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This was an interesting commentary and of course entertaining. I'm always interested to know more about how South Korea portrays its own corruption, etc (however, I didn't expect much considering this is a Netflix production and clearly has a lot of funding). I loved the dynamics between Seo A-ri and Yoon Si-hyeon. There was this tension that was leading us through all the episodes. The way the other influencers were written also felt very exciting and tangible.

It became obvious the show was giving the audience some extreme plot twists and then subverting that twist and subverting it again... and I don't mind that at all as I love being led around blind by a show's plot. An issue, though, is that some of the plot decisions didn't really make sense to me. I'm sure they had their reasons for the way it progressed, but I don't understand them yet.

I loved the tone set by the show, I feel like it allowed the serious and the ridiculous elements portrayed to fit well together. On the other hand, I know I don't have enough knowledge on S.Korea's culture to judge exactly in what ways the plot lacked while tying everything together. Hopefully I can learn more in the future.

*Spoilers Ahead*

As for my opinions, it felt more appropriate when the show was leading us to believe that the CEO Han Jun-kyeong was brutally killed and that this was serving as a plot point for the growth of Seo A-ri's character. He served very beautifully as a plot point. And it felt like the overall quality of the ending shifted and dropped when this was proven to not be the case. He ended up being placed permanently in Seo A-ri's "stable future" which was unwarranted.

Another one. I feel like S.Korea keeps giving us stories with poor but "unhinged" haters/villains when we have a relatively stable protagonist. Despite any number of exceptions, the population without money or time is not the one spending all their spare time on developing a hater persona. They seem to shy away from acknowledging that fans' "hater" behaviour comes from entitlement and not from depression. Although with this show, they have plausible deniability, to say that this person was indeed entitled, they weren't doing well mentally, etc. But it is a problem when you can notice the pattern of what kind of characters are continuously given this villainous "role".

I hope to see more shows in this vein in the future with even better writing!