Very cool episode overall. Lee Je-Hoon plays a really great badass, despite it being a little cliché for action films/TV series. I love how he can go from stoic to comical effortlessly. I do have a complaint about the episode, though. I really disliked how the episode portrayed fatness, or rather people who aren't skinny. The episode shows a woman who is bigger and she is eating like 9 plates of food. She gets a call and then complains that it interrupted her eating. I can tell you that that is NOT how bigger people eat. It's not right to assume everyone bigger just eats everything in front of them. This stereotype is overplayed, inaccurate, and damaging.
There's another scene with product placement portraying a woman pouring the product into a glass of water and saying "at least I can lose weight while sitting here." Most weight loss products are quite bad for you. I don't approve at all of this product placement. It has no business being in a TV series that has NOTHING to do with weight or weight loss.
These portrayals are harmful to society and perpetuate unobtainable beauty ideals, thus contributing to self-esteem struggles, body dysmorphia, and harmful acts to the body.
I'm rating this at a higher mark because the rest of the episode was really great.
There's another scene with product placement portraying a woman pouring the product into a glass of water and saying "at least I can lose weight while sitting here." Most weight loss products are quite bad for you. I don't approve at all of this product placement. It has no business being in a TV series that has NOTHING to do with weight or weight loss.
These portrayals are harmful to society and perpetuate unobtainable beauty ideals, thus contributing to self-esteem struggles, body dysmorphia, and harmful acts to the body.
I'm rating this at a higher mark because the rest of the episode was really great.