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Disappointing the story that could have been
This is a 2018 South Korean television mystery, horror romantic drama with 32, 30 minute, episodes.
Lee Da-il (Choi Daniel) has a detective agency where he helps to solve cases that the police are not thoroughly investigating. Private detectives are neither respected nor recognized by law enforcement which is why Da-il has to approach situations solo. After observing his success with a kidnap case, Jung Yeo-wool (Park Eun-bin) decides to get close to Da-il by serving as his assistant in the hopes he will help solve her younger sibling's bizarre death. A mysterious woman in red, Sunwoo Hye (Lee Ji-ah) appears at the crime scenes and seems to be involved in the victim’s deaths.
Spoiler ? I literally thought the male lead would be a detective who went after ghosts. As it turns out he is a detective who is a ghost and winds up needing Yeo-wool as he does not have physical ability to even open a door knob. The lady in red trashes him every time he comes around her. Yeo-wool develops feelings for the ghostly detective early and it is hard to understand as although he is nice not a lot is going on that would make her have loving feelings for him so that seemed too early and too much.
If you can get past the first quarter of the show it actually gets really interesting. The lady in red makes Damien from the Omen movies look fairly nice. You quickly start to wonder how anyone is going to be able to stop her. As you watch her creepy smile and hear the way she gets inside people’s heads to unlock their deepest fears about themselves the fear all of the characters have for her is completely legitimized. The relationship between the leads makes more sense and Da-Il becomes more of a force to reckon with.
So the middle was great but the ending was not. It is one of those where the leads can never fully be together. He was a ghost through the majority of the movie and then they found out that he was actually alive and a living spirit but you wondered if the serial killer was going to kill his body. They got through all of that found him, got him in the hospital in
and you’re thinking yeah he’s not doing so good sort of in a coma has some brain bleed but something miraculous will happen they’ll find a way to get rid of the ghost and he will return to his body. That is not what happens. In order to get rid of the ghost, or rather evil spirit, they had to trap it in someone’s body and then that person had to die. So guess who that was. So after doing the final heroic deed and getting unplugged from life support, Da-il is spotted by Yeo-wool and you think maybe he came to after he was off life support and none of his frienspds knew. Nope. He makes an appearance again as a ghost and she’s just like well just stay around until I feel like I can be without you. Then they all start doing this Ghostbusters thing and that just seems like the way it’s going to be. But then you’re like wait a minute the only way they could get rid of the one evil spirit was for someone to trap it in their body and then die. So are they just gonna find people that are on the verge of death who will invite the ghost Or evil spirit in so they can trap it and die? Or did they suddenly find a way to get rid of them other than that? So it was a weird ending that was really unsatisfying. I might forgive the slow beginning because the middle was so good but the ending of it brought the rank right back down for me. It’s worth watching if you like Supernatural just because she’s a really, really evil spirit. So it’s a good supernatural for the genre. But in terms of romance it lags because it really isn’t a happily ever after.
Lee Da-il (Choi Daniel) has a detective agency where he helps to solve cases that the police are not thoroughly investigating. Private detectives are neither respected nor recognized by law enforcement which is why Da-il has to approach situations solo. After observing his success with a kidnap case, Jung Yeo-wool (Park Eun-bin) decides to get close to Da-il by serving as his assistant in the hopes he will help solve her younger sibling's bizarre death. A mysterious woman in red, Sunwoo Hye (Lee Ji-ah) appears at the crime scenes and seems to be involved in the victim’s deaths.
Spoiler ? I literally thought the male lead would be a detective who went after ghosts. As it turns out he is a detective who is a ghost and winds up needing Yeo-wool as he does not have physical ability to even open a door knob. The lady in red trashes him every time he comes around her. Yeo-wool develops feelings for the ghostly detective early and it is hard to understand as although he is nice not a lot is going on that would make her have loving feelings for him so that seemed too early and too much.
If you can get past the first quarter of the show it actually gets really interesting. The lady in red makes Damien from the Omen movies look fairly nice. You quickly start to wonder how anyone is going to be able to stop her. As you watch her creepy smile and hear the way she gets inside people’s heads to unlock their deepest fears about themselves the fear all of the characters have for her is completely legitimized. The relationship between the leads makes more sense and Da-Il becomes more of a force to reckon with.
So the middle was great but the ending was not. It is one of those where the leads can never fully be together. He was a ghost through the majority of the movie and then they found out that he was actually alive and a living spirit but you wondered if the serial killer was going to kill his body. They got through all of that found him, got him in the hospital in
and you’re thinking yeah he’s not doing so good sort of in a coma has some brain bleed but something miraculous will happen they’ll find a way to get rid of the ghost and he will return to his body. That is not what happens. In order to get rid of the ghost, or rather evil spirit, they had to trap it in someone’s body and then that person had to die. So guess who that was. So after doing the final heroic deed and getting unplugged from life support, Da-il is spotted by Yeo-wool and you think maybe he came to after he was off life support and none of his frienspds knew. Nope. He makes an appearance again as a ghost and she’s just like well just stay around until I feel like I can be without you. Then they all start doing this Ghostbusters thing and that just seems like the way it’s going to be. But then you’re like wait a minute the only way they could get rid of the one evil spirit was for someone to trap it in their body and then die. So are they just gonna find people that are on the verge of death who will invite the ghost Or evil spirit in so they can trap it and die? Or did they suddenly find a way to get rid of them other than that? So it was a weird ending that was really unsatisfying. I might forgive the slow beginning because the middle was so good but the ending of it brought the rank right back down for me. It’s worth watching if you like Supernatural just because she’s a really, really evil spirit. So it’s a good supernatural for the genre. But in terms of romance it lags because it really isn’t a happily ever after.
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