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I really appreciate the more personal scenes happening with the twins. Like the Chairman’s chair seemingly speaking to Jae Gyeong like the One Ring. Or the cognitive dissonance Jae Seong had over seeing his wife display clear signs of betrayal but still refusing to believe it. In another show I’d root for Eun Se to realize that maybe she does value her husband or at the very least feels guilty about deceiving him but this show has not shown a single sign of that, like her level of gaslighting is crazy.

In all, I like that even though the twins are clear villains, their characters still have enough depth and dimensions to them that they’re fairly complex. I find myself at times feeling sorry for them (mostly Jae Seong, as he’s being so aggressively outmaneuvered by so many people) or wishing I could root for them (in Jae Gyeong’s case because she’s so competent and efficient. Even Eun Se fits this too).

The uncanny counter, beyond evil, heroes next door, law school, itaewon class, lovestruck in the city, the wonderfools

The doctor has a bit more prominent role in the drama Connection, a pretty decent crime thriller headed by Jisung. 100% agree about him, even though his role is quite minimal here he hits comedic notes pretty well, his facial expressions and reactions are quite funny in a subdued way

Such a shame Kang Jae Gyeong is evil cuz I actually like her character

Really appreciate your perspective. Like many others, I’ve been comparing this show to similar shows dealing with school violence (Weak Hero, Study Group, even The Glory), and even stretching to others tangentially related like Vigilante and Juvenile Justice (the latter I haven’t watched but as far as I know deals with juvenile delinquents and has a main lead who states that she has some kind of bias, at least initially). And they’ve all raised very interesting thoughts to me about the nature of violence and retribution, both within and outside the law, especially Vigilante. But, real world controversies with the source material aside, this show immediately struck me as different from the others, in ways that I couldn’t really clearly spell out and I think your review really touched on several of those points. Like, as feel good as it is to see shameless bad guys get a taste of their own medicine, I found it hard to really get into when in the back of mind it’s a bunch of adults just beating the shit out of kids, no matter the framing of said kids. The fact that it’s done with the stamp of the government just made it worse that I at times wondered if I would have felt less bothered if it was some random adult or if they had taken the Vigilante approach and gave it a bit more morally grey lens. And many times it felt like the show was saying things would be better in schools if corporal punishment was legal. From what I understand, Korea banned it fairly recently and I’m now wondering why they banned it, and what the situation was like before and after. Because then again, I don’t live in Korea, I don’t truly know how bad the issue of school violence is for a show like this to be made other than the occasional headline I come across.

Maybe it’s due to the age gap (Namkoong Min isn’t old, but he’s 15 years older than Lee Seol), but it’s also possible that she was referring to experience (so perhaps the word she used in Korean was more respect related than age related). I looked at their filmographies and Namkoong Min has been in the industry a lot longer and has at least double the amount of projects she has.

It is interesting though, I actually clicked on the article because her name and face seemed familiar, and trying to remember what work I saw her in she actually has worked with Namkoong Min before, fairly recently too with Our Movie (I feel like I see articles here typically mention if actors have been in the same dramas before and are ‘reuniting’ so to say so I’m surprised to see it not mentioned at all here). I guess she means she wanted to be his direct acting partner and immediate co-lead.

Edit: Actually I just went to the source article and looked through, seems the word she used translated to “trustworthy” not senior so I think you’re right that it’s likely a mistranslation

I kept hoping for redemption for them, or at least for one of them to switch sides. Kids that just kept getting failed by adults around them and carried that trauma into adulthood when they had no one else. Unjeong was kinda lucky getting away from Ha Wundo. Would have been interesting if the show explored a little what life was like for the WunderKinder while he was in prison since grandma only helped the kids without abilities.

You’re not wrong, but all the constant hammering of his acting skills made me think he would be especially bad when he’s just mediocre and ok. Like there’s no reason for his acting to bring up so much discourse the way it does imo

Honestly don’t really care too much about why the grandma invested. I’m a little curious about Chaeni’s parents but again, same thing. You could go down the whole rabbit of more info, like who was the old guy? In all, I don’t think it matters too much, for me the show told the story it needed to tell it doesn’t need to explain every little thing.

The only thing I’m really concerned about was what happened to Juran at the end, whether she passed out or died. The way her character was depicted hard to believe if she survived she’d just slink into obscurity.

Kind of confused about the difference between the grand prize and the best prize

I’ve seen enough, welcome back Baek Ajin.
I also like how much all the characters rage bait each other but no one does it as much as the leads. A true rage baiter x rage baiter couple it makes me wonder what their marriage was like before all this

“Oh shit💩” 🤡🤡🤡

Man what in the Safdie brothers/Murphys law/butterfly/domino effect is this 😭😭

Who’s the actress playing Heeju (the realtor working with Sujong) I don’t think I see her in the cast list

Wow their marriage dynamic is kind of what I wanted out of When the Phone Rings (minus how morally grey they are here)

Been a while since I’ve watched a drama that cared about its supporting cast. Lots of gems last episode

Seeing Seo Hyeonwoo show up after watching Honour…
Also gotta say, I didn’t recognize Nana. I’ve only seen one of her dramas but still, I kept wondering which character she was supposed to play 😭😭

So far progressing nicely. Story isn’t intense but it sparks enough curiosity to want to see what exactly is going on with these weird deaths. The plot reminds me of The Witch which came out last year but seems to have a lot more meat to the plot here (I didn’t finish The Witch so I don’t know how that mystery was resolved there but I remember hearing it was fairly simple).

Also got to say, I missed KJH’s character this episode. He’s just a big question mark at this point so wish to see him more. I agree him being the culprit would be too straight forward, but I’ve had my fair share of straight forward predictable plots, and regardless of that he sticks out like a sore thumb villain wise so I got my eye on him for the time being.

I really love plots where the FL is like a femme fatale/sort of “evil” type character and the ML is giving chase in a “is she actually evil or just stuck in the middle of unfortunate circumstances” type plot I wish there was more of them. Curious to see how CWS ends up falling because you’d think he’s had a fair amount of warning, especially from HSA herself

Damn for the year? March just started 😭😭

My guess is Baek Jun Beom is the stalker/murderer. Everything about their “first meeting” just rang a lot of bells