Can someone explain the "Kidnapper Male Lead" tag? is it unfounded?
I am pretty sure everyone is going to suspect the ML kidnapped his wife because of the marital issues or to get the money in some way (insurance or some others).
The low rating honestly doesn’t reflect how good this show actually is. It’s the kind of drama that keeps…
7.9 is a pretty great rating actually in theory. It's not like this drama is exactly underrated, it's a bunch of other shows (with cute oppas doing romance) are overrated.
I’m a really big fan of this kind of suspense kdrama. I feel like I’ve watched most of them already. Are there…
Family Matters (it's has a lot of suspense, but a lot of dark humor too, season 2 is filming right now). Insider, Somebody (it's suspense, but it's not for everyone, the drama was pretty polarizing), Blind, Undercover, Dr. Brain (with a bit of sci-fi), Karma, Revenant (with some supernatural things, but it's also a detective thriller about a generational trauma), Doubt
The worst people here are the adults.They're the ones who create monster through terror, fear, and torture.And…
Yes, but adults also don't live in the empty space. How old is Siyeong's father in 1988? 50, 60 years old? It means his childhood and youth, his forming years were in times of the Japanese colonial period, the WWII, the Korean War and military coups and dictatorships. Who were his parents? Where are Siyeong's grandparents? What did the father survive, how did he get his position and why is he so obsessed by his son's success (to the point of beating for the second place in the class).
Was it because the foreign powers defining life in Korea and then South Korea (Japan and the US) or their puppets have a certain level of demands to the people in the power system? Like, if you don't fit, we are going to replace you in a heartbeat in another round of purges or in another coup (or we aren''t going to give you/are going to cut you off from the cheap money and foreign markets your chaebol). So the only language he understands is the force (i. e. domination), and the only release he has is philandering (i. e. also domination, but over women specifically). He treats other people as dependables, because he is dependable too and he knows it very well.
Like I wrote a few days ago, the drama is a verdict to the entire society. Very, very psychopathic society dehumanizing its own people and treating them as tools, as robots without any regards of their suffering or any other emotions and internal life.
He probably won't, but his stupidity probably will. I am not sure he will survive. I mean his spendings are huge red flags for his criminal bosses and the police both. And they even don't think about money laundering to legalize it.
Disney+ released a teaser for shows they are going to release soon. Dong Wook was right, and we will get season 2 this summer. I guess somewhere in early-to-mid July, in a couple of months.
Disney+ released a teaser for shows they are going to release soon. There is Made in Korea season 2 as well. So I guess, my theory about Summer release is being confirmed.
People write here how difficult it is for woman "just to exist" in this society, like it's misogynist specifically, it hates women. It's not mysoginist. I mean it does turn women's lives into a nightmare on some level. But it does
A man just can walk down the street, and some legal mobsters with police badges can snitch you, and torture you, and torture your family, and blackmail you to admit anything they want and destroy your work, your family, your reputation, your entire existence just because they find it convinient for their current tactical personal goals. And their women know everything, of course, but they are okay with it as they get their nice clothes and jewellry, and time to gossip in restaurants and giggle how classless you are.
Such a society isn't against women. It's against people. Maybe what's worse it probably doesn't hate women or men exactly, it just doesn't care about them at all, it doesn't see most of people as people and uses them as a resource for their own means and pleasure. A narcississtic psychopath like the perpetrator, that serial rapist and killer, fits perfectly, because the society itself as a whole is psychopathic and narcississtic.
And this is what this drama about, not "whodunit" or "evil men bad, poor women good."
Okay so this whole thing is giving: “I showed up for a murder mystery and accidentally got trapped in generational…
Keep watching. It gets better. For example, the prosecutor happens to be a deeper and more interesting character than he seemed to be.
And it was not just the town is spiritually exhausted, it was the entire Republic of Korea. That's why some drastical changes were happening during that time. Because the upper classes couldn't have ruled like it had been, the lower classes didn't want to live like it had been. When the corruption of the system moved it into the stage of total decay and social anomie, the murderer was able to do whatever he wanted.
