[Drama 2022] Grid, 그리드

[jongski]

Still waiting for next episode sub. Left me hanging after ep 1. 

@larus  it's only once a week Ep?  Or is it like Netflix you can watch it all 10 eps in one go?

 

 

Well for CG Disney Plus is better than N?

 

It's good episode 1.

 

My fav part actually.  I mumbled the same thing too.

*all twts ctto as tag*

[larus]

11 hours ago, jongski said:

it's only once a week Ep?  Or is it like Netflix you can watch it all 10 eps in one go?

 

Yes, it is one episode per week. I think there are shows on Netflix that give us one episode per week too but usually they release tyhe whole season in one go.

 

Perhaps for more discussions on Soompi is better once a week. But I like the classic format of kdramas with two episode a week.

[jongski]

9 hours ago, larus said:

But I like the classic format of kdramas with two episode a week.

Thanks larus. I also prefer it that way.  Checking some netz feelz and majority not in favor of 1 ep per week. 

Disney better fix this  else they'll be second fiddle to N.

 

 

Fun fact. Lee Si Young and Kim Moo Yeol starred together in MBB. Love that drama and favorite!

 

Yup the cinemaography effects

 

 

 

[larus]

1 hour ago, jongski said:

Checking some netz feelz and majority not in favor of 1 ep per week. 

 

I felt the first episode finished too soon. I wanted to find out mone but I have to wait another week.

 

It is early to see if this drama will be good till the end. The sci fi genre it is not easy to make but I will trust writer Lee Soo yeon. I like that she reserched and knows very well what she wants to convey in her drama. I like her style of writing. She was right that she said she wanted to give the actors less lines. Her other drama had a lot of dialogue but this one is different.

Sae-Byeok is a good detective. I like how perceptive she is and how well she investigates the crime scenes. And she is fierce. Sae-Ha is already investigating the Ghost. He is working at the Administration Bureau but I think he is interested in finding what happened in the past. I want answers too.

 

Sae-Ha is capable of lip reading and I think he practice a lot watching television in silence over the years to not disturb his mother.  He is learning lots of things all by himself watching video tutorials. He is an interesting man.

 

When Choi Sun-Wool, the female boss of Administration Bureau came to her office after the grid project was a success (protected the Earth) she said "she was right". She talked about Ghost. All people from the Bureau were overwhelmed by the situation. The Ghost came with a plan and they listened and saved the Earth. But it was clear that they did not have any idea who Ghost really was. Ghost is a very intriguing character. Why a "savior" is helping a murderer? I think she came from the future and she can travel through time and space. My first thought is that Kim Ma-Nok is someone close to her. Is her child that she left in the past? Or Ghost was from the past and went to the future and then came back to save the world? So many questions right now.  I am not sure if she was real or a hologram. I thought at first Ghost was a program who appeared to save that man. I understand Sae Byeok`s confusion. She was there because she left a cap but she can`t stay longer in the past? The travel through time and space is just temporary, they can`t stay a long period? Ghost contacted The Bureau in those brief encounters like this? Is she really physically here or it is just a strange situation like not realy here and not there either when she appears in 2021? I have many questions right now.

Kim Ma-Nok appears instable mentally/emotionally. He killed brutally the convenience store owner just because he mentioned Kim Ma Nok`s parents in a pejorative way. 

 

I want to know more about Song Eo-Jin (Kim Moo Yul`s character). Who is Kim Ma Nok? Is he just a crazy man?

 

I am interested in the story and I want to know more.

 

 

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[Cherryblossom18]

Episode 2 was pretty exciting to watch. Jung Sae Byeok and Kim Sae Ha interaction was funny. I wish they show two episodes per week.

[backstreetboysfan]

Another episode was good, wow Episode 2.

[larus]

‘Grid’ review: a cataclysmic murder mystery that stumbles in its opening

Seo Kang-joon and Kim Ah-joong chase ghosts as the fate of the Earth rests on their shoulders in Disney+’s new sci-fi K-drama

By Carmen Chin

25th February 2022

 

"When I started reading the script, I felt that it was extraordinary,” Seo Kang-joon recently told Marie Claire Korea of Disney+’s latest Korean original Grid. “It was not a simple structure in which various subjects and events are organised so that the story can unfold.” This much is certainly true of the new sci-fi series, which kicks things off rather confusingly in an alternate 2004, where the world is ravaged by the threat of a perilous solar flare that would endanger all life on Earth.

Communications across the continents have malfunctioned and it’s only a matter of minutes before the radiation obliterates the planet. South Korea’s dubiously named Bureau Administration struggles to get the series’ titular grid system (a shield created using artificially expanded magnetic fields) back online, as we watch two children, Sae-ha and Sae-byeok, grapple with the situation in real time. At the very last second, the grid system – by some stroke of luck – manages to get activated just before the flare gets a chance to wreak havoc.

