Black

I'll admit that the script is well thought out and everything fits together nicely like a puzzle in the end, but the journey to that ending was an ordeal at times. I would have preferred something other than the dozens of minutes of banal scheming between the characters. The love story is also a terrible bother that's almost pointless. On top of that, I didn't care for much of the cast. I don't think I want to see El I in anything else after this, I can't imagine a worse acting performance. Now for some positives. The series has a wonderful soundtrack. And it's got Black. Seung-heon Song is cute and easy to watch. I'm looking forward to seeing him in something more interesting (to me). I'm glad I'm done watching this, and I probably won't come back to this series in the future. 2.5 stars (04/02/2021)

I stopped enjoying the beginning the moment I realized the original actor playing No. 444 just wasn't going to be there much. Then I dabbled in it, not really enjoying it, but around episode 10 it started to get good and I really enjoyed the crime side of it. And the romance? Ugh, barf, bleh. Except that then I started feeling uncertain about it again, it got incredibly overwrought, and my excitement for the crime storyline completely waned and I was having to push myself to watch it. The main character was over the top, I really couldn't stand her, an incredibly annoying creature. Too bad they wrote her that way. I finished watching it more out of inertia than anything else, I'm sure I would have been fine if I had just clicked through and saved myself some time. For me, an incredibly contradictory series, for which 50% is just about right. And the ending. WTF. (12/15/2017)