Interligados (2022)

This is so Takashi Miike

Watching Takashi Miike once or twice and you'll recognize that bloody director anywhere. He really loves gore and to splatter blood everywhere.

I saw the drama in YT shorts and I was visually attracted, so that's why I watched. Who knew it has only 6 episodes, which end up being nothing more, but a LONG prologue. Tbh it's the same as if I've just watched the longest introduction to the concept of what is a Connect. Or a short series how a guy chased another guy with a phrase "return my eye to me".
I must admit, realizing that it ends with a huge cliffhanger I was pretty disappointed. Because the concept of Connect was pretty entertaining.
And what is "Connect"? Connect is an urban legend about an undying person. And it truly is so, even if they're cut to pieces their bodies seek to reconnect the parts. For the criminal gang it was like a big dream - they thought the guy will heal himself, though I think Connect doesn't work that way, they do reassemble, but I don't think they're capable of regenerating organs. Otherwise he wouldn't run around screaming - give me my eye back. After all whenever there's a cut those filament like tentacle act almost instinctively and immediately. Tbh partially this reminded me of the Parasyte -the maxim- anime, although connect doesn't have any alien form to exist in the human body, but the ability to transform body and survive is what feels alike.
And this Connect man is Dong Soo, a silent introvert guy who likes to stay low-key in the shadows and live his life quietly, fully aware of who he is and afraid of being found out, he was caught by criminals and although he managed to escape, but one of his eyes was taken away for transplantation. Little did he know that this way he was connected to another person, who happened to be the serial killer. The way he figured it out was also unusual, after all Connect is a special existence and due to the part in question being the eye, Dong Soo could "see" some of the images from the other person.
Also, I'm pretty sure many of us had seen those opening scenes with the human statue and that's why we got interested.
Figuring it out Dong Soo tried to find and stop the man (wonderfully played by Go Kyung Po), so there will be no more victims. But I must say that Dong Soo acted so suspicious at all times, he always acted as if he was on a wanted list. And because of this he stumbles a lot on his way to seek justice. So there were times when I wanted to ask him - don't you find your actions counter-productive? Maybe change something? Especially if you want to stop the dude.
The story itself follows three lines, one is just for fighting - criminal gang that tries to capture him; the line of the serial killer; third line is finding out that he's not the only one like this. But it's hard to name it a full story, because the gang was just chasing and fighting, the killer had a showdown, but it all ended interestingly and the number of connects grew by the end of the show. So the ending wasn't only the biggest cliffhanger, but a huge tease. And this is the biggest spoiler, but I'm still mentioning it, after all my curiosity grew when we find out that cut parts can be attached to others, not only, what if a bad guy becomes one of you and we won't get anything unless there will be a new season (or just go and read webtoon instead).

Emotionally the depth of this show is shallow and is not enough to cover your ankle. The only one who goes into dilemma is Dong Soo. His overall reaction to society should give you the idea that because of who he is, he can't live a life in the open, just a simple accident may blow his cover, like it happened in his childhood (the scene used once too often in the series imo). He stuck out like a sore thumb compared to others. You can't expect anything from Jin Seop. I Rang as we figured has her own agenda. The gang was responsible for chasing, screaming and coloring the screen red. And the way the storyline progressed also felt lacking and felt slow. Although what would you expect from Miike. As I said it's simply a long intro, after all nothing was truly resolved.

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just a short review for people who wanna watch

so i just finished this and after watching it i feel like leaving a review of reasons why you may wanna watch it and why you may not want to watch it. Plus my own opinions on the show as a whole. Ill try to keep it as spoiler free as possible.

WHY YOU MAY WANT TO WATCH:
1. it has good visuals and good gore. Looks realistic enough which adds to the gory/scary feeling of the series (its not a scary series though, just a little gory).
2. great acting which from all important characters, despite their not being many important ones. Especially the male and female lead did great.
3. The female lead in this is a rare one. Shes very cool and to not giveaway spoilers she gives off main character vibes. Shes one with questionable morals but strong convictions, a rare female lead in Korean dramas. Which makes her interesting as a character.
4. Interesting premise with a new evolutionary human species. Something you may have heard off but is not as common in television, which makes it unique. If you like a sort of "superior humans" kind off story premise, then id really recommend.
5. Short and easy to finish quickly, finished it in like a couple of hours (skipped some parts though).
quick and interesting start, catches the attention of the series quickly.