Grid then launches us 17 years into the future to October 31, 2021, where we reunite with a now-grown Sae-ha (portrayed by Seo), who stops by a convenience store in an unassuming neighbourhood in contemporary Seoul. Right off the bat, something about the store’s atmosphere feels off. An ominous, unfinished bowl of cup noodles sits idle by the bench at the storefront, and no cashier attends to Sae-ha’s calls for assistance until several attempts later, when a brooding, middle-aged man silently emerges from the storeroom.

When Sae-ha returns to his car, he sits and ponders for a while, glancing back to the storefront to find the cashier leaving the store, holding a can of beer. He places his hands on the steering wheel as he’s about to leave, but he notices a splotch of fresh blood on his fingers. He follows his gut and heads back to the now-empty convenience store for answers over the sheer bizarreness of the situation, and finds a dead body in the back.

 

Grid’s abstrusities begin unfolding from there; Sae-he makes a police report and he meets the team of detectives assigned to the murder, among whom is an adult Sae-byeok (Kim Ah-joong), who is now stoic cop especially invested in nabbing the culprit. Though Sae-ha is quick to dismiss himself from the case, it’s later revealed that he works for a department within the Bureau Administration, tasked with locating an as-yet-unidentified person.

While going through the motions of his daily duties at work, Sae-ha comes across the case report written by Sae-byeok, who describes the murderer – now identified to be Kim Man-ok (Lee Sung-kyun) – as somehow being able to escape, despite having been right under their noses, with the help of a female accomplice who vanished into the thin air. The Bureau Administration assumes full control of the case to track down the unidentified woman, thereafter referring to heras the Ghost (Lee Si-young), who is apparently the person who worked on the grid system all those years ago.

At first glance, Grid is immediately intriguing. Its combination of science fiction grounded in reality paired with what seems to be paranormal phenomena speak to writer Lee Soo-yeon and director Khan Lee’s creativity. The contrasting elements are delightfully phantasmal without subtracting from the gravity of the situation – but rather escalates it.

However, it is the strong acting chops of the main cast that are the driving forces of Grid. Even though the audience knows little about the characters two episodes in, the actors are so intimately immersed in their individual nuances and motivations – be it the resilience of Sae-byeok in bringing the killer and his accomplice to justice, or the sociopathic apathy of Man-ok – their performances are convincing and compelling enough to be engaging.

 

 

Yet, the same pitfalls of dystopian sci-fi films and TV also haunt Grid. First episodes, especially for shows heavily dependent on lore as Grid is, are particularly crucial in orientating viewers to what exactly is at stake, yet the Disney+ series glosses them over. Sure, you could chalk it up to it being a mystery thriller that is supposed to get clearer as the series progresses, but it’s hard to stay invested when key contextual background information – such as who our leads characters are, the sudden appearance of time travel and even the concept of the grid system itself – barely scratch the surface.

With eight episodes left to really flesh out Grid’s seemingly lofty ambitions, the showrunners have a difficult task at hand. They have to unravel the show’s mysteries in such a way that is satisfying while keeping audiences guessing. Screenwriter Lee has proven her mettle with similar mystery shows before, so that bodes well for Grid, but at this current stage, the series comes across as chaotic and elicits confusion and frustration more than anything else.

 

https://www.nme.com/en_au/reviews/tv-reviews/grid-review-disney-plus-k-drama-seo-kang-joon-kim-ah-joong-3169553

[larus]

 Eo-Jin and Sae-Byeok had a past. I wonder why they don`t want to talk to each other (she doesn`t want to talk).

 

I laughed when Sae-Ha went to his boss and put his hands on her hands like he supported her. For his colleagues that was ...creepy. They already thought that he is too servile towards the  boss. What he is looking for? He wants her fingertips to enter a secret location? 

 

Someone higher stopped The Bureau`s investigation after they stopped the police. And Ghost receives orders from someone. There are raports from the future? She prevented Kim Ma-Nok to steel money and that politician to take the money and be arrested. Perhaps she could not prevent the murder of convenience store owner but she did  not want Kim Ma-Nok to be caught either.  I still think she protects him. Why? 

 

 

[Cherryblossom18]

The drama just keeps getting better and better. I wonder how Sae Ha got Sae Byeok’s phone number. Sae Byeok thinks Sae Ha is a married man, especially a whipped one. Lol.

[backstreetboysfan]

I so agree this drama is getting better and better.

 

Yeah omg Sae Byeok thinks Sae Ha is a married man .

