Girl Who Got Loved In A Painful Way

This was a very unique, creative and well acted black comedy psychological thriller series. There are three departments where i absolutely adored the show.


Firstly, the production quality is visual stunning and stellar. Starting from cinematography, background music, editing, lighting, color grading, styling, set pieces to locations. Everything was refreshing and eye pleasing.


Secondly, the acting here is award winning, amazing and heartwrenching. Each and every character be it positive or negative has left a mark of their acting chops on me. I personally loved everybody's performance. Yes it was damm amazing to watch such a star studded show.


Thirdly, the storytelling is very unique and engaging. The X factor about this show is that each character here be it positive or negative is always a protagonist of their own story. The characters are extremely complex and the narration shows that very well through giving equal screenspace to every character.


Every episode shows different kind of drama. There is office drama, school drama, prison drama, sex drama, family drama. Each episode tells a different story keeping one protagonist in constant but with 3 different faces. So i would like to applaud the webtoon writer for being so creative and Mask Girl team for being so unique with their visualization that they presented such a highly dark and gritty psychological story through elements of adult and black comedy.


Overall i simply loved and enjoyed. For me this is a sheer masterpiece. I only wish this had more episodes so i could have enjoyed it a little more.

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Exquisite House Painted Eerie

Absolutely fantastic slow burn dark psychological thriller with mindboggling twists and turns. Although i didnt liked how it was too slow but the engagement with this show was always 100% from my side. And final episode was worth all the build up.


PLOT -


This was the journey of two such fascinating and psychologically disturbed ladies who together crossed the dark tunnel and finally when they came out, a bright sun was waiting for them. Both the ladies suffered from day one to day end and atlast they got a beautiful end.


BEST EPISODES -


First 2 episodes were quite eerie and creepy. Afterwards it successfully transforms into a suspenseful thriller. Fifth and final was my personal favourite episode. They had great twists and turns one after another.


SPOILER -


The husbands atlast got punished for all their sins and crimes by the hands of their wives whom they use to treat awfully.


ACTING -


The acting and direction was excellent. Lim Ji Yeon was the star of the show. Her character and acting both was very complex and remorseful. Kim Tae Hee also did very well. She performed this character with class. Kim Sung Oh as the main antagonist was an outstanding performer. His presence was chilling and ominous. The teenage actor Cha Sung Jae also did very well. Special mention to Choi Jae Rim whose limited screen presence was also immensely impactful.


CINEMATOGRAPHY -


The show was supremely cinematic and visually appealing. Every angle, color grading, color scheming, cinematography and filtering was hauntingly mesmerising.


BACKGROUND MUSIC & SCORES


This was quite a bgmless show but the hauntingly beautiful "Night" OST sung by JUNIEL perfectly matched with the drama


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Overall this is clearly a binge material. Dont miss this gem. Watch but with patience. Totally a delight for psychological suspense thriller fans.

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Thriller-less Thriller ?

This was a very nice show. The production quality was superb and acting was amazing as well. Liked it from start to end. But the most flawed part about this show is something we need to discuss. First of all this was sold as a psychological thriller, but after finishing it i am realizing this is nothing but a standard family drama.


The plot was undoubtedly thrilling and very conceptual but despite the engaging screenplay the execution lacked many things. The most important thing if this was thriller then there should be one or multiple deaths, multiple mindboggling twists and turns, conspiracy and accident, shocking turns and plot twists, high amount of thrill but i am disappointed there was nothing. Not even very much of drama. The approach was too ordinary.


The cinematography was fantastic, the color grading, filter, editing and shooting angles. Everything were symbol was a premium product. But the background music and scores were lacklustre. Couldnt understand by any of the bgms what they are trying to tell. I never heard motivational or TV commercial style of bgms in a thriller so the sound department did a very poor job according to me. And also why there were only 2/3 bgms in the entire show. It was quite repititive and frustating after a point.

I genuinely liked the first half more than the second half and was expecting good thrill in 2nd half. But knew it somewhere watching first 4 episodes that this is not at all thriller. Storywise, they had a very conceptual plot and it was quite unique. But surely they could have done more to make it crazier flamethrower. If the show was more darker and dramatic this could have been supremely enjoyable because the characters were developing quite well.

2nd half had lack in creating solid plot twists and development felt flat. Moreover the execution was not upto the mark. The characters turned monotonous by the end. I started skipping fewer scenes. Few twists were actually good but the way they executed was very plain.

Anzu (FL) was oversmart and i liked her throughout the show, didnt liked her sister Yuzu and Makiko's youngest son Shinji - both were utterly annoying people. These few characters didnt really shaped well. Makiko (2nd FL) who was introduced as a vindictive nature person turn out to be mostly a fool when i expected her to be more sharp and cruel. The father was an absolutely pathetic character and had no importance. I dont know why he was even shown alive, his personality was gross. Kiichi was very complex character initially. I was enjoying his dark sides and complexity. They were trying to build him up well. But then again in 2nd half his character was made plot device and had no significance. He looked too less powerful.

The final plot twist was honestly something i never expected it to be. It was quite great.

Honestly the romance angle seemed a bit unnecessary here but as there were not many characters and because the main leads had damm good chemistry i liked and enjoyed their healing romance and also wished this to be more like a romantic drama.

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Overall this was a nice one time watch and i quite liked and enjoyed it but only from the perspective of family drama. From thriller perspective this is lacklustre.

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