I haven’t seen these episodes yet (as I just started episode 2), but these screenshots make me think that CEW is little more than a beagle bounding along following his two masters. It’s kind of adorable. 😆

I am loving the trio but Yohan's scenes are what I wait for. I just feel excited. But Van vs Yohan was awesome and I am loving sibling duo vibe of Yohan and Miho.

Thanks for the recap!

I was happy that ep 3 & 4 had a bit more excitement especially since ep 1-2 were a lot of setup. The action scenes are fun! I really appreciated the fight between Van and Yohan at the end of ep 4. Looking forward to next week.

So far, the best thing about this show is the action scenes involving our two male leads. The basic story is moving slowly and has yet to be fully explained to the audience. It’s a bit frustrating not knowing why things are happening the way they are.
I have to admit the humorous quips are starting to fall flat for me. They’re trying to inject lighthearted comedy during scenes that should be serious/scary. I’m not a fan.
I’ll watch until the end because of KNG and CEW . I was hoping we’d get through one of Cha Eun Woo’s shows without his good looks being pointed out so directly. Why can’t the poor guy play a character that isn’t told how handsome he is?
I’m not impressed all that much with LDH, she’s still constantly brushing her hair off her face. She’s giving me the vibe of a model who walked off the street into a kdrama. I’ll have to watch another production of hers to make a fair assessment.
I so much wanted to love this show-the trailers made it look amazing. My fear now is that we got all the best bits in the trailers because the non-action scenes are awkward and slow-paced. I’m still enjoying the show overall and will continue to watch, I’m just dismayed that so much potential seems to be wasted by uneven storytelling and pacing issues.

I enjoyed these two episodes so much. Our trio is hilarious!

The only thing that bothered me was Mi Ho as a teacher. Even if she's a fake teacher, after hearing that a girl is being abused she didn't care at all? If she wasn't going to do anything at least she should've looked for someone that could help the girl. She didn't even called her mother to see how the girl was doing and if the mom was aware of the situation. She just acted like that was nothing. She's supposed to be their teacher, she's an adult, wtf was that.
Thanks god she had a wake up call with Su Jin's case. She needs to understand that those kids are her responsibility too. I would recommend her to watch School 2013 and learn from Jang Na Ra how to be a good teacher.

Well, besides that I really enjoyed the dynamics between the leads and the fantasy. Btw, was I the only one that for a second thought Giovanni's sword was a Star Wars laser? LOL. The first time it looked like that, and I just couldn't imagine to see a priest with have magical objects (isn't magic supposed to be bad? From the devil or witches or something?), so it was a shock to see that shiny sword.

I wonder how Mi Ho will react to Van's identity. Till now she has acted like a girl with a crush, so I'm curious if that's going to change.

Why is johan’s character there? he is meaningless.
you can not have the trappings of Christianity but not the substance; either you fully acknowledge its claims, and Christianity has absolute power over all demons, absolutely, or you do not have it in your mythology. You can deny it, but then why acknowledge it even in part, and why have it in there in a virtuos scope at all. you can not half acknowledge it, half ass it, or half remove it of its power, it does not work. It is not a worldview you can be luke warm about, even in fiction and fantasy. either it does something, and that something works, fully, completely, or there is no point in having it in your tv show.

the Van character is not much better. the power of Objective Evil, as we call it, as these demons are, can not be used to fight Objective Evil, can not be used to fight itself; this is illogical, and inherently spiritually unsound. you can not state an Objective Evil exists, and then declare that it is Relative in how it is used. To do so is an irrationality.

do not tell me that it doesn’t matter because it is fantasy, that is quite certainly not true, and it is not how good world building works.
This show is dumb,,.

There’s something off with this drama - the story has so much potential but the directing and the editing are off. Scene transitions aren’t smooth, motivation for the characters are not always shown properly. I wonder if they spent too much time and resources in the special effects that these vital aspects are getting second thought? Perhaps. But I like bam and yohan so far. Miho isn’t exactly a likeable character as of yet, I get no sympathy for her when she gets attack by demons but I feel that’s because of the directing, editing, issues with scene transitions and also somewhat on the writing of the character for the modern world. I will still watch it and hope these issues are tackled in the next episodes bettet.

for a show with only 12 episodes, you'd think that the storytelling would be tighter. instead the first few episodes feel draggy.

the best thing about it so far is the acting. the main trio have good chemistry. but apart from that most other things fall flat, especially the editing. I'm not even referring to the cgi (I don't expect much of Korean drama cgi effects) but even basic editing like scene cut during fights feel off.

