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What are the jolliest 'bloody gun fights' and such productions you reference?

That and the Unexpected Pigeon Charge were the most '???' scenes.

It's basically Crash Landing On You, my face was stuck in " :| " during the entire epilogue.

Nothing really. Instead of stashing it in the basement safe, part of it is a few floors above in an instrument, and another part is in the FL's home. Nothing of it is cashed out or otherwise put to use to improve their lives. It's also not distributed among "the gang" (the residents) as it IMO should be.
It's really stupid.

The worst in that regard is when each of the tenants get their 30 seconds as an unstoppable combat monster or other form of super powers (hacker girl).

Might depend on your mother's tolerance or appreciation of violent killings & slapstick comedy.

Mixing a serious story with Airplane!-level comedy doesn't work.
The ending is about as facepalmy as that of Crash Landing and big topics are unresolved.

During the first 30-50%, Kim Na Na is a useful character; after that, she becomes a target of pointless domestic abuse for most of their arc. It's really uncomfortable to watch even as a guy.

Indeed, it's like watching a CW series in terms of plot logic. I've never seen so little first aid given to injured/dying people, either.

I suppose K2 has a slighty less terrible ending than City Hunter or Healer, but they all don't cover themselves in glory.

To do it in the most cruel and absurdly over the top way possible, it was necessary to first raise ML.

For the leads, the ML's parents, and the third couple, yeah.

There's also no kiss or other affection for what feels like the last two thirds of the show. The wedding ring just disappears. The relationship to the 'real' father doesn't get explored. I couldn't think of a more bare-bones way to end this.

The story comes with so many facepalms and so many uses of the teleporter, plus the lamest "oh hey let's wrap up in 60 seconds" ending they could think of. And don't get me started on the 'romance'...

The writer of Black/Mouse wanted the protagonist of Black to be erased from (human) history, retroactively making *everyone else* happy by removing all interaction his soul had with them. In my opinion, and that of some other viewers*, this makes everything the characters go through in the drama pointless. Resetting the universe and undoing the entire show is tantamount to "it was all a dream!" endings. To try to salvage that stupid story, the director came up with the (almost equally troubled?) idea of a post-story happy end where a gift on her deathbed makes the FL remember the ML and all their shared memories, so that she can join up with his soul for a happily-ever-after in the afterlife.


*: to be fair, some other people consider it a great story wrap-up, the ML realising after his story arc that he must sacrifice himself for the good of all.


You can find tons of detail and discussions here:
https://www.dramabeans.com/2017/12/black-episode-18-final/
https://www.kcrush.com/unpopular-opinion-hated-blacks-ending-well-youre-wrong/

Let me know if the ending turns out to be as bad as in Black. Thanks!
(Not what precisely happens, just if it's stupid or ruins the entire show.)

Sadly half of the time it looks like a cheap soap opera because of the way it was filmed. Maybe it's mostly the framerate. The camera work is occasionally obviously bad & even comical.

The rapid pace of twists and turns keeps you on your toes, and the 'competent protagonist' is sure neat, though ultimately he's mostly FL's stooge throughout the majority of episodes. There's little he does that's not done to help her.

Several hours of plot development or rather lack thereof from the middle could be cut out because the end of Ep 11 renders them void. I found that really cheap and underwhelming.

As many other viewers have pointed out below, you have to be able to stand "convenient" plot points, like how characters receive every phone call with millisecond precision to affect conversations they're having (and there's hundreds of these phone calls).

It's not actually properly revealed if they 'did the deed' at the start, and she is supposed to be out of other options, hence the desperate act, one she also hates herself for at times later.

10 years for instigating the *attempted* murder of the male lead, it was. He wasn't murdered, obviously.

Eventually a happy end for the lead couple in the "after story".

A bit of romance, no endless back-and-forth, no dramatic confessions.
Ending spoilers in the next reply.