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Hometown korean drama review
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Hometown
2 people found this review helpful
by Chuuya
Nov 24, 2023
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 9.5
Rewatch Value 1.0

Humans are the most fearful beings.

Humans are the most fearful beings.

It's not easy to complete this series without feeling queasy, anxious and angry all at once.

It’s worth watching, but frankly speaking, is just overall, above average.

Its strong point is the tension built and maintained through misdirection and the manipulation of the twists, keeping the viewer guessing, uncertain about what's actually going on and where the story is headed.

The drama is often very slow and has an unnecessary, and overcomplicated (you need to rearrange the whole timeline on your own for a deeper understanding of the current events) storytelling.

However, the fun of this drama is not in figuring anything out, but in watching it unfold in its absolutely messy pacing; one of those white-knuckle, edge of your seat watch, where the story is broken up between the past and the present, as the time between those periods narrows, bringing them together.

Although its content is crawling with extremely twisted and bizarre insinuations, this story isn't the least bit graphic in what it reveals. It displays more mind-control and fear than anything else.

The sickening element is certainly present, but applied with a gentle hand and refrains from growing too dark or heavy.

It has a decent closure, but not the grand finale I, personally, expected it to have, specially considering the grand scheme of things.

I really enjoyed the series until the end, although it did have many flaws and plot holes, more so in the last episodes.

The music scores fit perfectly, and the acting was absolutely stellar.
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