The past is definitely prologue for this show as we meet twins: the perfect Lee Yoo-yeon (Moon Joo-yeon) and her decidedly imperfect brother, Lee Dong-shik (played as a teenager by Lee Do-hyun). And with Jin-goo showing us exactly what he can do as the unhinged crazed king in his dual role in the 2019 Sageuk The Crowned Clown, (between Jingoo and Jingoo, I still think Jingoo was better than Jingoo), it’s not hard to wonder what will happen if and when his facade cracks.Īfter a cold open in a field of reeds in Munju City, where two men discover a corpse, Beyond Evil zips us back to October 2000. Beneath his perfectly-coiffed model looks, impeccable pedigree and first class education, he’s a man wound tight. And if the over the top antics he engages in are part of a deliberately crafted… facade… by the character, rather than a misstep by the actor, then instead of being over-acting it is instead a brilliant performance by a classically-trained artist who knows exactly how to misdirect an audience.Īlso an artist of some calibre, Yeo Jin-goo (playing elite golden boy, Lieutenant Han Joo-won) may be more understated initially but he brilliantly embodies an entitled member of a ruling class who’s long been led to believe he’s always the smartest person in the room and struggles to know how to act once he makes his first big mistake. But like a lot of what happens in these two hours, you’re left wondering if he’s genuinely crazy or deliberately crafting an image of craziness. Shin Ha-kyun (playing small town cop, Lee Dong-shik) is doing some serious old-school scenery chewing with this one and for most of the first two episodes I found it distracting. And, as with the perfect small town fantasy that was Twin Peaks, it might take an outsider to crack open this nut’s secrets. Everyone has a secret, possibly nobody is innocent. Because facades are ultimately what Beyond Evil is all about. And with the body parts piling up, it’s time for all those secrets to be dredged up too.Īnd since I’ve now used the word facade once, I shall have to find 15 synonyms for it. What Liane Moriarty called Big Little Lies. There’s an air of Twin Peaks small town gothic to this show a sense of a facade of small town life hiding a darkness the denizens either ignore or deliberately plaster over in the name of community solidarity. I’ve certainly got a lot of speculating going on. And – since its specialty is deliberate ambiguity – somewhere to speculate. Still, I’m hoping there’s an appetite for having somewhere to discuss the show. I’m a bit late to this party as I was struggling with real life issues around housing for a few months and so three quarters of Beyond Evil has already aired. And so here we are – my first open thread! As I breezed through the first two gripping but unsettling two episodes, I looked for somewhere to discuss the show and found little but a first episode review at Dramabeans. I’ve picked up the new psychological crime thriller Beyond Evil, with industry veterans Shin Ha-kyun and Yeo Jin-goo. This is a bit of an experiment so we’ll see how it goes for this show. I’m trying something a bit new this month and instituting my first open thread.
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