Why Rating is Low?

Clearly, the most of the viewers have watched this whole show while being biased towards one of the male leads.
Whenever a love triangle is strong, the rating of the series get heavily affected.

Watching from a neutral point of view, without liking one ML over the other, the story was quite well executed. I loved the OST, the production was obviously very high as Netflix was involved, the animations were superb.

The female lead because of the her horrible past, was quite selfish in some of her choices as clearly portrayed at the end of Season 2 as she herself comes to realize how selfish her choices were.

Unfortunately the ones to suffer due to female lead's choices were the two male leads. Considering that Sun-Oh fell for JJ knowing how much of a crush his best friend had on her and Hye-yeong also was ultimately unable to keep the childhood promise he made to Sun-Oh. The whole thing is a a bit Karmic and balances everything out.

With everyone having their share of trouble and ultimately finding some kind of happiness in the end.

This is only worth watching if you are able to watch it without tilting towards one of the male leads, If you do then you will be very angry the way the story goes and how it ends.

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An Enjoyable Watch, Filled with Funny Moments

What the heck was that.. ? I finished it in less than 48 hours..

The comic timing was superb, the back story kept a bit of suspense and kept us engaged.
The awkward interactions between the leads were superb, that is the highlight of this drama.
This was a very enjoyable drama.. Made me laugh out loud at a lot of scenes..

Highly recommended, those put off by some reviews saying ML is cocky, he is a cocky character who cares a lot about money, who is not educated (thats the fun part), but he has ideas in him lol..
Not every bookworm is a genius, the FL is highly skilled and educated in the sector she is working in, but that doesn't mean she is supposed to be a genius in everything..

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Interesting but draggy and a bit predicatable.

For me this series is a 8.5/10.

Firstly, seeing Yeo Jin Goo in the cast means, this drama would be worth watching, as he never picks normal scripts, his drama's are always interesting.

Secondly it's my first time watching Shin Ha Kyun, I had no idea who he was, but from the first episode onwards, I am blown away by his acting skills. His acting is phenomenal! Definitely one of the best actors in Korea, and his performance deserves accolades.

Third, it's obviously a thriller, with a plot that spans 21 years back, a small town involved with a lot of central characters, unfortunately for me, a thriller is not a real thriller if the plot is predictable at times. The drama definitely had it's twists but certain key plot points were predictable from very early on, hence the reason why my rating is 8.5 and not higher.

Forth, the strong point of this drama definitely is the unique bromance/relation between Yeo Jin Goo and Shin Ha Kyun's character. This relation is what drives this whole drama and makes this worth watching.

Lastly, the OST! was mind-blowing, kudos to whoever did it, brilliantly placed background music. I usually finish thrillers in 1 or 2 days max, but unfortunately as I found the plot a bit draggy, I took quite a few days of break in-between the episodes.

Definitely worth watching once, for the 2 ML's connection and the superb acting.

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The reason for low ratings.

Clearly, the most of the viewers have watched this whole show while being biased towards one of the male leads.
Whenever a love triangle is strong, the rating of the series get heavily affected.

Watching from a neutral point of view, without liking one ML over the other, the story was quite well executed. I loved the OST, the production was obviously very high as Netflix was involved, the animations were superb.

The female lead because of the her horrible past, was quite selfish in some of her choices as clearly portrayed at the end of Season 2 as she herself comes to realize how selfish her choices were.

Unfortunately the ones to suffer due to female lead's choices were the two male leads. Considering that Sun-Oh fell for JJ knowing how much of a crush his best friend had on her and Hye-yeong also was ultimately unable to keep the childhood promise he made to Sun-Oh. The whole thing is a a bit Karmic and balances everything out.

With everyone having their share of trouble and ultimately finding some kind of happiness in the end.

This is only worth watching if you are able to watch it without tilting towards one of the male leads, If you do then you will be very angry the way the story goes and how it ends.

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Questionable, but Justified

Happiness, when I heard the name, I thought it would be a rom-com, specially with Hyung Sik and Han Hyo Joo on board.. Totally unexpected setting, a very interesting start, questionable actions by a lot of characters, you find them dumb and stupid until you finish and really think about the situation they were in.

