Conexão: Comer, Amar e Matar (2022)

Not so heavy drama for thriller mystery genre

First of all i wanna say thank you for the director to not to ruin the ending lolll.

For the all cast that they have great job with their acting in this drama, i'm really like how the cast acting overall good for me.

I think this drama have a vibes dark but hearted light too and of course slight comedy, i even laugh in almost every episode lol, this drama made me want to wait over and over till the end of episode, because the story even not that heavy but there was a lot a thing made me curious a lot like i want to knew more about the story, so i was impatient that can't wait for every new episode.

Highlight:
>Story: 8.5/10 from me
For me there some unccescarry scene, and some bored scene too, but the director is really good to packing the story with the director way, and there was some scene made me out of my mind, and i'm kind a like amazed with the story, and for mystery and thriller it's enough but not so good and their romance story it's quite well for me, so overall the story have a good side and bad side but still good for me
> Acting: overall for me their acting 10/10
Because the cast it's really good to show us their acting in every episode, and idk maybe just my opinion the leads have a great chemistry and very good in acting
> Rewatch: i will rewatch it again when i don't have any k-drama that i will watch in the future

To people who want watch it, just watch it, i think you will not regret it if you watch it

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Promising black comedy became a poorly written serious drama

This show began as a relatively enjoyable black comedy about a woman who kills someone and then proceeds to do a lousy job covering up her crime. It managed to blend mystery, suspense and comedy pretty well and the central characters were likeable enough. It was slight but entertaining. However it took a sharp turn about half way through and became a very different show with a serious tone, without developing the characters enough for me to care much about what happened to them.

The acting was pretty good throughout. The leads were called upon to cry prettily in about half their scenes and they did a fine job. However the characters never developed as the story progressed and both the leads were increasingly defined merely by the bad things that happened to them. The FL started as an endearingly fickle, rather ditsy, compulsive liar but by the second half she mostly stared blankly, wept, or walked alone through dark alleys. The ML became primarily stoic and sad by the later episodes, despite the strong performance by Yeo Jin Goo. I never grew to care about these characters, and I grew less invested in what happened to them as the show went on and they became more passive and one dimensional. My favourite performance was probably Lee Suk Hyeong as Jin Hoo, the ML's side kick who served as light relief and a rare voice of reason, and stole every scene he was in for me. I also enjoyed the FL's mum and grandma played by Kim Ji Young and Ye Soo Jung, especially in the first half when they were either plotting to kill people, wandering around armed and ready for battle, or smiling terrifyingly in an attempt to be friendly.

The central romance was unnecessary and felt forced; the characters fell for each other via montage rather than conversation and they seemed unsuited. The show only managed to put them together in the second half by removing almost all noticeable aspects of their characters. Pretty people staring at each other does not constitute a convincing romance.

Plot wise, I was enjoying the silly supernatural connection between the main characters and the creepy Schrodinger's Cat stalker of the first half, but the latter half of the show focused on much more serious plot elements and I missed the days when everyone was staring at a fridge in horror. The absence of comedy and character development left me with far too much time to focus on the many plot holes. And there were many indeed. The final nail in the coffin of my enjoyment was the levels of stupidity and disregard for their own safety displayed by the leads. They spent half the show walking alone through dark alleys at night. They never once thought to lock their doors (okay grandma did, but not the leads!) The fact that they did this in full knowledge of the fact that they were being targeted by a dangerous murderer did occasionally leave me thinking maybe they just wanted to die. I don't think I'd have cared too much if they did.

This show would have been an enjoyable watch if it maintained the darkly funny tone of the first half and developed the characters along the way. Alas, it did neither.

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A must watch... TIL THE VERY END!!

