Kill Me Heal Me
CriticDean has returned to grant Kill Me Heal Me four stars out of five.
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I will repeat again that I dislike watching dramas because most of them drag on so much that I lose my patience. When it comes to the romance, I get especially annoyed and want to roll my eyes at all of the scenes.
With an interesting concept like Kill Me Heal Me, I couldn't resist. The main character has seven split personalities and the actor did an amazing job of portraying them. Now this was you called acting. I was moved to tears, angry, frustrated, laughed a lot. I felt many emotions watching this drama.
The first episode was an absolute killer and I almost died of laughing. The episodes following it were pretty great also.
Pretty much, it's about the main character trying to control his personality disorder and soon he will discover his disorder has to do with his broken past which he can't remember.
I'm a huge fan of Criminal Minds and there were several good episodes about dissociate identity disorder; one episode greatly resembles Kill Me Heal Me.
Kill Me Heal Me possesses the dark quality I experience when I watch Criminal Minds and it made me like the drama even more. It gave me chills as much as it made me laugh and both are a great combination.
What also I liked about KMHM is the romance wasn't a priority and it didn't take over the plot. I can't stand dramas/movies with an interesting storyline, but the romance ruins it for me.
Take Murphy's Law of Love, for example. I stopped at episode 14 out of 19 episodes just because the romance became too serious and shallow. This Taiwanese drama, too, suffers from the "too little, too late" syndrome because what they do is they represent the same information and repeat the character interactions over and over again to "build up the suspense." Complete fail, btw. Then they have all these filler scenes or "fluff" scenes that I want to skip. The revealing of the past was prolonged long enough that I couldn't care anymore about the secrets and what happened to the characters. I lost complete interest in this drama due to terrible pacing.
Which brings me back to Kill Me Heal Me.
While I felt the "revealing" of KMHM was a too little too late (for example, so many things were crammed into the last episode and I did not like that), I endured the unnecessary flashbacks and the last few messy episodes put together.
The ending was anti-climatic, but overall, Kill Me Heal Me was a memorable drama with memorable characters.
It's a B+ drama with A+ acting and A+ execution style.
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