Flower of Evil (2020)

INTENSE!

Intense pace but perfectly controlled. Great plot, great story, great acting. OST lack a bit of pop culture but is still very good. The main actor and actress are really EXCELLENT. Most other kdrama have bad actors or bad plots. This one is almost perfect!

The emotional intensity of the main character are so great and it is intensified with the great score. ONE little mistake of this is their description of a psychopath. It is mostly true but not really accurate, because the main actor is too emotional in his facial expression and saying that psychopath can evolve into a normal being is simply not true.

Because of this, I'll be lowering scores for other series. This is now the new reference for masterpiece.

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Could have been great

I was hooked for the first few episodes. The premise was great, the acting was good and the mystery was smartly pulled together. I was still all in till about the 10th or 11th episode but the drama cliches made me finally drop it. Jiwon is meant to be a smart, capable, physically fit police officer, why does she need to be rescued so much when the plot suddenly needs her to be less capable? Hee Soo is a grown woman who clearly loves her brother and feels guilty about what he took on in her place, why was everyone babying her to keep quiet about it instead of clearing up the huge misunderstanding that implicated Hyun Soo? Hyun Soo seems to have a very dark streak in him as well from the beginning, but instead of it being a more complex arc of having the darkness but still getting a different future, he was just everyone's victim. I was really disappointed.

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Hooked

Oh, my heart, I am so completely head over heels with Lee Joon Gi and refuse to believe he’s on the wrong side. I’m so desperate for him not to be the killer that I find myself coming up with excuses as to why things are unfolding the way they are – he must have a reason, of course, there is one, please let there be one. He’s working to clear up his name even if events unfold to belie that thinking, and I am sticking to that. I am also holding out to the hope that when Ji Won figures out HS’s reality, and she will sooner than later, she’ll instinctively trust he isn’t a cold-blooded killer. Boy is this is one stellar drama or what -- I am hooked!

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Me surpreendi muito com o dorama, confesso que não estava muito animada para começar assistir ele, mas logo no primeiro episódio eu mudei totalmente de percepção. Ao longo do que se vai desenvolvendo, dos plot twist, você vai ficando muito mais interessado na história e no qual complexa ela vai se tornando.
A cada episódio você vai criando uma nova teoria, mas logo descobre que não faz sentido e cria outra... Até chegar no final e ser algo totalmente inesperado.
os atores são incriveis. Lembro de assistir e não saber se odiava ou se adorava o protagonista, enquanto ao vilão, foi sensacional sua atuação, o clima que ele transmitia era inesplicavel. Todos os atores foram ótimos em seus personagens, mas queria dá um destaque a criança... Nunca tinha gostado tanto de um personagem como gostei do dela, era carismático, fofo e muito bom de ver cada cena dela. Várias foram as vezes que rir como uma boba por sua causa.
Parabéns a todos os envolvidos nessa obra de arte.

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A decent thriller that completely falls off a cliff

Flower of Evil starts off great, the story grabs your attention right off the bat because it’s “different” and certainly more unique than the stereotypical K-Drama. A husband who’s secretly been living a fake life and has a past marred in murder and mystery? Sign me up. But what starts off as 11 pretty good, even great, episodes ends up falling off a cliff at terminal velocity as the plot becomes marred with inconsistencies, holes, tropes, and poor characterization. The last episode was one of the most mind bogglingly bad endings I’ve ever seen.

The acting from the ML is expectedly very good, Lee Joon Gi always delivers. The FL lead I found to be quite weak, she really only had a few expressions and her acting felt stiff, honestly the weakest among the cast. I keep reading about the chemistry and wonder do people praise the chemistry for every pair cause…can we be honest it was non existent here. They spend the last entire half of the drama just crying every scene or having the most repetitive conversations. I can’t recall being moved a single time and I’ll cry to paint drying. Everyone else is okay but forgettable, largely attributed to the fact that the writing in this show as mentioned previously, completely gets shot, stabbed, burned and then reincarnated only to be shot again.

They spend the entire first 60-70 % of the show building up the story of how his wife knows about him but she’s madly in love and also trusts that he didn’t commit the murder so she works behind the scenes to figure stuff out. Then suddenly in episode 12 (?) after the couple reconcile and it feels like the drama is wrapping up they completely flip and now she wants to turn him in for murder???

Outside of this, there’s so many inconsistencies, plot holes, lack of consequences and constant convenient events. Why is the police so incompetent? Why do the ML and FL escape all consequences despite committing countless crimes? …. the FL literally lies to her coworkers the entire show puts them in dangerous positions and probably even got someone killed. Why doesn’t Baek Hee Sung know what Jiwon looks like?

