging this last night to 3AM all lights off and it was just good vibes.
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Mid story with bad acting
The story is extremely mid like it started off okay with the premise this is a doctor and he solves cases but at some point if you watch it you'll realise the story completely becomes trash because it needs you to believe certain imaginary things are plausible and it's like why even do that? It's so cheap.I also had to suspend my disbelief in other circumstances so it was already like at that point where anymore crap I'll flip a table and then they did something I could not believe which made the whole series cheap cheap cheap.
All the actors are terrible.
There wasn't a hardcore amount of mystery either like you don't feel like you ever solving or figuring things out. It's just generic and lazy.
The main character wants to present himself as this genius who can solve any problem but he just comes across as the most boring person ever. The way he talks annoyed the hell out of me like near the end of the show I wished he talked less.
There was a cute general girl that's about it.
If you're also looking for a lovey-dovey type of series this is absolutely not it like I feel they cut out the jealousy scenes out. They did have some love here and there but it all felt so forced.
The fighting was horrible like supposedly one of the best fighters and they fight like a child. It's really bad because if you're not going to spend money or effort into choreographing proper fights you should avoid that all together, it just looks cheap.
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She's physically strong but mentally weak
Do not watch this if you're into powers and you think this be one of those power comedies that is light heart take on being a powered individual.Why? She barely uses it productively and each time it's just ugh frustrating.
Mentally she's a weak character and the show does it's best to show you she's growing mentally stronger but it's so contrived I just cannot. The romance is also not my cup of tea like all of a sudden guy shows up, buys his way in and she's just swayed by that like any girls out there would have seen that coming and it really is poor that they used something I've seen in 80's style of series of how they made the girl "comfortable" being around the same guy all the freaking time like give me a break.
I won't spoil it but you'll see how she goes from mmm does he like me oh no he doesn't because he's...
That's just weak.
There's other parts that drag on like so much filler characters that don't add to the plot nor main character developments. They have this useless ass girl and her brother which you'll see if you watch this and it's just why even have a story line for them.
It's such filler and there's so much useless characters you'll see.
I would have rather seen no villain but a reporter who has his own issues has a gut feeling there's more to this town than what it seems and the show is around her trying to hide her powers as being exposed to the world will be detrimental to her and her family.
One of my friends kept saying "you need to watch this if you into powers" and honestly I think it maybe cause I'm a guy. She probably likes this for the romance going on while I was in for a comedy-power show and all I got was mediocrity.
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A feel good story but sometimes too farfetched
Now going into this I had no idea what this was except it had high rating.Well the first episode explains the premise which was this guy is recruited to run a company and he has to lose money to win in life and so he ventures into this running a game development company.
The problems I have
- Story is flat
- The competing company fell apart and it wasn't one of those corporate battles/drama
- The character development of the main lead is dry
- The angle they come from to show running a company not like a tyrant is nice but farfetched
- The solutions are farfetched and how the team wins
Honestly, I didn't binge this and I just slow burned it as a side series because I expected nothing but winning. The thing with this series is it is like if god was on earth and there was no big problems that god cannot solve which is why I didn't enjoy it all that much but I did give it a 7.5 only because I feel like if you need something not so serious you can watch this and just cruise.
In fact the entire series I felt like calling it flat is more like saying you cruise through the story.
I would have loved to see a mix of comedy and suspense like if they did things like
- Focus on just game development industry and real world issues
- Only one antagonist which is a competing company
- Quicker main lead character development where he decides he'll lose so his people can win
- Less casting because there's way too much and due to this the main cast is diluted
- Tinge of love-y dove-y between a male and female lead in the work place but no kiss scene maybe a end hand hold
I would really like a show that felt like we "employees" could watch and be like yea f that CEO type of person. I never felt that way watching this but I really wanted to feel that way so maybe that's why I'm disappointed.
