Not suitable for Muslim viewers
As a Muslim who believes in the afterlife and believes that every person who wrongs himself and commits suicide will be held accountable for his actions, I felt a little guilty while watching, because the soul takers should not be described as people like us and the rulers should not be described as us. I felt a little stupid, but in the end I liked the acting and I knew what the series wanted us to understand. Our destinies are written and we should not ruin our destinies by committing suicide and we should appreciate every minute of our lives?Was this review helpful to you?
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Poor Plot Flow
While this series isn't one of the worst as there are flickering moments of relatively good scenes, it's pieced together pretty poorly. The introduction in itself wasn't done well with a slapping together of the main leads who continued to not have much chemistry with one another. But when the supporting actors do a much better job in acting than the leads, it's difficult to stay interested. The lore of the reapers world was not believable even for a fantasy/supernatural genre. As a minor examples (among many), the comatose state of the "new guy" was at the fault of the reapers, and yet the choice they gave him was three years of coma which could be reduced to six months of coma if he joins the team. There's no explanation of why they can't just reduce the come to a month or to just release him from it, if they are capable of providing different time ranges. Another example is when they are apparently forbidden to change history when going back into the past, but the "new guy" is pretty much allowed to make drastic changes to the past like preventing a death from occurring and yet, there's barely any repercussion before the plot just moves on.Because I can probably continue watching this on a very casual mode mostly due to the supporting actors and their stories (hence the slightly higher score), but as none of the mains are likeable, prefer to drop it instead.
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Great Idea, Disappointing Acting and Execution
While the concept of the series is intriguing, the execution fell short of expectations. The idea of grim reapers interacting with suicidal individuals is interesting, but the implementation lacks finesse, especially in the aspect of erasing memories. Unfortunately, the main lead, Choi Joon Woong, delivered a performance that didn't align with my preferences. The acting felt overly cringe, making it challenging for me to continue watching. Despite my initial interest and managing to endure two episodes, I've decided to drop the series due to the mismatch between the acting style and the tone of the show.I'm not criticizing the actor's talent but it's just my personal view on whether the performance suits the series.No offense to fans and I prefer not to rate, but since it's required for the review, I gave it a 5.
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One of the most toxic "fixes" to mental illness I've ever seen.
SUMMARYThis drama glosses over the severity of mental illness by presenting it as something momentary that you can get over in a minute. It overestimates a mentally ill persons abilities to recover from it and it never encourages medical or professional help as it never recognizes suicidal tendencies as part of a severe illness in the first place.
It's unaware of the different diagnosis it's presenting symptoms of which becomes a problem as it treats every case similarly. Insult the person and tell them to become stronger, give them a near death experience, encourage them with words and then the person is cured and will never try to commit suicide again. An extremely damaging and unrealistic approach to encourage people to use on suicidal or suffering individuals. Even if the approach would consist of only positive encouragement, the writers are still not recognizing that this needs medical attention once the person has survived their first suicide attempt.
This drama was created to spread awareness and lower the stigma around mental health issues but instead, what this drama is basically doing is encouraging and validating the toxic out look Korean people have on mental illness and invalidating the suffering and trauma, individuals had to go through to become suicidal.
I also don't understand the writers choice to encourage traumatizing or destroying the "bullies" lives as a punishment for their actions. A study shows that the most likely reason a person becomes a bully is because they have been deprived of a safe space and are suffering from severe trauma or stress. This is a very important detail the show could have brought up. No matter what choices you made in life, if you're suffering from mental illness you should be offered help. Considering that the bully went on to become a public figure, someone who has constant pressure, stress and hate directed at them daily, they're probably in a really bad mental state already and has now, for sure, become more likely to develop suicidal thoughts because of the RM team. Very counter productive for a team that is supposed to lower Koreas suicide rate. This also means that they're spreading a message that you deserve to suffer if I believe you're a bad person even if you too, are a victim of mental illness.
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Korea carries one of the worlds highest suicide rates in the world.
Why?
