Director: Kwon Young-il
Cast: Park Bo-young and Seo In-guk
Episodes: 16
Streaming: Amazon Prime
Synopsis:
A woman who lost her parents at an early age is diagnosed with a brain tumor, forcing her to have less than 100 days to live. As she prays for the destruction of the world, the destruction himself comes to her and lives with her for the last 100 days.
Doom at Your Service K-Drama Review:
When I first read the synopsis of the drama, I imagined a fantasy-level drama because Korean writers always think outside of the box. So, the expectation was sky high. One thing I have to tell about me when I’m searching for a drama, I always see the IMDB and Synopsis of the drama. I never read any reviews before watching the drama.
I don’t wanna talk much about it. Given the initial plotline, the writer could have done a much better job but this drama ain’t even average. Let alone the basic plot, the screenplay is totally slow and a total cliché. The same old stuff sometimes is executed in such a beautiful way that they don’t feel cringe but this drama failed to do so.
I have a bad habit of not being able to drop anything at all. Could never leave anything no matter how bad it is even if I have to finish it at 3x and rant a lot about that later. Well, Doom at Your Service goes into that category.
So far, Goblin has been the best supernatural which not only had a good plot and story but they executed all other things well too. Even Tale of the Nine-Tailed had some depth to the story even though it was an average cliché screenplay.
But this drama didn’t even make sense. To be honest I could manage till the episode which was the introduction to the story but as soon as I entered the 4th, it instantly became boring and unbearable.
There is no solid storyline in the drama except for the unique opportunity concept of Doom. The climax of the story is a disaster which was even revealed way before the interval of the drama, i. e. the 8th episode. And after the interval the way they messed up the plot, I actually wanted to throw my laptop away. Everything had become repetitive from 7th episode anyways and they kept doing the same thing, over and over again, and till the very end.
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There is no character development whatsoever but one of the major reasons for its failure should be credited to the plenty of unnecessary characters. Lee So Hyuk, Kang Tae Oh, and Shin Do Hyun…their story and characters are absolute sidekicks.
They are somehow related to the lead couple and their main plot but the story created by the writer for these 3 people have no essence at all. The writer created it to make the drama 60mins and 16 eps, I am sure of that. It could have been a mini-drama at least.
The cast is actually somewhat cool and that’s the reason so many people watched but I don’t think that’s how we should be judging. I am not lying I fell for all of them too but well haha. It’s actually funny how many people never knew Seo In Guk before this drama and went mad over his looks after seeing him
now. Another fact, I can never with how annoying Park Bo Young is. I feel she a good potential but she always ends up choosing stupid dramas with very annoying characters.
The cast is actually somewhat cool and that’s the reason so many people watched but I don’t think that’s how we should be judging. I am not lying I fell for all of them too but well haha. It’s actually funny how many people never knew Seo In Guk before this drama and went mad over his looks after seeing him
now. Another fact, I can never with how annoying Park Bo Young is. I feel she a good potential but she always ends up choosing stupid dramas with very annoying characters.
Screenwriting is trash and to make it worse the direction is totally poor. It felt like the writer actually forgot their own story while writing the script. No significant editing and VFX skills have been shown, let alone cinematography.
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OSTs are actually somewhat beautiful and appealing though. It felt nonsense, stupid, and illogical. It could have been an average drama given the basic plot but I truly regret it turned out to be trash.
It has the same plot of a tragic past, miserable life, death, punishment, supernatural stuff, reunion, memory loss, and blah blah blah. Even as a rom-com, it’s very stupid.
Because of Seo In Guk’s comeback, I was honestly expecting it to be a good average story, if not something fabulous but here I am willing to voluntarily hit my head on the floor after watching it. Won’t talk about the ending either because I told you I don’t wanna talk about the story.
Verdict: Doom at Your Service K-Drama Review
It’s my problem that I can never leave dramas unfinished but if you ain’t into cliché RomCom and illogical storylines, please give up before you even start it. I felt this drama missed the mark even though it had a great setup.
I do believe it was unnecessary for this to be 16 episodes long and could have done better if it had a shorter amount of episodes to reduce the dragginess. Despite that, I feel like there were no flaws with the acting and the cinematography.
