Happiness (2021)

WHAT IS TRUE HAPPINESS?

This drama giving us so much emotion and excitement in every episodes. The actors and actresses give us the best performance. But what made me love this drama so much is the life lesson in each of characters and life. Happiness is one of the most important factor in our life specially in todays world and time. What is Happiness? What is it something that will make us happy? House, things, money or relationship. This drama will make you realize that.

Also, humans are the scariest. That's the reality we need to accept.

Park Hyun Sik and Han Hyo Joo love team made the drama a 100% lovable. "It's not the house. It's the person you are with". I love them so much and we want season 2 with happy ending!

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A Hard Way to Find One's Happiness

Yihyun and Saebom found love in a hard situation. Their first meeting on rooftop, the lockdown, and when they have to handle the infected. Taeseok, on the other hand, are fighting for his source of happiness. I would say the story is so neatly written and as a watcher, we get to know all the residents deeper in every episode. It felt like we also live in the apartment with them. Sure, several characters were not explained clearly like Saebom's colleague at the beginning, Yihyun's colleague that live with him during lockdown, the grandma of the unemployed YouTuber, and the clerk girl near the end of the story. The pacing seems a little faster in the last episode compared to the earliest ones. Nevertheless, all the main points were highlighted. This story is about Yihyun, Saebom, and Taeseok after all. A really good drama with full of suspense, thrill, and a sprinkle of romance.

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Happiness but not a happy drama, but I'm not complaining.

Unlike the title, this drama isn't about happiness but the struggle to survive an outbreak. At first I thought it was quite boring, the first few minutes didn't really intrigue me much. But as the drama progresses, I see so much intense scenes and thrilling moments. I had a lot of jump scares in between, I don't know, maybe because I became weak hearted lol. I also like how both the leads were strong and independent on their own, specially because I know none of them will be like "nO jUsT LeAvE mE aLoNe I'm GoNnA dIE aNyWaY", in short, I really like their strong character. The other characters too were interesting, which makes me feel annoyed toward towards them like most of the time. The actors did great in their respective roles. However, I feel like the ending was too short to my liking or because I didn't get to see how others were doing. Overall, it was a good watch and would really love to see the season 2 if there would be one.

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I can't move on from this couple, the effect of those zombies are amazing. Love story between Sae Bom & Yi Hyun so overwhelmed and made me feel so blushing. They should make this drama at least 16 episodes. The casts were so professional and their characters totally fit with them. It kinda looks similar with our daily life in this pandemic era. Also some story reflected our real life about family, love story, protection and life lessons. this drama must watch to all of you who like thriller and romance drama. Worth it to watch and absolutely can't handle their lovely scenes, even about zombies, it won't be a boring drama like kind of those zombie dramas that ever made before. I totally recommendation this to you all. park hyung sik & han hyo joo had good chemistry and after long time hiatus this drama obviously AWESOMEE in 2021. My fave couple and drama this year. Loved it so muchh

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Happiness in a sarcastic way

Happiness od pierwszego odcinka była czymś wyjątkowym, czymś nowym i świeżym. Cały pomysł na plot bardzo mi się podobał i akcja przeprowadzona została wartko i przyjemnie. Szczerze mówiąc, zawiodłam się na głównym wątku romantycznym, który lekko mówiąc przepadł na tle trwającej akcji. Do samego końca jednak uważam, że Saebeom i Hyungsik byli wspaniale wykreowanymi bohaterami, których osobowości można śmiało pozazdrościć. Nie tylko wykazywali się odwagą jak i szlachetnością, patrząc przez pryzmat innych dram byli to bohaterowie świadomi swoich decyzji oraz tego co będzie ich skutkiem. Mimo tego, że bardzo przeszkadzały mi "zapychacze" z pobocznymi bohaterami, którzy notabene świetnie poradzili sobie z doprowadzeniem mnie do szewskiej pasji gdy tylko widziałam ich twarze, jestem w stanie powiedzieć, że faktycznie przywiązałam się do tej dramy. Polecam ją każdej osobie chcącej sięgnąć po coś treściwego :))

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Dobre kino akcji!

Co jak co, ale ta drama jest mega ciekawa. Wiadomo po zwiastunie każy sobie myśli, o nie kolejne zombi...czy można wymyślić coś ciekawego? I oto jest ta drama. Mega ciekawa jak dla mnie nie podążą za schematami (może tak troszku, ale nie jest to rażące). Główna para idealnie do siebie pasuje, taka zgrana drużyna, która dociera się i odkrywa w sobie uczucia do siebie. Jak dla mnie idealnie zostało przedstawine w dramie zachowanie ludzi, jak reagują w takich trudnych sytuacjach. Na początku gdy maja odany termin wszystko jest ok, ale jak wychodzi, ze systuacja może być dłużej trudna wtedy pokazują swoje prawdziwe ja. Czyli chciwość, zaborczość i chęć przeżycia. To jest takie prawdziwe, że każdy patrzy tylko na swoje dobro. Ja nie wiem jak bym się zachowała w ich sytuacji, dlatgeo nie oceniam z drugiej storny czy pragnęła bym kasy jesli zbliża się koniec świata? co by mi to dało, więc raczej nie zastanawiała bym sie jak oszukać kogoś czy wyciągnąć od niego kase. Co do żywności, zapasów tutaj nie mogę powiedzieć, czy bym nie była chciwa, skoro chodzi o przeżycie, myślę ze raczej nie zabiła bym dla jedzenia... z drugiej strony czy jak by ktoś prosił podzieliła bym się swoimi zapasami?? To jest ciężkie pytanie, możliwe ze była bym samolubna :P
Więc podumowując jak dla mnie akcja jest idealnie rozmieszczona, kreacja głównych bohaterów nie jest przerysowana co jest interesujące (patrząc na to, że Hyun został zarażony)
Gorąco polecam jesli nie przeważa Was widok krwi, buziaki :)

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Slice of life drama disguised in a zombie pandemic setting.

