Black Cap applies to segeuks too. For some reason assassins and similar need to advertise their identity with black clothes and black hat fully covering their faces even at noon. And it magically works! Not a single person will pass them a strange look when everything about them screams suspicious.
And yet 'Wear The Brightest, Craziest Hat You Can Find When Tailing Someone' thrives. Idk what's worse.
Besides - if it was indeed 16 episodes long, there would be less time to introduce the psychokiller the way he was introduced, as one of other cases, leaving the doubt he's the one.
I'm so glad I pushed myself to finish the last quarter.
Would it be better as a 16 episode drama, like I Remember You? Probably yes, but 1. it was always planned as 20 episodes, so the pacing as slow it may be is steady, the plot develops as planned, still having a twist (with an inner twist) in its sleeve and there's a space for a long, calming closure, 2. I wouldn't trade a more focused show for all the company meetings hijinks this one has. The overarching plot with the killings and past story connecting main pair's fathers felt pretextual at some point, only there to highten the stakes, but it grew back on me. The strength of this drama doesn't lie in another psychokiller story (although the actor playing him has a great presence and the writter excels in making sympathetic yet chilling to the bone villains), but in an enseble of an endearing characters. In that sense I wish it was even slice-of-lifier and some of them making up should have happened like 10 episodes earlier, because watching those people interacting in a friendlier, but still reluctant, snarky way was so much fun and I'll never grew tired of it! Not a single character annoyed me in the end. People complain about cliches, but so many typical connections were subverted and given a fresh twist.
Reasons to watch:
- to redeem Choi Tae Joon after Missing 9
- people may say it's predictable now, but when it was airing, there were plenty of wild theories every week and not much of it proved right. When the story becomes a bit more predictable towards the end, I take it more as a payoff than a drop in quality (can you even call it a predictability? isn't that a point to solve things out in a rewarding way, so they wouldn't feel out of the blue?).
- apparently pairing two bitchy second female leads results in something beautiful. Na Ji Hae is such a show stealer. If only the two of them and the heroine became friends sooner, their rapport was great!
- no typical 2nd male lead third wheeling on the main pair. No typical 2nd female lead third wheeling either (double that). It felt more like people whom they met on their road and it's more complex and nuanced than usual. We have love triangles, but they are more a thing of a past, casting a shadow on the current situation.
- most of them are like a bunch of broken puppies and they're all allowed to be imperfect.
- the romance makes me all giddy inside (and slightly weepy at some points). Not even the story, because it's full of back and forths with noble idiocy and angsty separation on top, but the chemistry between the leads.
- Prosecutor No is so good with words.
- did I mention company meeting hijinks at least three times? I live for them. They deserve a spin off.
If you're willing to pass some major improbabilities with how the prosecution works, you'll be rewarded with a lot nicer show about trust than comments and reviews paint it.
ive only seen episode 2 and i have to say that im pretty impressed. the plot, script, directing. NIF might have…
could you elaborate on execution and realism? I'm trying to decide whether to watch it when it fully airs or just bite the bullet and read the book instead, because over 80 episodes in total is a huge time commitment, so the cinametography better be worth it.. But if it's annoying or distracting I'd rather pass.
Woah, so much drama around this. And here I am, silently hoping they will fix their habit of wild cliffhangers leading to absolutely no follow up in next episode's openings.
We're only half way through the drama but the past few episodes feel a lot like finale episodes so I'm…
I'm nervous with 20 episodes dramas, too. But here a midpoint feels like just a setup for what is about to start. We still don't know what exactly is Song In plotting and how he wants to achieve it, and according to him, there are others behind him whom we never met. Not to mention he's also becoming interested in San (I didn't see that coming, I thought he and the girl pretending to be a herbalist are lovers, but he's just playing her...). There's plenty of power to gain and shuffle. Minister Eun is growing a spine. Won and San barely discovered their true identities and Rin has quite a road to make to become greedier and fight as an equal to the prince. Just please, let Dan stay the way she is.
If the showrunners want to have Won as an endgame, they will need all those episodes even more because for now I don't see San choosing him over Rin. Choosing anyone instead of leaving in fact.
On the other hand, the hoops they were jumping through for the last two weeks to avoid the simplest solution of a tribute problem were unbelievable. Marrying San and Rin would solve it for both their families and save us at least 6 episodes, leading straight to antagonising Won.
Can someone tell me who is Jihoon's mom and about Malsook, what is her relationship with Kwang Jae? Is she…
Yes. They were secretly dating, Bo Hee got pregnant, Hyun Jae found he's incurably sick, decided to disappear to not let people around him suffer seeing him dying and eventually died in 1994 without anyone knowing.
But it's not 'our' HJ. Remember the twin typhoon? It doubled HJ, made him split into two people. One travelled to 2017, the other stayed in his original timeline, dating BH and all. So technically HJ we were watching isn't JH's father because he time travelled before fathering him.
