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If you're looking for a spy drama, Vagabond is much better.
I went into this expecting a spy drama but it ended up sort of becoming about politics/corporations and I feel like they were just trying to do too many things. The plot was confusing and hard to follow from the beginning, because it keeps on jumping from the past to the present. At first, I didn't mind because the pacing was still good and I wanted to know what was happening, but I think midway through the series it really bogged down and watching got tedious. Maybe it has to do with the narrative style / directing, but it wasn't my cup of tea. I stopped watching for a few weeks and then watched it on and off for in the middle section so this might also be why I found it confusing.
Watching how the FL and ML meet and fall in love is interesting. But I feel like the drama just went downhill and stagnated once they were reunited and the plot shifts to becoming a “kingmaker” drama. I finished the show because I didn’t want to leave it incomplete, but I completely lost interest in the main characters.
The FL's character was disappointing to me. Initially they present her as coming from a family of con artists and then she becomes a con artist in her desire to get revenge on Jeong Bok Hee for her dad, but she ended up not being a strong female lead. And for being a GK shadow, who are supposedly super scary, the ML was careless in some ways - not checking his car for trackers, not thinking about calls being traced. Obviously regular people wouldn't think of those things, but it's a bit frustrating when the characters get into trouble because of these things that I feel like spies should know.
My favourite characters were Jeong Bok Hee and Kim Jae Wook, who are the only two that really make the show worth watching. I found myself wishing that I remembered more of the details from previous episodes just for their story arc, and I was way more invested in their relationship although I didn’t really understand Kim Jae Wook’s actions even in the end when everything sort of got explained.
I think between ep 9-13 are probably the most tedious and then ep 14 things start coming together. I found the bad guys’ plot to make the FL an industrial spy not that convincing and the end also wasn’t that satisfying. I think this drama is one that can definitely be skipped.
Watching how the FL and ML meet and fall in love is interesting. But I feel like the drama just went downhill and stagnated once they were reunited and the plot shifts to becoming a “kingmaker” drama. I finished the show because I didn’t want to leave it incomplete, but I completely lost interest in the main characters.
The FL's character was disappointing to me. Initially they present her as coming from a family of con artists and then she becomes a con artist in her desire to get revenge on Jeong Bok Hee for her dad, but she ended up not being a strong female lead. And for being a GK shadow, who are supposedly super scary, the ML was careless in some ways - not checking his car for trackers, not thinking about calls being traced. Obviously regular people wouldn't think of those things, but it's a bit frustrating when the characters get into trouble because of these things that I feel like spies should know.
My favourite characters were Jeong Bok Hee and Kim Jae Wook, who are the only two that really make the show worth watching. I found myself wishing that I remembered more of the details from previous episodes just for their story arc, and I was way more invested in their relationship although I didn’t really understand Kim Jae Wook’s actions even in the end when everything sort of got explained.
I think between ep 9-13 are probably the most tedious and then ep 14 things start coming together. I found the bad guys’ plot to make the FL an industrial spy not that convincing and the end also wasn’t that satisfying. I think this drama is one that can definitely be skipped.
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