A drama with big dialogues and a big nothing.

Before I can write my review, I want to say main FL role is taken up by an actor who can't act and it is evident by many other reviews here. So I am not going to focus on that as plenty of people have already spoken regarding her acting and her role so much. First things first, FL wasn't the actual problem why this drama is the worst I seen in 2024. The whole storyline and every character development (including both ML's) is the main problem including the directing style, pacing, as well as the camera work.

The story starts of as a promising story about two young boys despite not seeing eye to eye with each other, get together to achieve an ambition. One is an illegitimate son and other is a son born to a poor family whose father is a murderer (which was framed by ML in order to make sure his dad rots in jail to avoid physical abuse and protect his mom.)

Now before I continue let's remember the fact this drama is only 12 episodes long and has at most 53 to 55 minutes of airtime in Disney.

Right off the bat for a 12 episode drama they unnecessarily introduced ML's father, aka Tae oh father as someone who is trying to get back to his son for revenge for framing him of murder. You have 12 episodes, where both ML want to climb the ladder. Tae oh will support Inha to become the chairman of Kang oh group despite being a illegitimate heir and Tae oh being the intelligent one wants to ensure Inha becomes chairman so he can climb a social ladder to a height where it is impossible for a poor person to reach. Sounds really a great drama right???

Now this was the premise established, which means both ML's need to beat current chairman, his two other sons who are legitimate heirs. The chairman wife and other family members. You basically have this many enemies to beat in order for both ML's to make their goal possible in only a 12 episode drama. A bit too many enemies to beat for a 12 episodes drama, on top this after 6th episode they added one more big villain.

The drama direction style introduced fast time skips which includes high school phase, college phase, employee phase, succession phase, where the story doesn't give you the chance to feel any kind of attachment to any character as a viewer as it so fast and abrupt and so many things are happening at once. Romance, succession , business plans, first crushes, politics etc. You also don't find yourself rooting for both ML's success as they are both someone who wants to crush the current owners to climb the top. So it was basically a dog eat dog world situations, so none of the characters aren't really good people, but are in morally grey area except for 2 or 3 who crossed towards red. On top of this heavy storyline, writer introduces main FL who too wants Kang oh group. But why Kang oh group??? As for Inha he is a part of family although illegitimate, as for Tae ha, he met Inha in high school, got to know his situation and decided to climb the ladder with him. Viewers thought fine FL might be very clever who will use tactics to gain Kang oh group all for herself by using two ML's, but instead she is nothing but a gold digger portrayed by an actress who can't even act.

The current chairman who both ML's want to beat is also a poorly written character. All he does is make threats that aren't even clever. He does things that only fills the screen time but nothing actually happens through his role at all. He is just there for MLs to beat him, like in a chess where the most useless piece is the king who only moves one step and doesn't really do anything significant, his role is like that.

The whole writing of this drama sucks, really really bad. The drama uses big dialogues, suddenly creates business scenarios in ML's favor, that don't fit the style of characters that were initially introduced. It just uses big big dialogues and a story that is trying to make sense, but if you actually try to understand it in a logical way, this is all nothing but one big fluff. Like it is making sense but if you actually think, none of it makes sense. For example, let's say you want to write a scenario where a character has to die, so writer decides to write an accident scene for that character. It makes sense and we can accept the character death. But if you start to think why should an accident actually happen to this character, what is the purpose of killing this character off, will it make any sense to the actual story, does it contribute to anything, is it consistent with the storyline etc. If you think in those lines, this drama as I said seems something but is actually nothing.

Most viewers are tired of all main leads of this drama, some of them like support FL, only because she is the only one that is normally written. It's not like she is some awesome role, but after every character is a disaster, a normal role also appears to be great plus the actress choi hee jin who plays that role acts really well (good acting skills btw) compared to main FL actress who can't act. Overall this drama is just a waste of time for me. It is like a bad car crash that I can't look away.

