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This review may contain spoilers
Deliciously dark misunderstood communications tow a thin line where chaos and wreckage meet
Ahhhhh I love love LOVE dark humor, and this is as murky and black as a comedy that (as the show tells you straight up) simply begins with an extramarital affair can get.
The writing? Solid. Nothing totally mind blowing or “new,” but light or dark, almost nothing in this forsaken world IS new under the blistering sun, now is it?
The cinematography? Chef’s kiss, truly. Angles so perfect it tickled my funny bone so hard it practically orgasmed at both the precision and their choices. Remember that wee film Parasite that the SFL here was in? I was often, from both the set and camera work, reminded of that, and as cinematography goes, that sure is a good thing to have your brain link.
The colors and general set design are just immaculately picked, arranged… the artwork felt so perfectly curated for the fairy tale facade families this was depicting the nonsense of! The sound design was also quite fitting—a whole lot of quirkiness in this, and if camera angles were making my eyes have their own 8 episodes of being thoroughly seduced, the quirky choices of mostly understated but personality-reflecting sounds in this sent my ears over the top.
Now for my 11* detail on this inadequate scale of 1 to 10… the ACTING, omono, what acting, indeed. I mentioned the sounds, and let me be clear, a big part of those sounds having a scandalous affair with my ears over here were naturally from Kim Hye Soo who frankly could make me turn into Kim Ji Hoon, Kim Jae Cheol, her character’s most avid fans, and honestly probably Cho Yeo Jeong by the end lol. She is absolutely on fire in this, something I almost expect from her at a level of certainty that drinking a gallon of water in a couple of hours of time makes me expect to need to pee. She isn’t just the gallon of water here; she is the caffeine in that deliciously infused water that makes me rush forth defenseless with only some tissue to recompose myself afterward. Yep. She is one titillating woman, and I have no shame in bowing before that absolute queen—and Cho Yeo Jeong, too, is just brilliant and the perfect counterpart here. I cannot express how much I adore a woman spitting words like “vulgar” at another about crude language after turning said curse-uttering woman’s spouse into a raging bull being ridden at a rodeo. I could practically see the damn lasso.
The men (spouses and more!)? Don’t worry. They weren’t bringing the surface level glam or elegance. Instead, they were bringing the chaos, the havoc and oftentimes complete idiocy that ensured wreckage was a guarantee here—one also brought with him a turd brown car he proclaimed to be rich gold. 😂 Accomplished people showcasing a special sort of incompetence brings its own kind of unique joy, and as a feed post of mine showed in photos, I realllly delighted in seeing an elite doctor sooooo awkward in trying to hide evidence of his crimes that were on display in the crime scene everyone was right there living through: heightened senses is an understatement, perspectives and interpretations of what is going on are so different for EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of them that they aren’t just on different pages… this lot of chaos agents were reading different books, pretty much living in different universes as their brains went, and you know what? I fkng loved every bit of their madness!
It goes without saying that this is not a show made for youth, and I mean MDL’s definition of youth here, adolescents to young adults. If you are as twisted and salty a pretzel as my 20-something era’s schadenfreude-delighting, sarcasm-dripping humor made me when it came to films and dramas, perhaps you, young friend, will also be tickled as if someone bought you a whole box of premium silicone toys to, well, be tickled by.
If my language in this review sits wrong with you, I politely but strongly suggest you not watch this show… after all, the affair is just its beginning, and my, oh, my… if the affair bothers you or you think that might be the indecent part, ohhhh, noooo… nuh-uh. The affair is the little “kids get out of here; grown ups are doing grown up things” warning to get viewers with youngsters in the house to turn off the screens in any shared areas and go to their rooms, maybe with the door locked and/or headphones worn if they do not want some of the ‘vulgarities’ reaching their kids. I say that as someone from an era where multiple books all about sex, illustrated, all forms of birth control showcased with data, too, were given to my young elementary school self (thanks, mom!) to learn things I would eventually understand a touch better than “that tickles” level curiosities of wee ones (my school also had progressive sex education sessions with experts that increased in detail every year from age 8 onward, and it was as normalized as educational content as the far less interesting demands to create 3D models of various elements… it was just science, some sociology and psychology, some more anatomy class applicable biology—I mention this to say that what is normal to me might be worlds apart from your own so how I watched this may, too, differ greatly from most on MDL).
