After watching so many kdramas, and reaching episode 6 and then 7, I was pretty much convinced that this is no doubt the best Kdrama I have seen, and also among my all time top 20 shows. But episode 8 just ruined everything for me.
The best parts.
Show is thrilling, you can pretty much assume what will be the end because of the premises of the show, but that makes it no less thrilling as several different characters and how it all ties up is brilliantly done, top notch thing there. It was pretty much given that after all that suffering ML will be given another go at his own life, this time to make a different choice.
But then again, the last episode negates everything and also sort of contradicts it's own message and premises. There's another review that mentions this and I couldn't agree more with it.
First of all, after going through all that, coming back to his own life, and remembering everything that has happened, ofcourse he was gonna make a different choice. So that just kills the point of the show, anyone contemplating suicide, if he/she knows the consequences of it will obviously make a choice accordingly, there's no free will to choose here when you have already learnt what's gonna happen.
Second thing , bringing him into the body of his own mother was just too weird for me to accept, I completely understand the point makers wanted to convey as to how people who are left behind, suffer. But it was unnecessary, as earlier we have seen how his mother and Ji Su have suffered following his suicide.
Along with this there are major plotholes. As now at the end our ML is brought back to the point where he commits suicide, and now he decides not to and the show just ends. But what now, will he be able stop the psychopath painter cum serial killer ? Will he decide to go against the rich heir who is also another psychopath killer in the making ? Will his gf die again ? Because according to death that was always supposed to happen that way, but would she be on the road if it wasn't for the soul of her dead bf now in the body of a model who was walking her back home and stopped midway to tell the story ? But death says she never lies and this is how his gf was supposed to die. But if now the ML never commits suicide , she wouldn't be at that point.
And the other lives? The guy in plane, the schoolboy, the cop, the old homeless guy, the model etc etc. They all got to their point of death because ML soul was inside them. What's gonna happen to all that ?
All of this never happened, and the ML was either just dreaming or forgets everything in the end, which makes the entire show even more pointless.
Or he remembers, but how all the events through the show will take place if ML never commits suicide?
The makers botched everything up with last episode.
A much better ending would've been where it all started, and not where ML commits suicide. But when several years back, the second last life of ML was inside a middle age guy who runs on the road to get killed by the rich guy, that triggers the psychopath in him, and also is the starting point of where ML life starts to go down.
The ML never commits suicide, he never ends up in the body of middle age person, never runs in the middle of the road, never the ML trembles and fails his interview, and he never gets to the point where he has to commit suicide. That's where and how the cycle began and should have ended.
Again the show was good upto a point. But got completely ruined by the way it ended. Leaving several plotholes and contradictions. There have been other shows about suicide, which makes similar point, one is Tomorrow of Rowoon, and it deals with this point in much better way. Or there have been shows where the ML dies, but is given another chance to do different and better, such as Reborn Rich and Again my Life.
The makers tried to do both points here and ended by ruining the show.
I wouldn't recommend the show. Watch it only if you have nothing else to watch.
The best parts.
Show is thrilling, you can pretty much assume what will be the end because of the premises of the show, but that makes it no less thrilling as several different characters and how it all ties up is brilliantly done, top notch thing there. It was pretty much given that after all that suffering ML will be given another go at his own life, this time to make a different choice.
But then again, the last episode negates everything and also sort of contradicts it's own message and premises. There's another review that mentions this and I couldn't agree more with it.
First of all, after going through all that, coming back to his own life, and remembering everything that has happened, ofcourse he was gonna make a different choice. So that just kills the point of the show, anyone contemplating suicide, if he/she knows the consequences of it will obviously make a choice accordingly, there's no free will to choose here when you have already learnt what's gonna happen.
Second thing , bringing him into the body of his own mother was just too weird for me to accept, I completely understand the point makers wanted to convey as to how people who are left behind, suffer. But it was unnecessary, as earlier we have seen how his mother and Ji Su have suffered following his suicide.
Along with this there are major plotholes. As now at the end our ML is brought back to the point where he commits suicide, and now he decides not to and the show just ends. But what now, will he be able stop the psychopath painter cum serial killer ? Will he decide to go against the rich heir who is also another psychopath killer in the making ? Will his gf die again ? Because according to death that was always supposed to happen that way, but would she be on the road if it wasn't for the soul of her dead bf now in the body of a model who was walking her back home and stopped midway to tell the story ? But death says she never lies and this is how his gf was supposed to die. But if now the ML never commits suicide , she wouldn't be at that point.
And the other lives? The guy in plane, the schoolboy, the cop, the old homeless guy, the model etc etc. They all got to their point of death because ML soul was inside them. What's gonna happen to all that ?
All of this never happened, and the ML was either just dreaming or forgets everything in the end, which makes the entire show even more pointless.
Or he remembers, but how all the events through the show will take place if ML never commits suicide?
The makers botched everything up with last episode.
A much better ending would've been where it all started, and not where ML commits suicide. But when several years back, the second last life of ML was inside a middle age guy who runs on the road to get killed by the rich guy, that triggers the psychopath in him, and also is the starting point of where ML life starts to go down.
The ML never commits suicide, he never ends up in the body of middle age person, never runs in the middle of the road, never the ML trembles and fails his interview, and he never gets to the point where he has to commit suicide. That's where and how the cycle began and should have ended.
Again the show was good upto a point. But got completely ruined by the way it ended. Leaving several plotholes and contradictions. There have been other shows about suicide, which makes similar point, one is Tomorrow of Rowoon, and it deals with this point in much better way. Or there have been shows where the ML dies, but is given another chance to do different and better, such as Reborn Rich and Again my Life.
The makers tried to do both points here and ended by ruining the show.
I wouldn't recommend the show. Watch it only if you have nothing else to watch.