Leia Mais

Good time pass show

The show is a one time watch, it is not boring. But if I have to take seriously about issue which the story is all about I find it bit illogical. FL, ML, the current king all are tied up as one team to fight against a evil scholar, aka the villain of this drama. What I never understood is that the villain motivation for which he killed many people is very weak. His motivation is nothing but his stubbornness that he is always right. On the other hand the Villain, time to time speaks very rudely to the king. The king just smiles and ignore, because he is waiting for the evidence to prove the villains crimes. But in my opinion I still don't understand how the Villain is more powerful. He only has one another minister support, he doesn't have more financial wealth than the king, nor does he have influence on many ministers to start rebellion or a private army to feed so. The villain could easily be killed at any time by a simple assassination. But the king keeps saying he wants to prove his crimes first, which is the whole reason why the story of this entire drama exists. I found the story of the king and the villain very weak. It doesn't have the gripping substance to feel the political immorality. It is just alright.

The drama pacing is good, and it is a good drama among the one's that are airing currently. Just a one time watch.

Leia Mais

A UNIQUE THRILLER KDRAMA AND IT WAS WORTH WATCHING

This drama is for you if you like intense plot twists. Every moment you should focus and remember, otherwise it would confuse you later. I guess this aspect also lead some people to dislike the drama and for some others to like the drama because it kept us on our toes on how every character and their actions are getting connected.

The drama is obviously a purely fictional story, where psychopaths are shown as people with no empathy and murderers. but to be frank, there are many people who have tested as psychopaths but in the real world, they live normal lives, they just don't have an understanding of emotions like the rest of us and live normally. but this drama has shown all psychopaths are murderers only. This aspect I didn't like at all, but since this a fictional story I let that slide and enjoyed the drama.

Overall this is a good entertaining drama after all entertainment is the only thing we expect from any drama and this one provides. it is worth watching.

Leia Mais

A series that must be watched....

I am one of those people who always like romantic kdramas, or even if it is office drama, I expect the romance. but miseang isn't like that.

it is one of those series that perfectly shows the reality of working in the corporate world. but doesn't mean you feel mundane like your work life.

the show, with every episodes, teaches me a valuable lesson, and also taught me a lot about corporate terms.

this is the kind of show only adults can say how great it is made.

i even went to Wikipedia page to see the viewership percentage, and with every episode the viewership increased in ascending order. if a drama has a viewership rating from episode one low to gradually increasing to highest, you can simply say this is a masterpiece.

Leia Mais

Not good writing.

I am a ji sung fan, but when a drama is not good I will admit that instead being blinded by a star cast.

At first the story starts with Ji sung character aka the devil judge to be shown as two faced, not directly but through the words of an elder judge who tells our another hero Ga On, played by park jin young. He tells Ga On devil judge may seem like punishing evil, but do you really think he is all that and doesn't have some dark secret behind his good actions. Then the elder judge merely shows up his face now and then in the drama. Anyway , this leads the viewers in first few episodes to doubt the devil judge, we even doubt devil judge may have killed his brother in a fire, we doubt his real intentions when he punishes bad people and all of a sudden writer throws that concept out of the window, without giving a clarity what his actions mean. It is episode 9., the writer didn't give us whether the devil judge is a misunderstood character, or really evil who uses other bad people as an excuse for his actions or a good guy who just uses outside the law methods to catch bad people. In conclusion his character is a heck of confusion for me and I won't even call the character mysterious since it is annoying.

Now coming to our second hero, Ga On, now he is the most undecisive character, one minute he acts like devil judge is someone he cares a lot only to see him hate the devil judge and doubting him the next minute. For few episodes he doesn't agree with devil judge methods, but all he does is complain it, but not take any action. He lives in the devil judge house, first it was for an injury reason which was understandable as viewers cause devil judge house has security, he still lives in the house, so we think he is trying to spy by staying in the house a little longer. Now he is totally living in the house like he is devil judge family member which didn't even make sense to me. Despite his character is shown as someone who will see the real side of devil judge in initial episodes, he now acts like he is a devil judge minion without giving viewers a proper reason why he changed his opinions.

Now coming our female lead, jeong seon ah, she is a villain and opposite character. Out of all characters she is the only one who makes sense to me despite she is shown as a evil character. Although she is a poor girl who now became a powerful chairwoman, how she got such power is still has to be explained.

Now the other female lead, who is yoon soo hyun, now she is friend of Ga On and a police officer. Her character is merely a decoration and does nothing helpful to the plot. Well to be fair the plot in this drama is inconsistent, but still she is of no use till now. Her screen time is even less, compared to her a side character called Elijah, the devil judge niece gets more time.

