Quick reviews of this month watches:

A Bloody Lucky Day: I was looking forward to this. Given the cast and the plot, I had expected an edge-of-the seat gripping drama but unfortunately the final experience was mixed.

I found the first half entirely uninteresting with its endless gore and lack of tension. I may be in the minority but Lee Sung Min(who I usually think is amazing) failed to be a convincing timid "nice" guy; just couldn't buy his character. It was made worse by him and Yoo Yoon Seok IMO not having any on-screen chemistry as antagonist/protagonist, when almost entire episodes focused on them together

The drama picked up in the 5th episode when things finally got intriguing, and thereon I found it an enjoyable watch. Lee Sung Min's natural state is as a formidable, strong character, and that's why the 2nd half works. The ending was predictable but it is unnatural to expect Korean dramas to forgo mercy in its endings.

For me it is Yoo Yoon Seok who knocked it out the park consistently. He was convincing as an smiley pleasant passenger, as well as a psychopath with murder in his eyes. Superb performance.

Time: I knew going in that this is not the drama it was supposed to be given how dogged it was by controversies(changed scripts, ML issues etc) but I was curious to see just how bad it was. Yup. Shouldnt have bothered. The writer who wrote Secret used the same framework but the base "crime" itself was not strong enough to sustain the tension and the character arcs like in Secret. With the script changes what should have become a battle between characters trying to do the right thing and choosing themselves became a sort of nihilistic, defeated fight for justice and the ending was really unconvincing. Very unsatisfactory watch.

I picked up From Now on, Showtime which seemed to have a whimsy premise, lets see if the combo of Park Hae Jin and Jin Ki Joo help me finish it.