Penthouse (2020)

O puro suco da novela mexicana

Eu comecei esse dorama após ver um reels no instagram sobre ele, então não fazia a menor ideia de qual seria a história, minha única certeza é que se tratava de um dorama mais sério, com pouco ou quase nada de romance, etc. Portanto, quando comecei a assistir, fiquei positivamente surpresa ao descobrir que seria uma espécie de "murder mistery" com vingança.
O começo de "The Penthouse" foi realmente muito promissor, apresentando os personagens e estabelecendo as suas relações e estabelecendo todos como suspeitos, mostrando os seus motivos para terem assassinado a Min Seol Ah. É importante ressaltar que todo mundo nesse dorama é horrível, tem um ou outro personagem que pode ser categorizado como um ser humano decente, mas de resto...
Inclusive, por causa de um primeiro ato tão eletrizante e envolvente que te instiga a criar teorias sobre o que realmente aconteceu no Hera Palace na noite do assassinato da Seol Ah, eu tinha certeza que daria 10 estrelas para esse dorama. Acontece que em algum momento os roteiristas acabaram se perdendo na história e o que estava se desdobrando como um mistério inteligente com plot twists bem pensados e atitudes coerentes dos personagens com as suas personalidades, virou uma caricatura de si mesmo.
Isso não impediu que a história continuasse sendo divertida de acompanhar, com personagens completamente malucos tendo atitudes bizarras se tornando cada vez mais absurdas. Mas isso fez a história perder um pouco de credibilidade para mim, porque ela deixou de ser mais sóbria e pé no chão e literalmente virou uma grande novela mexicana.
De qualquer forma, eu gostei muito dessa primeira temporada e não vejo a hora de começar a outra para descobrir como essa história irá se desenrolar.

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Basically if Rona wasnt a stupid brat everything would be fine!!
and let oh yeonhee and suryeon kiss
that's my review.
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What a waste of time...

After watching the episode of The Penthouse ...quite disapointing since it was Dan Tae all along not know about Seo Jin yet...but BORING..twistin it around why not from the beginning just inform it was Dan Tae and the story will be interesting since the viewers already knew but the character did not know....kim soon ok is just palying around....she is just another makjang....and tbh making it to be 3 season when Dan Tae was revealled as the murder probably with kim so yeon is just BORING....i was hoping it was Yoon Hee or probably Logan Lee father who did it with reason to make sure Logan will stop involve with Seol A....gosh...LAME and Boring....then...if my prediction is right than Bae Ro Na is yoon chul daughter or Eun Byeol daughter is not his probably Seo Jin loose her daughter or cannot have children so she pick a baby....that will be understandable why she was so hard on her not daughter all along...gosh...just to make a point on how evil and wicked Cheon Seo Jin the writer have to make sure she is really terrible se torture her not own daughter ....or how ignorant su ryeon to her step twin children....lame....boring....

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Psycho But It's Not Okay

this is ridiculous! honestly this is not makjang, this is psychopathicness................................ and like it's not a "I don't believe this" but this is just taking the most extreme idea and acting as if it's "original" or "revolutionary".

everyone is crazy, everyone is a psychopath and everyone is a self centered entitled brat, not just the kids EVERYONE.
I hate that I'm dropping this because the actors are amazing, and most of them are my favorites, but this just makes my blood boil...

honestly I was laughing so hard, and I was rolling my eyes every 2 seconds..

1- I said if Seol Ah turns out to be Soo Ryun's daughter I'd drop it and guess what... (and that's my point, the 1st most ridiculous crazy idea comes to mind and that's what the writer used. that's just basic) that's what they're implying and I don't even want to see them "shock" the viewers ;/
2- Seo Jin is a psychopath, she doesn't just want to win, she wants to make her competitors suffer.
3- Dan Tae is a psychopath, that scene where he hired gangsters and killed Soo Ryun's husband in a dramatic way was just so infuriatingly ridiculous. but he also proceeds to cut his finger and KEEP IT.
4- Yoon Hee is a victim but she, just like her daughter and seol ah, fuels the fires of those psychopaths. like yes she had to be angry but to threaten seo jin to the point she slashed her throat? that's crazy on both ends
5- one 15 year old against a gang load of crazy psychopathic rich people... honestly she messed with the wrong bunch and she pretends that they're out to get her;
A- she fakes her identity and pokes the crazy cubs.
B- she takes pictures of the 2 psychopaths having an affair
C- she wins against yoon hee's victim mentality and her daughter
D- she literally threw a match on the already angry and crazy bunch and she exposes the kids bullying (like girl you should've just went to the cops and the newspapers. sold the exclusive, got money and went to France to sing real opera)
F- she walks with her own two 15 YEAR old feets to the enemies' lair and she gets kidnapped. then killed...

