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Watching others’ suffering that stems from greedy desires gone too far proves delightful
Sometimes you just want a break from good&evil and want to be able to hate pretty much everyone on your screen or, to be more clear, like the most honest of the horrible humans on it! You know, the ones who don’t make whining excuses for being rotten but just delight in their own kind of success and work hard to do well at their particular version of very awful human existence.
This is that show. It starts with a steady family man who really wants to make enough money so his deaf daughter can undergo an operation… and thanks to a friend, opportunity DOES knock, and it knocks hard at his door and turns into hard knocks of his life.
Seeing pretty repugnant people spiral downward, seeing the empathy you thought you’d have for someone shatter because you find out the darker, murkier truths about them… it is not for most viewers, especially not sweet spring flowers like the majority on here who are precious babies when compared to the likes of me (okay, that would be most everyone, so I am a bad example).
This tickles the part of my brain that shouts, “ damn them all” and “kill it with fire!” You know what? I enjoyed letting that part of my brain delight in Shim Eun Kyung’s performance in particular, especially since she was honestly the main one I really wanted to see and initially was upset wasn’t a main role. That disappointment sure didn’t last. She was bloody FANTASTIC.
—Side note/sales pitch on her performance: Got someone who you occasionally wish to be anywhere from forcibly removed from within 1k km of you to unalived because they’re so horrible? (Muskrat Elon and his DumpTruck orange spray tanned idiot who traded porcelain thrones for gold potential ones on the big stage… your small stage equivalents could be anyone from local criminals to colleagues who spread malicious gossip to people who wear heavy perfume to work when signs say no fragrances bc, like, people with allergies are abundant there… or maybe they just talk about politics and lean toward nutjob conspiracies and pick fights… or they bash your favorite musician.)
Petty, serious, whatever it is, they may, when you see her in action, make you think of paying her very well to do what she thrives in and enjoys already. 🤌 I love her.
Anyway, this is a domino effect on a scale few dramas even dare to go because face it, when no one is very likable, even one of the two “innocent” ones for most of it, the audience will be limited to a much smaller, mostly older set who enjoy watching things that are both way darker than their day to day lives AND
reflecting their/their acquainted people’s daily humanity (or lack thereof). Not a casual watch that you can multitask or keep looking away/being distracted by if you want to actually enjoy it. The small moments are what matter, what snowball into the big ones… and like I said, both because it is uncomfortably relatable in how hard it is to consistently stay afloat and do both well and do right… and moreover because their suffering feels worse than my own day to day, it is truly satisfying.
9/10 from me, solid but with a thousand caveats to recommending!
This is that show. It starts with a steady family man who really wants to make enough money so his deaf daughter can undergo an operation… and thanks to a friend, opportunity DOES knock, and it knocks hard at his door and turns into hard knocks of his life.
Seeing pretty repugnant people spiral downward, seeing the empathy you thought you’d have for someone shatter because you find out the darker, murkier truths about them… it is not for most viewers, especially not sweet spring flowers like the majority on here who are precious babies when compared to the likes of me (okay, that would be most everyone, so I am a bad example).
This tickles the part of my brain that shouts, “ damn them all” and “kill it with fire!” You know what? I enjoyed letting that part of my brain delight in Shim Eun Kyung’s performance in particular, especially since she was honestly the main one I really wanted to see and initially was upset wasn’t a main role. That disappointment sure didn’t last. She was bloody FANTASTIC.
—Side note/sales pitch on her performance: Got someone who you occasionally wish to be anywhere from forcibly removed from within 1k km of you to unalived because they’re so horrible? (Muskrat Elon and his DumpTruck orange spray tanned idiot who traded porcelain thrones for gold potential ones on the big stage… your small stage equivalents could be anyone from local criminals to colleagues who spread malicious gossip to people who wear heavy perfume to work when signs say no fragrances bc, like, people with allergies are abundant there… or maybe they just talk about politics and lean toward nutjob conspiracies and pick fights… or they bash your favorite musician.)
Petty, serious, whatever it is, they may, when you see her in action, make you think of paying her very well to do what she thrives in and enjoys already. 🤌 I love her.
Anyway, this is a domino effect on a scale few dramas even dare to go because face it, when no one is very likable, even one of the two “innocent” ones for most of it, the audience will be limited to a much smaller, mostly older set who enjoy watching things that are both way darker than their day to day lives AND
reflecting their/their acquainted people’s daily humanity (or lack thereof). Not a casual watch that you can multitask or keep looking away/being distracted by if you want to actually enjoy it. The small moments are what matter, what snowball into the big ones… and like I said, both because it is uncomfortably relatable in how hard it is to consistently stay afloat and do both well and do right… and moreover because their suffering feels worse than my own day to day, it is truly satisfying.
9/10 from me, solid but with a thousand caveats to recommending!
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