The plot is set in a dystopian korea, but after seeing the drama it is any other law korean drama's only which has good judges and bad politicians and selfish businessmen. The plot is just all over the place, what is the purpose of the story, what is your characters purpose, everything is inconsistent.

Even the viewership ratings on wikipedia page have dropped since last few episodes because of bad writing. Any high ratings given to this drama in this site is because of star cast biasedness. that's all.

Leia Mais

Science and Astronauts will be crying.

I was eagerly waiting for this series and it disappointed me so much.
This series had a lot of budget that went into making it, yet the script writer, nor the director didn't even think of consulting some professional who can help them in aspect of spacecraft and moon since this is a sci-fi genre, but I guess the writer and the director decided to trust their own brains that doesn't have a clue about it. Not just science sucked at every episodes, the camera work, the dialogues also brilliantly sucked.

SPOILERS AHEAD...BE WARNED.

The series starts with FL and our ML along with other crew members set out to voyage to the abandoned Balhae moon station, where 117 researchers died five years earlier. Their goal is to retrieve some mysterious sample from that moon station and return back. At this point I was ok, but then the tragedy of this series began.

The FL, ML and their crew are ready to go to the moon without even having at least a few weeks of simulation training. It is so ridiculous that our FL is shown struggling to put on her seat belt because she doesn't know while she is about to go into the space in next few seconds. I mean what the hell is that. Just when you get over this absurdity another one immediately gets thrown into your face.

Just few minutes before launching off the earth, all of a sudden one of the pilot of the spacecraft gets changed. Going to moon itself is a complex mission, yet last minute they change the pilot as if it is as easy as changing driver for your car.

I kept my patience and positivity even after this. Then comes another blow, where apparently now our team took off the earth by blasting 1, 2,3 and is going on their way to moon. And apparently their spacecraft is loosely bolted to the docking machine. I cannot believe this is the reason they come up with, you can go with many internal problems to show why you should take emergency landing but they took the impossible never happening loose bolt as a reason. And the worst thing is, because of loose bolt they can't communicate to the space center crew on the earth. How does loose bolt will lead to communication system damage???

And mind these mistakes are only half of the mistakes from first episode, I could fill pages with just first episode itself. I could have let the science mistakes slide if this drama didn't have budget, but it had. It had everything to make this show proper, but they didn't. The laziness and haughtiness could be seen in the direction. The camera work is done so worst that expect for FL, ML, you cannot properly have other characters fit into the frame with clarity.

And dialogues, omg, they talk like some kind of street business men. I don't expect astronauts to never talk slang or use profanity or talk normally, they do but still you get a sense of knowledge and professional aura even when they speak in a informal way. But this one has dialogues that seem so bland, over the top, like a frosting served without a cake.
At one point, one of the side character astronaut literally says "can I remove my space helmet, is it safe" when literally in front of him two people opened their helmets seemingly fine and what kind of writing that makes astronaut so stupid that he doesn't even know if it is safe to remove his helmet or not.

I cannot watch a show that makes blunders after blunders, and think everyone will be ok with it because the characters belong to A list actors.

Anyone in replies will try to oppose me or criticize me go ahead. I cannot stop you, but I stand true to my review.

Leia Mais

A crash plot but directed it well enough to watch

The show is a one time watch at the most. If I am going to talk about the story it is a not an intriguing plot nor has any exciting element. Just a basic plot to watch when you don't have many exciting series going on. But one thing they did well is execution and pace. The director should be credited for this.

The story is highly predictable after first four episodes including who is the serial killer.

I have two biggest complaints, first the final episodes were a wrap fest. So many subplots ending are rushed to wrap too quickly and abusive parents are forgiven just like that and turned into good people at the end. But we all know a parent who is been abusive for many years will never change. And it's not just one parent, almost all of the over bearing parents turned into caring parents in the end.

My other complaint would be although it seemed a romantic series with title and description, most of the time frame education pressure has been a concerned topic in this drama, they showed different sufferings students had to endure yet nonetheless the show never truly focused on the education system of Korea nor it focused properly on the romance development. I mean if they showed that much suffering of students at least education system should be made as focus but the show never went deep.

