This review isn’t necessarily about the show itself. It’s another crap of a show with absurdity dialed up to 100. The plot is so ridiculous, I won’t be getting into it. I think you’ll see a plenty of negative reviews with spoilers so that’s that.

It occurred to me after watching about a dozen or so K-dramas, I’m finally getting the pattern. Here’s what I think these shows are trying to communicate to us living outside of Korea.

1. Korean Chaebols (conglomerates) are not only greedy and immoral, they actually are the ones ruling the entire country. Actually, in this show, it’s just one person.
2. Employees who work in these companies (especially higher ups) have no moral compass or ability to think for themselves so they only do what they’re told to do no matter what even if it’s criminal. Like, really, criminal.
3. Korean Justice system is corrupt and incompetent all around at all levels.
4. Korean politicians are all corrupt.
5. Korean cops are mostly bumbling idiots.
6. K-drama writers can’t advance the plots in natural and organic ways anymore. They either don’t have the ability or ran out of all good ideas so they need to rely on absurdities and super coincidence.
7. Hitting each other is the favorite and possibly the only way for Koreans to resolve any conflicts.
8. Koreans hate authorities and conglomerates and blame them for everything. But at the same time, they’re the ones enabling what they hate by keep buying from these companies and voting for these people.
9. At some point, Koreans have to really ask themselves why and how same things happen over and over again even under different political regimes and shows like this calling out the entire system.
10. Maybe I’m taking things too serious. 🧐
11. I’ll most likely be watching other shows saying the same thing thus enabling bad shows to be made.

Like I said in another review, these K-dramas are terrible at representing Korea well. I keep wondering why.