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Hellbound korean drama review
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Hellbound
2 people found this review helpful
by Dani
Nov 19, 2021
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 7.0
This review may contain spoilers

Main theme is good but expected more

Well…I dont exactly know how to feel about this one. For me the main theme was interesting, I liked how they talked about religious fanaticism, how people use religion to manipulate others and how they misrepresent religion to justify their actions. The whole thing about right or wrong judgment was also interesting. The acting was also good and I was only bothered by that crazy streamer, because despite thinking that the character is bad on purpose, I still found him quite irritating in the first episodes. I may have a unpopular opinion about this but the visual effects didn’t bothered me here and actually I found it fine because I’ve seen worse.

But then what stopped me from loving Hellbound? Well, the main theme it is interesting but the last episode was a little too forced for me and they ended season one with NO EXPLANATION of anything. I know it’s probably because they wanted to do a S2 but seemed like everything happened and nothing happened at the same time because we ended understanding nothing about how these things are happening, especially about the things that happened in last episode. They just set the whole season on religious fanaticism and that's it.

The other thing that upset me a lot is that Yoo Ah In dies in episode 3, which left me with an uncertain feeling because for me his character was pretty interesting (actually the only one for me besides the female lead). Maybe he'll come back later in the story if they decide to do a 2nd season, but I think that the character's death so early in the story ended up leaving those who waited so long to see him the drama with a feeling of disappointment.

So yeah. I don’t think that drama was bad, I actually found entertaining but I definitely expected more. For now I think we’ll have to wait for season 2.
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