The Glory

 The glory tells the story of a woman who is severely bullied as a teenager and gets to a desperate point in her life and decides rather than killing herself to seek revenge against those who bullied her. It works really well as a revenge drama, but it does have a few flaws. The great part about this series is that it treats both the protagonist and antagonist in sympathetic ways. This is crucial because in one telling of the story, the protagonist could seem like a psychopath. And in another telling of the story, the antagonist might have been so one-sided to be completely uninteresting. The actress who plays the antagonist does a really great job - but there are two moments which I think rank among my favorite in k-dramas. The first is when her husband confronts her with the news that he might be exploring some dark secrets about her, and she says,"Look, I'm a shiny box. You like shiny things, don't open the box because you're not going to like what you find." The other great moment is towards the end of her character's time in the series where she's in prison, and she's being asked to do a weather update because she used to be a weather presenter, and she's saying the same words, and she is using the same mannerisms, but you can tell that she's terrified in the scene, and it's brilliant acting. The problem I see with the series is there is a romantic element to it, and it ends with the protagonist and her love interest declaring that they love each other, I think it's completely unnecessary because the whole story really has very little to do with love and I think that could have been one of those things that was just left hanging whether they end up together or they don't end up together it's not important for the trajectory of the story. But it's really great if you like k-dramas, and you like revenge, you'll love this.

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