Big Mouse (2022)

Not exactly what i signed for...

It seems lately i mostly disagree with the Public Opinion as i see and rate Dramas under a different prism!
After all this is the beauty of diversity.

Popular or unpopular ,this is my opinion.Big Mouth is not the Super-Duper Hit everyone says it is.Not to me.Don't get me wrong.Is a good Drama.But nothing more than this.It has not the big wow factor i expected.I will be honest, i struggled a lot to push the next episode button especially in the first period of the Drama..I wasn't excited to see what will happen .I couldn't connect with the characters.I was bored with those flashbacks.I wouldn't care less about the couple's past and love story.I didn't care about their sweet and emotional moments.Fortunately those scenes weren't long enough so that is basically the reason i didn't drop or put it on hold,at least for a while.

In early episodes everything was just Meh!The most plain scenario,characters who just not fit to the shoes the writers put them in.I was extremely disappointed.

The main lead wrongly or not, accused and/or trapped and he ended in prison to be in a very short time the Big Boss around there.He suddenly became a Criminal Mastermind when in episode 1 he was introduced to us as not a very smart person.He took the Bar exams twice til he passed and " He is also an infamous lawyer with a very low rate of success " as synopsis says. And he wasn't a notorious murderer or a Big Mafia boss to earn the fear and respect of the other prisoners.

He was a conman,he was, hypothetically or not,scamming people, stole their money etc.With such a cute face and young at age i had hard time to believe he was ferocious and scary.How on earth evil criminals bought it and were shitting their pants at his sight? And seriously who would ever think that an "old dog" an "experienced" prisoner/cellmate could be a shield to him and take a stab instead?When he barely knew him? Even if he promised to grant him a favor still risking his life was too much to take.
Do i also have to ask another obvious question?On what ground he was walking around throwing promises and favors he could never fulfill? Because by that time we clearly saw he didn't have the background for all these.Neither the money nor the connections,etc etc. Iam sorry but all those stupid details really bothered me. Don't mention the excellent fight skills he just got out of the blue and he was kicking asses like a Pro.When he himself even said he never threw a punch in his entire life.I get the "survival instinct" but i mean come on!That was far fetched.Seriously i was surprised noone mentioned the obvious here.It was only me who was annoyed by all those unrealistic details?

I read many compared this with Insider!!No,no and NO!Please don't.No need to get into this fight!Lol!.To me Big Mouth is a distant relative of Insider.

Big Mouth is a bad imitation.Little something from Defendant (the warden Officer and the prison guard,cellmates bond)
Doctor Prisoner(with the accidents and the fake sick leaves)
Insider (with the Vips and their special ward)


The chain of events most of the time just not make any sense.And even if few things are explained in the next episode(s),still nothing seems plausible.
Writers give me something to chew on.I can't swallow nonsense so easily.Don't give me Dyspepsia.
What irritates me the most is the fact that the story is build on so many lousy details,you just can't ignore it!
I lost my interest about who the real Big Mouse was,too soon.Normally i would have spent hours during the whole show to solve the puzzle.Here i didn't even bother.I was watching episodes using the minimun brain cells.Too bad and too sad because the premises and the hype was high enough to draw my attention but....

The main idea inside writers' head was really good.But they lost their way somehow.In their try to create suspense they only create chaos.We have a saying in Greece the best English adoption is "storm in a teacup" That is the alternative title i could give to Big Mouth.
Half of the Drama was full of fillers.So many unnecessary scenes.As already mentioned, the flashbacks.Also many fighting scenes inside prison.Didn't really add to the plot.Seriously it could be 8 episodes and have a more solid and substantial story.

The bad guys is a bunch of idiots.Stupid characters,iam sorry i couldn't take them too seriously as they acted like spoiled kids.Bragging,laughing and feel superior,like Gods. They have power and money but no brains to use. I love evil characters.Here everyone is just laughable.Only mayor was a decent char among them. Every hero should have his opponent, an equally smart Villain.Well..here the hero obviously is not super smart so he gets the Villains he deserves after all..


The reason the Lawyer was chosen and dragged into this chaos,wasn't sufficient enough to me,to justify all the mess.
I know some tables have turned at the end and our protagonist became smarter,more capable and more efficient . And i would applaud all of these if was a smooth and believable ride.I could accept it easier if this persona was gradually built-up from the beginning instead acquiring all these traits out of the blue.

