La Gloria (2022)

Best revenge drama of 2022

The storyline is superb. It contains real issue in the real world (not like time travel, reincarnation or soul shifter thingies). Bullying is happening in all level of society. It's important issue.

The acting skill of all the casts, including the young actresses and actors are excellent. With many characters, I still can keep up and remember all of them. They all are unique. Every cast was selected perfectly. The development of the characters is great. It's not only about the female lead and male lead, but also other pairing of friendship (e.g. Moon Dong Eun and her spy, Kang Hyeon Nam).

The pace or the flow of the events in the drama is brilliant. They took us smoothly from past and current, so that we understand the story.

Currently I have been rewatching, just because I like it. And can't wait for the season/part 2.

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Perfect

This drama is perfect. I watched it 2 time at Netflix.
SHK and all actor/actress do their job perfectly.
they are really match with the character based on their role.
Story line also super and very good.
Their character when they are teenager also very good and make it perfect when they are become adult.
logic of each character also make sense.
Usually SHK always play as good character and this is first time she did in revenge drama but she can do it perfectly.
LDH is younger than SHK but he can act cool and look mature enough to SHK.
the rest character also super, include Jung Sung Il, prior i never watch his drama and will start to see his other drama. He act cool and the reason why he choose his wife also make sense. he need someone bright :)

Can't wait for next session!

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Amazingly Beautiful

This drama was absolutely thrilling. I enjoyed every bit of it. I was at the edge of the sit watching it. I can't wait to watch the second part of it. Thanks to the female lead, ans i all the cast crew members that put the for putting all this this together. I enjoyed it and much more. I hope the second part of it will blow our mind. It was absolutely thrilling. The writer and the directors did a wonderful job. Thank to all that put it together ..........................................

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Very good !!! ?

Very good premise and story. But I expected still more violence. I expected still severe betrayals, necessary and unavoidable backstabbings. Still very very good.
There were few loose ends. But not enough to be noticeable. Few adult scenes. There was no boring instances. Something was going on one plot at any point of the story.
I didn't like how they killed off the teacher. I expected her to do exact same thing to him as he did to her. Eg : FL goes to the old teacher and reminds him who she is. But it's been almost 2 decades so he won't remember. But assuming she is someone who is daughter of a rich parent, invites her into the house. Then he tries to remember hard. After few dialogues she sounds off. Then she decides to remind him who she is, by taking off her watch and slapping him in the face for few meters. (Yeah meters not minutes) Then he remembers and tries to fuck her up. By then his son arrives. Being the pretentious father that he is tries to cover what happened.

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What a Way to End the Year - Best Korean Drama of 2022

It was intense, gripping, at times hard to watch but what a ride. I could not stop watching this riveting drama from episode 1 and binged watched from start to finish. Tightly done, there were no unnecessary, repetitive scenes that most often plague Korean dramas.

The role of Moon Dong Eun was tailor made for Song Hye Kyo. SHK is a superstar but she's no Meryl Streep, Kim Sun Ah, Ko Hyun Jung or Kim Hye Soo. Her acting range is limited but this role of a cold, calculating and aloof ice queen fitted her to a T. Her calm and unassuming facade was a foil to an otherwise very traumatized, seething with anger, driven to panic attacks persona, a long way from getting over the painful trauma she experienced as a teen-ager.

I appreciate that it is a Netflix series and made for an international audience. The actors seem less inhibited unlike the other dramas where it is obvious that there are some hold backs especially when it comes to intimate scenes. Korea is still conservative so when it comes to those scenes, the audience get a vanilla version with cringeworthy consequences because they're not spontaneously done and very badly choreographed (for lack of a better word). This is the first time I saw Hye Kyo undress.

Great acting from the rest of the cast especially Lee Do Hyun. Although younger than SHK by more than a decade, he had great chemistry with her.

Only negative comment is that the second half is way too long in coming.

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In order for me to rate this better is to see more of it. I will have to wait for Season 2 but this is a very good story. It brings awareness to those who bully. I didn't realize that bullying was just that bad in South Korea where netizens can destroy those who bully. No wonder South Korea is in the top 5 countries with suicide rates. They need to make more dramas such as this one. It's funny that I watch and review dramas that I have a stalker on MDL. My personality is very strong so it doesn't bother me. I've been through worse. I hope everyone watches this, this is the 2nd such Korean Drama that I have watched about bullying. Bullying is one of the malicious crimes I hate the most.

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Opinião polêmica

Por todo o hype gerado, imaginei que fosse gostar mais do drama. Não sei se por talvez ter assistido muitos dramas de vingança recentemente, esse não gerou em mim o impacto esperado. Apesar de entender perfeitamente a motivação da vingança da Moon Dong Eun, não consegui ter empatia pela personagem. A vida toda dela foi pensada em prol dessa vingança. Quando ela alcançar tudo isso, qual sentido terá a vida dela? Ela acaba se igualando aquelas pessoas nefastas porque ela se torna exatamente como elas. Não que eles não mereçam punição pelas atrocidades que fizeram com ela, merecem. Mas será que assassinato, aliciamento de pessoas (incluindo menores) tornaria ela melhor/diferente deles?

