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Well...I guess it was better than season one?
Well this season was a bit better than the first one I suppose, but it was still more on the boring side to me. I don't know why, I just didn't feel as hyped and immersed as many other watchers in the plot nor the characters and at some point I became more interested in ML than FL.
Most of the villain characters were kinda one dimensional to me including their leader Yeon Jin, I liked Jae Jun the most among all of them (I loved all his outfits. Personality-wise he was the most realistic, and to be honest, he is really hot lol that mullet hairstyle fit him well). I was a bit surprised by how he instantly became all affectionate towards his daughter and acted like an actual father when he realized she was his child. Also most of them constantly cursing and acting as vulgar as they can was cliché as hell, they were all cartoonish evil at some point.
One is a selfish drug addict who swears more than she breathes, one is a gross and perverted thug who supposedly likes the slut, one is a pure evil bitch, one is a dumb slut that is into the narcissist, and the last is a narcissist who pretends to love the evil bitch. (I seriously found the addict, thug, and the slut gross as fuck as characters, not because they were bad guys, I do like some evil characters more than main ones at times when they are well written, but the way the characters in Glory were written was gross and lame to me, got tired of seeing them instantly, the actor and actresses done pretty good though acting-wise)
Another gross character is that male teacher with heidious hairstyle who liked to bother the FL, he was a pedophile, and gave massive sexual offender and incel vibes lmao why did he exist in first place?? Yes it's okay to show these things in dramas to raise awareness about such problems, but we didn't need more drama and fillers in the plot, not literally everyone needs to be a piece of shit and harass the FL.
Besides what was the point of the scene where the slut/Hae Jeon takes off her shirt and shows off her boobs, now she indeed has nice boobs and I'm all for nudity and mature content/graphic and kinky sex scenes in dramas/movies, but when they have a point and serve the plot. Some examples about what I'm talking about are A Frozen Flower, Call Boy, The Naked Director, and . All these movies/dramas had nudity, graphic sex scenes, and even BDSM stuff but they never felt gross or odd cause they helped the plot a lot and were the focus. Some of the scenes were even hot and enjoyable.
Here this scene was just for shock value and that's it (Netflix just love to fill shows with pointless nudity and sex scenes out of the blue, that even includes animes), so it made me a bit bothered, I really like this actress and I know she was a member of SNSD/Girls' Generation, which all made me even more uncomfortable having them make her show her chest out suddenly.
If the actress is fine with it, that's the most important thing, but I just don't like it when they use women naked bodies and private areas for "artistic", shock value, or fan service purposes (Yeah I know they also do fan service with guys, but they mostly show their abs and upper half of body which aren't private areas, sometimes they show their asses which isn't that big deal to me, but they never show their dicks at least). If this was a drama about mature romance, porn/sex related jobs, sexual crimes (Like the movies/dramas I mentioned earlier)...etc then I wouldn't care even if they literally show someone's dick or vagina, but it's not so why?
Yeon Jin's husband was a boring character, he just existed. Like he literally realized his wife is a cheater, sociopath, murderer, and liked to do heinous stuff, yet he still didn't instantly divorce her. Like really?! Who cares if she is his wife or his daughter's mother, such a woman shouldn't be out on streets, let alone raise a child (Yeah, I know he also did something bad at the end, but well Jae Jun earned it in a way).
That middle aged woman who helped FL in exchange of getting rid of her husband was stupid as hell, grew tired of the melodramatic sub-plot about her and her daughter pretty quick. Yes domestic abuse is an awful thing, but I just couldn't get into it in the drama. One good thing about her is that she knew her daughter didn't have any fault at what happened and she shouldn't pay the price for her mother picking to marry a shithead.
The romance between ML and FL...I didn't feel it at all. First it was quite clear that ML is way younger than FL (I mean the actors, I know their characters supposedly are of close ages in the plot, but it was still clear that the actress is way older than him). Well, it's not a big deal as long as both are adults I suppose, but wish they made them fit more.
The ML tried his best to play the obsessed, loving boyfriend role, his acting was pretty good and convinced me.
