Sarcastic Series Review: Beyond Evil

I mean look at him!

Now, you don’t need to resurrect William Shakespeare to tell you that Lee’s sisters murders and the current killer are in some way connected especially since they also follow a very similar pattern which happens to be all the murder victims being women, they’re bodies never being bound, oh and all ten of their decapitated fingers being found in places arranged in neat little rows. That alone added so much to the creep factor.

What follows is a race to find who the killer is before he claims even more victims, with the 10 to 20 recurring characters being cycled through as suspects including our main 2 leads.   

Spoilers Ahead

The story really gets going when another girl, someone very close to the entire police precinct and was like a niece to officer Lee gets murdered and we get a few episodes of every single person in the show being shown as suspects, and credit where credits due, it was near impossible to pick out the killer because of this.

This dude’s creepy ass smile did not make him look any less suspicious 

So much so that when they literally revealed who the killer is on screen, I still didn’t believe it, thinking it was misdirect and because seventy percent of the episodes were still left (then again I am an idiot)

So let’s talk about the killer next, and in a show like this the serial killer is what really makes or breaks it, an interesting serial killer can make an average story into a nightmare scenario (looking at you Hannibal lector)

So if you don’t want to know, watch the show first: final spoiler warning

The Killer

So remember Lee’s adopted niece who was the latest victim: the killer is her dad, which sort of makes him like a brother to inspector Lee. Kang Jin-Mook, is the owner of seemingly the only supermarket in town. He is also a rather large man who is depicted as a bit slow and disabled, with chronic shyness and some form of autism. But of course all that is an act.

The trope of the villain actually being someone pretending to be an idiot or disabled is nothing new, not since Keyser Soze anyway. But it is very rarely done this well. He is very believable as the slightly dim store owner, and what I appreciated the most is how he maintains the façade even after the reveals are done to some extent, constantly jumping back and forth between his personalities.

But how does he fair in the all-important serial killer creep factor:

• Goes after women he personally thinks are sinners or evil: 30 points
• Pretends to be retarded even though he’s a psychopath: 20 points
• Hiding his victim’s corpses in places close to where the victims loved ones lived: 50 points
• Cuts of his victims fingers as trophy’s and leaves them for their loved ones to find: 100 points

Yeah he just scored 200 on scale where 50 is the passing grade for being a creep. There was never a doubt in my mind you could do it Kang Jin-Mook you deranged fucking psychopath.

The Last Leg

Sadly this whole storyline is wrapped up by episode 9 and what follows is basically Han’s a.k.a. Pretty boy’s story. And it follows corrupt police officers, his dad and who really killed Lee’s sister, even though it is revealed that Mr. fingers is the one who kidnapped and nearly killed her, just not the one to do the final blow and it’s all such a downgrade when compared to the serial killer storyline.

Conclusion

To conclude I’d say, Beyond Evil is good enough show to binge with enough intrigue and good twists to keep things interesting and acts as a fair enough gateway into Korean shows. A definite let down after the Serial killer is caught, but still gets you invested in the characters enough to know how the whole story ends.

Also it has some of the prettiest people ever put on screen. And if you thought that my boy Han was pretty, you should see the lady that runs the local butcher shop in the show:

I’d have gone broke buying meat if my butcher looked like that

 

Consider my books for a “Killer” fantasy story in the New world odyssey series