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This show is so annoying I registered an account just to tell you how bad it is. **spoilers throughout** Without a doubt, the worst thing that occurs in this entire show is the dancing-with-joy-for-having-found-a-pack-of-ramen-noodles in slow-mo scene, which lasts at least 1-2 minutes and has romantic background music while the male lead stares at her like he's falling in love. What else is wrong with this scene? Well, the girl is so emaciated it is hardly believable that if she ever eats ramen that she keeps it down. Her clothes don't stop you from seeing her bare bones poking out now and then throughout the series. The acting is so bad, especially while dancing with ramen that you feel like fingernails are scraping out the inside of your brain, it's that painful. Thankfully, streaming allows you to skip a lot by jumping ahead. Oh, right, another thing I had to skip a lot: the fight-porn in the first several episodes. Antagonizingly long fight scenes that reminded me of 80's movies. Ugh. True bad-ass fighters don't take that long to take out a bunch of guys, so it just doesn't work. Oh, and let's not forget the 50-naked-guys-in-a-communal-shower fight scene, which also lasted a long time. Skip. Skip. Skip. I know right? And I actually like guys. Didn't anyone ask "what is the point of this scene being so long?" Shaky cam throughout. Even when totally inappropriate. Yeah, film-makers snobbily call it "found footage" like that makes it more classy, but it's still annoying as hell when not used properly. There were a couple of times it was giving me a headache and I had to look away or skip ahead. Contrived. That style of camera work is best when it fits the action or adds something to the scene. Genre switching like nobody's business. Usually this is a political action thriller type of show, but once in a while they forced the actors to act like they were in a romantic comedy and then there would be cheesy romantic comedy music that didn't fit in AT ALL - and so makes you want to vomit. The characters in those moments had to act so inconsistent to their character from the rest of the show that I felt bad for them. The romance wasn't believable either at all. I don't think that girl is very good, specifically. Except when she's yelling and screaming at people. She seems good at that. The cutesy romantic parts felt like a plot device that the director didn't have the slightest idea how to deal with. Okay, so there's this Snow White theme going on with an evil stepmother mastermind and a magic mirror, which is a little sci-fi/fantasy, so felt like it was bending the genre a bit as well. However, the evil stepmother character was really well played and pretty interesting. She was so good it made me wish they had just eliminated the female love interest, who was terrible, and just let the evil stepmother carry it. The only reason I'm giving this a 5 and not a zero is because the stepmother subplot was so entertaining and believable. Unfortunately, most of the side characters were really well acted and believable, but the female love interest was bad enough, shallow enough, superficial enough to ruin the show, and the male lead appears to have been forced to do some shitty scenes on that account. His acting is great when that stupid girl isn't around. :P - Also, you have to suck at making TV shows to make that guy look stupid. Because he is super cute. After the first several episodes they seem to have some of their bad directorial choices put in check as the fight-porn gets minimized somewhat or is better incorporated with the story later. There's still some painfully superficial romantic scenes throughout that are not believable. Like - oh, right, when the female love interest is dying from allergic shock and it's this big tense moment of trying to save her and - oh - the guy has to give her some mouth to mouth because she stops breathing - what do you think is most appropriate? None other than trashy romance music exploding out of nowhere, because a girl dying is soooooo sexy. That was probably the most insulting thing I had to watch as a viewer. Really? Someone thinks it's trashy-romance-sexy when someone is unconscious and dying. F.U. Look though, if you really want to check out this show, a few episodes of Healer will wash that taste right out of your mouth when you're done. No problem.
score 5/10
clinufriti 30 June 2017
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