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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

Extremely good for binge watching. Some shows are amazing, but hard to watch in a fast pace, while this I could watch 10 episode in one sitting and not feel tired lol

Also, I am sorry, but since the police already had the knife, the mom could have said she got it from the doctor. Let's even say he goes with the story she brought it one day and he just gave it back: clinic like that for sure has CCTV, which would prove she never had anything like that with herself. So how did the doc get it?

Let's say the mom's alzheimer got that bad out of the blue, Soo Yeol could have said the mom brought it from the clinic, no way his team would not get their hands on CCTV to prove it. I hate how they just... skipped the whole investigation coz they had a knife, and we have to accept he got guilty verdict even tho it makes no sense ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ALSO! The doc would not even have his licence anymore, since he disclosed Soo Yeol's medical information during the interrogation (does not matter it was said to Soo Yeol, since there were other police officers watching + it was official recording).

I could ignore how DID does not make any sense here (even kill me heal me did a better job with it) and still enjoy how entertaining the show is.
But now the villain has skills that could be considered on a magical level and they also bullshit they way with how Alzheimer works 🤣 It's starting to be too much for me hahaha

the girls when they feel that the guys they like aren't into them, they get the hint and settle elsewhere < yeah especially So Yeon who could not stop talking about Jin Taek after 2nd date in the paradise 🤣
Or Ye Won (LOVE HER) who kept picking Jun Sik even tho he did not pick her for so long.
Or Min Ji who kept going after Se Hoon till the end.

I have no problems with people rating it 10. People rate shows based on different aspects. One can rate it 10 coz they enjoyed it that much, but still agree it was not flawless and had some issues.

I myself rated Why R U 9.5, and it's FAR WORSE than Bad Buddy. But the process of watching and interacting with fans and other users on mdl made the viewing so much fun, it was a 9.5 experience for me.

What's important is to admit, that even if you loved a show, there are things that could have been better.

It's important to compliment the good, but also to point out the bad, otherwise the writes and director will settle on this as the golden standard, and I believe the audience deserves more.
If we as the viewers won't say "thank you, you did these aspects well, but you could improve in these", the writers will just not improve them. Coz why would they waste time and energy when people already LOVE the content and are willing to consume it without complaints anyway?

I see that 9.5 for Why R U in my ratings and I don't trust myself 🤣

True. Any time a BL is better than the usual mediocre, it's get extremely high ratings. On one hand, it's good to rate them high, coz it shows which direction the industry should go and what the audience wants. But on the other hand... it shows that we as viewers have lower standards and expectations from BL shows, which is kind of sad?

Oh, the sounds are just a norm in thai shows with comedic elements. At some point I got used to them, but they were extremely distracting at the beginning.
I feel like we just accept any mediocre acting and chemistry in BLs, that when we see something good in these aspects, we don't know how to stay more objective 🤣

quite a number of things lol
It's a result of my 2020 new years resolution of me reviewing everything I watch 🤣