Abyss: Entire season 1
August 3, 2019 9:58 AM - Season 1 (Full Season) - Subscribe
Eobiseu is a Korean romantic sci-fi murder mystery soap opera now playing on Netflix
Abyss is a glowing marble that brings people back to life. Cha Min is an unattractive, but wealthy, bachelor who is contemplating suicide over a lost love. things go awry and he dies, but is brought back to life by aliens and the glowing orb -- the thing is, he's brought back in a new body, one that reflects his soul, which is beautiful. He then discovers that his friend, who he has long held an unrequited crush, has been murdered -- he resurrects her with Abyss, which has passed to him, and she returns, but in a body much less beautiful than before. together, they set out to solve her murder.
What follows is part rom/com, part sci-fi, part murder (oh, there's more than one!) mystery, and part soap opera (lots of cliff hanger endings).
It's fun!
Abyss is a glowing marble that brings people back to life. Cha Min is an unattractive, but wealthy, bachelor who is contemplating suicide over a lost love. things go awry and he dies, but is brought back to life by aliens and the glowing orb -- the thing is, he's brought back in a new body, one that reflects his soul, which is beautiful. He then discovers that his friend, who he has long held an unrequited crush, has been murdered -- he resurrects her with Abyss, which has passed to him, and she returns, but in a body much less beautiful than before. together, they set out to solve her murder.
What follows is part rom/com, part sci-fi, part murder (oh, there's more than one!) mystery, and part soap opera (lots of cliff hanger endings).
It's fun!
I've added this to my Netflix queue and am looking forward to checking it out!
posted by Stacey at 6:48 AM on August 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Stacey at 6:48 AM on August 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
Ooooo this looking interesting. Thanks for the heads up!
posted by miss-lapin at 4:49 PM on August 8, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by miss-lapin at 4:49 PM on August 8, 2019 [1 favorite]
OK I thought I would comment again now I've watched a bit of it. I'm enjoying. I particularly like the kind of Greatest American Hero aspect of the orb.
One thing though-in the first episode there's a scene where the female lead comes out of what looks like a university building. Men are all there with flowers. She rejects them all to accept her father's flowers at which point they cheer him as father-in-law.
What is going on there? I'm getting this is some sort of right of passage thing, but no idea what it is.
posted by miss-lapin at 11:39 PM on August 10, 2019 [1 favorite]
One thing though-in the first episode there's a scene where the female lead comes out of what looks like a university building. Men are all there with flowers. She rejects them all to accept her father's flowers at which point they cheer him as father-in-law.
What is going on there? I'm getting this is some sort of right of passage thing, but no idea what it is.
posted by miss-lapin at 11:39 PM on August 10, 2019 [1 favorite]
Oh and the killer's old man act is hilarious.
posted by miss-lapin at 1:21 AM on August 11, 2019
posted by miss-lapin at 1:21 AM on August 11, 2019
I haven't finished, but one thing that drives me crazy about this show is how dumb the characters act when it's convenient to the plot. Oh, you're trying to track down the serial killer and you found where he's staying? Yeah definitely don't bring the cop that's been helping you. The people that has your loved one kidnapped and is extorting you into doing things for them but is only communicating by phone and doesn't know where you are? Sure, don't involve the people who have been trying to help you and instead betray them. The patient going into the ambulance may be the culprit but you can't see his face? Oh sure just let it drive away and tell people you checked when you haven't and definitely don't follow the ambulance.
Like, this is The Flash level idiot ball tossing. The only competent one is the bad guy whose undoing is his own hubris and when the leads are suddenly smart again.
posted by numaner at 10:16 AM on July 6, 2020
Like, this is The Flash level idiot ball tossing. The only competent one is the bad guy whose undoing is his own hubris and when the leads are suddenly smart again.
posted by numaner at 10:16 AM on July 6, 2020
One thing though-in the first episode there's a scene where the female lead comes out of what looks like a university building. Men are all there with flowers. She rejects them all to accept her father's flowers at which point they cheer him as father-in-law.
It's an trope with asian shows, it does not happen in real life anywhere in the world to people who are not celebrities. I guess they're showing a parallel between the girl/guy and their school celebrity status.
posted by numaner at 10:19 AM on July 6, 2020
It's an trope with asian shows, it does not happen in real life anywhere in the world to people who are not celebrities. I guess they're showing a parallel between the girl/guy and their school celebrity status.
posted by numaner at 10:19 AM on July 6, 2020
I started watching this without having been told anything about it and am enjoying it.
It has shown me that standards of beauty and their variations around the world are just indecipherable to me.
posted by Seamus at 12:32 PM on December 8, 2020
It has shown me that standards of beauty and their variations around the world are just indecipherable to me.
posted by Seamus at 12:32 PM on December 8, 2020
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posted by OHenryPacey at 10:03 AM on August 3, 2019 [1 favorite]