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Highly recommended, this drama is perfect in its genre, crime and thriller. The main character of the drama is really the village, and all the people in it. It's not the kind of village that forms a family, but rather where everyone has to keep their head down and keep their real selves safe and guarded. The psychological dimension is quite strong here. The suspense is there but this is not scary or gore. I got immersed in its world immeadiately and did not skip a moment. The acting is mostly top notch. Yook Sung Jae is a really good actor, Shin Eun Kyung and Jang Hee Jin are fantastic in their roles. 8.5

Even abortion is still illegal in Korea.

Alcohol is more dangerous. Of course also depending on amounts.

Actor is suffering from sleeplessness and possibly depression. Koreans: let's destroy his career too. As if people with all kinds of diseases deserved to be made jobless. Korean logic. Is cruel. Netflix is Canadian and never cancelled e.g. Russell Brand who was a full scale junkie during much of his career. Kids in Korea never dare to ask whether these substances could be made legal when there will always be people who self-medicate, or are self-destructive. Self-destruction will always find a way. It is full-fledged hypocricy to encourage drinking and condemn much less dangerous drugs.

Extreme hypocricy from Netlix. Korean cancel culture doesn't deserve such elevation. All of the drugs he took are less dangerous than alcohol which is drunk in huge quantities in k-dramas.

Honestly, I skipped everything about the 2nd and 3rd and 4th couples :)

There's some bullying - if you're fed up with it (like me). But the romance is nice and all in all I think it's a good watch. Not great but not bad either. I'd choose Hope or Dope for a fresher theme though since it gets out of the school environment as it progresses.

It's pretty good. Kim Se Jeong is great.

You're completely right and whenever I come across people like Lo-ok I just block them.

Completely agree with you. It is weird and boring. I don't know what people who like this have watched earlier, but this is lacking in depth.

This one is a bit of a nothingburger. The script isn't intelligent, the drama is not touching. It's superficial. Supposedly painful things happen, but I'm just not feeling this. The second couple is unnecessary and cringey. My rating drops with each episode, don't know if it's possible to finish (currently at ep. 8).

Yes it got very dull, but the couple chemistry was great. Especially in the beginning. I dropped at ep. 10.

Narco Saints won Best Director and Best Actor awards in Director's Cut awards. Korea Film Director’s Network (KFDN) represents a group of around 300 filmmakers from Korea. Don't trust MDL rating or comments on N-S, it's a masterpiece.

Hidden gems are typically k-dramas from 2012-2017, before Netflix times and not "pushed" by Viki but still there. MDL ratings tend to be low for the intelligent high-quality k-dramas with a well written dialogue. I didn't see any on the list I'd personally think of hidden or gems after having watched 355 k-dramas, but. Added my own in case someone takes an interest. Generally hidden gems lists are useful.

great to hear!

If you liked Beyond Evil, you'll definitely like Cruel City. Both are awesome in their constant twists and turns, mind games and blurring of the boundaries between good guys and bad guys. Cruel City is more action packed (the ml got shot or stabbed in almost every episode...) and thus not boring for one minute. The psychological manipulation that is slowly revealed is so unfair and twisted it just takes your breath away. The ending is satisfactory in the sense that the criminals own their actions and justice wins.

would be awesome if he accepts it. Would want to watch anything he's in. Search is one his great underrated dramas.

It is objectively true that Goblin used to be called a fantasy drama and now people call it an age gap romance. Newspeak. Wokeists miss a lot of great dramas. If k-drama adopts wokeist agendas, I'm out.

After Matrimonial Chaos, I watched the One and Only. It's such a beautiful and well-written drama. One of the very best (I've watched 350 k-dramas so far). Near-perfect. Plenty of food for thought. Hope to see more dramas like it!

Random comment: I'm watching Cruel City right now it's excellent. Many ongoing k-dramas are much more boring than circa 2017 k-dramas.