It's one of those shows that is more bad than good, but addictive like a manhwa as it had lots of potential and thus stirred the imagination.
The female lead started off as highly cute and sympathetic but ends as very annoying and selfish. In the beginning her friend seemed to treat her badly but by the end it was she who was worse, acting like a spoiled child at all times.
The male lead is one of the most underwritten and frustrating characters ever. His limited backstory is highly confusing and doesn't make sense. Why was he transferred? Why does he feel betrayed? At least if he had a well-fleshed story he wouldn't seem vague and contradictory. Whenever he is set up for some development it deliberately doesn't pan out. Even him growing to appreciate a small town and humanity and grow is undercut by the serial killing arc. Even his nemesis Baek(a nod to my liberation notes) is written to be as dumb and ineffective as he. The only conclusion can be that he is a straw character.
If these two were in their teens it would be an okay kdrama, but since they are 35 (and the male lead looks 40 at all times without any filter) their stupidity, their unprofessional and childish behaviour and failing the mystery genre, or even failing the subversion of the same entirely, leave one highly frustrated by the end.
The second male lead is either written to be the male lead or given a script to show off his newly learned range of acting skills. But the direction his character takes directly contributes to the feeling of having wasted ones time watching this drama. The grandfathers and politicians parts of the story were the most frustrating, the abrupt way both end without any real answers.
For those who like the journey it might be a good suspense but to those who like crime KDramas, the end result(especially the mechanism used by the culprit) makes it feel like one was fooled all along, a waste of energy becoming so invested in this drama. Good arcs, that could have been, got shortened and crammed into an episode and stories that should have been compact got dragged out but left without conclusion.
The background characters who breathed life into Mujin had the most depth unlike the main characters with the farmer and his tragic girlfriend, the best friend and her posse, the 55-51 couple, the shaman and all the animals being the heart and soul of the kdrama. However it feels frustrating to see the showmakers try to fool the viewers into believing the Mujiners were hostile at any point to any of the protagonists whereas they never once were.
The million or so shoutouts and parodies of anything and everything from liberation notes and 25-21 to extreme job and popular memes were the real highlight of this drama.
The female lead started off as highly cute and sympathetic but ends as very annoying and selfish. In the beginning her friend seemed to treat her badly but by the end it was she who was worse, acting like a spoiled child at all times.
The male lead is one of the most underwritten and frustrating characters ever. His limited backstory is highly confusing and doesn't make sense. Why was he transferred? Why does he feel betrayed? At least if he had a well-fleshed story he wouldn't seem vague and contradictory. Whenever he is set up for some development it deliberately doesn't pan out. Even him growing to appreciate a small town and humanity and grow is undercut by the serial killing arc. Even his nemesis Baek(a nod to my liberation notes) is written to be as dumb and ineffective as he. The only conclusion can be that he is a straw character.
If these two were in their teens it would be an okay kdrama, but since they are 35 (and the male lead looks 40 at all times without any filter) their stupidity, their unprofessional and childish behaviour and failing the mystery genre, or even failing the subversion of the same entirely, leave one highly frustrated by the end.
The second male lead is either written to be the male lead or given a script to show off his newly learned range of acting skills. But the direction his character takes directly contributes to the feeling of having wasted ones time watching this drama. The grandfathers and politicians parts of the story were the most frustrating, the abrupt way both end without any real answers.
For those who like the journey it might be a good suspense but to those who like crime KDramas, the end result(especially the mechanism used by the culprit) makes it feel like one was fooled all along, a waste of energy becoming so invested in this drama. Good arcs, that could have been, got shortened and crammed into an episode and stories that should have been compact got dragged out but left without conclusion.
The background characters who breathed life into Mujin had the most depth unlike the main characters with the farmer and his tragic girlfriend, the best friend and her posse, the 55-51 couple, the shaman and all the animals being the heart and soul of the kdrama. However it feels frustrating to see the showmakers try to fool the viewers into believing the Mujiners were hostile at any point to any of the protagonists whereas they never once were.
The million or so shoutouts and parodies of anything and everything from liberation notes and 25-21 to extreme job and popular memes were the real highlight of this drama.