Sijipeuseu: The Myth

This is the most action-packed K-Drama that I have seen. I hate to give it a lower rating, which I did, but no fault of the actors. Both lead actors. Park Shin-hye and Cho Seung-woo did fantastic in their rolls - Park Shin-hye in the action packed gun scenes and Cho Seung-woo in his portrayal of the smartest man in the world - a computer coding genius and CEO. The lower rating is for the writers as it was confusing - are we now in the present, past or in the future? The ending is extremely confusing and if you have to go online to get an explanation and then find no one else gives a proper explanation either, then the writer hasn't done their job. I also don't care for writers that include story lines about nuclear war either as some of us are old enough to remember the fear we felt during the Bay of Pigs incident when we were told we weren't going to wake up in the morning. To use it for a movie theme I don't think is right and the word never used to be even uttered and now movies are made for entertainment. So All my stars go to the actors who did a great job and those who did the fantastic filming in the show - I am sure it was extremely difficult.

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.

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.

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 series caught my imagination from the first minute , unconventional , entertaining and puzzling .I am hooked and love the series. The main character is so unconventional and entertaining , not your typical rich kid stereotyping like other series . Just stick with it :-)

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