The chemistry though was barley visible to me. Even when they said "I love you" to each other, the FL seemed dead inside and ML was trying hard to make it convincing, but it didn't work. They should've just made them partners in crime/revenge and that's it instead of the forced romance that didn't really fit with the overall plot. I know they added it cause they are obsessed with adding romance to everything and maybe to have the FL be less lonely and more humane, still when it comes to horror, thriller, psychology, action, sci fi, and crime genres it's better to not add any pointless romance that might effect the plot negatively. It's fine when it helps the plot, but not when it doesn't.
Honestly I couldn't help but think that the ML and Yeon Jin's husband wouldn't give two fucks about FL if she wasn't pretty...it's her beauty and mysterious vibe that lured them into falling for her charm, then since ML is a bit of a psycho himself (And it's clear from the fact that he latched to FL too much even though they didn't interact that much or long to begin with, too much that his mother knew he would kill himself if FL dies and had to chase after FL to make her get back with him, that whole part made me dislike the romance more).
He became even more into her since he realized they both had serious mental issues and dark past, so basically put two utterly broken and suicidal people together and make them a couple since misery loves company, that is a toxic concept lol they both need serious therapy sessions instead. Making your whole life revolved around someone, and if that someone breaks up with you or dies you kill yourself as response, it's creepy and sad, not romantic. I personally have experience with depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts so I know damn well this type of shit isn't the best solution/cure.
Yeon Jin's husband liked the intelligent and serious aura of FL, she is quite different than his materialistic, fake, and shallow wife.
Anyway it felt the plot was trying so hard to be as complicated and dark as possible, and the characters were supposed to be as disturbing and smart as possible, but everything fell flat. Everyone were either evil, or self-loathing and mentally crippled. I couldn't like the FL, yeah her story is sad, although they tried to make her a bit overly tragic by adding her mother being a scum as well, like we get it, she is miserable! But I still couldn't like her. I just couldn't like any of the characters that much.
Only interesting thing about the plot is that it's inspired by a real case in South Korea and that's it. The scene when that shaman died due to that girl "ghost" made the plot more stupid to me. I thought they were trying to be more on the realistic side, why add supernatural elements to it?!
The ending was well...happy? Everyone bad got punished, everyone good kinda got revenge, FL and ML supposedly will live happily ever after, yet it didn't feel that happy nor greatly satisfying yeah, it was just depressing and cliché, I guess that fits since the plot is overly gloomy anyways.
Most of the villain characters were kinda one dimensional to me including their leader Yeon Jin, I liked Jae Jun the most among all of them (I loved all his outfits. Personality-wise he was the most realistic, and to be honest, he is really hot lol that mullet hairstyle fit him well). I was a bit surprised by how he instantly became all affectionate towards his daughter and acted like an actual father when he realized she was his child. Also most of them constantly cursing and acting as vulgar as they can was cliché as hell, they were all cartoonish evil at some point.
One is a selfish drug addict who swears more than she breathes, one is a gross and perverted thug who supposedly likes the slut, one is a pure evil bitch, one is a dumb slut that is into the narcissist, and the last is a narcissist who pretends to love the evil bitch. (I seriously found the addict, thug, and the slut gross as fuck as characters, not because they were bad guys, I do like some evil characters more than main ones at times when they are well written, but the way the characters in Glory were written was gross and lame to me, got tired of seeing them instantly, the actor and actresses done pretty good though acting-wise)
Another gross character is that male teacher with heidious hairstyle who liked to bother the FL, he was a pedophile, and gave massive sexual offender and incel vibes lmao why did he exist in first place?? Yes it's okay to show these things in dramas to raise awareness about such problems, but we didn't need more drama and fillers in the plot, not literally everyone needs to be a piece of shit and harass the FL.
Besides what was the point of the scene where the slut/Hae Jeon takes off her shirt and shows off her boobs, now she indeed has nice boobs and I'm all for nudity and mature content/graphic and kinky sex scenes in dramas/movies, but when they have a point and serve the plot. Some examples about what I'm talking about are A Frozen Flower, Call Boy, The Naked Director, and . All these movies/dramas had nudity, graphic sex scenes, and even BDSM stuff but they never felt gross or odd cause they helped the plot a lot and were the focus. Some of the scenes were even hot and enjoyable.
Here this scene was just for shock value and that's it (Netflix just love to fill shows with pointless nudity and sex scenes out of the blue, that even includes animes), so it made me a bit bothered, I really like this actress and I know she was a member of SNSD/Girls' Generation, which all made me even more uncomfortable having them make her show her chest out suddenly.
