Be forewarned....lots of gore.

Please tell me I'm not the only one watching this. It's definitely in the vein of Sweet Home, Black Hole, etc. and not for the faint of heart. But I'm literally on the edge of my seat here for every second.

It's good this drama is on streaming, because it is so slow I would forget every character before week end. Most of the time it looks like that started filming just based on cool premise without actual script. Still
I watched it in one go and with that cliffhanger I can't wait for 5th of Jan to come fast enough. Actors are very good with what they had to work with. Biggest waste I think is Claudia Kim, the heavily promoted her role and it's mostly gazing stone coldly into space.

I thought this was a disney+ show... then I saw it on Netflix, yay! Saving for next year!

Nothing new, predictable story, acting and chemistry is fine. I watched only 2 episodes and dropped it to save my time.

I really like both these actors, but I really DON'T LIKE horror films! Debating if I should just suck it up, and watch, or pass. I'll be watching this page for ratings / opinions. Thanks all.

I wanted to love this and I looked forward to it for ages. And then I started watching it as soon as it dropped and was bored to tears before even getting halfway through episode one.

When the two leads interact for the first time and her hair comes loose and it's sort of slow motion (and swoony?) I said, Hell no, and stopped watching right there.

I came for creepy and scary and gory. Does it start soon or do I have to wait another episode or two more? I'm thinking I'll give it a try later, but I don't know.

I'm furious at netizens. The actors of this drama are harrassed by japanese netizens on social media because this drama is "anti-japan". What a load of bullshit. I'm german, we learn a lot about our countries crimes in school. I wouldn't think in a million years to harass someone because they showed my countries war crimes on TV. In germany, you aren't even allowed to show nazi shit outside of education and fiction! Japan needs to learn some accountability, they have commited chilling war crimes and still try to sweep it under the rug without ever apologizing. These netizens are pathetic, i hope the actors know that and don't take their hate too hard.

According to the music director of this show on social media, the cast, especially the main leads Han Sohee and Park Seojoon, prepared themselves for this harassment and the possibilty that they won't be able to go to japan again. I think it was very brave of them to release and act in this despite all that. I'm personally for sure watching this drama on Netflix, no matter how bad (or good) it will get.

Just finished and thought it was a solid watch, just maybe didn't match the hype I had for it. I can't put my finger on exactly what it is but something felt like it was missing. Maybe lack of characterisation and development?? Like the pacing was fast but I struggled to find much emotional investment in our characters because it felt like I didn't know much about them beyond just some basic information?? I think PSJ's character also felt a little out of place at times, kind of like because of 'smartphone face' phenomenon but it was less about his appearance and more to do with the character's personality and way of carrying himself. I'm usually fine with gore too but the fact that this is based on real life war crimes made it much more chilling and hard to stomach.

Anyways it sounds like I'm complaining a lot but I did like the show overall & looking forward to part two! I just wasn't obsessed with it like I thought I'd be and some of the reasons above explain why.

I'm writing this after watching the first seven episodes.

I would love to read some serious analysis of this series. I gather that the references to Manchuria are meant to situate these fictitious/supernatural crimes against humanity in the historical context of Japan's real crimes against humanity there. It does feel like the authors of the series want to create a symbolic, fictional version of Japanese war crimes.

It impressed me that so many Korean actors can act in Japanese, whether they are playing Japanese characters or Korean characters communicating with Japanese authorities. I cannot imagine a television show produced in the US requiring American actors to speak a second or other language, with the possible exception of Spanish.

As a television show and a work of fiction, I think it's largely successful. I was in suspense. I am not sure that the reaction of the FL to finding out what had happened to her mother was sufficient. Mostly I thought Han So-Hee's general lack of affect was being used to good effect here. I don't really like her acting most of the time because she's so stoic! Here, she seemed cold, reserved, blunt and/or brave most of the time. The few times her character had to show emotion, I had the feeling of someone breaking through reserve, which was good. But the utter trauma of the mother-daughter scenes should have left more of an impression on the character.