To be honest, until we are dropped into a hellish situation where there is no food, no water, no protection, no electricity, being completely oblivious from the outside world.. Leaving them completely clueless about when they can get out, and where each and everyone starts doubts the person next to them..

We cannot really judge them for doing stupid things, because in such a scenario nobody would be sane.

It's easy to think that why did he do that, he could have done that, because we are watching from a third person perspective, but in a similar situation most of us would probably end up doing similar things..

So in the end, I think the 'stupid' 'dumb' things the characters did, were not non-sense or not logical, because many of them already were 'lacking' many things in life or some of them were already devilish in nature. Their actions were based on what they had gone through in their life..

Might be a stretch, but some of the characters fit into the list of sins really well.. Some had multiple traits even..

Pride - Oh Ju Hyung / Doctor (Who thinks everyone is beneath them)
Lust - Koo Hae Song / Attorney (Who craved into lust)
Gluttony - Kim Dong Hyun / Vlogger (His hunger for content was unbelievable)
Greed - Woo Sang Hee (Her desire for crypto never ended till last minute)
Envy - Cleaner Couple (They risked everything to get what others had)
Wrath - Andrew / Murder (No need to even explain.. )
Sloth - Kim Jeong Gook / Police Detective (He didn't want to be involved with anything.. )

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Underrated heavily, deserves so much more attention and viewers!

Firstly lets start with how long I have had this on my collection and never got around to actually open the first episode and begin it. Unfortunately perhaps the reason might have been people not really talking about it in recommendation discussions or videos.

In simple terms, this is heavily 'underrated', this deserves so much more viewers than it currently has. I personally rated it 9/10 and not 10/10 just because, after a long time I might not come around watching it more than once or twice. I like to give 10/10 for dramas which I wouldn't mind watching again at any time.

What a brilliantly written story, what a brilliantly directed drama. Superb work by the whole team and the character themselves are so unique and shows different personalities and different developments from one another.

A positive drama, with not a single bit of negativity, this is a must watch, lets just say its a 'hidden gem' in my book!

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This is what a perfect thriller looks like!

I know Signal is very highly rated, despite Kairos and Signal having similarities, I found Signal to be draggy and not as thrilling as I suppose others found it to be. Whereas Kairos, had me hooked on for every single minute from the beginning episode, and I finished the whole series in a little more than 24 hours.

Firstly, the acting is brilliant, the cinematography is also very good. The way they have differentiated the past and the future by having past being a bit yellow tinted, was brilliant, and enabled viewers to never be confused.

The story was brilliantly executed, like every time related story, there are a ton of variables, and these variables from first moment the timeline changing continues to keep changing over and over with many unexpected twists till the last episode.

If you love a thriller, you will enjoy this series a lot, and unlike other series where we don't know the main villain till last episode, this series keeps you hooked by wanting to learn how ultimately the main leads will manage to solve everything and deal with the main villain.

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A light-hearted romcom

Well, where should I start?

Definitely surprised by the low rating this series currently has on MDL, but then again almost all 'typical' rom-com series all have similar 7.5-8.5 rating on MDL.

Firstly, the series is what it says on the synopsis and the tags, its a very positive, light hearted, romance comedy series. It has a few plot holes but over all it portrays what it set out to do.

For me personally, I love watching Thrillers, but after watching a dark complicated thriller I always prefer to watch something light and very straight forward, which would occasionally give me a good laugh.

That is exactly what this series is, I loved the story the main FL's character, the funny bromance/rivalry between the 4 ML's and how their relations progress through the series.

I finished this whole series in 2 days, so this was not draggy and not at all boring, and certainly entertaining.

Overall definitely worth watching at least once, if you are looking for a simple romantic comedy and enjoyed series such as The Heirs (Inheriters) then you should not miss out on this.

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Only for people who can digest slow tragic sad stories!

The younger version of both main leads were excellent and definitely deserves a shout out! The story was dragged on, there were a lot of extra unnecessary scenes, specially the constantly replaying memories and flashbacks.

Perhaps it's my own personal preference, but tragedy + melodrama in my opinion is a really bad combo. Since the outcome will most likely be 70% of the whole show involving a lot of sad and crying moments, that's what this is!
In simple terms, you can easily watch the whole series in 2x Speed and comfortably watch it without missing anything, that's how slow the whole direction was done.

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