Night Has Come (2023)

Overall

Now it may seem like I just put 10/10 for the hell of it but I genuinely believe that this drama is one of my favorites this year.

It was so well written and so well thought out, except for the part that’s making people think this show has no critical thinking skills. Everything else is well thought out. Like how in one of the earlier episode when people went on a hike to see what the limits were. There was a person with a camera recording and he saw people so they were all shouting trying to get their attention. But looking back at their footage they noticed how the birds and the people never moved even though the students were very much screaming for help. That scene should have made all of us realize that this was some sort of game game like a simulation. Which we find out in the very last episode in the final minutes.

As for the acting I loved Kim Wooseok as Joonhee he was very protective to Yoonseo played by Lee Jaein. I hate the fact that I’m the end the only sort of closure we got of that relationship was when Yoonseo confessed her feelings for Joonhee after she thought he died. I liked the dynamic of all of the characters and how the interacted together. Like the big guy with glasses how he felt genuine betrayal after his friend voted for him since he had a stab wound on his stomach. I loved how we almost got a redemption arc out of Kyunghon but was then thrown anyway in the very same episode. I also loved the fake that they got Jin Dabeom to be a sudden mafia. Like I was actually shocked when it turned out to be him. After he killed Kyunghon I instantly hated him I know Kyunghon bullied Dabeom but still I can hate him if I want to.

What I’m trying to say is that I love this drama very much. This is the very first time I’m writing a review for a drama and that’s mainly because I read some other peoples review and some of them forgot about the little part that should have been obvious that it was a simulation. But I guess that flew over everyone else’s heads.

I just really really hope that this drama gets a second season because I want to know what will happen since it seems like Yoonseo remembers what happened when she woke up in the real world. I also want to see however else’s dynamic is going to change now that there’s been a little change. I also want to see if there goings to be any interactions between Yoonseo and Joonhee. Anyway if you read this thanks for putting up with this and understanding.

I hope you all have a great day and have an amazing Christmas!!!

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Well...let me explain because I just don't understand

You know this show had a lot of potential...and alot to work with.

Like Jin Da Beom, the guy that did a good job with being a completely hateable character, so did Go Kyung Jun...so I can say the villians did there part well enough.

As for our citizens...well...I feel they could have made better decisions. With all the fear going on... I feel logical decisions could have been thrown out...but after a few too many deaths...some actual thinking could have started...they could have actually played the game and kept us guessing what's next.

As for the paranormal side of this...they tried but they didn't do enough to make it feel like it was a necessary part. In the ending they made it seem like everything that we thought was crucial was actually nothing. An example is the bus in the woods in episode 1...why was it there??

The parents roles are just ridiculous, all this for revenge. How did they even get all the kids there without their parents knowing where they are...where is the police...what the heck is going on outside ...just how people ..how!

The ending could have been better, they really did push alot of limits...even though things weren't explained clearly...They definitely made us look forward to watching the end, but like Jin Beom killing Kyung Jun in the most none impactful way ( after all that bad blood)....well it was that bland.

I would want a season 2..so I could just get explanations for the questions I need answers to but otherwise wouldn't look forward to it.

And I am not sure if it's just me but Yeon Seo & Jun Hee didn't leave a lasting impression for me as center characters. They did a good job but I didn't feel anything for them as characters...I felt they were missing something..but hey that's just my opinion.

Overall, watching it once was enough...never going back. I just hope next time a show like this comes out, the ending won't be bland...I wish it was an ending with a long lasting impression...so many good actors but such a bland ending. The writers really didn't do this story justice...just saying. I am hurt.

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Another Round?

/ Actual Rating: 5/10

/- Another round filled with a mid plot of trigger warnings and misconception of horror and thriller.
/- Another of those storylines where highschoolers/youngsters are better medium of getting killed off with gore and violence. Do KR writers really like to stay put in this trope of young people killing each other off? Can't they think of a better approach other than violence in the said age range? Bullying must have been a really big issue in KR, indeed.
/- Regardless, I still think I'm not yet ready for further school dramas since my Duty After School Part 2 experience happened.

