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Kim Eung Soo's guest character. We haven't seen him yet.

Three episodes. Two final episodes will be released on next Wednesday.

I understand why she needs help. By the way, the body itself didn't traumatize her. It was the fact she had broken the rules and hadn't reacted on the victim's car as it was running the red light minutes before the murder happened. If she had stopped the car or at least had chased it, the bar owner wouldn't be murdered. (Or the police woman thinks so.) The supposed guilt has been weighting heavy on her.

That's understandable. What's really weird is the facility the police woman visits. There are hundreds of therapists in Seoul, if not thousands. However after the officer had been accidentally involved in the serial murder case, she found herself the center being connected with this exact case and having the profiler of the case as a patient. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but maybe it isn't.

Anyway it's a secondary thing. The unknown circumstances of I Na and Dr. Lee acquaintance are more important.

Maybe some kind of teaser and the release date will be revealed at Tudum on May, 31.

I am sure a few next victims are going to be characters played by famous guest stars from the poster: Hwang Jung Min, Park Sung Woong, Baek Hyun Jin.

If it's true, Lee Seung-ju would be another victim who is out for revenge. Mi-young would be the friendly person who lured kids into a trap. Remember the puzzle matching her murder. There is the woman both penetrating another girl's head and binding her by her tongue. It's a definition of the manipulation.

It would also explain her known bio. Mi-young is in early 40s, they mentioned her exact age, I just don't remember the number, so she was born in early 1980s. She ran away during her high school, so in mid-to-late 1990s. Then she came back as a well-off young woman in her native city 7 years later. I think it happened about 2003, the year of I Na's parents' death. Mi-young also brought Chi-mok. How did they meet? How did she get the money? Well, either she was recruited into the ring or she became a victim as a stray kid, talked her way out and turned into an accomplice.

How did I Na find those psychatrists? How was it arranged? I mean Lee Seung-ju's actress, Park Gyu Young, is just two years older than Kim Da Mi, the FL. Well, let's say the age gap is 4-5 years. She still would be in her early 20s at the beginning of their relationships, like a yesterday college student in the best case. In my opinion a well-off heiress could find someone more experienced and advanced.

And why did the female police officer come to that facility? It's a bit weird coincidence. Or maybe someone in the police force recommends the facility to both women. Why is that? What's the connection?

We also know they used to be a hospital owners (so I guess they were doctors).

They finished shootings of The Manipulated a few weeks ago, on May 10. I doubt it is going to be released before November or even December.

Description reminds The Picture of Dorian Gray a bit, but I guess it's more vampiric.

Yes, but Disney+ may also put Murky Water between Low Life and Tempest.

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 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, 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.

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.

Disney+ was going to release Knock Off this April, but it's not happening, so...

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.