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dead lilies
Sapporo, Hokkaido
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Boring, annoying, messed up.
This started off strong. Then it devolved into a mentally torturous and exhausting watch. I've not seen such a terrible crime-thriller in a while. I lost interest by the 5th episode, but seeing that the total is only 13, I decided to just finish the whole run.
The main female character, the detective in charge of the case is highly unlikable. When she initiates a convo with her husband, she speaks as if she's rattling off from a textbook. Many times she speaks as if she's a dictating a grocery list. Her husband isn't any better. She suspects her husband is having an affair, and he insists he hasn't done anything to betray her trust, yet he refuses to be entirely honest with her. He doesn't do a single thing to dispel those suspicions entirely. They're the worst people for each other and unironically, they're also the best people for each other because they're both frustrating and horrible people. I don't know what kind of person their kid will grow up to be, but it already looks like their toxicity is already starting to affect the poor young child.
The victim of the crime is a young woman who's been trying to earn higher wages in a bigger city but was killed. The series takes the watcher through the investigations and interviews of various suspects and related parties. Somehow none of these people could even give an honest testimony about her or the transpired events. None. The writers attempt to present the main female character as a highly logical person, yet her actions are anything but. She brought her emotions and the suspicions of her husband's infidelity into all her interviews with persons of interest in the case, all her questions were crafted pointedly to elicit opinions from these people, it feels as though she was trying to solve her personal marital issues through the case rather than to solve the case for the sake of the case itself.
If psychiatric analysis is of any use as an accurate indicator of mental soundness, then either we have all been misled or the psychiatrists in the drama have failed spectacularly at their jobs. Or - third option - the scriptwriting is just awful. Both husband and wife intentionally or otherwise, emotionally manipulate the other, and yet each time, the psychiatrist making the diagnosis clears the wife of mental instability. I also wonder why the husband never divulged the information to the psychiatrist that the wife had used suicide and self-harm to threaten him. I simply don't understand how that kind of action doesn't qualify as an underlying mental condition worthy of being addressed.
I don't really know how else to describe the feeling this drama gives me. The closest thing I can think of is that this was like a bunch of hair knotted together and I was supposed to find something appealing, something philosophically "true" in this gross, convoluted mess. I wish I had watched something else instead, but I ended up letting the rest of the episodes - that's 7 or 8 hours of my life run in the background through this ipad while I cleaned my house.
The main female character, the detective in charge of the case is highly unlikable. When she initiates a convo with her husband, she speaks as if she's rattling off from a textbook. Many times she speaks as if she's a dictating a grocery list. Her husband isn't any better. She suspects her husband is having an affair, and he insists he hasn't done anything to betray her trust, yet he refuses to be entirely honest with her. He doesn't do a single thing to dispel those suspicions entirely. They're the worst people for each other and unironically, they're also the best people for each other because they're both frustrating and horrible people. I don't know what kind of person their kid will grow up to be, but it already looks like their toxicity is already starting to affect the poor young child.
The victim of the crime is a young woman who's been trying to earn higher wages in a bigger city but was killed. The series takes the watcher through the investigations and interviews of various suspects and related parties. Somehow none of these people could even give an honest testimony about her or the transpired events. None. The writers attempt to present the main female character as a highly logical person, yet her actions are anything but. She brought her emotions and the suspicions of her husband's infidelity into all her interviews with persons of interest in the case, all her questions were crafted pointedly to elicit opinions from these people, it feels as though she was trying to solve her personal marital issues through the case rather than to solve the case for the sake of the case itself.
If psychiatric analysis is of any use as an accurate indicator of mental soundness, then either we have all been misled or the psychiatrists in the drama have failed spectacularly at their jobs. Or - third option - the scriptwriting is just awful. Both husband and wife intentionally or otherwise, emotionally manipulate the other, and yet each time, the psychiatrist making the diagnosis clears the wife of mental instability. I also wonder why the husband never divulged the information to the psychiatrist that the wife had used suicide and self-harm to threaten him. I simply don't understand how that kind of action doesn't qualify as an underlying mental condition worthy of being addressed.
I don't really know how else to describe the feeling this drama gives me. The closest thing I can think of is that this was like a bunch of hair knotted together and I was supposed to find something appealing, something philosophically "true" in this gross, convoluted mess. I wish I had watched something else instead, but I ended up letting the rest of the episodes - that's 7 or 8 hours of my life run in the background through this ipad while I cleaned my house.
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