Korean series always hits it out of the park To be honest I was not really interested about starting a series about zombies, the entire concept has been so dragged out that it starts feeling stale. There always are exceptions with ridiculously funny Zombieland and masterfully directed Train to Busan( which is by far my favourite zombie movie).
For a series the 1 hour mark was daunting for me as an hour is almost half the runtime of a movie. But after the 1st episode I was hooked so if you are scared of the runtime don't worry if you finish the 1st episode you'll want to watch the next and then next. It however feels like a commitment.
The story as we can except from a kdrama was top notch, except the ending. The motivation was spot on for the development of the zombie virus( not a spoiler as that's how it's). Though the science behind it I'm a little iffy about it, however emotionally it made sense. The friendships throughout the series were so good like there was a rollercoaster of emotions involved. An irritating villain who just keeps coming back. The heartlessness of people we have to depend upon, and the will to survive. I wanna make a special note that the romance is so adorable and beautiful that you want to protect all of the ships but the world it's set-up is so cruel that you end up broken anyways. Which brings me to the ending, as the show came to a close certain deaths seemed like they just happened to be killed to attain a certain route without any development which made those deaths cheap. Also after such a harrowing experience, you'd expect a good/wholesome ending but even that was stripped from us, so basically PAIN + PAIN.
Characters were amazingly written. Like always whenever a zombie movie starts you bey on who's gonna survive, I did that too. Most of my guesses were right but I was surprised to see which one of them. As i have said you'll feel the beautiful friendships, you'll feel the romance which then will intensify the pain. Although certain characters were so useless that they just randomly died and no one from the cast seemed to care later. I found it funny and as a glitch as all the characters were saying they gotta be like a family. So that's a negative. Some moves weren't very logical and I should expect that with zombie movies but when other aspects are so good you end up expecting more. Like there's a scene where a laptop is supposed to be procured it was alright but it had unnecessary tension build up. After that scene we got into the human emotions stuff and that made me forget that scene. But still.
Sound design is very well. The way background music can convert a scene from terrifying in a moment to comedy is pretty good. Music plays amazing role in the emotions that we see on screen. Romance, comedy, horror, friendship, sadness, despair everything.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you to watch this series, it took me about 2 days to finish it but you can finish it in one. The end is unsatisfactory but you'll still enjoy it. Hope a sequel is released ( which probably will not since it's a Korean series which are mostly limited).
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