Amazing how they managed to make it very uninteresting after episode 8, i mean i was binge watching and now i'm…
just finished the trainwreck that is ep9 and I have the same exact feeling, the plot advances just by the 2FL hearing things just randomly and saying whatever she hears.
kdramas have this weird fetish that no matter what the mother did or how many lives she shattered for decades, all can be forgiven if she acts like a mother and acknowledge her life long victims of children. everything is ok
this is the quintessential drama of enemies to lovers, loneliness and betrayal especially loneliness, its beautifully crafted, edited and directed, the intro just perfectly sums up how gorgeously this drama is shot and acted. one thing, in the last 4 episodes I find some character decisions questionable to straight up absurd, nothing major but the timing and sometimes the reason doesn't make sense except to drive the plot forward. the ending could've been executed better too.
a top tier story, masterfully written characters especially the ML & FL, the only two things that made me roll my eyes are first how disrespectful the sports industry is portrayed, coaches and olympic medalists acting like 12yo kids and the second thing is how NPC tier like are the parents of the ML they just don't make sense especially the mother who she arguably held the biggest plot power.
the secondary couple both are good characters of their own but their relationship is forced, they keep meeting on the writers' whim, almost every single meeting is based on a coincidence or him finding her without a clue especially when he was a designated driver for that guy. its just cheap lazy writing to put two characters together.
such an underrated gem, Ex-athletes stories are always interesting because they were doing only one thing their whole lives and suddenly that one thing is gone. so they have to start to learn how to live again. that episode 3 ending is a masterpiece of its own in every facade, the story build up, the characters involved and especially how it was masterfully shot and executed.
Anyone who watched things like mindhunter knows how serial killers behave they can imitate and blend into society easily, perfect culprit for the show even tho I think we needed just one or two more hints, but a masterpiece of a show on every façade, loved the romance too, people say not much chemistry, expecting every single couple to be fun or clash but love can be about the journey and their journey is unique.
halfway through this it got nice premise, some good characters but what's wild is that there's only one prosecutor, one attorney, one cop and one journalist in south korea, its one-dimensional how everything revolves around them.
The OST and the choice of non-original soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal. some episode endings are out of this world mainly because of the choice of the music.
What a horrible absolutely atrocious last episode, I made an account after years of lurking because I just couldn't take it what a way to spoil an absolute masterpiece with that last episode.
one thing, in the last 4 episodes I find some character decisions questionable to straight up absurd, nothing major but the timing and sometimes the reason doesn't make sense except to drive the plot forward. the ending could've been executed better too.
that episode 3 ending is a masterpiece of its own in every facade, the story build up, the characters involved and especially how it was masterfully shot and executed.