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•GENRE: MYSTERY, FANTASY, DRAMA
STREAMING: NETFLIX (6 EPISODES)
✅THE GOOD: RIVETING!!
✅Perfectly (and rather bluntly)dissects the evolution of Religions, Religious zeal and multiple crimes that human beings have been committing for years, camouflaging them as RELIGIOUS DEVOTION.
✅CGI. As someone who can never take Monster/Creature genre seriously, I was blown away by how even an exuberantly excessive use of CGI didn't spoil the sombre and gruesome tone of the show. Totally spooky.
✅While the show still has many over-actors(unfortunately, similar to many other Korean Shows) but majority of performances are very realistic and polished, matching the gloomy tones of the show perfectly.
❎THE BAD: DULL!
❎The show could have used a little more action sequences between GOOD & BAD, instead of dragging on the violent actions of BAD, which gets a little repetitive after a while.
🚫THE UGLY: ❌
📌VERDICT: HELLBOUND is the recent South Korean drama that has taken the world of Netflix by storm. Let's be honest, the show does sound and appear massively childish and shallow on surface. The foolishness of King-kong-ish and falsely-proclaimed angels, dismal prophesies and cruel death decrees may sound hard to believe and overtly preachy but hear me out, this show has a lot more to offer than what meets the eye.
As someone who lives in a geographical location plagued by religious fanaticism and religious CULT crimes for centuries(not to imply that the rest of the first-world countries are any better with their Islamophobia), I can't relate more with the way HELLBOUND has managed to capture the perfect snapshot of this limping race called HUMANITY and its poor attempts at explaining things that it can't understand.
If you are a fan of the gory, thrilling, and massively violent nature of Korean dramas and can appreciate the bitterness of religious intolerance, then HELLBOUND is an ever-relevant and neatly executed Tv Show that deserves your attention.
☠️TRIGGER WARNING: Involves violent, deeply disturbing and bleak apocalyptic content, so check your mental health first before indulging in this.
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