I hate that boss man. Genuinely waited for a crocodile is swallow him up. Don't ask me how but he deserved a painful death for being so annoying
Sir. He wants to be a movie villian so bad urgh

McSexy Feat. McHottie
That's my nickname for yinwar. They make a very cohesive and attractive pairing. Both being very good-looking with striking constrasts. If not for anything they'll continue to be successful because people genuinely enjoy watching them on screen. Good chemistry and palpable sexual tension.

Story
There are glaringly 3 main problems I've encountered watching this. The first one being ;

1. The story's writing. I could see the vision. Jack being bamboozled (big word for scammed) by Joker and forced to work as an enforcer for a criminal. Joker coming out from prison to help jack pay off his debt as restitution for destroying his life and ruining his future. The both of them growing as people and falling in love while taking down the big bad boss.

This is a good plot that would have worked with better writing. Watching the episodes singularly you don't notice the deficiencies in the plot as a lot of the situations simply made no sense but as i binged, I realised that the pacing was either too fast or too slow a lot of times with scenes being jumbled up with poor continuity as it moved from an episode to the next, with the same characters repeating the stupid mistakes they'd made and resolved 2 episodes ago .

2. Character development
I'm sure i will get pushback from this. But I didn't see any growth. The deficiencies were right from the beginning as both characters should have been edgier, darker, gritty 555and jaded. That would have raised the stakes and heightened the tension.

Jack was the same naive fool that had been tricked 4 times in the span of 10 episodes while his love interest, a reckless bull headed idiot (that thought he was a genius) that escalated situations for the worse. They never changed as people, as already since the beginning, they were portrayed as being kind, understanding and a bit misunderstood. So it made perfect sense that Joker felt guilty for his past actions and Jack was still unable to commit to being a heartless gangster.
I didn't see neither of them learning from their past actions and trying to move different. Joker still often times resulted to being a thief to solve problems. And that's why the story fell in a loop as they always ended up in the same situations again and again.

3. Love story
The reasons why i praised yinwar for their ship earlier, is because they're damn good ship. Better than most I've seen this year because, you actually can see them in your head sneaking off somewhere being in love or just being friends. They sell it. And they sold it. Even in the worst of moments that this show befuddled my mind (confused) me and had me fastforwarding a lot of useless scenes, I was rewarded with a cute scene or two per episode of them just being them. I wanted the satisfaction of just seeing them lock eyes and say the "i love yous" and kiss till the panties started dropping. I always looked forward to their scenes.

But that doesn't erase the obvious fact that the buildup to them falling in love was quite rushed. There was no real resolution of the past between them, no earth shattering realisation, or the unimaginable mental torture that would justify jack forgiving joker for fucking with him, and then later falling in love with him, after hating his guts for so long. That is what i didn't understand.

Then there's hope and save. Just throw those two away. Wasting precious screentime that should have gone into arranging this story.

Acting
It had some good solid moments. A lot of heartmelting scenes that reminded me of human resilience in the face of.....err oppression? Or their mistakes
Zorzo is gorgeous as always. I enjoyed scenes with her. A lot of the side characters were...underwhelming in their delivery but I'd have to applaud the older actors (boss man made me despise him fr) for doing great jobs. Nice to see Mark Siwat in a new role as well.

Rewatch Value
I felt the most relief watching the boss and that psycho sidekick of his get defeated. So satisfying. But I'd say that the ending was a bit silly in how every character had a side quest and were cosplaying the squid games. The journey to freedom was arduous and perilous and I dont want to be put through that again.

I think all in all with its mistakes it still rounded out to be a fairly good show that made you root for the underdog. I see the excitement for yinwar and they carried it as best as they could.