Lee Si Young, Kim Young Kwang, Kim Tae Hoon, Kim Seul Gi, Kim Ki Bum
Drama Rating: 6/10 Neck Score: A++
Of the
four dramas that
Lizabreff, Curdy and I were watching together, this one was my favorite. It has it all. An amazing bad-a female lead, a shady morally ambiguous secret male lead, awesome hackers who are the best (separate and together), some really hateable bad guys, and an unrealistically attractive priest. I was so invested. And it stay consistently good most of the time, until the very end, where all the sudden no one acted like themselves and they were all tricked by everything they should have seen through and it was embarrassingly bad. It turned into a blame session where everyone wanted to take the blame and we started chanting "나 때문에!" to the tune of
War of Hormones by BTS in that part where they are blaming women and hormones for the way they are. So yeah, what a disappointment. It was bitter, it was hard. I loved this show so much and it betrayed me at the last minute. It was like they gave up in the last two episodes and just slapped something together. I didn't mind how they wrapped everything up in the end, I just hated how it got to that point.
It makes it hard because now I feel like I can't recommend it to anyone, because I would have to say "it's amazing until the last two episodes and then it really sucks" kind of like
Reply 1988. But in all fairness, it still deserves some love for those first 14 episodes (or 28, since they are doing those new short episodes). It was a great revenge, crime drama with a puppet master, bad prosecutors, crazy wildcard police detectives gone rogue, and a wonderful bromance and romance. Also, Kim Young Kwang's hair deserves an award. As does his suits. He is so despicable, yet so likable too. And I just loved Lee Si Young with all my little heart! She's a freaking goddess! And my Ki Bum and Seul Gi were just so precious and perfect! Best OTP ever! It was also really weird seeing Kim Tae Hoon being so righteous. He usually doesn't get to play roles like that often. Bah! It was so good until they ruined it at the end! So, yeah. I'm a little upset that my favorite ended up last in the ending department. Boooooo!