If the actress is fine with it, that's the most important thing, but I just don't like it when they use women naked bodies and private areas for "artistic", shock value, or fan service purposes (Yeah I know they also do fan service with guys, but they mostly show their abs and upper half of body which aren't private areas, sometimes they show their asses which isn't that big deal to me, but they never show their dicks at least). If this was a drama about mature romance, porn/sex related jobs, sexual crimes (Like the movies/dramas I mentioned earlier)...etc then I wouldn't care even if they literally show someone's dick or vagina, but it's not so why?
Yeon Jin's husband was a boring character, he just existed. Like he literally realized his wife is a cheater, sociopath, murderer, and liked to do heinous stuff, yet he still didn't instantly divorce her. Like really?! Who cares if she is his wife or his daughter's mother, such a woman shouldn't be out on streets, let alone raise a child (Yeah, I know he also did something bad at the end, but well Jae Jun earned it in a way).
That middle aged woman who helped FL in exchange of getting rid of her husband was stupid as hell, grew tired of the melodramatic sub-plot about her and her daughter pretty quick. Yes domestic abuse is an awful thing, but I just couldn't get into it in the drama. One good thing about her is that she knew her daughter didn't have any fault at what happened and she shouldn't pay the price for her mother picking to marry a shithead.
The romance between ML and FL...I didn't feel it at all. First it was quite clear that ML is way younger than FL (I mean the actors, I know their characters supposedly are of close ages in the plot, but it was still clear that the actress is way older than him). Well, it's not a big deal as long as both are adults I suppose, but wish they made them fit more.
The ML tried his best to play the obsessed, loving boyfriend role, his acting was pretty good and convinced me.
The chemistry though was barley visible to me. Even when they said "I love you" to each other, the FL seemed dead inside and ML was trying hard to make it convincing, but it didn't work. They should've just made them partners in crime/revenge and that's it instead of the forced romance that didn't really fit with the overall plot. I know they added it cause they are obsessed with adding romance to everything and maybe to have the FL be less lonely and more humane, still when it comes to horror, thriller, psychology, action, sci fi, and crime genres it's better to not add any pointless romance that might effect the plot negatively. It's fine when it helps the plot, but not when it doesn't.
Honestly I couldn't help but think that the ML and Yeon Jin's husband wouldn't give two fucks about FL if she wasn't pretty...it's her beauty and mysterious vibe that lured them into falling for her charm, then since ML is a bit of a psycho himself (And it's clear from the fact that he latched to FL too much even though they didn't interact that much or long to begin with, too much that his mother knew he would kill himself if FL dies and had to chase after FL to make her get back with him, that whole part made me dislike the romance more).
He became even more into her since he realized they both had serious mental issues and dark past, so basically put two utterly broken and suicidal people together and make them a couple since misery loves company, that is a toxic concept lol they both need serious therapy sessions instead. Making your whole life revolved around someone, and if that someone breaks up with you or dies you kill yourself as response, it's creepy and sad, not romantic. I personally have experience with depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts so I know damn well this type of shit isn't the best solution/cure.
Yeon Jin's husband liked the intelligent and serious aura of FL, she is quite different than his materialistic, fake, and shallow wife.
Anyway it felt the plot was trying so hard to be as complicated and dark as possible, and the characters were supposed to be as disturbing and smart as possible, but everything fell flat. Everyone were either evil, or self-loathing and mentally crippled. I couldn't like the FL, yeah her story is sad, although they tried to make her a bit overly tragic by adding her mother being a scum as well, like we get it, she is miserable! But I still couldn't like her. I just couldn't like any of the characters that much.
Only interesting thing about the plot is that it's inspired by a real case in South Korea and that's it. The scene when that shaman died due to that girl "ghost" made the plot more stupid to me. I thought they were trying to be more on the realistic side, why add supernatural elements to it?!
The ending was well...happy? Everyone bad got punished, everyone good kinda got revenge, FL and ML supposedly will live happily ever after, yet it didn't feel that happy nor greatly satisfying yeah, it was just depressing and cliché, I guess that fits since the plot is overly gloomy anyways.
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