Doom
At Your Service (2021)
Grade:
C
16 Episodes, 1 Hr each
Viewing Platform: Netflix
Tak Dong-kyung is an editor at a web
novel company who helped raise her younger brother after both their
parents died when they were young. Her aunt did take them in, but now
that the siblings are grown, Dong-kyung has been on her own for a
while. She gets the life-changing news that she has a brain tumor,
and it is fatal, with only a few months to live. To top that off, she discovers her boyfriend is
actually married with a pregnant wife, a pervert bothers her, and
she gets reprimanded at work. In a moment of deep frustration, she
wishes for “doom” to end everything – her life, and the entire
world! What happens when Dong-kyung discovers Doom is real and he
offers to grant her a wish in exchange for ending the world? Will
“god” allow Doom to destroy humanity? And what happens when
Dong-kyung's kind heart starts to pity the miserable Doom?
*The
premise had promise, but this ends up being a super soapy drama with
little humor and a lot of angst. I ended up watching this on 1.5x
speed just to finish it faster. “God” is portrayed as a creation
of mankind – a teen girl who suffers and dies repeatedly as
humanity's way of purging sin (an odd interpretation of religion). I
wasn't totally invested in Doom succeeding either way; Dong-kyung was
kind of cute, and because she's kind I did want her to get a happy
ending. I was going to give this a lower grade, but the last episode
and overall ending is soft, happy, and gentle, so that bumped it up a
bit. Still, not a drama I'd recommend or watch again.*
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