Watch it without any expectations and you won’t have a problem with it. While the show has some of the most promising production crew and a stellar cast, if you look at it with scrutiny expecting to come out of it feeling satisfied, you’ll be disappointed. Most of Jirisan is a love letter to the mountain and the rangers who protect it. The on the side mystery is intriguing, but towards the end, especially the very end, the constant guessing/misleading kind of ruins it. If the killer had been properly revealed even just an episode earlier and they had stuck with it, it would have been better. The time I enjoyed the episodes was when it wasn’t wholly influenced with the main plot and there was interactions between the characters.

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One thing that really put me of the idea of happy ending giving to the main leads. Hyun Jo wakes up — yay — and this was expected, for some reason it was just taken as the norm that he will not be killed. And Yi Kang suddenly has no more disability? Her disability was simply for the plot to make sense? That it wouldn’t be a happy ending if she had remained in a wheelchair?

As to the final reveal of the killer, I really liked how his backstory influenced him, but the way it was dealt just didn’t feel right. The whole the mountain dealt with him while Yi Kang was just some distance away without getting hit felt anticlimactic.

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Go in with zero expectations and just enjoy each episode without being too into it, you will like watching it!