Of course the Drama has pros too.I never said is trash.
The Acting was really good and Lee Jong Suk although i have never watched any of his work,was excellent.I will definitely check out his other projects as i find him too talented.
Also to be fair,some of the latter episodes were good enough to make me watch it with more intense.But even so i had already made my mind and nothing could really save it.

As i said many times i don't mind any ending.Happy.. sad..open..Expected or not.I really don't mind,i can take all.But what i don't like is over and melo dramatic endings just for the sake of a "Big Exodus" which are totaly lame and unnecessary.Im not that kind of viewer to be too emotional over those endings.
I gave 6,based on the overall feeling this series left me.During all those 16 eps i never,not even once, had a moment of excitement.I felt the thrill and the suspense was poorly cooked and left an unpleasant taste in my mouth.


In other words this is how i felt about it....

Door bell rings.I open the door and there is a huge gift box with a fancy red ribbon.I take it inside.I see the box(is the 8,8 rating)I feel so excited!My heart beats fast.
I open the box and...there is another box inside.I got surprised but then i thought "ok the sender wants to create suspense..."
I open the second box and guess what?Another box!Ok this time iam disappointed and frustrated.
"I get this far i can't quit now" I open the box...Hmmm! "Where is my present??Is this a sick joke or what?"Iam already swearing hard..
I open another box.Inside there is a...lollypop.An orange flavored..The flavor i hate the most!
The End!

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A good drama with an excellent start but a disappointment in the last episodes.

Big Mouth is a good drama but I got to say that the last episodes were a disappointment for me. I feel like they made BM so relevant and important to the story but when we found out who BM really was, it wasn’t that exciting anymore. 12 episodes to reveal him just to kill him in the next episode? What? I know Changho was already prentending to be BM but the whole climax was to find out who was the real BM. And when we finally found out, they just killed him. They should’ve made Changho be the real BM since the beginning then. Jerry was a character that it could have been more useful to the story too. They saved him for what? lol I thought he would have a more meaningful part in the drama. They created all this suspense about him for nothing. And it’s funny if we think about that because the writer decided to save him but kill Miho, who was doing much more relevant things in the drama.

Miho’s leukemia and death was so unecessary. I really don’t care if a character dies in the end but her death seemed so forced and with 0 purpose to the main lead story. She died for Changho become BM? But he could have become BM without her dying…she really didn’t need to die. Also I loved her character in the beginning but it seems like the writer really wanted to kill her because she became a dumb character out of nowhere. But I have to point out that the effort of the actors really pays off. Jongsuk is phenomenal in this drama, he was the best thing for me here. Really natural and good actor. Handsomeee as well. The other actors were good too. The whole mystery about who BM is it’s really thrilling and make us addicted to each episode. It was fun to make theories. The writer was smart with this Big Mouth/Big Mouse idea. The pronunciation is similar so it was a smart move. I absolutely loved the OST too, fits the drama and the scenes really well.

I think in general it’s a fun drama to watch. But it could have been better if the writer didn’t lose himself in the middle. If you liked Defendant or Flower of Evil I think you have chances to like Big Mouth as well, although Defendant and FOE are much more superior dramas.

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Was this really big?

I watched this finally since it received raves and awards for the leads and the drama from the MBC network....so it must have been a bad year for MBC if this was the mega winner. It does feature a different angle as to how the ML gets entangled in a power struggle but otherwise it is a standard overly dramatic Korean gangster/power abuse melodrama featuring lots of gang fighting and over the top cruelty against the powerless.. but the revenge against the abusers is not very effective or clever.
If you like the leads, he is as goodlooking as ever even when beaten up and when he weeps, and she is admirable but it was more pleasant to see her in King the Land.
Personally I thought that the ML as well as FL in The Forbidden Marriage that was in the 2022 line up with this show showed a far greater range of emotions and character depth in a well executed story in less than the standard 16 episodes in which this drama was drawn out to fill the space.

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Good ending but …

MORAL OF THE STORY: Do NOT enter a location when you see people wearing PPEs. (If you are a nurse, you should know this already.)