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Strong beginning, decent journey and a unnecessary ending
Now this show starts off with a bang like I'm talking about it captured my attention because very few shows want to depict certain notions due to how jarring it is. Me, I was excited to see writers just go for the throat. Absolutely drew me in.Do not expect this following
- Do not expect a person struggling to hide their identity which MDL summary had, there was none of that
- Do not expect some justice or storyline involving her deceased family, they do cover it briefly but out of 47EP it's like 20 mins
The beginning is the best like I'll call it the pre-time skip arc where she's a slave. That is not a spoiler and that arc is pretty much solid like 9 out of 10. Female lead carries the show and is very likeable. There's a lot of focus on friendship and surviving the waters of slaves vs masters.
Then a time skip happens.
This then becomes less about her development and the rest of the show is development around other characters. There's actually very little cheesy romance as well but the romance is time skipped. Yes, there's a tonne of time skipping in this show going towards the ending.
The non-slave arc is a good 6 out of 10 because it feels like the drama doesn't involve her which is like you have to recognise who is your carry and focus on that. Instead it's drama around other people that she gets involved in which is fine but it creates less character development and also she's less likeable in this arc.
Now I won't spoil things but I feel like the story would be better if it focused on romance a bit and didn't introduce the time skip which then what happens in the show happens. They should have focused more on slavery and her role but they kind of just went from here we have slaves, oh and we forgot about slaves but then the show ends on this weird note like throughout the show it has female empowerment but they turn it up to 1000% even at the very end it's like female this female that, they don't even have males it's just time skip, females, time skip females, females females females... it felt so cheap.
Ending was frustrating like truly a 3 out of 10
1. Time skips like a million times is so unnecessary
2. Due to the time skips they start introducing unnecessary characters like who cares about those people
3. Time skips into drama and resolves said drama because they want to wrap up everyone
4. Unnecessary killing spree if you understand what I mean... just because they want a bittersweet ending and just forcing "growth"
5. For some reason the show was not that big on female empowerment like the aspect is there with the female characters but near the end it's like they just scaled up female this female that females are the best to 1000%
Also you'll end up around episode 41/42 feeling like this is a good "ending" because they actually resolve a lot of things at this state and the next 5 episode is just insufferable writing. It's just like unnecessary and forced which ruins the show.
For some reason I felt like there was 3 different writers like one was strong making the beginning of the story the slave arc. Then the family arc was weak because they changed the male leads character which there are a lot of things I question going this is out of character and there was no development towards this and the ending was just wow... unnecessary.
Some things feel forced but overall it's a good watch like the last few episodes aren't terrible but unnecessary.
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Love story with a happy ending and dash of action
The story wasn't that entertaining but if you want to casually watch something that isn't going to have a lot of twist and turns as most of it is predictable then this is a good casual show.It was okay in the beginning then in the middle especially around 20-30 it drags on a bit and the last few episodes picked back up and resolve a few. It's probably one of the few shows I've watched where the ending actually was better than the entire show but I guess that's because I like the whole premise of role switch that happened but I won't spoil it.
If you're an action goer there's a dash of fighting not like every episode but Song Yi looks bad ass when she is fighting. For the lovey dove people you'll probably find it drags on too much in the middle like to the point where you just want to scream "MAKE BABIES ALREADY".
It has a lot of flash backs which I hate and I have to 2x that.
Acting was good, not a fan of the most powerful person in the show wearing such a lame costume but otherwise none of the cast I have complaints about their acting abilities.
Music sucked though like the only memorable music and this is the one that goes ohhh ohhh ohhh that's it. Every music in this was ass but the sounds effects were on point.
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Promising but utterly disappointing towards the end
It started off well with a few plot holes that wasn't a big deal so I felt it was promising but it devolved into the script writers feeling the need to resolve everything in a "win" for the leads.That's the biggest problem with this show and that's chasing wins which ultimately makes their script cheap and weak with how they resolve things.
