#watching: flower of evil

[dreamyinwriting]

I hesitate to say this because this show might take it as a challenge but idk how Flower of Evil is going to top episode 5. This has to be its peak but there’s still 11 episodes to go? 

The show might be 2 years old but I think Moon Chae-won should win actor of the year this year and every year on for her performance in this episode alone. It’s that serious

[dumbledorathexplora]

🥺🥺🥺🥺

[lesbiantvfish]

Absolutely going insane over your Vanessa and prince art, you draw them so so sos silly

Runs around on all fours. YES thank youuu while everyone knows I’m the Vanessa guy I’m still a huge fan of prince. Prince appreciation post

sure hope nothing bad or weird happens to this guy

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Ep 1:

[Your present is me, Baek Eun-ha]

Ep 16:

[It's okay! My present is you!]

Eun-Ha forever!

[jestroer]

Gay rats

[coconut530]

DIVORCE BEGIN *STARTS CRYING*

[muninnhuginn]

Love the steady recontextualisation that takes place in Flower of Evil. At first you think Ji-won's trust in Hyun-soo is because she's perhaps naïve or is in denial and just wants to believe in him. The circumstantial evidence consistently mounts against Hyun-soo, but she still seems to believe him innocent to the point of stubbornness.

But as you see more of their history, you start to realise that he has in no way "fooled" her. Every instance of him "faking" being the family man is actually just... him learning the relevant social cues because he wants his family to like him. And he may wrap it all up in justifications that he needs her as camouflage but, the fact remains, as someone living under an assumed identity? He did not have to marry a cop. He chose to do that. So it follows that all his practising smiling, his observation notebooks, they’re him making an effort to bridge the gap and learn to show the affection he wants to be in the relationship, despite him not realising himself that his feelings are genuine.

But Ji-won liked him long before he had learned these cues. Back when to the surface observer he was off-putting and abrasive, she saw the kindness in his actions rather than in his expressions and his distancing. She liked him for him. And yeah, she appreciates him making the effort, but that wasn't why she fell for him.

When it comes to their relationship, she’s not the unreliable narrator here; he is.

[dramaism]

🎁 KDRAMA SECRET SANTA 2022 — for Lilly @bareums ❤️

[infinite-hearts-333]

“Today is a special day! Today, our beloved Rose joins our ranks, our mission. Through time and time again, they have proven themselves- they have shown us all that this isn’t just a mission for joy- but for some, a mission for family. And with this mask, you’ll never be alone again, Rose.”

Au belongs to @onyxonline ✨

[moonygryffin]

Bout to start playing undertale for the first time solely for the music

[mojojojo2017]

I love how everyone else’s reaction to Hua Cheng’s butterflies is to cower in fear but Xie Lian is like “oooh pretty butterflies!”

[dreamyinwriting]

The wifeguy loserboy vibe of Baek Hee-sung is unmatched

[katierosefun]

fellas is it gay to call your partner a pretty flower fellas is it gay is it gay to call your partner who just nearly strangled someone for you a pretty flower fellas is it

[js337]

i actually cannot fucking stand watching this character bite his nails

[tardis--dreams]

There's not enough flower of evil content on this webbed site

[convenientalias]

I was thinking about Flower of Evil today so I have to pause to recommend it and also to say, if you've read the summary on Mydramalist or Wikipedia or something and you came away with the impression that this is a domestic thriller focused on a wife investigating her husband, with some procedural elements, yes but also no. In two ways:

The summaries are generally very ambiguous on what ~dark secrets~ "Baek Hee-sung" is hiding from his wife so you may think that the show is from the wife, Cha Ji-won's, point of view. Very much not the case. Admittedly there are some secrets that are not revealed from the end but Baek Hee-sung's identity and the reason he hides it are both revealed in episode one and the show offers both his and Ji-won's POVs equally. In fact, I don't consider it a spoiler so I'll just reveal right now that "Baek Hee-sung" is actually Do Hyeon-su, the son of a serial killer, on the run from a murder charge, and widely suspected to have been involved with his father's serial killing. He's also got some mental issues; he considers himself to be a sociopath, though the show is ambiguous on whether this is or is true.

I feel like advertising this show as a cat and mouse game between the spouses sets up an expectation for a subtle, slow burn type of plot. Also not the case. There's a LOT of whump and over the top shenanigans in this show, starting with a kidnapping very early on and continuing from there. Do Hyeon-su is both actively committing crimes and actively trying to avoid being murdered by multiple people for the majority of the show. I feel like I have to emphasize this bc people told me there was whump in this show and I was like what, is it the MC being angsty bc he was misunderstood or something? this is a domestic thriller how whumpy could it be? and the answer is I dunno how whumpy is being tied up at the bottom of a slowly filling swimming pool? (again, not a spoiler, seen in a flash forward in, like, the first scene of the whole show.)

Anyways that's just my two cents as a person who greatly enjoys over the top whumpy angsty identity porn and is less of a fan of domestic thrillers where you only find out all the secrets at the end. If you're like me and you haven't watched Flower of Evil, you should watch it! if you've already watched Flower of Evil, then You Know.