The drama doesn't have strong subjective frame of what the storyline it is going to narrate or it's purpose. The only sentence that will describe this drama is "let's make a drama that has thriller, romance, soap, a mix of basic plot that is just enough for people to not dismiss it quickly and direct it well enough so it won't bore them."

the higher ratings would be probably due to fact that both actors are quite famous in Korea and second would be there aren't many light hearted romance kdramas with neat pace like this one these days and lastly student education pressure is always been an accepting drama is korea.

my overall review is if you are okay with ight hearted drama that as quite alright pace, this is good drama to watch. Don't expect a strong plot and great narrative.

Leia Mais

Watch it for the story.

I have to say this movie focuses more on story rather than character. Even if a side character makes 5 minutes appearance on screen they don't waste it.

The story slowly builds up to the point where Ashin becomes who she is at the end.

I personally felt like she became a antagonist character at the end based on her dialogues but I have to see it in season 3 of kingdom. But if what I guess is true, than I have to say this is one of the greatest character development for an antagonist in the history of movies ever.

The story doesn't have our main heroine till the second half, but this doesn't mean boring, the first half focuses on building the story for our heroine to enter.

The movie all along shows the subtleness how dangerous is getting revenge, how every action has a consequence, it did a tremendous job in that aspect.

I am deducting one star because I thought this movie would explain the existence of our zombie plant, but it didn't much, but still this special episode is really worth it.

Leia Mais

a different kind of medical drama, that will blow you away

first I would like to start by saying this drama deserves more than an 8.1 rating on this site and the main characters are two main leads, the female leads aren't really main characters, but as side characters, they are quite vital to the story. even the other characters are tremendously important.

at first, I thought this would be medical drama, where the hospital is corrupted by higher-ups and a talented hero doctor would save it with his awesome skills. this is the most typical hospital dramas you see a lot. but this is completely different. it shows about hospital management conflicts where it shows how cruel a capitalistic world is by using a corrupted hospital.

my favourite character is koo Seung Hyo played by Cho Seung woo. incredible acting skills and his character is so refreshing and a very new type in kdrama world. We always see in any kdrama , the bad people as clearly bad persons, hero as good person, but this drama simply shows everyone as human being. both male leads aka main characters of shown as good and bad, that you will realise, if you are in their place, even you would do the same.

a must watch, don't expect romance a lot, although, in the end, there will be couples paired, the drama focuses a lot of two male leads and more on cho seung woo's character, which seems the true main character of the show, even though he starts his screen time from 2nd episode, he steals the show away.

Leia Mais

A story that became disappoint after half-way

Where to begin, I knew from get go this is going to be a serial killer drama. The drama starts off incredible, we as a third could see our hero aka lee sung min, a innocent kind driver is going to get in trouble as soon as he agrees to take Yeon sook aka the serial killer as a customer and drive him to destination which is four hours away.

Spoilers ahead please be warned, I cannot describe why I gave such low rating without telling any of it.

After watching many kdramas, at that point, I thought it will be typical drama, where driver will eventually find out something is wrong with the customer through clues here and there, simultaneously police will come across some victim and figure out who is the serial killer eventually, and the goal would be to catch the culprit, while our meek hero will save the day by becoming strong. I thought it would be typical plot, but it wasn't like this at all.

From the get go, the villain jokingly admits he is a serial killer to the point he seriously reveals he is indeed a killer all by himself. And he threatens our hero and tells him he needs to stow away to another country before police finds out what he did, so the hero must drive his taxi till the destination point because he doesn't know how to drive a car himself. He reveals all the details of his life, how he killed, whom he killed and everything. Which for me felt impressive. At that point I knew this take on serial killer Kdrama is very different and unique. The drama felt fresh and kept me on toes.

That's first five episodes, it felt different and incredible.

But what comes later is utter disappointment.

Just when I was thinking wow a Kdrama about a serial killer with different kind of script and not the routine writing we usually see in other dramas felt like fresh air of art. But it quickly became a typical writing style from them on.

The hero becomes damn foolish to the point because of his selfishness and dumbness alone kills three people. But I wasn't disappointed yet. Fine who is to say a hero should never be dumb. His character from the beginning of this drama has been portrayed as a weak mindset. So I can understand, even though he made stupid decision, it still felt like a decision the character would make. He wasn't totally selfish because the villain threatened him. So even three people got killed , we can understand the hero had no choice.