I’m going to trust that me acknowledging the existence of things acknowledged in the show isn’t going to be overwhelmingly uncomfortable for the few who stayed around… if you did and like your humor resembling the color and sometimes temperature of pure melted tar, this may very well suit you. If I’ve offended you with my choice of words here, it really will not! My wordplay is a PSA urging people to watch if they like a show to be relentless in its efforts to be the purest form of unhinged character delivery… and urging others to find their own weird and wonderful kind of playground. This show is SO messy, and I was SO enthralled in turn.
Needless to say, I really thoroughly enjoyed this! I could write posts as long as this for so many ten minute long chunks of this show, but instead, I bid you happy watching if you are up for a bit of raunchiness, a lot of misguided, well, -everything-, and physical comedy at its best courtesy of cast giving it 110% and the crew enhancing it with masterful sequences of frames. Even the adorable fifteen or so year old daughters with their fledgling lesbian love stories showcased some hella bad decisions, both in actions and dialogue, and were thoroughly confused. They, too, were in different worlds from the parents they thought they understood the situations of, but oh, no, they certainly did not. That was not at all by accident. Nothing in this is, nothing.
It’s quite possible the art of MIScommunication has never delighted me so much or at least not in quite a lonnnng time! (I am stating this a bit late, but if you think this show centers primarily around sex, think again. I, too, opted in this review to intentionally misdirect a bit, to miscommunicate where disclosure would spoil one’s viewing, and NOT be clear about much of anything here because that would be a horrible disservice to all!) I have a feeling I’ll rewatch this short lil program by the end of September!
Thanks to the performances, the 9 this was sitting at inched up to a 9.5, and I do mean my rating, not literal numbers of inches things might increase in size. 😉😏
The writing? Solid. Nothing totally mind blowing or “new,” but light or dark, almost nothing in this forsaken world IS new under the blistering sun, now is it?
The cinematography? Chef’s kiss, truly. Angles so perfect it tickled my funny bone so hard it practically orgasmed at both the precision and their choices. Remember that wee film Parasite that the SFL here was in? I was often, from both the set and camera work, reminded of that, and as cinematography goes, that sure is a good thing to have your brain link.
The colors and general set design are just immaculately picked, arranged… the artwork felt so perfectly curated for the fairy tale facade families this was depicting the nonsense of! The sound design was also quite fitting—a whole lot of quirkiness in this, and if camera angles were making my eyes have their own 8 episodes of being thoroughly seduced, the quirky choices of mostly understated but personality-reflecting sounds in this sent my ears over the top.
Now for my 11* detail on this inadequate scale of 1 to 10… the ACTING, omono, what acting, indeed. I mentioned the sounds, and let me be clear, a big part of those sounds having a scandalous affair with my ears over here were naturally from Kim Hye Soo who frankly could make me turn into Kim Ji Hoon, Kim Jae Cheol, her character’s most avid fans, and honestly probably Cho Yeo Jeong by the end lol. She is absolutely on fire in this, something I almost expect from her at a level of certainty that drinking a gallon of water in a couple of hours of time makes me expect to need to pee. She isn’t just the gallon of water here; she is the caffeine in that deliciously infused water that makes me rush forth defenseless with only some tissue to recompose myself afterward. Yep. She is one titillating woman, and I have no shame in bowing before that absolute queen—and Cho Yeo Jeong, too, is just brilliant and the perfect counterpart here. I cannot express how much I adore a woman spitting words like “vulgar” at another about crude language after turning said curse-uttering woman’s spouse into a raging bull being ridden at a rodeo. I could practically see the damn lasso.