I loooove it!! This series have completely smashed my heart into pieces, mended it, crashed it again and then embraced & comforted it to the very end...
This is a story being told.. Not the kind where you have to keep looking for clues and guessing who's done it and how.. Let it take you to the ride, see it from the leads' pov. It doesn't need you to look into the mystery, it needs you to look at yourself and find which character you best relate with.
I was totally captured with how it was so brave and bold to tackle issues that are mostly taboo. Issues that we might deal with in our daily lives but were consciously ignored or taken for granted.
I would rewatch this and take whatever points the writer is trying to convey.. Coz although it's a fantasy drama.. It also touches deep within the morals of our society.
Finally, expect an acting fest!! YeoJinGoo is AMAZING in this! His character was magnified throughout the show because YJG's acting was superb! Viewers may not be able to relate with his journey if acted out poorly.. But every laughter, tears & anger were perfectly acted that it was almost tangible to the viewers ❤️
MunKaYoung also showed an outstanding portrayal.. Their chemistry were soaring way off the grid ???
All the other characters were also sooo good, each one acting their hearts out without going overboard. Even our lil...? did wonderfully!!

Don't forget to watch the Behind The Scenes series too!!! ❤️❤️❤️
This drama has earned its place and holds a very special place in my heart ??❤️

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A Story about Pain & Healing

I enjoyed this drama from beginning to end! I was a little skeptical about watching it since I'm not a huge fan of thriller but I'm glad I watched it! More than the mystery, I think it did a great job touching on trauma and healing.

Story: Overall I thought it was good! The characters healing from their trauma and past was one of the best parts of the show for me. I thought the pacing of it was good, as well as the majority of the plot. I also loved the suspense building because it kept me wanting more, although the mystery/thriller part did fall a bit flat compared to the buildup. The outcome of it wasn't enough for me to feel different about the show but it's worth mentioning, especially if you came for the thriller.

Acting/Cast: AHHHHH, EVERYONE DID SO GOOD!!! This is my first YJG drama and I'm bound to watch more after this!! I'm also not one to cry during shows either but man the actors (and ost) had tears forming in my eyes constantly. I could feel their pain, happiness, etc.

Music: I lovedddd the ost. The osts+the sad scenes always brought me to tears. All of the music fit the drama and their scenes which I appreciated also.

Rewatch Value: I don't rewatch shows but honestly I could see myself rewatching it in the future for the healing and romance <3

Personally, I think this drama is worth watching! I will say the thriller might be a miss, especially if you really enjoy thrillers but everything else was so good (especially the acting!!!). If you're willing to gamble with the thriller or just come for everything else I think you'll find this series worth it. I'll also say you need to prepare your tissues, this drama will hit you where it hurts repeatedly... (inserts crying emoji)



Happy Watching!!

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Cute leads in a cute romance to hide a wobbly thriller full of plot holes and wrong messages.

1/ STORY

1.1/ Thriller:
ML wants to find his long lost twin sister. Moves back to his childhood place and sets a new restaurant. But he does nothing. No investigation with pictures, places, suspects, links... on a huge board. He wanders from his place to the grocery store or the fish market with FL. Police does nothing but chit-chat and drinks in the evening. Suddenly in episode 15, the FL remembers something and the culprit is caught. Mystery solved.

First, the triller is an engaging dark comedy with plenty of people to suspect and dark humour in life and death situations but halfway it becomes a standard korean serial killer drama. Disappointing.

1.2/The romance:
ML spends the whole drama building his restaurant. The evening he cooks food with nice wine to comfort the FL because he feels her emotional mess. They get closer and closer to the point they kiss, date, break up, date, break up, kiss, break up because their lives are intertwined with sad past events. When the culprit is caught, everything stops and they become normal couple.

2/ CHARACTERS /ACTORS

2.1/ Good guys:
Let's say it, the two lead actors save this draggy romance and draggy thriller thanks to their chemistry and their cuteness which make them enjoyable to watch on screen. The other good point goes to the child characters and actors who are mostly cute, bring emotions and are at the core of the mystery.

- ML: A cry baby who tries to solve a mystery with the FL and enters a game of push and pull. When he is not lovey dovey with FL, he cooks, walks, cries or gets angry or beats people.
- FM: Poor girl trying to improve her life but she is victim of a stalker and has nightmares. She finds comfort with ML but stalker is not happy and tries to break their relationship. Flawed character but still likeable.
- ML's best friend Jin Hoo : Does one good thing to advance the plot then spends the drama loafing about in the restaurant.
- Eun Jung: Looks evil and scheming at first but quickly spends her time chatting with Jin Hoo in the restaurant.
- FL mom and grandma: a pair of ex con look alilke who behaves suspicious and funny but soon it becomes redundant as the story stalls.

