This review is so generic and non specific legit nothing in it specifically talks about this show. It's written like copy pasta that you could apply to any drama and no one would notice.
It also has elongated dash — used by AI and written like AI. So it's just generated text sampled from generic nothing burger reviews.
Also why does site allows reviews on 1 day old accounts..
Who's the murderer is actually the remake of the korean show, crime scene. Crime scene has 5 season, S1, S2, S3,…
Why would you call a prequel of established 5 season Korean show a remake just because they format licensed original show for ease or money reasons. Is this prequel under same licencing or breakaway and has it's own licencing with adjustments to avoid licencing fees?
You referenced web article of original show which does not operate under same licencing format since this is registered as seperate media.
Anyway none of that is important because my point was mostly targeted at one sentence synopsis of this show which original poster referenced. That is the most basic generic synopsis that could be used to describe any show of such genre with no unique characteristics pointing to anything.
Who's the murderer is actually the remake of the korean show, crime scene. Crime scene has 5 season, S1, S2, S3,…
Lol mystery solving murder game is very old game GENRE that these shows inspire from. Saying this is remake of something based on synopsis is ridiculous 🤣
Government control and media manipulation is only going to increase with less options to actual objectivity. Irony…
I would like to point out that I did not watch this show yet so I don't know if you are referencing that.
If so then I don't know how this is considered western media considering it's written by Korean screenwriter and produced in Korea with licencing being sold to western streaming. I must say I saw bad representations of other cultures in Korean shows many times.
In many western media adaptation and discourse around this wasn't in favour of soldiers and they represented many bad deeds while others didn't but not all did those things. Also I hate when USA = every western country opinion but in this case even USA produced media representing bad things that happened tho it was not majority shared opinion and decent public discourse was condemning soldiers who did those things.
Anyway as I said representation in media varies in every culture. Some themes representation is highly biased but it varies based on country agenda. There are good and bad representation in every corner.
We live in gray world, it's not all black and white. Truth is usually somewhere in the middle and every country has their skeletons. Both sides had bad actors and innocent paid.
Why are people hating on gm its not even a whole drama even in America people in their mid thirties play highschoolers…
In both industries it's weird that they do that and fairly common.
It's mostly due to Legal and Labor Constraints due to themes or recording restrictions and accommodations that come with having child actors or actual teenagers under 18.
They could cast someone at 18 tho but usually they don't bother due to marketability and because older actors typically bring more acting training, reliability, and emotional range than actual teenagers who are constrained by labor law daily hours.
Despite all that in European productions, where I work, its a bit different and very focused on authentic castings where in Hollywood and kdrama world you cast mostly based on star power, looks (good visuals not authentically fitting looks), and so on. In Europe we would never cast 30 year old to play as teenagers unless its a joke movie with meta commentary.
Since production in Europe are more independent and you usually don't face these issues that come with making production with limitations of using specific star powers and look at best margins and marketability of established actors. In most cases these kdramas are just pumped out and forgotten, so they are not passion projects where directors would care to fight for authenticity. They just go to work and do their minimal job and move on to next project.
TLDR: this movie needs established oppa so its marketable for majority female audience otherwise almost no one would watch and looks like they couldn't find someone else available in 20s that would cost less and/or pull more audience.
Just by Season 2 and 3 existing is basically proving season 1 critique on world.
S2 and S3 is just Netflix throwing money at product that got viral and creator gladly took it for big payout with rushed unplanned writting and no proper idea for execution.
swastika is an ancient symbol over 15000 years used in various cultures, particularly in Hinduism, Buddhism, and…
It would definitely be better to avoid putting in that shape but it's still common shape in formations.
I don't think these shows were intended for western market or have sensitivity check marks to filter content tested on audience. They are kinda lax with rules and some stuff seem very gray and wouldn't pass safety check here in EU to get approved to shoot by production. I was more surprised by the way some other things were done not so much by swastika.