I'll stick on mainly for kim nam gil. I guess my review was expected since the full-on fantasy/demon hunter/tsundere male lead genres aren't my favourite, but I was low-key hoping island would change my mind. more looking forward to his next drama, song of the bandits.

Ep4 was the best one so far, but I'm not holding my breath to see this level of quality continuing until the end. Weak directing aside, weak writing should be pointed out too - I get that cramming long slowly developed story from comics into 12 (?) episodes is a hard task, but it feels like show's writer has no clue what to cut and what to keep, resulting in serious pacing issues and questionable characterization. Van, for example: he made sense in Ep1 and KNG's acting is usually faultless, but the way dude just keeps being all silent and grumpy even when others literally back him into a corner for some asap needed answers starts getting annoying. I get that he's supposed to be mysterious and revealing everything about his past at this stage will spoil the story, but it's ridiculous now. We're supposed to emphasize with him, remember? Well, it's naturally hard to do that since we know literal ZERO about his current life other than his, uhm, job occupation. What he wants from Miho? To remember him? Forgive him? Leave him alone forever? Finish her mission and purify him of his demon half (if that's possible)? Or just repay his past debt and end it all there? Because the way he behaves around her is the epitome of crazily mixed signals. Poor girl, as she didn't have it complicated already...

Miho herself is not written that good either - I also find her sudden change of heart toward abused girl's case pretty jarring. Oh well, let's contribute it to Yohan's positive influence. They make really cute sibling-like duo for sure, tho I doubt Miho should be considered the older one here)))

Yohan himself is so far the most well-rounded one among the trio. His goals are clear, his personality makes sense (as much as it's possible for a flirty kpop loving geeenius teen exorcist lol), his interactions with people don't leave you scratching your head in angry confusion, even the humor of his scenes is the best in the whole drama. Van and Miho having their divorced exes-like banter while he was being strangled by forest spirit and tried to catch their attention with his chocked pleads for help to no avail... Lmao. I also appreciated that he was smart enough to use tricks and traps in his fight with Van - action hero with common sense, wow.

CGI and backstory for Benjulle were great imo. Still too much slow-mo and cuts in action. And casual fantastic racism towards Van who's still part human and didn't ask for any of this is getting old.

The world building is weak. What are Van's powers? Yohan's ones, why he can do that as a human?

Yohan and Mi-ho are useless.

It doesn't make sense to attack Van when he saved so many lifes for so long jusz because he's hal demon and a prophecy, they weren't there, they don't know what happened. Yohan is not investigating but judging. Mi-ho would already be dead without Van...

The fights looked comic.

I'm really enjoying this!

I'm not convinced Van actually stabbed Mi-ho at the end, all we actually got to see was the blood-spatter and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he had stabbed some part of himself as a way to absorb that impulse in a less harmful way. Still, if he did, that's going to be tough to get around later, so we'll have to see.

I'm really interested in Goong-tan, but I didn't get the impression that he was the one orchestrating the attack. Maybe I missed something? Certainly mysterious, certainly ambiguous, but at this point it feels like we don't have much to go on of him in the present, so I'm happy to wait and find out more.

The interactions between all three of our leads continue to be fun. Obviously Mi-ho and Van, but now she has a great rapport with Yohan too, and I loved the mutual distrust/disgust of Yohan and Van in all their interactions. I'm also really loving the old haenyeo and her relationship with Van - I laughed so hard when she tried to hit him with her purse and he danced just out of reach!

Well, I am watching and I am having fun, but the drama is a bit silly… I’m not asking it to be perfect but I would like it to be coherent at least.

The story building in weak, the way we were introduced Soo Tywin’s story was sloppy. For instance it would have made more sense if MiHo has met her before. But after all the whole high school setting is just stupid: MiHo leaving her Porsche in the middle of the road and not in the parking slot where all the other teachers would have their cars, she being in charge of a class to teach… what subject? Wasn’t she in charge of counseling? And what did he do when a student ask for counseling? Please, I know this is fantasy, but why don’t you make a little sense, chaka-nim?

Also, and regarding MiHo… someone please cut her bangs or give her hair pins. If I see once more LDH pulling her hair back, I will lose all interest in her character. Also, it seems there is a conspiracy among LDH’s enemies to dress her in those horrible costumes…

Regarding costumes… how many times a day does Yo-han puts in and off his cassock? Is he a priest or a rapper? And how many times does the change his earrings? Please? A priest? My foot!!!!