To name only a few reasons; The Korean society was built to perfectly mimic survival of the fittest. Escaping the bottom of the pyramid is nearly impossible and accidentally sliding off the top is a daily risk. People are expected from an early age to become number one at everything but in a country of roughly 52 million people, only one can become number one and everyone else has to fight for the left over money the top 1% hasn't pocketed yet. Being valued at such a surfaced level, the fear, the stress and the pressure is a sure way to cause mental deterioration, so how do people deal with it?
Frankly speaking, they don't.
In Korea, mental illness is not being taken as seriously as it should and a lot of people don't understand what it entails. It's misrepresented in the media too often and constantly associated with insanity, weakness or danger. It's highly stigmatized, looked down upon and going to therapy to get help is still a taboo.
And this drama embodied that toxic mentality perfectly.
The job of the Risk management team is to find suicidal individuals, figure out why they are suicidal and then convince them not to end themselves. And although this drama does a great job with presenting traumatic events, trauma, PTSD and depression it doesn't know that it's doing it and that's a problem. It's a problem because the solution presented to solve the issue at hand minimizes the severity of the situation and enforces the toxic mentality that so many Koreans have when it comes to mental illness. "Just change your attitude and you'll be fine".
Sadly, that's not how it works.
If a person is considering suicide, it's not an impulse thought. In most cases, people have to go through an immense amount of pain and suffering before the thought of not existing enters their mind. And then the thought of not existing becomes comforting. Once it's comforting it usually stays just a thought for most people. "I don't want to exist. I want to die. But I wont." For a person to be pushed beyond this, it takes a lot of additional torment. The comfort of not existing encourages a curiosity in how one could leave this world and then these option make a plan. Lastly, the plan is executed and that's it.
So why does suicide become an option?
It's not because of self pity and it's not because life after death is expectedly better. If a person chooses suicide it's most likely because this person has suffered enough depression that their mental state has been completely reprogrammed into feeling only self loath, misery and loss of importance. Any positive emotion has been unlearned by the brain and any attempted at relearning them will feel fruitless. You're not feeling sorry for yourself but you're feeling sorry for everyone around you that has to put up with your shit. You feel bad because you don't deserve to be here since you're not doing any good for the world anyway and because of your current situation, you're becoming a burden to the ones who once loved you, but don't love you anymore. Of course they don't love you anymore. You don't love you anymore.
Now, with all of this in mind, how good of an idea do you think it is to tell a person standing on the edge of a roof top to "do better", "get over it", "get stronger", "don't be so weak", "You put yourself here"? And how possible would it be that the suicidal person is already thinking it?
How probable do you think it is that putting this person in a near death situation will suddenly change their mind and make them want to live?
How much of an impact do you think making them laugh once (if even possible at all) and then telling them to "smile more" will have on their life?
It would have the same impact as telling a person in a wheel chair to get up and walk it off.
Just like any physical illness, healing takes time. And in severe cases it can take a life time. It takes doctor visits, check ups, diagnosis, medicine, rehabilitation, work, love, support, motivation and all of this might still not be a permanent prevention of having suicidal tendencies. It's a never ending battle between life and death and you need a strong motivator to be willing to put up with such a long lasting fight under such unfavorable circumstances and not be tempted to just give up.
If you've made it this far into my review I want to know if any of these things that I have written about mental illness was communicated to you in any way through this drama.
- Did you realize the severity of the characters mental health issues and what they might be suffering from?
- Where you in anyway informed of how much treatment and work these characters are going to have to go through now that they survived their first suicide attempt?
- Were you presented with what that hard work and struggle might look like?
- Did they ever mention that having a diagnosis is okay?
- Did they ever encourage getting help from professionals?
- Did they ever validate that the people they saved were sick?
- Did you realize that the "bullies" were suffering from mental illness as well?
Personally, nothing I have listed here were things I felt like the drama communicated well.
And the reason I'm asking this is because this drama wasn't made for people suffering from sever mental illness. Those who are still trying to get treated don't want to relive their nightmares through other characters and then be invalidated because they still don't know how to handle things. The people who have gotten treatment don't need to be educated on what to do cause they're already aware of what they need. So the only audience left to influence are the people who either don't suffer from mental illness, or the ones who have untreated mental illness and aren't seeking help for it.
And for those people, I would never recommend watching this drama.
