UnaSpenser

This is an atmospheric piece with a wonderful character ensemble and an interesting, even if somewhat predictable, conclusion to its mystery.. (Though, I think there’s more to what we now know and I hope we get a season 2 with the same core cast. As there is the big question of “why would it have been that person?”)

The production manages to be both camp-y and lush. The sets, the costumes, the pacing of speech and movement and story, all envelop you like a plush blanket. Very dreamy and mesmerizing. Every character is quirky and interesting and the actors all do a fabulous job with their roles. It has the immediate feeling of becoming a cult classic.

Right? He went from abusive father (my mister) to serial killer father to father who tried to kill him to this. His best performance was in My Mister. I hope he isn’t another expressionless character here.

She is so much the same, a boring same, in every role she plays, that I just can’t be bothered.

The depth of the story and the captivating ensemble work really surprised me here.

I almost didn’t take a look, and I never got used to the bangs (lol), but there is so much quality to this, it was well worth it.

He steals every scene he’s in, in that drama. So expressive and great comedic timing.

He had legit cause, though. They annihilated his entire family and his best friend committed suicide to protect his life. I’d become a supreme ass after that, too.

In the US, if you drive drunk and kill someone, you’re responsible. You end up in jail.

It’s an interesting topic, because it’s considered rape to have sex with a drunk person, since the drunken person is not capable of consent, due to impaired mental faculties. So, you can be an unwitting victim if you’re drunk. But, you are not absolved from accountability if you harm someone while drunk.

The first episode was pretty impressive. Production values way above most Korean projects.

One of the more famous conlangs is Klingon from Star Trek. It was so fully developed that people have translated things such as Hamlet into Klingon. Conlangs are a lot of fun!

I didn’t know who’d he was when I watched Her Private Life. I was challenged to see him as so beautiful that he would be the top idol. He looked strange to me. It might have been the hair. But, his smile felt a bit creepy. Here he is playing a character who is a bit creepy, but he came off as far more attractive. Go figure!

I know that you didn't. But writing it off as a "toxic relationship" makes it sound as though they're equally culpable for the nature of the relationship. If he was hitting her, that's abuse. And she was the victim of abuse, which would effect how she behaves. There is a huge power imbalance when a man is violent to a woman and it needs to be very clear that the issue is his abuse and not that she contributed to a bad relationship. There really isn't any point to turning the subject from "he hit her" to talking about some behavior of hers and how they both were being "toxic", except to minimize his culpability. Even if that's not what you thought you meant to do, that's the embedded message. We need to be careful about that.

making fun of him is not nearly the same as beating her. please don't make it sound as though she deserved to be hit. thank you.

she reminds me of Sigourney Weaver. (actress who played Ripley in the Alien films.)

She'd pull off the male look better if they didn't give her so much lipstick and eye makeup and just made her face look more natural.

There are plenty of men who look as if they could be female, so having a character/actress passing as male and no one noticing it, isn't all that remarkable. But, in this case, the makeup is ruining the effect.

why aren't the Cdramas listed in his credits?

It also makes no sense that this cop can go rogue all the time and stay on the job. Though the viewers know his intuition is sort of right, he does all kinds of things which constitute harassment, with no evidence. I tried to keep watching and just skip the scenes with the annoying woman, but he's just as annoying.

thank you!

Will someone tell me what the opening title song is?

Stopping after 5 episodes. Can't stand the way they've written the female character. She's an idiot who endangers everyone around her. I just want her to shut up. She's tediously stupid,

wasn't she also in "Just Between Lovers"?

Another, completely different type of drama. That was all about people processing grief and trauma in the aftermath of a man-made disaster.

She's very versatile.

Seriously. She was young and trying to be silly and clever while being very nervous. Not one person from the show expressed concern and, instead, were very supportive.

I'd hate to be a celebrity in S Korea. Fans are brutal and they don't seem to care if they crush someone's career over the most stupid things.

This young woman showed amazing acting ability in her role in Hogu, yet fans want to send her into depression and oblivion over interrupting someone? Life in Korea must be exceedingly petty.