Black (2017)

I liked the dramatic opening. After a slow start in episodes 1 and 2 , where it was very unclear where this was leading, I found it riveting - as much for the characters as the mystery, plot and supernatural interest. I also liked the way it still managed to inject comic moments into what was basically a very dark story. I have rarely come across a story with so many twists. Just when you think all has been revealed another twist arrives. I am still not clear who was the ultimate villain. A very unexpected ending, nice but illogical in view of the fate outlined just before. I think the main (or perhaps only) reason I would re-watch a series is not for the story but from feeling for the characters - and this is high on my re-watch list for that reason. Highly recommended for anyone who likes supernatural mystery with some romantic interest without it completely dominating the drama.

Citeste mai mult

Why did they have Christmas decor on Halloween?

The headline explaines everything, no one knows whats going on in this drama.
Its not necessarlly bad, it just could have been better.
Story : The story was good, it had interesting twists and turns, I just think it had too many of them and many were very cliché. I explained this entire plot to my boyfriend and went through the entire story with him and every time he thought " this is it " it actually wasn't. The story jumped from one moment to another and every scene was repeated at least once in a flashback or something, which made the entire drama look a bit hectic. I think that this was the directors and the writers way of filling up plot holes and a few of them were left unfilled. I think that if we got rid of the flashbacks and just explained the story in its entirety without changing the plot 7 times it would have been better. The story also either progressed a lot in short time or sat in one place. ⚠️ The ending was really weird with the " ill make the entire world forget me " and " she has to be happy, so ill disappear " cliché. And don't get me started on the actual ending of the ML bringing her to her death after she remembers him.⚠️

Acting/Cast: I think that the FL's acting could have been better, ive seen her other work and I think it looks like this because the FL is simply written badly. Kang Haram is just a typical messy heroic idiot that tries to solve a problem but instead fails and ends up crying and being saved.
The ML isn't actually that bad. His charachter could have been written better then this, but the actor saved everything. I couldn't remember his name so i always called him fake Ok Taecyeon because they really look alike.

I never actually noticed the OST or any of the soundtracks so thats that.

Its not a bad drama, i think that if you like dramas with a lot of suspence and generally crime and thriller dramas, I think that you will like it. You just need the stomach for horrible clichés and weird plots. You should read a review from someone who really liked this drama and decide if you want to watch it.

Citeste mai mult

ALL THE FEELS

I am not sure what I expected from this drama, but once I got into it, it blew me away.
Which is funny because I remember talking to one of my good friends in the beginning, basically agreeing that it would take us a little more time to watch and finish it because it didn't catch our interest. And the things that did catch it, were very heavy topics that we needed to take a day to digest. It was a lot of information and misfortune. Honestly, in the first couple of episodes, I rated the drama...a 6 or 6.5. It was heavy and I didn't like Han Moo Gang nor the Grim Reaper.

But OMG...once you get past episode 7, and the Grim Reaper (444?) finally starts to get a little bit of a clue, the drama kept getting better and better. It was like the first 7 episodes were very blunt and needed to set up and give us all the information we needed for the rest of the drama, but with zero context. It was very, "it is what it is" and zero surprises. It wasn't until my favorite character, Oh Man Soo, got into some trouble, where I was like...if this drama is going to continue to be blunt, then I'm dropping this. But it wasn't. That was when the drama started to throw twists and turns around every corner, that not only were really good but were clean and made total sense. Most dramas I see where they add twists, I am like, "oh ok...sure...not sure how you got from point a to point b...but I'll go with it." But not this one. They give you all the information you need from the beginning, and it is your job to almost be a detective with Ha Ram and the Grim Reaper and piece the information together.

It was a wild ride, and I am mad that I couldn't give this drama over a 9, but I had to because the drama started off very poorly for me. I wish the consistency was there from the beginning. I wish that I liked one character from the beginning, but didn't.

A few things that didn't make sense to me though, were I enjoyed Ha Ram and the Grim Reaper working together, but at some point, Ha Ram just disappeared and became a minor character. It was random and inconsistent. It made sense why she wasn't in those few episodes, but it was odd that one of our main characters, who played a huge roll in this drama, wasn't relevant.

