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The Silent Wash
Look, maybe I'm too harsh on this in the title but disappointment after a pretty good set up was just too much. So let me start with the good:
The drama is set in the future where water shortage is killing life on Earth. The hope for reversal may come from the top secret discovery - lunar water - but there's a really good twist. The lunar water infects and kills the host by overwhelming his body with water so that the host drowns from the inside. Scary eh? You either die of thirst (Earth) or of self-drowning cause even your blood turns into water. I really liked this dichotomy of drought and drowning, the presumed solution to the problem that turn just as deadly in a really ironic way.
Special effects and sets were good - Netflix money delivers - and cannot say anything negative about acting though characters were seriously lacking. More about that in a second.
The bad:
After the good twist, comes the bad twist or bad trope. Or both. To control the lunar water, heroes need a savior and she appears in the form of a hybrid human/lunar water girl who, like all Star Child cliches, is faster, stronger, smarter, has self-healing powers, can breathe in Moon (lack of) atmosphere, doesn't feel cold, is basically indestructible. Short version: Total B movie rubbish. Shorter version: hogwash. Shortest version: wash. So no, the title of this review wasn't too harsh after all.
Once this trope entered the fray, predictability ensued. Of course that she's a product of cruel and forbidden experiments on 70+ other girl clones. Of course that characters who shouldn't have died die to protect her. Of course that she creates mother/daughter bond with FL and becomes FL's top priority, etc. All that stretched in 8 episodes. The whole thing could have been a solid 2 hrs long movie. At 8 x 1 hr episode, it became a chore.
There's no one that you could call a character. Po-faced actors served only as plot-forwarders, moving from A to B to C. By the end, we didn't know these characters, just who did what, and some background information such as that so and so had a sick daughter which was info dump not a characterization.
Overall, Netflix money + cast boasting Gong Yoo and Bae Doo Na should've had a better, tighter, and most importantly, inventive script. Instead, we got prettily produced but lazy and lifeless B drama void of anything that makes B cinema entertaining.
The drama is set in the future where water shortage is killing life on Earth. The hope for reversal may come from the top secret discovery - lunar water - but there's a really good twist. The lunar water infects and kills the host by overwhelming his body with water so that the host drowns from the inside. Scary eh? You either die of thirst (Earth) or of self-drowning cause even your blood turns into water. I really liked this dichotomy of drought and drowning, the presumed solution to the problem that turn just as deadly in a really ironic way.
Special effects and sets were good - Netflix money delivers - and cannot say anything negative about acting though characters were seriously lacking. More about that in a second.
The bad:
After the good twist, comes the bad twist or bad trope. Or both. To control the lunar water, heroes need a savior and she appears in the form of a hybrid human/lunar water girl who, like all Star Child cliches, is faster, stronger, smarter, has self-healing powers, can breathe in Moon (lack of) atmosphere, doesn't feel cold, is basically indestructible. Short version: Total B movie rubbish. Shorter version: hogwash. Shortest version: wash. So no, the title of this review wasn't too harsh after all.
Once this trope entered the fray, predictability ensued. Of course that she's a product of cruel and forbidden experiments on 70+ other girl clones. Of course that characters who shouldn't have died die to protect her. Of course that she creates mother/daughter bond with FL and becomes FL's top priority, etc. All that stretched in 8 episodes. The whole thing could have been a solid 2 hrs long movie. At 8 x 1 hr episode, it became a chore.
There's no one that you could call a character. Po-faced actors served only as plot-forwarders, moving from A to B to C. By the end, we didn't know these characters, just who did what, and some background information such as that so and so had a sick daughter which was info dump not a characterization.
Overall, Netflix money + cast boasting Gong Yoo and Bae Doo Na should've had a better, tighter, and most importantly, inventive script. Instead, we got prettily produced but lazy and lifeless B drama void of anything that makes B cinema entertaining.
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