I live in Europe where they have harshest restrictions about usage of those symbols and even in most restricted country like let's say Austria, this symbol in such setting would not be banned and be allowed to broadcast. BUT they would probably avoid putting in in the first place due to audience perception. Outside of that it's mostly only tolerated for religious use.
However, it can be used in media for educational, artistic, or historical purposes, particularly in countries like Germany where recent rulings allow its use in video games if done for historical accuracy.
I don't think people who made this have awareness or resources to test for anything that may offend someone and even if it offended someone it's minority they can afford since focus group is Korea and profit is basically huge majority domestic. It is also not used in contexts that promote Nazism or hate and theme of show is completely irrelevant to such thematics.
Tho it is surprising someone who designed that game doesn't have enough self awareness to not do that. Despite being Korea it's still common knowledge there that it can be tied to Nazi and someone who works in media its surprising they would miss that one. I understand usage of symbol when actually needed but here it could be avoided even if technically they didn't need to avoid it.
In ep.10, during the elimination match, I thought it was kind of odd that they had a swastika as part of the first…
swastika is an ancient symbol over 15000 years used in various cultures, particularly in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, where it represents well-being and good fortune. Symbol was beloved and is still used in many temples, artworks, books and so on. And it recorded some presence all over various cultures and religions including Christian and Jewish even Aztek, Celts and so on basically its present everywhere.
It was adopted by nazi party and used only for 25 years. So they basically ruined ancient symbol by adopting it and doing atrocities.
Swastika used outside of nazi context is not a bad symbol and in Korea you will see swastika on many buildings. Problem is symbol has long history of being used for good everywhere but got turned into a symbol associated with hate and genocide during Nazi regime and ruined long lasting good symbol in recent history.
Hitler's design featured a black swastika rotated 45 degrees, set against a white circle on a red background so that is Nazi party variation. Seeing it outside of that combination in completely different context it's best to assume it wasn't intentional due to it being common symbol.
I felt bad for yurisa that everyone thought shes spy and stuff in the start. Well she's really good at acting…
I assume she is doing weird stuff to make her more interesting and memorable for viewers so she boosts her career.
She is always acting behaving weird for attention. People being weirded out by her and suspicious is valid and she sometimes behave straight up with sociopathic tendencies and emotionally unaware.
Also she was a spy and even if she isn't having member who makes basically sabotage, does nothing to help and then on top of that does weird things for no reason that makes you think they are spy are basically member that hurts your chances.
While she is entraining to watch she was not a good team player until she was forced to evolve because she got called out and did it for survival imo. Her social skills are awful lol 🤣 I wouldn't feel bad for her crocodile tears and she could care less as expressed by herself.
It also has elongated dash — used by AI and written like AI. So it's just generated text sampled from generic nothing burger reviews.
Also why does site allows reviews on 1 day old accounts..
Anyway, report :)
If you read my initial reply and initial comment of the person in this thread they talk about synopsis.
I basically mostly joked about not being able to get that from such generic synopsis.
You referenced web article of original show which does not operate under same licencing format since this is registered as seperate media.
Anyway none of that is important because my point was mostly targeted at one sentence synopsis of this show which original poster referenced. That is the most basic generic synopsis that could be used to describe any show of such genre with no unique characteristics pointing to anything.
Again I was talking about synopsis.
It's all variations of whodunit game.
If so then I don't know how this is considered western media considering it's written by Korean screenwriter and produced in Korea with licencing being sold to western streaming. I must say I saw bad representations of other cultures in Korean shows many times.
In many western media adaptation and discourse around this wasn't in favour of soldiers and they represented many bad deeds while others didn't but not all did those things. Also I hate when USA = every western country opinion but in this case even USA produced media representing bad things that happened tho it was not majority shared opinion and decent public discourse was condemning soldiers who did those things.
Anyway as I said representation in media varies in every culture. Some themes representation is highly biased but it varies based on country agenda. There are good and bad representation in every corner.
We live in gray world, it's not all black and white. Truth is usually somewhere in the middle and every country has their skeletons. Both sides had bad actors and innocent paid.
