There's some actually really good Cinderella & Cheese in the Trap mashup in the early episodes. Thankfully Les Liaisons Dangereuses isn't adapted all that strictly (I watched three movies as preparation for the show!), and ML very soon stops being anything like the 'full-on psycho' character you'd find in aforementioned Cheese in the Trap.
From others' comments, I expected more outlandish recurrent breakups than there were, though the ones the writers came up with were usually very hard to agree with as a viewer.
By the last two hours, as is tradition with K-dramas, the story takes odd turns, and the ending is unfulfilling. The last episode in particular wastes tons of time on utter crap instead of using it for something useful.
Randomly noticed that on Netflix (and surely Viki or other licensed sites), like so often, various things are removed/censored.
All the music at the very start of Ep.1 (character intros) is different.
Ep1 at 11:50 on NF has some replaced music, while Dramacool at 11:20 has the Superman theme play. - also Ep1 at 8:10 and 7:44, slightly different music for the musicians playing - Ep 1 at 19:20 / 19:04, different music - all techno club music in Ep1
At 12:54 of Ep.1, they sing the KR anthem for a few short seconds – Netflix just does one big cut. Not missing much here.
There's a LONG two minutes scene missing at Ep1 55:00 (DC: Ep2 21:35) introducing Park Hye Jeong.
Ep.2 (or 3 in the 32 split) has Lee Se Joo watching pornography on his TV cut out. At around 25:30 on NF and 25:10 on Dramacool and the like.
Different music again at Ep2 12:55 NF / Ep3 12:35 DC.
Short sequence of cello playing missing at Ep2 34:30 NF / Ep4 00:28 DC. I suppose each and every instance of Choi Soo Ji playing her instrument might be missing on Netflix.
I wonder how much else of the show is removed/censored. This seems almost as terrible as the Reply series in that regard.
I don't think the untangled mystery plot makes much sense.
- what happened with the first 'bullet inside the wall'? - why was their third member, Xiao Wu, even killed, and with what kind of silent crossbow bone bullet? if it was the police underling, none of this makes any sense. - how can the mastermind hire to afford an expensive killer, Wang Hai? - why did Wang Hai seek to kill Ding? - why would a bone bullet be left in the 'pig shooting wall'? complete nonsense.
for The Twins Effect 1, The Twins Effect 2 and Twins Mission: "Twins" in the title refers to the Cantopop group of the same name, lead actresses Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung. This one at least also has ... twins in the plot, lol. (The plots of the movies are not related.)
for The Twins Effect 1, The Twins Effect 2 and Twins Mission: "Twins" in the title refers to the Cantopop group of the same name, lead actresses Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung. The plots are not related.
for The Twins Effect 1, The Twins Effect 2 and Twins Mission: "Twins" in the title refers to the Cantopop group of the same name, lead actresses Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung. The plots are not related.
Notably better than the usual 'Emperor' movies. Despite the relatively generic "good cop has to help his informant;…
I find it unclear why exactly the cop is arrested at the end: because he stole money, because he crashed his car, or because he brawled gangsters to the death instead of arresting them? Dee's fate seems rather unclear, or it feels underwhelming to have "well, she's arrested and that's it" as a resolution.
Notably better than the usual 'Emperor' movies. Despite the relatively generic "good cop has to help his informant; any mistake by the informant may mean his death" premise, it's pretty suspenseful. I didn't buy the supposedly emotionally charged subplots and would have preferred a different ending.
In the first minutes only: - ML's rival announces he will leave his previous job where he just got promoted, and the employees APPLAUD IT? - manager of ML's restaurant asks delivery chap if ordering fresh food online means you actually get it fresh, and of course the other person quickly ..delivers.. a product placement for ..... I'm not even sure. a shopping portal? the delivery service? the idea of buying ingredients online? - big fish is split in two at the fish market, and somehow returns in one piece shortly after. - following that, a local politician falls from the heavens to deliver a speech about how a cooking competition will decide the fate of the universe
The visual presentation is very good, but don't expect much from the plot.
Is the movie originally in Cantonese? The Mandarin version felt off.
It's shown in the show as a sort of battling his inner evil, with the help of FL, but it's about using unnecessary violence on people threatening his family and not checking the boxes of https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/psychopathy .
pros:- the majority of the time, the actors do a very good job and the directing is on point as well.- FL does…
missing: - day of the murder of FL's parents is never fully explained, nor is the build-up. I kept hoping to learn in how far it was fully planned or spontaneous, or how & when all relevant characters even get there.
bugs: - EP13, at 54:49 – a dead person's hand shoots up. very curious.
pros: - the majority of the time, the actors do a very good job and the directing is on point as well. - FL does not make wailing or squealing noises while crying. she doesn't cry non-stop anyway. - grisly murders don't make a good place for excessive product placement *
neutral: - you won't find "memorable K-drama songs" here.
cons: - especially with regards to antagonist plans, police negligence and selfish journalists, this show gets WAY too makjang. ridiculously implausible things happen. - the plot is dominated by a serial killer who hits people on the head with a hammer, yet the writers seem unaware that this can have other consequences than being dead or making a full recovery. a lot of the show is oddly black & white like that. - disagreeing with what some other reviewers write, I was disappointed by the amount of dishonesty (hiding fears, pains, worries) between ML and FL. - many of the side characters don't have a purpose outside their relationship to ML/FL. there aisn't anything like memorable comedy characters, either – both Pyo Taek and Chae So-Jin feel like they were at least in earlier drafts considered to achieve this.