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a k-drama with the most unexpected ending

honestly even though the ending didn't meet my expectations, the storyline was good actually. i'd give it a 9/10 for the engaging plot and narrative, but there are still quite a few plot holes. the cast really immersed themselves in their roles, making me genuinely angry... like daebum. it's the only high school survival k-drama that truly captivated me. the ending might not satisfy most audiences, but it's still reasonable, and i didn't expect much from the beginning due to some trauma from duty after school lol... anw i like how jungwon's character was created (even though she's an AI or an unreal character) but it turns out she can make the citizens win the game as seeun's parents said, they have played many games but this is the first time jungwon doesn't match the previous ones aka the citizens win

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I don't understand the high rating for this drama

I seriously don't know why this show has such a high rating. I expected it to be like 5 at max!
The story seemed kinda interesting when I first started to watch it. despite the bad directing, I forced myself to be immersed into the story but it was just impossible! The characters are just meaningless and don't have any impact on the audience. I felt nothing when they died and i didn't get to like any of them. As we go further to the last eps, the sorty gets more boring. A lot of plot holes!!! The cast is not balacned as there are some who couldn't really express the characters. Generally beside 2 or 3 persons, the acting of others was meh. Nothing to say about the ending!
I kinda liked the first 2 eps but it just got less and less likable by each ep.
This show is really overrated in my opinion!

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One of a kind in kdrama world

A late review... i watched the series as it was airing and it was a whole lot of fun.
The whodunit kept me curious and hooked! I don't understand the negative reviews.

Were the characters good? Nope
See it's a matter of survival and thats brought out the worst in all of them. Humans have animalistic instincts after all. So we should've expect to be able to relate to that simply cuz we haven't been in that situation. But portrayed well and it makes perfect sense.

The ending gives closure while leaving room for season 2. Was it the best possible ending? Maybe
Well compared to other supernatural options this was better.

There's quite some gore so not for the ones scared at the sight of blood.

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This had so much potential but it tanked so fast. Especially since it's common to a lot of other shows that center around this kind of setting.
As the show went on, it got more annoying. They started off expecting us to already know the characters (and if you're anything like me, it can take a looooong time to remember who is who) so I actually ended this show not knowing who was who. I kid you not.

Close to the end they talk about things like we are supposed to know what it is only to reach the end and THEN they show what it was. So for a while I thought I had missed a chunk of the show cuz I didn't know WHAT rumor they kept talking about.

The show was all over the place that way. Throw in a random ghost and it's like even the writers weren't sure what to do with the setting. lol. I admit the ending was new. I don't think I've seen a ending like that. But it does lead to more questions cuz..... How do none of the parents know? None are freaking out?

I get it's a show but there's just to many plot holes and no character development either. It was scattered and pretty basic.

I had a lot of high hopes for this show but was quickly disappointed.

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Overrated? mafia game: confused edition

From my point of view, and comparing it to other similar movies and series, Night has come is overrated and doesn't deserve more than an overall 5.

I will avoid spoiling the series as much a possible, but some things might slip.
The story: a story generated by an AI indeed.. the deaths are pure fantasy, so unrealistic I was amazed by the first episodes. I mean, hypnosis would be a good assumption for the behavior, but the brutality is a clear giveaway that something else is happening. Also, the clues left all around by the host are totally ignored and the main character is dismissing the nightmares, the hallucinations, the signs... she is clearly not the brightest fish in the pond, even though the writers tried to show her as such. Another amazing thing is the fact that in the beginning some characters are shown playing mafia, but later nobody knows the rules of the game and they just base everything on how much they dislike a person? Some characters survive the night based on illogical arguments and by the end rules are crumbling.
The ending, I have to admit that the matrix wouldn't have predicted that.. it doesn't make sense and it's also more than questionable. If the parents are millionaires (otherwise the setup is not possible), couldn't the girl fix her problems easily? I'm quite sure if they could do the 'magic' at the end, they could press a delete when everything happened.. seems more plausible that the whole backstory! And it was a 10 minute backstory where nothing is really cleared up.

The characters: Yoon Seo is gullible and hopes to save the day but makes all the wrong choices possible, discussing things with the others are optional, but is good at forensics and likes taking pictures of the dead... ? Jun Hee is just the male version of the main and doesn't get the 'magical powers' but gets to rewind in the pool and people still think it's not weird, strange or suspicious! The game has a doctor, that apparently lags and doesn't do his job until it's a plot point - I forgot the role existed until that point, and also a police that is non existent for most of the series and is useful because the mafia has internal problems. Kyung Jun and So Mi are the few characters with a personality and goal but the writers managed to make them predictable and repetitive. Jung Won is usually in the background or tending to Yoon Seo, even though you can guess why she acts in a certain way but is always without a doubt. The other characters are there so they have someone to play the game with, it gave me the feeling they didn't want more than 10 characters for the plot but just had to go with it. There is no backstory for anyone even though the plot revolves around the class as a whole! It's not as in the Werewolf game movies where they're just shoved there and wished good luck, theoretically they have a purpose.

