RBR8man
Denmark
This review may contain spoilers
Good for Japanese immersion, bad for entertainment.
Saying this without meaning anything negative, I usually have pretty low standards for modern J-Drama, that is because from what I find, they are ALWAYS poorly made in many categories, including story, but still manage to be logical enough and/or funny enough for me to enjoy it (ex. NekoKare, Super no Kago, etc.), this one couldn't manage even that.
Inu to Kuzu is a short drama that by going off of purely the description: appears to be about adultery between a man and his best friends wife.
This is partially true, the part about a "relationship" between the wife and man, not the adultery because the friend is dead! (Wow big spoiler, it plays a very minor part in the story who cares).
The true story is that there is none, I'm writing this on episode 7 and I STILL don't know, ML and his past with the friend and wife get established and that's it, suddenly they're living together too Yada Yada Yada FL is apparently pregnant, ML lost a VERY SPECIFIC part of his memory in an unimaginable way (and managed to not have any hints in his mind about leading up and from it, very convenient) yeah you get the point.
If anything we can sort of see the story build in ep7, as they introduce an important character for the very first time ?.
Everything in the story reeks plot convenience too, like a little bit here and there is good, yk to get the ball rolling, but how on God's green earth can you have 90% of every happening in this show be so coincidental (I will not list them because that would go on forever, but some are FL and ML's first encounter, FLs wealth, the crazy Yandere happening to work at ML's work, etc.) Like I'd first believe Densha Otoko being a true story than people thinning this drama was realistic ?
I won't speak more about the story because I've practically spoiled all of it.
Beyond that, everything was pretty good, Acting was really good, surprised the FL is a year older than me but so good at acting already, others were alright too, ML was so pushoverlike (his character) that I genuinely disliked him. The friend was the only really bad character, not from acting but because they purposely wrote him to be so dislikable that it's obvious he's supposed to be the villain.
Technical aspects were great, lighting, sound, cinematography, etc. All on point.
TL;DR skip this crap, watch only for Japanese immersion as even though I disliked it, I understood 85% of the Japanese (wirh subtitles), usually it would be less for bad content.
Inu to Kuzu is a short drama that by going off of purely the description: appears to be about adultery between a man and his best friends wife.
This is partially true, the part about a "relationship" between the wife and man, not the adultery because the friend is dead! (Wow big spoiler, it plays a very minor part in the story who cares).
The true story is that there is none, I'm writing this on episode 7 and I STILL don't know, ML and his past with the friend and wife get established and that's it, suddenly they're living together too Yada Yada Yada FL is apparently pregnant, ML lost a VERY SPECIFIC part of his memory in an unimaginable way (and managed to not have any hints in his mind about leading up and from it, very convenient) yeah you get the point.
If anything we can sort of see the story build in ep7, as they introduce an important character for the very first time ?.
Everything in the story reeks plot convenience too, like a little bit here and there is good, yk to get the ball rolling, but how on God's green earth can you have 90% of every happening in this show be so coincidental (I will not list them because that would go on forever, but some are FL and ML's first encounter, FLs wealth, the crazy Yandere happening to work at ML's work, etc.) Like I'd first believe Densha Otoko being a true story than people thinning this drama was realistic ?
I won't speak more about the story because I've practically spoiled all of it.
Beyond that, everything was pretty good, Acting was really good, surprised the FL is a year older than me but so good at acting already, others were alright too, ML was so pushoverlike (his character) that I genuinely disliked him. The friend was the only really bad character, not from acting but because they purposely wrote him to be so dislikable that it's obvious he's supposed to be the villain.
Technical aspects were great, lighting, sound, cinematography, etc. All on point.
TL;DR skip this crap, watch only for Japanese immersion as even though I disliked it, I understood 85% of the Japanese (wirh subtitles), usually it would be less for bad content.
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