I found this drama really gripping, so much actually that I spent several nights binge watching it because I just could't turn it off. It it rather dark themed, so nothing about romance or any typical, lightweight thing you often find in K-Drama here.
The storyline is interesting as there indeed seem to be problems with cults in South Korea. The actors are quite good in here, with Woo Do-Hwan as Seok Dong-cheol standing out for me as the best from the group of young men trying to save a young girl from the cult and its leader.
I really enjoyed the series until the end, although it did have some little flaws in the last episodes. The girl, Im Sang-mi, has been caught and locked up within the cult for full three years. The most powerful female cult helper takes away her cell phone in the very beginning. So three years later she finally finds this cell phone locked in a drawer in the woman's room, - and turns it on and it works? After three years in a drawer? The phone of course would not work, the battery would have been empty for years and she also didn't have a charger then but steadily uses the phone. That was quite a blunder for me and annoyed me.
Also, the real hero of the four young man trying to save her is certainly Seok Dong-cheol. He risks everything for her actually from the beginnig of the series, and later even more. They also look at each other in a certain way in the very first episode. He saves her several times in different situations and obviously really cares for her. Still, in the very last episode, the politician's son, Han Sang Hwan, who does rather foolish and even unhelpful things throughout the whole series, is suddenly shown as the hero she thanks and Seok Dong-cheol is quite forgotten in that respect. That was a weak ending for me and the focus was set wrong on the wrong person here.
Still, it was rather gripping most of the time, the topic was interesting and I would even watch it again.
I really enjoyed the series until the end, although it did have some little flaws in the last episodes. The girl, Im Sang-mi, has been caught and locked up within the cult for full three years. The most powerful female cult helper takes away her cell phone in the very beginning. So three years later she finally finds this cell phone locked in a drawer in the woman's room, - and turns it on and it works? After three years in a drawer? The phone of course would not work, the battery would have been empty for years and she also didn't have a charger then but steadily uses the phone. That was quite a blunder for me and annoyed me.
Also, the real hero of the four young man trying to save her is certainly Seok Dong-cheol. He risks everything for her actually from the beginnig of the series, and later even more. They also look at each other in a certain way in the very first episode. He saves her several times in different situations and obviously really cares for her. Still, in the very last episode, the politician's son, Han Sang Hwan, who does rather foolish and even unhelpful things throughout the whole series, is suddenly shown as the hero she thanks and Seok Dong-cheol is quite forgotten in that respect. That was a weak ending for me and the focus was set wrong on the wrong person here.
Still, it was rather gripping most of the time, the topic was interesting and I would even watch it again.