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A mix of Scream and Saw with a mediocre result.
I honestly don't understand why GMM-TV insists on creating series with darker themes if they're going to stop halfway through to throw in a joke and have the characters kissing.
What's scary here isn't the killer but the weak acting and shallow protagonists who never convince in their roles as detectives. It's the extremely low-level production that delivers lazy cinematography, uncertain direction and a soundtrack incapable of evoking a feeling of terror.
And worst of all, the series had immense potential that is absurdly wasted by a script that doesn't know if it wants to be a silly romance between cops or a murder mystery.
For this series to work, it needed to invest a little more time in the other characters and better explore the dramas, secrets, fights, and betrayals between them.
Only then could we care minimally about their deaths. But the series follows an almost puritanical path, where all the bad characters are punished and killed for their sins.
And it's a valid path to follow but here it's developed in a rushed and secondary way, since the focus is on a bland romance that feels out of place in the story.
Their first kiss is right after a murder scene and that says everything you need to know about this series.
At no point do they manage to evoke even the slightest feeling of mystery, tension, danger, or fear.
The final revelation of the killer could have been good but there's no build-up to get there. The intrigues and discussions that the letters could have brought (by making the characters choose who should die) are sidelined and poorly utilized. The detectives are a joke and discover nothing throughout the entire series. The secondary characters have zero development. The deaths are creative but the cinematography is so bad that everything has an amateurish and low-quality feel.
There are so many mistakes, so many problems, and after watching Goddess Bless You from Death, this series feels like a childish version that tries at all costs to be dark and edge but only ends up being embarrassing.
An absurdly wasted potential. And a waste of time too.
What's scary here isn't the killer but the weak acting and shallow protagonists who never convince in their roles as detectives. It's the extremely low-level production that delivers lazy cinematography, uncertain direction and a soundtrack incapable of evoking a feeling of terror.
And worst of all, the series had immense potential that is absurdly wasted by a script that doesn't know if it wants to be a silly romance between cops or a murder mystery.
For this series to work, it needed to invest a little more time in the other characters and better explore the dramas, secrets, fights, and betrayals between them.
Only then could we care minimally about their deaths. But the series follows an almost puritanical path, where all the bad characters are punished and killed for their sins.
And it's a valid path to follow but here it's developed in a rushed and secondary way, since the focus is on a bland romance that feels out of place in the story.
Their first kiss is right after a murder scene and that says everything you need to know about this series.
At no point do they manage to evoke even the slightest feeling of mystery, tension, danger, or fear.
The final revelation of the killer could have been good but there's no build-up to get there. The intrigues and discussions that the letters could have brought (by making the characters choose who should die) are sidelined and poorly utilized. The detectives are a joke and discover nothing throughout the entire series. The secondary characters have zero development. The deaths are creative but the cinematography is so bad that everything has an amateurish and low-quality feel.
There are so many mistakes, so many problems, and after watching Goddess Bless You from Death, this series feels like a childish version that tries at all costs to be dark and edge but only ends up being embarrassing.
An absurdly wasted potential. And a waste of time too.
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