Doom at Your Service is the Pretentious Drama We Knew Would Arrive One Day: Anchored by Visuals, a Lot of Staring, and Copious Amounts of Self-importance

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• I dropped it after two episodes. And it especially pisses me off because I like PBY, LSH and KTO from previous works. Plus, the posters and teasers promised a drama worth watching. But sadly, I was swindled. From the recaps and some of the viewer feedback I've also read, it doesn't get better. I'll just look forward to the trio's next projects. Hopefully, those will be good.

• Ms Im was busy smoking lots of pot while developing the script for 2 years. This is a kamikaze project to kill her own career. Lazy research, lame borrowing of metaphors/ideas from various sources but holy cow, she can't cobble even 2 chopsticks together. I agree with koala, it's like watching a very very very long painfully slow cooked MV but I can't even enjoy tasting anything remotely delicious at the end of 8 hours nightmare. Dawon's baby crying annoys the hell out of me. Is that all he can do after 8 episodes? The side characters' arc is going nowhere & I don't care anymore. KTO's character pisses me off big time. Whining Hyung, Hyung makes me feel like bashing his head to the wall. I'm getting violent here which is a bad sign. The CEO is plain irritating. The cameos are crappy too. Every character development is shallow, shallow, shallow.

  • I don't recommend mind-altering substances, but maybe this drama would be easier to watch while smoking pot (if legal where you are!).

    That's certainly how I felt after ep 2.

    • @Royal W, lol. Does putting cannabis into my cookies count as legal? I was actually downing flavoured soju called Chateulsoorok with strawberry, peach & apple being my favourites while watching it. If I need to drown my sorrows in soju, that's a super low for me.

• I have consigned it to the rubbish heap after 8 episodes. The editing is just atrocious. I have watched lots of back hugs but the back hug in Doom is being cut by a 5 year old. This drama is cursed the moment Doom is assigned as its name. Doomed to failure. I feel sorry for the crew who probably toiled long hours in the background but this show turned into a turkey in the drama oven. The cast will be ok. They can quickly move to other projects. The writer is probably should retire. In the pantheon of flops, I'll wait to hear from others brave enough to endure it till the end.

  • Those who did endure it are probably not brave but blinded.

    • True but those who watch to the end are writers being paid to recap it by Viu and Soompi. ONo choice but obliged to do it contractually, part of their job. Poor things. We can vent and rant but they've to appear to be neutral & professional.

• It's like Klaus Schwab & Bill Gates telling writer-nim "Let's insert the the GREAT RESET idea into your drama, ok? I'll pay you the product placement fee." Rotfl.

• Ouch. Valid points but it's a very pretty drama and I like PBY and SIG even here, though the cliches do make it harder to love the drama

• The only thing I love is Lee Soo Hyuk's deep baritone voice. He's beautiful to look at too. In the meantime, while watching it, I was also finding time to feed my cats, clip my toenails, play with my Ipad, flick at some magazines & finally doze off to sleep when the credit rolls. Plot wise, it's good to put someone to sleep.

  • Lee Soo Hyuk had such a distinctive and unique beauty when he was younger, makes me feel sad he changed it to be more 'marketable' but he's still stuck in second lead roles. He's a better actor than he gets credit for, I really enjoyed his committed scenery-chewing as the evil vampire in Scholar Who Walks the Night.

    (no shade on SIG here, I'm his fan and he's a deserving lead, just stuck in a meh drama).

    • I get you Royal We. LSH has been on my list of unique actors for a long time. It's way overdue for him to get a lead role. I'm consoling myself by watching him in Pipeline if it ever gets shown in my country. Lucky for fans in the US & elsewhere. LSH is actually quite a funny & chatty person in real life. Hopefully with the exposure, more directors will be keen to hire him for ML roles. I'm from the senior group of fan. Not a pom pom oppa fan. Got no energy to fight or name-call anyone. If I see a stinker, I call it a stinker. Sorry to see both leads stuck in such lame drama.

• I didn't continue after the premiere week. And I wish they had laid out the foundation for the supernatural side of things. A few questions I had which I feel should have been answered in the first two episodes:
  Who is Doom? What exactly does he do? (Didn't see him do much doomy stuff.) Why is he so focused on just that serial killer? Surely there are others like him to deal with or worse? Why is Doom so fuxking depressed and wants to end the world? Why is the goddess a heart patient in the hospital? What the hell does she want? When FL saw the wishing star, why wouldn't she wish for everything to be okay instead of the world ending? Why is the dialogue a mess? What is the point of the whole drama? ETC.
  Ms. Writer, I'm sure you worked really hard. But you're no KES yet to only rely on the chemistry of your main leads (I don't see it but some gush about it) to carry your frivolous show. Let's do better next time, yeah? I'm rooting for you. Fighting.

  • I don't even mind that Doom is gloomy or that the heroine wishes to end the world (she's drunk when she makes that wish anyway) but everything about the first week felt so disjointed and random (hospital goddess, etc).

• The whole thing makes me sad. It is filmed so beautifully... the jewel tones and lighting. Sadly, the whole thing is repetitive and annoying. Conversations are pointless- and the plot spins more than my dryer.

  I used FF liberally last week then fully dropped this week. I love you actors... see you next project.

  • Yep the scenes inside Doom's house look beautiful, at least one thing I can say about this drama is the cinematography is top notch.

    Shame it's attached to such a dull drama though.

• 2.789%??? Odds bodkins, looks like the show is doomed to flop.

  • 2.7 would have been a good rating on cable even 5 years ago but not now. But the fact that the ratings have been dropping like this says it all.

    People gave the drama a chance, the writer wasted that chance by making it boring.

    • I was punning on the title. Lol. But yeah, it's way low for cable, especially tvN and PBY at that.

    • @Yikes - yeah PBY's early dramas were so good but Abyss and now this....

• The biggest complaint is the obfuscating contract in the first few episodes. The romance aspect is too rushed. There is absolutely no build-up whatsoever to bring the OTP to have the feelings for each other. The background of Doom's angst was never explained, his relationship with sick girl goddess was unclear, etc. Overall the PD didn't have enough materials to fill out each episode yet they filmed for 6 months? Head scratching. To be fair, the cinematography was superb, the cherry blossoms scenes beautiful and I love the actors. Better luck next time.