I can tolerate suspending reality to a certain degree but this got ridiculous and completely lacked rationale. The ending created several different storylines instead of wrapping up those that existed. Overall the show is mediocre, it starts off strong and develops the mystery very well but then develops outlandish and ridiculous plots that make no sense, this is one of those dramas that desperately needed to only be 12 episodes and it would have been great.

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One of the Best

First Review!

First Thoughts! - It is really gripping! The story is well-told in a way it feels like you know more than they actually tell you. I constantly doubt myself, (is he the one? Why would she do that?). There are so many twists that I would never see coming even, it's constantly keeping you on your feet as if you blink you'll miss something important. I feel like I am trying to solve alongside the detectives, nothing is as it seems.

FINAL THOUGHTS - I HAVE just finished this drama and wow, I knew from the first episode it was going to be a crazy ride and I wasn't wrong, I found myself shocked right up to the last second I never really knew where the story was going to go the writers were definitely not predictable (except for one instance).
The emotions portrayed from the Leads were exceptional I truly felt everything they were going through. The thriller, crime, psychopath concept was really well done and very interesting. The story felt fresh and new I don't think I have watched anything quite like it.
I would 100% recommend watching it.

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Can't get enough

Wow! Wow! Wow!

This is one of the most amazing dramas I've watched since I started my journey of kdramas. Normally I don't watch crime genre too much cause sometimes it creeps me out and I'll admit the first 2 episodes really did creep me out. But I found myself wanting to know what happens next so I forced myself to continue and I'm glad I did.

The story of this drama will keep you on your toes with the twists a d turns it takes you on, the second you feel you've finally figure it out bam another twist is thrown your way.

The actors really played their roles very well, the characters you were meant to hate really made me hate them and the ones you were meant to love made me hate them. Props the actor who played the main lead as he really did have me questioning if I should love or hate him. He really did a good job at making me question if he really was the bad guy in the end. I also applaud the child actor for bringing out an adorable child that you could love.

Even the ost really had me emerse myself in the whole show. Ofcourse it took me longer to finish the drama since as I said crime dramas creep me out but I really couldn't get enough once I got over the initial feeling and finally I can say I could truly rewatch it over and over again.

All in all it's an amazing show.

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A so called unbeatable drama

First of all, i would like to thank deeply the writer with his immesurable engineered storyline that associated
investigation,love,friendship, psychology, mystery in one plot.
This drama made the viewer so attached to it from the very start to the very end, the cinematography and links between scenes is awesome, the slow track unveil of the mystery which the drama started with and the doubts implemented followed up with curiosity in the viewer is well versed within the links between the past credit scenes and the start in moment of the episode.
For many episodes, the highly talented outstanding writer led us to doubt everyone as the core of the drama, really he blew the jackpot
Moving to the cast, starting from the main leads, Lee joon ki and moon chae won chemistry is really amazing, their acting is not an acting frankly i say that, i assume they are really experiencing those moments with pure emotions and it scattered my heart when i see them cry because it intrigued me as it is real . lee jong ki portrayed a normal believing he is an abnormal because of what haters and fearers of his dad made out of him(he fitted the role like it was his life), the moments he feels suffocating or heartache i feel the same by empathy, the moment he went nuts(i understand him and so i do) and many other things.bref, he was absolutely the best performer of his role the same go for moon chae for hers.
The other leads were heroics also, the one portraying reporter kim moo jin, who put himself in danger to reveal the truth beside having a funny character and was friend of do hyun so portrayed by the almighty lee joon ki and his sister do hae so who was the first love of this reporter, his chemistry with her is appreciable and the relation between the four leads is solid and charmful.
The one who portrayed the psychopath serial killer is also a boss, his movements, eye hazing, hair tied ,smelling technique really swayed me up pushing me to see he is something like that in his real life.
Everything was wonderful about this so-called-serie and i would like to watch more drama combining lee joon ki and moon chae won. A drama from another planet, if you didn't watch it hurry up and start.

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Brilliant, thrilling!! From the first episode to the last, I was so engaged. I couldn’t stop watching. It taught me how loyal true love is. I started watching it because of Lee joon gi , but at the end of this show, I fell in love with all the characters. I think this is gonna be my all-time favourite drama. Each actor was fantastic. The sister of Do Hyun did an amazing job with her character. Even the child actress is cute and talented. I did not expect that much from child actor but she really worked hard. I want to see her in other dramas. The mother of Do Hyun was really special, she is talented actress...

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