Karma / 악연 (2025) | Season 1, Episode 2 "The Man Who Disposed Of A Body" | Park Hae-soo As Kim Beom-jun

lung cancer fears this man

@cleaveslice

diversity loss! the worst people you know are in a QPR.

on the pitt and its writing

I actually cannot get over how the pitt is so good at like. trusting its viewers to catch onto things while fully not giving any information at all. I don't know if I explained that correctly. but we literally are not told a single thing unless it's immediately relevant to the story or one of the characters.

we don't learn about mckay's ankle monitor until it goes off, and we never even learn why it's there because it's not immediately relevant to anything going on. we don't learn the details of why langdon needs the pills, only that the pills stem from something that happened to him. abbot's prosthetic is never mentioned until the very end because, shit, dude, he's probably in so much pain after that shift he needed to take it off to relax. nothing is explained because the characters know what they've gone through and they don't feel the need to talk about it, or it's not necessary for them to talk about it. and when we learn about stuff from the environment or the way the characters are acting, like with princess and perlah's friendship and javadi's insistence on being taken seriously and literally everything between collins and robby. it's all storytelling through implication and sometimes it's really obvious (like with javadi) and sometimes it's not (like with langdon) and sometimes it's just really good for setting up character reveals (like with santos).

this show is kind of a masterclass on the perfect balance of showing and telling, and it knows exactly when to use one, the other, or neither. and somehow it works every time???? jesus christ I need the writers team to win everything during the upcoming awards season.

the unfortunate thing about the second season being 10 months into the future is that we'll never see a bit where javadi gets to private investigator levels of nosy about why santos and whitaker are Like That and concludes they are dating. and when she tells them this, they both look at her like she's killed their childhood pets.

favorite things about sangihun

favorite things about sangihun?

how you can see the forty years of history right under each word of their conversations.

how, even after his death, gi-hun hangs on to every word sang-woo says.

how sang-woo spends all of the games trying to avoid his past. how gi-hun continues to drag him back to it. how it ends with him in gi-hun's arms.

i love to think about what could've gone differently with them. what could've given them that happy ending that they so desired.

i love to think about the moments they've stolen over the years. the ones they don't talk about. the ones that they told themselves were accidents.

i love how intertwined they are, most of all. no matter what, they always will be.

hands him to you

are they lovers? worse.

tell me, cho sang-woo, does the guilt eat you alive?

sangihun comfort sangihun comfort sangihun comfort sangihun comfort

little sang-woo crying his eyes out because he thinks he's dying (he has a cold) and gi-hun reassuring him and holding him "i'm going to infect you, hyung" "shh.. you already would have done so."

sang-woo getting absolutely abysmal headaches and gi-hun kissing his forehead trying to "kiss the headaches away" and sang-woo pretends it works so he can get more kisses

in high school: gi-hun getting into a bad fight at school like the rebellious little shit he was, later knocking on sang-woo's window with bruises. sang-woo calls him a fucking idiot while icing his wounds

baby sangihun kissing each other's bandaids when they'd scrape their knees

young sang-woo being afraid of thunderstorms because of their loudness and struggling to sleep and gi-hun attempting to make him feel better

💗💗💗💗

watched the pitt. god, they fucking got me. they got me with a platonic pairing. this always happens. dennis and trinity i love you.