Kim Hee-sun and Lee Hye-young fall into a Bittersweet Hell

by tccolb

An eerie first teaser has landed for MBC’s black comedy and thriller Bittersweet Hell, where Kim Hee-sun (Remarriage & Desires) and Lee Hye-young’s (Big Bet) presumed perfect life is revealed to be a little less rosy than it seems.

Setting the uneasy mood from the start, we open the teaser at a cemetery where crime novelist Hong Sa-kang (Lee Hye-young) raises a glass to the deceased. Daughter-in-law Noh Young-won (Kim Hee-sun) just stands in silence, thinking back on Yeonwoo’s (Numbers) unsettling question: “Do you know everything? About your family?”

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As a family psychologist, Young-won gives a fair and trusting response, “Is it necessary to know everything about each other, in order to be family?” Unfortunately, the sequence involving Young-won’s husband Kim Nam-hee (Chicken Nugget) is not very reassuring. He also seems to be number two on the hit list, while his and Young-won’s son Jaechan (Semantic Error) is number four.

Naturally, Young-won is distressed to have herself and her family under threat. But I’m not sure what to think of mother-in-law Sa-kang dancing as if in a trance, whose scene is curiously intercut with the ~mysterious~ Lee Se-na (Yeonwoo). Sa-kang, though, is quick to assess the situation, saying to Young-won, “Don’t you see? We’ve been sunk into a trap.”

But with Sa-kang as number three and Young-won number five, they’ll need to race against the clock if they want to survive with their whole family intact. The teaser then closes as Young-won is brought to the snowy woods and upon her discovery of something there, we end on her realization that, “It was all a lie.”

Written by Nam Ji-yeon (So I Married an Anti-fan) with PD Lee Do-hyun (Doctor Lawyer, She Knows Everything) and PD Wie Deuk-kyu (Mobius: The Veil) co-directing, MBC’s Bittersweet Hell will be premiering this month on May 24.