2.2/ Bad guys:
- Stalker: crazy lunatic chasing FL but she prefers the cook so he tries to piss them off by unveiling a part of their past but only manages to trigger something he is not going to enjoy. Too much screen time for him.
- Other bad guys: Don't even know where they come from, why they did what they did. They just appear, act stupid, bad guy gets caught and voilà, the end for them.

2.3/ The police: (MAJOR SPOILERS)
A bunch of lazy asses who do nothing but drive round, chit-chat and drink and commit misdemeanors. In the end, they look at a video, start running and serve the people.

- Wontak: Stupid kid with anger management issues who rat on his dad as kid and now he is a cop who beats civilians and or threatens them and finally beats up his cop boss because he is so angry he left his dad suffer for years but he prefers blame others. Stupid brute should have ended in jail but the cops covered his misdemeanor. Bravo the police.
- Police officer Min Jo: ex lover of Wontak who does nothing but covering Wontak 's crimes and torts until the end when she save her ex lover's ass from being fired and goes back to be in couple with him. BS.
- Officer An Jung Ho: the worst of all. He does not remembers key events when he is sober but he does when he is drunk. And cherry on the pie, he committed a crime of hidding a murder and a misdemeanor of getting rid of a corpse. If he investigated that victim, everything would have been solved. And he has a happy ending anyway. Congratulations!
- Officer Young Wan suspects a guy who is not the right guy but police officer is not happy so he spends time harrassing him from time to time. Harrassing an innocent civilian when you are a cop. Bravo Mr police!
- Other officers: other stupid idiots.
The message saying the police members are good for nothing drunkards and criminals with a badge and people who do unlawfully but they can escape the Law because they were internally conflicted.. This is wrong.

2.4/ The "good" people:
Some rotten people who know a part of the truth but would not talk but they would lie and hide the truth in order to protect other and they get away with it. One character should be charged with failure to asssit a person in danger. One escapes murder and another escapes the crime of hidding a murder. They are not even bothered by the law. They all walk free. But ok, so many plot holes in this drama anyway.

3/ OST:
Honestly, the drama became so annoyingly draggy the main song they played just started to annoy me.

4/ REWATCH VALUE:
No

5/ OVERALL: If you like the two lead actors and want to watch a beautiful couple on screen who look cute and endearing no matter what, you can watch this drama. For the ones who look for a cute romance but also a consistent and well paced story with an original and intelligent thriller, you can pass. The romance is draggy and the thriller part is leading on and feeding the audience bit by bit with slow progress and nonsensical twists where villains and their actions are not even explained. Also in the end, the mystery of the ML feeling FL's emotions is not explained. 7.5/8 and avoidable.

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Not worth the bother

Weak plot, sloppy writing, shallow acting. You can find it all here. The plot bounced around as if it couldn't figure out where the suspense was. The scene in the candy store was sloppy - bad direction and/or writing, but it lingered over too much wailing and crying while no one did anything useful. It was loose and sloppy, not tight and crisp - how many times can you knock a guy out and still fail to tir him or subdue him so that he comes back again and again? Good grief. And I found Yeo Jin Goo's acting to be shallow and one-note - same for the female lead. I did enjoy the older women wandering around with their "weapons" but that got lost after a few episodes. The only real standout performance was
Shin Jae Hwi, the stalker, who did a lovely job with evil. I'd like to see him in more things, there may be a good actor in there. Overall, give this a miss unless you are besotted with Yeo Jon Goo.

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This started out as a 10, so an 8 is the most I can give out now
it was just misunderstanding, miscommunication, mistreating the kids, horrible adults that raised them wrong, blamed them and hurt them then hid it
the mystery was meh, the resolution was meh, the way everyone was involved was meh, the way they brought back the stalker again was meh

it started out great, new meeting, dark comedy, the link taking away the awkward "can I talk to that person" stage every drama hates, so instead of enemies to lovers which is the easy answer to keep 2 ppl remeeting, their link made them get to know each other slowly

I was still on board with the past connection and healing, I was ok with the mystery not even being a focus, I was not ok when they reopened their 2nd case, I was over it when they started the sob story of "should we breakup" and I was done by ep15 when they finally went to solve their big mystery. and ep16 was the worst in dragging it out even more

tho I liked two scenes of the ending, the mom and grandma bus scene, and the 2 cops with the cop car xD I also liked the ost with the kid's voice, tho I hated the overly over happy ending

jingoo is as always amazing, the mom and grandma were the highlight, the hot cops were a new discovery

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Bang Average

That’s it? The name is far more interesting than what the drama ended up being. Interesting plot but extremely sloppy execution.

