8.9/10
The brilliance of this drama lies not in the ups and downs of the plot, but in the portrayal of the characters' hearts, and more in the means of mobilizing the audience's emotions.
The audience (including me) is the most self-righteous group, they are arrogant, they think they are the smartest people, and they think that everything has to go their own way. This stems from the fact that they are always in God's perspective and can see the big picture. But in this play, the audience's judgment and emotions completely follow the screenwriter, and they experience the same psychological dynamics as the heroine. So from this point of view, the show has reached an unprecedented height - fooling the audience, still in a clever way.
In fact, when the audience sees the sixth episode with the mentality that a suspense drama must be reversed, they will first feel caught off guard, and then feel a great sense of being fooled or even insulted. I'm so smart, I've seen so many suspenseful reasoning works, but you don't turn me around? You actually went in a circle and came back to this murderer? So they started yelling, venting their emotions with comments and expressing their dissatisfaction with ratings. As everyone knows, self-righteous qualities and arrogance and prejudice from nowhere are the stupidest things.
We've all been fooled, but none of us can escape the minds of mortals.
In fact, it's obvious, it's been obvious from the first episode. The screenwriter hardly changed his goals. The suspicion of the deceased husband was ruled out from the beginning, and the female protagonist who was the most suspect was not given too much ink. It can be said that there is only one truth to tell you from the very beginning. Not even smoke bombs.
But who would believe that such a charming and good man is a murderer? For the prejudice in our hearts, we don't hesitate to speculate on the deceased's husband, the heroine's father, the heroine's best friend, and even the son and the heroine himself, what schizophrenia, multiple personalities, choosing to forget, and mentally manipulating murder have all come out. All of this is based on the devotion to the actor Uncle Hugh and the male protagonist he has created, and the arrogance that "the truth can't be obvious".
So it's not so much a crime suspense drama as a psychological family drama or even a psychological thriller. The murder case is the existence of McGuffin, because even if the murderer eventually falls by the side, the image and mentality of the crowd centered on the male protagonist have long been revealed.
And you think you are analyzing the psychology of the people in the play, but in fact you are analyzing and being analyzed your own psychology. Our inner prejudices and experiences and preconceived objective conditions always lead us to ignore the obvious truth, and even guess and expect other unlikely or even absurd results. In fact the crux of the matter or the truth of the event stands there like elephant glass, as always, mocking mercilessly and saying to you, "This is something you should have known". And we are still in anger and "do nothing" so as to lay the "bane" for the final collapse of the whole line.
I will go back to the episode itself. It is very smooth and various techniques are used very skillfully. I haven't watched such a wonderful drama for a long time. It is much better than "Defending Jacob" with a similar theme in the first half of the year.
Originally I just wanted to write a short review, but I accidentally saw some expressions and vents in the comment area, and I was deeply touched, so I added the number of words.
Of course, if you don't like this ending, it's a matter of course, a thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets, please trust your judgment. Don't have anything to do with me, I'm really scared, don't scold me, I don't have that spare time.
Man, after all, it is inevitable to move towards sensibility...
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