Can someone tell me who is Jihoon's mom and about Malsook, what is her relationship with Kwang Jae? Is she…
Ji Hoon is Bo Hee's son. It was revealed right at the beginning, when they were taking a family photograph.
Malsook is Lee Soon Tae's granddaughter. His daughter eloped with a man against LST wishes so he disowned her, but Malsook parents died in a car accident soon after and he took care of the kid. That's revealed further down the road and in one of the last episodes he has a vision in which he meets his daughter and they make up.
Kwang Jae is nobody's biological father, but he acts as a father to Ji Hoon. They all live together, because of past connection with their entertainment company. Lee Soon Tae was a boss, Bo Hee a star, Kwang Jae her road manager.
I hope I didn't mix it up, it's been a while since I saw it.
right now, i feel like Dong Cheol is going to end up trying to take revenge on everyone who made him go to the…
Do you think DC resents Sang Mi too? I wonder whether they've been staying in touch during his time in prison. She asked for his number, but I don't know if she got it in the end... From post-time skip scenes it doesn't seem she's in contact with anyone outside the cult.
Once in a blue moon we've got a true love triangle without an endgame set in stone and the show's getting so much flak for being exactly what it had promised. It's named The King in Love not The King Gets The Girl. The poster reflects a current situation very well.
So here's an idea. Why not enjoy the process instead of waiting to confirm an expected solution? Because the process itself is only getting more tangled and nuanced episode after episode, with pro-active, motivated characters playing their games and adjusting to others.
don't know why but I was laughing when Hoo Ye saw So Ah/Habaek hugging and he backed away into a dark corner,…
You're not! It's beyond frustrating. And it's not even like they're having a romantic moment, usually it's related to fixing Huye's problems which is in everyone best interest! It bothered me when he barged into her office (she wasn't even in danger at that point), but greenhouse scene topped it. Man, have a little trust. I guess I jst don't find a jealousy an attractive trait. Maybe it's more tolerable when used as a device, on an early stage when someone isn't aware of his feelings and being in such a situation makes him face it, but at this point - watching it make me freeze and hiss internally.
(With that being said, the development with staying silent in the car and making out later was kinda hot. Still felt like he was marking his ground, but.)
it's so rare to find dramas like this that are filmed with quality that's on par with movies. i really…
There was a PPL though, cult representatives were bribing policemen with these deer antler drinks. Or was it the other way around...? But it wasn't blatant.
Don't start me on music. That's exactly where skimping and lack of subtetly shows the most in dramas.
For science: wouldn't Docs be a better choice for climbing? They're heavier, but at least protect the ankle. It bugs ever since. The stylist was doing so well with Woo Seung outfits as if she actually had a real wardrobe and not a rack of disposable PPL apart from this detail.
it's so rare to find dramas like this that are filmed with quality that's on par with movies. i really…
We see things differently then. That's fine. By movie vibes I mean high production values + clear, consistently followed concept for the visuals + well structured plot imagined beforehand for the whole show, not improvised week by week and watered down to last longer, which still isn't something many dramas have because of low budgets, tight schedules and lack of tradition of doing high quality, inventful tv series.
I'd actually want for dramas not to mimick movies (although I often see 'movie-like' mentioned as a compliment), but going it's own route and using it's own potential by allowing themselves to not stick so much to tested and true formulas but play with them a little more. So not one long movie, but many short ones, each exploring some point of the whole story in a concise, closed form, layering episode after episode. But that's just me and that type of show-making is something we're yet to see here. Hopefully.
A long movie gives me throwback to NIF - one huge, 50 hours piece of television randomly cut into 1 hour chunks. Great on it's own, tiring to watch at once, frustrating to stop watching.
it's so rare to find dramas like this that are filmed with quality that's on par with movies. i really…
not so rare anymore, it's definitely a trend these days. This one is really visually coherent and true to promo materials (yay!), but many recent dramas already were, especially those with lesser focus on romcom. Whisper, Queen of Mystery, Stranger, now Falsify and School 2017 off the top of my head, to name a few. Not to mention more popular ones.
Hey, it's actually pretty cool. With short, 24 minutes episodes it follows scare-of-a-week format. Horror is cheap and full of jumpscares, but effective when watched at night. Cases are by no means original, on the contrary - they belong to the most basic repetitory you saw countless of times (a ghost summoned by saying her name thrice on a certain spot, ritual doll as a vehicle for a deceased's soul etc.). The twist is, it's approached in a relatively lowkey manner, without grand resolutions and life-threathening situations. It's not purely your usual ghostbuster procedural, but a variation on workplace drama showcasing a group of people who we never think much about. They don't have any sense of urgency, just find a VCR and explore the case as reporters. Maybe a mystery tag is missing, because there's some overarching story too. But it's early to tell.
