Big Mouth or 빅마우스 (Bigmauseu) in Korean is a south Korean thriller, a hardboiled crime drama starring Lee Jongsuk, Im Yoona, Kim Joohun & Yang kungwan. It’s directed by Oh Chunghwan & Bae Hyun-jin. Considering Oh Chunghwan has worked with Lee Jongsuk in “While you were sleeping” and his previous drama “Startup” did very well, this drama starring Jongsuk again, expressly as a comeback without Jongsuk’s military enlistment, came with a lot of expectations. Surpassing we jump into the Big Mouth plot holes, let’s take a squint at the good things well-nigh this K-Drama.
It’s a clever title for the series where Big Mouth & Big Mouse are both written the same way in Korean; the plot moreover started off, including this wordplay pretty well. The mystery and storytelling in the first few episodes alimony throwing Park Changho (Lee Jongsuk) into one mess without flipside in prison, as if stuff wrongly accused wasn’t good enough. As viewers, we are happy to see the sexuality lead fall into whoopee in scrutinizingly equal importance as her counterpart, a married couple in a sensible relationship and understanding. Ko Miho (Im Yoona) is a strong weft that starts to solve the mystery of the web that her husband has been unprotected in.
Changho and Miho work from two variegated angles to unearth the missing pieces of his false incarceration. Choi Doha (Kim Joohun) & Gong Jihoon (Yang kungwan) add twists and alimony up with the mind games thrown at them. The show starts to shape up really well and is quite exciting. Gong Jihoon’s weft was so entertaining that I waited for his screen time as his uninhibited reaction to any situation was unpredictable, plane though he was scrutinizingly unchangingly morally compromised. Then the big puzzle, with every episode either subtracting a name or transplanting a name to the show’s big question, “Who is Big Mouse?”
At this point, everything is going well for the tv series, and we, the audience, are turning into Big Mouth just like Park Changho. Maybe virtually 4 or 5 episodes in, I was really that Big Mouth, telling others to get watching this drama, excited for how the show was shaping up. With an experienced vicarial tint and good production, this was promising. Rating of the show was going up – Jungsuk’s comeback with a strong series and Yoona once having a fantastic year, with a Girls Generation comeback, Confidentiality Assignment 2 and now Big Mouth. The show kept this momentum for flipside 5 episodes till perhaps episode 10. Then starting from episode 11, the downhill journey began.
Now I really wish I could ask the writer Kim Haram, what in the world happened from that episode onwards? The drama till then had hinted at so many clues, mysteries and twists with a sense of warranty that it had answers to them. As honestly, they were not really some mind-bending questions. But it turns out that in the last 6 episodes, we are not only left in the visionless for most of the unshut threads but moreover treated to some user-friendly & lazily widow twists. It left me wondering if the writer reverted or if it has started to morph into a variegated show. What began as a promising tight storytelling turned into a downward screw with loose ends dangling. Here are some Big Mouth plot holes and unanswered questions that the show decided to bring up but never resolved or gave any well-spoken explanation.
Big Mouth: Plot Holes Explained
Why did Big Mouse Noh Park’s daughter die?
Yes, we get a two-second scene of her murder suggesting it was washed-up by Chairman Kang’s son, attributed as one of the victims of his serial killing. But if the whole show was a magnitude of that revenge, then the regulars deserves increasingly than a two-second shot and some backstory virtually it.
Big Mouth: Who is Chairman Kang’s son?
A weft that was not plane tint was showered with a lot of mentions, expressly in the latter episodes. Plane hinting at inmate Tak Kwangyeon taking the fall for him as the psychopath serial killer.
Why plane mention the possibility of dragging Choi Doha over an inheritance lawsuit as a highlight?
Chairman Kang’s estranged serial killer son filing a lawsuit versus Choi Doha over the inheritance issue in the last episode delighted Gong Jihoon. Why requite it that much screen time and writing when it was never used, or he was never meant to be revealed surpassing the end?
No one seems to be bothered well-nigh Hyejin.
The missing Hyejin thread or her murder is never touched upon then without putting us through psychotic and inclement domestic violence scenes.
Big Mouth: What is the content of Seo Jaeyoung’s papers?
This made an visitation in one dialogue in the finale. That it was the smoking gun that helped relate NF9 to the cancer patients in his hospital. But honestly, we knew that from the beginning, didn’t we? This paper was unchangingly meant to have vestige linking NR to the cancer patients. What did it really have that stunned Hyun Juhee when she looked at it and led to the destruction of the secret lab? The paper and Seo Jaeyoung’s death got Changho into all the mess in the first place.