Music is fine, but I don't quite remember it. Sounds are very obvious at times and give the impression they're controlled through auditory hallucination.

I don't think it's rewatchable.. once is enough. But if they do decide on a second season that resolves the issues it ended with, I would give it a go.

What did I like about it? Not much, but the pacing is decent, the outfits are ok, the location is ok and the special effects are good. Also the premise is good, but the execution and development is lacking. It's like it glitched in the middle or something.
If you like mystery series and blood, try it, but don't expect to much logic to be involved.

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Great Concept, Poorly Executed

The idea of the story being a Mafia Game, everybody knows if you watch a lot of K-content. It was so great on paper, but if watch the show, there's so much that wasn't well explained and built up, leaving a lot of plot holes. It started fine, but you can tell right away that it's gonna be a mediocre show because they just went straight to it without easing us into what's about to come. And as you went on, it just kept dwindling, then crashed itself with the most tacky ending.

I don't know if the producer had more to show because there were some tidbits of backstory here and there, but it just wasn't delved deeper into at all, like can you at least explain how did that came about? and how would that impact the story? They could've cut down the unnecessary drama between the characters to make room for meaningful interaction and scenes. Instead, the characters were just busy being so emotional and blaming each other, just mindlessly voting because "I hate this person or that person" or "this person did that or this " without even trying to bring up a shred of conclusive evidence, NOT UNTIL episode 4, it took them four episodes!!! I don't know how many days have passed in the game, just to realize "You know? Maybe we should try and figure out who the mafias are". The bullies also realized that, so they tortured someone till they admitted they were the mafia and the bully was like "Aha! told you my hunch was right!" No! you just picked a random nerd in your list and got lucky, but what if that guy was innocent? Then you'd be basically torturing an innocent person to death. I get that you'd be emotional in that situation because I for sure would be traumatized in that situation and they are high schoolers as well, but I wouldn't just wimp around all the time knowing the killers are busy making moves all the time trying to get ahead of us.

One thing that I hate in stories right, especially in mystery and you see it a lot in the bad ones, is that whenever they show the plot twist, but in the form of a back story and show it first sometimes before the actual twist. OH MY GOD! I hate that so much and it's so prevalent here. STOP IT! The writers must have thought that it was a good sequence, Yes, it's a good "Oh shit!" moment, but it doesn't make things interesting at all if you just hand it out to us without any merit. I want the characters to actually figure it out themselves and have them reveal it to us. The reveal of the final mafia was so obvious to me because it's always gonna be the one that's closest to you, like the saying "The most dangerous place is the Safest place" so all this time I was just waiting when she's gonna come out, but I would like to be proven wrong because clearly she and FL had a good bond, but nope! and again they revealed her plot twist through a backstory first before she could even say it herself... The only time they did it right was probably when the Police decided to reveal itself in front of everyone. That's when I was genuinely shocked by the twist.

The characters here have no characterization, just some generic stereotypes that have no depth to them at all. The acting is super great. All the actors did very well, I'll give them that, but their characters are so empty that I couldn't get attached to any of them. I was genuinely surprised that for a Death Game show there's no "The Smart One" archetype. FL has that potential because she's perceptive. They could've used her for that and then made her grow to be that archetype, but they didn't. ML also has that potential since he's observative, so he and FL could've been a great combination, but they didn't, so it's just a waste of potential characters that could've made them stand out in the show. Instead, they were busy being annoying. The couple clearly has a strong presence within the characters, but I don't know why they're not taking advantage of it. ML is a risk taker also, so I don't know why he stopped taking risks after being blamed as the mafia for the first 2 and just wimps around.

It's a shame how this drama did turn out because I really liked the Concept and Idea of everything, but it just wasn't executed properly. To be fair, It was so engaging that it made me want to finish it still till the end.

Overall, good concept and idea, but it just wasn't executed properly. It had a big potential, but they just wasted it. I don't recommend it and won't be rewatching it for sure.