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BE CAREFUL VERY TRIGGERING
I dropped it after only 2 episodes because it's veryyyy triggering! Even if you think it is not a big deal like me at first, if you have had any experiences with suicide, you will definitely get triggered! Please be careful since they go very in depth and you will see everything in full detail.I think that if this is not something you have experience with, you might still be okay watching it, so don't take this review as a bad one. I only wanted to help some people who might be sensitive to these issues like me. ;)
PS: I will give it a 5 since I can't submit the rating empty but I will not give this a rating since I didn't watch enough to be able to rate it but I felt like I needed to write this in case someone was in the same situation as me.
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"O que salva as pessoas não são seus poderes, mas o peso de suas palavras."
Alerta gatilhos!Ao longo dos episódios irá passar histórias de vida diferentes, de pessoas que desejam tirar sua própria vida. E é necessário ter uma mente forte para aguentar ver todas essas histórias.
Para mim o episódio mais difícil foi o 10, se você, mulher como eu, é sensível ao tema de abuso sexual, peço que pense duas vezes antes de assistir, tem um final bom o episódio, realmente, terminei satisfeita, mas até chegar lá foi difícil. Gente, eu demorei uma semana pra terminar esse ep, porque simplesmente era muito pesado pra mim. Abuso sexual me deixa muito abalada, e olha eu nunca passei por algo tão horrível assim, imagino como é pras outras mulheres, o quão terrível é isso, e esse ep mostrou como agir quando alguém que você conhece sofre de abuso sexual.
Atuação incrível! Passei o dorama inteiro chorando. No geral é uma série incrível, totalmente necessária!
Sua vida importa!
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O MELHOR DE 2022
Preciso dizer o quanto esse drama é perfeito??? Tomorrow fala de assuntos e gatilhos tão importantes de uma forma linda. Ele entrega o que promete, que é TUDO! Tudo nele é lindo, a história, plot, personagens e mais.Me emocionei em todos os episódios, mas o meu protegido foi o episódio 3. Eu adorei que quem foi "salvo" foi o melhor amigo do prota, me emocionei também com a parte da foto com o pai dele, e claro, com a história desse episódio.
Tomorrow é um drama bem desenvolvido e super inteligente. Merece muito a fama e os fãs que tem. O final foi surpreendente para mim, e mal posso esperar pela segunda temporada, me arrependi de ter visto tão rápido!
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Non è un drama per soggetti sensibili
No, il mio voto è basso per altri motivi.Il drama è pesante perchè porta un argomento davvero molto delicato scaturente da fattori sempre molto sensibili. Partiamo col botto, con un primo episodio che mi ha fatto dire "Sì, questo è il tipo di drama che voglio!", un episodio che ho sentito vicino e secondo me completo e gestito bene. Da quel momento fino all'episodio 13 ho trovato la storia "carina" tra alti e molto bassi, un episodio in particolare mi ha fatto dire MA CHE CAZZ* STO GUARDANDO????!!!!. Alcune cose secondo me potevano essere gestite meglio, alcune storie sono state poco o mal sviluppate. Tralasciamo il modo indecente in cui Netflix tronca gli episodi, che il drama non ne può nulla.
Il 13esimo e il 14esimo (secondo il taglio netflix) episodio sono una bomba, soprattutto perchè spiega determinati personaggi a cui mi sono legata. Il finale... Il finale? Tra una trashata in stile Lucifer e un modo di chiudere che ti fa chiedere ma allora a cosa è servito tutto ciò per tizio, mi ha lasciata totalmente delusa. Malamente delusa, proprio perchè si era ripreso alla grande e in qualche modo ci tenevo. In ogni caso interessante da guardare per il tema trattato.
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Un drama lleno de realidad y humanidad.
— “Al final, somos los únicos que podemos salvarnos a nosotros mismos.”Tomorrow te cuenta a gritos una serie de historias donde se muestran las dificultades de la sociedad coreana, las luchas de sus ciudadanos en el día a día y cómo estos son arrinconados hasta el punto de considerar que el suicidio es el camino que les otorgará la libertad que tanto buscan.
