Reflection of You

It started as a captivating story, but the bitter, self-pitying, vengeful Ms. Gu's twisted reasoning and plots just dragged on and on. Basically, everyone had to be punished and had to suffer forever because the man she loved, never really loved her and was unfaithful.

One could have felt sorry for Ms Gu in the beginning, but her exagerated self-pity and twisted manipulation of absolutely everyone, even the man she professed to love, was just exhausting!

I had to skip to the end after about episode 11/12 and it was a really disappointing ending. Don't bother.

The synopsis for this shouldn't be considered too much. This drama looks at the way we deceive ourselves and deceive others, and ask us to question when those things are valid. It also asks us to consider how we pass on values about these things to our children, and how much we would sacrifice for pride.

Very much a slow burn, it takes until at least episode four before you start to have any real understanding of the world in which these people are living, but the craft involved in having set it up this way means that although you don't much like their world, you can't quite turn away from it. The characters themselves refer to the novel Wuthering Heights at one point, and it's a pretty good parallel as to the way things go here.

The actors are all very talented, and their expertise are very much made use of. Totally worth the time investment if you don't mind not getting a 'happy ending'.

Have you ever watched something where so many characters are moody, dysfunctional, or downright incapable of normal behaviors? The actor "Mr. Seo" character is Korea's answer to Keanu Reeves: talk about zero range. This was a bad deal all around. Watching it, I really could care less about any of the leads.

Probably a non-typical k-drama. Very complex yet heart touching story, loved every dialogue and scene including the final episode. Apart from main leading characters, even other roles had very well thought of story plot and depth.

You either love it or you don't. I thought the beginning was nice and dark enough. But the last episodes were depressing , too bad. I would have preferred a happy ending. But that's my taste:)