This is someone who has killed people and feels no remorse about it, and there is nothing funny about this crime. His meticulous nature and his careful steps make him even more menacing, and no, he is no way acting like a clown. Honing his skills throughout the years, he has perfected his killing method by leaving no trace and carefully selecting his next prey so that he could end their pitiful life and staging their deaths as suicide. While Dong-sik’s clumsy failed attempts always bring out a laugh or two, Seo In-woo (Park Sung-hoon) doesn’t play when it comes to killing his targeted preys. His antics as he navigates between the pride in being a cold-blooded murderer and the disgust as he tries to live up to the image projected in his mind makes a very enjoyable and often thought-provoking watch.īut then, the drama respects its boundary between the mistaken killer and the real killer, through how it clearly sets apart the two different, polar opposite men. It might be ridiculous to be rooting for a serial murderer posing as a meek lamb, but we know that Dong-sik just happens to share a similar family size with the real owner of the diary and possesses the knowledge of crime thrillers from his late-night movie binges. It is funny to see someone who can’t even lift a finger against his colleagues who bullied him suddenly finding a confidence boost after thinking that he was a cold-blooded killer. There are only two things that might be able to jog his memory: his house filled with his collection of crime and thriller movies, and a diary recording a series of ruthless killings he apparently made before he lost track of everything. Yook Dong-sik (Yoon Si-yoon), the mistaken serial killer, basically has his plain life turned upside down when he loses his entire memory after witnessing a murder taking place in front of his eyes. Psychopath Diary relies on its two serial killers – the mistaken one and the real deal – and the two polar opposites hold the forts of comedic relief and the cold-blooded scenes. A drama can easily cross the line if it is not careful, ending up becoming a tasteless stupid comedy show masquerading itself as a serious one. The subject matter of the drama is actually heavy, despite the humour depicted through having a salaryman at the bottom of the food chain suddenly finding himself as a predator through a series of unfortunate events. Psychopath Diary has lots of things it’s good at, but there are some kdrama clichés it retained that might somehow ventured on the bad side. I am an easy person, after all, because it doesn’t take much for me to be obsessed with a drama, as long as it manages to make me curious and doesn’t tick my annoy-o-meter. I certainly did not plan to start watching Psychopath Diary in the nearest future, but somehow, between moving into a place nearer to work and suddenly having all these free hours to myself made me start watching, because why not? I think it was just before its final work of airing, and about two weeks later, here I am, trying to make myself stop thinking too much about it.
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