A frail happiness and joy are as dangerous as sadness itself. Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in this world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. However here, the characters unhappiness stemmed entirely from their own vices, and they had no way of fighting anybody.

From first episode I can see the characters are not pure, and innocent. Their depression and oppression of time, has not forced them to become beast but they are not their best version either. They don’t convey that they have been wronged by people rather they record with devastating honesty, their every transgression of a human conduct which they can not fathom. Broken, scattered and unhealed in their lives, they are who they are from the beast that holds them.

The lead characters, Boo Jung and Kang Jae, are at the peak of their breakdown. Boo Jung is rather simple character, surrounded by the misery of her failures, failures to uphold the happiness that has made her weak. She wishes unhappiness for others, while dwelling in one herself. Do Yeon, was an excellent choice for this role, cannot imagine someone else in this role. Her tenacity and versatility lie in the comfort zone she has been showing us for past decades. And I for one never got bored seeing her in melancholy roles so often.

Joo Yeol, people will curse me perhaps, because I haven’t seen him in anything, not even - Reply series. But I have known him though his social media, and his activism. Dashing and looks of those you perhaps see in Milan and Paris walk shows, he is extremely remarkable to leave an impression of his presence. He sure did with this performance, even though it is just first episode. The business his character does in series, is the one I am not shocked at all, I would have imagined him nothing less but this kind of arc suits his character. Perhaps it is to show that how meaningless and directionless he is that when spreading joy of lust and happiness for someone else, he is completely empty inside when he is alone.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for morality which human beings arbitrarily devise. Through such mirror, our leads see each other. Their interaction at this point is minimal. One who is not capable of love from a loss she is suffering, is going to receive from a vacuum of person who distributes it without even realizing he is being emptied.

The world, after all, is still a place of bottomless horror. It is by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.

No such happiness exist that can liberate you from the unhappiness you are feeling. “Life for all its anguish is ours it belongs to no other.”

I didn’t realize I what I was watching, and one scene had me confused, maybe it was easy to understand for others, but I am dumb enough to rewind it too many times to understand what the conversation was about. A scene where, Boo Jung comes to clean some actress home, and Kang Jae was explaining how he was caught seeing by his client’s boyfriend’s wife going her home. It was overlapping with Boo Jung scenes, and I had a hard time realizing, that they were separate occasions. Dialogues and scenes misleading sometimes, giving us a true sense of foreseeable picture of what is coming our ways for future episodes.

When you are hurt by the world so much, you began to see the demons within humans. So, without hiding it through trickery, you start to work to express it. I hope those demons and that are still leashed inside them, do not get exhumed, rather their memories and the humanity they have lost – finds them in a better place. Because “Everything passes.”