"Are you angry?" (that I watched this show? umm, yeah?)

On the surface, this show looks quite promising. Once you get past the poorly-chosen title that makes it sound like it will be a bad comedy, you're left with a dark drama full of vengeful spirits and people battling guilt over past failings and lost loved ones. The actors are good enough, the villain is deliciously evil, and the stakes are high for everyone involved.

So with everything it has going for it, why is it so BORING? This show is a cake baked with fine ingredients by an incompetent chef. The plots swerve and meander in cyclical ways that made me angry for having wasted my time. The story told here might have worked in 16 episodes, but stretched to 32 it becomes almost unbearable at times. The actors do what they can, and are pretty good taken individually, but there isn't much chemistry between them and the suggestions of any kind of romance amid the carnage fall flat. Lee Joo Young's coroner character seemed to hold the most promise to me, but was completely wasted to be used as a fount of expository jargon every time the writers needed to explain away some aspect of the supernatural they made up on the spot to drive the story in the direction they wanted.

In the ultimate of ironies, the final episode - an epilogue of sorts - ends up being far more exciting than the entire rest of the series. The episode plays out like a fast-paced teaser for another season, and the cast really seems to gel together for the very first time. About 31 episodes too late, but I guess it's better than never?

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