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Vengeful and Beautiful

This was a great start for the year, even though I normally do not enjoy revenge dramas I was convinced to give it a shot even though I was in the middle of my finals while I binge watched it, haha. Why I enjoyed The Glory is because the story takes itself seriously (as it should) and most importantly, the main cast are adults! Not teenagers in highschool, The Glory does not try to romantize revenge but it does not force you to feel sad for bullies either. It is realistic, getting revenge is hard and our Main Lead does a good job showing how much she is ready to sacrifice everything. It is clearly meant for adult viewers.

Altought I enjoyed it, (the pacing and the cinematoraphy was great) it still had some flaws. The characters after the time skip lack depth, I would like to see why they are the way they are in the second part coming in March. The OST did not leave an impact for me personally, but it was overall good.

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Intense et brillant.

Après "Missing, the other side", je ne pensais pas trouver de si tôt, une petite perle chez les coréens. Inutile de vous répéter toutes les déceptions vues ces derniers mois, j'avais perdu grand espoir de retrouver ce quelque chose qui rendait les Kdramas inoubliables.
Je ne suis pas une fan de dramas violents. J'ai le coeur un peu sensible.
Je n'aime pas les dramas où le thème principal est le "harcèlement" à l'école. Trop déprimant.
Je ne vibre pas spécialement devant le jeu de Song Hye Kyo ( A vrais dire, je ne l'ai pas trouvé exceptionnelle ici non plus).
Mais.
J'adore Kim Eun Sook, j'ai regardé et aimé la plupart de ses oeuvres et "Mr Sunshine" est de mes dramas préférés (même s'il y a eu des ratés, comme "The King : Eternal Monarch"). J'ai eu une frayeur car après avoir détesté le dernier des soeurs Hong, j'avais cette petite voix qui me tannait "hahaha, tu verras, c'est nul à c*!". Quel soulagement de voir que la scénariste n'a pas cédé à la tentation de la facilité scénaristique (hein, les soeur Hong?).
Malgré des scènes difficiles à voir, un langage tout sauf châtié cela fut un moment fort et addictif.

Inutile de vous dire que visuellement, le drama est bien réalisé et que l'équilibre des couleurs est maitrisé, passant habilement d'une magnifique scène chatoyante d'automne orangée à la laideur sombre d'une chambre renfermant les pires cauchemars d'une étudiante.
C'est donc un thème qui a déjà été vu et revu mais la dimension prise ici l'est moins. La protagoniste est magistralement écrite. Nous en avons le coeur serré et tout au long des épisodes, nous n'attendons qu'une seule chose, qu'elle les punisse impitoyablement... Son intelligence est habilement exploitée et c'est avec un plaisir immense que nous la voyons déployer petit à petit sa toile gluante. Point de frustration, point d'exclamation, l'héroïne mène son petit monde à la baguette.
Si l'écriture de Moon Dong Eun est brillante, car elle arrive à nous associer à ses idées de vengeance sans nous obliger à nous sentir honteux, les autres personnages ne sont pas en reste. Si dans "Reborn Rich", j'avais trouvé les antagonistes pitoyables et pathétiques, ici, cela ne fut pas le cas. Ce sentiment nauséabond et cette envie de leur taper dessus nous prend à la gorge à chaque fois qu'ils apparaissent. C'est magistralement joués par des acteurs qui ne lésinent pas afin de nous remplir de dégoût et d'effroi.
Mais si Dong Eun apporte ce sentiment de désolation, les antagonistes, du dégout, d'autres personnages contrebalancent tout ceci en illuminant l'écran de leur émouvante maladresse et gentillesse (Kang Hyun Nam), d'un sourire éclatant et d'un humour frais (Joo Yeo Jung) ou encore (mon petit coup de coeur) d'une beauté sobre alliée à une attitude qui en jette (Ha Do Young). Ces personnages équilibrent le drama, qui sans eux serait sûrement trop sombre, trop malsain. Certes, ils ne sont pas tout blanc, cachent des choses ou vivent des choses pas super réjouissantes, mais de par leur attitude, l'ambiance s'en trouve parfois allégée.
Les relations entre tout ce petit monde sont amenées de manière logique et la mise en place ainsi que la progression des liens sont lentes mais naturelles avec une alchimie certaine. J'ai adoré ces petits moments où Dong Eun sourit grâce à eux, se confiant ou se mettant à nue.

Résultat, une première saison réussie! C'est donc avec impatience que j'attend la deuxième partie. Croisons les doigts afin que la qualité soit toujours au rendez-vous.

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MARAVILHOSO

Intenso, pesado. As cenas de agressão doe pra assistir, a dor da personagem era muito real.
Não é o tipo de drama que indicado a todos por ser tão intenso e as cenas de violência tão real.
'The glory'
Sem pena, sem escrúpulos, sem qualquer sentimento de culpa, os agressores estavam ali sendo babacas até depois de adultos.
O nível de atuação é tão bom que eu tive raiva dos valentões até mesmo quando estavam apenas existindo.

Sério é um drama muito bom e que vale a pena ser assistido se você não for tão sensível.

Que a segunda parte seja tão boa quanto essa.

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