I applaud the screenwriter for not shying away from killing a major character. There are very few screenwriters who are brave enough to do it, often screenwriters choose the "they happily lived ever after" route.

However, as the intro to this post hinted, I do not approve the sudden stupidity of a major character just to get that character terminally ill. Go Mi Ho was a nurse. She is intelligent and full of wisdom. Where did her intelligence AND WISDOM go in the cave sinkhole episode? Then after that episode, Mi Ho became intelligent and full of wisdom again.

In that one episode, she suddenly acted a hero when it was never part of her character, and after that episode, she never acted a hero either. She is intelligent AND WISE. She took calculated risks. She was no hero, before or after. But in that one episode, she acted a dumb hero which led to her getting exposed to deadly radiation.

Sure. There are people who would have done the same as she did but that is a rare thing most especially when the people escaping a disaster are wearing PPEs, and you happen to know as well as corrupt and evil the operator of that cave. All for what? For that character she saved to only die WITHOUT contributing anything to the plot after he was saved.

That episode. Go Mi Ho suddenly throwing her intelligence and wisdom out the window was only meant to get her terminally ill. No more, no less. It was very weak. They could've have used a contaminated bottled water or fish planted by Choi Do Ha, or some other method other than letting her do something out of her character.

People rarely do something like what she did unless they have a very, very, very strong conviction which Go Mi Ho did not possess. She took calculated risks for her husband, that was the entire driving force behind her. Her saving people begins and ends with her working as a nurse, outside of it she didn't do anything.

Again, good job on not being afraid of killing a major character. But very bad job on how to get that character terminally ill.

From 10 stars, it's down to 8 stars.

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Ending fell FLAT......

This kdrama actually started off fine but mid-way into the story, I felt that the issue with Dr Seo's missing papers were lost amid issues within the "organization". I actually reached a point where I wasn't getting the whole point of the story.
Added to this the "big mouth" and "big mouse" monikers which left me confused as to what the title was.

Action wise, Big Mouth was more fast paced compared to Adamas, which was also airing that same week. But the push and pull as to who was Big Mouse kept leaving the viewer hanging.

I don't know why, but with Kdramas, endings are more often than not, very disappointing. Big Mouth's was no different. The last episodes all seemed like they were trying to fit everything within a 60minute time frame. When Miho got exposed to radiation, she didn't look sick and her passing actually felt very rushed. Changho also lacked emotion during this scene wherein he should have been devastated. Instead, he was surprisingly calm in his acceptance of Miho's fate.

These issues aside, I liked Lee Jong Suk here better than when I saw him in W. Visually, both him and Yoonah looked good together and hopefully, they will portray the roles of a couple in a romcom in the future.

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Enjoy the show but dont expect too much it's not as powerful as it seems

First of all I'm little bit emotional right now bc I just finished the last episode. And I'm really PISSED OFF. like seriously guys. Why did you put everthing in last five seconds and nothing happened in the last five episodes? and HOW COULD YOU KILL MIHO! She was my favorite character, I wouldnt be this sad and mad if chango died and believe me I love him too. I mean I always complain about absurd survival of the main characters in kdramas when they should die in the end but man! dont touch miho. "Getting FOUR STAGE cancer by exposure to toxic water for just five minutes" is this even a thing. The worst thing about her death was the Chango's lack of reaction like after all those dramatic acting in prison, did actor's acting capacity is over?
The disease process was also very insensitive and drone. They were like okey we're wrapping this up she has cancer, no one do anything for her treatment, just give her one piece of pill and let her die, next.
Other than that I like the ending scene where mayor's death but they shouldve done that before. If you're gonna play dirty why wait. Anyways it's really dissapointing that they left a lot of things in the air. At the beginning this show gave me a lot of preason break vibe (its my all time fav) but lets be honest they didnt/couldnt pull that of. There some other stuff about story and twist but too lazy to write them. I'm here bc I just wanted to get on my nerves anyways.
Over all I enjoyed watching this even though... Would I rewatch it sometime no bc I know all the secrets now and that doesnt make me wonder anymore and It would just make me mad bc of the lazy ending.

