Sisyphus: The Myth

This is a pretty fun action series, light on sci-fi, heavy on "you need to suspend a LOT of disbelief to enjoy it".

If you approach it like you're watching a Hollywood action flick from the 80s, you'll find it entertaining enough.

The only real problem with this show, and it's a serious one, is the casting of the two leads. They are both easy on the eyes, but they were both terribly miscast for this role. For starters, the girl is a truly terrible actress, and is embarrassing to watch. I'm sure she's fantastic in rom-coms, since she really is beautiful. But this role demanded more, and she was entirely unconvincing--even though I was happy to suspend all criticism and just enjoy it. But boy howdy, is she ever a bad actress. Any situation that requires her to do something other than "be cute" is ruined. With one exception--she does a great job with the fight scenes. But that's maybe five percent of her screen time, and for the rest, you have to watch her acting like someone who has never been in front of a camera before.

But even worse is the male lead. He is a decent actor, but he is *terribly* unfit to be the romantic lead. He and the woman have zero chemistry. No, I take that back. It's not zero. It's _negative_. They are clearly repulsed by one another in real life, and their attempts at romance are so cringey that we finally had to give up on the series after twelve episodes. We only had 4 left, and we were enjoying the story, but the romance was really just as awful and unwatchable as many other reviewers have observed. And honestly it's the guy's fault. He looks much older than her, he acts and dresses cringily young, and he is much smaller than she is (in both height and weight). It's clear that neither of them likes the other, and every time they hug it's like cousin hugs. It was just terrible casting.

The rest of the show is pretty awesome, don't get me wrong. Great pacing, lots of plot twists, pretty decent time-travel sci-fi, and really solid, top-notch acting by the entire rest of the cast. The special effects for the postwar Korean Peninsula are outstanding, and overall the series feels like it had a decently high budget.

If you can put aside your confusion about obvious time-travel plot holes, and you don't mind the male lead pawing at the female lead like a sex offender grooming a 14 year old while she cringes away from him in disgust, then you're in for a fun ride.

Original idea. Liked the new age tech plus sci-fi premise, but the director ruined it with the unnecessarily long and overacted drama scenes. We get it. The extensive or unrealistic drag ons didn't add dramatic flair. Not sure if the reason was lazy writing, or director didn't know the value of the show's originality - the show was already intriguing in its own right, so there was no need to add yeast, stupidity (i.e. Bad-ass assassin suddenly unable to shoot protagonists). This show could've been an 8 or 9, but there were too many of these frustrating scenes to take it seriously. I think my review is descriptive enough IMDB. I appreciate you'll weeding out the unhelpful reviews. But consider requiring 600 characters for reviews with spoilers only. 400 to 500 for reviews without spoilers. Add add a counter bar so we know how many more characters to go.

Sijipeuseu is worth the effort. It is Korean and subtitled but the writing and acting are good. The ending isn't the way I would have done it but the story is interesting and very engaging. Korea is putting out a bunch of great content the last few years. This show is one of the good ones. Give it a shot is if you like scifi within a mystery then you will like this.

This show isn't in the same realm as DARK (a similarly themed time travel show) but it's not bad. I see a lot of hate around it here and there and just wanted to put my thoughts down.

The characters are solid. All the actors played their roles perfectly. The story is very easy to follow for a time travel show (which is not easy for some time travel shows to do). The characters are wel thought out and the back story for the supporting characters comes in an interesting way. You find out about their past from their past which hasn't happened yet. Like a guy watching his past self be mean to his wife and hating himself for it. That kind of thing.

The graphics were well done. There was very little cgi work to speak of. The time periods felt great and the characters experiences in those time periods felt relatable.

I loved this show. It's got a lot of interesting takes.. And if you like time travel and are interested in seeing people use and abuse time travel like no other time travel show has done.. Then this is the show for you.

If you are reading this, I come from the future to warn you to save 16 hours of your life and watch something else you might be interested in. I beg you to hit the play button on another show. The trailer does a good job of catching your attention, but sadly the show fails to follow through.

This show isn't the worst, but its story isn't well written enough, especially that awful ending. Sisyphus has all the ugly time travel problems multitudes of other time travel shows have.

A second season I could not hope for, because that would mean it would take all these talented actors' time away from doing other meaningful projects to try to salvage this average time travel show.