By the time hero and villain had finally reached the destination where the villain wanted to stow away, the serial killer reveals to hero he had killed his daughter and not only that he also shows hero the beheaded head of his daughter. The head which he hid in a trolley and made hero carry all the way by threatening him if he won't drive taxi he will kill his daughter and if he does reach the destination in time he will spare his daughter. But now we know that didn't happen. He tells hero he purposely picked his taxi for ride, because he wanted to feel the joy of knowing the hero can never win and save his daughter. He then stabs our hero and escapes.

The villain kills countless of people, and let me tell he doesn't just physically kill people, he tortures them mentally which is even more brutal than the actual act of killing. He mocks their death and all because the villain is someone who doesn't feel any emotions and he got a weird ability where he doesn't feel pain at all even if he is stabbed. Yes, he literally doesn't feel pain.

After this our hero somehow survives, a big twist comes later on who is actually involved in this killing spree, which is actually a great twist, but moving on our hero sets out to revenge. I mean come on that is the only sensible thing to do. The hero lost his daughter, that psycho murdered his daughter which even can't be called a father's worst nightmare. It is even brutal than that. Due to what happened to the daughter, the wife of hero kills herself.

The hero finally catches the villain, but you think as an audience finally our hero can avenge his daughter death, please be as good as the glory drama revenge, no no it should be even better, but hell no, the dumbass police of every Kdrama nightmare comes again. the stupid police ruins everything. Not only that, you think after all this time the hero will become strong and clever, no the villain still tortures the hero by kidnapping his daughter in law as well. He once again puts hero through all that agony and the daughter in law escapes, but hero is unaware and assumes she is dead because he knows the villain is too cruel to leave her alive, but the police interrupt, stop the hero and say "don't kill him and go to jail, you should be good person, think of the family you left".

Are you serious, dude if something like that actually happened in real life, no family would ever say stop, all that time the police ignored pleas of the victims and dismissed under context there is no proof , telling them to bring evidence, for once if the police believed the victims none of the killings would have happened, but now when the hero is getting revenge, the police became highly functional and actually follow the law all of a sudden.

All in end, there is no actually satisfaction end to this drama, the villain has a wife who gives birth to a male son, which you would think as audience won't he also turn into a serial killer when he grows up because the villain literally says his father is also similar to him. So yeah apparently it genetics. You think the villains wife, for all sins his husband has committed would have ounce of empathy and asks forgiveness and aborts the baby. Look I am all against innocent children getting effected, but god all through the series the villain asks for a baby boy because he knew his child will eventually become like him. For greater good some hard decisions to be made. The wife not only doesn't apologize, but tells our hero she will never forgive him or her husband for making her go through that. She literally says that to a man who her husband has killed his daughter and made his wife to commit to suicide.

The villain even though gets caught at the end and gets sentenced correctly, the hero is also sent to jail for seeking revenge on the villain. I mean come on dude, the writers when it came to the villain they are like let's be so creative, but when it came to hero they all became straight and arrow. The hero literally saw 10 lives of hell in while being alive.

There is no proper revenge, police are incompetent till the end, even if villain is sentenced it doesn't make any satisfactions as he lacks emotions and pain. even if you kill villain he will lose life but will not feel pain. And you send the hero aka the actual biggest victim to jail when he is been through that much torture. The only thing good about this drama is the villain is actually perfect, he is clever, sadist and is always ten steps ahead and the writing around villain itself is very creative, other than that it is no good.

Leia Mais

Review on drama itself and not on the Indonesia controversy.

Besides the low ratings the drama got on portraying Indonesia in bad way, I would like to do actual review on drama itself.

The drama is very light hearted and light paced one, at certain times I felt it as too slow and boring. It only been racist in one episode, and leaving that aside, the drama was good at initial episodes but later episodes I didn't feel much thrill. I didn't expect thrill since this not an action drama, but I expected it to be more entertaining which it failed me. So if you are someone who is completely ok with a very slow paced and completely light hearted drama, than this is good for you.

In my opinion, this is only a one time watchable decent drama.

Leia Mais

An action drama released without a proper story.

