Flower of Evil (2020)

Can see a good effort in all aspects

I must say this is completely a different kind till what I have watched the dramas, each and every scene is unexpected and thrilling, I am totally impressed with the effort of the direction team. Especially till 14 episodes but after that I felt they have spoiled the previous crux or essence of the drama by making unusual and unnecessary plots. Initially I was wondered about the effort they put on this drama, till 14 episodes each and every second it will got your nerves and I am sure you will not fast forward it even for single second, but I got disappointed in last episode because I felt last episode is little draggy and the ending is not satisfactory, they could have given a better ending because at the end he became like a new person, of course they needed a new start but not like a fresh start over.
Initially I was planning to give 10 rating for this but because of some unusual or unnecessary plot I am giving 9. To expose his true identity she took him to the crime scene (where his night mare mass murder happened) and played the mp3 which he treasures the most even though she knew his mental illness or problem and in other episodes she doubted him as murder suspect and tried to arrest him with hand cuffs without believing him even though she promised to always believe him and always will stay beside him no matter what the consequences may be, and in the last second episode when ML heard that FL got murdered by the villain without thinking of his daughter he tried to kill the villain knowing he will end up in jail and also he disrespected the FL believes because she always used to tell that he is not that kind of person (killer).
About hate, break up and her ruthless behavior I can understand she acted like only after hearing from him that he didn’t loved her even for a single second, even though he lived with her for 10+ years and having a daughter, after hearing like that any human being will act more ruthless than that.
Lastly I must appreciate the young girl (daughter) OMG what an amazing acting skill, whenever she came to frame my heart was touched by her emotions. I felt like a real daughter and father.

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Flower of Evil é uma grata surpresa!

Quando soube da notícia que Flower of Evil ia entrar na Netflix, comemorei muito, pois era um dorama que estava na minha lista há tempos. E a espera valeu a pena!

As atuações são muito boas e a história super envolvente. Em particular, me surpreendeu muito a atriz mirim que interpreta a fofa Eun Ha. Ela é uma gracinha e atua tão bem desde novinha!! Um amor! Incrível como a atuação dela é tão natural desde cedo. Os protagonistas também foram excelentes, renderam muitas cenas emocionantes. Moon Chae Won é já há um tempo uma das minhas atrizes favoritas e aqui ela só reafirmou mais seu posto. Por incrível que pareça, conheci o Lee Joon- Gi nesse dorama e agora já quero procurar outros trabalhos dele. O vilão também surpreendeu muito. As reviravoltas da história e os ganchos nos finais dos capítulos te fazem querer assistir mais logo para saber o que vai acontecer.

Além da ação e do suspense, as nuances humanas, culpa, distúrbios mentais, amor e sentimentos em geral, são bem trabalhados e completam o pacote do dorama.

Eu daria nota 10 para a história se não fosse o final.


ATENÇÃO: SPOILER

Tudo ia bem, até o finzinho. A perda de memória é muito clichê. Mas eu poderia ter deixado isso de lado, se ao menos, ele tivesse recuperado a memória até o fim. Só que ele não recuperou exatamente. Deu indícios de que estava se lembrando de algumas coisas, mas não ficou claro que ele tenha realmente se lembrado direitinho de tudo. O que entendi é que ele havia se lembrado de pequenos fragmentos somente. E isso me quebrou. Não bastasse o clichê, eu esperava um final realmente feliz depois de tanto sofrimento, mas o que ganhamos foi um final "meio" feliz. Eles ficaram juntos, a família se uniu novamente, mas não pareceu "completo" e totalmente feliz por conta desse fato dele estar desmemoriado. Na minha opinião, eles mereciam um final mais pleno.

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Please at least try this, you may miss out one of the best things ever.

One of the most thrilling and super emotional (i cried like a baby at least 5 times) viewing experiences.
A perfect mix of all emotions and the most realistic writing next to attack on titan.
Great and Realistic Character writing.
10/10 acting.(i dont wanna give spoilers so i wont in deep )
The story unpacks at its own pace and it's perfectly done in my opinion.
it's not rushed nor does it drag.
the characters arent dumb, they act like how they are.. for example, the police wife has enough brains and will to do things as the police would do.
And visuals are 10/10 and ed and op are 99/10

but there is this character "accomplice ", some coincidences and stuff related to him are a little are not perfect like other writing in this show.
and alsoo character called moo jin becomes friendly with Do hyen su too easily (not complaining about later in the story but the starting episodes)

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When this drama starts you see our main cast who seems to have the perfect life or not as we dig deeper into the suppose perfect life of
Baek Hee song . The way moon chae young says 'jaggi ah' will forever stay rent-free in my head, even when she was obviously not in tune with the way he wants to handle his problem she couldn't even bring herself to hate him.
If you have not added flower of evil to your must watch and rewatch list then I don't know whatelse to say. This drama makes want to stay up all night just to find out what happens next then the next one... Then you will want to rewatch just to see if you missed any single detail. The cast was perfect ❤️

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The real meaning of marriage; stick through thick and thin together

I watch this drama for the hype and because it's on Netflix. So I started with a lot of hope and expectation. Did it meet my expectation??

