No matter how good the acting can be, the overall story and plot can really make it look worse than it is. I love Park Bo Young, I'm a huge fan of her work and have generally loved all of the stuff she's been in. Werewolf Boy, Oh My Goddess, Scandal Makers to a name a few, I think her as an actress has a special air of charisma about her and that's why I like her so much. Ahn Hyo Seop also does a great job in this and I heavily believe that the acting is the only thing good about this show. But unfortunately, I'm a firm believer of "the acting is only as good as the story" and that part is where this entire show falls apart.. and it really didn't take long to show the worst part.

This show has tons of promise and has a great premise to capture viewer's attention. A mystical alien orb that right off the bat revives the main character and his love interest! Not only that, but also revives the main antagonist! This happened ALL IN ONE EPISODE. So it's no wonder I got instantly hooked by this show! I'm now on episode 7 but I'm already growing tired of the plot. The abyss' power is already being abused non-stop, elements of the shows or sequences don't make sense or aren't powerful enough to push my interest further.

Why should I care that Oh Yeong cheol tries to kill the same person 3 times? Why should I care that the characters don't seem interested in the Abyss' power more? Why should I care that almost everything each character does is almost inconsequential? Cha Min's big reveal happens early on but his family just completely accepts it within a couple of scenes. It's bizarre! Why should I care about Cha Min's creepy character depicted in the flashbacks that all of a sudden turned gorgeous that somehow resulted in his demeanor and attitude doing a 180? He's no longer a stalker and no longer does creepy things toward his love interest further driving home the idea to its audience that ugly people are creepy and beautiful people are perfect.

There are a plethora of issues that leave me disappointed and hard-pressed to continue watching this and the only reason I've continued thus far is because of Bo Young's amazing acting ability, though even with her ability, I don't think I can finish Abyss. The biggest losers in this show are the actors/actresses, I think they've done a good job all things considered, but their performance is heavily hampered most likely by the director and the script.

Trust me, I wanted to love this show as I've been waiting for it ever since it was announced Bo Young was going to star in it.. but this gets an abysmal 4/10.

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One of the most enjoyable first half of a K-drama that I've watched in recent times. I really like the premise that was built up and how the bad guy was being built up as well. By the 6th-7th episode, I started to worry about whether the pacing would be poor and unfortunately it does. Possessed suffers from the same problem as it does a majority of other K-Dramas out there. It really feels like these studios that pump out K-Dramas bring out a script and secure a fixed number of episodes first and then try to throw as much filler in there. It's exactly why I always feel like the first half of the drama is around an 8/10 then falls off to almost like a 3/10 drama by the end of it.

The characters kept me interested, but I was starting to get worn out even before some of the big events happened. Even the dynamic between the two main characters started to wear me out and the big showdown? I couldn't care less. I don't even know what to say about the ending. I felt somewhat invested in the two main characters and I feel like the show was trying to instill hopelessness and dread into the viewer which they definitely did, but my hopelessness and dread wasn't towards the character's situation, it was about the show itself. The entire second half the main characters were basically debbie downers that I felt like couldn't think of any alternate solutions and went through depression after episode 8. Was I supposed to feel some sort of respite and feel for the characters when they went to the island? I'm so bummed that this show went to extremely interesting to just straight garbage. I hate this formulaic bullshit that k-dramas always do.

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