This drama does one of the best superhero fight scenes in kdramas, utilizing the CGI aptly, they also used John Wick's fight sequences as well. The light hints of romance and slice of life stuff was perfectly placed in between stories making it feel realistic. I also think they wanted only the adults to do the nitty gritty violent scenes and the kids were used as plot movers which was ok not bad.. And who can deny our Ryueng Seung and Zu In 's partnership/fights and all of their scenes were brilliant, kudos. They are veterans for a reason after all. And our lovely Naksu is also here, she really needs to do some comedy or cheerful dramas - it's sad that they only give her tragic stories or sad scenes, I would love to see her laugh and smile more... All the actors were good too.
While all the pros are mentioned above, I disliked the second half except the fight scenes. The show somehow by the end goes too much into flashbacks that it gets boring and you will skip forward because they do a jump to a flashback on a very important sequence. Another thing, Ahhhhh SK dramas can never be completed without bashing NKorea or Japan, it's like they have to bring it in whenever they are doing some spy thriller or historical - I understand the historical but a superhero drama didn't have to go in such detail about fighting NK and how the subtle messages they pushed by the end of drama. I got frustrated and had to skip scenes because it was sooo obvious what they were doing. Why can't agencies or these NIS infiltrate European countries or US or India or Russia for their espionage missions? To kill world leaders n such.. the sad part is just at the beginning of the drama they show that SKorea bend their knee to US counterpart, then do 180 and display their power by demanding US to listen to them.. that whole scene was just unnecessary.. the ending also seem odd, like few things were unexplained why he left without saying anything? why he joined the shop? etc etc
If you can ignore the political drama they push in your face then this is well-done drama. Good cast and acting from everyone, just I wish our MC was a bit fit and didn't follow the webtoon.
AMNESIA???!? TWICE????!? Are you kidding me? What an anticlimax.Also, the love story was for the most part rubbish.…
There are very few romance dramas who did the final episodes right.. and most of them use the time-skip/memory/breakup as final tropes.. maddening as hell
AMNESIA???!? TWICE????!? Are you kidding me? What an anticlimax.Also, the love story was for the most part rubbish.…
someone who agrees with me, yeah they just threw that poor Ryan geum into the prison, made this hair white? Whyyy? Did getting knocked out causes no blood to flow to his hairs? lol But even with all the obstacles they haphazardly ended it without resolving the issues in court? Why show us when you had no intention to end it?
and with the amnesia twice plus no contact for years is another dumb trope of kdrama writers they should give up on... ugly as hell
Kdrama writers be like: lack of communication == true love
The double amnesia part was reaally bad, until that point it was excellent. But about the rest? No.I see a lot…
Nahh the drama was bad.. I couldn't shed a tear except for the poisining part which made me sad. The double amnesia plus years of absence is one of blsheet tropes kdramas needs to let go off.!!
I’m only on ep 10, but I hope there are more ML’s written like this in future dramas. On top of the usual…
someone who understands how irl Men are ... another gripe I had was with this one drama - Sunbae, your lipstick is too red (something like that), their the FL breaks up with ML and goes away for a year or two because long distance was too much for her. Later comes back and runs into ML's arms like nothing happened, you need at least one whole episode of recovering from the break-up and return.
This is why I like this drama, ML stands by his point even though they weren't in a relationship yet but they at least quarrel about it, he shows his anger towards her; which sadly is absent from kdramas
Our Kim Dong Wook isn't suited for even romantic lines :'( his stoic acting can only be good in serious dramas.. cheh...
story isn't something to write home about.. mediocre at best, could've been a 8-12 episodes. It makes no sense the villain has only three/four lackeys while he is THE PRESIDENT.. once the climax settles it's mostly dumbed down to show heroes prevail and a 10+ years old organization loose to some greenhorns..
