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Moon Geun Young's career came to a tragic halt due to compartment syndrome. Her agency dropped her after that K-drama. She turned to directing and makes guest appearances from time to time, but never in a leading role. It makes me sad for this person I don't know personally ; she's not to blame for this situation. Anyway. Here, she plays the role of a downtrodden character all the time, except sometimes when she has to burst into tears... Yet the series starts out as a comedy and romance disguised as a police investigation. But these people never actually investigate the serial killer they're supposed to find within two months. (A deadline we don't really care about.)
This series ages like good milk. Believe a vegan. In recent years, production standards in K-dramas have skyrocketed so much that just watching something from 2019 feels really weird. However, the characters are funny (at first), and nothing problematic happens... Wait, actually, yes. This series has a problem with sanism. This portrayal of autism really annoys me. Same old, same old. People in a perpetual state of crisis. That's not what we're like in everyday life. It's just carnival-style autism. Rain Man is over.
And strangely enough, there are a lot of mentally ill people in this series. Captain Ko's mother, the homeless man, two people with autism. I hope you're being entertained ? I'm glad to hear that we're right to be afraid of people who don't fit the norm. Great message.
16 episodes were too many. I skipped a lot of pointless scenes. So many slow parts... And the solution to the mystery, in a word : notgreat.
(I watched this because, with these heat waves, there's just nothing I can do. I have way too much time on my hands)
This series ages like good milk. Believe a vegan. In recent years, production standards in K-dramas have skyrocketed so much that just watching something from 2019 feels really weird. However, the characters are funny (at first), and nothing problematic happens... Wait, actually, yes. This series has a problem with sanism. This portrayal of autism really annoys me. Same old, same old. People in a perpetual state of crisis. That's not what we're like in everyday life. It's just carnival-style autism. Rain Man is over.
And strangely enough, there are a lot of mentally ill people in this series. Captain Ko's mother, the homeless man, two people with autism. I hope you're being entertained ? I'm glad to hear that we're right to be afraid of people who don't fit the norm. Great message.
16 episodes were too many. I skipped a lot of pointless scenes. So many slow parts... And the solution to the mystery, in a word : notgreat.
(I watched this because, with these heat waves, there's just nothing I can do. I have way too much time on my hands)
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