[Beanie Review] Adamas

Having just finished the final episode of Adamas, I came here for a palate cleanser. Instead I find the option of writing a review, not something I’m at all prepared for. Instead, I’m going for some cathartic writing. Ji Sung is, as usual, a consummate and accomplished actor, something he demonstrated long ago in Kill Me, Heal Me. Playing the twins, Prosecutor Song Soo-hyun and the popular novelist, Ha Woo-sin, in Adamas is a piece of cake for him and affords him the opportunity to flex his acting chops in some intensely emotional moments. As Ha, he gains entry to the mausoleum-like home of the chaebol President Kwon, ostensibly to write his biography, but with his own personal agenda that is gradually unfolded as he explores the corridors of the cold and mysterious house looking for the bejewelled Adamas. Every person in the house, with their own tangled stories and all consuming self interest, becomes involved in what develops. Unfortunately for me, at least, as a viewer, the tension in the plot ends up being basically a series of shoot outs between the Team A, the chaebol’s cleaners, and the unnamed and self-sacrificing people of the Special Investigation Headquarters, neither of whom officially exist, and both of whom are morally and ethically reprehensible. By the end, it appears that the status quo has prevailed at the cost of many lives. And what is unresolved points us towards a second season. This, following on the Devil Judge, once again strikes a profoundly depressing nihilistic chord. Power is indestructible, and the courage of the individual of integrity who challenges that power is throwing eggs at a fortress.

[Beanie Review] Adamas
Source: Buzz Pinay Daily