Wow that ending truly sucked. Nothing in the previous episodes made it remotely plausible that Bang Tae Seop and…
About a year had passed, so i guess they used that as time when SA and BTS grew and reflected and gained more evidence. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Happy marriage? It seemed more to me like they realised they can be life partners. That they don't need to mostly just use each other, they can be partners in crime (especially for SA). With Jeong Won, i understood that more as showing that SA, despite getting what she ultimately wanted, continues to live a half empty life. Got her shiny life, but there will always be something missing, regret or haunted by something from the past.
And even though the ending wasn't climactic to me at all, it made sense bc it shows that there is no real ending or winning.
But i get what you mean and agree with you at least halfway. Mainly the inconsistency and the jump at the finale kept me going back and forth between rating it 7 or 6, but the acting was too good to give it a 6. (also the quality of the scenes of the series and movie they were filming bothered me SO much, no movie like that would get a big award)
p.s. they ended up saying the sex tape was a scene from the movie, like we joked they could lolol
Yang Mi's ending could have been handled better, otherwise it was ok. All in all, i give it 7/10, could've been better. Instead of any hint of season 2, i would prefer the original 19+ rating edit.
I liked that they included Jeong Won in some way in the end, so it wasn't the absolute typical doomed yuri lol and that Sang Ah and Tae Seop stayed as life partners in crime.
I am so confused who was buried by BTS in ep 9? What deal did he make in the car with the older lady? Who else…
he didn't bury anyone, he was cutting the life line of the ancestors of one of the political rivals, kind of like cursing the bloodline, in order to weaken him and gain advantage for the guy that ends up the president
I feel like the director/screenwriter is making a point about the things women need to do in order to survive…
That Sang Ah is exploiting Bang Tae Seop became clear to me in ep 6, when BTS thinks they are having a "heart to heart" moment at the hospital.
It's interesting how the character Sang Ah or how Ha Ji Won played the character seemed so superficial or typical/boring to me at first and then when i saw her scenes with Ji Soo, i understood that she's actually pretending all the fricking time. When she's with Ji Soo, we see her being honest for the first time and that similar level of honesty is also seen when she is with Jeong Won.
The revealing of her character is probably the most layered out of all of them, so i'm interested to see what more is to come. Does she actually care for Jeong Won or not? I'm still not sure, but JW seems to care about her.
As for the show using a lot of scenes just for shock value, it doesn't feel like that to me as much as it seems to to others. The pee scene seemed like a very clever way to show how disgusting SA is or isn't willing to get and to show how Yang Mi is testing/assessing her at that moment and not just playing with her. Another scene that really stood out to me and felt well thought through, was the revealing of the sex tape. How intentionally it was hidden by BTS and his shadow. Given that this show is inspired by real life events, the way we the viewers see that scene could fall in line with what the director/showrunners might be trying to achieve - show the deeply problematic bts of the industry and that part of society, while staying true in their stance of it being wrong and therefore not exploiting women by not including a scene of them that's lowkey porn. And that gave me the impression that they are being serious. I know that they cut some scenes to lower the show's age rating, so i may be totally off and they aren't as serious about making a statement, but i wouldn't be surprised if nothing more of the sex scene would be shown retrospectively in the last episodes.
Is the wlw relationship a big part of this show? I'm interested in watching queer representation from Korea but…
Wlw itself isn't a big part of the show, but whatever amount of it there is, isn't male gaze and the actresses' acting is good. There isn't any actual queer representation, bc the focus is about what goes on behind the scenes of the rich and powerful and how far/low ppl are willing to go in order to get what they want - either their dreams, revenge or just more power. It isn't about romance, straight or gay, it's about how greedy and ugly ppl can get and the insanity of being caught in it.
something funny i just noticed: the poster has that huge alien standing behind a wall where Jihyo and Bora are hiding. If the hallucination alien is a metaphor for suppressed gayness, then the poster is hilarious because it's like the gay is creeping up on them lol
Happy marriage? It seemed more to me like they realised they can be life partners. That they don't need to mostly just use each other, they can be partners in crime (especially for SA).
With Jeong Won, i understood that more as showing that SA, despite getting what she ultimately wanted, continues to live a half empty life. Got her shiny life, but there will always be something missing, regret or haunted by something from the past.
And even though the ending wasn't climactic to me at all, it made sense bc it shows that there is no real ending or winning.
But i get what you mean and agree with you at least halfway. Mainly the inconsistency and the jump at the finale kept me going back and forth between rating it 7 or 6, but the acting was too good to give it a 6.
(also the quality of the scenes of the series and movie they were filming bothered me SO much, no movie like that would get a big award)
p.s. they ended up saying the sex tape was a scene from the movie, like we joked they could lolol
I liked that they included Jeong Won in some way in the end, so it wasn't the absolute typical doomed yuri lol and that Sang Ah and Tae Seop stayed as life partners in crime.
i feel bad for her the most; she didn't even have a choice, she was born into hell from the get-go
It's interesting how the character Sang Ah or how Ha Ji Won played the character seemed so superficial or typical/boring to me at first and then when i saw her scenes with Ji Soo, i understood that she's actually pretending all the fricking time. When she's with Ji Soo, we see her being honest for the first time and that similar level of honesty is also seen when she is with Jeong Won.
The revealing of her character is probably the most layered out of all of them, so i'm interested to see what more is to come. Does she actually care for Jeong Won or not? I'm still not sure, but JW seems to care about her.
As for the show using a lot of scenes just for shock value, it doesn't feel like that to me as much as it seems to to others. The pee scene seemed like a very clever way to show how disgusting SA is or isn't willing to get and to show how Yang Mi is testing/assessing her at that moment and not just playing with her.
Another scene that really stood out to me and felt well thought through, was the revealing of the sex tape. How intentionally it was hidden by BTS and his shadow.
Given that this show is inspired by real life events, the way we the viewers see that scene could fall in line with what the director/showrunners might be trying to achieve - show the deeply problematic bts of the industry and that part of society, while staying true in their stance of it being wrong and therefore not exploiting women by not including a scene of them that's lowkey porn. And that gave me the impression that they are being serious.
I know that they cut some scenes to lower the show's age rating, so i may be totally off and they aren't as serious about making a statement, but i wouldn't be surprised if nothing more of the sex scene would be shown retrospectively in the last episodes.
Thats as much as i can say without spoiling.