Tiene un elenco de excelencia con personajes interpretados de una manera dinámica, donde todos aportan una percepción diferente a las situaciones a las que se enfrentan, mostrando el lado más humano de cada uno. En cuanto a los protagonistas, a medida que la historia avanza, van formando una relación muy estrecha de confianza, cercanía y amor que los hace muy queridos al espectador.
El guión es intenso en todo momento, con ciertos giros y vueltas donde incluso los detalles más minuciosos y sutiles son importantes en la historia. Mezclando pasado y presente, retratando parte de la realidad en su máxima expresión, acompañado de puras verdades de cómo el mundo te dará la espalda y serás señalado como el responsable de todo. Pero que, al final, sólo tú puedes salvarte a ti mismo del entorno que te rodea y lo único que necesitas es que, aunque sea, una persona este de tu lado, te apoye y te diga que todo estará bien.
Inicie el drama casi en los lanzamientos de sus episodios finales porque me gustó la trama que ofrecía, aunque no fuera lo mas novedoso del mundo puesto que las parcas/ángeles de la muerte se convirtieron en un tema popular recientemente. Para mi sorpresa, supieron manejar el tema de una manera bastante interesante, relatando los problemas de la vida real que aún están presentes de una manera cruda. Un drama altamente recomendado.
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Vale a pena assistir Tomorrow??
Uma coisa interessante e diferencial neste drama é o fato de cada episódio contar um historia mais diferente que a outra. Cada caso é como se fosse um dorama diferente, tornando o drama bem dinâmico e "agradando a todos". Ele aborda como assunto principal o suicídio, e eu acho que este consegue passar uma mensagem muito forte e impactante (pois n é facil viver?). Quanto mais você asssiste, mais você fica curioso para saber sobre o passado da personagem principal. Tomorrow é um drama muito bem produzido e construido, com um elenco de atuação impecável e uma historia muito emocionante e cativante. Cada personagem é muito bem feito e bem pensado. Com certeza vale apena ver e você não vai perder o seu tempo e se decepcionar. Acho que todos deveriam assistir esse drama pela mensagem que ele transmite. [Alerta spoiler] Para mim, a única coisa que faltou, sinceramente, foi a cereja do bolo : o casal se assumir ?Was this review helpful to you?
Queria saber porque demorei tanto para conferir essa obra prima, amei.
Antes de mais nada, quero destacar o quanto AMEI a QUÍMICA DE MILHÕES do elenco, com destaque, para os quatro personagens principais.Tomorrow é um drama que nos trouxe temas pesados, mas que precisam ser mostrados, além de encaixar vários momentos de humor, não deixando a série pesada demais e sempre atenta ao timing certo, simplesmente AMEI e claro que virou uma das minhas favoritas, quem não conferiu eu recomendo que veja, essa obra prima fantástica, que casa perfeitamente a realidade com a fantasia..!
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Si vous avez une longue liste en attente, vous pouvez sans hésiter zapper celui-là.
Je devrais pouvoir arrêter ce drama et passer à autre chose. J'ai eu la mauvaise idée de le commencer avec chéri et mes deux ados. Ce qui, moralement, me ferait passer pour une mauvaise personne si je les laissais seuls face à ce ........Je le pense très fort, mais afin d'éviter de froisser la susceptibilité de ceux qui ont aimé, je me contenterais de dire ce que je n'ai pas du tout aimé.
- Faucheuse! La mort = La Faucheuse. C'est une personnification de la mort. Le mot faucheur n'existe pas pour les FAUCHEUSES d'apparences masculines. Le faucheur est une personne qui fauche des végétaux. Alors, oui la FAUCHEUSE est représentée avec une faux, l'outil qui sert en effet à faucher les végétaux. Mais le faucheur n'a rien à voir avec la Mort, la Faucheuse. Sincèrement, j'ai tellement l'habitude de lire de mauvais sous-titres qu'un de plus ou de moins ne changerait rien à ma vie, mais quand mes ados commencent à dire "Ah ouais, lui c'est le faucheur....", hé bien cela me fait bondir hors de ma zone de "je m'en fous"! Mon 16 ans va passer son épreuve de français cette année, j'aimerais éviter au possible de lui faire écrire des c**** sur un texte de Victor Hugo ou de Lamartine....C'est donc sur état d'esprit un peu énervée que je commence ma petite critique (petite, car au final, il n'y a pas grand chose à dire).
