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ML does stuff for FL non-stop. I can only recall two things she did for him throughout the show, and one of those felt tacked on in the last episode.

Watched it because of all the "healthiest relationship in dramaland!!" comments and can't say I agree.

Pretty much global Netflix removal on 2023-08-12.

Dunno what is missing/censored in the Netflix version, besides that there is a karaoke room scene in which a totally irrelevant song (no actor singing) is replaced by some generic Netflix music, 24 minutes into episode 5 of 16.

Pretty much global Netflix removal on 2023-08-12.

If you find the plot boring or senseless early on it won't get better.

It's just one of many unresolved subplots. Not that this one *had* to be resolved. Nothing is cleared up and there's no consequences and that's that.

It's visible, but please mark it as spoiler.

At 33:37 in that video, the director guesses what the title might mean. I thought much the same personally.

https://www.soompi.com/article/1422955wpp/flower-of-evil-screenwriter-talks-about-her-inspiration-for-the-drama-and-explains-meaning-of-title has an "official" explanation, but a very brief one.

I think the parents are the often-repeated K-idea of "by the time you are down a very wrong path, it's too late to turn back; you can only do worse deeds on the same trajectory". I've seen this in a bunch of dramas, though I feel naming them would be spoiling their plots.

A lot of the last episode is him not knowing which memories to trust, like if he had real feelings for his wife or not – that didn't really need months of soul-searching but just five minutes of his sister explaining that, while he once said he never loved her, she clearly saw the opposite with her own eyes. It's established many times that she has a real gift for understanding him, and he too surely knows that, especially as he's "rebooted" to a much younger age when he had only been separated from her for some 3-4(?) years.

It's not :3

The whole "look how incompetent they police are, they even threw a cocked gun to a downed serial killer" scene was so very, very unnecessary – just like the whole amnesia trope.

However, what I hate much more than amnesia is the "our no-feelings psychopath must die by the end of the story because it's bad for society to idolise him" law/trope. So I'd have given it a 5.5 or 5.0 with the ending you suggested. :)

The law of "every episode must start with a flashback" really backfired once they ran out of ones that move the plot forwards or show you anything you didn't know anyway.

"Also for all the Kim mi-sook drama, we never saw her meet with her family."

Her family is her jailed (murderer) husband. But yes, it feels like it lacks closure, while for example the evil Baek getting to "imaginarily meet his son" and give him candy was a type of closure I could really have done without.

- I hated how the serial killer basically buys Eastern European mail order brides to kill, from a same-day delivery human trafficking Amazon shop, while himself supposedly being an "expert hunter" who "lays traps". And then he's killed in the most unspectacular way too.
- We never find out what happened to his wife aka the mother of ML and SFL?

- All characters were inconsistent messes (meaning several separate contradictory characters), not just ML. For the last half or so of the show, FL just existed to cry. It's like she had a contract clause guaranteeing at least one big crying scene every episode. And yes, ML couldn't decide if he's a master manipulator (car ride in ep16) or a loving husband and father, either.

- All the bonus lies from ML to FL are really unnecessary and could have cut the whole plot by 2-3 episodes. Jung Mi Sook is alive? The killer called me and lured me out? Nah, can't tell you those two, gotta abduct you first. Start a nationwide manhunt. Make your mother faint from the shock.

Presumably it was 'suicide by jumping off the cliff' and his head was bashed in beforehand.
It seems likely though that in an autopsy you'd see if someone died from a once-off impact on rocks or was hit repeatedly with one in different places, but I'm not any sort of corpse inspection specialist.

She didn't tell anyone what she saw because she was locked away in "psychiatric care" by the smuggling ring. For whatever reason, really...

She was not the target of the killer at all.

Yes, the serial killer's death by a rock from behind is absurd. As an expert hunter (of animals), he would obviously hear / sense the attack coming anyway.

Will I hate Innocent Man if I really hated the tacked on amnesia thing here? :c
(No full plot spoilers please, just an evaluation.)

I think his "insta recovery" is that he, as a true Criminal Mastermind™, has been faking the inability to move.

But again, he too has like four or six different unrelated characters in him....
The lovely perfect son (adores mother, great grades); the murderous disciple (killing someone 'to see what happens'); the unwilling participant ('used' by the serial killer); the super-smart murder master; the truly deranged (final episodes); the scared convalescent (begging mommy and daddy to save him from the scary ML).

All the characters have like three to five entirely separate personalities that they flip between. Unfortunately very inconsistent.

If the main lead is not innocent, they must die at the end. It's k-drama law.

*spoilers*: Here the SFL, having killed a person, only gets to come out as innocent after first dying a sacrificial death.