This is a kind of drama where at many moments you have to turn off your logical thinking. Many situations simply cannot happen in reality. Nevertheless, the drama contains elements of truth about life. It's a mixture of something absolutely cheesy and unrealistic with something painfully realistic. All scenes with the pathology of life: toxic families, violence, complete lack of respect for the lives of others and their privacy. All these elements are like punching the viewer in the face. For example, in episode 2 there was a scene with the pathological family of one of the characters, where the mother is treated like garbage by the children, one son is addicted to games, the other is threatened with prison, the daughter sleeps with rich people to have money and make a career. All of this is a reflection of someone's reality that takes place in real life. We know such stories from documents, crime news or even from the stories of neighbors or friends. At the same time, the drama is filled with cases, coincidences, and connections between characters that are unlikely in real life. It actually takes a thousand people to create these connections, not just a few. All people are not as mean and practically devoid of human reflexes as in this drama. Despite everything, in the enormity of lawlessness and evil, there will always be people who will prevent the multi-story intrigues, even by accident. This is where the most absurd ideas of villains come to fruition, and they shouldn't succeed so easily. There is one element of this drama that I like the most. The fact that many of the characters are from the entertainment industry. As someone who is not a fan of anyone, I really like how this drama strips away all illusions about celebrities and the entertainment industry in general. Since the screenwriter must have close contact with people from the entertainment industry, I hope that she smuggled into the plot real scandals that are known to the entertainment community, but are hidden from ordinary people. For example, the truth and some idol who pretends to be innocent but is the embodiment of wickedness. Such things have come to light more than once in the history of the Korean entertainment industry. For this reason, for now, the most interesting characters for me are: the evil producer and the opportunistic idol. Both are similar to each other, cruel, destroying other people, including their own children.

Episodes 3-4
This drama is very entertaining (and illogical in many ways, but there's no point in dwelling on that) but the amount of bad things that happen to the good characters is enormous. This week in the drama ended with the wrongful death of several supporting characters. There are 7 characters in the drama who in some way contributed to the misfortune of Da Mi, her family and the gangster's family. But this week also gave the impression that none of these characters could have had enough influence that all the bad things that happened could have been their doing. One attempted murder is certainly the "credit" of two characters, the killing of two families is the work of another character. However, there is someone else, more influential, someone who tampers with investigations and creates an alternative history of events. Someone who has influence everywhere and even Da Mi's very rich and influential grandfather lost to him. Is this the mysterious K., the father of Mo Ne's child? Who can be so influential? Some rich man, politician? Even the president of the country came to mind. Too many people were involved in wrongfully imprisoning Da Mi's adoptive father and turning him into a serial killer: the prison, the police, the prosecutor's office, non-governmental organizations. The corruption seemed enormous.

Episode 3-4:

These episodes didn't drag. Things moved at a fast pace. I didn't feel frustrated, but curious bout the mystery. Dami is for sure not dead. I wonder who is helping her.

I liked that her grandfather turned around. She needed someone on her side. How sad things ended for him.

Anyone else noticed Kim Do Hoon?! Not sure if he's a cameo or not. He seems to be on a new, unknown side. He was seen at the prison, but I'm pretty sure he was in an earlier scene at the youth center when Dami was in the consult room. I had wondered if his nail art matched Ki Tak's hand tattoo, but they're not a match. I don't recognize the actor (Yoon Tae Young). I wonder how big his role will be.

The home deaths... I wonder if somehow they had been saved and hidden away? For their protection.

Episodes 5-6.
These two episodes presented perhaps the most brutal and inhumane plot I have ever seen in a Korean drama produced by a public broadcaster. The degree of dehumanization of the main villains has reached its peak here. It's hard to even call them human beings when they deprived so many others of their right to life, even when they were no longer under the influence of drugs. They deserve the hell that Matthew Lee is making their lives. Death would be too mild a punishment for their past, but also for how they lived for the last 5 years and what they did on the island. 26 bodies were recovered, but there were more people on the island. Did the others work for Matthew? It seems to me that there is no other way to explain what happened on the island. Someone had to collect the bodies from various places.

Having never watched a makjang drama before and knowing that this was the number one show in S. Korea the past several weeks I was curious to see what all the fuss was about. Plus I love Lee Joon, but that's a whole nother story. I just caught up to Ep.5-6 and I have not been disappointed. Every episode is full of eye-popping screaming, physical violence, and emotional and psychological torment. The amount of sheer depravity, venality, and cruelty is impressive, but I'm hoping that the writers are just setting up the villain characters so that their ultimate downfall is all the more satisfying. It's not an easy watch, especially the school bullying scenes, and the absolute idiocy of many of the characters is a bit maddening but if this is makjang then bring it on.

