Pick Kingdom instead

Let's say when I saw a zombie movie from South Korea I was quite interested but unfortunately it is a typical Netflix level of production. It's not bad, but it's not good either. The story is set, nothing special, I don't mind if we jump into the middle, people turning zombies, and the main characters need to survive. My problems with these kind of movies when they are not logical.

Oh Joon Woo sends out hes drone to make a phone call, but the battery dies. Seriously? He forgot to check it? And he couldn't charge it after and send it out again? What exactly he wanted to do there? No explanation.

First one zombie breaks into Oh Joon Woo`s place, and later on a zombie breaks into Kim Yoo Bin`s place also. How exactly? Those doors are opening from the flat into the hallway so to push them into the flat is basically impossible and I'm pretty sure if someone tries to pull them open the handle will break before the door gives up. Of course we didn't get any explanation.

They ( I guess the government) were bombing the city, or one part of the city we saw the bombing happening, and also a nice night traffic on the bridge… huh?

Firefighter zombie climbing up on a random rope was also a bit wtf moment. I mean they are mindless zombies like how the TV was showing or clever zombies or mixed bag?

And then they meet with the third character who saves them, gives them water which they are afraid to take because why exactly? Did they met any bad humans during the apocalypse? Or they just saw a lot of movies so they were like wait a minute this random stranger gives us water? But then they are drinking the water they are getting drugged (also i didn't see any explanation how they got drugged but the weirdo not) and then just randomly Kim Yoo Bin won't black out, and also Oh Joon Woo wakes up after 2 minutes. What kind of a shitty drug is this guy using? Also this I will feed my family with you was way too cliche. Just like the helicopter rising from the “deep” at the end but I was kinda expecting that.

So if you want to switch of your brain just watch something with zombies you might like this one, but if you are the same type like me and pisses you up if the main characters are acting stupid just for the drama then just skip this one and watch Kingdom. That series IS quality.

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The potential...

So yesterday I finished the drama, and honestly I wanted to love it so so much but it just couldn't live up to my expectations. I really liked the plot, the music, the visual, it gave me a bit of a True Detective feeling. And still I nearly dropped the whole thing after the 4th episode, because the writing pissed me up so much. Basically every character was terribly written.
Lee Jae Han: Who is despite a policeman, creeping on his crush following her from 10 meter and hiding behind bushes when she turns? And literally trying to run away when the girl approaches him? Srsly? As a fresh policeman he should be more than 14 years old i guess. At least later on the show he matures and from there he is the most realistic character of them all.
Park Hae Yeong: The absolute worst character I ever met. In the majority of the show he just stares into the abyss with a question mark above his head, or just simply asking back to every piece of information given three times.
He is not the killer!
He is not the killer?
No he is not
So…. he is not?
Despite he supposed to be the brain in the “team”, he was basically useless in the entire show. He is definitely not a professional detective, just a selfish emotional idiot. Sometimes I was truly thinking he got some mental challenges to understand the most basic things happening around him…
The Cold cases team, is also a non existent thing, because the show falls into the most brasil soap op cliche of all times, the members are not talking to each other, not sharing informations the typical thing where a problem could be solved with 2 sentences but, nooo the characters just staring each other and then walking away silently… Oh Cmooon!
I understand they wanted drama everywhere but this is not the way you should make drama. This is just bullshit. I was preparing myself for the episode where they show us the Inju case (the main thing. The case which started all of this), I really hoped they will give to the `what happened that day` a full episode placed only in the past, and show us (the viewers) the brutality of the gang rape, how the whole village knows what happened, who did it, but keeps silent because of the absolute power of the cement company… That could have been dramatic where we see how bad is when company leaders have absolute power on people and even the police. What we got? A half episode a weird rape scene where one person rapes the girl who gets into the hospital after? So it wasnt a gang rape then? Or when did it actually happened? Did I miss something?
Every time something good happened, and I started to lay back to finally enjoy the show the writers decided to make some idiot choice which ruined the whole experience again and again leaving me frustrated because this show had so much potential. The way Lee Jae Han finds the scarf… I'm still shocked how bad that was. And why the heck they had to explain everything like two times to the viewers? I constantly felt the writers thinking im stupid or just really slow like Park Hae Yeong. I remember the scene where I was like “finally the scene they made clever”. It was the photographers missing girlfriend and the fact she was reading a book and they just showed the book in her hand for a split second and I was like omg yess the book the book! And what happened next? I can imagine the writers were like “Oke, we need to explain to the people what is happening because you know not all of them are so smart like our police” and bammm another disappointing solution. Same with the woman who comes back to SK because of the sick mother. You can put together the puzzle pieces but noooo Cha Soo Hyun explains you everything when she talks to the sister…

Im so pissed, because this could have been a unique masterpiece but the lazy, incompetent writing ruined the show for me.

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