This drama is like a sad ending kdrama turned to happy ending kdrama... I watched this drama just for Jeon Yeo…
Spoiler wise: I still have jabs on accepting how tf did a walk-man get a time-travel power-up? Is there a divine intervention or just a small piece of futuristic equipment that slipped through the crevices of time. Similarly, why did the second timeline change? just because of some cosmic imbalance? Writers failed to show what extra incentive caused the change and just went with it. Then there was the age-issue about how old is Nam-Shin in 2023, like 38? 40+? why is his face still like a 20 yr old, you telling me as we grow old just our hair grows with some facial hair or is this some Korean genetic/facial care.. (lol) and FL kissing Nam-Shin in 2023 was a bit odd.. idk didn't sit right with me. And why did Oh Chang Yeong in 2023 head-locked FL? because she mentions about Kwon Mingi and her escapades in the past, it's not this Oh Chang did the killing, although he was a stalker but he didn't kill anyone yet. He also stabs Nam Shin to death too... Another thing, which is very odd is no one seems to recognize similar faces between Nam Shin and Koo Yeon Jun or Kwon Mingi and Han Jun Hee.. like superman and clark stuff... except the uncle no one seem to be good at spot the differences. But these are just gripes with the elements of the story which is very common in time-travel romcoms.... to me it didn't bring anything new to the table for all the romance dramas I've seen. Like every kdrama has to end in death or missing for 4-5 years without moving on and miraculously finding the other not in a relationship/popping out of thin air/ coming into existence/ etc etc.. Yeah, sure my ex from 4 years of relationship moved on after 2 years since breakup... you telling me she is an outlier and usually ex-es wait 4-5 years min.. hahah good one
This drama is like a sad ending kdrama turned to happy ending kdrama... I watched this drama just for Jeon Yeo Been because I really liked her in Vincenzo, was hopeful for her acting/romance setting and wasn't denied my expectations - phenomenal acting, superb emotion display and her laughs are something to write for.
Apart from this, veteran kdrama watchers who have seen so many romcom dramas are aware of the tropes and hoops writers take to divert attention to some obvious flaws. I finished this series in one sitting so I could say I was hooked from the start to finish and find out the mystery behind the whole time-travel but by episode 4 I got the gist of the ending they were going for at least for me the mystery was unwrapped.
The story was tightly knit albeit the confusion it lays with how old are the leads in different timeline, but anyways you need to shut off few brain cells when watching a kdrama
Hmmm…it has high ratings but the dog dies and there are 21 episodes of egotistical, angry, screaming people?…
true this! The world is already in chaos and we sometimes take refuge in these dramas to feel good and realize how better it could be or how we could better ourselves through morals etc. Alas! These days dramas are nothing but loads of adultery/bullying/murder/forgery/deceit as if we don't have enough in irl.
This is not some kdrama you watch in your sad time to cheer yourself up or when you want to just pass time, as…
As I couldn't stand the twist.. I went ahead to spoil myself with spoilers from season 2 and season 3 as its' a continuation. What I learned there was way worse than what GoT did to its watchers. The screenwriters were as if competing GoT on who kills more characters than the other.
I said the person I was rooting for right? They killed her off too in season 2/3 (not sure which).. like every victim in this kdrama doesn't get justice. What use is justice for a dead person, when no one is around them to appreciate?
I dislike this kind of kdrama. Sorry dropping it hard now.
This is not some kdrama you watch in your sad time to cheer yourself up or when you want to just pass time, as it will leave you with a bad aftertaste.
I had to drop the drama at 17th episode after the final twist(maybe final) which completely destroyed my notion of good/innocent person in this penthouse world. I was vouching and rooting for only this person to be the best amongst them all, however the screenwriters wanted to do an a** pull and they succeeded.
The whole drama revolves around bullying by teenagers and bullying by adults. There ya go that's the gist of it. Does the victim fight back and win? nope at least not in season 1 afaik.
All in all, I wouldn't recommend this drama to someone who hopes for a happy ending or feeling of victorious over a hard earned battle because victims and martyrs are everywhere and as such makes it a bittersweet at best.
