Beyond Evil episode 5: The show is starting to feel like an ever-expanding web of stupid questions, cryptic answers and constipated behaviour. Maybe that’s meant to reflect the Manyang experience: in the absence of truth and redemption, each lost soul just keeps shuffling along, and woe betide the outsider who gets trapped there. And much as I enjoy Dong-shik and Joo-won’s cat-and-mouse games, I really wish they’d start investigating the case properly.
Still, I’m glad JW at least has an awakening of sorts, though it’s a pretty rude one. His dad denounces him, a reporter hounds him and – worst of all – his lumpen Manyang colleagues embrace him. He follows DS into a fray and gets caught on video stylishly wielding a baton. Ji-hwa ships him with DS and suggests they move in together – with some justice, since he is often found loitering outside DS’s house.
And JW finally realises he is a mouse, not a cat, and admits his guilt over sending Lee Geum-hwa to her death. It isn’t much, but it’s nice to get a straight answer for a change, especially as we get a new batch of questions in this episode: Why is Jung-je so fragile? What happened to DS’s partner Sang-yeob? Why is Kang Jin-mook suddenly looking… well, murderous?
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knewbie
March 6, 2021 at 12:24 AM
Beyond Evil episode 5: The show is starting to feel like an ever-expanding web of stupid questions, cryptic answers and constipated behaviour. Maybe that’s meant to reflect the Manyang experience: in the absence of truth and redemption, each lost soul just keeps shuffling along, and woe betide the outsider who gets trapped there. And much as I enjoy Dong-shik and Joo-won’s cat-and-mouse games, I really wish they’d start investigating the case properly.
Still, I’m glad JW at least has an awakening of sorts, though it’s a pretty rude one. His dad denounces him, a reporter hounds him and – worst of all – his lumpen Manyang colleagues embrace him. He follows DS into a fray and gets caught on video stylishly wielding a baton. Ji-hwa ships him with DS and suggests they move in together – with some justice, since he is often found loitering outside DS’s house.
And JW finally realises he is a mouse, not a cat, and admits his guilt over sending Lee Geum-hwa to her death. It isn’t much, but it’s nice to get a straight answer for a change, especially as we get a new batch of questions in this episode: Why is Jung-je so fragile? What happened to DS’s partner Sang-yeob? Why is Kang Jin-mook suddenly looking… well, murderous?