The drama is just a bunch of action that makes no progress. From the beginning and as per the details of the drama, it was about a 21 year old FL who is somehow targeted by killers possessing high tech ammunition like machine guns, sniper, drone killing machines, gas grenades, etc. FL is apparently targeted because of her relationship with uncle ML. Her uncle trains her to survive but let me tell you his training isn't really gruesome survival training, it is at most a self defense class that may work on a burglar or a car jack situation, but not on killers who been doing killing as profession with high artillery at their aid. Also during all this training he never tells FL why he is making her do this and what his actual job is. He disguises himself as normal business person while makes FL train for her own protection. And all that time not once FL asks her uncle aka ML what is all this or even get curious about him. Half the brain cells lost there itself

The whole four episodes is all about FL being attacked with no clear explanations other than she is ML's niece and if they kill her they will get money. It also shows ML is rich and very powerful enough but at the same time it doesn't make any sense he leaves her niece all alone on pretext she is code green and a code green will be protected by the ML organization he created but only one woman shows up to protect FL. And this woman only comes to protect FL after hearing killers gun shot instead of being with FL from the beginning when she had chance and also explain why this is happening to her and what is all the killing situation is about.

Nobody till 4th episode (the drama is only 8ep) don't explain to FL why everyone is trying to get her killed. They managed to drag this story till 4th episode. His uncle owns a secret artillery shop, FL should be killed to get money. But why, why must she be killed, why the ML is not around to protect her. Till 4th episode no clarity. Ok maybe I thought they are trying to build suspense, but till 4th episode showing no progress in any other ways is not called suspense. It is more like there isn't much story.

The drama is too slow for an 8 episodes. Only three things happened, ML goes off radar, killers try to kill FL, FL still trying to survive. There is no actual progressive conversation that makes you understand the whole point of this drama and every character action. Even the action scenes are not really well choreographed and planned.

It's almost like writers are thinking if we show an action drama with bunch of big guns, drones and killing machines and have a story that tries makes sense but at same time no actual strong storyline people would just watch because full on guns kind of action dramas are rare. And also ML is a class A actor, so people would definitely watch for him.

As of now when it comes to big action dramas, moving did the best when it comes to making sense of story. I don't understand why people are saying this is good as moving when it is not even close. Moving is very realistic written for a super hero action world and writer clearly shows audience what is going with story, why everything is happening to them. But this doesn't.

Leia Mais

Worth watching as light hearted simple drama.

It's been so long since I have seen a Rom Com without too many cliche scenes. The drama is so simple, it doesn't have any dramatic thing like twists, secrets kind of things. So unless you are the kind of person who loves intense drama, you will like Hometown Cha Cha Cha.

Some people say it is a predictable story and I 100% agree with that. But does it mean will it bore, I would say it doesn't.

The only two things I have to complain about this drama is certain times I felt the pace could be a little faster, but still the pace didn't bored me at all. And also Du shik sad past, I felt the writers could have done it much better. I felt the writers took a safe route in that writing.

The best thing about this drama personally would be Shin min ah role, she was immature in beginning, but the way her character grown and handled certain situations is incredible. And also this drama doesn't have any stupid love triangle at all.

Overall it is a good drama.

Leia Mais

Worth watching,

At first I hesitated because I don't like drama which glorify cheating. But I'm glad this drama doesn't do that. It really shows an affair as what it is. Both the main leads affair has reasons fair enough on made them to cheat on their spouses (fair as in sense you can understand why they cheated, but it is up to us whether we think it is right or wrong) and what led to the moment of having an affair. Even though the drama was MELODRAMA, it didn't feel too gloomy at all. Although it is an affair, my heart really rooted for the main leads.

THE BEST PART of this drama which I loved the most is how the women, especially became independent without relying on men or love to survive, but only on themselves,

The only thing if I have to complain about the drama is how I wished in the last two episodes the writers shouldn't have given upper hand to the bad guys, but what resulted out of that writing turned out to be good. So even though I didn't like it, I was oddly satisfied.

The second leads affair story was good, but somehow at certain times it didn't feel too entertaining for me, it was just ok.

If not for the two above reasons I would have given the drama a 10/10.

Leia Mais

Whenever you watch a thriller or horror drama, you always wonder why don't people leave the place immediately if they feel something is wrong, but this drama shows how one's surrounding life and people keep them grounded, even if it is hell itself. The main hero gets so many chances to Escape, but the people surrounding his life and poverty makes him stay. This drama is so unique and so thrilling, I loved it, it makes you stay seated on your edge.

It makes you connected with the characters, and the ending was so twisted and Im shi wan acting was superb as always.

Leia Mais