The men (spouses and more!)? Don’t worry. They weren’t bringing the surface level glam or elegance. Instead, they were bringing the chaos, the havoc and oftentimes complete idiocy that ensured wreckage was a guarantee here—one also brought with him a turd brown car he proclaimed to be rich gold. 😂 Accomplished people showcasing a special sort of incompetence brings its own kind of unique joy, and as a feed post of mine showed in photos, I realllly delighted in seeing an elite doctor sooooo awkward in trying to hide evidence of his crimes that were on display in the crime scene everyone was right there living through: heightened senses is an understatement, perspectives and interpretations of what is going on are so different for EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of them that they aren’t just on different pages… this lot of chaos agents were reading different books, pretty much living in different universes as their brains went, and you know what? I fkng loved every bit of their madness!
It goes without saying that this is not a show made for youth, and I mean MDL’s definition of youth here, adolescents to young adults. If you are as twisted and salty a pretzel as my 20-something era’s schadenfreude-delighting, sarcasm-dripping humor made me when it came to films and dramas, perhaps you, young friend, will also be tickled as if someone bought you a whole box of premium silicone toys to, well, be tickled by.
If my language in this review sits wrong with you, I politely but strongly suggest you not watch this show… after all, the affair is just its beginning, and my, oh, my… if the affair bothers you or you think that might be the indecent part, ohhhh, noooo… nuh-uh. The affair is the little “kids get out of here; grown ups are doing grown up things” warning to get viewers with youngsters in the house to turn off the screens in any shared areas and go to their rooms, maybe with the door locked and/or headphones worn if they do not want some of the ‘vulgarities’ reaching their kids. I say that as someone from an era where multiple books all about sex, illustrated, all forms of birth control showcased with data, too, were given to my young elementary school self (thanks, mom!) to learn things I would eventually understand a touch better than “that tickles” level curiosities of wee ones (my school also had progressive sex education sessions with experts that increased in detail every year from age 8 onward, and it was as normalized as educational content as the far less interesting demands to create 3D models of various elements… it was just science, some sociology and psychology, some more anatomy class applicable biology—I mention this to say that what is normal to me might be worlds apart from your own so how I watched this may, too, differ greatly from most on MDL).
I’m going to trust that me acknowledging the existence of things acknowledged in the show isn’t going to be overwhelmingly uncomfortable for the few who stayed around… if you did and like your humor resembling the color and sometimes temperature of pure melted tar, this may very well suit you. If I’ve offended you with my choice of words here, it really will not! My wordplay is a PSA urging people to watch if they like a show to be relentless in its efforts to be the purest form of unhinged character delivery… and urging others to find their own weird and wonderful kind of playground. This show is SO messy, and I was SO enthralled in turn.
Needless to say, I really thoroughly enjoyed this! I could write posts as long as this for so many ten minute long chunks of this show, but instead, I bid you happy watching if you are up for a bit of raunchiness, a lot of misguided, well, -everything-, and physical comedy at its best courtesy of cast giving it 110% and the crew enhancing it with masterful sequences of frames. Even the adorable fifteen or so year old daughters with their fledgling lesbian love stories showcased some hella bad decisions, both in actions and dialogue, and were thoroughly confused. They, too, were in different worlds from the parents they thought they understood the situations of, but oh, no, they certainly did not. That was not at all by accident. Nothing in this is, nothing.
It’s quite possible the art of MIScommunication has never delighted me so much or at least not in quite a lonnnng time! (I am stating this a bit late, but if you think this show centers primarily around sex, think again. I, too, opted in this review to intentionally misdirect a bit, to miscommunicate where disclosure would spoil one’s viewing, and NOT be clear about much of anything here because that would be a horrible disservice to all!) I have a feeling I’ll rewatch this short lil program by the end of September!
Thanks to the performances, the 9 this was sitting at inched up to a 9.5, and I do mean my rating, not literal numbers of inches things might increase in size. 😉😏
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