While all the pros are mentioned above, I disliked the second half except the fight scenes. The show somehow by the end goes too much into flashbacks that it gets boring and you will skip forward because they do a jump to a flashback on a very important sequence. Another thing, Ahhhhh SK dramas can never be completed without bashing NKorea or Japan, it's like they have to bring it in whenever they are doing some spy thriller or historical - I understand the historical but a superhero drama didn't have to go in such detail about fighting NK and how the subtle messages they pushed by the end of drama. I got frustrated and had to skip scenes because it was sooo obvious what they were doing. Why can't agencies or these NIS infiltrate European countries or US or India or Russia for their espionage missions? To kill world leaders n such.. the sad part is just at the beginning of the drama they show that SKorea bend their knee to US counterpart, then do 180 and display their power by demanding US to listen to them.. that whole scene was just unnecessary.. the ending also seem odd, like few things were unexplained why he left without saying anything? why he joined the shop? etc etc
If you can ignore the political drama they push in your face then this is well-done drama. Good cast and acting from everyone, just I wish our MC was a bit fit and didn't follow the webtoon.
But even with all the obstacles they haphazardly ended it without resolving the issues in court? Why show us when you had no intention to end it?
and with the amnesia twice plus no contact for years is another dumb trope of kdrama writers they should give up on... ugly as hell
Kdrama writers be like: lack of communication == true love
This is why I like this drama, ML stands by his point even though they weren't in a relationship yet but they at least quarrel about it, he shows his anger towards her; which sadly is absent from kdramas
FL: Can you trust me?
Villain: Trust me too?
story isn't something to write home about.. mediocre at best, could've been a 8-12 episodes. It makes no sense the villain has only three/four lackeys while he is THE PRESIDENT.. once the climax settles it's mostly dumbed down to show heroes prevail and a 10+ years old organization loose to some greenhorns..
Then there was the age-issue about how old is Nam-Shin in 2023, like 38? 40+? why is his face still like a 20 yr old, you telling me as we grow old just our hair grows with some facial hair or is this some Korean genetic/facial care.. (lol) and FL kissing Nam-Shin in 2023 was a bit odd.. idk didn't sit right with me.
And why did Oh Chang Yeong in 2023 head-locked FL? because she mentions about Kwon Mingi and her escapades in the past, it's not this Oh Chang did the killing, although he was a stalker but he didn't kill anyone yet. He also stabs Nam Shin to death too...
Another thing, which is very odd is no one seems to recognize similar faces between Nam Shin and Koo Yeon Jun or Kwon Mingi and Han Jun Hee.. like superman and clark stuff... except the uncle no one seem to be good at spot the differences.
But these are just gripes with the elements of the story which is very common in time-travel romcoms.... to me it didn't bring anything new to the table for all the romance dramas I've seen. Like every kdrama has to end in death or missing for 4-5 years without moving on and miraculously finding the other not in a relationship/popping out of thin air/ coming into existence/ etc etc.. Yeah, sure my ex from 4 years of relationship moved on after 2 years since breakup... you telling me she is an outlier and usually ex-es wait 4-5 years min.. hahah good one
Apart from this, veteran kdrama watchers who have seen so many romcom dramas are aware of the tropes and hoops writers take to divert attention to some obvious flaws. I finished this series in one sitting so I could say I was hooked from the start to finish and find out the mystery behind the whole time-travel but by episode 4 I got the gist of the ending they were going for at least for me the mystery was unwrapped.
The story was tightly knit albeit the confusion it lays with how old are the leads in different timeline, but anyways you need to shut off few brain cells when watching a kdrama
Alas! These days dramas are nothing but loads of adultery/bullying/murder/forgery/deceit as if we don't have enough in irl.
I said the person I was rooting for right? They killed her off too in season 2/3 (not sure which).. like every victim in this kdrama doesn't get justice. What use is justice for a dead person, when no one is around them to appreciate?
I dislike this kind of kdrama. Sorry dropping it hard now.
I had to drop the drama at 17th episode after the final twist(maybe final) which completely destroyed my notion of good/innocent person in this penthouse world. I was vouching and rooting for only this person to be the best amongst them all, however the screenwriters wanted to do an a** pull and they succeeded.
The whole drama revolves around bullying by teenagers and bullying by adults. There ya go that's the gist of it. Does the victim fight back and win? nope at least not in season 1 afaik.
All in all, I wouldn't recommend this drama to someone who hopes for a happy ending or feeling of victorious over a hard earned battle because victims and martyrs are everywhere and as such makes it a bittersweet at best.