It’s been a while since I did a Finally Watched It. I decided to talk about shows or movies that whenever I mention them, nobody really knows what I’m talking about. Plenty of people talk about All of Us Are Dead. I have watched that, which means the almighty algorithm feeds more stuff like it. That’s how I found this show. Here’s the blurb:
“Happiness takes place in the near future, where the release of a failed treatment drug “Next” has caused a worldwide pandemic known as the Lytta Virus, a.k.a. “mad person disease”. Those infected by Lytta experience short bouts of insanity and bloodlust, before completely regressing into a zombie-like state. The South Korean Military and Police forces try to contain the spread of Lytta and Next through extensive investigation and authoritative quarantine measures, while civil rights groups protest against them, believing the infected are still capable of normal human interaction.”
The best parts of this are Yoon Sae-bom and Jung Yi-hyun, our two main leads, before their apartment complex goes into lockdown, and their neighbors join the cast. They are very capable, clever, and have great chemistry together. It’s cool that the zombies are not zombies all the time, and while all the normal tropes for the genre are there, it was fun to watch! Except for the ending. I finished episode 11 and thought, “How the heck are they gonna wrap all this up in one episode?” Then they kinda tossed all out in there as rapidly as possible since there was only one episode left. Things were so evenly paced before that this felt like whiplash. I bet if they had one more episode or maybe made the last episode longer, they could have made it more satisfying. I didn’t feel like I wasted my time, more like there was some wasted potential. Worth checking out if you want some zombie in your K-Drama.
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