_____________

Also, SPOILER. Don't read ahead if you don't want to be spoiled:

I think the ending is what also saved it for me. It showed major character development for the Grim Reaper, especially when he found out exactly who he was when he was a human (hence, grim reapers were souls of people who died, but their bodies were never found or were laid to rest). I was literally in tears in the final few minutes of the drama. It reminded me of Edward Scissorhands in a way. BUT, I was also up all night thinking about the ending.

In the end, The Grim Reaper basically asked for his punishment to be that he never existed as a human, therefore no one would remember him because he was never...alive...right? Yes. But I wasn't sure how that affected Ha Ram's parents getting into that car crash in the beginning, therefore her farther being a grim reaper, and her being born as a half grim reaper and seeing ghosts. Therefore, she was able to live a healthy and happy normal life, like she always wanted. BUT if that were true, that means that there was still underground minor prostitution, and no one was there to catch it, or to save Kim Sun-Young because she still got raped? Right? Maybe some other police officer figured it out? But this ending doesn't seem very happy for that whole prostitution side. And when his existence never happened, did Moo Gang still exist? Or did he still have that heart issue? Was he saved? It also makes me a little sad that because of his lack of existence, Ha Ram and Man Soo never met. Honestly, they would have been such a cute couple and they should have tied that in somehow. Man Soo can get the girl and so can the Grim Reaper. But imagine...at the end, The Grim Reaper coming to get Ha Ram so they can spend eternity together finally, and her poor husband who was deceased and waiting for her in the afterlife is forgotten.

I have hope that I am just missing a minor detail in the ending because everything else tied in perfectly.

________________

Spoiler over!

Overall, this took me by surprise, and normally I am not into crime dramas, but the supernatural aspect got me.

This drama hurt my heart because it was super intense and evil, but the ending made me believe in happy endings and that anything is possible. I had almost lost hope, but the whole drama had amazing writing (yes...including the first 7 episodes that I wasn't a fan of) and I knew there was one more trick up the writer's sleeve and I thank them for coming up with a drama, that made me feel all the feels.

ALSO: Can we take a second to appreciate that whole Halloween party ep. Yes, The Grim Reaper was funny and dressed up like Joe Black and made hella Meet Joe Black references throughout the drama....BUT CAN WE TAKE A SECOND TO APPRECIATE that both Ha Ram and Man Soo both dressed up as Shrek and Fiona, unintentionally? It was so funny how this billionaire's son could have dressed up like anything in the whole world for HIS party, but chose to dress up like Shrek...and painted himself with glow in the dark green paint. He would have been a perfect husband for Ha Ram. Just saying. If she doesn't want him, shoot, I'll take him.

Citeste mai mult

THE GRINCH REAPER ~♠️~ Whoa, what just happened to me? °outstanding°

[Spoilers are contained at the end]

The red string that stings 💮 The red thread of the dead 💮 The red cord of discord 💮
The red rope without hope ➰💔➰ Red, Red, Redeaux 💮 The red line that binds 💮 At the end of the line



MY HEAD HURTS

🅱 is a story about a grim reaper who inhabits a fresh body to conduct an investigation. He ends up uncovering a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions that's encapsulated in Ha-ram's mother's declaration: "Everything that happened was wrong." While it's altogether 💓-wrenching, it's also cathartic & oddly satisfying. 🅱 is simply profound.

The wham-crammed-jammed final eps gave me palpitations. I'm still trying to sort it out & get back in rhythm. Just b/c a concept is opaque or lofty doesn't mean we should bypass the effort to get to the heart of the matter. So ~ a-digging-I-go ~ Found~~>> Unpopular Opinion: 'Hated Black's Ending? Well, You're Wrong,' by Joelle Halon. She hella-helped lift the veil.

The names & numbers of the main characters were chosen w/ care. Ms Halon mentions the significance of Black's reaper#. 444 stands for death & misfortune, but the alternate meaning is a sign of God's love & protection. Ms Halon digs out Easter 🍳s that the writer tucked into her work. Our protag will embody both the +&- of #444 thru the course of 🅱. Ms Halon's article helps w/ the complexities of the last couple eps. Though 🅱 is challenging, it's worth the effort. The 📝 embedded meaning behind every detail. Once you've seen 🅱, the following is likely to produce chills:

#416 is an optimism stamp. The glass is half full. Look for a + in the broken pieces.

