6 Comments On “Bad and Crazy: Eps 3 & 4 Open Thread”

  1. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Thanks @pkml3. Among the spate of shows this weekend, this one will probably take a backseat.

  2. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Change in plan, after The Silent Sea, Bad and Crazy is just the right thing for this weekend.

  3. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    While waiting for the shows I really want to watch, I went back to FFD Bad and Crazy.

    @pkml3, I don’t feel we need to open a new thread for this show, since no one has commented on it, but perhaps you could change the thread title to just Bad and Crazy Open Thread and all subsequent episodes’ comments could just continue here.

    I’ve watched Episode 5. I have started to like Show a bit more after Episode 4. The ML character is finally goaded into getting his mojo back with some integrity. I suppose, it’s only when he loses everything that he gained dishonestly and starts to respect himself again, will he be able to be more whole. It would be a pity to lose K, though.

    I thought it cute that K represents the better part of him who’s battling very effectively against his seedy side. His better part is also still in love, which gives ML a better impetus to change.

    I wish the show wouldn’t keep going in for long scenes of beatings up and bloody messes. We seem to get at least 1 spate of it each episode. It’s only fun when K is in action and doesn’t seem to get hurt at all.

    The only problem is that with ML starting to like K, his second personality may never go or may take over entirely.

  4. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @pkml3, I just noticed that this thread is still ‘Uncategorized’.

    📑 🗃️ 🗂️ 🗂️ 🗃️ 📑 🤔

  5. packmule3

    Thanks, @GB! I’ll fix it shortly.

  6. Welmaris

    I’m finally here, @GB and @Packmule3. I got tired of waiting for iQIYI to release Episode 4 from VIP to general viewing, I limped my way through watching on DramaCool. Every time the streaming froze, I’d click on an alternate server. My antivirus program and ad blocker app do not like DramaCool at all, probably for good reason. But what’s a Kdrama addict gonna do?

    @GB, I agree with you that this show is getting better as it goes along. I think it has found its pace, although that pace includes lots of fist fights, martial arts, and murders of characters. Crime, corruption, and drugs drive the plot, as in many Kdramas in the past, but having the male lead battle his own lack of integrity gives a fresh twist.

    Soo Yeol wants to get rid of K, his righteous and self-critical side, yet calls for K to manifest so the superhero persona will save his cowardly skin. By episodes 5 & 6, Soo Yeol welcomes partnership with K. Who is the authentic person, Soo Yeol or K? Will one dominate and the other disappear? I’m hoping they will be integrated into one, rather than losing qualities of either (minus bad behavior such as Soo Yeol’s practice of graft).

    Is this meant to be taken as reality? No, the look and feel of this drama is like a live-action manga. But it does reflect some realities: the struggle of public servants to survive honestly on government pay in an expensive world; the tenacious draw of power, money, and drugs even when harmful; the speck of virtue that can manifest even in people who have hit rock bottom.

    Halfway through the drama, we’ve learned a few things about Soo Yeol.
    – He and Hui Gyeom used to be a couple, but broke up several years ago.
    – He set his brother up in the pizza business.
    – He bought an apartment for his mother.
    – He paid for his mother’s back surgery.
    – He was a foundling, not biologically related to the mother who took him in and raised him, nor her son who became his older brother.
    Some things have been hinted about Soo Yeol, but not yet confirmed: he suffered trauma as a child; some of his childhood memories are gone; he has a connection to the facility to which K donated all his slush fund.

    We’ve also learned a few things about the female lead, Lee Hui Gyeom. She was from a wealthy family. When her family went bankrupt, she hid it from her co-workers and used her income to pay her father’s debt. I’d like to learn what led her to become a police officer.

    I’ll watch this drama through to the end. Although the pace is fast with some surprising plot turns, I’m glad the show is only twelve episodes. I think the shorter format keeps it from wandering.

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