My pet peeve is when you present an antagonist that has years and years of ruthlessness but you resolve it like it was a fly on a wall it just feels cheap.
Female lead also annoyed me like I don't like shows that present a person as the "good" one and then she goes cheating like that's so shitty like I could tell the script writers didn't want to come out the bat and paint the female lead as equally shitty so they pulled the trigger back but if she going to be shitty they should have made her shitty from the start and shitty to the very end for the sake of revenge.
Instead they wanted the win, they wanted to present her as the good guy vs bad guy, they wanted to resolve all the bad guys being punished etc...
It's just not a good script and because the script was pulling them left and right the actors couldn't do their job properly.
We also have had back to back female leads on revenge arc this year and heaps of astonishing shows. This one would work better if it was like 5 years ago but this year, this is just weak and cheap.
I was 3x speed at the end and thank god because the ending was just appalling like oh wait we have to resolve this bad guy so we'll just do it this way ahhhh resolved ughh the end.
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What in god's green earth did I watch...
As of writing MDL has this at 8.3 and I repeated to myself 8.3... 8.3... what the heck people.I'm just going to say if you want to be gob smacked at the most ridiculous explanation of the entire story basically how some shows get really convoluted then go "oh it was a dream" well guess what people join on up and give this a 10/10 for how stupid the story is like I rather they walk into the line of fantasy than whatever this is.
These ratings have to be troll at this point like ain't no way there's real human beings watching this and being like "yea 10/10 story" like what on earth is going on like there cannot be an "ah wow the mystery is solved that really caught me off guard moment" like I swear by episode 4 I was like if they do some stupid "we were all dreaming" concept I'm going trash this show.
Trash show.
Watch it because it's actually unique since it's been a long long time since I saw this much plot holes all explained because the script writer literally has a episode to explain why all the plot holes now make sense because the actors are verbally explaining to you what everything that doesn't make sense now makes sense because now everyone realises why nothing makes sense and now it make sense because magically everyone figured it out why it doesn't make sense to make sense.
It's like they tried to make it like inception but someone gave their kid the homework.
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Balanced and Splendid
Hands down maybe my 2026 drama of the year and before that I had The First Jasmine and Pursuit of Jade but this one takes the cake because I really liked the female lead here more than the other two.Story is simple, but it flows, it was rushed at the end but not a bad rush to conclude things. There was some unbelievable moments but not major plot holes. Balanced all the way through with it falling off a tiny bit. The female lead was the strongest before the time skip and her development was amazing. The male lead and the brotherhood shown in the first half was enticing.
I liked both but female lead carried the first half so a lot of viewers like me were connected to the female leads development more than the male lead and the brotherhood.
Story falls off a bit in the latter half after the time skip but I understand why they went here. Female lead had less impact and less development so that annoyed me. The male lead shifting was annoying like it felt like they wanted to go into a direction that they knew would be risky but then pulled the trigger back but that back and forth was a problem. I think you either go all the way in one direction or the other direction but once it gets stuck in the middle and becomes a tug-o-war situation you really need to figure out how to balance it better.
The brotherhood is gone too in the latter like I wanted to see more of that than the political drama.
That's the only things I'll say but I enjoyed it because the female lead carried the second half too while I started disliking the male lead.
Music is not the best, 2026 goes to The First Jasmine because I love 3 of their OST but I also like 3 songs here but they're not like put it on your day to day song list. There's one song I liked that is on my list but 2 are more like they fit well with the series so the music choices are on point but not as good as The First Jasmine.
Now I will say this series has a huge focus on females so if you don't like watching a series which basically says "a man should listen to their woman" then avoid it.
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Predictable and mildly amusing
The top review said this was unpredictable and I entered my psychological thriller arc into K-Dramas so I gave this a go.Most predictable outcome, most predictable concept and I was not impressed. The most unpredictable part was they actually went for a damsel in distress and I'm just like wow this was beyond lazy.
