laundromat

who allowed these writers to make this.. lol what a huge waste of essentially full length episodes. there was no way to understand anything that happened the plot had actually zero structure at least in the way it was presented on screen. they were really just writing Whatever. right off the bat, the pilot episode makes it seem like you’re dropped off in the middle of nowhere where the story has already started which I think several others have mentioned getting this impression as well. it felt as though absolutely no conversations occurred at all in this story and nothing made any sense. the encompassing mood throughout is absolutely miserable without good reason from this empty plot and along with several others, I was already set off at the start with how bad the sets were lit like a hospital too. really weird production despite clear efforts towards visuals? just poor choices throughout and forcing myself to finish it to judge it fairly was just plain torturous. haven’t read the source material, but it seems like it was written by some sick teenager. the obsession with pseudo incest in asia for no reason needs to be studied. in this adaptation seemed like they just took the entire novel and annotated key scenes that they wanted to portray and threw them together alone as separate parts without any consideration for flow or storytelling. unlikable characters and exaggerated characterizations, literally the only character I didn’t hate was Iljo, even he was written poorly. hated Suhyo and Jeonghan when we were probably only supposed to hate Jeongin and the CEO. the addition of the past scenes were particularly useless because it just made me wonder why on earth Iljo was treated with such scorn in the beginning when there was no reason for it at all other than to just have an edgy toxic premise. just made me feel pity for the entire cast to be subjected to a script like this. I normally hate how many osts, especially in this genre, will often have full english lyrics for openings, but the closing credits track was unexpectedly good. mildly surprised there’s any good reviews of this show at all, but I know this genre is often not sought out for storytelling.

tldr huge waste of runtime opportunity. nonexistent plot and bad production that tries to give the illusion it’s otherwise. don’t watch this expecting a story at all. anything I rate 3 stars is only watchable if you’re high as a kite or were born yesterday like the writers seemed to be