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it was basically both sequel and prequel at the same time. Which I am grateful for, because it added ore depth to the characters.

I feel like they truly did a decent job with Jiwoo's side. It was more of an explanation not justification for his actions.

Great review 👍🏻

"was the one doing everything in his power to prevent it from happening" While I agree he was trying, saying he was doing everything in his power is not correct, coz everything would be just cutting contact with Shin 🤣

I agree that the ending was perfect. Loved how they kept the silly bickering till the end and it was not all cheesy. Because the bickering was part of the good chemistry they had.

Great and detailed review! 😊

I really appreciated how this relationship seemed real. They acted not only like lovers, but also like friends - how a proper relationship should work.

here's the thing about the crown prince - neither his mother nor he himself truly wanted him on the thrown... it was all Emperor. I'm not sure saying wicked were punished and following it with the crown prince plotline was fitting, since he was never wicked, he was just not fitted for the position.

But overall, I agree with a lot of your points 😉

If you liked this so much, you gotta check some Chinese wuxia/xianxia shows 😉

I feel you about Hotel Del Luna. They focused so much on IU's character, they completely forgot about all the other aspects that make a drama.

Jung Somin is one of my favorite actresses. She can deliver any role. But, if she comes back for season 2, I will be pissed, because the production team confirmed she will not be part of part 2. So if they bring her back, it's basically lying to the audience for the marketing, and it's something truly hate.

Great review. Even tho I did not share the love for the show, I can clearly understand why you loved it so much :)

in Hotel Del Luna they had the opposite issue - well written and complex female lead, and one dimensional male lead. They struggle to deliver the same quality of writing to all main characters...

listen... this was so funny. Like... when you tried to find a logic in many things and there is none... A+ entertainment hahaha

When in the opening the Satan went “As God exists everywhere, we too exist everywhere, and that is the will of your God” < that’s the moment I knew this is gonna be a fun right. Bish ain;t wrong 🤣

The dad sees the room full of dead animals and crosses upside down. What does he do? Goes inside and looks around. He had probably the least brain power from all the characters. Loved him.

The whole discussion “ Are you sure it’s the real Satan” among the priests. GOLD. Also, this dialogue:
priest 1: there is no reason to believe all your stories!
priest 2: but it cut off my hand! so i wouldn't be able to pray anymore!
priest 1: if it wanted you to stop praying, it would cut off your tongue!
GOLD 🤣

I could stop laughing because the movie by an accident explains why atheists are never possessed. They go by: devil targets people who are angry because of some tragedy in their lives, this creates resentment towards god. But since atheists don't believe in god, there is no resentment towards him, so devil can't do shit 🤣

When the daughter starts burning? Omg I almost fell off the chair from laughing - it was so out of the blue and I did not expect that at all.

She suspected that Jin Mu was involved. She knew her dad had to be changed into soul shifter, as he himself was not good enough to do it himself. She had enough reasons to keep investigating, but she did not...

the only times she helped with investigating Jin Mu was for Jang Uk's benefit and his "issues" and not her own...

It's refreshing coz it mixes all the best from mainstream kdrama productions with all the basics of wuxia. But for me... this is not enough. There were too many things that started to annoy me half way through, especially in terms of how the writers treated female characters...

drama wise, I usually can do up till 5 and finish (depending on the length), movies I rarely drop, so any rating can happen. There are a few cases of shows so bad, I felt the need to finish and write down all my thought in a review - especially if I found the show to have some problematic messages.

But many people don't drop shows at all, no matter how bad they are. They might not enjoy a show almost at all, and still rate it 7+, because "they feel bad for people involved in making it". There are also people who rate everything they watch as 10, no matter how much they liked it. So even among people who finish all the show, majority does not use the full scale...

Pulling the knife out can actually kill someone faster. Which he should know being a police officer.

I just feel like the writers added too many layers into this, filled it with misdirects and for me it usually (before the show ends I cannot say it's the case here tho) means the writers is trying to hide either lack of writing talent or a predictable plot...

Hye Jin was killed by the killer for her dad's involvement in the past events right?
But Sung Joon's theory was that the taxi driven killed her coz of his anger issues. (same as he tried to kill the teenage girl). Is it me, or are they making it way too complicated? I thought they made it obvious everyone in the juty was somehow related to the past events. But they kind of moved away from that idea, and are setting "one of the jury is the killer". They are adding layers over layers of information, not denying nor confirming anything, and while up till now it's fun, it will be tiresome at some point...

I see people in comment section already giving up trying to figure out the story, and I don't think making it so complex it's confusing should ever be a goal of any crime/thriller story. For me, a good story leaves you with "damn, it all makes sense now" by the end, and not with "it all makes sense now, right? I think so... but I'm not sure. Would have to rewatch it maybe a 3 times to make sure nothing contradicts itself and it's cohesive as a plot", and I'm scared this will end up in that 2nd category, if they keep adding new things, instead of expanding the ideas they already have.

I stopped caring what will happen to Ryu Sung Joon. He is so reckless and stupid I just hope his action will not fuck up other people too much. Sung Hoon is a saint to have patients with him.

Also, I have a question/complaint about the plot, will hide it under spoiler in a reply

If they will go with that it will be painfully dumb.
Coz the pills don;t make people killers, they make them hallucinate. A planner murder cannot really be excused by a spontaneous hallucination... Also... he only took 2 pills. I think this is all a misdirect (a pretty obvious one) to make him a "possible" killer, when the killer is someone else (someone working for Jang Gi Do).

He did not fire her. He wants to use her. He needs a good face for his new project, but she would obviously not agree to it if she became a partner (better gig for her). So he had to force her out of her high horse and make it seem as if this offer is him helping her.

He never wanted for her to truly dream big. He was using her from the start.

This is such a fun watch. Jang Gi Do is obviously behind the killings. The writers want to pin it on Si Baek for entertainment. Maybe they will use it to make him an actual suspect later (they already had it go that way with the detective and his "story" during the questioning).

The cast is crazy good. In some weird way I really like Oh Ha Ran. Her "축하해" after hearing the dude was murdered was amazing 🤣

That's what I do. I don't really read reviews before I watch a show, but I tend to check some after I'm done. Especially ones that rated the show differently than me. I usually upvote reviews that I feel like explained their opinion/position well - if even if I disagree, I can understand why they liked/disliked the show.

Here's the thing about dominating review section - if you write a lot you establish some kind of presence there, which leads to people remembering you, which leads to them checking your reviews, because they know more or less what to expect (what are the focus points, your writing style, if you include spoilers etc.), which leads to more upvotes, review being on top, and getting more people to read it... and it's the same story all over again.

While I'm 100% okay with upvoting other review, downvoting someone just because other people read and upvote their reviews is not a good thing. This is how we get "sdjhfhsgfds this show is sooo goood!" copied x10 to hit the minimum number of characters - type of reviews on the first page, because people try to downvote actual review for one reason or the other...

Downvote is not there to making sure everyone can equal chance to be "on top", but to show the review was not helpful.

that's... one of the most counterproductive things you might have done. If you really disliked the review, you should have just downvote and that's it.
Your comment will only bring more people to read it, and at least some of them will hit upvote, which will only bring his review up, which is opposite to what you wanted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