This happens when you want an absolute happy ending; everything becomes too predictable.
When I first started this drama, I really could not understand why the ratings were so low. The tension was SO good, and this is coming from a person who dislikes enemies to lovers troop. There was always something that kept me on edge. However, after episode 20, everything went downhill fast. It felt like the story just reset. All the tension went down the drain. No matter what danger came, every ending to them was predictable. They even started to explain the slightest plans as if the viewers were dumb. Every character that came after episode 20 were so simple-minded. Their tricks were all so boring. I rather liked the times when they were lowkey enemies, plotting against each other.The fourth prince's love line was the most unconvincing thing I've ever seen. For a drama that aims for strict politic. They let her bypass A LOT of rules. The ML also become a blind to everything for her sister's requests and discloses everything to her when her mouth is so loose and she herself is short-sighted.
The sound effects were quite comedic at times. It really went against the tone of the drama.
Such a shame for I was crazy for the first 20 episodes of this drama. I continued to the end to see them together but it wasn't very rewarding.
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A great psychological mystery series
As a psychological series, this series takes the cake. This is my first time writing a review and usually, I don't like watching K dramas but I think this has a really good story and pacing. Watching others rate it so low is quite sad."If you can't tell the fake from the real, then is it really fake?"
This goes beyond the bags and the brand. Sarah Kim, or the person going by the name, established Budior as a high brand luxury coming from the West, which didn't even exist. She had started as an honest worker but eventually got betrayed by the rich's system, penalizing her millions of dollar. This forced her do various works and put on multiple faces to achieve her goal/revenge.
Her backstory is solid, slowly being unravelled in multiple narrrations. The telling by narrations were executed really well! While they are confusing to some, but I think that is the point as this is a psychological series. It is meant to mess with your brain. And while there are multiple narrations, I don't them clashing with each other (except for the detective's theory at the end). The narrations are different as the narrator changes. Memories as subjective after all.
In the end, the detective having to choose to arrest her as Kim Mijeong or release her as Sarah Kim, will be unsatisfying either way. I don't think we even know her actual name as all were taken from or give by someone.
As for the plotholes, from how was she not even registered in the system or even why those detective didn't even freeze her account when raising Budior, I do wonder if they really are plotholes or are they unanswered but defined points. Because considering how a lot of the small details were crafted really nicely, for them to overlook these "plotholes" would be very disappointing, especially as a series that defines itself as a mystery.
The actresses were really good, but I have to say the detective is such a disappointment. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's his character or whatever but I do dread everytime he appears on screen.
This series a GREAT psychological mystery series. However, for people coming for a mystery case that's leaves you satisfied at the end, then this is absolutely NOT for you. This will make you think, theorise, and leave you with hanging with open questions. And those questions you are left with are what I think makes a psychological mystery worth it. To discuss them even further with other people and to give answers to those questions. These discussions bring the community to life and add more fun to it.
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