Who is the most evil one?
An undercover cop infiltrates a South Korean criminal group, and what he doesn’t expect is that his wife, who is also a cop, gets involved because the leader of the criminal group was her boyfriend when they were young. But then something happened, and they parted ways. Now he’s trying to win her heart again.
The Worst of Evil consists of 12 episodes. This is a well-acted series, and if you love South Korean gangster movies, you will be in heaven because this is a brutal and violent series with a lot of fights involving knives and bats. The drama is also pretty good.
So we follow a South Korean criminal group infiltrated by our cop, and the South Korean police are working together with the Japanese and Chinese police to catch a drug smuggling ring. The most important character is the cop who has infiltrated the South Korean criminal group.
However, not everything goes according to plan, so the wife of the undercover cop gets involved because the leader of the South Korean criminal group recognizes her. They were in love when they were young, and she gets dragged into this mess because he is again trying to win her heart—right in front of her husband.
The undercover cop is actually more brutal and evil than the crime boss he’s working for, which makes him an interesting character, especially in the last episodes, where you know something dark will happen. And I really loved the ending and the choice he made. It’s so twisted!
Time never stands still in The Worst of Evil, but it maybe could have been two episodes shorter because two filler episodes didn’t add anything to the story.
What annoyed me the most was that, while most of the characters were well-written and had a purpose, the problem is the undercover cop’s wife—who is poorly written. She has a function in the series, but she has no personality. Since the undercover cop and his boss are bonding, and the same goes for the Chinese woman who falls in love with the undercover cop, it’s expected that his wife would also have something to offer in her scenes when she’s hanging out with her former boyfriend, who is now a criminal. But even the scenes where her undercover husband shows his dark and brutal side didn’t do anything for me when she was in shock. She just has that same facial expression with teary eyes in several scenes, and she doesn’t contribute much to the series. That was a huge disappointment because she is an important character, but it doesn’t seem like the creators knew how to write her.
But as mentioned, if you like brutal classic South Korean gangster movies with characters with different personalities—characters you will love and hate—then this is a series you should check out. But it should have been a couple of episodes shorter.