Started Off Good and Then Got Boring

I rated this a 6.5. So a few random thoughts.

-I'm new to Japanese drama. I wasn't familiar with the main actor but he was very good in this. Also very handsome in many scenes.

-The OST was really good.

-The first 3 episodes were amazing. Really set the tone. There were characters to root for. I was hooked.

-Episode 4 it started to go downhill but still watchable. By episode 5 I was bored and quit the series for a couple of weeks. I started it back and completed the remaining episodes. It just got worse for me.

-For me the hardcore sex scenes were not an issue per se. In the first episodes they were titilating and sexy. By episode 5, the main character is saying he wants more eroticism yet the hardcore sex scenes in the series were getting more cheesy and quite frankly boring.

-The scene with the Kuroki lady walking in and demanding to have sex with the ML for the first time was so unrealistic. I know there are cultural differences but no way it happened like that. They made her seem like a sex zombie.

-The scenes with Kuroki's mom in reaction to finding out her daughter is doing hardcore porn was also unrealistic. I think maybe it was just bad writing.

-The Yazuka/gang/mafia stuff was overkill and honestly boring. I didn't care about these old gang dudes.

-Also when I read about the real guy behind this character, Netflix really cleaned up his image. For example he was arrested in Hawaii for using underage models in his porn, yet Netflix didn't address that at all and made it seem like he was arrested just for shooting porn in illegal locations or something.

-Overall, it is worth a watch mostly for the main actor's acting ability.

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Smart and Beautiful Take on a Depressing Issue

What drew me in was the pacing of the story in the beginning. The writers really made you feel for the FL and her issues very early on.

The cinematography was gorgeous. This isn't something to binge watch just to watch. You really need to watch each episode and pay attention to the world around the characters and how the director used these elements to tell the story. For me, it was like watching European art films when I took a film class many years ago. There was a lot of care and effort made in the artistic direction of this series and as a viewer I appreciated it.

As the story goes it it becomes much darker and depressing. In the very beginning you don't know how they will go with this issue whether it will be re-told in a quirky fashion or whether they will be serious. By episode 6 it was very serious. And tbh episodes 7-9 it was extremely serious, sad and depressing. I really felt the FL's isolation. I had to take a couple of days break in between watching each episode.

The FL was a very good actress. Many of the side characters gave amazing performances. However, I was not a big fan of the acting of the man who played the FL's husband.

Episode 6 (I think) for me was the hardest to watch. It was the episode where she has sex with random men. Probably the hardest scene was not even the rape scene but the scene with the dude force feeding her. By this time she was so depressed, it didn't even seem like she was in her body, she was letting random men do anything to her just to feel something.

TBH as the show was nearing the end I was all prepared to write a horrible review. But episode 10 redeemed all of my negative thoughts. The FL lead truly loved her husband and he loved her. Their laugh at the end when they shocked their parents was everything! I wanted to cry because it seemed like they had truly found happiness despite the sex situation.

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