[Eliza Marlowe]

I think Bureau is actually protecting the Ghost, make sure no information about her is leaked out to the world because she is the founder of Grid. But still need her help with some stuff. The Director Choi has been searching the Ghost throughout the years because she wants to time travel.

 

[larus]

Grid: Episode 3 Open Thread

by solstices

 

It just keeps getting better! Through a glimpse at our troubled protagonist’s past, we learn a little more about our central mystery. Still, the investigation into the mysterious phantom only unearths more questions than answers.
 

EPISODE 3 WEECAP

 

 

Following up from last week, Sae-ha manages to extricate himself from the situation by claiming he was just helping to wash Sun-wool’s tumbler. Ooh, Sae-ha swapped it out with an identical one! Smart.

He hands the original to Sae-byuk, asking her to lift the fingerprints so that he can enter the restricted-access 13th floor. She’s wary of his true intentions that he won’t reveal, but she ends up agreeing to help on the condition that he shares whatever information he obtains with her. Else, she’s reporting this to Sun-wool.

 

Sae-byuk creates a replica of Sun-wool’s palm, then applies it onto Sae-ha’s. Returning to the office, Sae-ha uses the replica to access the 13th floor, heading into the data storage room that he’d previously seen Sun-wool enter.

He finds the box of evidence, then transfers the data from one of the floppy disks to his phone. Hightailing it out of there, he hacks into the CCTV system to superimpose Sun-wool’s image over the footage of himself.

In another drama, I’d probably be skeptical of how many skills Sae-ha possesses, and how adept he is at them. Here, however, I’m convinced that it’s very much plausible, given his single-minded pursuit of the Ghost. He’s been working towards this for ages, biding his time and slowly setting up the chess pieces for the day he can finally call checkmate.

Later that night, Sae-ha watches the footage he’d downloaded from the floppy disk. It’s CCTV footage of a Ghost appearance in 1997, and we see her materialize in a research institute to accost a man. She presses one of her glowing discs to the man’s chest, causing him to disintegrate right in front of his young child, and then she disappears.

A video of the man’s autopsy reveals that his body was grotesquely burnt, with pieces flaking off. There are also witness interviews from the incident, and one of the witnesses was Sun-wool, who had personally taken the child to the hospital herself. It’s clear the child was Sae-ha; in the present, he’s tormented by the video clips.

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https://www.dramabeans.com/2022/03/grid-episode-3-open-thread/

 

 

[Cherryblossom18]

Episode 4 was so good. I was surprised to find out that Sae Byeok used to be married. She has a sassy attitude, that I find amusing. Omg, ghost was at Sae Ha’s house. I just love the chemistry between Sae Byeok and Sae Ha.

[backstreetboysfan]

Episode 4 was so good, I knew it Sae Byeok used to be married. OMG what the ghost was in his house. I just love the chemistry between Sae Byeok and Sae Ha as well.

[larus]

I just knew that the Ghost was the new so called nursing lady. No surprise when they show her in the end of episode 4. But why she was there? Is Sae ha her son? Now that we found out that he was adopted, it is a high posibility. I saw The Ghost when she looked at the child and mother when she was in the cafeteria. I think she got the the impressing that she was longing the feeling of mother child bonding. Now I am curious who is Sae Ha. What is the reason she has to kill a janitor and probably hurt his wife, the adopted parents of Sae Ha? Who was that Lee Jang-Hyeok? What he did? Why he was killed? He knew something he did not supposed to know or it is something else? I want to know the story of Sae Ha and the Ghost story too.

 

I knew that Sae-Byeok and Eo-Jin were married when I saw how she is avoinding him in the first episodes. But I totally see why he divorced him. He is frustrating as he kepts so many secrets because of his job. 

 

I really like how Sae-Byeok investigates the case. She is a simple detective (doesn`t have resources of Beaureau)  but she is very good at her job. Sae Byeok and Sae Ha are making a good tream to find the truth about the case.

 

Choi Sun-Wool wants now to find out the boy, after so many years? Of course she asked herself why The Ghost had to kill a janitor nit why not investigate more at that time?

I have a feeling that the man she was talking (her superior?) knows more about Ghost than he pretends. 

 

[larus]

Grid: Episode 4 Open Thread

by solstices

The mysteries are slowly beginning to converge, though most motivations remain murky. Our characters strive to make sense of what they know, and while some may inch a few steps forward, others remain running in circles.

 
EPISODE 4 WEECAP

 

This week’s episode takes a bit of a lull, in which our characters play catch up to the disparate threads of information that we already know. I wish it’d drop more than a few breadcrumbs at a time, but alas.