I'm flying through the 'second' part now and just here to say - idk if it's just me but I'm liking these eps lot more than I liked the first seven (almost half way into ep 10 now, and I think it's going to be my favourite episode out of the lot). Although the romance still feels a bit 0 to 100, it's a bit more compelling in this last leg & so are the leads. Which makes me a little sad because if they'd really tightened up the writing and pacing, then the first seven episodes could've been so much better and they could've made a really, really solid 10 eps overall.

I'm really hoping season two is a definite thing because I want to see how the story develops now that it feels like it's found its footing!

Honestly I'm disappointed, there was no need for the split and with how everything worked it was too long. Too many undeveloped and underused characters, i.e Lady Meade was created as main villain and random soldier was given more backstory than her. Same with our lead heroine, it was too little too late, Myoeng Ja/Akiko cliffhanger was dealt like afterthought in those last episodes. I felt like the script was packed with ideas and nobody care to bring them on screen properly.
P.S. And in the end I can't not mention horrible photoshop in promo materials. PSJ don't even look like himself.

I am not a fan of gore, but I really like the FL.

I'm honestly so sad the rating is so low on DB.. I really think this show was extremely well put together. It's definitely not for the faint of heart gore wise, but I thought it was a striking representation of the harder aspects of life in WWII Korea.

Now about that ending.. serious spoilers below, be warned!

I'm glad the writer subverted both my "FL will just die" and "FL will miraculously be saved by new healing powers of the creature" expectations. I'd love to see a season 2 to find out what happened to her, especially since Maeda also may have turned into a creature. I'm suuuuper curious about why our ML appears to be well and living in modern day Seoul with a huge scar on the back of his neck, so that's interesting. If there is a second season, I think it would still be totally worth watching, but I don't think they'll have as many creatures - they set up the "parasite trying to control your brain" as a part of the plot when the creatures don't get the additional serum, so that's interesting. And it would make sense for at least our two leads to not end up taking the serum. Does it grant them long life? Are they essentially brain-vampires now? Also, what about the baby creature? I'd love to see those key players return: baby, Maeda, our FL and ML. I think it would make for a super entertaining drama. My only extra worry/concern is that this drama ALSO served as an interesting statement piece on war crimes in WWII (I'm not as familiar with any sort of human experimentation at the hands of the Japanese, but I know the Nazis got up to some sketchy, sketchy terrible stuff in the later years of the war). If they make a second part in modern society, I don't think I'd want to see any such statement/strong sentiment being a part of the plot. I don't mind seeing it in the time period since I think it's only fair to the context of things that actually occurred at the time. Hopefully the writers don't try and bring anything generational into a second season if it were to ever occur.

I really thought this was going to be something special in the drama/horror genre, but it ended up being dry and boring to me. Why must either the hero or heroine have some type of super human skill? Han So-Hee jumping on and off buildings like Spiderman took away from the reality of the plot.
I tried to stay with it, but by the last episode I was actually falling asleep. Park Seo-Joon’s myriad talents were wasted here imo. I’ve never gotten what people see in Han So-Hee. She’s pretty and that helps make an actress popular I guess, but she always comes across as superficial in her acting to me. I’ve never seen any depth. She carries herself as if she constantly thinking of how she looks rather than immersing herself into her character.
This show was all hype and no heft. I will acknowledge it’s gotta be hard reacting to a CGI monster.

Having watched the Parts 1 & 2 I rated this a 5. 4 for the first part and 6 for the second part (I was slightly more involved in the last 3 episodes than I thought I would be).

This is not as bad as something like The Island, but pretty forgettable overall. I look for feelings and emotions to be drawn up when I watch my Kdramas, but this was pretty paper thin and I didn't really get invested in any of the characters. They are all fine actors and I like PSJ & HSH individually, but together they weren't too believable. (This lack of chemistry is being lamed on HSH, but why only her?).

I got through it and somewhat interesting, but no way in the world would I watch this again in the sea of such good past and forward-looking dramas, why bother?). So I was nonplussed to see they set it up for a sequel. I don't mind ending a drama on a conclusive bummer (ambiguous not so much...), but now we have to face a sequel when the original didn't offer too much in conviction or real emotion.

Essentially, to me, this is just an ok comic-book to breeze through, throw away and forget.

Geezus!!! ... I cannot even with this show ... I find it gripping ... I can't stop watching ... I may have to stay up all night to finish it.