It was amusing because I felt like hey this is not bad but not great definitely not a 10/10.
It's like this is meant to be psychological but there's a high bar to achieve that due to the amount of content in the world. It's easy to do a slasher because well slasher viewers aren't into psychological aspects. I felt the mentor serial killer was just too weak like I wasn't even feeling like he sold that vibe well and in my opinion he tried too hard.
The environment and setting I give that a A+
Actors did their jobs like no one was terrible at acting. The cinematography and audio is always superb with K-Dramas.
One thing I didn't like was how much characters they put in that was meant to make you the viewer dislike them so you're on the side of the main lead.
To me I think that's weak and what really made it predictable for me is the notion of the win.
I as a viewer rather become afraid.
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Tries to do too much and fails, although somewhat entertaining
This was interesting like as of writing this the rating is 8.8 and I'm not donkey enough to believe 8.8 on MDL means good because MDL often has ridiculous ratings for some of the worse things I've seen.Now I won't spoil anything like most my reviews have no spoilers.
The synopsis was interesting but the story they had just did not work for me.
The issue is this series ...
- Has elements of comedy but not to the level of Shaun of the Dead or Zombieland
- Has elements of survival but not to the level of the move The Night Eats the World
- Has elements of investigation and discovery but not to the level of even The Last of Us or World War Z
- Has element of action but not the main focus like Train to Busan, All of Us Are Dead, World War Z etc...
- Feels like a light heart story so you don't get that gritty or dark vibe
What this means is it gets pulled into different directions and doesn't work.
Either you lean into a gritty-dark investigation type of series or you go comedy-survival for a light series. In the context of this series where it's about a fake marriage to get an apartment in a complex I feel the they should have leaned into the comedy side without investigating or military.
The story would have been better for me if it was like focused on a couple the male and female leads who aren't friends but mutuals because of other friends and they decided to fake a marriage. The comedy aspect is them hiding their fake marriage from nose-y residents in the complex.
Then you explore the residents and their mysteries/secrets while overtime they get outed. Then you have love develop between the leads because the whole fake to real love is something people like.
Thing is comedy doesn't rate well and has to be perfected but at the same time I got no clue who the heck is putting 8.8 on MDL for this series like that's just crazy to me.
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John Wick meet K Wick
I put this on the back burner for a long time because I wasn't sold on the synopsis.If only someone said "John Wick meet K Wick" then I'll know exactly what I'm in for because this is just action packed with great fight choreography and a gritty dead inside character who is just going on a revenge spree.
Story is basic and I can't give this full points only because John Wick does world building out of the one dimensional characters but this is not world building. The characters are all one dimensional which is fine because the focus is on revenge and slicing people up.
There's no cute girls which is great like if they threw in a idol girl that just changes the dynamic of the series. In fact there are no girls because this is a series for men of men.
Acting is one dimensional like I only disliked the out of character moment where no spoiling but he isn't just dead inside with compassion but he ended up doing a bit too much in one conversation which I felt was unnecessary.
I also felt like the actors that supported the lead whether fighting him or just entangled didn't show any genuine fear. The show would have been amplified if they made him a demon like hearing his name sends chills and the new generation would witness this throughout the development of the series and ends with them cowering in fear. That's kind of what is missing because it felt like all this destruction and yet you aren't afraid of a monster hunting you? ... at least I wasn't sold on the acting because their fear felt bland.
Otherwise I was in it for the violence, the gritty-nature and fast paced story telling of revenge.
What's more impressive is some shows tend to make what I consider should be easy fights into hard fights. In this show I was surprised at just seeing him kick ass but it would have been better if he simply didn't get hurt as much because it should be like One Punch Man or Mashle just overpowered which explains why he became a legend in the gangs.
The ending felt good too which I like.
I actually hope there's a season 2 just exploring how this guy became a legend and feared among the gangs but then they'd have to make him look way younger.
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