*: FL's household has the same vacuum cleaner in two different colours in one spot, and then another characters later on also wields that very same model.
From others' comments, I expected more outlandish recurrent breakups than there were, though the ones the writers came up with were usually very hard to agree with as a viewer.
By the last two hours, as is tradition with K-dramas, the story takes odd turns, and the ending is unfulfilling.
The last episode in particular wastes tons of time on utter crap instead of using it for something useful.
All the music at the very start of Ep.1 (character intros) is different.
Ep1 at 11:50 on NF has some replaced music, while Dramacool at 11:20 has the Superman theme play.
- also Ep1 at 8:10 and 7:44, slightly different music for the musicians playing
- Ep 1 at 19:20 / 19:04, different music
- all techno club music in Ep1
At 12:54 of Ep.1, they sing the KR anthem for a few short seconds – Netflix just does one big cut. Not missing much here.
There's a LONG two minutes scene missing at Ep1 55:00 (DC: Ep2 21:35) introducing Park Hye Jeong.
Ep.2 (or 3 in the 32 split) has Lee Se Joo watching pornography on his TV cut out. At around 25:30 on NF and 25:10 on Dramacool and the like.
Different music again at Ep2 12:55 NF / Ep3 12:35 DC.
Short sequence of cello playing missing at Ep2 34:30 NF / Ep4 00:28 DC.
I suppose each and every instance of Choi Soo Ji playing her instrument might be missing on Netflix.
I wonder how much else of the show is removed/censored. This seems almost as terrible as the Reply series in that regard.
- why was their third member, Xiao Wu, even killed, and with what kind of silent crossbow bone bullet? if it was the police underling, none of this makes any sense.
- how can the mastermind hire to afford an expensive killer, Wang Hai?
- why did Wang Hai seek to kill Ding?
- why would a bone bullet be left in the 'pig shooting wall'? complete nonsense.
"Twins" in the title refers to the Cantopop group of the same name, lead actresses Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung. This one at least also has ... twins in the plot, lol.
(The plots of the movies are not related.)
"Twins" in the title refers to the Cantopop group of the same name, lead actresses Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung.
The plots are not related.
"Twins" in the title refers to the Cantopop group of the same name, lead actresses Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung.
The plots are not related.
Dee's fate seems rather unclear, or it feels underwhelming to have "well, she's arrested and that's it" as a resolution.
I didn't buy the supposedly emotionally charged subplots and would have preferred a different ending.
- ML's rival announces he will leave his previous job where he just got promoted, and the employees APPLAUD IT?
- manager of ML's restaurant asks delivery chap if ordering fresh food online means you actually get it fresh, and of course the other person quickly ..delivers.. a product placement for ..... I'm not even sure. a shopping portal? the delivery service? the idea of buying ingredients online?
- big fish is split in two at the fish market, and somehow returns in one piece shortly after.
- following that, a local politician falls from the heavens to deliver a speech about how a cooking competition will decide the fate of the universe
The visual presentation is very good, but don't expect much from the plot.
Is the movie originally in Cantonese? The Mandarin version felt off.
Black had the potential to be in the top 3 dramas or so for me, but I really hated the ending.
- day of the murder of FL's parents is never fully explained, nor is the build-up. I kept hoping to learn in how far it was fully planned or spontaneous, or how & when all relevant characters even get there.
bugs:
- EP13, at 54:49 – a dead person's hand shoots up. very curious.
- the majority of the time, the actors do a very good job and the directing is on point as well.
- FL does not make wailing or squealing noises while crying. she doesn't cry non-stop anyway.
- grisly murders don't make a good place for excessive product placement *
neutral:
- you won't find "memorable K-drama songs" here.
cons:
- especially with regards to antagonist plans, police negligence and selfish journalists, this show gets WAY too makjang. ridiculously implausible things happen.
- the plot is dominated by a serial killer who hits people on the head with a hammer, yet the writers seem unaware that this can have other consequences than being dead or making a full recovery. a lot of the show is oddly black & white like that.
- disagreeing with what some other reviewers write, I was disappointed by the amount of dishonesty (hiding fears, pains, worries) between ML and FL.
- many of the side characters don't have a purpose outside their relationship to ML/FL. there aisn't anything like memorable comedy characters, either – both Pyo Taek and Chae So-Jin feel like they were at least in earlier drafts considered to achieve this.
*: FL's household has the same vacuum cleaner in two different colours in one spot, and then another characters later on also wields that very same model.
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