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Could have been extremely good if the ending was not so messed up and weird

Side note before I dive in : I've started watching it since the day it was first aired so as to say : December 4th,2023

So until the very last episode EVERYTHING was extraordinary good, even if they were little things that were off-logical yet you could really overlook it, it's insignificant !
Then came that damn episode in which everything was messed up, done weirdly, it went from a ghost thing to a very weird Aib (Alice in borderland) remake with crazy parents. Then I beared everything through the whole episode hoping (not really) it woud turn out good but no, they even messed it up deeper lmao. Writers really lost it at that point T-T. Then I went to hoping the series would end up there but no ! Writers really like to torture us to the point the ending was hinting at a season 2. I hope they won't be one because apart of remaking the same thing with this time that always whimpering, annoying FL who in her (really bad)way will try to make her classmates know abt what she knows abt the game and will obviously try to fight back the crazy parents I don't see what could happen. I seriously feel like it would be a never ending circle.
I'm now done tackling the story and that last episode that plummetted my rate and even now as I'm writing this review I don't know how to rate it but I think if I end up giving it a 1, understand that it's because this ending is the worst you could ever have seen in the cinema industry. I don't get why people are rating it so high. Plus the way Viki fooled us and never mentionned it was some kind of science-fiction/ fantastic (yet not really )series...


CHARACTERS


The cast is INCREDIBLE ! Especially gyeong jun's actor. I love him sm, even more after this new series of him. He is very talented. He went from that cute and bubbly character in "Tasty Florida" to that psycho bully in "night has come". Btw I'm still waiting for an explanation on why he was crying alone after he litteraly killed a character lmfao. Then Jeong won really absolutely gained my heart at the end, I kinda shipped her with FL tbh. Then ML, I liked him at the beggining he was just incredible in all aspects. But after, he started to just be mean or would see things and promise to help and end up doing nothing or just ignore the bad things happening in front of him and move on like-. Plus he only cares abt FL.

Let's move on our dear bestie, aka FL. I really loved the idea of having a badass female but this one directly to the bin ! Like first she would be whimpering everytime, going to dark and remote places alone, keeps hints for her and when the timing would be absolutely good to set herself up (accidentaly yet in the dumbest way) she would judge it good to tell the others abt those hints she has found. Also she would be acting as a detective taking photos but sis. What's the point when you don't even use those photos you've taken or those clues you've collected ??? Da Beom is the perfect epitome of "don't trust people by looks" lmao. Then the bullying plot abt se-eun at the end is very weird since litteraly EVERYONE could tell it was fake but here it is...

Now let's move another topic : The music ! I don't really remember the OST since it was basically just theme musics but it was well put and in the good situations. Shout out to the writers for using the purge alarm tho. I really appreciated as a fan of the American Nightmare series <3.

To conclude, I would not recommend you to watch it unless you stop at the episode before the last one and leave it there eventhough you would feel like you miss something to end it.

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Potential...

I started this because it looked interesting and I like this type of genre... I was a bit worried though considering many people said it was bad... I didn't really understand why until I got to episode 12... Everything would've gone perfectly I'm not sure why that would be the ending, any other ending would be better than the one that ended up happening. I would've recommended this drama but I really think it started feeling all over the place like the writers were putting whatever into this Drama. I think the acting and casting were done perfectly though, if I have to compliment one thing it'd be that. The acting is very good, the best thing in this entire drama. I think the storyline in the beginning, was perfect, everything about it was my style, I really enjoy this type of genre. I think this had a lot of potential but the weird ending kind of ruined it for me... If you like this type of movie/drama I don't think it's a waste to watch it since it really wasn't bad until the ending.

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I want my time back

The story started off good, with a lot of mystery and confusion which was the main reason I decided to finish the whole show. I saw the good rating and was fooled. What a bad decision it was to finish the entire show...everyone was just being dumb and blaming each other for stupid stuff...Also female lead is just there talking bullsh*t, saying stuff like don't kill! Blah blah like they're mafia and wanna live...they don't have a choice. Both leads also don't do anything throughout the entire show besides watch stuff go down. Also, a lot of things weren't really cleared up and just went with it.

Spoilers ahead**
When they found out the best friend was the mafia, why tf did they start yelling at her, blaming her, and telling her pls don't kill anyone? She wants to live. Nothing wrong with that and she literally protected her friends by not killing them and turning on the other mafia. Also, the ending "plot twist" was garbage. Wtf is that random plot twist. Parents want revenge so they decide to put all of them in a never-ending game, including the daughter's best friend.

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