Lies of Lies (2020– ) User Reviews

Romance mystery - repeats

[nasimzhosein-695-794748 · 6/10 · 26 February 2022]

This is a bit of everything and sometimes nothing in a drama. It has some mystery and then some bonding and then some romance and finally the mystery solved. But not quite the perfect drama. It has plot holes some scenes were not logical and way too much flashbacks.

Spoiler Alert: Ji Eun Soo is accused of killing here husband sent to prison and her daughter is adopted. She is released and finds here daughter. But the good story starts to go downhill form there. Scenes with the mother and daughter are truly amazing and heart warming. Scenes with the adopted father (reporter) was really awkward with his fake smiles and fake nods that was creepy at all times. The writers tried to introduce a romance but failed in their attempts to be convincing. Then the mother in law so seems to be able to do anything as she has power to do so is not truly revealed until the final episodes.

In all too many flashbacks and way too many silent scenes in which nothing is added to the show. I watched all of the episodes but for a new viewer watch eps 1&2 and skip to eps 8 and you won't have missed much. A thriller that fails at romance because the main characters were not compatible, and an ending that took too long to unravel.

Supporting casts that are screaming most of the time and a long lost friend as usual in K dramas.

Emotional drama

[cenichols · 9/10 · 14 September 2021]

I could not let this tv series pass by without a review (my very first) - and it is also my very first "encounter" with viewing an Asian TV production. There is something that strikes the viewer here, and it is a combination of the simplicity of the story telling, the casting of characters, the emotional journey we are taken on and such purity in the acting by the 3 leading roles. There is a wonderful absence of all that we're constantly bombarded with in our Western dramas that it makes it a breath of fresh air. If this is typical of the drama series presentations to the South Korean audiences in their country, then I envy them!

Deeply moving drama with lots of plot twists

[leahcubed · 9/10 · 6 December 2020]

Rating is 9/10. This is a 2020 suspense drama with 16, 70 minute episodes.

On the surface, Ji Eun-soo (Lee Yoo-ri) seemed to have a perfect life having married a handsome chaebol who is heir to a cosmetics conglomerate. What people do not know is her handsome husband is both physically and mentally abusive. Eun-zoo's life takes a cruel twist when, after trying to escape her abuser, he finds her and begins beating her. Eun-soo fights back and is somehow rendered unconscious. She wakes to a living nightmare, she is covered in blood with a knife clutched in her hands and her husband's bloodily, lifeless body is next to her. Seeing it as an open and shut case, Eun-soo is arrested and thrown in prison for the murder of her husband. Reviewing the case the details do not add up for one astute reporter, Kang Ji-min (Yeon Jung-hon) but before he can explore the details he is given a dream job outside of South Korea. Eun-soo gives birth in prison to a daughter in prison and believes her former mother-in-law when she claims, despite her hatred for Eun-soo, that the child is her last blood relative and she will raise her as a heiress. Ten years pass and Eun-soo is eager to see her daughter only to discover her mother-in-law played a cruel trick which ended in her infant daughter being adopted by a childless couple. Eun-soo finds out the details from a former employee of her mother-in-law and devises a plan to get close to her daughter. Her daughter's adoptive father divorced his wife for infidelity and is now raising the little girl alone. Will Eun-soo's plan to win his heart in order to be a mother to her daughter be successful? Can she unwind the twisted details of her husband's murder to prove her innocence in order to be a mother her daughter is proud of?

Spoiler alert⏰ The first part of the series was very interesting because they left you uncertain what exactly happened that she was accused of killing her husband. The last scene they allowed you to see, before she was incarcerated, was of her holding a knife to keep him away from her. I was fairly sure that it was not her but was a little bit confused why she was not more outspoken about that. I wondered how her having her baby with her in prison was going to play out. It did keep you guessing a lot and I was surprised by a lot of the plot twist. I really liked the lead man because he seemEd like such a genuinely good person. I also liked her childhood friend in the fact that even when he realized he was not going to be able to be with her romantically he staged by her side as her friend and substitute family. I also liked the male lead's family although the sister frustratEd me a bit because she would make decisions to do things with the little girl that I don't think were in her best interest. I was also very uncomfortable in the beginning when the lead female was virtually stalking her own daughter. Without the family knowing anything about her she just seemed like a nefarious character. For the most part it was interesting and fast paced but there was a bit of a drag in the storyline about 3/4 of the way through the movie. It wasn't significant enough of a slow down to make me dislike the story but I felt like it could've done without some of the details in that part and added some more happy to the ending. In fact I got really concerned about the ending because it seemed like it could've ended very sadly. It did not end sad but they let you think it might head that way until the last few scenes. But then the happy part only lasted just a few minutes and I would like to see less of the sad dramatic part that and more of the happy resolution but that's just me. Overall it was a very good story and very believable in the way the entire plot played out. While the evil mother-in-law was very hard to understand in terms of why she had it out for the female lead that is the way it is sometimes with people who are sociopaths in that they do not see their own wrongdoing in anything. I recommend this series as a mo and deeply emotional drama but it certainly isn't on the lighthearted side.

Had some potenials...

[Park_Min · 4/10 · 23 May 2023]

The amount of inconsistencies and plot holes was unbelievably grand. Rendering it exceedingly challenging and distracting to keep watching. Any semblance of suspense that the drama attempted to create was overshadowed by how easily predictable it was. However, Lee Yoo Ri pulling through as usual. Overall, it still passes for a sleepy watch. The amount of inconsistencies and plot holes was unbelievably grand. Rendering it exceedingly challenging and distracting to keep watching. Any semblance of suspense that the drama attempted to create was overshadowed by how easily predictable it was. However, Lee Yoo Ri pulling through as usual. Overall, it still passes for a sleepy watch.