The show features memorable characters and performances across the board. The heroes are easily likeable as much as the antagonists are detestable. The show manages to find funny, charming moments despite the melting pot situation and knows how to pace itself. The characters are reliable to their archetypes though some still manage to surprise or disgust at how far they'll take a situation.

Regarding the soundtrack, not many crooners in this as is appropriate to the story beats, though thematic music does play to help heighten or ease tension when appropriate.

While it clocks in efficiently at 12 eps. Lots of storytelling is done without wasting any minutes. Feels very complete. Neither rushed nor bloated.

Overall it's easily rewatchable.

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There is Human in Humanity

They say the function of wisdom is to differentiate between good and evil. But the residents of happiness do not make it easy to do that. It's crazy how some infected seem to have more humanity than the so-called humans. Whoever said I see humans, but no humanity must've been talking about the true nature of humans in a crisis, just like the one Happiness depicts. I must commend the writer, I didn't expect the twist about Andrew and Kim Se Hoon (Han Joon Woo). And I hate that it had to turn bad, just as I started to appreciate them. But looks can be deceiving, and there is no better camouflage than a crisis situation to serve as a cover for evil. And as strange as Kim Se Hoon was, I knew he wasn't necessarily a bad guy and thought the same of Andrew, but I couldn't have been the furthest from the truth with my assumptions.

Everything about how the story unfolded, from the time Yi Hyun is infected to the time Sae Bom returned to the resident building, spoke directly to how infinite the greed of man can be even in an emergency situation. Despite being infected, Yi Hyun proved to be a better human than all the non-infected combined. The hardest thing to comprehend was that even as people were fighting to stay alive, all Representative Yeon Ok, Joo Hyung, his shady girlfriend Woo Sang Hee (Moon Ye Won), creepy lawyer Hae Sung, and SY cleaning crew Gi Se Gyu (Kim Young Woong) and his wife Ji Moon Hee (Lee Ji Ha) could think of was how to personally benefit from the situation regardless of the danger the posed to others. So it was only fitting to finally see them get what they deserved. Their greed in a way was their own self-punishment. This was an exciting drama, I enjoyed every minute of it. A thousand kudos to the writer, director, all the actors, but especially Han Hyo Joo, Park Hyung Sik, and Jo Woo Jin for keeping invested to the end.

Happiness as a drama made me realize that the events that seemingly brought out the dehumanization of humanity and fundamental ills of society weren't in Next as a drug, but in mankind's selfishness, hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, stupidity, distrust, greed and love of power. I like the message Happiness advocates. It's true that crisis situations expose mankind's struggle to deal with sudden changes and unexpected events, and there will always be those who try and benefit, be it the elites of society or even the government. But just as there are people and institutions driven by their fear, greed, hatred and selfishness, there are those driven by their desire to help others in a time of need. Most human beings are like that. They want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. They don’t want to hate and despise one another, because even in a residential apartment building, let alone the world, there is room for everyone. The ending of this drama is what happiness is about, because in life it's not where you live, but who you live it that matters.

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Nothing happy about this ;)

Don’t get me wrong, this is actually a very good watch. Just didn’t understand why the title was “Happiness” when the drama is about an infectious disease?!

I don’t usually watch or like zombie/ mad person/ infectious disease kind of shows, but this one was a refreshing break from the too many rom-coms I’ve been watching. The storyline itself is nothing new. An infectious disease is spreading, government is trying to cover up, people are turning against each other in order to survive etc.. there are characters whom you will love, and some annoying pricks whom you just want to gorge their eyeballs out LOL.

Both leads have very good screen presence. There is some action and a little chemistry and romance... but they focused mainly on their character development and smart survival skills. The music also very good, gets your heart racing and pumping. A few good scares, jump at the screen kinda scares.. some are predictable.

Definitely a good watch. :)

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A fantastic commentary on human behaviour, but the series is not for everyone

The drama has rave reviews and high ratings and that is for a good reason. It's a well-made drama based on a solid plot line. It will resonate with a post-covid audience on random governmental controls and lockdowns as well as human greed and power plays. Every episode keeps you on the edge, and not a single scene is predictable or boring.

But everyone probably knows this all by now from reviews and word of mouth. On the negative side, honestly, I struggled to finish the series - I had to take long breaks in between episodes and had to watch happy/feel-good series before being ready to come back to Happiness. The title conveys how difficult it is to find happiness in our day-to-day lives, and the series' plot line is also like that. Happy moments are rare; when they do come, it is refreshing. But it's so, so rare amidst all the conflict and chaos.

When you do manage to finish the series, it's all worthwhile as it is a happy ending. But the journey to get there is filled with fear, anxiety, worry and disgust, probably quite an accurate reflection on human behaviour around the pandemic.

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More sadness than happiness but only until episode 11

I was terrified that the story didn't have a happy ending and an endgame, as it didn't have romance as one of the genres, and all dramas I know don't have romance as one of the themes but have a man and a woman as protagonists. , none had an endgame. But luckily everything went more than right.

I only have two things to complain about: as much as you can understand that the other characters who were good also had a happy ending, I missed actually showing where their lives took. And another detail that I missed was showing how their process was able to cure the disease.

Other than that, I loved that Saebom and Yihyun were saved together and happy because that's really what they deserved for having such a beautiful heart.

I'm grateful to everyone involved for giving us an amazing story, but especially to Park Hyung Sik and Han Hyo Joo for playing the role of Yihyun and the role of Saebom - two iconic and landmark characters.

It was more sadness and anger than happiness in 11 episodes. But in the last episode, happiness came as abundant as we've always wanted.

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