 

At the noodle restaurant, there’s an ambulance parked outside. Sae-byuk attempts to gain entry by claiming she’s the owner’s daughter and turning up the waterworks, but the major of the Special Investigation Bureau, LIM JI-YOO (Heo Joon-seok), arrives on scene. He isn’t tricked by Sae-byuk’s theatrics; he points out the police insignia on her car window, oops.

She’s detained, and Ji-yoo asks her how she knew to come here. Sae-byuk retorts that she got a call from the owner, and that he can go ask her himself — ha, I love that she speaks back to him in banmal too. She astutely realizes that the suspect must be a big fish if the government is stepping in like this.

 

Sun-wool orders Ji-yoo to hand Sae-byuk over to her, and at the Administrative Bureau, Eo-jin and Sae-ha enter Sae-byuk’s detention cell to interrogate her about her involvement in the case. Sae-byuk points out that it only took 15 minutes for her to get to the restaurant after receiving the owner’s call, yet agents were already swarming the scene.

That would only be possible if they’d been staking out the scene, yet they stood by while a civilian was being attacked. Angrily, she accuses them of using the restaurant owner as bait to draw out the accomplice. Sae-ha merely replies that Sun-wool had threatened to make Sae-byuk lose her job if she interferes again.

Sun-wool makes good on her threat, because later on, Sae-byuk is informed that she’s being transferred to another branch in the countryside. Of course, that won’t stop her, and she takes a leave of absence instead.

 

Sae-byuk and Sae-ha run into each other at the hospital that the agent was taken to, having each done their respective sleuthing. He stops her from questioning the doctor any further to avoid raising suspicion, then takes over. Recalling the state of his father’s corpse, he asks the doctor if the agent suffered from electrocution and damaged organs, and the doctor’s startled response confirms it.

 

As they leave, Sae-ha wonders why the Ghost only injured the agent, when she killed the janitor (i.e. his father). Sae-byuk counters that he should be asking the opposite — why did the Ghost go to the extent of killing the janitor, when she had the ability to only incapacitate him?

 

Again, all clues seem to be pointing to the possibility that the Ghost only murdered (or in the case of Ma-nok, abetted murder) out of necessity. It remains to be seen whether the show frames this as a justification, an excuse, or something in between.

Ooh, turns out Eo-jin and Sae-byuk were once married. Eo-jin remains firm that it’s all in the past, but Sun-wool isn’t having it, and she removes him from Sae-byuk’s case.

Clearly it isn’t all in the past, because Eo-jin visits Sae-byuk at the station to awkwardly ask if she’s going through with the transfer to the countryside. She acts nonplussed about it, then asks him why he transferred out of the Grid Control Team when he’d been so happy to join. He deflects, and she calls him out for never talking about himself and never responding to her concerns.

It’s a pretty loaded conversation, and I think it’s interesting that their dynamic seems to have been reversed. While Sae-byuk used to pour her energy into what must have felt like an unfillable cup, Eo-jin is now the one that’s trying to show concern for her despite her obvious indifference. It seems like it’s too little, too late, but something tells me she’s snubbing him more out of her past hurt and less out of genuine apathy.

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https://www.dramabeans.com/2022/03/grid-episode-4-open-thread/

 

 

 

 

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Disney+'s original series 'Grid' (directed by Regan, written by Park Chul-hwan, written by Lee Su-yeon) is the next work by Lee Soo-yeon's next work, Lee Soo-yeon's next work, with an unfamiliar material called 'Grid', a shield that saved mankind and the end of the world due to the solar wind. , produced by Arc Media, Ace Factory).

 

Since its opening on February 16th, it has been receiving enthusiastic responses from viewers with the response, "A must-see drama, a drama that is different from other dramas so far." In response, the challenge of a new genre with an unfamiliar material successfully settled down, and we looked at the reasons why it captivated viewers.

 

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Writer Lee Soo-yeon, who gave a heavy message with realistic materials such as political corruption, police investigation authority adjustment, and medical problems, paid attention to mysterious material this time, and it was enough to captivate viewers who were thirsty for new stories.

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[noor1]

Ep. 4 was snail-pace boring, didn't move anything forward. After a wait of a week, it was a disappointing episode. 

 

My current theory is simply that the crazy Ghost mama is removing all possible threats to her son's (Sae Ha's) life, in past and future. Basically she got the ability to foresee future and time travel, and then went on a rampage to ensure that her son lives / survives all killers and environmental situations. Maybe the janitor was a genius scientist who wanted to destroy the world and harm SaeHa so she intervened? And her re-emergence after 20+ years is simply because she is dying and wants to make sure her son remains safe.

 

She is saving the serial killer because of his pivotal role in a key moment in time from future. Basically it's a bit like did the chicken come first or the egg. She instigated everything but she only did it because she could see the future and wants to prevent a big disaster and her son's life.   

 

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