I recently finished watching Crime Puzzle so my impromptu freestyle category is for 2021 Violent Dramas.
Most Violent Death, Highest Body count, Worst use of violence in a kdramaโฆ So many contenders, where does one start. 🙃
My personal entries for most Interesting and Inventive Violent Deaths of the Year, go to Taecโs Death in Vinnie, apparently All of Mouse, even though I didnโt watch it, and The Tree Guillotine Death in Crime Puzzle. เฒ _เฒ
If you have any bloodyโฆ favouritesโฆ please feel free to share. There were many. Like Asinโs zombie biowarfare on the entire continent of Eurasiaโฆ
Is it just me or was there a weirdly high number of excessively violent dramas this year? (none of which used their violence very well I might addโฆ):
Taxi Driver
Mouse
Vinnie
My Name
Crime Puzzle
Bad and Crazy
Squid Game
Devil Judge
Dr. Brain
Penthouse
D.P.
The Veil
Kingdom: Asin of the North
Hellbound and The Uncanny Counter I definitely missed, but I didn’t find SYHH violent or bloody at all, and definitely not excessively so. It’s horror but it’s not violent.
May I add DARK HOLE (which did finish for LJH (1984) to the list.
Interestingly of your list Sic I watched and finished only two: D.P. and THE VEIL. MOUSE was a drop after 4 episodes.
D.P. defense. In the case of D.P. violence/bullying was integral to the plot from the beginning to end. Although it was a tough watch I personally think the violence was handled well (if I can put it that way). Unlike most dramas this drama did have an impact on the SK public and politicians. For example: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2021/09/398_315278.html
(As a fight guy, I give full marks to Jung Hae-in and Lee Jun-young not only for their acting ability but their physicality in their D.P. fight scenes together. Excellent. That must have taken a lot of training.)
I only watched the first ep of Dark Hole and forgot most of it but that’s probably a definite contender lol. Dare I ask how finishing that went… pfft
Ah tbh, I do actually agree that D.P. wrote and handled its violence better than everything else on this list, and definitely used it for purpose in the narrative.
I think I just instinctively added it because I ended up really disliking the drama overall and found it’\s final way of presenting its message to be too bleak, meaningless and hopeless. (As a piece of artwork, despite impact on the public.)
So I guess it doesn’t fit the “overly excessive and doesn’t use it well” criteria, but it is still very violent.
Let me tell you finishing DH was tough. I told LJH (in my mind), โyou owe me oneโ.
Well I consider the debt paid with LJHโs extended cameo in SRI&J.
And just like Squid Game, and Extracurricular, I don’t see the point in a second season; it told its story, even if I don’t like it. Where are they going to take it???
๐๐โ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia โ ๐๐
December 29, 2021 at 11:51 PM
2021 ROUNDUP FREESTYLE:
I recently finished watching Crime Puzzle so my impromptu freestyle category is for 2021 Violent Dramas.
Most Violent Death, Highest Body count, Worst use of violence in a kdramaโฆ So many contenders, where does one start. 🙃
My personal entries for most Interesting and Inventive Violent Deaths of the Year, go to Taecโs Death in Vinnie, apparently All of Mouse, even though I didnโt watch it, and The Tree Guillotine Death in Crime Puzzle. เฒ _เฒ
If you have any bloodyโฆ favouritesโฆ please feel free to share. There were many. Like Asinโs zombie biowarfare on the entire continent of Eurasiaโฆ
Is it just me or was there a weirdly high number of excessively violent dramas this year? (none of which used their violence very well I might addโฆ):
Taxi Driver
Mouse
Vinnie
My Name
Crime Puzzle
Bad and Crazy
Squid Game
Devil Judge
Dr. Brain
Penthouse
D.P.
The Veil
Kingdom: Asin of the North
Please, whatโd I miss☠️
knewbie
December 30, 2021 at 12:54 AM
Hellbound, The Uncanny Counter and even Sell Your Haunted House.
๐๐โ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia โ ๐๐
December 30, 2021 at 2:56 PM
Hellbound and The Uncanny Counter I definitely missed, but I didn’t find SYHH violent or bloody at all, and definitely not excessively so. It’s horror but it’s not violent.
bong-soo
December 30, 2021 at 7:27 AM
May I add DARK HOLE (which did finish for LJH (1984) to the list.
Interestingly of your list Sic I watched and finished only two: D.P. and THE VEIL. MOUSE was a drop after 4 episodes.
D.P. defense. In the case of D.P. violence/bullying was integral to the plot from the beginning to end. Although it was a tough watch I personally think the violence was handled well (if I can put it that way). Unlike most dramas this drama did have an impact on the SK public and politicians. For example:
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2021/09/398_315278.html
(As a fight guy, I give full marks to Jung Hae-in and Lee Jun-young not only for their acting ability but their physicality in their D.P. fight scenes together. Excellent. That must have taken a lot of training.)
๐๐โ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia โ ๐๐
December 30, 2021 at 3:05 PM
I only watched the first ep of Dark Hole and forgot most of it but that’s probably a definite contender lol. Dare I ask how finishing that went… pfft
Ah tbh, I do actually agree that D.P. wrote and handled its violence better than everything else on this list, and definitely used it for purpose in the narrative.
I think I just instinctively added it because I ended up really disliking the drama overall and found it’\s final way of presenting its message to be too bleak, meaningless and hopeless. (As a piece of artwork, despite impact on the public.)
So I guess it doesn’t fit the “overly excessive and doesn’t use it well” criteria, but it is still very violent.
bong-soo
December 30, 2021 at 3:45 PM
Let me tell you finishing DH was tough. I told LJH (in my mind), โyou owe me oneโ.
Well I consider the debt paid with LJHโs extended cameo in SRI&J.
Apparently there will be a D.P. 2:
https://www.soompi.com/article/1503608wpp/jung-hae-in-and-goo-kyo-hwans-d-p-confirms-plans-for-2nd-season
JHI may be glad to get back into fatigues after SNOWDROP 😇.
I know nothing about the original webtoon that D.P. is based on so I have no idea if D.P. 2 will be continuation from 1 or something new.
๐๐โ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia โ ๐๐
December 30, 2021 at 4:33 PM
And just like Squid Game, and Extracurricular, I don’t see the point in a second season; it told its story, even if I don’t like it. Where are they going to take it???
mmmmm
December 30, 2021 at 11:23 AM
There are a lot of violent dramas this year because I avoid violence like plague and I only completed around 10 dramas this year.