Hatred against immigrants & xenophobia is depicted. Kindness to those less fortunate is critical, or we will create the monsters that rip into us. Messianic imagery is a major player, as are regrets - they follow selfishness. Also featured are corruption, hate, revenge, & pride, which are all forms of selfishness. Themes explored are selfishness (if we only care about ourselves & what we want, it's radiation poisoning that will destroy society). Though not issue free, Sisyphus is an insightful commentary on humanity: We make the wrong choices & then we live with regret the rest of our lives once we are finally honest with ourselves. It explores the claim: "Just because you could do something doesn't mean you should." It's got action, fantastic romance, time travel, & a brainiac that can Macgyver anything. Sisyphus is the show that escorted me through the looking glass into the wonderland of Korean programming. And if you like time travel and are interested in seeing people use and abuse time travel like no other time travel show has done. The time periods felt great and the characters experiences in those time periods felt relatable. There was very little cgi work to speak of. Like a guy watching his past self be mean to his wife and hating himself for it. You find out about their past from their past which hasn't happened yet. The characters are wel thought out and the back story for the supporting characters comes in an interesting way. The story is very easy to follow for a time travel show (which is not easy for some time travel shows to do). All the actors played their roles perfectly. I see a lot of hate around it here and there and just wanted to put my thoughts down. This show isn't in the same realm as DARK (a similarly themed time travel show) but it's not bad. If you want a good time-travel show, watch Travellers, or movies like Twelve Monkeys, Looper, Time Trap, etc. It's giving me flashbacks to All of Us are Dead, in that both shows seem to prioritize writing that is superficially exciting and/or dramatic but doesn't really make any sense when you think about it for more than 5 seconds. The guards who approach the old lab are nice enough to give Hun enough time to improvise a home-alone style bomb rather than just immediately storming the building. The assassin is courteous enough to wait until AFTER his target is warned to shoot, despite having like a solid 20 minutes beforehand with a clean shot. That's pretty much this show in a nutshell everybody sucks at their jobs/missions and that's the only reason things are able to happen. She pretty much immediately gets discovered when she arrives because she decided to walk along a passenger train track (lol did her father not teach her about trains?) and only manages to escape because the main antagonists are ALSO terrible at their jobs. The main girl is also really, really bad at her mission despite presumably doing extensive preparations for it. First off, the show treats you like an idiot, flashing back to scenes when big, obvious revelations are made (it's not WHERE, it's WHEN), like yeah, we got it. The concept is interesting, but the writing and scenes play out so poorly that I just couldn't be bothered to finish it. I love sci-fi/time travel stories (like Travellers), so I was ready to enjoy this one.
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