Episodes 7-8.
The most important question that arises while watching these episodes: who is K.? Will the drama hide the truth about this character until the end of season 1? Previously, it could have been assumed that K. was only related to Mo Ne's story and that 5 years after the events related to Da Mi, he was not interested in what was happening to others involved in the case. But it seems like he was always pulling the strings and knew the truth about every character. Even about Mr. Lee. Episode 8 gave the impression that K. is a young person. Could he have been a minor 5 years ago? This seems impossible, considering how much power he already had. But is it really impossible? He may come from a very rich, well-known family or be someone famous from an early age. At the same time, he could conduct illegal business, and even Da Mi's grandfather was his client. None of his clients had ever seen him up close. Da Mi's bad mother immediately recognized the name of Mo Ne's child's father. So it must be someone really famous. When Mo Ne was born, he was in the United States. What was he doing there? Was he in business? He studied ? Was he shooting a movie or going on a concert tour? Because maybe he is someone from a rich family and is a celebrity. Most of the drama's plots revolve around the entertainment industry or politics, so it would be fitting if K. was associated with one or the other. This would be especially fitting, because the script so far touches on all possible pathologies of the world of entertainment. The script seems to take great pleasure in describing all the possible scandals that may occur among celebrities and people from the show business world. Politics is somewhere in the background for now, even business is related to the world of entertainment. Is this the key to K.'s character?

Episodes 9-10.
The title of the drama and the poster promised that it would be a story about Mr. Lee and seven villains. Meanwhile, I feel that the script does what dramas usually do - it turns out that it is actually a story about a fight against one big villain supported by a large corporation. K. turned out to be such a person, the "son" of the most powerful person in SK, and these are people who kill anyone who gets in their way. The drama is good to watch, but I would like to finally see the moment when Da Mi dies. Because despite everything, I still have doubts whether she died. The drama showed her seriously injured, showed her skeleton, but is she really dead? The scene where she was dead was never shown. If she is alive, will K. keep her for 5 years? He's a perverted madman, so it wouldn't surprise me.

Episodes 11-12.
Episode 12 ended with an unexpected twist about Mr. Lee, and I must admit that such a plot solution never occurred to me. Is this man holding Da Mi's adoptive father captive? Is this her biological father? Because otherwise, taking revenge on the Seven and fighting K. makes no sense. Unless it's just a matter of a fight between two corporations? But would that be good for the plot? I don't think. The drama has not very high ratings, recently around 5 points, is the second season, which is currently being filmed, a good idea? The drama has its advantages, but I have the impression that it has a big disadvantage due to the excessive complexity of the plot and the constant delay in punishing the villains. Another disadvantage for me is the fact that the drama has almost no romantic plot that would interest me. Somewhere in the background there is an uninteresting romance between a corrupt drug-addicted policeman and a corrupt gynecologist. There is a love quadrangle or pentagon of the characters, which does not really exist, because every "love" is unrequited. Unfortunately, the "romance" elements of this drama are uninteresting.

Episodes 13-14.
This drama makes no sense, but at the same time it makes crazy sense. It's full of violence, but some scenes are funny, even though they involve theoretically bad things. At this point in the plot, Da Mi's name is actually just a pretext for the usurper Joon Seok's fight for the fortune of his fake father and the fortune of Da Mi's grandfather. The drama introduced new romances, but it's probably hard to root for them since it's about terrible people. But I enjoy watching it, because this type of absurd drama also needs crazy love plots that change the trajectory of the characters' actions. There are three episodes left until the end of the first season and I think that the real revenge for the wrongs done to Da Mi will only begin in season 2. Her adoptive father is still alive, imprisoned on the island, but Ki Tak ended up there. He and Do Hyeok may be Da Mi's father's only allies if they manage to capture the hidden money.

Episodes 15-16
The drama has only one episode until the end of season 1 and this is clearly felt in the plot. 2 episodes were dynamic, a lot happened in them and changed the balance of power between the characters. One important character died, that's 100% certain. It wasn't a character from the main 7, but this death still has a decisive impact on several characters. Two characters have been compromised and it seems that their fate is sealed. Hopefully, because at this point in the drama, I don't want their further bad actions. These two should disappear with season 1 and other characters should be important in season 2. If this doesn't happen, I don't think that viewers will approach season 2 with curiosity. Season 1 exploited K's story. He should have died and finally given the viewers the long-awaited moment of justice. At least when it comes to him, because several other characters still enjoy too many things that they shouldn't. Season 2 should destroy them and I think that's what viewers want.

Episode 17. The last episode of season 1.
In this type of drama, the absurdities of the script are part of the plot and the viewer actually waits for them. However, I feel that here the limits of absurdity were exceeded, even for the genre. 7 bad people are against 3 good people. This is the beginning of season 2, which is to be broadcast from March 2024. I wrote earlier that I hope that the character "K" will disappear at the end of season 1. That didn't happen. I can't say that I like it. Even though I don't find the episodes bad to watch, I'm tired of this character. Despite everything, I'm going to watch season 2, hoping that once a week at least one character from "The 7 Bad Guys" will die. This is my dream scenario for season 2, but I doubt it would come true.