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Indeed, it's like watching a CW series in terms of plot logic. I've never seen so little first aid given to injured/dying people, either.

I suppose K2 has a slighty less terrible ending than City Hunter or Healer, but they all don't cover themselves in glory.

To do it in the most cruel and absurdly over the top way possible, it was necessary to first raise ML.

For the leads, the ML's parents, and the third couple, yeah.

There's also no kiss or other affection for what feels like the last two thirds of the show. The wedding ring just disappears. The relationship to the 'real' father doesn't get explored. I couldn't think of a more bare-bones way to end this.

The story comes with so many facepalms and so many uses of the teleporter, plus the lamest "oh hey let's wrap up in 60 seconds" ending they could think of. And don't get me started on the 'romance'...

The writer of Black/Mouse wanted the protagonist of Black to be erased from (human) history, retroactively making *everyone else* happy by removing all interaction his soul had with them. In my opinion, and that of some other viewers*, this makes everything the characters go through in the drama pointless. Resetting the universe and undoing the entire show is tantamount to "it was all a dream!" endings. To try to salvage that stupid story, the director came up with the (almost equally troubled?) idea of a post-story happy end where a gift on her deathbed makes the FL remember the ML and all their shared memories, so that she can join up with his soul for a happily-ever-after in the afterlife.


*: to be fair, some other people consider it a great story wrap-up, the ML realising after his story arc that he must sacrifice himself for the good of all.


You can find tons of detail and discussions here:
https://www.dramabeans.com/2017/12/black-episode-18-final/
https://www.kcrush.com/unpopular-opinion-hated-blacks-ending-well-youre-wrong/

Let me know if the ending turns out to be as bad as in Black. Thanks!
(Not what precisely happens, just if it's stupid or ruins the entire show.)

Sadly half of the time it looks like a cheap soap opera because of the way it was filmed. Maybe it's mostly the framerate. The camera work is occasionally obviously bad & even comical.

The rapid pace of twists and turns keeps you on your toes, and the 'competent protagonist' is sure neat, though ultimately he's mostly FL's stooge throughout the majority of episodes. There's little he does that's not done to help her.

Several hours of plot development or rather lack thereof from the middle could be cut out because the end of Ep 11 renders them void. I found that really cheap and underwhelming.

As many other viewers have pointed out below, you have to be able to stand "convenient" plot points, like how characters receive every phone call with millisecond precision to affect conversations they're having (and there's hundreds of these phone calls).

It's not actually properly revealed if they 'did the deed' at the start, and she is supposed to be out of other options, hence the desperate act, one she also hates herself for at times later.

10 years for instigating the *attempted* murder of the male lead, it was. He wasn't murdered, obviously.

Eventually a happy end for the lead couple in the "after story".

A bit of romance, no endless back-and-forth, no dramatic confessions.
Ending spoilers in the next reply.

There was a scene where police officer Jang (I think?) overheard her suddenly call a presumed male after Jang asked her some probing questions, and the police made a note to check who she called. That story thread was either left for a Season 3 or forgotten about entirely.

She (Han) basically has the option to go back to her precinct, but wants to prove the bullies wrong and further her career. That's why she cries after the phone call with her old partner. Not because the two guys from the reform unit are mean to her, but because it means not going back to her comfort zone and the people there.

It's very different.
There are a thousand occasions of the camera lingering on really mundane things; some episodes have a few ambassadorial scenes seemingly made to sell Korean cuisine and culture to foreign viewers; dal.komm is very clearly the official coffee chain sponsor of the show.

I don't recall if the first season also very often skipped over a meeting / conversation and instead fed it to you as voice-overs that a departing character is reflecting upon in their car.

LCJ (Mr. Lee) seems to talk YSW (Mr. Yoon) into properly planning the murder and doing it to serve a 'higher purpose'. LCJ thinks a shock like that is needed to enable true change in society, and saw himself as too far gone to be redeemable, whereas he views SDJ (Mr. Seo) as someone who can still save himself, and expresses that with his final words.
Aside, LCJ needs the murder and investigation (full of breadcrumbs) to set up HSM (Mr. Hwang) as the cleansing hero. Only after LCJ and YSW kill PMS (Mr. Park) can LCJ appoint the protagonist to handle the case, ensuring the following course of events.


It's a bit contrived how LCJ would rather die than stand in front of a court as a defendant, and how he can simultaneously both be completely corrupt for years, and a radical reformer secretly recording all of this corruption.
Both essentially murdered with the intention of being caught later on, from what I recall.

It's more than zero.

Sorry to barge in here, but OK/notOK definitely deserves a proper chance. I gave it a 9, while this here is only a 6 if I round up generously. It's just leagues beyond competing shows.
Rugal to be fair isn't even a 6, besides the action scenes it's completely useless. Horrendous writing.

Tae Woong might be the leader on paper, but every time they go out as a team (starting from the earliest episodes), Gi Beom walks ahead and in the centre like he's the coolest and strongest power ranger ever. When he assigns the others absurdly colourful team jackets, he himself gets to still wear the cool guy jacket. It's truly a 12 year old's narcissistic super hero fantasy.

There is a "what the characters do in the future" thing, but the core (political) plot is unresolved enough to allow for a second season.
It's a happy ending for the main characters, in terms of having the freedom to choose their own paths.