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The 1st is slow. Teenage drama. A girl is being bullied by some other girls. The bullied file’s dad is widower, a quiet banker. But in e2, it’s revealed that the bullying girl is the daughter of a major gangster and the widower is a retired double agent, a traitor in the north. By e3, where I’m at now, everyone’s after him. Other underground agents are reactivated. The north sends an assassin. And the daughter is kidnapped. It’s up to agent Kim to walk the road of vengeance.
Once this gets going, it’s fun. There’s something about Kim’s professional set of special skills that makes for a good watch as villains underestimate him. The fight choreo is basic, one action, one shot, and plenty of firefights (even tho no one owns guns in s. Korea). I’m a sucker for father/daughter tales which makes this satisfying.
There are a few more eps available, the. Fresh ones roll out every week.
I’m down. Not quiteD00M recommended because I’m not sure where this is all going… I may endorse it later
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E3 was good action. There's a cool scene where Kim is walking towards the head villain's room and below, his TKD friend is delivering an nice one-er taking out the first floor gangsters, while Kim has a dreadlock by the dreads, not the clump he already tore out.
E4 was a lot of backstory, upping the stakes by explaining what led up to all this.
Now I'm locked into weekly installments. I think there will 8 or 10 total. New episodes drop every Friday.
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E5 was mostly spent in a container yard where so many fight scenes are staged. There’s a big Kim v gang fight that’s done off camera - the ol’ scene where the anti-hero faces off with a gang - cut to him dusting himself off, spattered with blood, and the gang all spread out dead. It’s disappointing because this show is action driven and that was looking to be a good fight.
But the episode is redeemed by an artistically shot knife fight - a one on one where fresh camera angles, split screen, and panning from action to shadow. Bravo.
Still enjoying this show. Definitely D00M recommended if you like good action.
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E6 was the comedy relief episode. Kim has 2 sidekicks who are always squabbling - 1 is always in military camo and the other is always in a taekwondo dobok. They both have skills but both are kinda ptsd crazy. There’s a running joke about how they are keeping up the pace by popping kopiko candies (Indonesian coffee drops) which is making me crave kopiko. I haven’t had one of those in years. This ep lacked the tension and good fight choreo that the rest of the season has had but it was funny enough to make me lol.
There are 10 eps total, each around an hour with fresh ones dropped every Friday and Saturday.
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I agree with you on Ep 01. It was very teen drama and slow. I did like the bit with Kim's old partners, the TKD instructor and his game playing buddy. But it mostly dragged until the bad CEO showed up in the hot tub.
I'm about halfway through Ep 02. I will watch more.
It's interesting that I am currently watching two shows about widowers and their teenage daughters both coming at it from completely different angles. The other is Shrinking on Apple TV.
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The Queen caught a few minutes and decided this is just the Korean version of Taken.
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Ep06 The schrodinger's daughter question is finally answered. The show keeps jumping back and forth and town from hyper serious to downright goofy. I can't decide if Agent Kim channels the Terminator or Jason (Friday the 13th not Bourne)
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Ep 07 The good guys win. The bad guys lose. Everyone is reunited except if you look at the schedule you see there is one more episode coming. What could possible be coming for Agent Kim? Bad things. It will be interesting to see how they resolve in the last hour or is there another episode still waiting?
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Woah…
How did you get ahead of me on this one?
I must be lagging…
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You're a slacker, McFly. Always have been. Always will be.
The Queen's away. My choices of what to watch are limited.
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Yesterday, 11:08 AM
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”Yeah! That's right!”
That and I’ve been Cali summer busy. It’s catching up to me. I hope to catch up tonight (with Agent Mim - I’ll never catch up with the rest - no rest for the wicked)
That said, off to the boardwalk!
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E7 Did you bail on this episode early? Because it was nowhere near the ‘happily ever after’ you posted. Kim & his buddies are busted and jailed. There’s plenty more to go.
I was very amused with Jin-cheol’s Squid Game reference when setting up the motion-sensor explosives.
E8 North Korean Scarface returns. Solid play. With Greg’s post above, I figured it might go North (instead of South - see what I did there?)
Two more eps for the season but I’ll be at sdcc when they drop so I won’t get to them until later.
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I didn't want to give spoilers. I saw all the way to the hot poker.
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Fair
That whole hot poker scene bugged me. He goes through with it. Kim winces. And then it just disappears. Kim has survived ridiculous abuse throughout the show but that's the John Wick way of action nowadays, but at least there should be some acknowledgment of the burn. It just disappears. And when that whole N. Korea scene is revealed, it's like 'hold the phone - what about the guy who just got his throat bitten out?"
But this is not the kind of show to dwell on such things because it'll ruin it. Come for the action, stay for the action, never mind the writing flaws...
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