Butterfly

This East-meets-West spy thriller looks gorgeous and delivers good storytelling! Daniel Dae Kim & the Korean cast (Kim Tae-hee, Park Hae-soo, Kim Ji-hoon) absolutely shine with authentic performances. Production values are a standout, considering the writing swings from, good-to-average, throughout the series.

BUT... the action is painfully slow, gunshots sound like toy cap guns, pacing drags, ending flops hard, and some non-Korean actors (looking at you, Piper Perabo) deliver lines like yesterday's toast, with the writers repeating the same lines, over and over -

"That's David! That's David! That's David!"

**6/10** - Worth watching for the story & standout performances, but weak action keeps it grounded. Could've been an 8-9 with better choreography, less plot holes, better writing!

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The series was ok.

Pros: -story is really well thought of, I like some of the twists an in general it is a unique experience -good pacing throughout the series 6 episodes -the visuals are nice and prop usage is also likable

Cons: -the action is just so so. The feeling of good action just doesn't come. Could be because of the choreographies or because the actors aren't feeling it -it's wierd that sometimes you get gore, like blood spurting out of people and another time it seems like they don't want to show it -the ending is really wierd -the Charakter Features of the daughter are just cliche and I hate it

I enjoyed the first 3 episodes and some parts of the last 3.

It's still a can watch but not better then a 7.

Daniel saw kim is my eomma favorite actor so we binged watched the series All Korean actors did great it had amazing action scenes but felt like it was little all over the place it took long to get to from point A to Point B at times and the ending was a flop. Could have done better with it I think.

Honestly I didn't have too high expectations going in. But it turned out better than expected.

A little slow at times but. Most of the actors did a good job. The reason I was hesitant, was because of Piper Perabo. Don't care much for her at all. So I kinda tried to ignore the scenes she was in 😅 Also glad that the guy playing her son was really weak character/actor. They could've done a better casting on him.

So to summarize all in all it was watchable and somewhat entertaining.

Butterfly is much like every other spy/assassin/espionage thriller out there. Although the acting was really good throughout, with great locations, the directing and writing let the storyline down dramatically. It could have been so much more entertaining and engrossing. With predictable plot-twists and the usual plot holes (perhaps great voids) the writers didn't really do a good job with what they had to offer and most of it was borrowed from other TV shows and movies. The opening dialogue of the pilot (ep 1) was copied straight from The Matrix, for example. 5/10 is more generous that what I should be awarding this show, mainly because of the poor job the directors did.