- L'histoire est banale. Si je voulais une petite dose d'adrénaline, ce n'est pas ici que je le trouverais. Des défunts devenant des faucheuses avec pour mission d'empêcher le suicide chez les morts, pourquoi pas. Mais le scénariste n'a pas su développer un monde unique et riche, que cela soit visuellement ou dans le fond. Si je prend l'exemple de "Rainless Love in a Godless Land" où la richesse de ce monde de déité était intéressant et subtil, ici c'est tout le contraire. Au lieu de nous créer un monde à part, quelque chose qui parlerait à notre imagination, tout n'est que cliché dans la représentation de l'au-delà (ou plutôt ce qui est entre les mortels et l'au-delà). Et lorsque le scénariste (ils sont en fait 3) décide de vouloir faire un truc qui sortirait de l'ordinaire, il préfère nous transformer l'empereur de Jade en une figure féminine. Alors, je sais que dans le monde où nous vivons actuellement, c'est tendance de mettre des femmes à la place des hommes, des femmes partout, des femmes à l'égal de l'homme, etc.... Je suis moi même une femme qui gère son monde de gars d'une main de fer (dans un gant de velours), et pourtant, rien ne m'horripile plus que de vouloir absolument mettre la figure féminine à la place de l'homme partout, sans aucune raison. Je bondirais tout autant si demain Athéna devenait un homme sous prétexte qu'elle est la déesse de la guerre et de la sagesse....
Le scénariste nous pond donc des clichés à tour de bras sans aucune consistance. Je le redis, les clichés, s'ils sont bien faits, ne sont pas un problème. J'ai eu du mal à adhérer à leur monde, tout de blanc et de noir vêtu ( quel originalité, n'est ce pas? Si seulement cela avait été moitié aussi bien fait que "Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days ....) ". Et puis zute quoi, des faucheuses qui se disputent comme des mortels, se battant comme des chiffonniers (c'est à dire sans aucune classe), agissant de manière aussi infantiles avec des défauts typiquement humains, cela fait peur, n'est-ce pas? Et le téléphone? c'est un peu drôle de se dire qu'avec les super pouvoirs des dieux et tout le tralala, ils doivent utiliser des smartphones, subir l'attaque d'un virus informatique, et j'en passe. Le monde des faucheuses ne serait qu'au final l'image du nôtre, avec des petits pouvoirs en plus? Rien de très glamour au final et qui ferait rêver.
- Le thème du suicide est un thème sensible. Que cela soit au niveau de la violence que subissent les victimes comme le harcèlement ou le viol....Je n'ai pas réussi à ressentir de la peine ou ne serait-ce qu'un chouilla de compassion. Je peux pleurer comme une madeleine dans "Sometimes when we touch" mais ici, rien, absolument rien. Je pense que cela vient du fait que les victimes ne semblent pas avoir de vie, de famille, d'amis en dehors de ce qu'ils subissent. Nous ne vivons que l'instant T de leur malheur, et tout est centré sur eux, leurs désarrois et leurs épreuves. Mais rien de ce qui les entoure ne semble exister, ces personnages n'ont donc pas de réel profondeur. C'est bien dommage.
- Les protagonistes.....sans être mauvais, aucun ne sort du lot et nous n'arrivons pas à nous attacher aux héros. Pire, nous n'arrivons pas à avoir de l'empathie pour ce qu'ils ont vécu. De manière inconsistant, ils passent de cas à cas sans pour autant développer entre eux une solide relation qui aurait pu compenser un scénario bancal (comme "taxi driver" par exemple). C'est donc un trio fade et dont les répliques et traits d'humour tombent souvent à plat qui nous est offert ici. (Ah, pourquoi Ro Woon a-t-il donc joué dedans).
Sincèrement, je ne trouve que peu, pour ne pas dire aucune, de qualité dans ce drama. Cela semble être le premier scénario des scénaristes, espérons qu'ils feront mieux la prochaine fois.
Mes ados ne semblent pas réclamer la suite du visionnage. Avec un peu de chance, ils vont l'oublier et je n'aurais pas besoin de le finir.
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