WHY YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT:
1. fast paced with a too complicated story line. Because its so short but the story line is more complex than that it makes the series feel sloppy and also creates plot holes as well as moments in the story were you're just confused. (probably the biggest con about this series).
2. Another negative aspect due to the short length of this series is the fact that you dont have time to connect with the characters. The mains even feel a little boring at times because you never fully become interested in them as their never explained too deeply as characters.
3. A semi boring main male lead. Quite weak for a male lead, and doesn't really give off the "main lead feel". Also this is furthered due to the fact as previously mentioned, we as an audience never really get to know him. Therefor he is never very appealing as a lead and gets boring fast.
4. SEMI SPOILER OF THE ENDING: open ending, so if you hate open ending you'll hate this show.
5. Underdeveloped antagonist. Could've done way more with the antagonist, feels boring and not as scary as the antagonist could've been built up to be. This point goes a little into point 1.

PERSONAL THOUGHTS:
loved the beginning and made me interested, but then after the beginning it felt a little slow and kinda boring. Even following the main lead was boring and also just the story line got so confusing, it felt to short and like everything happened to fast. The female lead was my personnel favorite because she was bad ass. Ending for me personally was underwhelming and didn't really hit in the so called "moral dilemma" the way the show wanted it to. Probably wont rematch since it felt so in cohesive, But loved the premise honestly, like totally something id enjoy, though a cooler main character would've been better. Lastly the pacing was 80% of why i disliked this, give it more episodes and i feel that'd be so much better.

Thanks for reading :)

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UNA LOCURA DE DRAMA

Me he adentrado a un nuevo género y sin duda me ha encantado. Es todo tan loco que me deja sin palabras, así que no tengo nada más que buenas palabras acerca de este drama.

Empezamos con una buena trama, en el que, en mi caso, no tenía ni idea de que iba a ocurrir a medida que iban pasando los capítulos, y que además los propios actores se adentraron tan bien en sus papeles que me dejaron todo el tiempo pegada a la pantalla.

Es muy corto por lo que hablar demasiado de esta serie sería ya dar spoiler, por lo que seré breve.

Primero de todo debes leer los TW porque para todos los públicos no es.

Lo que me llamó la atención fue la ambientación. Esa estética tan lúgubre y al mismo tiempo tan estético. Consigue que lo espantoso, repugnante, se vea como algo artístico, es decir, estamos hablando de un asesino que crea arte con cadáveres, pero que realmente es muy bonito de ver. Además del cuaderno de JinSeob donde elabora cada escenario y sus, por así decirlo, protagonistas. Obviamente sin tener en cuenta que son personas asesinadas por el mismo creador. Sino ya entonces no lo ves así.

Tiene muchísimas incógnitas, te muestra como una parte de algo tan grande que espero poder ver en otra temporada, porque sin duda merecemos que se resuelva todo.

Este drama es como que te deja solo con un poquito del gran potencial que logrará tener si siguen con este proyecto.

Con lo que sí me quedé con ganas fue de conocer más a los personajes y que profundizaran más en ellos, ya que algunos son muy ambiguos. Aún así, entiendo que es imposible con tan poca duración en los capítulos y que son solamente seis. Va más a la acción haciendo que nunca puedas descansar de toda esta locura y eso consigue al espectador engancharse más.

Sin duda es una historia de 10, aunque me faltó algo. Pero sería un delito quitarle algún punto solo por eso, cuando es comprensible.

Y ya terminando no podría no mencionar la gran actuación que se marcó Haein, de quien estoy muy orgullosa y espero volver a verlo pronto como DongSoo. ¡Se merece todo este reconocimiento, apoyo y amor!