I think it has a chance to be released in July or August. Filming of eason 2 ended in March, but a huge chunk of it had been filmed last year, before season 1 premiered. Disney+ also showed first stills several days ago. I looked at their lineup to the end of the year, and it's not impressive: second seasons of Made in Korea and A Shop for Killers, Portraits of Delusion and Remarried Empress. It's much fewer shows than last year.
I don't think they should release Remarried Empress just after Perfect Crown, it's probably for the autumn. Portraits of Delusion is a long and expensive period drama, its filming concluded in February, and they will probably need quite some time for post production. So what will be left after Gold Land ending on May 27th? Only this and A Shop for Killers. Disney+ is going to take some hiatus for a month or so and then release one of two shows. but they haven't even started to promote the latter one and did start with the former.
On June 5th or 26th, because it's the only Q2 slots left (Netflix K-dramas are released every 3 weeks). In several days Netflix is going to release a trailer for a show set for June 5th, they usually do it a month or so before the premiere. We'll see what it will be. It is going to be either this show (in this case we will know it is set for June 5th), or Notes from the Last Row (another K-drama about school education with the star cast), and the latter will mean Teach You a Lesson is set for June 26th.
The movie also has two brilliant European actors, Michael Fassbender and his Oscar-winning wife Alicia Vikander. First of all, it's nice to see really great foreign actors not from Asia in K-content (VIPs from Squid Games, I wil remember you in my nightmares forever).
But I find intriguing the fact neither of them are in these stills, despite them being a nice possible promo gimmick, Is it because they play characters the studio don't want to reveal yet? Is it some kind of spoiler? Are they connected to that danger from the story? Maybe some kind of aliens, hence the actors of a different race were chosen?
Scheduled to come in June, either on the 5th or the 26th
Yeah, like I wrote a few messages down from this. We are going to know the date for this in a week or so from now after Netflix will have released the trailer for their drama for June 5th. It will be either this or Teach You a Lesson. And another one will be set for June 26th. Both shows have been in my list for watching since last year.
It's funny that both Netflix K-dramas in June will be about the school education and its shortcomings It would be even funnier with If Wishes Could Kill were released in May instead of The Wonderfools and vice versa. So it would be two months of shows about schools.
Not alone, I agree. He was cartoonish in The Manipulated too. I just can’t take him seriously. He doesn’t…
Well, I didn't see The Manipulated and I don't remember him in trailers. But overacting in the trailers was one of the reason I decided not to watch this. That's what I mean comparing Netflix and Disney+ K-content in a last few years. It's like the streaming service creative policy changed somewhere in 2024 or 2025. Like, we have to focus on the least common denominator.
are you serious?? LKS is killing itCan anyone explain why Lee Kwang Soo is being praised for his role in this…
So no explanations. Got it.
Anyway, the show is already on 7.8, and that's after 2 episodes. On MDL shows usually got low ratings and then it get higher. I saw it started from 8. I expect it to reach rating somewhere about 7.4-7.6 eventually.
So no, of course, the world doesnt revolve around my opinion. But it doesn't mean I am the only one who has such an opinion, And I also can say and write whatever opinion I have, if I do it in a civil way. Deal with it.
Can anyone explain why Lee Kwang Soo is being praised for his role in this show.? I think he is overacting, and his character is cartoonish. He doesn't make an impression of the guy who would be tasked to smuggle a ton of gold bars in the country. And I don't really blame the actor, I blame the writers and/or directors, LKS seems to execute orders, He didn't overact in Karma a year ago, for example. Did it happen because Karma was on Netflix? I would say Disney+ cheapens their shows with those things, but I guess a huge part of the audience loves it.
In my opinion, Park Bo Young is just better. Whether it's her own merit or lack of directors/writers demands, it doesn't matter. But the strongest performance has been given by Moon Jeong Hee so far. She is nuanced in general here (she also overacted a bit in the scene with small Hee Ju though).
Generally, the show isn't great, isn't terrible. It's fine. It has some good mements, but it has quite a few moments for suspension of disbelief in terms of storyline and acting.
