Um WTF did I just watch????

gareth-75442

Not a fan of Korean movies, yes I've watched a few, not watched any of the TV shows but figured I'd give this ago, it's a little distracting reading so many subtitles that are flashed up on screen & try to follow the flow of the show but dang this was all kinds of confusing, 5 years ago, 5 years later, 10 years ago, it just seemed like someone got really lazy in the editing studio because by the end I wasn't sure if we were in the present or jumping backwards & forwards.
Biggest problem I found is every scene seems to be thickly "troweled on" whether it's dramatic, sentimental or scenes of violence, at times it seems to be very soap opera like then throws in scenes of violence that are over long & quite odd, disturbing but very odd.
Because I litteraly haven't seen many Korean productions I can't really give a fair indication of the quality of acting but screaming Korean children are very annoying,
Obviously there's going to be a culture divide here with me being English but I'm pretty sure the korean police service/force would be a lot more professional than is portrayed in this show, I'm also pretty sure if a family had a child that's killed a rabbit at school then come home killed all the fish in the fish tank then taken the family's pet dog out & drowned it, that kid would not be left unattended at home with other younger children, heck I'm pretty sure the kid would be in some secure mental institute for a whole lot of observation.
While I found this intriguing it didn't really have much to do with the Premise of this show, yes there's a test that's been devised for screening for the "psycho" gene & an attempt to get a law passed to use it was shown but other than that this was really just a show about a serial killer.
If this were a show made in the UK or US I would simply say its been pretty badly written with some very odd & confusing dialogue & acted out by some very amateurish soap actors & then edited very badly but it's Korean so I think 5/10 is probably a very fair score.

score 5/10

gareth-75442 5 March 2021

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