I love this for the same reasons I loved Rocky. It's a mythic hero's journey set in life today. The two heroes face challenges and monsters that test their resolve as they fight to conquer a life-or-death challenge.
The two leads are exceptional as highly trained boxers furloughed from prize fights by the COVID pandemic. Woo Do-Hwan plays an idealistic, honorable former elite Marine and good son trying to help his widowed mother get out of crushing debt. A boxer and fellow Marine, played by Lee Sang-Yi, befriends Won. Their brotherly bond grows by each episode. They find themselves at odds with a vicious crime lord from S. Korea's dark corporate-gang loan shark world.
They find gainful employment with a reformed loanshark and his adopted grand daughter. She is focused on making bank by bringing down the crime boss' billion-won stolen ID fraud scheme that steals from loan sharks - and the boxers agree to help her because the fraud puts more pressure on small business owners who have crushing loans from these swindled loan sharks. So they become her bodyguards and investigators.
Good vs. Evil plays out in furious, realistically bloody fight scenes. And it seems likely all is lost. Advances, savage reversals and the ultimate showdown all follow the mythic struggle of heroes.
Loved the cast, production, gut-wrenching fights, classic heroic character arc, it's all fantastic. So glad to hear a season 2 is planned.
The two leads are exceptional as highly trained boxers furloughed from prize fights by the COVID pandemic. Woo Do-Hwan plays an idealistic, honorable former elite Marine and good son trying to help his widowed mother get out of crushing debt. A boxer and fellow Marine, played by Lee Sang-Yi, befriends Won. Their brotherly bond grows by each episode. They find themselves at odds with a vicious crime lord from S. Korea's dark corporate-gang loan shark world.
They find gainful employment with a reformed loanshark and his adopted grand daughter. She is focused on making bank by bringing down the crime boss' billion-won stolen ID fraud scheme that steals from loan sharks - and the boxers agree to help her because the fraud puts more pressure on small business owners who have crushing loans from these swindled loan sharks. So they become her bodyguards and investigators.
Good vs. Evil plays out in furious, realistically bloody fight scenes. And it seems likely all is lost. Advances, savage reversals and the ultimate showdown all follow the mythic struggle of heroes.
Loved the cast, production, gut-wrenching fights, classic heroic character arc, it's all fantastic. So glad to hear a season 2 is planned.
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