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kobeno1
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Extremely Promising Series Utterly Destroyed in the Last Two Episodes!
I'm not sure if there is anything worse in television shows where you invest time in a series that is going really great for you, and then it collapses like a house of cards at the very end.
When you destroy the ending of a series, it destroys the series itself, regardless of how good things were before. That is just a fact. The only reason my original score of "9" didn't go down to "1" is because the performances and literally 11 of the 13 episodes were really good. The last two episodes were so bad that I nearly gave up the series on the spot.
Two people suffering from mental issues end up living next door to each other. Min-Kyung is suffering from extremely low self-esteem and is the victim of abuse. It's also very clear that she does not like herself. Hwi-Oh is a cop on suspension who is trying to deal with anger management issues. The premise is quite good, setting up some very humorous scenarios between the two.
However, as I stated above, the last two episodes are costly to the series, as if the writers piece-mealed everything together to make a horrific picture.
First, Hwi-Oh is not a very good cop or even a realistic one. He allows Min-Kyung to go into an abandoned building by herself. He also doesn't find it remotely suspicious that the abandoned building is occupied.
Min-Kyung swaps from loving Hwi-Oh to helping him to abandoning him, to loving him, to moving away within the span of two episodes. Of course, this doesn't even serve as a red flag to any sane person that this is a person to stay as far away from as possible. Not to mention the "no explanation" of the capture of Min-Kyung's abusive boyfriend at the very end. It would have been more credible to have a fairy appear out of thin air and scream, "That's him!" instead. It was also laughable to see Hwi-Oh chasing after Min-Kyung not once, but TWICE! And, of course, Min-Kyung changes her mind more rapidly and suddenly than a jackrabbit on a hot date! By all intensive purposes, even after the series ended, one has to wonder if she'd already changed her mind about Hwi-Oh...again!
The car chase scene was beyond absurd as Hwi-Oh rolls down his window and tells the ex-boyfriend to pull over with an unconscious Min-Kyung in the passenger seat. Again, not a very bright cop. Especially when he jumps on the hood of the car. When did this become like a bad 70s/80s action flick?!
We also have a crime plot that miraculously resolves itself in the span of about five minutes!
Also, one of the silliest things I have ever seen was Min-Kyung's reaction to Hwi-Oh beating up her sadistic ex-boyfriend as well as the fact that as a cop, the officer interrogating Hwi-Oh at the station could have easily looked into the ex-boyfriend's record. Never mind that Hwi-Oh doesn't even bother to suggest this or offer up any kind of a defense, which was beyond ludicrous!
Like poor, amateur writer, they make sure everything is all nice and tidy at the very end, regardless of how implausible it was.
We also have a side-story of a covenience store clerk and a cross-dresser that serve absolutely no relevance to the story at all. They literally add nothing.
In short, what started out as a well written series, quickly turned into a convoluted hot mess in the space of its last two episodes. Traffic accidents have taken longer than that to develop!
When you destroy the ending of a series, it destroys the series itself, regardless of how good things were before. That is just a fact. The only reason my original score of "9" didn't go down to "1" is because the performances and literally 11 of the 13 episodes were really good. The last two episodes were so bad that I nearly gave up the series on the spot.
Two people suffering from mental issues end up living next door to each other. Min-Kyung is suffering from extremely low self-esteem and is the victim of abuse. It's also very clear that she does not like herself. Hwi-Oh is a cop on suspension who is trying to deal with anger management issues. The premise is quite good, setting up some very humorous scenarios between the two.
However, as I stated above, the last two episodes are costly to the series, as if the writers piece-mealed everything together to make a horrific picture.
First, Hwi-Oh is not a very good cop or even a realistic one. He allows Min-Kyung to go into an abandoned building by herself. He also doesn't find it remotely suspicious that the abandoned building is occupied.
Min-Kyung swaps from loving Hwi-Oh to helping him to abandoning him, to loving him, to moving away within the span of two episodes. Of course, this doesn't even serve as a red flag to any sane person that this is a person to stay as far away from as possible. Not to mention the "no explanation" of the capture of Min-Kyung's abusive boyfriend at the very end. It would have been more credible to have a fairy appear out of thin air and scream, "That's him!" instead. It was also laughable to see Hwi-Oh chasing after Min-Kyung not once, but TWICE! And, of course, Min-Kyung changes her mind more rapidly and suddenly than a jackrabbit on a hot date! By all intensive purposes, even after the series ended, one has to wonder if she'd already changed her mind about Hwi-Oh...again!
The car chase scene was beyond absurd as Hwi-Oh rolls down his window and tells the ex-boyfriend to pull over with an unconscious Min-Kyung in the passenger seat. Again, not a very bright cop. Especially when he jumps on the hood of the car. When did this become like a bad 70s/80s action flick?!
We also have a crime plot that miraculously resolves itself in the span of about five minutes!
Also, one of the silliest things I have ever seen was Min-Kyung's reaction to Hwi-Oh beating up her sadistic ex-boyfriend as well as the fact that as a cop, the officer interrogating Hwi-Oh at the station could have easily looked into the ex-boyfriend's record. Never mind that Hwi-Oh doesn't even bother to suggest this or offer up any kind of a defense, which was beyond ludicrous!
Like poor, amateur writer, they make sure everything is all nice and tidy at the very end, regardless of how implausible it was.
We also have a side-story of a covenience store clerk and a cross-dresser that serve absolutely no relevance to the story at all. They literally add nothing.
In short, what started out as a well written series, quickly turned into a convoluted hot mess in the space of its last two episodes. Traffic accidents have taken longer than that to develop!
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