Disney+ released a teaser for shows they are going to release this summer. There is Made in Korea season 2 as well.
Was it because the foreign powers defining life in Korea and then South Korea (Japan and the US) or their puppets have a certain level of demands to the people in the power system? Like, if you don't fit, we are going to replace you in a heartbeat in another round of purges or in another coup (or we aren''t going to give you/are going to cut you off from the cheap money and foreign markets your chaebol). So the only language he understands is the force (i. e. domination), and the only release he has is philandering (i. e. also domination, but over women specifically). He treats other people as dependables, because he is dependable too and he knows it very well.
Like I wrote a few days ago, the drama is a verdict to the entire society. Very, very psychopathic society dehumanizing its own people and treating them as tools, as robots without any regards of their suffering or any other emotions and internal life.
Just be attractive, and women would say, "Mom, I can fix him!"
Disney+ released a teaser for shows they are going to release soon. Dong Wook was right, and we will get season 2 this summer. I guess somewhere in early-to-mid July, in a couple of months.
Disney+ released a teaser for shows they are going to release soon. There is Made in Korea season 2 as well. So I guess, my theory about Summer release is being confirmed.
A man just can walk down the street, and some legal mobsters with police badges can snitch you, and torture you, and torture your family, and blackmail you to admit anything they want and destroy your work, your family, your reputation, your entire existence just because they find it convinient for their current tactical personal goals. And their women know everything, of course, but they are okay with it as they get their nice clothes and jewellry, and time to gossip in restaurants and giggle how classless you are.
Such a society isn't against women. It's against people. Maybe what's worse it probably doesn't hate women or men exactly, it just doesn't care about them at all, it doesn't see most of people as people and uses them as a resource for their own means and pleasure. A narcississtic psychopath like the perpetrator, that serial rapist and killer, fits perfectly, because the society itself as a whole is psychopathic and narcississtic.
And this is what this drama about, not "whodunit" or "evil men bad, poor women good."
And it was not just the town is spiritually exhausted, it was the entire Republic of Korea. That's why some drastical changes were happening during that time. Because the upper classes couldn't have ruled like it had been, the lower classes didn't want to live like it had been. When the corruption of the system moved it into the stage of total decay and social anomie, the murderer was able to do whatever he wanted.
I don't think they should release Remarried Empress just after Perfect Crown, it's probably for the autumn. Portraits of Delusion is a long and expensive period drama, its filming concluded in February, and they will probably need quite some time for post production. So what will be left after Gold Land ending on May 27th? Only this and A Shop for Killers. Disney+ is going to take some hiatus for a month or so and then release one of two shows. but they haven't even started to promote the latter one and did start with the former.
But I find intriguing the fact neither of them are in these stills, despite them being a nice possible promo gimmick, Is it because they play characters the studio don't want to reveal yet? Is it some kind of spoiler? Are they connected to that danger from the story? Maybe some kind of aliens, hence the actors of a different race were chosen?
It's funny that both Netflix K-dramas in June will be about the school education and its shortcomings It would be even funnier with If Wishes Could Kill were released in May instead of The Wonderfools and vice versa. So it would be two months of shows about schools.
Anyway, the show is already on 7.8, and that's after 2 episodes. On MDL shows usually got low ratings and then it get higher. I saw it started from 8. I expect it to reach rating somewhere about 7.4-7.6 eventually.
So no, of course, the world doesnt revolve around my opinion. But it doesn't mean I am the only one who has such an opinion, And I also can say and write whatever opinion I have, if I do it in a civil way. Deal with it.
In my opinion, Park Bo Young is just better. Whether it's her own merit or lack of directors/writers demands, it doesn't matter. But the strongest performance has been given by Moon Jeong Hee so far. She is nuanced in general here (she also overacted a bit in the scene with small Hee Ju though).
Generally, the show isn't great, isn't terrible. It's fine. It has some good mements, but it has quite a few moments for suspension of disbelief in terms of storyline and acting.