Story: It was a good story, sometimes predictable. The story could be split in many little story parts.
What I like about this story is the relationships between the people in all the little story parts. They really care for each other and wants the best for each other. It's very realistic and the human behaviour is beautiful (except for some villains). It shows you the real meaning of love despite the darkness in their own life story, choices and personality. Very Good chemistry between Lee Joon Gi and Moon Chaewon as a couple. Their love story is goals!
Do Hyun Soo in my opinion is a normal human but was always trained by his father to be emotionless, anti social personality, non empathic person. Also maybe because he can have a little bit genes to be like that too. It shows how CRAZY rumour can be in the society and effect one person's believe in himself. It influence people around you, what they think to know and understand about you. An example is Hyun Soo wants to protect his daughter reputation versus Min Seok wants to continue his sick genes onto Hyun Soo.
Overall it was a great story but.....WHY at the last episode they had to turn it into a cliché Korean drama. Memory lost in the last episode.... for REAL. It's not necessary to put this at the end of the story. If it's not because of this I will easily gave it a 10.
I mean they could have injured his heart instead of his skull to make it into memory loss story. It's not a happy ending for me with the memory loss. The memory loss in the ending makes their love story looks weaken and so cold between this strong married couple. For more impact they could have make a "5 years later" scene about how he slowly restored his memory about his wife and daughter. Even better a beginning for a second season; have a second baby (boy) that has the psychopath genes of the grandpa Min Seok :).

Acting: PHENOMENAL acting by male lead Lee Joon Gi. His micro-expressions and changes on his face was SO SMOOTH. The control he has over his expressions is INSANE. I couldn't call it acting, because it was so convincing. It's straight up the natural reaction his character would have. He understand his character well. I love the way he portray people with no emotion, it suits his look. He can act as a suspicious vampire or robots very well I guess. It's a compliment, even though it doesn't sound like it. It's hard to act cool with no emotion and not have a dead face. He is an excellent actor. I always like his acting and him portraying the characters but I never like the story or the drama he is in. I wish he have more deeply developed written character or intensive DARK character to portray in the future, that really show his acting abilities.

Moon Chae Won portraying Cha Ji won was great, but her role didn't made an impact on me that last. Her acting in this drama was way better then in Good Doctor. She made me felt her pain and I felt so invested in her role. The difficult choices she had to make. I felt many times that I was in her shoes.

Seo Hyun Woo as reporter Kim Moojin expressions was on point too. I really like his acting and his role.

Jang Hee Jin portraying Hyun Soo older sister was a bit odd for me. I felt that this actress didn't suit for this role. She look way younger for being Lee Joon Gi's older sister. She sometimes also looks weaker for her character. The actress that played the teenage Do Hae Soo was okay.

Music: The ost was very good. Especially the song "Feel Good" by Shin Yong Jae. The lyrics match with the storyline the male lead feels toward his wife. "In My Heart" by Lim Yeon is good too.

Re-watch Value: I will definitely watch it for Lee Joon Gi acting. He did justice to his character, it came to life for me. The love story was something very beautiful and the dad and daughter relationship. Also I will watch it for Joon Gi and Chae Won chemistry.

Overall: It was a good drama, you live with the characters because it has interesting roles and personality development. It met my expectation in terms of acting, but I will skip episode 16 because of the cliché.