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I almost Vomit ,,, they were trying to adopt Venom marvel American movie but failed horribly

I had high hopes for this one, I thought it was about a psycho killer and the male lead has some foresight after losing his eye to that killer that he can actually watch the crimes and hunt that killer
but apparently, I imagined all that in my head
this drama is a mess ,,, the male lead was abducted and his eyes were harvested but he regained consciousness and managed to reattach one of his eyes to his face again so, IS HE AN ALIAN?
Nope, He's a genetically modified human apparently called connect LOL
Too many sticky parts dismemberment scenes and the sound of flesh cutting and flesh reattachment with all its gore graphic details
one sex scene because psychos have the right to have sex in the middle of this gore
and finally, the male lead got his eye back and didn't kill the psycho because he's a decent deformed human and it was an open ending
Overall watching this drama wasn't pleasant or amusing it was just meh

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Lots of Gore

It's hard to rate it because I didn't hate the show but I didn't fall head over heels for it either. The concept is interesting. The male lead has a special ability to reconnect and heal it's broken parts within seconds. It's a lot like Venom (which I loved) but much more bloody. One day he is just walking along humming a song he wrote when he gets himself kidnapped by organ harvesters. His eye balls get removed but he manages to wake up and plop one of them back in before bolting. Meanwhile his other eye gets placed in the head of another man. The male lead starts to see visions of him and in trying to find and get back his eye, he discovers the man's secret. He's a serial killer.

Up until this point, the show was pretty interesting but it just goes downhill from there. Lots of running around. Lots of incompetent police officers which drive you nuts. SO MUCH GORE. If blood and torture and dissection of bodies bothers you then you will probably hate this show as there is a lot of it from time to time. I just about managed to make through it by watching it in 2x.

I did love the visuals of the connect. The CGI was top notch. I enjoyed the intro theme. Looks beautiful. The main song also really grows on you. There are some action sequences that I enjoyed but too few to really enjoy. More of it would have increased my rating. I actually enjoyed the serial killer aspect to the story because without it, there wouldn't have been anything interesting about the story.

However, the twist related to the serial killer was just a little too much. It wasn't needed in fact. And if anything it made the story a little over the top. There's also an unnecessary sex scene in episode 2.

MAJOR SPOILER ALERT
I also found the end frustrating because when you are trying to escape a building, you go down and not to the roof.

Overall, I thought it could have been improved in several ways which is probably why I wouldn't bother rewatching it. But it's fine for a one time watch being such a short show.

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Incomplete

Watched March 2024
A pretty gory, violent, tense, gripping and thrilling watch.

Jung Hae-in is excellent, as always, and Go Kyung-pyo's character is very unnerving and he plays it really well.

A lot of very unsavoury characters in this and the nothing-new trope of anyone different being ostracised, victimised and, where possible, cruelly used for financial gain.

There are a lot of adult themes, so not one for [young] family viewing.

JHI's character is a mystery. Alone, a loner and seemingly without family or history/background, which is almost completely non-existent in the drama. He is sweet, kind and sometimes comes across as vulnerable, but he has an edge when he becomes protective of others. He is totally unaware of his 'situation', too, until the trigger point; which raises many questions. In fact, how certain characters exist at all, whilst hinted at a tiny bit, remains a complete mystery as well.

A very dark, seedy, mony powered and selfish side of life is portrayed, with aggressive and brutal people and police.

I did like the pace, feel and the soundtrack to this. There is also a sound effect used for a specific 'thing', which I found rather cute, although I am totally unsure as to whether that was intended, tongue-in-cheek, or just me perhaps!

S1 ends with a wide open door for a S2, which is desperately needed to make any sense of this drama at all. Without it, it's really just a vehicle for gore and shocks.

Sadly, it seems nothing has been confirmed on that front. I absolutely hate it, when American backed productions don't film/air a complete story, and release a S1 without committing to a S2, at the outset.

It happens all the time now. Island, Move to Heaven, Moving, Song of the Bandits, to name a few... none of these provided conclusive endings and many also lacked the depth needed to explain why/how things became the way they are in the present.

