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A reminder of how scary humans can be
I had this drama on my plan to watch but didn’t get to it until I needed to play something whilst I was working. It wasn’t until episode 5 that it really got me interested.
When we start the story, we see two narratives in play: one of Lawyer Baek and Yoon Soo. We start to wonder which one is the truth? Is it that of the lawyer saying she killed her husband or Yoonsoo's narrative that someone masked killed him.
Frankly, I believed that this would be your typical story of the main female protagonist who gets abused and kills her husband, then finds a way to dodge jail, but I was wrong .
This drama also tells us how strong of a story the so-called lawyers and police officers can tell the public and how easily we, the public, are swayed by such words of confirmation from authorities that plan to run with a side of one story that seems the most likely.
It once again shows how weak and easy the justice system is, how many people have been wrongly accused by such “authorities”, how once again this so-called justice of the system fails many people more than it can save and serve the justice that it is intended for.
At first, I kinda believed that Yoon Soo did kill her husband. Then comes out the 2nd key player, Moeun
I don’t remember if she mentioned specifically why she helped Yoon Soo and why she did that, but I really thought she might have been the main villain of this story in the beginning.
Later, we find out that the family she killed was the family of the son who abused her little sister and made her jump.
As the ball of yarn starts to unravel itself by the final episodes, I can’t help but feel it started to get rather overwhelming because of the characters introduced, which caused the final revelation to be rather underwhelming, which a lot of shows, whether western or Asian suffer from (some example are why she chose to film herself and go on livestream and the grandpa being rather random).
The acting from Jeon Do-yeon and Kim Go-eun did not disappoint at all
I saw some comments saying how the killer's motive wasn’t a motive at all, and I very much disagree because, as much as this is fiction, this part does happen in reality.If you have ever seen any true crime stories or cases, you would be very shocked to hear how many of the killers' motives were rather petty.
I’ve heard some stories from social media in the news, such as a South Korean man sexually assaulting a random woman simply because he didn’t like how she looked at him- crazy, right? People just don’t realize how scary we as a human kind can be and how just small words and the simplest stuff can be such a trigger to many people, and they resort to violence. Such as the wife snapping and killing Yoon Soo's husband simply because Yoon Soo's husband told a lie, and the wife’s husband had to suffer at work due to his boss believing Yoon Soo's husband.
Many people don’t realize just how scary pent-up emotions, especially frustration and negative emotions and how that can be a ticking time bomb.
So I would just say a killer can have a very petty and emotional reason to kill someone over the simplest thing, as well as we also suffer from mental problems, which can be a very big deciding factor on how the person will act in that moment without realizing it.
Overall, it wasn’t bad; it was rather interesting, but the 2nd half does fall short like many kdramas nowadays. The acting from the main female leads was great and it’s a rather slow story that picks up eventually.
With the amount of dramas I’ve watched within like last year, such as Law and the City, Speed and Love, Typhoon Family and this, Thailand is really getting its spotlight lol it’s so popular.
When we start the story, we see two narratives in play: one of Lawyer Baek and Yoon Soo. We start to wonder which one is the truth? Is it that of the lawyer saying she killed her husband or Yoonsoo's narrative that someone masked killed him.
Frankly, I believed that this would be your typical story of the main female protagonist who gets abused and kills her husband, then finds a way to dodge jail, but I was wrong .
This drama also tells us how strong of a story the so-called lawyers and police officers can tell the public and how easily we, the public, are swayed by such words of confirmation from authorities that plan to run with a side of one story that seems the most likely.
It once again shows how weak and easy the justice system is, how many people have been wrongly accused by such “authorities”, how once again this so-called justice of the system fails many people more than it can save and serve the justice that it is intended for.
At first, I kinda believed that Yoon Soo did kill her husband. Then comes out the 2nd key player, Moeun
I don’t remember if she mentioned specifically why she helped Yoon Soo and why she did that, but I really thought she might have been the main villain of this story in the beginning.
Later, we find out that the family she killed was the family of the son who abused her little sister and made her jump.
As the ball of yarn starts to unravel itself by the final episodes, I can’t help but feel it started to get rather overwhelming because of the characters introduced, which caused the final revelation to be rather underwhelming, which a lot of shows, whether western or Asian suffer from (some example are why she chose to film herself and go on livestream and the grandpa being rather random).
The acting from Jeon Do-yeon and Kim Go-eun did not disappoint at all
I saw some comments saying how the killer's motive wasn’t a motive at all, and I very much disagree because, as much as this is fiction, this part does happen in reality.If you have ever seen any true crime stories or cases, you would be very shocked to hear how many of the killers' motives were rather petty.
I’ve heard some stories from social media in the news, such as a South Korean man sexually assaulting a random woman simply because he didn’t like how she looked at him- crazy, right? People just don’t realize how scary we as a human kind can be and how just small words and the simplest stuff can be such a trigger to many people, and they resort to violence. Such as the wife snapping and killing Yoon Soo's husband simply because Yoon Soo's husband told a lie, and the wife’s husband had to suffer at work due to his boss believing Yoon Soo's husband.
Many people don’t realize just how scary pent-up emotions, especially frustration and negative emotions and how that can be a ticking time bomb.
So I would just say a killer can have a very petty and emotional reason to kill someone over the simplest thing, as well as we also suffer from mental problems, which can be a very big deciding factor on how the person will act in that moment without realizing it.
Overall, it wasn’t bad; it was rather interesting, but the 2nd half does fall short like many kdramas nowadays. The acting from the main female leads was great and it’s a rather slow story that picks up eventually.
With the amount of dramas I’ve watched within like last year, such as Law and the City, Speed and Love, Typhoon Family and this, Thailand is really getting its spotlight lol it’s so popular.
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