New show I started watching!!!!
It's currently on Amazon Prime and it's called Death's Game. Holy hell I literally love the premise! It's like a mix of Quantum Leap with Final Destination. It's a South Korean show about this dude who commits suicide but Death, in the form of a pretty lady, tells him that he is bound for Hell for insulting death while he was alive. His 2nd chance is that if he can avert an abrupt yet imminent death in someone's life (that he will temporarily possess their body), he will get a 2nd chance and be able to live out the rest of that person's life he saved. If not then he is going straight to fucking HELL. He has 12 chances in 12 bodies to avert the death which also takes form of a clock that ticks down for every death he is unable to prevent.
He finds himself leaping from life to life. Struggling to put back what once went wrong....okay so this line is the opening to OG Quantum Leap but it interestingly still strikes quite the resemblance to Death's Game.
I am totally not the best person to explain stuff but yeah this is one awesome show. I quickly noticed that Death is played by that one chick in Parasite (the daughter). I quickly noticed that!!! Cool. I also looooove how different lives often connect to each other. Like how the bully from one life appeared in a life further down the line. More examples but holy shit my mind is blown.
I am currently on Episode 4. There's only 8 episode! Ugh. I am totally going to put this on my blog. Will definitely take a long ass while until it lands on there though. Highly recommended to watch!!!
Update: I finished the show. BUT...
I ended up disliking the final 8th epiisode and even disliking this show as a whole at at the ending.
Why?
It honestly ended up a dramatic PSA of anti-suicide and basically shaming people who even dare to thinking about suicide by saying they are a selfish person that has no right to feel sad because "someone always has it worse than you" narrative. If you feel otherwise then that just makes you an ungrateful brat.
Really gave me the impression that the creators behind this show see suicide as a very black and white issue. It is honestly frustrating to see that they fail to see suicidal ideation more complex than just being down on your luck.
Don't get me started on the ending. SPOILERS but as expected, the main character restarts his life which now leaves a number of plotholes. All the lives he was in was mostly interconnected with each other, including the killing of the love of his life. It's a whole ass butterfly affect so...if he changes history and doesn't kill himself then many of these catastrophic events and deaths would not have happened...so they just don't die????
And what the fuck was with that insane time loop?!?! You know what I am talking about. He basically created his own trauma of seeing a man die before his eyes. In one of his lives, he was THAT MAN. I knew that opening scene in 1st episode had a significance!!! That itself is one of the many plot holes. My brain is just on the verge of short circuiting the more I think about the plot holes.
Anyway, I felt the ending was a huge fucking let down. I felt it would have been more impactful to NOT have a happy ending and for him to embrace death but nahhhhh After his 12th and final death he BEGS for another chance and Death graciously gives him that? She puts a bullet (signifiying his chance to restart his real life) in a chamber and says if the bullet shoots at him then he will get just that. As per usual and against all odds he gets that bullet and averts his suicide to pick up that phone call from his mom.
A good ending would to leave that last 15 second visual out and end it with a fade to black and a shot.
AN EVER BETTER ENDING was like I said before, embrace his fate and take that L. While I don't ever believe he should go to hell, he should have been walking through those doors to be judged by "God" and accept his fate.
The world is not ready for such a somber ending like that and without a doubt have have caused a huge backlash from fans of the webtoon and new fans like me.
So I get why I just don't agree with it. A different ending would have been more impactful.
I have this same issue with Disney's Soul. It's about where a guy dies and his soul lands in a cat. Man was destined to die so the ending should be having him accepting death when he actually died but then again DISNEY where right when he is on his way to the GREAT BEYOND, that astral guide magically gives him an unprecendented 2nd chance at life. BULLSHIT MOVIE but I am way more lenient because it's Disney but they really blew their chance to truly explain death to kids in a very easy to digest manner. Oh well. This movie is hella years old at this point.