MinJi23

I watched three episodes of this today, and when it got so bad that I found it further unwatchable I fast forwarded through the rest of the episodes, so yes, I have 'finished' this drama.

My question is basically why? Why do actors who have made great dramas in the past choose these awful scipts and agree to film such nonsense, why?

Jung Hae-in did some rather good stuff in the past, and at least in some roles believably bordered serious characters ('Snowdrop' P.D.) I wonder why is he not brave enough to USE his age instead of running from it by taking really serious roles?Dark roles, deep roles which I think he could play very well? Instead it's the second time after 'Love next door' where he chooses to try and preserve this 18-year-old puppy image somehow and in the most unbelievable ways? This time here it's even worse, and psychologically this drama makes exactly ZERO sense.

So he is the good guy, boxer, puppy type, and to earn money for his sick grandma (of course it's a 'good' motive why he becomes 'bad') he suddenly chooses to become a hardened criminal for 14 (!!!) years. And in hardened criminal I mean they imply the real stuff, beating people to death, killing people ruthlessly for money, as they say in drama: 'he was working like a machine'. He was the favourite of the mafia boss which implies A LOT of other things - let's see in reality someone like that is not only rutheless in beating and killing people, no, such people are also not exactly known as gentlemen towards women. (to describe it very carefully here).

I really started laughing out loud when then in the drama he gets a stupid stop motion kiss of the female lead in what was supposed to be a funny scene (which wasn't funny) and he goes all 'love next door' again, acting like a 12-year-old blushing and being shocked by a peck on the mouth? Someone with 14 years of THAT past they have written on that character, are you effin kidding me?? Someone like that in reality? Would have seen any brothel, prostitues you name it , and he would have done EVERYthing imaginable there and beyond. And then they try to pull this innocent boy thing AGAIN and trying to say he saved himself after decades ago he twice met a nice girl for some chat and flirting and he 'saved ' himself for her while the chances of even meeting her again were astronomicaly ZERO?

But the writers couldn't decide, could they? They wanted to sell the puppy image Jung Hea-in and they wanted the super dark, mega brutal mafia story with him as a leading gangster on the other hand? Yeah, that doesn't work for anyone who has let's say a quarter of their brain left working? Who is writing this nonsense?

Apart from that? The rest was bad too? It seemed to me like they had some AI-algorithm just randomly picking typical K-drama scenes and also randomly sticking them together no matter if anything in this story made any sense. 'Oh, we need a yellow-umbrella in the rain-scene, hmm, let's put it in ep. 7 I think'....'and we still didn't have the FL drunk, write that in ep. 8 somehow' - and so on.

And what bothered me most apart from all that (which is enough for miles already) is the stupid super heavy lighting all the time? Every single time especially the ML was on the screen there was GLARING light on his face, like having a headlight directly ON face? Adding to that he steadily had pink lipstick on? His character, really? A boxer who became a cruel and rutheless gangster is wearing lipstick all the time, in the countyside? Did they try to hide the fact that indeed Jung Hae-in's age is visible in his face? I LOVE that his face looks more mature, more serious, more masculine, and they did everything to blur any normal line out of that very handsome face with this ridiculous lighting and tons of makeup? WHY?

Same goes for the FL' s hair. The moment she wakes up in the hospital, mind you after she barely surivived a very bloody attack on her life, she gets up in the bed with pink lipstick on and with 'fresh from the salon'- weavy hair that (women know that) takes half an hour to style like that with her hair length. And it was like that all through the drama, her hair never looked like it would look naturally in the shown scenes. And I could go on and on.

To have this end in total absurdity? The 'bad' daddy kills himself (how nice of him then the son won't have to do it) and? Everyone is living happily ever after. It doesn't matter, again, that the ML's character WAS a serious criminal for 14 years and thus has commited tons of serious crimes? No, his then ( funnny idea here!) PROSECUTOR wife, is living happily with him, marrying him in the countryside, yippie. I think this drama is in the top 3 list of the most stupid things I have watched in the past 10 years easy, so congratulations on that.

While I really like Jung Hae-in in some of his past dramas, and I do think he is a good actor, I will not watch anything new with him anymore. As long as good actors don't realise their faces WIN with aging if they show it, I'm not interested anymore.

So to sum this up: If you like dramas with absolutey ZERO content, logic, storyline, chemistry and well, brains? Give it a try, otherwise, steer clear.