#419 signifies being chosen to unleash true potential & let ☀ shine. Guardian angels are watching.

#420(Prisoner#): 420 is about fulfilling potential, or life purpose.

"Ha-ram" means that, in love, it's best to make decisions w/ the ❤. Refrain from behaving in emotional ways at work.

"Joons" suffer the life challenge to avoid disillusionment.

The name "Soowan" warns that there's a limit to how much a person can influence others. Anticipating one's own emotional changes & vulnerabilities is the challenge.

"Man-soo" augurs how patience can take personal plans a long way.

Pay attention to the ⬆⬆ for a rewarding payoff.

Huck Reaper⛏ When we first meet 🅱 he's loathsome. Cold, rude, dismissive... we could throw the 📖 of Hateful Adjectives at him & give him the maximum sentence. But 🅱 goes from sneering at humans to sacrificing himself for one human. In fairness, he was giving up himself to save ALL the victims of the collective horrors depicted on screen. The transition 🅱 undergoes is similar to that of Mark Twain’s Huck Finn. Unlike 🅱, Huck is a kind person, though he hadn't challenged society's view on Africans who were forcibly captured & enslaved. Like 🅱, the odyssey Huck found himself living out completely transforms him.

Huck's traveling companion is Jim, who is of African descent. At 1st, Huck looks at Jim thru society's eyes & unconsciously presumes his own superiority. As things progress, Huck is confronted w/ the realization that Jim is as human as Huck is. Soon, Huck starts to see Jim as a friend… then a brother… by the end of the book, Huck is ready to /die/ to protect Jim: He valued Jim more than his own life. 🅱's triumph over his prejudicial nature is just one of the positive messages that arise from the ooze in this show.

🅱's primary msg is messianic. Other themes include the dark 🖤 of humanity, self-sacrificial love & painful parent/child relationships. Sadly, most of the parents depicted in 🅱 are deplorable.

2 primary protags are Moo-gang & Joon. Joon has a strong sense of justice. He's a protector. We see it ♻ver & ♻ver. As a child, Moo-gang shows how brave, loyal & protective he is. It's no surprise he becomes a policeman. As the story progresses, we see those commendable qualities are continuously pumped into their consciousnesses. Their good ❤s mature as they mature. Moo-gang's mission is to investigate a tragedy that his family suffered: It will lift the lid on a cesspool of shocking corruption & other muck that seems almost too-2-too vast to neutralize. He has a monstrous task ahead of him.

Many viewers are tripped up by 🅱's deficiencies. Ha-ram is incredibly stupid to go after villain Wang Young-choon (WYC) herself, yet she does w/o communicating anything to the police. So irritating. While Go Ara was amazing at 🕞s, Ha-ram, unfortunately, spent most of the show in a rattled panic attack. Her heavy breathing while gasping out words was overdone by ep4. In addition, 🅱's timeline includes things that aren't possible. While 🅱 takes leaps that lead to logical ⚫holes, the director & 📝 still created a superbly crafted story. Avoiding spoilers prevents sharing of most techniques.

The series is powerful not only b/c the inspired script, but also its skillful construction. We are able to get our romance fix filled to the brim with SK's other offerings, so don't fret that this is not the romance you wanted. 🅱 is something much deeper. It is as thought provoking as it is a bit of a mindrape. Yes, on the pure romance scale, it's mundane. YET - 🅱 is one of the most romantic things EVER.

The stage is set early: 1st, by the name of the series (there's no mistaking what to expect) & also w/ the close-up of a skull as the post-prelude opening shot. They spread out a menagerie of subtleties, grey areas, circle backs (or spirals), as well as visual metaphors, cues, links, & juxtapositions. Like a shadowy blanket, irony covers 🅱. Almost /every/ line poin⬆s ↖somewhere↙or↘somewhen↗ else.