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Almost a masterpiece if it weren’t for that sloppy rushed ending

Sep 17, 2022

Another KDRAMA that I would have given a solid 10/10 if it weren’t for the disappointing ending. Big mouth had the greatest potential of being the kdrama of this year. Like episodes 1-12 were so fantastic and solid. I feel like I was so hooked into it and looking forward for the twist and turns of the plot. But episodes 13-14 became a little underwhelming then ep 15 was above average then ep 16 was just literal wtf. I feel like my whole reaction to ep 16 was just frustration with the writers and directors. They could have written and wrapped the story more decently. I feel like everything became so out of place. The pacing of the timelines were so jagged and jumpy. Honestly, I will just go in the bad first cause I haven't been this frustrated in a while. I think it is because I really loved this drama. Such a good series, but the ending really just didn’t serve at all.

As for the good, this is Lee Jong Suk we talking about so of course his acting is fantastic. I love the cast from his wife to the psychopath prisoners. They were all lovely, even the villains. They delivered well in their acting cause I really hated all of them.

Yea, honesty ep 1-12 solid 10/10
ep 13-14 solid 9/10
ep 15 7.5/10
ep 16 I am not even gonna bother rating it

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worth a watch

Expections before starting this drama was high because of the stunning cast. Overall it started really well but in the middle there had some up's and downs and dragging and ended really well.

Who is the real big mouth..? That question is the main curiosity factor of this drama at first. It's keep rotating from one person to another. Coming to plot, The whole life of our hero Lawyer park chang ho becomes upside down when he accept a murder case. The drama slowly shift it's gear and move to very interesting from there. From E01 to E08 it's brilliantly narrated but after that there was some slow in the narration and also felt some unwanted dragging in screenplay. But still there were some scenes which keep you there.

From E11, it started to get more exciting again. Even though there were some drag in the story telling but still it's never get bored. For the last 2 episodes it completely regained it's strength with a very good ending... Satisfied with everything.

Lee Jung suk was nailed it as Park Chang ho. Also Yoo Na did a great job as his loving wife and played a very matured character. Also some other notable superb performances from the cast.

Big mouth is definitely a worth watch drama. Don't know how you feel when you watch all epi at once. But it never disappoint you that easily. Some dramas you can never judge before it end. I also labelled this as boring drama after E10. But i was wrong. Lee jung suk and Kim Yoo Na was really good with their chemistry ❤️ try it

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Hooking Drama but disappointing ending

The Drama was overall good, the story had me hooked. Who is Big Mouse really? The intrigues during the drama and even the backstory of the important caractars. Every aspect was perfect. The cast was an absolute perfect choice. There wasn't a lot of OST, which could have ruined the mood. So id should deserve a higher rating, but the ending.
The last episode, espacially the last 10 to 15 minutes were rushed.
I'm not shure how big of a time skip there was and how Changho executed everythig (don't wanna spoil). So there is a gap, which I think should have been filled.
But still an overall good drama.

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love this drama except for the end scene

the story was quite exciting and suspenseful. however, the ending of a villain in the last 10 minutes should not be so easy and the big boss's wife deserved to live a long and happy life. And about the main character, his acting is superb and the best fit for this role. I found this drama interesting, mysterious, and full of suspense, and family bonds. Only one thing disappointed me the big boss's wife, helped her husband till her last breath. & what she got?? She left her husband in pain. The makers could do better, I would like to give 10 ratings, just because of the ending I would say 9.

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This felt like an origin story

I am not a big fan of dramas set in prison but it was Lee Jong Suk's drama and I HAD to watch it. He has never ever let me down with his drama choices, and I am so glad that Big Mouth was no exception (despite the setting). The entire cast of the drama was incredible, it was absolutely amazing to watch. Lee Jong Suk and Kim Joo Hun stole the show. It also had great background score and cinematography, which was a great to watch on large screen.

This drama had a slow build up and layed it's cards slowly with each episode. The bad guys were bad through and through, which was frustrating to watch but promised an equally satisfying end. Something that we all waited for week after week. Unfortunately, that's where it lost me. Even though it is not a bad ending in any sense of the way, it was still not the pay off we were waiting for.

