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This TV series is very well executed in almost every way. Only two minor things distracted me. One was the background song played in episode seven during the recap of the previous episodes which I experienced as a breach of style and irritating even. The second issue is that the university professor was put forward too much absent-minded, too much unorganised therefore it missed the comical note this character was probably supposed to add.

Besides that, the acting of all actors is high level acting; very well directed and with a good story with recognisable themes such as the profit making of big internet companies at the expense of their clients (think of the European law suits against e.g. Google (2019 and 2020) and currently (2021) the Facebook inquiries), the difficulty of changing your karma in life and how much easier it is for most people to curse other people than to send other people blessings.

That for me was the horror presented to us in these series. I was glad this TV series wasn't overloaded with bloody faces, screaming people and stressed-out characters that we see so often in plastic American horror movies. The rituals from different cultures were not ridiculed but presented as part of a way of life in some cultures.

The whole police team came across professionally, Ji-won Uhm and Ji-so Jung both performed their roles with a high credibility. Both characters trying to cope with loosing a loved one and coping with a sort of treason towards those loved ones followed by the realisation of what really happened instead of letting their own made hell take over. The development of Moon-Sung Jung's character is very well acted out and Moon-Sung Jung played his role with convincing calmness.

Also my homage to the acting of Dong-il Sung, Min-soo Jo, Min-Jae Kim and all the other actors and technical crew, writer and director who all made "The Cursed" to what it is: a great show. Thank you all.

I love watching foreign tv series and movies. Such a different take from American cinema. The Cursed has all the elements for a horror suspense fan along with the drama and fantasy. It has the right balance of all genre's listed. The concept reminds me of the popular anime Death Note but there are clear differences. First one, its not an anime. This is a binge series to enjoy. Please watch.

The story involves a demonically possessed CEO of an internet company called Forest who plans to go public and when the company does many lives will be lost. Out to thwart his plan is an investigative journalist and a Shamans daughter who's mother was killed because of the CEO. It is a well acted and the story is intriguing but the long rituals and slow pace takes the edge of it for me. To be honest it is a little too dark for my liking and would have faired better as a movie, but if you enjoy light horror this is a well executed story.

Well, this certainly exceeded my expectations. I'm not familiar with the director, but I've seen writer Yeon Sang-Ho's other works, Hellbound-5.5 and Train to Busan-7.8. I like T2B very much, but consider HB to be half good/half bad which adds up to average. A Stephen King type, Mr. Yeon started with webtoons and anime but is just getting warmed up when it comes to live action. His inspiration for TC was an actual ritual. What I appreciate about TC is that they aren't trying to 1-up every previous occult horror feature. They go for authenticity, and the effect is truly chilling. They set out to tell a good story in a quality way - They pitchforked it with gusto and tossed it with great verve. Well executed.

This show opens with a brief look into the past and how our younger FL's childhood formed her womanhood. This child's gift has brought her nothing but horror. Ep1 is a decent set up. Ep2 gets ghoulish in more ways than one. Episode 3 turns the screws alittle more. So far, so pretty good. TC is a 2020 release that is rated 79 on AWiki. It is 1 season consisting of 12 60/70-minute episodes. The director is Kim Yong-Wan. His first credited work is the movie Champion. Since then he's put out the film, The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey, and shows, The Whirlwind and If You Wish Upon Me, along with this show. All his works have solid ratings, and he's just starting out. TC displays his competence at every turn.

Sung Dong-Il (Sisyphus-8, Reply 1988) plays "Jin" Jong-Hyun. I don't know why, I just like the guy. Watching him as the embodiment of evil is not my favorite look on him, though. He's the type of actor who can play a bad guy, a truly loathsome one, that the viewer, somehow, cannot completely hate. In TC he is dragged into a ritual by his mother. He doesn't even want it, but he exits the back-end forever transformed. (Mom opened doors that should have remained closed). I do feel sorry for him. That aside, Mr. Sung is not the perfect fit for the role. This is an excellent show, and the only thing that feels off is him. Jung Ji-So (Doom at Your Service, The Glory, Parasite-9) is Baek SoJin, the younger of the 2 FLs. She must play a cheerless girl that has had a bitter life. She sells it with every cell of her body. She gets a crying scene and she's amazing in it. Im Jin-"Hee"(Little Women) plays reporter Uhm Ji-Won & Jung Moon-Sung is her policeman husband. He was investigating the Forrest Company and her investigative reporting led her to look into them as well. Within mere hours, it seems, they are both told to abandon these efforts and work on something else. Mr. Jung plays a painfully subservient and obsequious doctor in Hospital Playlist-9 (an excellent show with a slow start. Give it 2-3 eps minimum). This is a completely different role which showcases his acting ability. Jo Min-Soo is the shamaness, Jin "Kyung". At first glance, in ep1, I didn't think much of her... but /wowie/. She slays that part. She slays alot of things in TC. Kim Min-Jae plays Forest CEO, Lee Hwan. He's close to magnificent. He is the diabolical-part-psychopathic CEO. So convincing. Though it's a relatively small part, Kim Shin-Ro, as So-Jin's mother, does an excellent job.

Badguy Jin is the Chairman of Forest which is about to launch their IPO. One of their subsidiaries is "weird." It's a consulting Co led by Shaman Kyung who is also Jin's spiritual guide. When one of their compatriots ends up dead in a twisted, cursed heap, she is able to reverse-engineer how it happened. From there, they form defensive and offensive strategies. Now they are on the hunt to eliminate their enemy who resides in the shadows.

