Nothing to object about the titles, both ‘Made in Korea’ and ‘Tempest’ e.g. intrigue me a lot, what "scares"…
I'm pretty sure A Shop For Killiers is more part 1 and part 2 thing, than Western standard seasons. We saw how things turned out in the main location, and now we need to see what really happened to a certain guy and how he dealt with another certain guy. Disney+ made two parts of Shadow Detective starring Lee Sung Min, and that was totally fine.
I understand The Manipulated finished the principal shooting several weeks ago, but I hoped for release dates at least for Tempest, Low Life and Made in Korea. We had already known they were set for this year, there aren't any news. I guess we still have to wait.
But from the poster, the shrink and the guy from the team will die.
But the show's name is Nine Puzzles, and there are 11 of them at the poster. So 2 of them just don't fit. And here we go, there are 2 puzzles for both shrinks in the bottom left and top right corners facing each other from the opposite sides.
Well, her parents obviously aren't alive. She was upbrought by her single(?) uncle, and he will be killed at the…
Well, at least there were the FL's biological parents (the first family), her uncle and may be his wife/kids, we don't know how his private life was (the second one). Maybe there were some other aunts, uncles, cousins who died without other heirs.
I am watching episode 1 now. The FL's uncle was obviously well-off: a huge house, a housekeeper and so on. He used to be a head of a police precinct, I guess the same one investigating his murder. I guess he had a rather big salary, maybe he was a bit dirty too and that's related to the murder. The uncle's inheritage wasn't small, the policemen even mention it during the investigation as a plausible motive for the murder.
a criminal profiler has a Porsche Panamera in south korea 😭just kill me already
Well, her parents obviously aren't alive. She was upbrought by her single(?) uncle, and he will be killed at the beginning of the show. So probably she inherited the wealth of several families. Her job may even be not her main source of income.
I had been waiting for this show for Jo Bo Ah and I'm satisfied. She is still wonderful, and her charisma carried the show. Lee Jae Wook and Kim Jae Wook were also great. OST is amazing.
But the show is kinda uneven for me. I felt myself like JK Simmons' character in that iconic scene from Whiplash., "It's okay, don't worry, just not quite my tempo. Again. Not quite my tempo. Again. Are you dragging or are you rushing? Are you dragging or are you rushing?! SO YOU DO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!" If you watched the movie, you get what I mean.
I'm not sure the show creators do know the difference though. Did they know whether they were dragging or rushing?
I also got the emotional side of the story, but the storyline was pretty unsatisfying. After two first episodes I thought the Snow Man was a father or another family member of the Grand Prince and he had porphyria. That's why he was so pale and operated at night or at least during rain (extreme photosensitivity is one of the symptoms, the vampire myths were inspired by porphyria patients). The royal families are a high-risk group for that decease because of consanguineous marriages: for example the real-life king George III of Great Britain had it. Historically the main cure used to be blood transfusions, they are still used in some cases. So I thought children were kidnapped to forcefully draw young blood for medical purposes. It would also explain unhinged behavior of both Snow Man and the Prince, because the nervous system is damaged by the decease, the patients often become psychotic.
However they went into totally different direction and never really explained the mechanic of abductions, the Snow Man and his weirdness and so on. I could understand the Prince's motivation, but the entire thing doesn't really convince me.
I also don't see similarity between Indian music and The Burning Petals whatsoever. There is nothing close for me. The song does remind me Siberian throat singing (from Mongolia, Russian Altai and Tuva, North East China) a lot. I heard the elements of that folk style still exist in Korean culture.
But we got Karma last week, and Netflix is going to release Weak Hero Class 2 later this April. So technically it's not an issue to have two releases in May.
I will like to believe Dear Hongrang is coming after weak hero class 2, following the consistent may release rumor…
Well, Netflix hasn't released any promo materials for it yet, and they did release a sneak peek for Mercy for None in February. Anyway I'm going to try and watch both shows, so for me it doesn't matter which one will be first.
Well, that was even better than I expected. Lee Je Hoon is great, but it's common knowledge. Personally I do like the Chairman character a lot, I met such people. He kinda reminded me Logan Roy from Succession, the great award-winned US show, but younger, less grumpy and less, well, American, more Eurasian. His manners, way of speech, face expressions are spot on. The only questionable thing is music. But songs at the beginning and the end was okay, they sounded a bit like Tom Waits.
We don't even know if it's coming. I mean chances are good, but there is still no official announcement about renewal. Disney literally denied rumors about renewal this January, like we hadn't renewed anything, we were in negotiations, conversations were good, but nothing was decided.
I am watching episode 1 now. The FL's uncle was obviously well-off: a huge house, a housekeeper and so on. He used to be a head of a police precinct, I guess the same one investigating his murder. I guess he had a rather big salary, maybe he was a bit dirty too and that's related to the murder. The uncle's inheritage wasn't small, the policemen even mention it during the investigation as a plausible motive for the murder.
But the show is kinda uneven for me. I felt myself like JK Simmons' character in that iconic scene from Whiplash., "It's okay, don't worry, just not quite my tempo. Again. Not quite my tempo. Again. Are you dragging or are you rushing? Are you dragging or are you rushing?! SO YOU DO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!" If you watched the movie, you get what I mean.
I'm not sure the show creators do know the difference though. Did they know whether they were dragging or rushing?
I also got the emotional side of the story, but the storyline was pretty unsatisfying. After two first episodes I thought the Snow Man was a father or another family member of the Grand Prince and he had porphyria. That's why he was so pale and operated at night or at least during rain (extreme photosensitivity is one of the symptoms, the vampire myths were inspired by porphyria patients). The royal families are a high-risk group for that decease because of consanguineous marriages: for example the real-life king George III of Great Britain had it. Historically the main cure used to be blood transfusions, they are still used in some cases. So I thought children were kidnapped to forcefully draw young blood for medical purposes. It would also explain unhinged behavior of both Snow Man and the Prince, because the nervous system is damaged by the decease, the patients often become psychotic.
However they went into totally different direction and never really explained the mechanic of abductions, the Snow Man and his weirdness and so on. I could understand the Prince's motivation, but the entire thing doesn't really convince me.
I also don't see similarity between Indian music and The Burning Petals whatsoever. There is nothing close for me. The song does remind me Siberian throat singing (from Mongolia, Russian Altai and Tuva, North East China) a lot. I heard the elements of that folk style still exist in Korean culture.
Look at the brown-ish bottom of the picture.
March -- Hyper Knife
April -- Part 1 of Knock Off
June -- Nine Puzzle
July -- Low Life
As far as I know Tempest is supposed to be released after Low Life.