At first glance, it couldn't be more clear that these two dramas are quite different. Beyond Evil maintains a gritty, almost noir look at a quiet, small everyone-knows-everyone town and how a murder undoes it. Tomorrow, meanwhile, gives a more dimensional and intensely emotional take on suicide.
However, Tomorrow embodies the very intense, psychological thrills that Beyond Evil has been praised for. On a closer look, these dramas are quite similar in taste.
- Both dramas are play on morals at the core of the multiple protagonists. With no character, little or large in the screen time, going without an in-depth characterisation that adds meaning to the plot. This is only exacerbated by the close-knit setting of the main characters, whom, being grouped together like this (Tomorrow with how they work together and Beyond Evil in how everyone lives in the same town) pushes more emotional, human and brilliant mysteries at the core of the audience's thoughts.
- Both dramas gather plentiful praise for the dialogue and interactions between characters. The dynamic entails a cleverly dissected mystery that sustains itself across 16 episodes. Our characters are decadent and haunted, spirited on by sensitive themes like mental breakdowns, death and morally and ethically ambiguous behaviour, which neither show shies away from. Instead, these dramas embody it carefully into each character, thus creating the perfect dynamic of being flawed, knowing you're flawed, embracing it and then dealing with the aftermath.
- Death is at the centre of these dramas, but used in different ways, as such, showing the flexibility and range of plot to play with but also the expansion of these mini pocket universes whereby the dramas acknowledge the setting and challenge it (be it in a small-town or in heaven). In Tomorrow, death is embodied through the Reapers and the suicides. It is central to the understanding of the agenda of the main characters, who are marred by the balance of living and dying. In Beyond Evil, death is concentrated within murder, thus creating the balance of the killer and the victim, thereby blurring the lines between this by challenging the morals of the main character and in the same way Tomorrow gives justification and beautiful explanation behind the act of suicide, Beyond Evil focuses on how a murderer is decided.
However, Tomorrow embodies the very intense, psychological thrills that Beyond Evil has been praised for. On a closer look, these dramas are quite similar in taste.
- Both dramas are play on morals at the core of the multiple protagonists. With no character, little or large in the screen time, going without an in-depth characterisation that adds meaning to the plot. This is only exacerbated by the close-knit setting of the main characters, whom, being grouped together like this (Tomorrow with how they work together and Beyond Evil in how everyone lives in the same town) pushes more emotional, human and brilliant mysteries at the core of the audience's thoughts.
- Both dramas gather plentiful praise for the dialogue and interactions between characters. The dynamic entails a cleverly dissected mystery that sustains itself across 16 episodes. Our characters are decadent and haunted, spirited on by sensitive themes like mental breakdowns, death and morally and ethically ambiguous behaviour, which neither show shies away from. Instead, these dramas embody it carefully into each character, thus creating the perfect dynamic of being flawed, knowing you're flawed, embracing it and then dealing with the aftermath.
- Death is at the centre of these dramas, but used in different ways, as such, showing the flexibility and range of plot to play with but also the expansion of these mini pocket universes whereby the dramas acknowledge the setting and challenge it (be it in a small-town or in heaven). In Tomorrow, death is embodied through the Reapers and the suicides. It is central to the understanding of the agenda of the main characters, who are marred by the balance of living and dying. In Beyond Evil, death is concentrated within murder, thus creating the balance of the killer and the victim, thereby blurring the lines between this by challenging the morals of the main character and in the same way Tomorrow gives justification and beautiful explanation behind the act of suicide, Beyond Evil focuses on how a murderer is decided.