This drama is only 12 episodes and next week we’ll be the middle of the show and so far we’ve got 2 minutes of one of the leads.

Yes, it’s an easy watch. Yes, it’s entertaining. No, it’s not good.

I usually don't read/watch much promo to let the drama surprise me so I totally forgot that Sung Joon was here till that glimpse! Was pleasantly surprise.

The CG of the house and some scenes sometimes throw me off but the action scenes are well shot. As for the story, it can be tighter, like around this episode, we should know what is the purpose of Wonjeong and that Mi-ho should've been awaken but hey, go Show, show what you've got.

Also, it's very interesting to see how Nam-gil's hair changed in a few scenes. Some were definitely shot during Through The Darkness and how I wish we had more of those scenes. Maybe it's time for a rewatch of TTD??

Thank you for the weecap @solstices!
Island is a drama that I was excited when it was first announced. I am still watching but I cannot say that I'm currently thrilled with the story or the characters. Hopefully, this will change.

I’m enjoying This drama and glad it’s on prime. But I thought mi-ho actually killed the Deann with her powers. Ban came up behind and was about to stab when she glowed.. or am I wrong

im enjoying this show!

I love that its fast pace (+ you dont even feel the time passing, there were multiple moments where I was shook that it was already mid way through) and it just gets to the point of the ep.

this weeks eps were really good! Im glad they finally brought CEW's character together with the main duo (instead of dragging it out) and their dynamic was so good. I was also SO excited when goong-tan finally made an appearance and I cant wait to see more of him.

Yohan please speak more Italian at Van and confuse the heck out of him! I'd love if you annoy him more and humanize him.

Curious and more curious
I have a question ❓
When Van met Butler Jang, he told Butler Jang that If Butler Jung had not interfered, MiHo would be already MinJoung ... About what incident he was speaking?
Also I am a little confused about about the grany. She is supposed to be the oldest habitat of Jeju. Did she reborn or is she immortal?

Also I am superad with that king ... He turned two boys into demon slayers by force yet he didn't acknowledged their value. And the granny witnessed this too ... 😡😡😡 Shouldn't you treat people, who protect your life, better?

I'm liking this. It's fun and the backstory promises to be Bulgasal-lite. Seems that way, anyway. I can see our two immortals having some love-hate relationship. Is Sung Joon's character his old friend who was also turned by the older shamans?
I'm not a fan of Yohan but i tend not to be a fan of intrusive pesky young-uns who walk around being superior to other folks. Plus the whole young hottie hip priest thing is getting old. I know I'll end up liking him after he's learned a lesson or two and gotten a bit more humbled. So i'll endure His Holy Cuteness. I do roll my eyes at some of the utterly wrong (in my opinion) Christian theology but eh, it's a drama so i'll go along with it.

I am not disappointed with this drama especially since I read the webtoon and the Manhwa before, If indeed we expect a fantasy drama or classic horror it seems offbeat and we will be disappointed.
But I think they really managed not to betray the comics from which it was adapted. I've seen manga adaptations that are really disappointing but not this one, the representation of the demons, the main characters, the fights reflect the webtoon well. For those who haven't seen the animated version just imagine you have the adaptation of "Demon Slayer" in drama, the fight scenes are a real treat.

While I'm almost enjoying how epically stupid this show is, I think I'm going to have to bow out.

My "favourite" part of what I saw was two complete strangers showing up to some woman's door and saying, "I'm a teacher from your daughter's school and this is a random priest, please let us go into your teenage daughter's room alone"... and she did.

Everything about this show is dumb but it's not dumb in any kind of consistent way. It's like bits of dumb from other things all together, a kind of dumb melange.

Aspects of Dumb.

I admit a kind of morbid curiosity and it may get the best of me at some point but for now adieu. I'm out.

I don't find this drama all that hilarious or even funny. I do think Eun Woo is much better as a secondary character but it's interesting to me seeing him playing this brash kind of character. I feel like through this character he gets to show a part of his personality he typically doesn't get to (I could be wrong. It's not like I follow his career but isn't he usually humble or shy to play into the cute thing?).

For me the draw is Kim Nam Gil. He's the only reason I decided to check this out and I like his performance so far. The moments when he's deadpan or stoic is just as intetesting to me as him being menancing.