This time travel story just doesn't work. Supposedly, it is the story of a genius inventor who comes up with time travel devices known as an uploader and a downloader, which if they had never been invented would have prevented the nuclear destruction of Korea (or is it that because they were invented, destruction could have been or was avoided - I was never quite sure). The lead characters, played with stony faces by Cho Seung-woo and Park Shin-hye, aren't very engaging to begin with, and they are surrounded by a tiresome supporting cast, but even the most adept of performers simply could never have overcome a plot line so muddled, and with nothing interesting to say. The plot meanders around, with all too predictable twists that end up resembling nothing more than a python eating its tail. Not surprisingly, the ratings in Korea started out not too hot and declined with every episode. I'd like to travel back in time and change my decision to watch this bedraggled mess. In fact, I'd travel back even further and talk Netflix out of wasting its money and our time by greenlighting this series.
Review of Sijipeuseu: The Myth