Who is their enemy? Our 2 FLs have formed an alliance - the reporter/Hee and the HS shaman/SoJin. One demonstration (that dead-twisted-curse-heap) is enough to convince Hee, just as it's enough to alert their enemies.

They seek out expert help on spirits and hear: "At first, it heals the sick and helps women get pregnant to show off its magical powers and make believers out of the monks. And once it succeeds in that, the evil spirit steals the souls of the monks and kills them." That's a better description of evil than we get in Western entertainment. We should always remember that the evil are liars.

TC's main focus is curses, & not all these curses are supernatural. It draws a parallel between cursing someone to death by way of evil spirits and cursing someone to death through cruel behavior. It draws a parallel between human behavior and demons. Each person must choose whether to emulate angels or demons. Regardless of your belief system, people know what the right thing to do is, yet the right thing to do is rarely the easy thing. We're all drawn to the dark side. Moral strength is much like physical strength. We must exercise it regularly or it will wane. We need not teach our children to lie or lose their temper or think about themselves. We need to teach them goodness, and we need to practice it ourselves. Then it gets easier.

One thing I applaud is, at one point, a character no longer accepts the rules as they were laid out, and goes the other way with surprising results. It's a reminder to reevaluate your presuppositions once in awhile. For instance, we often see the separation of horror and technology, as horror is often connected to ancient things. It's so old fashioned, right? There's a growing body of work that depicts the forces of evil utilizing technology and the power structure of society to advance its cause. It actually makes sense. Archive 81-7.8 does it well.

KRISHKIM interviewed 📝Yeon Sang Ho, for Zapzee. "Director Yeon began writing TC with a subject of "Bangbup" curse that he found interesting since his childhood. He melted his opinions of the current world into his drama. He stated that "this society allows the people to detest others for their own justice and legitimacy." He also added that the fact that the drama empathizes with the "hatred society" is the reason behind breaking the 6% viewer ratings." I couldn't find anything else on the "Bangbup" curse to elaborate more, but the rituals depicted in the show feel entirely authentic. They have similarities to what is shown in the outstanding film, The Wailing, and the director of that movie claims strict accuracy. It heightens the creepiness.

The relationship between Baek So-Jin and Im Jin-Hee becomes more touching as the show goes on. Each fills a left by the other's tragic loss. There's some cool shots including off-eyeball reflections. The sets are full of detail. They put care and craftsmanship into the production. It's a thrill when they bring a variety of shamans in from all over the world. They created an array of looks and personalities.

The end of ep8 was a shocker. Where do they go from there? How will they fill 4 more episodes? They set it up in ep9 and manage a couple twists.

Immediately upon being possessed by evil, CEO Jin is inspired to start a new social media platform - Forest Co. What makes Forest different is the Forest of Curses, which enables users to curse someone. We will see a group of teenage girls inviting the evil spirits to come to them and curse their enemy. From the outside looking in, this practice is either a waste of time or opening doors that are best left closed. (So don't try it!) It may be more sophisticated to laugh this stuff off, but I do not. We are born 100% self-absorbed. Maturity is learning to be unselfish, but in this narcissistic society, most people never grow up. Thus, people think they can exert control over things of which they know nothing. Self-absorbed, immature people think too highly of themselves, their abilities, and their futures. Talk to a high-schooler. Most of them think the world is a place that will welcome them. They will be rich, successful, and contented. They don't believe they can be deceived.

They manage to be truly sinister. We see rituals that obviously link us back to past millenia. Worship of spirits is commonplace around the world, and it is commonplace in Asia. The occult is one way people attempt to exert control over their existence. But we don't have any true ability to control such things. Like UFO sightings (99% nonsense and 1% credible reports and occurrences that can neither be refuted nor explained) it's hair-raising. Have you ever been in a place where you felt an overwhelmingly horrible vibe, even if like me, you aren't one to get vibes? I've experienced it twice, and I'm normally oblivious to my surroundings. It was almost like I could feel the heavy air. I've accepted that my subconscious is picking up on a full spectrum of things that my oblivious conscious mind does not - both the supernatural and the mundane - and I've learned to trust that vibe and be wary.

Most people have a sense of the supernatural and eternity. Most believe there is more to existence than this 3D world. Many who scoff at these ideas are doing so to be welcomed into the "right" circles. They ignore anything that cannot be explained rationally and scientifically, but there's just too much out there that is unexplained, though - too much to be /certain/ that this 3D world is all there is to it. Don't overestimate yourself, don't let yourself be snookered, and don't open doors that are best left closed. Do watch TC. It's excellent.

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There are things that cannot be explained by science.

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Poli-wagging 2/10. The shaman determines that no such evil spirit came from Korea. This one has come to them from Japan. Such evil lurks in Japan, not K-Kountry. The Japanese shaman is used to augment the creepy feel, particularly for Koreans. Korea will never love Japan. The history is too poisoned.

Age 16+ occult, gore, violence, language, horror

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Okay this is tv right so your not getting the Godfather i gave it a 9 because they did about all you can do on TV,the acting is perfect and script better than average a nice steady pace, this isnt a silly romcom people get killed Doesnt matter if you believe in the spiritual aspect of this 90% of Asians do.