Kate

While I truly loved Lee Joon in the role, it could be seen as a partially flaw, when the villain overshadows the main characters. When I think about it, he his performance was weaker, maybe I would care more about the main duo. But it was so hard not to love Ok Eul Tae. I remember I had a similar problem while watching Duel. The good guys were too good and one dimensional, while the "villain" was so complex and gripping, I wished him the happy ending instead of the true lead characters.

Lee Joon truly ACED the role. As far as I know, he stole the show.

Lee Joon is truly a man of many talents. Back in his idols day he was great performer, singer, dancer and variety shows star. Now he exceeds everyone's expectations in his acting career.

I would have preferred this drama to be set entirely in Goryeo or Joseon < I agree. Honestly speaking, the same vicious circle of fate and revenge could have been kept without the present time line.

As always, great review :)

yeah, i would hide it under spoiler

For me the concept was so interesting, I don't think I would be satisfied even if they used these 121 minutes to the fullest.

the concept was too complex for a short drama like that.

Since I'm getting ready for sleep, and this is a longer read, I will read tomorrow after work, but just scrolling through I am just AMAZED with the formatting and how beautiful it is 🥰

Insulting actors looks is not hate watching, it's being an asshole. Same way insulting people who dislike a drama is not appreciating a show, it's being an asshole.

I had such a hard time with this show, coz they did some things extremely well, but some were just poorly written/executed.
I loved the story and the idea behind it, but the directing bothered me quite a bit.

but I can totally see all the strong points you mentioned :)
Great review!

Well... some people have brains and actually use them.
Saying I'm overanalyzing coz I mentioned obvious flaws in story building is a reach ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

According to drama he has DID
According to reason and psychology/psychiatry, he does not 🤣

It's barely just using one brain cell while watching, not overanalyzing.
There are many shows that have rather poorly executed plot that still had many aspects that made me engaged (Bad and Crazy being a perfect example from the newest one).

This one failed. Sure, the zombies were great and the action scenes are fun, for first 15 minutes. But it's not enough to build a whole show around. If a 12 episode drama can only offer me fun zombies, and nothing on the characters' and plot's side to make me interested... I'm gonna drop it.

what's a masterpiece for one
could be a trash for the other.

They failed to make me interested for 3 episodes, so I dropped.
I had two massive problems with this show for the introduction eps:

First they try to create an emotional reaction by flashbacks to justify why a character's death is sad, instead of building the connection between the viewers and the characters before it happens.

Second, the characters are either dicks or boring as fuck, so as far as I know... they can all die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Plus, they truly did not try to establish any of the characters. And that tactic could work for either a shorter show (max 6 episodes) or a movie, where the action scenes with zombies are THE main element. But it's a full 12 episodes drama, and instead of any introduction to the plot/characters, but make me care about any of these teens, we've got like 30 minutes of them running from zombies since episode 1.

hope the bomb ended literally on her head 🤣

So I dropped it on episode 3.
I just want to know:
Does Lee Na Yeon die, and how painful it was? 😈
please hide the reply under spoiler tho.

Lee Dong Wook is too good for rom-coms and that's the fact. All his most basic and broing roles were the romantic comedy ones. All his best performances were more horror, action or drama related.

The first half of the drama felt like a very long introduction. < true. They should have conclude the case in 3-4 episodes at best.

and omg yes, they could do without the romance. There were like 3-4 scenes of it and that's it, so what's the point of it even existing?

Great review Tine! Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

Thoughts 2 episodes in.

First of all, acting is... questionable at moments. Sad how the best performances in episode 2 were served by two people who only did one episode guest roles: Shin Ye Eun and Kwak Shi Yang. One could argue that Kang Daniel does well for his first role, but I always believed standards should be universal. He took a lead role, he should act it. But he does not.

I enjoy the characters, but I fear there won't be much complexity behind that that would refresh the usual tropes. Perfect example: the person involved in the spy camera was Han Na - the most obvious choice. It would be far more interesting if they out a spin on Ah Ri's character and make her be the one who did the secret recording.

I found the opening sequence of episode 1 awesome, and I wish we could get even a short mini series or a movie prequal based on that.

I like the production. Love the aerial shots a lot.

First sure made a good choice of making the episode under an hour. It never dragged and I was rather interested throughout th episodes. That said, not sure how they will manage to make it a whole 16 episodes who. For not it seems like it would fit 12 episodes format more.

We need a full prequel!

as far as I know, we don't know lol
we get the general stuff like he was abused, so that mentally fucked him up, but no specific reason that he himself gave

it was just pure entertainment lol