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Smart and Beautiful Take on a Depressing Issue
What drew me in was the pacing of the story in the beginning. The writers really made you feel for the FL and her issues very early on.
The cinematography was gorgeous. This isn't something to binge watch just to watch. You really need to watch each episode and pay attention to the world around the characters and how the director used these elements to tell the story. For me, it was like watching European art films when I took a film class many years ago. There was a lot of care and effort made in the artistic direction of this series and as a viewer I appreciated it.
As the story goes it it becomes much darker and depressing. In the very beginning you don't know how they will go with this issue whether it will be re-told in a quirky fashion or whether they will be serious. By episode 6 it was very serious. And tbh episodes 7-9 it was extremely serious, sad and depressing. I really felt the FL's isolation. I had to take a couple of days break in between watching each episode.
The FL was a very good actress. Many of the side characters gave amazing performances. However, I was not a big fan of the acting of the man who played the FL's husband.
Episode 6 (I think) for me was the hardest to watch. It was the episode where she has sex with random men. Probably the hardest scene was not even the rape scene but the scene with the dude force feeding her. By this time she was so depressed, it didn't even seem like she was in her body, she was letting random men do anything to her just to feel something.
TBH as the show was nearing the end I was all prepared to write a horrible review. But episode 10 redeemed all of my negative thoughts. The FL lead truly loved her husband and he loved her. Their laugh at the end when they shocked their parents was everything! I wanted to cry because it seemed like they had truly found happiness despite the sex situation.
The cinematography was gorgeous. This isn't something to binge watch just to watch. You really need to watch each episode and pay attention to the world around the characters and how the director used these elements to tell the story. For me, it was like watching European art films when I took a film class many years ago. There was a lot of care and effort made in the artistic direction of this series and as a viewer I appreciated it.
As the story goes it it becomes much darker and depressing. In the very beginning you don't know how they will go with this issue whether it will be re-told in a quirky fashion or whether they will be serious. By episode 6 it was very serious. And tbh episodes 7-9 it was extremely serious, sad and depressing. I really felt the FL's isolation. I had to take a couple of days break in between watching each episode.
The FL was a very good actress. Many of the side characters gave amazing performances. However, I was not a big fan of the acting of the man who played the FL's husband.
Episode 6 (I think) for me was the hardest to watch. It was the episode where she has sex with random men. Probably the hardest scene was not even the rape scene but the scene with the dude force feeding her. By this time she was so depressed, it didn't even seem like she was in her body, she was letting random men do anything to her just to feel something.
TBH as the show was nearing the end I was all prepared to write a horrible review. But episode 10 redeemed all of my negative thoughts. The FL lead truly loved her husband and he loved her. Their laugh at the end when they shocked their parents was everything! I wanted to cry because it seemed like they had truly found happiness despite the sex situation.
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