Marry My Husband So, this is exactly the kind of kdrama Idon’tnormally check out: actually current, wildly popular, barely speculative, and barely about murder. But Mek watched a show for me, so I’m watching a show for her. Honestly, I’m enjoying it more than I expected, although ...
One day a seemingly happy husband drops off his wife and nine-year-old son at the movies but implores them to take a taxi home as the bus is too dangerous. When they heed his advice, they are accosted by a deranged serial killer, Bob (D’Onofrio), who drives a cab and whisks them...
and their mother lives in Florida with her boyfriend. Presumably, her father is absent, and she has had to find work to support herself. She is brassy, savvy, and intelligent. Most importantly, the audience roots for her.
The apartment she returns to is not as she left it. Her husband has cleaned everything up in her absence. Ae-rin nods at the bedroom door: “I’ll let you off the hook this time.” Now it’s Ae-rin’s turn to settle into the couch after a long day. ...
But it falls a little flat for me, never quite manages to feel genuine or nuanced. Her performance is a bit stronger when Emma gets to the “fuck you, corpse-husband, I will survive no matter what” stage of the game. Still, even then I don’t buy a lot of her reactions. There’...
Before I decided “down with love,” I always used to joke that someday I’ll write a book about my love life called “what in the fuck is even happening?” I’d change some names so my ex husband doesn’t try to claim royalties, and I could cast Billie Eilish to play high schoo...
He’s essentially “the villain”, at least initially. Obviously the more things pan out, we barrack for him, but how do you go about injecting enough empathy for us as an audience to stay with him? That’s a great question. That was a challenge. But it’s the way the director (Ya...
What if saving the world means saving the villain? Or that bully who made the hero’s life terrible back in high school? Or the person who lied and it cost the hero his or her job, home, or even their first love? When I started writingBlood Secrets, it hit me (and therefore Cass...
Delightfully, she gets a death scene where the gremlins terrorize her to death when her stair chair goes wonky and throws her out a window. Holliday is a hoot and must have had a ball playing the villain. Other stock characters like the disbelieving police force are cliched and only serve...
I was pleased when I learned that the iconic Laurence Olivier plays the villain, Szell, in the film. He is believable as a vicious German Nazi who specializes in a unique brand of dental work. First blonde and then bald, the physical nature of the role is showcased. He also calmly perfo...