Are You Human Too?: on episode 25~36, final thoughts

“If something that looks exactly like you showed up, wore your clothes, acted like you, and took your dad. And people say she’s better than you. How would you feel?”

This is it that sealed the deal for me. Shin may be painted as the bad guy in this drama — not as heinous as Seo Jong-gil though is arguably the better villain since he wreaks bigger havoc, exasperates more characters, and hence elicits more hateful comments in the last third of the show than the latter does in the entire series — that i was clearly in the minority for rooting for him. Wholeheartedly.

Are You Human Too?: on episode 9~24

21 episodes and 10.5 hours. That’s how long i waited for this side-by-side shot to appear again. Or basically for Human Shin to wake up from his coma.

Are You Human Too?: first impression on episode 1~8

Given my last not-so-good experience with robot drama, i was apprehensive about watching a new robot drama. Those two aren’t related but they share similar premise and basic setup, just swapping the android from the female lead with the male lead and reversing the role-play: we got a person pretending to be a robot in I Am Not a Robot, and we get a robot standing in for its human counterpart in Are You Human Too? However, i have better first impression and fewer reservations of the latter than the former, so let’s see if i’ll be able to watch this one till the end.

[Drama] City Hunter

Finished watching City Hunter on the second week of August, but I couldn’t gather all thoughts to write a summary or comment about it to do it justice. It’s been around three weeks since… Better late than never, right? I guess this’ll be short, though… let’s see! Beware: it’s LONG!

In the nutshell, City Hunter tells a story of vengeance Jin-pyo (Kim Sang-joong) has plotted ever since he witnessed his fellow soldiers shot death by the country they’re sworn to protect. He is the sole survivor of the ’83 incident as Mu-yeol covered for him, literally. The betrayal deeply cut his soul as all 21 of them are later declared “missing” and their identities being wiped clean from the record; he then avows to claim their lives back.