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Service: Four out of Five Stars
Nothing like a genuine wish to destroy the world to kick start an epic romance between the embodiment of doom and a writing editor. One of the series' strong suits is the romantic/domestic bantering between Dong Kyung and Sa Ram, and also the funny work/life bantering between Dong Kyung and Joo Ik. Her relationship with everyone in her life, from Sa Ram, to her family, friends, and colleagues are nice too. The set design where Dong Kyung cozy apartment splits a wall with Sa Ram's cave vibes mansion is pretty cool.
There are a couple scenes that really stood out to me. One is when Dong Kyung wants to get the last bag in stock for her aunt and tells the other customer and the cashier that she only has a few months to live so they let her have it. She does it in a way that sounds like she's using a trick, but it's true. It's like a morbid imposter syndrome. The other scene is when Dong Kyung steps up to block a stab to Sa Ram just by instinct of wanting to protect him from pain, because even if he won't die, he'll still bleed. That's so swoony of Dong Kyung. The amnesia section was pretty well done. They inevitably meet again and I like how the drama plays with the similarity and differences from their initial meeting to now.
Even though he brought doom to the world, he always cared about humans even before he fell in love with one, doing little things like avenging victims by torturing their murderers. When he embraces his own destruction over the end of everything Dong Kyung loves, it's heart wrenching and impactful in the quiet way that he fades away. It's lovely that he became a doctor for real after cosplaying one for so long. I do like how the final episode is spent bringing everyone together and letting Sa Ram settle into his new human life. It's good he has a creator who can set everything all nice for him. He keeps his mansion, car, and is a doctor though he really needs to work for it as emergency services is really demanding. The running gag of him being a ghost doctor and people seeing him in different visages is pretty funny too. He gets to finally end the handsome ghost doctor hauntings by being a real handsome doctor.
The weakest part of the story is how it bisects into two different dramas, like a whole spin off within the same show. It's the same characters, but there wasn't anything about the journey of that second story the reflected or related to the main one. I would rather the screen time have been used to expand more of Sa Ram's psychology, experiences, and worldviews and also once he's become human. They could have even gotten to Sa Ram and Dong Kyung's marriage and Dong Kyung's budding career as a writer instead of the siphoning to screentime off so drastically. I did like Joo Ik and Hyun Gyu brotherly relationship, their genuine rapport with each other. Joo Ik is pretty shady for kissing his bro's girlfriend or at the very least someone he's in a complicated relationship status with at the time and also deserved to be slapped by her for doing so without consent.
The supporting characters are otherwise pretty well used when they aren't in that whole separate storyline. Dong Kyung's new uncle Kevin immediately already loves his new niece and nephew, and nephew in law. He's an English speaking character that's actually played by a actor that really acts rather than some random person that can speak English that kdramas used to hire, so that's already very nice. I was concerned for a while there since Kevin was only speaking in English and everyone else was only speaking Korean to him how he was actually communicating with his wife, but Kevin actually speaks some Korean. You go Kevin. The show should have had him have an actual conversation with his wife at some point to show their connection and to show why he's so excited to have more family.
Overall it's a nice parable about choosing to live while enjoying both the little and the big things in life, to appreciate the people in your life in this very moment. To not give up and to keep trying.
There are a couple scenes that really stood out to me. One is when Dong Kyung wants to get the last bag in stock for her aunt and tells the other customer and the cashier that she only has a few months to live so they let her have it. She does it in a way that sounds like she's using a trick, but it's true. It's like a morbid imposter syndrome. The other scene is when Dong Kyung steps up to block a stab to Sa Ram just by instinct of wanting to protect him from pain, because even if he won't die, he'll still bleed. That's so swoony of Dong Kyung. The amnesia section was pretty well done. They inevitably meet again and I like how the drama plays with the similarity and differences from their initial meeting to now.
Even though he brought doom to the world, he always cared about humans even before he fell in love with one, doing little things like avenging victims by torturing their murderers. When he embraces his own destruction over the end of everything Dong Kyung loves, it's heart wrenching and impactful in the quiet way that he fades away. It's lovely that he became a doctor for real after cosplaying one for so long. I do like how the final episode is spent bringing everyone together and letting Sa Ram settle into his new human life. It's good he has a creator who can set everything all nice for him. He keeps his mansion, car, and is a doctor though he really needs to work for it as emergency services is really demanding. The running gag of him being a ghost doctor and people seeing him in different visages is pretty funny too. He gets to finally end the handsome ghost doctor hauntings by being a real handsome doctor.
The weakest part of the story is how it bisects into two different dramas, like a whole spin off within the same show. It's the same characters, but there wasn't anything about the journey of that second story the reflected or related to the main one. I would rather the screen time have been used to expand more of Sa Ram's psychology, experiences, and worldviews and also once he's become human. They could have even gotten to Sa Ram and Dong Kyung's marriage and Dong Kyung's budding career as a writer instead of the siphoning to screentime off so drastically. I did like Joo Ik and Hyun Gyu brotherly relationship, their genuine rapport with each other. Joo Ik is pretty shady for kissing his bro's girlfriend or at the very least someone he's in a complicated relationship status with at the time and also deserved to be slapped by her for doing so without consent.
The supporting characters are otherwise pretty well used when they aren't in that whole separate storyline. Dong Kyung's new uncle Kevin immediately already loves his new niece and nephew, and nephew in law. He's an English speaking character that's actually played by a actor that really acts rather than some random person that can speak English that kdramas used to hire, so that's already very nice. I was concerned for a while there since Kevin was only speaking in English and everyone else was only speaking Korean to him how he was actually communicating with his wife, but Kevin actually speaks some Korean. You go Kevin. The show should have had him have an actual conversation with his wife at some point to show their connection and to show why he's so excited to have more family.
Overall it's a nice parable about choosing to live while enjoying both the little and the big things in life, to appreciate the people in your life in this very moment. To not give up and to keep trying.
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