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I finished Vincenzo yesterday. I managed to do it so quickly, because I fast-forwarded a lot during episodes 17, 18 and 19 and I didn’t even finish watching the last episode.
Mostly complaining with spoilers below.
I really enjoyed this drama for 14 or 15 episodes, then it started to get a little bit boring to me, and then, since episode 17, it got very boring.
The last time I enjoyed it was in episode 15 when Vincenzo had to pretend to be a shaman to fool one of the minor bad guys. It was hilarious. The way Vincenzo dresses and behaves (those robes, that flower in his hair, the fan) reminded me so much of Song Joong Ki’s character from Sungkyunkwan Scandal. I laughed a lot. But that was the last time.
I was so completely uninterested in Vincenzo’s happy ending and the obligatory kiss with a female lead. Quirkiness and weirdness of the Guemga Plaza tenants that I found entertaining at first also got tiring in the second half of the drama.
Let me quote the review of the episode 20 from Dramabeans, because this is exactly what I’ve been thinking while watching these last few episodes.
While I liked the drama overall, I do wish they’d gone with the typical 16-episode length. The middle of the drama started to feel repetitive with all the back-and-forth scheming. Shaving off a few episodes would’ve kept things tighter without sacrificing the plot. Less is more. My main issue with the drama, though, is that I felt like it was constantly trying to impress me with its (or Vincenzo’s) cleverness. After one too many “twists” and cliffhangers followed by flashbacks to Vincenzo’s secret genius plans, it started to feel hollow. I love a good scheme, but you can only throw so many gotcha moments at the audience before it gets tiresome.
At least in the beginning they let Vincenzo lose sometimes, very rarely, but still. Later the made him into this invincible superman, who always outsmarts everyone and fights twenty bad guys at once and wins of course. Song Joong Ki looks very beautiful doing all that, true, but even his beauty doesn’t make it less boring to me. 😊
Vincenzo’s revenge on Jang Han Seok and Choi Myung Hee was brutal. They were both horrible monsters who hurt and killed many innocent people, so they certainly deserved it, but still it was too brutal for me. I really don’t like torture. And it never sits well with me when a man tortures a woman, no matter how deserving it might seem.
Until then the drama managed to balance quirky and funny parts with dark and cynical parts pretty well IMO. But cruelty and sadism of Vincenzo’s revenge spoiled this balance for me and turned my enjoyment into disappointment.
But my fucked-up ship was fucked-up and dark and very angsty till the end. This I loved. I wish there were more fics. I kinda want to write a fic, too, I have a few half-formed plot bunnies already. We’ll see how it goes. 😊
Mostly complaining with spoilers below.
I really enjoyed this drama for 14 or 15 episodes, then it started to get a little bit boring to me, and then, since episode 17, it got very boring.
The last time I enjoyed it was in episode 15 when Vincenzo had to pretend to be a shaman to fool one of the minor bad guys. It was hilarious. The way Vincenzo dresses and behaves (those robes, that flower in his hair, the fan) reminded me so much of Song Joong Ki’s character from Sungkyunkwan Scandal. I laughed a lot. But that was the last time.
I was so completely uninterested in Vincenzo’s happy ending and the obligatory kiss with a female lead. Quirkiness and weirdness of the Guemga Plaza tenants that I found entertaining at first also got tiring in the second half of the drama.
Let me quote the review of the episode 20 from Dramabeans, because this is exactly what I’ve been thinking while watching these last few episodes.
While I liked the drama overall, I do wish they’d gone with the typical 16-episode length. The middle of the drama started to feel repetitive with all the back-and-forth scheming. Shaving off a few episodes would’ve kept things tighter without sacrificing the plot. Less is more. My main issue with the drama, though, is that I felt like it was constantly trying to impress me with its (or Vincenzo’s) cleverness. After one too many “twists” and cliffhangers followed by flashbacks to Vincenzo’s secret genius plans, it started to feel hollow. I love a good scheme, but you can only throw so many gotcha moments at the audience before it gets tiresome.
At least in the beginning they let Vincenzo lose sometimes, very rarely, but still. Later the made him into this invincible superman, who always outsmarts everyone and fights twenty bad guys at once and wins of course. Song Joong Ki looks very beautiful doing all that, true, but even his beauty doesn’t make it less boring to me. 😊
Vincenzo’s revenge on Jang Han Seok and Choi Myung Hee was brutal. They were both horrible monsters who hurt and killed many innocent people, so they certainly deserved it, but still it was too brutal for me. I really don’t like torture. And it never sits well with me when a man tortures a woman, no matter how deserving it might seem.
Until then the drama managed to balance quirky and funny parts with dark and cynical parts pretty well IMO. But cruelty and sadism of Vincenzo’s revenge spoiled this balance for me and turned my enjoyment into disappointment.
But my fucked-up ship was fucked-up and dark and very angsty till the end. This I loved. I wish there were more fics. I kinda want to write a fic, too, I have a few half-formed plot bunnies already. We’ll see how it goes. 😊
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