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Basically as a mystery and the events related to it, the writer did well
They suspected enough people with good reason and the villain did well too
Yebun was a normal person with zero “survival skills” and that was ok, it was what made this duo funny. She was a sheltered “idiot” and I was proud of her growth

There were two scenes I really enjoyed this ep, it was the “needle” scene and the bikers🤣👍🏻

I might’ve not enjoyed it without a mom watch but atleast since no crime/mystery/suspense drama since 2016 appealed to me, this did well

Yeah but sunwoo was the evidence that allowed the cops to arrest him

Like yeah fl would’ve told ml and they’d have had to put him under 24/7 surveillance to try again to find evidence and that’d take a couple of more eps and deaths

He was smart and figured it out or he was scared and didn’t wanna look in his eyes cuz even normal ppl usually worry their eyes “exposes” them

For now their eyes aren’t gonna reveal anything more, tho they should’ve used the glasses on him and see if it can stop him from atleast reading their emotions and stress

Without him they’d have never known it was the shaman

Idk if I’m disappointed or not
I mean, it’d have been weird if it was someone else like the cop lady or aunt’s ex
So the shaman was always obvs
But I was disappointed in it being from the eyes, it also does make sense that he wasn’t touching the cow, tho I thought he’d see from objects

Anyway the eyes, they shouldn’t have shown the VG being annoyed at him through the reflection, I always thought he saw that so I sused him right away
And also the eyes, he could easily find ppl like the assemblyman or someone even bigger and always blackmail them into letting him go
So his behavior of only threatening with the friend is too weak
And the actor, if it was someone more random or someone more unknown as a bad guy, it’d have not been so obv

I was proud of yebun tho🥹 and the whole building up and excuses and reasonings all made perfect sense

That’s the loophole tho isn’t it?
Having the same pd makes it easy to copy the content

But that’s also the annoying part, no need to act like this is a new separate game show🤷🏻‍♀️
I’m a fan of his ideas and I was anticipating something different from TG and the great escape

Since they hired the same PD they know and handled all legal stuff
Doesn’t change the fact that it’s the same with a different name🤷🏻‍♀️

I feel in games one should be “shameless” so it reflects more on guillaume not saying “haha you solved it cuz I started it well”
But if one wants to be “fair” and gain allies, that guy should’ve gone to guillaume but he also seems to be the intimidated type so he didn’t want red coat against him

I wasn’t planning on dropping so that’s a good sign 🥹

I blame their format, it took them around 6eps to start giving “backstories” to the other characters
And since it’s the halfway mark it also feels too late to spend time on that

I don’t mind being a minority and I wanted to like this so much, I like the cast and I love “superpower” genres
But I started it since it aired and I’m barely done with ep11, it’s just not clicking with me

Not the red coat acting like she solved those puzzles, she didn’t have a clue when guillaume didn’t start and fix half of those puzzles

This is just a reboot of The Genius (it was inspired by Lair Game)
And it is the directors previous work so it’s kinda a disappointment especially as a fan of every TG season


I feel like naming it differently promised a new style but everything beside the cast is the same, the set, the game explanation and the overall games
They should’ve atleast owned up to it and called it a reboot

I think I’ll go crazy waiting for the second half of this, for once I wish this aired at once😭

The way rohee became cold and only smiled when myungjoon came to her🥹
And young myungjoon alone is so pure they deserve never ending happiness 🥹🥹🥹🥹

Myungjoon’s eye smiles and rohee’s smirks must be protected at all costs 🥹

It’s awkward and cringey 😬

“Older” actors have this unshakable “maturity” that acting young just looks awkward on them, like trying too hard his behavior was of a man child

It’s the same when a 20year old actor try to act 40
they wouldn’t have lost anything if they let him be his age or atleast 38ish🤣

Crush can be adoration and admiration
Love is different
Like fl’s friend crushing over ml but her real “love” was eonnie guy🤣

Ofc🤣 was I not praising it enough? Beautiful characters, sweet bromance, amazing female characters, beautiful journey, funny and heartwarming and eventho the romance did have a big age gap but it was so balanced and played so well🥲🥲🥲🥲