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The best drama of 2025, no hesitation!
wow! this blew all the other dramas this year out of the water!
The second part more than held up to the first and the rollercoaster of emotions you feel as the viewer mirrors totally the two leads tragic stories and that’s some skills being displayed, by the actors, the writers, the directors, everything was spot on, they scared you, they cajoled you, they gave you warmth and replaced it with horror and then pulled you into hope and a glimmer of happiness tinged with pain and then they showed you fragility of man and how we teeter on a knifes edge of morality, gosh it’s brilliant.
I especially appreciated that they didn’t sugar coat the horror of his killings, in the very graphic detail of the filming but more than that, they made you feel that it was justified to take those peoples lives and even the brutality of the killings felt right, but then Your faced with an innocent child and a brief moment where you believe, of course he’d have spared that kids life, but they didn’t , it was the killing of the child we saw what he’d become, the monster had indeed taken over and even though you could somehow understand the logic behind why, the reality is he killed an innocent child, he had lost control and then your faced with how easily humans slip.
His final hours sum up perfectly his life, the dark cell, the light high up from the window but behind bars, the present opened by someone else but put together again roughly by a an officer that gave a little kindness. A brief moment of delight snatched away and a swift and brutal execution as the shots rang out.
Given all I’ve said, His mother at the end was the hardest part for me to watch, ||being a mother myself, having been in that position myself I found my heart cold to her character and despised the pity and remorse that came far to late. It felt self-centred, which was exactly right for the character.
I actually thought the ending was beautiful, for all his sacrifice and love he ultimately gave her healing through his unwavering love and devotion. Through that beautiful side of him he achieved exactly what he’d wanted, a future for her as best it could be.
Even the ending credits, with the perfect music score and happy actors on set, helped you grieve what you’d just watched and then lifted you and reminded you that this is just a beautiful, yet brutal piece of art. It grounds you back in reality and I appreciated that because it is an emotional watch and I really would recommend doing that if you watch this.
The second part more than held up to the first and the rollercoaster of emotions you feel as the viewer mirrors totally the two leads tragic stories and that’s some skills being displayed, by the actors, the writers, the directors, everything was spot on, they scared you, they cajoled you, they gave you warmth and replaced it with horror and then pulled you into hope and a glimmer of happiness tinged with pain and then they showed you fragility of man and how we teeter on a knifes edge of morality, gosh it’s brilliant.
I especially appreciated that they didn’t sugar coat the horror of his killings, in the very graphic detail of the filming but more than that, they made you feel that it was justified to take those peoples lives and even the brutality of the killings felt right, but then Your faced with an innocent child and a brief moment where you believe, of course he’d have spared that kids life, but they didn’t , it was the killing of the child we saw what he’d become, the monster had indeed taken over and even though you could somehow understand the logic behind why, the reality is he killed an innocent child, he had lost control and then your faced with how easily humans slip.
His final hours sum up perfectly his life, the dark cell, the light high up from the window but behind bars, the present opened by someone else but put together again roughly by a an officer that gave a little kindness. A brief moment of delight snatched away and a swift and brutal execution as the shots rang out.
Given all I’ve said, His mother at the end was the hardest part for me to watch, ||being a mother myself, having been in that position myself I found my heart cold to her character and despised the pity and remorse that came far to late. It felt self-centred, which was exactly right for the character.
I actually thought the ending was beautiful, for all his sacrifice and love he ultimately gave her healing through his unwavering love and devotion. Through that beautiful side of him he achieved exactly what he’d wanted, a future for her as best it could be.
Even the ending credits, with the perfect music score and happy actors on set, helped you grieve what you’d just watched and then lifted you and reminded you that this is just a beautiful, yet brutal piece of art. It grounds you back in reality and I appreciated that because it is an emotional watch and I really would recommend doing that if you watch this.
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