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Simply Good

This is a good show. I am at a stage where I never have high expectations from k-dramas and that serves! And I certainly don't trust these high ass ratings in mdl. I never watched Lee Joon Gi act, and tbh this was me trying him out. I recently watched something easy and felt ready to dive into something so famous and judge it for myself and for once, I'm not disappointed. It was a really easy and addictive binge. Both the leads are very convincing in their roles and Lee Joon Gi was simply phenomenal as Do Hyun Su (I don't dig the loud sobs but still...). The story was okay, I think it had more impact emotionally than as a logical mind-blowing thriller. I loved that the 14 years of marriage between the leads held a proportional significance in the plot, that Ji Won trusted Hyun Su and actually did some police work to build that trust. The serial killing aspect had its allotted amount of horror and I have to say Kim Ji Hoon was positively brilliant in acting uncanny. Mostly the story is pretty plot hole free imo, but leave it to me to point out a few oddities.
1. The big ass coincidence of the actual identity of the accomplice. I usually hate these out of the blue completely random coincidences (bcz these are signs of weak screenplays) though in this one I did not mind bcz they carried the rest with precision.
2. The last part where they have Hyun Su and the accomplice cornered, for some reason they were more scared of Hyun Su. It was weird af. At least Ji Won should've ran towards him, imo.
3. The memory loss, it offered some nice insight into Hyun Su but it still felt so unnecessary at times. For someone who lost an entire life, Hyun Su seemed oddly pretty chill to me.
4. They could've dialed down the sobbing, not a fan of loud outbursts and it just kept happening. You want to give something impact, you reduce the frequency of it.
Despite these, I loved the show, remedy those points and it would've been perfect by all measures but does perfection really exist? This drama is meticulous and none of what happens are quote unquote unrealistic in a logical sense. I cared about the detective unit, the cases that built Cha Ji Won as a character, Hyun Su's sister but though he brought some comedic relief I'm not sure about how good Kim Moo Jin was. Hyun Su was really abused and suffered way too much and I feel like only Ji Won and his sister conveys enough sympathy.
The romance was intense and on spot. I would've loved a little more attention on Hyun Su as an individual rather than being defined by his love for Ji Won. I think a tragedy would've fit this story, those kind of 'missing the happy ending by a singular moment'...'an end to a lifetime of suffering lost bcz of just one stray bullet'...but I guess I'm a masochist.
In any case, I liked this series and enjoyed the complimentary music (especially the classical tunes), the superb acting and the gripping tension which persisted for a considerable amount of time. This is truly something to recommend.

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Even in places where evil seeds have been planted, flower can bloom ?

For me this drama is a masterpiece! You start on a roller coaster of emotions distrusting each one of the characters without knowing what to expect, and you end this drama with a story of healing, trust, family bound and unconditional love. Great script, all the characters are well delineated, the story is perfect as a puzzle that you join each of the pieces and in the end you get a perfect image that matches each of the pieces that you placed. The performances are wonderful, they are above any drama, it is as if each character has a life of its own. Wonderful direction, despite being a melodrama, the other genres fit perfectly with the story thanks to the use of elements of suspense such as the differents ways of handling the camera and the use of the instrumental OST. Everything is perfect, everything is well thought, each scene provides relevant information or emotions, each scene has messages to find, it is perfect to watch it over and over again, it is wonderful, do not miss it!

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Trust him or not?

I must confess that I droop this series after 3rd episode but trusting in the high rating I decided to continue watching it.
The plot is aberrant and shocking but also sad and emotional, especially last 2 episodes.
This guy who is the son of a serial killer and married to a police detective, was wanted and followed as a murderer.
She discovers clues about her husband. Who is actually the father of her daughter? She has tough time and must choose a side between law and family.
So many surprises.
The OST was good with also orchestral piece.
I don't think I'll ever see it twice.

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Not exactly what you might think

So, I have many mixed feelings about this one and I'm not really sure I can put all of them into words but let's try.

When I heard about this drama I thought it could finally be the amazing thriller/murder mystery I've been waiting for. Now was it all that I was hoping for? No. Was it still good? Yes. When I first started Flower of Evil I didn't expect it to be so... romantic? I guess it's kinda my fault for not having properly looked into the genres of this show, but I don't like to know much about the dramas that I start and well, this one definitely surprised me, not in the way I was expecting though.

I only realised how vanilla this drama was halfway through it, but by then I was too invested to stop watching it. I think the writers did this on purpose, marketing it as a thriller but building a love story to try and please every audience and it kinda worked (?).

Honestly the thriller/mystery aspect of this drama is a bit weak. A lot of the plot points and twists are predictable and the story is full of conveniences, like how the sun hides behind the clouds right when it was about to reveal the presence of someone in the scene to the police, or how one of the investigators get a call right when they were about to discover something important but decide to stop everything to answer the phone. Also, some of the explanations they gave were a lot of a stretch and so forced to the point I simply couldn't believe them. I'm not gonna go too deep into this to avoid spoilers, but damn these things kept breaking my immersion and infuriating me at the same time.

In the end, though, this drama still got me interested enough to finish it and actually enjoy it. I'd say a lot of it is due to some pretty good characters, and by that I mean mainly Hyun Soo. Honestly this drama surprised me, cause I didn't expect to love Hyun Soo so much, but when I realised I was already too attached to him. I think this is also due to Lee Joon Gi's acting. The man really killed it. The actress who played his wife did an amazing job, too, they shared quite some emotional and impactful scenes. Everyone was pretty good, actually, except for some extras. The romance was also really well built. I think it was a pretty refreshing approach, seeing a romance from the perspective of a couple who's already married and kinda have to re-evaluate their feelings for each other and also how this tied to Hyun Soo's growth as a character.

