VanLiv

All I want to say is this drama is really ruthless, so much tragedy and suffering 😔

What’s worse the same thing happened in real life, just insane, and very heartbreaking.

Lee Hee Joon is seriously incredible, very underrated, he needs more praise. Everything I’ve watched him in he was phenomenal, a very talented actor. He’s very different in each of his roles and plays them perfectly in the nuanced and convincing way. His role in Mouse is my favorite. His acting was mind blowingly good, one of the best performances I’ve ever seen.

I think that whole town was traumatized after everything that happened there.

It’s strange though, I mean she clearly was blaming the prosecutor for being responsible for Ki Beom’s death, she showed up before his office with the bloody poster and slapped him in front of everyone. She even blamed herself for his death as she was the one who asked him to deny the charges no matter what. It would be a turnaround if she or her son (I guess it’s him from the preview) put all the blame on Tae Joo all of a sudden..

It’s strange though, I mean she clearly was blaming the prosecutor for being responsible for Ki Beom’s death, she showed up before his office with the bloody poster and slapped him in front of everyone. She even blamed herself for his death as she was the one who asked him to deny the charges no matter what. It would be a turnaround if she or her son (I guess it’s him from the preview) will put all the blame on Tae Joo all of a sudden..

Considering that Tae Joo in the present doesn’t know about the girl’s body and that whole cover up story I wonder how Dae Ho explained what he was doing in the woods and what he was digging out there..

I was really upset about the rookie. I did not see that coming. He looked like a decent guy wanting to be a proper police officer. He seemed to look up to Tae Joo and disapprove of those two disgusting corrupted cops and their cruelty. What's his motivation to go along with them? He didn't seem like the ambitious type ready to do shady things for promotions and awards. Fear? Conformism (without his sunbaenim leading him)? I guess after Tae Joo left the town Dae Ho lost his way. What a pity.

This drama is so devastating on many levels!

Can recommend 365: Repeat the Year, Blind, Train, The Good Detective, Karma (if you haven’t seen them already).

I just finished this drama and looooved it very much, what a masterpiece, even though a sad one. For similar dramas the one I can think of is definitely Mouse. It’s probably the only drama I’ve seen with as many twists and mysteries as Blind.
365: Repeat the Year and Train are also amazing and highly suspenseful and thrilling.
For revenge thriller dramas I highly recommend The King of Pigs. And it’s very dark and emotionally heavy as well.

About Min Seo, did she set Ra Yeong up to kill the prosecutor on purpose?? When she went to see her in prison she said “It’s a good look for you, paying for your crimes”. What crimes (that would warrant a prison sentence) is she talking about. She purposefully lured the prosecutor to the villa where FLs and the victims were hiding so basically she herself made everything for that murder to happen and she wants to frame Ra Yeong for that so she would rot in jail for 20 years? That would make Min Seo happy and feel avenged somehow? She knows it was self defense, wtf!? What a scary person wow. Actually it’s her who needs to go to jail for murdering a person. I hope she does in the end but I highly doubt the writers would do that sadly.

Also why did Min Seo record that video? Tae Joo asked her? Why? Did he envision he could use it to manipulate Sin Jae?

Yep, he is definitely convinced that the end justifies the means. Collateral damage doesn’t matter if he can achieve his goal. For a more just world in the long term he manipulated, used and ruined a lot of people in the present.

I felt exactly the same way about Tae Joo as Sin Jae when she was talking to him. Appalled and incredulous. I understand his role here and I guess it really takes a person like him to truly take down such powerful group of people, but on a personal level it’s deeply immoral and tragic for all who became a collateral damage in his grand plan.

Sin Jae’s mother is so disgusting and devilish. Talking proudly about how they have taught the public feel powerless in order to defend the rich, keep the status quo and maintain Haeil in power. That is such a deeply evil and abominable attitude, to view ordinary people as mere pawns and things to be used and trampled upon by the powerful and immoral elites.

They do everything to instill the thought that no matter what people do nothing would ever change, to make people stop trying and fight for themselves. It’s exactly how authoritarian regimes suppress any opposition and crush a civil society. They instill this feeling of hopelessness that leads to apathy and submission.

I wonder how she managed to fake her death..it’s not an easy task. Also how did she get in contact with CEO Baek..

I suspect it being the truth behind him too and in that case there’s a moral issue involved. To achieve a more just society in the long term he used and ruined a lot of young people in the present. So does the end justify the means?..

How do you know she came back for her daughter? I don’t remember it being mentioned

The police officer and the murdered journalist, he was cool, rip

Min Seo is savage, she also callously killed that girl and was ready to push Ra Yeong from the building

It reads like a horror story. I can’t imagine going through that hell. No wonder there’s so many suicides among students.