Agree. Really liked PSH in Sisyphus, too. IMO she's stronger as a badass than romantic fluffball. Not dismissing her romantic heroine chops, just liking the gravity of her in more morally ambiguous characters.
to be honest, if daon was a female character, yall would have 1. find her annoying 2. ate her up 3. hated herjust…
I agree. I don't think people would be sympathizing with our defending a female character being a one-dimensional, morally superior, judgemental know-it-all. Even in real life that only works for men.
She is a demon, and has a mission to bring 20 souls who has not repent on their crime and she has nothing to do…
"If she does not give a damn about human law then it means she does not give a damn about human beings who live by their law."
Well, duh. How many times have we heard her straight up say that explicitly and out loud? In fact, it's the guiding principal of her character: to her, the "law" she follows supercedes human law. Whether evil-doers get punished in the human world is irrelevant to her mission. She's after getting the required ten notches on her belt and "caring" is not in her repertoire.
Is this not available to watch on Disney+ in the USA?? I have Disney+ but cannot find it.
It's on Hulu in U.S., but for some weird reason it didn't show up in my listings until I added Disney+ to my Hulu subscription. I can't figure that one out.
It's really infuriating when she doesn't give proper rulings. I agree they deserve the punishment but her arrogance…
I've been intimately involved with law enforcement and courts all my life, from my adult career to growing up as a child of a defense attorney, then prosecutor, then judge and I can testify to this: believing that the system metes out justice according to law is hopelessly naive. IMO IRL police are self-absorbed, lazy, and not especially bright or law abiding; defense attorneys and prosecutors are Hell bent on acquittal or conviction, guilt or innocence be damned; and judges are the human epitome of arrogance and self-interest. When it works as it was intended, it's purely by accident. So, on that score I think The Judge From Hell is 100% on the nose.
I dropped this after Episode 10. The show was middling - not good, not bad. It didn't seem to be going anywhere and it's pretty male favorable sexist for a world that's supposed to favor women. For example, FL and ML made a deal where he could rule the roost in private, but he had to follow her lead in public. That didn't even last until the end of the deal episode. ML is constantly upstaging FL in public so I lost the point of having a female centric society as part of the plot.
Let me do a recap for all the commenters leading a bizarre backlash (Selfish! Manipulative!) against Im Yoon-Ah's character: Go An Na was a frightened child who was accosted by her mother's murderer in the room with the still warm, freshly dead body.
Subsequently, and for more than a decade, An Na was isolated, abused, and neglected by her only remaining parent and under constant threat of death from the murderer. Having essentially been held captive and isolated through the rest of her childhood, all of her adolescence, and into adulthood, she is naive, socially phobic, unworldly, suspicious of the right people, and trusting of the wrong people.
An Na didn't want to die while trying to expose her mother's killer, so she "selfishly" accepted the protection of Kim Je Ha (Ji Chang-wook), who was actually getting a paycheck to protect her, so that seems fair to me.
She got tricked by the uncle who professed to care about her. *He* then manipulated *her* into cooperating with his scheme to punish the murderer and into withholding information from her spanking brand-new bodyguard/boyfriend Je Ha, who continued working for the murderer but wouldn't tell her why, blowing her off with some vague, paternalistic pablum. Se Ha misled An Na that he was free to leave Korea with her. Those deceptions left An Na open to trickery by her evil stepmother.
Yet, I'm seeing comments about how An Na took advantage of Je Ha. The Je Ha who, besides being a tough, formidable former mercenary soldier for hire, was a whole mature, grown a$$ adult man responsible for his own decisions, AND was in a position of authority over An Na. That's some serious confusion, or sexism, about who had the experience and position to take advantage of whom.
How on God's green earth does anyone come off believing Go An Na is somehow a villain here? At worst, she is woefully, and understandably, immature and easily duped. For those who say her character is weak, anyone who endured what she did without going batsh!t burbling crazy, is anything but weak. In fact, An Na - even while desperate for her father's love - is the only person strong enough to tell him to his face the truth about his pathetic failures. She also openly confronted the person she believed to have murdered her mother. This is not, in any manner, a weak person.
Im Yoon-Ah turned in a beautiful performance, many times conveying terror, despair, astonishment, disgust, and love with nothing more than her eyes.
My theory about the folks snarking at Im Yoon-Ah: y'all are just pissed Im Yoon-Ah/An Na got to kiss the very, very pretty Ji Chang-wook/Se Ha and you didn't.
Well, duh. How many times have we heard her straight up say that explicitly and out loud? In fact, it's the guiding principal of her character: to her, the "law" she follows supercedes human law. Whether evil-doers get punished in the human world is irrelevant to her mission. She's after getting the required ten notches on her belt and "caring" is not in her repertoire.
Subsequently, and for more than a decade, An Na was isolated, abused, and neglected by her only remaining parent and under constant threat of death from the murderer. Having essentially been held captive and isolated through the rest of her childhood, all of her adolescence, and into adulthood, she is naive, socially phobic, unworldly, suspicious of the right people, and trusting of the wrong people.
An Na didn't want to die while trying to expose her mother's killer, so she "selfishly" accepted the protection of Kim Je Ha (Ji Chang-wook), who was actually getting a paycheck to protect her, so that seems fair to me.
She got tricked by the uncle who professed to care about her. *He* then manipulated *her* into cooperating with his scheme to punish the murderer and into withholding information from her spanking brand-new bodyguard/boyfriend Je Ha, who continued working for the murderer but wouldn't tell her why, blowing her off with some vague, paternalistic pablum. Se Ha misled An Na that he was free to leave Korea with her. Those deceptions left An Na open to trickery by her evil stepmother.
Yet, I'm seeing comments about how An Na took advantage of Je Ha. The Je Ha who, besides being a tough, formidable former mercenary soldier for hire, was a whole mature, grown a$$ adult man responsible for his own decisions, AND was in a position of authority over An Na. That's some serious confusion, or sexism, about who had the experience and position to take advantage of whom.
How on God's green earth does anyone come off believing Go An Na is somehow a villain here? At worst, she is woefully, and understandably, immature and easily duped. For those who say her character is weak, anyone who endured what she did without going batsh!t burbling crazy, is anything but weak. In fact, An Na - even while desperate for her father's love - is the only person strong enough to tell him to his face the truth about his pathetic failures. She also openly confronted the person she believed to have murdered her mother. This is not, in any manner, a weak person.
Im Yoon-Ah turned in a beautiful performance, many times conveying terror, despair, astonishment, disgust, and love with nothing more than her eyes.
My theory about the folks snarking at Im Yoon-Ah: y'all are just pissed Im Yoon-Ah/An Na got to kiss the very, very pretty Ji Chang-wook/Se Ha and you didn't.
But about Go Anna, who tf has a right to be angry at a child for the parents she's born to? That's absurd.