Just Finished Watching "The Lies Within"

Well, I do really have an obsession with OCN non-family-friendly drama, right? It looks like that OCN has delivered a new cast that's unfamiliar to me yet it's full of really irritating moments accompanied by mysteries unveiled. The title The Lies Within serves it when a web of deception explodes on the face of the Kim Seo Hui (acted by Lee You Young) when she's forced to become an assemblywoman as her husband goes missing. Jo Tae Sik (acted by Lee Min Ki) is a detective who is still enthusiastic to find about the cases.

Okay, I'll be giving a few spoilers but not entirely. The whole series is hard to review without giving any spoilers. In fact, a lot of villains are walking spoilers. What's amazing to know is that Seo Hui is the opposite of her family. Seo Hui's mother cares more about her reputation than her character. Meanwhile, her missing husband Jung Sang Hoon gets horribly mutilated in the worst way possible. Just prepare for some squeamish moments when Sang Hoon's hand, foot, and eyeball are all sent out to intimidate Seo Hui into getting a new bill passed. Turns out that there was a steel manufacturing company that led to a 20 years water-poisoning case. I wanted to slap Seo Hui's mother for her reaction when the woman only wanted a quiet life at the expense of many others.

The whole drama is so full of corruption involved. Is it me or are these kinds of drama just obsessed with corruption? Also, there are two conflicting sides that are really working to crush the heroine. A lot of the plot involves corruption cases and cover-ups that led to water contamination. The more I watch it - the more it just gets really interesting. The violence is considered rather tolerable as the mutilation scenes are fortunately cut off. Though OCN is still notorious for its use of such violence and the inside-job plot in many of its series. So, it does become predictable when you find out an inside job was involved all along. You've been warned!