Sophia

The creator is the creator of Better Days and also the just premiered Tender Light which is phenomenal so far. I have even higher hopes now

Yeah, same. That seems to be happening more and more to me on mdl lately. Not sure what's going on with the ratings and viewers or maybe my tastes are just changing.

I haven't read the novel and I'm barely familiar with the plot, but it seems to me that both the leads are dark and twisted (FL sabotaging the woman's dress, and the ML at the very end of episode 2 - woah. Was he fighting off intrusive sexual thoughts about the FL while she was being beaten??) I'm loving how dark and well done this is.

I liked that scene too. Such a unique and well done way to show their chemistry.

Tbh it could have been great. The leads are excellent and it otherwise had a lot of potential. But yeah it's that bad because they messed up the writing so bad they completely ruined it.

Episode 2 was even better. Masterpiece. I don't get why the viewership is so low. Maybe it'll become more popular as ratings come in.

The acting and production is amazing. Loved the first episode

The first half of the first episode was good. Then it completely fell apart and started making zero sense. Regardless of the D- timeline.

I'm kinda getting Murder in Kairoutei vibes a little bit. I hope it's similar. I know that drama wasn't really popular here but I loved it and ZXC is great in those kinds of roles. And he really seems to like that genre

Watch it to see..they must have had to rewrite the story because the plot is all over the place and doesn't make any sense.

They didn't remove all his scenes. He's still in it. But they still somehow messed up the editing bad, plot doesn't make sense.

Then idk what else could explain the editing in the first few episodes. They must have cut out lots and had to add in extra filler scenes to fill the episode.

I really don't get what they did here... I feel if everything with YAI hadn't happened this would have been a great drama. The direction is good and it had so much potential especially with that cast. They completely butchered it by editing so many YAI scenes out. The first 2 episodes honestly felt like a bunch of filler scenes, cut scenes, and side character scenes just strung together. Nothing even made sense. And they also made sure to publically lynch YAI too in the scenes they did leave in branding his character as a criminal who should be dead, that's not a coincidence. I'm not sure why they even released this.

On episode 2, and did they really kill off YAI's character by showing a picture of him bloody and shot and saying "nobody cares about a dead jailbreaker criminal"? I'm ok with spoilers I just want to know if this is really the path they chose, since if so they've completely ruined the show not to mention how fd up that is

Right, I wasn't implying that means it's good...just that you said direction didn't stand out. I disagree

Could be the writing, but I think a lot of it is the editing from cutting out a lot of YAI's scenes. It feels disorienting

The direction is good, this is a good director, he directed My Name and Extracurricular. I didn't think the first episode was boring at all. Also there are obviously some amazing actors here so maybe don't judge from 1 episode.

I disagree, they are both conveying the same concept, chaos of war behind their image. You're making a big deal over nothing.

What's your problem this poster is incredible

I agree, by the end it somehow felt like nothing much had actually happened. Something was missing.