Meet Moo-gang, the cop who, ironically, can't l👀k at a body. He meets Ha-ram, the girl who sees t👀 many bodies. Watch for mℹsℹnformatℹon. Whenever 444, or anybody else, says: "That's n🅾ne of my business/That's has n🅾thing to do w/ me," it's probably n🅾t so. Don't assume that any assertion is correct. There is also irony of scale, or phrases that mean much more than what was 'intended'. "Do you know what I went through so that he could live⁉", queries 1 mother- Trust me, you have 🅾 idea.

🅱eat, 🅱eat, 🅱eat, 🅱 is a drumming debate over fate. Foreshadowing is 1 of its c♻nstant tenets. Cut to Ha-ram, who has a vision of Joon telling her: It's cold; she shouldn't sleep there. This dream will take the viewer below the surface. A 🦋 watch cycles in & out of the spotlight. It's an odd design for a man's ⌚, unless it's a symbol of a 🦋's passage to new life. Repeated w♻rds & c♻ncepts make a showing. In one scene the word "black" is used a dozen or so times within 3ish minutes, as if it was a behind-the-scenes dare.

🅱 mercilessly forces the 🔪 & bleeds out every bit of our ❤s. 444 is warned: Don't make eye contact w/ any person in love, or a horrible tragedy will befall you. Such c⚠utions are meant to be heeded. The filming has Ingmar-Bergmanish redolence of iconic bleakness in the scenes where Ha-ram & Moo-gang discuss what's occurred.

Then we have the H🔥T 🅱lack-🎱n-bl♠ck-💣n-Bl🅰ck shower scene, which is absolutely necessary to move the plot & not the least bit gratuitous, thank you very much. Perhaps I'm being a little gratuitous about that. 🤔Hmm. Anyway, it's a m👀d-lifter.

🅱 is icky at times. When police examine the murder scene of a stabbing victim, Det 444 handles the victim's intestines w/🅾 gloves. Then his lunch arrives▶ "Who the he‼ ordered food⁉", says one cop. 444 eats his dinner of intestine🥘, even the chunk that went in the goo and it is so over the T😱P. So far over. Good stuff. I have an appetite for more.

Strangely, there's lots of laughs. Humor lifts the pressure release valve, thankfully.🤧. Teaming the Joseon GR with a middle-school wannabe rapper is a new twist on The Odd Couple.
Ha-ram calls 444 loser. He calls his ex-partner loser. You'll have to watch to appreciate it. 🅱 gets nostalgic when he's separated from Ha-ram. He recalls every 🕞 Ha-ram kicked or clocked him, or cursed & yelled at him. He drops his head & says that he just wants to hear her voice. It's 🅱lack humor by 🅱, thus it's metaphorically funny too. The police squad is a whole fruit 🍰 of nut jobs. A couple seasons following them around would be full-on fun. Nothing's as special as a 1st💋kiss, right? Seeing a man go bug-out-🦇-crazy over the experience makes it even better. The scene is perfect.

While 444 & Ha-ram are just starting to circle r♻und eachother, she says she'll keep her 👀 on him & make her /own/ conclusion as to his character. He tells her to N🅾T keep her 👀 on him. But just #l👀k at him in that 🅱lack suit! What woman could keep her 👀 averted for long? 🅱 is, well, just adorable when he takes Ha-ram to his doctor to explain his odd behavior as due to the bullet in his head. His expression is priceless.

But for Ha-ram's shrillness, the acting is ✨. WYC, 1 of the bad guys, is used in some twisted ways that dovetail w/ his personality. Not only does he take a beating over the course of the show, but they generate some oddball laughs at his expense. 444 is pressing him for ℹnformatℹon, when WYC bellows: "I didn't kill your brother‼." Kudos to Woo Hyeon for the spot-on acting. He's deranged, but entirely credible. I believed him. Go Ara dispatched some serious acting skill in the last 5 potent minutes as she reviews the staggering entirety of her life. All the cast made the cut. 🅱 is a quality production on every level.

Most of the 'problems' are minor, except for a couple quagmires that remain a big ?mark. Just bypass all that, as 🅱 is colored like no others.

My heart hurts.