6- non of the middle schoolers looked 15, they looked 20 as they were ;/ honestly is it so hard to cast actual 15 year olds ;/
7- yoon hee literally was ready to KILL a 15 year old for a spot in a highschool! like just save your money and move to France! she should've moved 15 years ago tbh, no one there would've cared that she lost ONE award. (which she makes it sound like that ruined her life, no it was your threats against a psychopath)
8- everyone else is just as crazy and self conscious, you'd think money would make them happy ;/
9- the 1st weeks eps were almost 2 hours!
10- in sky castle the kids were mostly ok, and the characters were driven by their pasts. and for world of the married it was a revenge story about a cheating husband and the clueless wife (though the 2nd half and ending did reach the overboard makjang) but this, this was purely made for "how crazy can it get" and koreans love that but it just makes me role my eyes and compare it to The 100 which is a dystopian story xD
11- bae rona is crazy, she lost 1 competition and she was about to slash her throat! yes talent matters, but you can't always win, and you certainly need to know your battles.. again like there aren't 2 opera people in the world, she should've looked for someone else but no she blames her mom ;/ smh it is the mom's fault she didn't raise her right..
12- honestly opera is not a rich people hobby, they can't buy vocals with money and honestly buying people's opinion doesn't matter once everyone sees they have no talent, they literally had no reason for all of them to peruse opera. they could've just chose classical music.
13- the kids didn't need to be 15. they could've been 18 year olds fighting to enter their top 3 universities, were they afraid becasue the top3 were called SKY xD
14- two 40+ year olds literally kidnapped and possibly killed a 15 year old ;/

the good, that are sad becasue I'm dropping this
1- I honestly LOVE the actresses here, I've been waiting for Lee Ji Ah since Ghost Detective, Kim So Yeon since Mother Of Mine and this was my 1st time seeing Rohee's mom Eugene and they are all such amazing actresses!
2- the setting, the outfits, the makeup, the visuals are all so beautiful
3- this was my most anticipated drama ever since I heard about the castings ;(

this saddens me more than hating When I was The Prettiest and Alice becasue I expected something beautiful and amazing ;(
I actually love opera and the ost were nice but I can't take that plot

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Another Makjang?

Listen. I like makjangs. They’re flamboyant and over-the-top but a good form of guilty pleasure. Therefore it should come as no surprise that when I heard about the immediate popularity of ‘ The Penthouse’ and its multiple spin-off seasons, I was willing to give it a go.

The biggest thing that I can say about ‘ The Penthouse’ is that it isn’t supposed to be a realistic storyline. It does focus on notable themes such as social hierarchies, prejudice and inequality with a flare of drama.

The acting is decent enough but I’ll be honest in saying that there were moments which felt a bit lacking but I’m not sure if I entirely blame the actors so much as I do the dialogue.

One of my major reasons for dropping the series was that it didn’t really click with me. For me a series has to have an instant hook and whilst ‘ The Penthouse’ had potential to be intriguing it didn’t really draw me in. I think the major factor was that the pacing was a bit off and even in the several episodes that I tried watching due to a friend’s recommendations, the storyline felt as though it was lacking in more evident plot logic.

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Absolutely insane - in a good way!

Non stop drama, betrayals, incredible writing and acting! I love, love, loved it! It started with a bang and the stakes kept being raised even higher! It was incredible and all I can say is make sure you don't miss out on watching this incredible drama! There were lots of tropes and clichés, but I don't even care because I couldn't get enough of it! The plot twists were brilliant, the villains were brilliant (I hated them so much! They acted so well!) I highly recommend this drama for non stop action and cliffhangers! I ditched lectures to watch this drama because I just couldn't get enough (don't drop your responsibilities like me, just know that it's that addictive haha) :)

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The most overrated drama yet

One of the worst dramas of this decade. It used controversies to gain Attention, it copied the concept of sky castle and the world of the married (both one of the top rated dramas) and showing bad contents without age ratings. It thereby built up it's hype with controversies and clout. Moving on to the main drama, the actors and actresses all over exajurate, everyone is evil...in real life we know this not true. Even minors are horrible, the drama is a mess. I will not encourage anyone to watch this, I would have given it a 0 rating but at least, they actually spent their time practicing, I'm dropping this for superior dramas like kairos and the uncanny encounter

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Suspending your disbelief will require brain damage

As a preface, I only saw the first episode. Might be it gets better, but judging by the other reviews it only gets worse.
In the first episode, there are 0 likable characters. Everyone is driven by some lowly emotion, jealousy, drive for 1st place, hatred, etc.

The reason I took 5 minutes out of my day to write this is too warn others about how ridiculous this show is. First things first, the mother of the MC literally runs heels first into the principal, bumping his teeth out from the impact. She walks out in front of 100 people and goes about her day normally. I hoped it was a fantasy. It wasn't. Then I hoped she would at least face some consequences, you know, like police going after her or something. Nothing happened. It's literally ridiculous. The characters are ridiculous, the events are ridiculous, the acting is ridiculous.

I give it an unwatchable/10. You've been warned.

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A bunch of lunatic people living in mental illness hospital called Penthouse

I am serious, how could this got 8.7 rating? I love psycological dramas and watched "the glory" and "its ok to not be ok", their story still a bit realistic and there are some value/lessons we got.

But Penthouse just full of lunatic people screaming and yelling to each other, eyes wide opened, tantrum with chaos illogical unrealistic plot.

Its like watching people fighting in the boxing ring but without rules. So i should say Penthouse is a mental illness hospital.

Not worth more than 1ep. I mean it and this is the first and only drama i give 1 rating in my life, just to warn people to be ready getting mental illness after watching this.

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