Irony in your statement is you think only western media has agenda. Almost every media is subjective and manipulated with biases and motivations.
They should just focus on the challenge of them trying to resist instead of trying to make shit plot and speeches because none of them can't act.
It's mostly due to Legal and Labor Constraints due to themes or recording restrictions and accommodations that come with having child actors or actual teenagers under 18.
They could cast someone at 18 tho but usually they don't bother due to marketability and because older actors typically bring more acting training, reliability, and emotional range than actual teenagers who are constrained by labor law daily hours.
Despite all that in European productions, where I work, its a bit different and very focused on authentic castings where in Hollywood and kdrama world you cast mostly based on star power, looks (good visuals not authentically fitting looks), and so on. In Europe we would never cast 30 year old to play as teenagers unless its a joke movie with meta commentary.
Since production in Europe are more independent and you usually don't face these issues that come with making production with limitations of using specific star powers and look at best margins and marketability of established actors. In most cases these kdramas are just pumped out and forgotten, so they are not passion projects where directors would care to fight for authenticity. They just go to work and do their minimal job and move on to next project.
TLDR: this movie needs established oppa so its marketable for majority female audience otherwise almost no one would watch and looks like they couldn't find someone else available in 20s that would cost less and/or pull more audience.
Oh and they are on television and just met. Basically have to make decision in week which is nothing.
- first week 3ep
- second week 3ep
- third week 2ep
- forth and final week 2ep
In total 10 episodes.
S2 and S3 is just Netflix throwing money at product that got viral and creator gladly took it for big payout with rushed unplanned writting and no proper idea for execution.
I don't think these shows were intended for western market or have sensitivity check marks to filter content tested on audience. They are kinda lax with rules and some stuff seem very gray and wouldn't pass safety check here in EU to get approved to shoot by production. I was more surprised by the way some other things were done not so much by swastika.
I live in Europe where they have harshest restrictions about usage of those symbols and even in most restricted country like let's say Austria, this symbol in such setting would not be banned and be allowed to broadcast. BUT they would probably avoid putting in in the first place due to audience perception. Outside of that it's mostly only tolerated for religious use.
However, it can be used in media for educational, artistic, or historical purposes, particularly in countries like Germany where recent rulings allow its use in video games if done for historical accuracy.
I don't think people who made this have awareness or resources to test for anything that may offend someone and even if it offended someone it's minority they can afford since focus group is Korea and profit is basically huge majority domestic. It is also not used in contexts that promote Nazism or hate and theme of show is completely irrelevant to such thematics.
Tho it is surprising someone who designed that game doesn't have enough self awareness to not do that. Despite being Korea it's still common knowledge there that it can be tied to Nazi and someone who works in media its surprising they would miss that one. I understand usage of symbol when actually needed but here it could be avoided even if technically they didn't need to avoid it.
It was adopted by nazi party and used only for 25 years. So they basically ruined ancient symbol by adopting it and doing atrocities.
Swastika used outside of nazi context is not a bad symbol and in Korea you will see swastika on many buildings. Problem is symbol has long history of being used for good everywhere but got turned into a symbol associated with hate and genocide during Nazi regime and ruined long lasting good symbol in recent history.
Hitler's design featured a black swastika rotated 45 degrees, set against a white circle on a red background so that is Nazi party variation. Seeing it outside of that combination in completely different context it's best to assume it wasn't intentional due to it being common symbol.
She is always acting behaving weird for attention. People being weirded out by her and suspicious is valid and she sometimes behave straight up with sociopathic tendencies and emotionally unaware.
Also she was a spy and even if she isn't having member who makes basically sabotage, does nothing to help and then on top of that does weird things for no reason that makes you think they are spy are basically member that hurts your chances.
While she is entraining to watch she was not a good team player until she was forced to evolve because she got called out and did it for survival imo. Her social skills are awful lol 🤣 I wouldn't feel bad for her crocodile tears and she could care less as expressed by herself.