〰🖍 IMHO

🎬10 🎭8 〰🖋9 💓7 🦋8 🤔10 🌞1 🎨8 🔚9

Age17+ extreme violence

👀📺again? ✅🔂 I'm upset because it hasn't been available for streaming. I went to put it on for family and, to my dismay, it wasn't to be found. I am waiting for it to return so I can get a team watch going.




⛔️SPOILER SECTION⛔️

💮 More humor:

The kiss hit him like a train, not a car. Who's to believe the scene where this totally scrumptious man is checking out guides on how to kiss, or smearing ice cream on his face hoping that Ha-ram will lick it off again?😅 Those b@$t@rd$ didn't even allow him to kiss her much! All that practice went to waste.

Luckily, 🅱 came up with a plan, b/c misfit squad was about to electrocute him! They only wanna help him regain his memory... Shades of Airplane, or Bugs Bunny, smh🤣.

💮 More romance:

Falling for Ha-ram is 🅱's trigger for change. It starts quickly. By ep6 he's already acting a tad jealous, though still one cold, heartless jerk. In one of his many deaths he says: "Why, when I was dying, did /that/ girl pop into my head? That's so annoying."

By ep15, he's thinking of Ha-ram 1st. 🅱 decided to find Joon for Ha-ram's sake. In the end, he's selfless even when he's being selfish. He decides he 'deserves' to live a happy human life➡with Ha-ram. That is not the complete story, though. He wants a life with Ha-ram, in part, to protect her from ever finding out what happened. That is why destroying the laptop is a priority, even if it would have exposed the truth of his horrific death & lead to the justice for which he had strived. Knowing the details of that woeful night would eviscerate Ha-ram, and those details are on that laptop. Even Ha-ram's mother begged 🅱 to stay.

💮 More filmcraft:

💮 The 1st of the many devices the director used to craft this intricate work is constant foreshadowing: As it turns out, it's not entirely false that Ha-ram brings misfortune. Also, when Ha-ram screams at her stepfather, "How can someone die like that!?" Think: JOON.

💮 Visual cues are employed: After 007 talks about the mall collapse & all the kids that died, his head turns to 416.

💮 There's brilliant juxtaposition: Leo's filming a movie & 🅱 is on live-feed jumping from a moving car to latch onto the window of an also moving bus. It looks like Leo's been upstaged.


💮More irony:

Both 🅱 & Ha-ram comment on suicide early on. 444 refers to the grim reapers who had committed suicide as "these idiotic pathetic ones that used to be human." Who will commit "suicide" later?

Moo-gang & Ha-ram BOTH helped WYC, unwittingly

444 tells 007: "That woman will never be able to save anyone's life. I'll make sure..." Then HE saves multiple lives through his sacrifice.

20 yrs: Mad Dog says he's been making the same hangover soup for 20 years. That means he's needed hangover soup since he lost Clara. The camera pans from Clara dying to a label: "Handle with care."

Speaking of pushing the 🔪 in, heartbreaks are alluded to by the dozens, it seems. Most of the characters die in the course of the show, including Black's 7 deaths (+ the scene: Get out of Moo-gang's body! Now! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang❗ is in addition to his other deaths).

The most difficult scene in the show is when 🅱 goes to visit his mother at the restaurant. She thanks him for figuring out who killed Joon. Then she tells him that she went to prison for Joon. Compare that to his adopted mother. "It's too unfair!," he laments. He's like every other "pathetic" dead person: Caught flat-lined.


💮 About the ending:

Ha-ram tells 🅱 that her life doesn't have to be fabulous, but she's going to live to be an old lady. She asked for it & he's listening.

The ultimate penalty is that his existence will be denied. No one will remember him. 🅱 still exists, so it's the memory of him, and likely his existence on earth, that is being revoked. In doing this, he takes on the alternate meaning of 444, and becomes a redeeming messianic figure. The messiah theme is reinforced by a verse in Revelation where it says: "I make all things new," which 444's sacrifice effectively does. As we said in the 90's: Be kind & rewind.

Ms Halon's insights are also worth noting here: Some cultures believe people die three times, the 3rd death being that no one remembers them anymore. "...by exposing the loophole and having #419 remember him for Ha-Ram, a third death did not occur because memories of Joon were preserved."

