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feb 2026 is expected release

Don’t wanna sound ageist but here we go - let’s rip the bandaid, shall we. A 35 year old actress is playing a 25 year old 🤷🏻‍♀️ and yeah the character is gen-z but she DOESN’T look it. And that’s why her aegyo on steroids is … unsettling. It’s just so misplaced. The whole screeching on the stairs scene (when he is dropping her back to her hospital) where she is telling the void life is short and bopping and jumping around. Yeah… no. I don’t know if it’s the cliche riddled character that’s off putting or the whole character + wrong casting is killing the deal

So...when do we find out about the star of the show, the terminal illness? Like what is it?

I'm sorry, I can't stand the female lead. It's just cringeworthy. The gratuitous "Aegyo" is misplaced. It throws you off.

yeah...no. it's not working.

no. a big no

Didn't need 16 episodes.

no. but she looks like it.

The quirkiness of the female lead is giving me the ick. It's giving dumb and feinged instead of endearing and genuine. The girl is old enough not to act like an ingénue. It's kinda an ick, her character.

Watching it for NKM. So will stick with it.

Best comment about this show is right here. Although I have rated the show really high (don’t ask me why. I just did). But this comment summarises everything that I had in my mind throughout the show lol

(Trying to keep it spoiler free) It’s a fantastic watch. Except the last episode and a half. Plus we didn’t get much insight into what happened to the killer when they were abandoned. All we got was their hate first at the person who abandoned them and then the people who actually wronged them.

the whole show except LSY is a big ick.

What a cartoonish mess is this show. Not my cup of tea.
Unnecessary comedy
OTT characters
Police officers who mess the shit up more than solve it
A guy whose friend has just died but he is fuming, pouting, flirting, stuffing his face with boiled eggs and constantly acting childish and immature out of jealousy.
A female lead who has unnecessary beauty shots while in the heat of the moment.
A team leader who is stupid and incompetent for comic relief.
Only redeeming angle is Lee Sang Yi's character who is the only one focused on the job of not just protecting the girl but also trying to solve the damn case while a caccophony of lunacy unfolds around him created by his own colleagues.
Oh and these olympic avengers also have some sort of Olympic PTSD, which glitches their system and the bad guys conveniently get away cos of this.

Who wrote this crap.

it's cartoonish and all over the place. messy watch

Just watch it and come back and tell us your opinion. :)

It’s insufferable in its unintelligence. It's a pretentious imposter dressed like a psychological thriller. But ends up choking on its own banality.

It's so underwhelming. There's no suspense. It's just laid out there. Storytelling is not tight like Worst of Evil or Evilive. 6 episodes in and it lands flat.

do share your thoughts post-watch :)

I am curious about something. If any Korean viewers are here and can tell me how is this show being received in Korea? Especially from the critics standpoint. I saw this post saying it's No.1 in Korea right now, which is basically telling us the organic viewership of the show.

But how is it being received/reaction by the critics other than the public?

@rubywooks did you watch it? thoughts? I mean...I had to come to this conversation we had 3 weeks ago just to catch up and see if you also experienced a Mr. Plankton hangover lol

@yuzzuu you're welcome :)