Opening credits are so 90s and I love the whole setting of basement archive <3
So glad it's getting subbed.
And yet 'Wear The Brightest, Craziest Hat You Can Find When Tailing Someone' thrives. Idk what's worse.
Would it be better as a 16 episode drama, like I Remember You? Probably yes, but 1. it was always planned as 20 episodes, so the pacing as slow it may be is steady, the plot develops as planned, still having a twist (with an inner twist) in its sleeve and there's a space for a long, calming closure, 2. I wouldn't trade a more focused show for all the company meetings hijinks this one has. The overarching plot with the killings and past story connecting main pair's fathers felt pretextual at some point, only there to highten the stakes, but it grew back on me. The strength of this drama doesn't lie in another psychokiller story (although the actor playing him has a great presence and the writter excels in making sympathetic yet chilling to the bone villains), but in an enseble of an endearing characters. In that sense I wish it was even slice-of-lifier and some of them making up should have happened like 10 episodes earlier, because watching those people interacting in a friendlier, but still reluctant, snarky way was so much fun and I'll never grew tired of it! Not a single character annoyed me in the end. People complain about cliches, but so many typical connections were subverted and given a fresh twist.
Reasons to watch:
- to redeem Choi Tae Joon after Missing 9
- people may say it's predictable now, but when it was airing, there were plenty of wild theories every week and not much of it proved right. When the story becomes a bit more predictable towards the end, I take it more as a payoff than a drop in quality (can you even call it a predictability? isn't that a point to solve things out in a rewarding way, so they wouldn't feel out of the blue?).
- apparently pairing two bitchy second female leads results in something beautiful. Na Ji Hae is such a show stealer. If only the two of them and the heroine became friends sooner, their rapport was great!
- no typical 2nd male lead third wheeling on the main pair. No typical 2nd female lead third wheeling either (double that). It felt more like people whom they met on their road and it's more complex and nuanced than usual. We have love triangles, but they are more a thing of a past, casting a shadow on the current situation.
- most of them are like a bunch of broken puppies and they're all allowed to be imperfect.
- the romance makes me all giddy inside (and slightly weepy at some points). Not even the story, because it's full of back and forths with noble idiocy and angsty separation on top, but the chemistry between the leads.
- Prosecutor No is so good with words.
- did I mention company meeting hijinks at least three times? I live for them. They deserve a spin off.
If you're willing to pass some major improbabilities with how the prosecution works, you'll be rewarded with a lot nicer show about trust than comments and reviews paint it.
If the showrunners want to have Won as an endgame, they will need all those episodes even more because for now I don't see San choosing him over Rin. Choosing anyone instead of leaving in fact.
On the other hand, the hoops they were jumping through for the last two weeks to avoid the simplest solution of a tribute problem were unbelievable. Marrying San and Rin would solve it for both their families and save us at least 6 episodes, leading straight to antagonising Won.
But it's not 'our' HJ. Remember the twin typhoon? It doubled HJ, made him split into two people. One travelled to 2017, the other stayed in his original timeline, dating BH and all. So technically HJ we were watching isn't JH's father because he time travelled before fathering him.
Malsook is Lee Soon Tae's granddaughter. His daughter eloped with a man against LST wishes so he disowned her, but Malsook parents died in a car accident soon after and he took care of the kid. That's revealed further down the road and in one of the last episodes he has a vision in which he meets his daughter and they make up.
Kwang Jae is nobody's biological father, but he acts as a father to Ji Hoon. They all live together, because of past connection with their entertainment company. Lee Soon Tae was a boss, Bo Hee a star, Kwang Jae her road manager.
I hope I didn't mix it up, it's been a while since I saw it.
So here's an idea. Why not enjoy the process instead of waiting to confirm an expected solution? Because the process itself is only getting more tangled and nuanced episode after episode, with pro-active, motivated characters playing their games and adjusting to others.
(With that being said, the development with staying silent in the car and making out later was kinda hot. Still felt like he was marking his ground, but.)
Don't start me on music. That's exactly where skimping and lack of subtetly shows the most in dramas.
I'd actually want for dramas not to mimick movies (although I often see 'movie-like' mentioned as a compliment), but going it's own route and using it's own potential by allowing themselves to not stick so much to tested and true formulas but play with them a little more. So not one long movie, but many short ones, each exploring some point of the whole story in a concise, closed form, layering episode after episode. But that's just me and that type of show-making is something we're yet to see here. Hopefully.
A long movie gives me throwback to NIF - one huge, 50 hours piece of television randomly cut into 1 hour chunks. Great on it's own, tiring to watch at once, frustrating to stop watching.
Opening credits are so 90s and I love the whole setting of basement archive <3
So glad it's getting subbed.