"What kind of ending is that? That poor GR!," laments Ha-ram.

When Black comes to retrieve her, she lies about having been "very happy." It's on her face. Ha-ram got exactly what she asked for. The fact that her soul emerged as the young Ha-ram signifies which life was the most important to her, per Ms Halon.

The worst logistical prob: How would a Reaperless Leo have known to prevent Ha-ram's father from getting in an accident?


Just bypass the issues, as 🅱 is colored like no other. This is really black.

Citeste mai mult

UGH, this drama, I finished it in like 3 days and I kind of have a love-and-hate-relationship with it.
Its start very promising and the story is a bit creepy and gloomy, but very interesting. The second episode is where you think "Ok, WTF is going on?!"

I think it's a very good drama with a lot of twists and storylines only a psychopath could think of. It really messes with your head and sometimes I even lost track, because it was getting kind of like a labyrinth.
I liked the love story in the drama, it was sweet and a contrast to all the gloomy stuff.

Personally I didn't like the ending, so I probably wouldn't watch it again, that's why I gave only 5.0/10. I mean it's an ending I could be ok with but your heart hurts while it happens and you're left with being a little mess.

So, you can see that this drama really got me hooked and made me sad and cry.
This drama gets you really and you start thinking about many things, but as it made me so sad...ugh I dunno, it's good. watch it.

Citeste mai mult

O que eu falar sobre esse dorama não vai conseguir explicar o suficiente o que eu senti enquanto assistia.
Bom, pra falar a verdade, esse dorama nem estava na minha lista pra assistir, mas um vídeo sobre me fez ficar interessada e sem sombras de dúvidas foi a melhor decisão.
O tríplex que ele alugou na minha mente não tá escrito! Até o último ep me surpreendeu.
A trama é maravilhosa e perfeita pra quem gosta de mistério/suspense, com certeza não irão se arrepender.
Um adento: confesso que nos primeiros eps eu não estava tão animada, mas depois do 4º ep eu maratonei com força, porque aí que foi ficando cada vez mais interessante.
Preciso dizer que me apaixonei pelo protagonista, aquele jeito dele todo ´''casca grossa'' me conquistou.
É isso! Assistam Black.

Citeste mai mult

Mystery fiction full of twists that connects the real world and the afterlife

For me this drama is a bit half-half. There were parts that I love and parts that are not really my style. First of all for those people who's into mystery and fiction, this is a go to option because to be honest the plot twists here are mind-blowing. Although I also have to note that the first half is a bit bland for me because I actually stopped watching this for weeks but on the second half when I got back to it, it definitely got my attention and get to love the drama already even though it's more on a tragedy theme.

The main leads was able to portray the characters effectively especially the male lead since he basically had two personalities to portray. Personally, I don't like them much because of the vibe their giving off to me but with the acting itself they are really good.

Since this drama was released in Netflix and is targeted for international market, the OSTs are mostly English and a little gloomy which actually suit the theme of the drama.

Overall, I can't say it's a 'Must Watch' drama but definitely it is worth giving a shot.

Citeste mai mult

I've been avoiding this drama for 2years bc of some bad reviews I read but I decided to give it a try honestly I don't regret it. The first episode was great but when I got to episode 2 it confused the heck outta me but the more you watch it the better it gets & more pieces of puzzles are coming together there were a twisted part which you will realize until the end it was such a heavy ride but I enjoyed. I see some people complaining about the ending I thought it was good not the best but it was something I can go with even though I was not expecting that but I'm okay with it.
Will I watch it again? Definitely no doubt. The acting was great, never thought I would like the story but I did glad I gave it a try. Totally recommend it even if the 1st don't seem interesting leap watching cuz starting from episode 2 you will wanna continue to find out what happens next, definitely not a drama to drop so I give it a 10.

Citeste mai mult

Intriguing, plenty of twists, eventual miss landing.

(Contains unspecific vague spoilers)

Started off this drama expecting a combination of fantastical elements and suspense filled plot, and let me tell you it delivers. You’ve a girl who can see shadows and moments of people’s deaths, you’ve a grim reaper who is brought to earth in a human body which belongs to a detective trying to figure out where his missing partner is, but unaware that he has a convoluted mysterious past which needs finding.