The drama starts off exceptionally well, the ending of the first episode got me hooked. But it free falls from there, plot points repeat themselves and it feels like you’re watching the same episodes on repeat. It’s safe to say that the show could have been decreased to 10-12 episodes aside from 16 to reduce the suffering. The show would have ended way sooner if these characters would just talk. There were also so many things that the drama didn’t end up explaining and the excuse of it being open-ended doesn’t cut it for me. What was the motive behind everything that happened?

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I really loved the main leads acting skills . when they cried I felt like crying too.

It started off very interesting and unique. I loved the plot however I feel like it could have been 12 or 14 episodes insead.
I'm also just not a fan of the whole fall in love , then break up , then reconcile then break up , but I enjoyed watching it...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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There's something very funny about it

You see, there's an always reocurring motive in so many series. Our MLs and FLs usually have their best, loyal friends. Those friends are too ideal, cope up with everything, support everyone and risk their lives to protect the MLs/FLs. Let's ignore a fact that it's pathological - I still always laugh when a big, painful story is revealed by a ML/FL to each other like they've never, ever spoke about it to anyone. How did they get those super-loyal, super understanding friends then? Like no one has ever asked about it. Those best friends theoretically know but they never have asked, never have discussed those, never have made the ML/FL realize what they are able to realize now thanks to what - a romantic love? It's so naive that there always has to be a new, magical, "game-changing" question asked by a new love for the ML/FL to realize basic stuff. Are they idiots, are they aliens? Seriously? Are those friends just walking around them playing comedy role that script-writers gave them for the show? :-P

It's really funny since quite an obvious thing - for instance - a great, close friend of the ML would ask how he felt, how he coped up with everything, was he ok, how it was for him etc. I'm sure they'd drink beer, talk openly, know each other's feelings. Men are really not some crazy beings, we have feelings and when our male friends suffer, we're not insensitive towards that because - huh - a male, not a woman so we won't talk! Men friendships remain different, obviously, but we discuss, share problems, suggest solutions, cheer up each other - even much more openly and without restraints that women do.

In the end, when naive scenarios like that come to that supposedly romantic, magical scene of a single, basic question - and it's presented like no one has ever asked that, the ML/FL were completely ignorant to it, now they magically wake up - it's funny - not romantic, not beautiful. It's cringe.

On a top of that - the mother's secred is stupid, it's not a secret, there're no reasons to hide anything from a daughter, extremely far-fetched, naive and illogical stuff. A policeman had no reason to cover anything up, a mother had no reason to "turn herself in" since she has just killed an attacker in her own defense or rather - in defense of a policeman, so it was a pure self-defense aka no problem, no reason for hiding anything. Majority of people here do not speak up when they should, stop asking after someone answers "it's nothing". The whole show could be solved in around 5 episodes but it's artificially stretched and all those forced secrets make literally no sense.

Basically, a lot of fuss is made about nothing in this drama, it's like a storm in a glass of water...

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A cult classic for sure because this will not be every one’s cup of tea!

As I stated in title this show won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, you will absolutely love it or you will find it absolutely boring/dragging! For me I absolutely loved it! Especially first half of the drama was simply fantastic with world building, character building and dark comedy nuggets! This drama’s second half mostly relies on all characters emotional healing process and revelation of mystery of disappearance of Sister of ML and everyone else’s involvement in that! We have main culprit who is actually overshadowed most of the type by another person who is absolutely horrible and also somewhat responsible plus all the residents of that area and how shady they seems to be! And ending is just so good! All the characters gets closure they deserves and story ends up perfectly!Plus all the ost songs are fantastic with Your river in me from O3ohn and Saying hello by Minnie for (G)I-DLE being my favourite plus we have couple of great songs by Janet suhh as well! One of the best drama of 2022 & we have quite many fantastic dramas in 2022! This one also gets add in to the list one of the best all time dramas that we got in 2022!

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