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I really loved the suspense and how the mysteries didnt feel dragged out, but naturally progress from one point to the other. The two main leads have such impeccable chemistry and it does so much to make the story resonate, you really feel all the highs and lows with them because their performances are so stellar.

My only issue though, is that the story in the first few episodes is 100% telegraphing that Hyun Soo is a murderer and he's living this secret life to escape whatever happened back in his village. Its the only reason him holding Moo Jin hostage makes sense. Granted it does pay off in terms of that incident leaving evidence that fuels Jiwon's suspicions later on.

But it feels very cheap to have your main character kidnap and essentially torture someone in their basement and then spend the rest of the show not addressing it and highlighting how tragic said main character is. Like, even Moo Jin gets over it so fast, it's really weird.

I enjoy how the story develops later and really do like Hyun Soo and Jiwon's relationship, but this poorly thought out section in the beginning really ruined a lot of the good stuff about the show. A blatantly terrible piece of writing that weighs down the significantly better writing in the later parts of the show