Initially I was shocked and disgusted at various scenes, considering the present timeline, it felt very unreal how ridiculously the crime scenes were treated by this group. There’s no awareness of trying to maintain the crime scene, we’ve detectives throwing up all over the bodies and it’s disgustingly gory. I felt like with each detective in the support team, they wanted to bring the worst traits out. However, after a point you somewhat get used to their behaviour. During the second episode I was so unsure if I wanted to continue. But the mystery seemed promising and I held onto it. Then after a point i had invested too much of my time to stop.

Coming to the plot, the story line is amazing. It does get plenty frustrating though. Each episode is filled with at least one plot twist. You continue to think that something has been revealed and figure it out, and bam! You’re hit with another reveal, that the mystery and killings are far more convoluted and the ones caught are only pawns in the game.

Despite it being a series drama, there’s fair amount of humour in it. I loved the pairing of the Joseon reaper and Rap enthusiast reaper. Their conversations with Black were always something to look forward to! With other characters also there’s a good enough chemistry. I found the acting to be decent, but at various points Go-Ara felt a little off.

I don’t know what to think about the ending though. A lot of viewers told me that I should skip the last half of the episode if I don’t want the season to be ruined, and I partially agree with them. The first seventeen episodes are all working towards wrapping the plotholes and manage to do it fairly well and then comes an ending which kind of undos everything. It might have happened, but you’re left with confusion. I’m usually a fan of epilogues, but the one in Black takes it to a whole other level. The show could have done without it, and honestly if they had ended it before the epilogue, it would have still been an okay ending. Did I hate the ending, though? Not really. I can see why they wanted to go in that direction. I wish they had been bolder in their approach.

It’s a decent drama filled with lots of mystery that will perpetually keep you on your toes. Not your usual crime drama, for sure.

Citeste mai mult

It was a drama that I did not think I would see at the beginning

I think it's an incredible drama the story was well structured, I don't get bored. I'm not a fan of this kind of drama really.
The power that the girl has is something I would never have thought about, the detective is super handsome who will not want a grim reaper like that
the chain ocn very characteristic for this genre never disappoints with the special effects
Go Ara is a great actress, her performance in this drama seemed excellent to me, the sunglasses show a rather sad story but it does not lead you to hurt the character if you do not admire him
the message remains death is with us but we can really change it with small actions?
I found actor Kim Dong-jun quite cute in some scenes, for a moment I thought he was really going to die
it is certainly a drama not to be missed

Citeste mai mult

Entertaining Mystery with Humor

This drama had been hanging in my Netflix queue for a while, so I finally got around to watching it. Even though it's 18 episodes, I finished it in two days over the weekend, which is pretty good for me. Most dramas start to lose my attention by the eighth episode, but I was engaged in this enough to want to finish. The synopsis for Black doesn't do justice to the amount of twists and turns in this drama. There is a lot going on...sometimes a little too much, and it's clear from the outset the creators have a lot to say. The show deals with some sensitive subject matters like rape, prostitution, domestic abuse, and a host of corruption which amounts to a lot people doing bad things for money and power; but, if you like a decent mystery then this will be right up your alley. As a bonus there is a lot of humor and some great characters, including a rapping grim reaper and a detective named 'Crazy Dog'! The ML is the star of the show. You can't help but watch him when he's on screen. He's cool, funny, sarcastic, and easy on the eyes. He absolutely makes the show! My only real complaints about Black stem from the FL. She is poorly written and poorly dressed. She starts off as a noise machine who spends most of her time crying, whining, and screaming. She does all this while running around like a chicken with her head cut off in the dazzling assemble of a trench coat, long sleeve shirt, full length dress, AND a pair of blue jeans!!! Her wardrobe was seriously distracting and I kept wondering if the actress was pregnant during filming because I couldn't understand why they would dress her that way. Thankfully, she gets sidelined quite a bit, and it's clear at the end the writers realized they needed to do a hard reset for her character, which essentially is how Black ends. I hate endings like that, but thankfully there was enough good before to make it all worthwhile.

Citeste mai mult