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I'm American, but I have watched just a handful of American films since finding Asian cinema, especially Korean three and a half years ago. I find Asian production and story telling vastly superior to what comes out of Hollywood. I think perhaps I lived a former life somewhere in Asia. :)

But think about it...did the kid really "take advantage?" The ML offered to let him stay as long as he wanted to, but he left anyway. Also, he cleaned up the room and went and bought food. Those aren't things people who are "taking advantage" do. I think the kid is protecting himself from entanglements and knew the ML was into him. Considering that, what he did is the opposite of taking advantage.

That's my guess. At first I thought maybe it was his imagination, but he didn't look back there at all, and the kid's always staring at his phone, so he likely didn't even look up when the ML got in the car.

They can do threeways at their new job!

So, you're not going to tell me?

Yep. That's a good one.

To enjoy this train wreck of a series you have to be high on something. I'm just wondering what it is.

OH! Was it ever revealed what the thing in YAI's side was?

I went with my gut and gave it a 1/10.
Some shows really are that bad.
I will tell people to avoid this...thing. THAT is a 1/10.

This is a 10-point rating scale. 6.7 is a D+ on an ABCDF scale, which is far higher than this piece of garbage deserves. I gave it a 1/10.

You haven't watched it, have you? Yoo is all over the place after episode 2. I don't think he was cut at all.

There are too many DIFFERENT plots having nothing to do with Yoo's character, and no one seems all that bothered that an asteroid is coming. The director thinks he's making some grand statement about human behavior in the face of obliteration, but I'd rather face death than be made to watch this a second time.

I don't think this POS was cut much at all. After episode 2, Yoo is all over the place.

SK isn't "serious" about drugs, it's insane.
Alcohol is a drug and SK has one of the highest alcohol abuse rates in the world. SOJU comes out of the water taps there.
People are out vomiting in the streets every night after work.

But it's all god because alcohol something, something, blah blah blah.

Watch the show. I don't think Yoo was cut much at all. It's just a terrible series.

Far higher than it deserves. It's not even bad-good. It's just BAD.

Do you work for Netflix?

What drugs are you on?

It's horrible, isn't it.

ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE.

The worst NF series I have ever seen.
I will not recommend this watch to anyone.
If and when he sees the final cut, Yoo will wish the director had removed his character from the series entirely.
There are so many plot holes I wouldn't know where to start if I tried to list them.
Boring. Boring. Boring. I got through it with my finger on the FF button, pausing for scenes with Yoo in them or something exploding. There was far too little of both.
Everyone else here is saying what I'm thinking, so just scroll down and read the horror.
The only moments of fine acting involve YAI.

And omg, the ending is so profoundly schmaltzy and stupid I'm without words to describe it.

But, I have to list TWO of about 438 problems with the plot:
If it was known this far in advance that an asteroid was going to strike the Korean peninsula, there would have been an international evacuation, starting with kids and their caregivers, and working down by age or something. That evacuation would have continued until the last possible moment. In this scenario, no one ON the peninsula or anywhere else on Earth seems much bothered that Korea's about to blow up.
Yoo and his woman go through all this drama to decide to stay together "until the end," but when the end comes, she's performing a mass shooting (why bother? everyone's about to die anyway) and he's on his way to throw Malatov cocktails on a dock somewhere.

Not only bad, but oddly so.
1/10
Complete turd.

That's what surprises me though, that NF gave this director the final approval on edits. It seems to me Netflix, knowing YAI is an international draw, could have told this guy to release the unedited version, else he can forget working with them again. Who would resist that?

I understand how NF operates around the world, which is what makes this all the more bizarre. Why not just cut whatever version the Koreans are going to see and let the rest of the world have the full-Yoo option?

Korea and its drug policies are absurd. Alcohol is a drug, and Korea has one of the highest rates of alcohol abuse and alcoholism in the world, with all the social/cultural/economic/health care consequences that brings. SOJU costs the Korean economy billions of $$$ year, yet apparently, that's fine, while smoking a joint is the end of the world.

I'm in the middle of watching this thing right now. I just finished episode 7, with my finger heavily on the skip-ahead cursor. I look for scenes featuring Yoo or anything else that looks interesting, which isn't much. I'd guess I'm skipping 2/3 of the scenes and missing nothing.

Which leads me to perhaps the most bizarre aspect of all this: After the first two episodes, Yoo doesn't seem to have been edited out at all, as far as I can tell. I mean, how would I know, right? But he's in more than half the scenes at this point. So what was all the hullabaloo about this "edit" the director claimed to make so that delicate Koreans and the rest of us would be "comfortable?" YOO IS ALL OVER THE PLACE IN THE SHOW. The problem is that the plot and script SUCK big-time. Boring as hell.

It's more like a soap-opera than a gripping, end-of-the-world thriller. Very strange. This whole thing, including the circus around YAI, is very strange.

BTW, I agree that Yoo appears to have an addiction problem, and I'm horrified if he really did Propofol as many times as he's accused of; something like 180 times. That shit will kill you; it killed Michael Jackson. It's not meant to be used as a sleep aid because it only puts you out for a very limited amount of time. I've been given it for medical procedures, so I know. I'm just glad he got caught now, before an overdose.

So, I hope he's doing stringent treatment to help him deal with addiction. Court rooms and jail cells don't do that.

I am much more a movie person than a drama watcher. I do make exceptions but not many. I have found in many dramas, that it feels like they are meandering because they have X number of episodes to fill with something. The story-telling isn't tight and focused.

A few exceptions:
Prison Playbook
Move to Heaven
Weak Hero Class
Amanza
The Boy Next Door
D.P.
The King of Pigs
Extracurricular
How To Buy a Friend

But of course, I watch BL dramas, mostly out of Korea/Japan/Taiwan. I've given up on Thailand and the Philippines.

Thank you for that summation. I'm going to try episode 3 and if I'm still rolling my eyes, I'll drop it. Yeah, I'm not a fan of this type of show: "OK, we're going to set up a massive, plausible, apocalyptic, end-of-the-world scenario, spend loads of money on initial FX to make it look real and exciting, and then after that, focus on old people gardening, a lame murder mystery (who CARES who killed that awful dude anyway? Everyone is going to be dead soon enough), a middle school teacher devoid of charisma, a church group, blah blah blah. You see, as a director, what I really want to do is study the behaviors and emotions of these people as they passively face death, blah blah blah because this is my artistic vision, not a sci-fi romp.

"Well then," I ask, "why did you go to the trouble of setting up this asteroid bit if we're going to do a character study?"

Also, I thought much of the acting, especially from that teacher but also others, was dull and the opposite of engaging.