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Honestly, in episode 7, the first 4 mins made my heart sink. Thank god it wasn't what at first I thought it was.

JCW needs a really good hit, something that's not just a commercial hit, but also an artistic victory with consistent a-z good rating. His recent dramas have been anything but disappointments, compared to what those could be. While he has pretty much everything he needs to be a successful korean actor, problem is, for one reason or another, recently his dramas start out well and then falls apart. Although I enjoyed his performance in Lovestruck in the City to a good degree where he basically carried it pretty much himself by his acting and his star power, I won't call it a Really Good Drama by any means. I won't even talk about Backstreet Rookie and, God forbid, Melting me Softly.

In this day and age where you have great shows like D.P, Squid Game, Taxi Driver, Move to Heaven, Beyond Evil, Mad for each other, Flower of Evil, It's okay to not be okay, Hometown Cha Cha Cha, Vincenzo, The Devil Judge, Hospital Playlist etc etc, a flip-flopping drama with average mixed rating honestly won't cut it. Hoping for a really good hit this time around. Let's see.

He is also the Main Male Lead in upcoming "My Name" and the ongoing "Yumi's Cells", finally he is getting recognition. This Year and 2022 seems to belong to him. Happy for him really.

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He was also Great in "Hotstove League". I am not even mentioning his other roles in other dramas, honestly this dude is such a Great and Versatile actor, and sometimes I feel he is severely underrated to many viewers. His choice of projects is just, well, almost always spot on, and for the last 2-3 years his choice of roles is improving. Whether he is playing the Main Lead, 2nd Lead, Support role or even guest role, he plays them just the way they should be played.

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I don't think it's just action and violence, the emotional aspects are there, but in a story like this, which, well isn't really a rom-com thriller or whatnot, where the villain are ruthless terrorists, focusing more on emotions just does disservice to the theme itself. He is an ace agent in a gruesome storyline, he isn't supposed to show emotions like they are on display in a fair. And this show shows death by killing (by horrible criminals) the way it actually is, gruesome, painful to watch. It doesn't romanticize death scenes, which many Korean shows, even some thriller shows does. Some shows show death scenes in vanilla fashion.
However, I do agree that Namgoong's movement, especially leg movement was quite impaired due to heavy muscle building. I think the physic/fitness coach need to focus on the actor's flexibility too. And cute actress doesn't go with muscled actor, that's just focusing too much on visual compatibility, which is extremely driven by bias in kdrama-lovers/watchers. I would rather like to see how they act together and how the storyline connects their path.
And you don't have to be sorry about liking emotions more than action and or violence, it's just personal preference, just like for those who like actions and brutal violence more then open display of emotions in crime shows.

Ep 2 ending car scene looked and felt so good because of the OST, it just synchronized perfectly to the scene. I was like, wow.

I am really thrilled to Finally seeing Ahn Bo Hyun as the Main Male Lead in a drama. I've always thought he will be a good Male Lead if given the opportunity. Especially in intense action roles, with his looks and everything. He surprisingly fits this role pretty well too, with his goatee and Long hair, as the trailer showed.
It seems this year and 2022 belongs to Ahn Bo Hyun with so many dramas as the Male lead. I'm honestly really happy for him.

Yeah, they are gonna start production somewhere around october this year, so we can expect to see them on television in early 2022.

Eagerly Waiting for Season 2, as it has been confirmed finally.

You know, there are many many shows that I didn't like, in the sense they were boring, too slow, too fast, too many plot-holes, unbelievable story etc etc. The number is pretty huge. However, the number of shows that I absolutely HATED with all my gut, is relatively very small. This one is currently topping that list.
The only thing that I liked about the show, after finishing it completely, is those narrations/commentary at the end, or sometimes the middle, done by the Female Lead where she talks about things in a deep thoughtful way. I mean, out of nowhere they became a couple from love-hate situation, out of nowhere they broke up for like what? cause his younger brotherlike guy also liked the girl?? I mean, is it like those 2010/2013 kdrama days where this kind of sacrificial voo do slapdash plot is romanticized? Then they got back together again, then writer had to put the girl's father into the storyline in such a way that made them think, "Ah, I guess we aren't completely out of material yet, we can still squeeze out ounces of juice". Then they break up, she went there, he remained there, 3 years passed. Everything kept happening in lightning speed. And not to talk about the side characters. The ending was, well, I mean, BAD, like really bad. The writing and pacing of the show was, simply put, Abysmal.

The CGI could obviously been better.

So, here is the thing. If after reading this review if anybody is wondering, why does this drama has such high ratings? The answer to that is, simple: "The popularity of the cast", also, on the side, "Pretty Filters making everyone look way too pretty". No other reason. Music? Well, if you watch an entire drama for the music itself, I would say, Get a Life.
Everybody on the K-drama fan-sites be like: "Oh my god, I've been waiting for these two to pair up together for so long, oh my god, I'm crying, I'm shaking!!!!! So what do I do now, after watching a few episodes, or maybe just watching one, I'm gonna give them 10/10 in everything, and will never update the review even if the show becomes garbage in the middle, I mean, why would I? I love the CAST, I mean, wow, these two TOGETHER!!!! I'm Crying, I'm shaking.........."
Btw, in another universe, the storyline was crying itself to it's doom, but nobody gave a shit.

Well, he didn't need to, the writers did the job for him lmao.

I agree. I just mentioned them to basically show that even if those super popular stars did very mediocre acting (Which in my opinion they do in quite a few dramas) in this drama, the ratings would have crossed the sky through their star power alone. People would be like ," I love how fluffy this show is, I watch all the shows Park Shin Hye is in, Their chemistry is insane, I've waiting for these two to be in a drama together, so, oh my god, I am crying.......", all while really forgetting whether the acting was upto mark in regards to the actual storyline, hell, some won't even give a dam about storyline, they would be like " The visuals of this drama is off the charts, she looks gorgeous, he looks too handsome" etc etc. If anybody has actually seen "Doom at your service" and really checked it's storyline, whether it makes sense or not, look at it objectively. And then really try to justify the insane overall rating of 8.6, which was around 8.8 a while ago. That show just got such high rating through star power. Whereas this one is struggling to get a proper rating because not having that big star power. Yes, based on the acting, this cast is actually great. They Really, Really played their part extremely well.

Can someone confirm whether episode 6 has released yet or not?

God bless her soul.

Happy to have helped.

Ok then, here is the link: https://kissanime.city/watch/aoi-bungaku.b4c5/36d107f/ Now, in the first few minutes a guy narrates in introduction of the story ahead, after that it's pure animation.