I also really like the way this drama portrays how having a psychopath as father afects both of his children, and how they characterize people with antisocial disorders under different lights. The soundtrack in general is pretty good in setting the atmosphere as well.

The main villain, though, was a pain-in-the-ass. He had one of the most punchable faces I've ever seen, wow. Because of him and cause the drama really gets unnecessary mellodramatic sometimes towards the end, I felt extremely frustrated watching the last few episodes, but at the same time I kept getting invested and couldn't simply turn away from it. I guess I could say Flower Of Evil was a bit of a sweet torture to me.

In the end, I believe this drama can still please a lot of people, specially because it's more vanilla and friendly than what you expect in the beginning, so in case you're wondering if you should start this drama, I'd tell to go for it and make your own conclusions about it.

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If you didn't watch yet, Just go do it right now ! It deserves

This drama is amazing, every episode feels like a movie, the quality is great, the staff and actors did a great job, the story is very catchy and interesting, the progression is good, I didn't get bored of it any point or episode (which is great for a 16-episode drama), For me, ambiguity and acting were among the reasons for the success of this drama!! I watched the drama at the time it was shown, I can't describe how excited I was every week waiting for the next episodes (which is very rare for me, usually when the drama reaches episode 9 I lose focus and want to watch)
I ask everyone to go and watch it!! you will not regret
As for the music ost , their choices were good, so far I still keep some songs from the drama in my favorite songs list, and every time i listen to it i enter to the mood of the drama and my heart stat to beat fast like i was watching it .
for the cast , there are a lot of actors that i've seen them for the first time , but everyone done a great job and chemestry between the main actors was beautiful. So good choose for the cast .
as i said before , the production and the story are in the same level with the cast and ost , everything was perfect for me !

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Thrilling and suspenseful the entire way through

9/10 is my rating. This is a 2020 South Korean television drama with 16, 60 minute episodes.

Cha Ji-won (Moon Chae-won) is an insightful detective who often sees aspects of cases even her sunbaes miss. She seems to have the perfect life, a handsome and attentive husband, a job she excels at, and a lively young daughter. Her husband, Hee-sung (Lee Joon-gi) is very secretive about his past, he is a metal craftsman so can keep hours as he chooses. He also has a sound proof shop perfect for hiding the loud sounds of metal working and other sounds if needed. Cha Ji-won and her team begin to investigate a string of murders that look suspiciously like copy cat murders from crimes that happened 18 years previously. The more she observes the behavior of the psychotic and sociopathic behaviors of the criminals she arrests the more curious she becomes about some of the behaviors she notices of her own husband. He also has been around victims and suspects they are investigating. It has piqued her detective senses and she is not sure what to believe. Does she believe in the kind and loving husband and father or dig deeper into the past he is so secretive about to determine if he is actually a sociopath skilled at hiding a duality containing a much darker side.

Spoiler alert ** I really don't know how to describe this beyond just masterful. One of the most suspenseful and interesting serial crime dramas I have ever seen. The romance is amazing as well. In the early part of the drama you are led to believe that the ML may be evil. His father was a serial killer and they are playing up the nature aspect of serial killer - get you thinking maybe he is just like his father. As the show progresses we get to see more of how he really is and, if you know anything about sociopaths and/or psychopaths he shows emotion that would not be possible if he were what he thinks he is. It reminded me, in that sense, of Psychopath Diaries, how a label can become an expectation. He lives a lot of his life under that stigma and expectation of himself. The FL is a very intelligent detective and has a lot of integrity as a police officer. I get how you might have some doubts as you saw stuff that seemed to point at one person, but it was disappointing how easily she believed badly of the ML. Then she comes around, or so it seems, until just a short while later when another thing happens and she, once again, believes the worst of him. His sister, who knew him about as long as his wife, steadfastly did not believe him capable of anything psychotic. It also did not make sense, to me, that she would trust her sister-in-law, who she knew had murdered, with her child yet so quickly jump to distrust with her husband. The reporter, it was nearly unforgivable the way he treated the ML back in the village. He did redeem himself in all the help he gave the ML later though and, given the ML basically kidnapped and tortured him they were pretty much even. I wish the "mother" had grown to love her adopted son and protected him more. It seemed cold the way they treated him after the real son woke up. I know that there can be a stigma with children of criminals, particularly killers as society has not drawn a conclusion on whether, or not, mental disorder, such as that are inherited. The little girl was so adorable I wanted to see, when he approached her after losing his memory, that his love for her was strong enough to give him full recollection. So it was overall a really great story and kept me engaged the whole way through with just some, relatively minor, inconsistent plot points, and storylines that did not completely wrap up. For instance, what happened with the guy that went crazy because he couldn't find his wife. Now that his wife was discovered alive did they talk? Just a few unresolved aspects. I highly recommend for anyone that loves crime dramas, serial killers or just complex love stories.

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