Regardless... It was fun to watch Lee Jong Suk learn to be in power and figure out who big mouse can be in the process. Im Yoon Ah, Kwak Dong Yeon, Ok Ja Yeon were also a pleasure to watch. I really liked how Im Yoon Ah was also given equally powerful storyline and they let her shine on her own throughout the drama.

If you are looking to watch a drama in this type of genre I definitely recommend it. It was a good watch. Great acting, great story and Lee Jong Suk looked *chef's kiss* as always

-- MILD SPOILER WARNING --

Like I said, the story was building up to something for at least first 10 episodes. So I was waiting to pick up its pace and Lee Jong Suk to dance on top of these evil people's head by the end of this show.. so I don't know why and how Lee Jong Suk's character ended up behaving like a puppet while people around him did stuff for him. Even Im Yoon Ah's character did more than he did by the end while he sat and watched.

It unfortunate because his character started with being a puppet to the situation he got sucked in and ended up being a background character in his own show (even when he was on the screen for 80% of the drama). He was just *there* and that's where the show lost me along with its main character. Instead of letting him shine, they let him sit around and do nothing.

There were so many lose ends, charcters, and storyline that were introduced in the drama but nothing came of most of it. For instance: what happened to the serial killer dude? They dropped his name so often I was wondering when he will come and how they manage him along with everything else by the end? Also, they killed off charcters in the first half and literally forgot they existed by the end.

The death of doctor dude even started the story and I don't even remember what happened to him. Same with the wife killer who didn't even get punishment for his crime. What was even the point.

By the last 10 mins the drama still had major chunk of the loose ends and they just showed it all in montage??? like??? That was at least a 4 more episode pay off. While Lee Jong Suk did something, but unfortunately he did nothing. Even the main villain didn't get the end he deserved. It was unfortunate.

I really hope they bring serial killer dude as a main villain in the next season and I hope there is one. This drama felt like an origin story of Park Chang Ho. He was a victim of circumstances and random people doing things for/to him. Why did he not get to shine in his own show?

They need a new season to actually show the concept of Big Mouse (which was not shown at all in my opinion). Obviously, like everyone, I hate how they had to kill off one of the main characters in the last ep. But I think it was needed in order to give Chang Ho the story back as he had become a side charcter in his own drama. I just wish they make a new season with new characters and let Lee Jong Suk shine for all of it.

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Rushed Ending

Reasons why you should watch this:
1. The Cast. There were no weak links and Lee Jong Suk & Yoona's chemistry + acting really hit it out of the park! I loved Kim Joo Heon in previous projects so I was excited to see him get a meatier role...his acting was amazing because I hated his guts in the 2nd half of the series.
2. I would love to see Yoona act as a mafia boss. She looked incredibly cool in that fish farm scene!
3. The death of a major character. It always has so much more emotional impact than writing off a minor character. It was rushed though. I don't know if it's because they were vague with the timeline, but one of the main characters seemed to die off waaaay faster than all the other people with the same illness did.
4. Redemption arcs. I think only 2 characters redeemed themselves, but boy was the journey worth it! I went from hating Gong Ji Hoon for the majority of the series to rooting for him.
5. No silly love triangle. Just a married couple who commit to loving each other through thick & thin. Also, a huge plus is the supportive wife trope!

Cons:
1. Suuuuper rushed ending. Literally wrapped the whole series up in 6 mins. Didn't even really get to see the bad guy suffer.
2. Middle episodes dragged a bit. Maybe if they didn't spend so long on dragging out the plot, they've would've given a carefully plot out finale.
3. The amount of times LJS had to scream "Who are you?" or some iteration of it. Do the writers really think it adds value? Which villain would voluntarily offer up their identity? I also got super fed up with all his arrogance in the prison. As if he could really outsmart Big Mouse. I was confused by all his "traps" for Big Mouse -- did anyone understand what he was trying to do? They didn't really explain what he did exactly besides calling them "traps".
4. The long buildup & quick resolution (I'm thinking it's characteristic of this drama). The writers constantly reminded us that the prison warden was against the new Big Mouse, yet he was suddenly on Big Mouse's side without complaint. I thought I missed an episode or something.

Overall: great acting, potentially great script if they didn't fall short here and there (especially when it counts, aka the finale), but no explanation for big moves & the lightning quick resolutions after extended buildups.

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