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A Brilliant Story Built on Terrible Decisions
The finale remains remarkably consistent with the drama’s central premise: a tragedy of errors fueled by paranoia.
The protagonists spend the entire story building an increasingly complex web of lies to avoid prison. The ultimate irony is that the law clears them of the murder, while the real punishment for both families is realizing that they destroyed their lives, their families, and their peace of mind trying to cover up a crime they didn’t commit.
A completely happy ending would have felt false, but sending them to prison would have betrayed the logic of the script itself. Leaving them legally free but trapped in the ruins of their own decisions was the perfect place to end the story.
And this is my only real complaint.
The writer seems to need someone to pay, so the leaked affair video is used to publicly destroy the characters.
To me, it’s narratively ridiculous.
First, because the story had already given them consequences without needing to punish them.
And second, they could have simply sued the police for leaking the video.
Boom. You screwed yourself.
They might have ended up even better off.
If you resolved the murder plot with intelligence and logic, the characters’ final arcs deserved the same level of sophistication—not a last-minute dose of public humiliation.
For a moment, that decision turns an elegant psychological drama into a manipulative piece of cheap melodrama.
But it is one misstep in a script that accomplished something extremely difficult for eight episodes:
It turned a chain of stupid decisions into an extraordinarily intelligent story.
5/5 for the entire season.
The protagonists spend the entire story building an increasingly complex web of lies to avoid prison. The ultimate irony is that the law clears them of the murder, while the real punishment for both families is realizing that they destroyed their lives, their families, and their peace of mind trying to cover up a crime they didn’t commit.
A completely happy ending would have felt false, but sending them to prison would have betrayed the logic of the script itself. Leaving them legally free but trapped in the ruins of their own decisions was the perfect place to end the story.
And this is my only real complaint.
The writer seems to need someone to pay, so the leaked affair video is used to publicly destroy the characters.
To me, it’s narratively ridiculous.
First, because the story had already given them consequences without needing to punish them.
And second, they could have simply sued the police for leaking the video.
Boom. You screwed yourself.
They might have ended up even better off.
If you resolved the murder plot with intelligence and logic, the characters’ final arcs deserved the same level of sophistication—not a last-minute dose of public humiliation.
For a moment, that decision turns an elegant psychological drama into a manipulative piece of cheap melodrama.
But it is one misstep in a script that accomplished something extremely difficult for eight episodes:
It turned a chain of stupid decisions into an extraordinarily intelligent story.
5/5 for the entire season.
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