Choi Doha’s quick death.
How long has Choi Doha unknowingly been poisoning himself with the toxic pool water? As he seems to go into a pretty quick death!
How did Changho plane find the location where Choi Doha had subconscious the gold and the papers?
The show is in a hurry to wrap up everything in the last 3 minutes without Choi Doha’s death. Everything just falls into place. No explanations. We are running out of time.
What in heaven’s name was going on in the secret lab?
When convenient, the plot makes such things essential, and when inconvenient, and details are expected, the plot just erases its existence. Bravo!
Can a person with a false identity be the Mayor of a city?
His false identity was hyped up quite a bit until it amounted to no consequence. Isn’t that a unconfined weapon to bring him down? Not unbearable evidence, you say.
Big Mouth: What happened to the real Choi Doha’s grandfather?
The real Choi Doha’s grandfather was taken to a unscratched location to reveal the Mayor’s true identity? The show never used that, but it spent a ton of time on that thread. What happened to him?
How is everyone from Chairman Yang’s gang out of prison?
Understandably, Yang Chunsik was released as his prison sentence ended, but how did all his minions/gang members get out simultaneously?
No repercussions without a prison riot.
There are no consequences faced by the inmates or the prison guards for riot and treason without episodes 11 & 12. Which includes the death of an vicarial Warden of the prison. Instead, many inmates are free, out and well-nigh with Changho henceforth! (Remember the consequences of a riot in Orange is the New black? Things that tv dramas teach us!)
Park Yoongab, a self-ruling man now?
Wasn’t Park Yoongab out on bail? So he is moreover a self-ruling man now? Maybe it wasn’t as crucial to Changho’s arc, but such mistakes are plenty in the show.
With so many unresolved issues and bringing in weft mentions of a serial killer halfway into the finale, I scrutinizingly thought we would go into a season 2. But the ‘Deus ex Machina style pool water radiation poisoning that worked incredibly quickly and killed Choi Doha seemed to put a full stop to any remoter storytelling.
There is no end to user-friendly narration just to fit the current plot needs. The most significant example stuff Ko Miho’s onset of Stage 4 cancer. A metastasised cancer stage doesn’t happen overnight for her to reach a gory nose and gums. As soon as the inmate Tak Kwangyeon asks her well-nigh the symptoms, she notices the same, maybe that very night. Also, her progress to her death is shown unrealistically. Changho’s visa of his wife’s illness and plane the scene abreast her deathbed is quite rushed.
Lee Jongsuk’s vulnerable, crying scenes are gems in his previous shows. But let’s not plane go there; the vulnerability Chongho shows with Miho is something that got us every time in the older episodes. But in this finale episode, a scene where he is losing her for good is quite underwhelming. Honestly, director nim, what happened?
Although Miho remains a strong sexuality weft till the end, she did not have to be sacrificed in the usual sexuality trope narrative for the male lead to reach his expected peak. It was definitely heartbreaking to see an spanking-new K-Drama couple getting a disappointing ending; right couple, wrong drama!
The show will sadly go lanugo in the list of ‘best starts’ with ‘worst ends’. The show had upper ambitions to prove unrepealable aspects of society. It wanted to show the evils of power & money, corruption, a flexible legal system, the upper social class’s condone for the life and wellbeing of others, and Suffering caused by the inorganic socio-economic growth of a municipality with no accountability. Changho finally unsuspicious his role to fix and help with some of these issues by stuff the good Big Mouse that Miho hopes he would be. All is well with intentions and plane tight storytelling initially, but it got lost withal the way with very lazy, mediocre and sometimes illogical execution to get to the point.
Yet, I still enjoyed the first 10 episodes, the thrill of second-guessing who Big Mouse was. The spanking-new vicarial tint that brought the notation to life, notation that will unchangingly be memorable. I enjoyed seeing Lee Jongsuk and Im Yoona as a sensible yet fun pairing. Yoona’s vicarial has risen up many notches in this series. And of course, I was delighted that my favourite weft got everything he wanted in the end – Gong Jihoon for the win!
But jokes aside, Big Mouth, a show that had the potential to be 2022’s most recommended and talked well-nigh drama, will now be left in the list of – ‘Mediocre Shows Of 2022’ thanks to its slippery slope at the writing desk.
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