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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
Girigo follows a group of high school students who download an app that grants any wish. The catch? Once the wish is fulfilled, the user only has 24 hours left to live.
I found the show not that scary. What it does instead is drown everything in blood. The frequency of the bloody scenes was just too much. After a while, the gore stops being shocking. You see someone slit their throat and you just shrug because the bloody mess doesn't give you the chills anymore.
The acting was decent; No one embarrassed themselves, but no one blew me away either.
But the real strength of the drama was the plot. I especially liked how the wishes were connected to shamanism. It's refreshing to see a phone app used as a medium to pass on curses. It makes sense because the characters belong to the digital era. The writer did a good job of tying the origin of the curse to the lives of the main characters and making the backstory feel like an important part of the story.
I also appreciated the drama’s logic behind the curse, which I found more frightening than the horror scenes themselves.Each person only gets one wish, and once that wish is granted, death follows within 24 hours. Since none of the characters know the price beforehand, their wishes are driven by personal wants. That made their choices feel believable. It also made sense that none of them used their wish to stop the curse. Doing that would mean sacrificing their own life for everyone else, and realistically, most people would not make that choice. That selfish but human reaction made the story feel realistic,despite the supernatural setup.
Honestly, I found Girigo to be a solid watch. It won't exactly have you sleeping with the lights on, but the concept is actually cool.It was truly a fun way to kill an evening.
I found the show not that scary. What it does instead is drown everything in blood. The frequency of the bloody scenes was just too much. After a while, the gore stops being shocking. You see someone slit their throat and you just shrug because the bloody mess doesn't give you the chills anymore.
The acting was decent; No one embarrassed themselves, but no one blew me away either.
But the real strength of the drama was the plot. I especially liked how the wishes were connected to shamanism. It's refreshing to see a phone app used as a medium to pass on curses. It makes sense because the characters belong to the digital era. The writer did a good job of tying the origin of the curse to the lives of the main characters and making the backstory feel like an important part of the story.
I also appreciated the drama’s logic behind the curse, which I found more frightening than the horror scenes themselves.Each person only gets one wish, and once that wish is granted, death follows within 24 hours. Since none of the characters know the price beforehand, their wishes are driven by personal wants. That made their choices feel believable. It also made sense that none of them used their wish to stop the curse. Doing that would mean sacrificing their own life for everyone else, and realistically, most people would not make that choice. That selfish but human reaction made the story feel realistic,despite the supernatural setup.
Honestly, I found Girigo to be a solid watch. It won't exactly have you sleeping with the lights on, but the concept is actually cool.It was truly a fun way to kill an evening.
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