It is frustrating, and, is honestly making me think twice about starting Netflix, Disney+ or Prime short-episode K-dramas at all. It totally spoils the viewing experience and story.

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CREEPY but in Good Way!

Disney+ menggandeng Sutradara As The God Will untuk menggarap series yang benar-benar adalah tipikal Miike Takashi bangat.

Pemilihan castnya sudah separuh baik, hanya saja sosok villain yang diperankan Ko Kyungpo sangatlah tidak cocok diperankan olehnya. Tapi di imbangi dengan akting terbaik dari cast lainnya.

sinematografi yang coloring juga sangatlah mendukung disini, hanya saja endingnya sangatlah mengecewakan.

Jika kalian bukan pecinta series dengan adegan-adegan creepy dan bloody (meski tidak terlalu) diharapkan kalian jangan menontonnya, karena banyak teman saya yang mengatakan bahwa mereka susah makan karena kebayang scene di Connect.

berharap season 2!!!

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Something different

As you can see from my watchlist and everything overall, I mostly watch dramas with no sci-fi and monsters, but this time I tried watching this. First of all, why did it have such an ending? I like open endings that prepare you for next season, but this is way too open, WAY TOO OPEN. But overall I had fun watching it, I felt thrilled and excited for each episode and that is what I was supposed to feel.
If anyone is reading this I would love you to scold me because I have to prepare for an important test that will affect my future. Still, instead of that I am watching dramas and writing information about them in google sheets and reviews. D-Day is in 11 days so wish me luck as well. Love you all<3

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The idea's interesting, but the drama conveyance was quite lacking

Why I liked the drama?

- Amazing casts. There's nothing bad to say about the casts; they're amazing! I liked Go Kyung Pyo's acting as the psychopath. He made some really great disturbing expressions. I honestly was uncomfortable every time he appeared on the screen.
- A grey characterization of the female lead. I think we need more story about Irang because she sometimes acted as a bad person, but at the same time, I can see her humanity. She's great at fighting and a straight forward person which really complemented Dong Soo.
- Great CGI.
- The drama delivered the dark, uncomfortable feelings really well to the viewers.

Why I disliked the drama?
- Towards the end of episodes, the story became messy and so many plot holes. Maybe they wanted to leave the room for season 2, but who knows?
- It wasn't really exciting for me at some point, but I forced myself to finish the drama.
- THE ENDING. The climax between Dong Soo and Jin Seop's was meh. I was hoping for a grand fight between the two 'connected' people, but nah. We don't have it. Also, what's with the cliffhanger? They're really teasing us for season 2 in the ugly way.
- The human trafficking gang. I don't really get their importance on the drama. They kept being highlighted, but actually they're not that interesting????
- The stupid girl who got murdered on the rooftop. Girl, if you found out that you just slept with a serial killer, you should've gone to the police, not confronting him in the rooftop? Where he could easily dispose you? In conclusion, she 's stupid af.

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So little has been done to its storyline

So much potential on the premise yet so little has been done to its storyline, let alone the style of shooting and overall structure of the drama. There's a mutant, a serial killer, bunch of thugs, and that's pretty much it, the story didn't really progress a lot despite having shorter runtime. The gore content also does look somewhat cartoonish where of course they're taking reference from that famous comicbook superhero production you know it. At least Jung Hae In and Go Kyung Pyo still did their best in their acting skills, which is the only thing appreciable in this drama.

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Watch Connect if you like gore

I haven't watched such a good gore drama in a while, i really missed the genre for a long time. although it was short but with an open ending revealing the continuation of the story. hmm about the characters none of them annoyed me and that was a big plus i wasn't frustrated at any scene at all, i binge watched it with a big interest. i love the CGI. i really like the story. it has comedy (more like playin with words thing if u understand korean) that makes you giggle and of course the main dish, a lot of blood and the plot of a psychopath mmm love it. i find the cast well matched to the characters. about the music haha so many versions ? rewatch value only 6 eps that you can rewatch quickly the scenes you love the most. anyway i am hoping for season 2, pleaseee

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