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A great psychological mystery series
As a psychological series, this series takes the cake. This is my first time writing a review and usually, I don't like watching K dramas but I think this has a really good story and pacing. Watching others rate it so low is quite sad.
"If you can't tell the fake from the real, then is it really fake?"
This goes beyond the bags and the brand. Sarah Kim, or the person going by the name, established Budior as a high brand luxury coming from the West, which didn't even exist. She had started as an honest worker but eventually got betrayed by the rich's system, penalizing her millions of dollar. This forced her do various works and put on multiple faces to achieve her goal/revenge.
Her backstory is solid, slowly being unravelled in multiple narrrations. The telling by narrations were executed really well! While they are confusing to some, but I think that is the point as this is a psychological series. It is meant to mess with your brain. And while there are multiple narrations, I don't them clashing with each other (except for the detective's theory at the end). The narrations are different as the narrator changes. Memories as subjective after all.
In the end, the detective having to choose to arrest her as Kim Mijeong or release her as Sarah Kim, will be unsatisfying either way. I don't think we even know her actual name as all were taken from or give by someone.
As for the plotholes, from how was she not even registered in the system or even why those detective didn't even freeze her account when raising Budior, I do wonder if they really are plotholes or are they unanswered but defined points. Because considering how a lot of the small details were crafted really nicely, for them to overlook these "plotholes" would be very disappointing, especially as a series that defines itself as a mystery.
The actresses were really good, but I have to say the detective is such a disappointment. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's his character or whatever but I do dread everytime he appears on screen.
This series a GREAT psychological mystery series. However, for people coming for a mystery case that's leaves you satisfied at the end, then this is absolutely NOT for you. This will make you think, theorise, and leave you with hanging with open questions. And those questions you are left with are what I think makes a psychological mystery worth it. To discuss them even further with other people and to give answers to those questions. These discussions bring the community to life and add more fun to it.
"If you can't tell the fake from the real, then is it really fake?"
This goes beyond the bags and the brand. Sarah Kim, or the person going by the name, established Budior as a high brand luxury coming from the West, which didn't even exist. She had started as an honest worker but eventually got betrayed by the rich's system, penalizing her millions of dollar. This forced her do various works and put on multiple faces to achieve her goal/revenge.
Her backstory is solid, slowly being unravelled in multiple narrrations. The telling by narrations were executed really well! While they are confusing to some, but I think that is the point as this is a psychological series. It is meant to mess with your brain. And while there are multiple narrations, I don't them clashing with each other (except for the detective's theory at the end). The narrations are different as the narrator changes. Memories as subjective after all.
In the end, the detective having to choose to arrest her as Kim Mijeong or release her as Sarah Kim, will be unsatisfying either way. I don't think we even know her actual name as all were taken from or give by someone.
As for the plotholes, from how was she not even registered in the system or even why those detective didn't even freeze her account when raising Budior, I do wonder if they really are plotholes or are they unanswered but defined points. Because considering how a lot of the small details were crafted really nicely, for them to overlook these "plotholes" would be very disappointing, especially as a series that defines itself as a mystery.
The actresses were really good, but I have to say the detective is such a disappointment. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's his character or whatever but I do dread everytime he appears on screen.
This series a GREAT psychological mystery series. However, for people coming for a mystery case that's leaves you satisfied at the end, then this is absolutely NOT for you. This will make you think, theorise, and leave you with hanging with open questions. And those questions you are left with are what I think makes a psychological mystery worth it. To discuss them even further with other people and to give answers to those questions. These discussions bring the community to life and add more fun to it.
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