A Compelling Review Of "When The Phone Rings" Thriller Series

One of the 2024 series I didn't get to see until late January is, "When The Phone Rings", a series I've been so hyped about but waiting patiently for all episodes to be out since I'm not one to keep wait and watch two episodes one week after another. The title, the genre, the plot and most importantly, the main casts were more than enough reason.

Most of the series I saw in January were series of 2024 and I'm looking forward to 2025 series as they air their episodes one week after another since the start of the year. Well, I'm not seeing the first quarter series yet until most of them are done. Back to this series, I especially enjoyed my time on it because it had lots of common scenes.

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The series have a lot in common with "Queen of Tears" and "Marry My Husband" where a couple have to start over and fall in love with each other or show their true feeling of love again after a major incident. But this one is with a compelling thriller that will have viewers hooked right from the beginning. I think I'm yet to recover from the first shocker I encountered watching this series.

The plot online gave almost no detail about what to expect but I was hyped about it anyways, I actually expected some horror scenes because I remembered "Scream" and the phone call scenes. I'm yet to see a Korean series that's very scary, I actually avoid them so I wasn't surprised that this one too, wasn't scary as I thought it'd be.

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An arranged marriage between a spokeman and a mute heiress takes a dramatic turn when the husband receives a call from his wife's kidnapper and they are forced to learn more about themselves, reigniting a romance between them.
Who is the kidnapper behind the call? How did the call turn a cold heart into a warm heart? Will the truth of how it all started be forgiven?

There's a lot of plot twists to expect as it doesn't end with just a phone call. It's a wonder how they are able to figure out the casts for each role but I can't see any other female lead take up the wife's role better than Chae Soo-bin did. I saw her star in "I Am Not A Robot", it raised my expectations for her that she didn't fall short on in this series.

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It's the first series I'm noticing the acting skills of Yoo Yeon-seok who starred as the spokeman and husband of a mute wife. Maybe I've seen him in other series but I don't remember how good or bad he was in them until this series and I've been looking up for more of him. The chemistry between them was good even with less comedy.

I'm not so high on the supporting characters, you could say the lead casts stole the whole show on my end. It doesn't mean the supporting casts didn't play their role well. I actually noticed how good the villain was with his facial expressions that seem quite impossible to show, he was a psychopath or a monster unwilling to change.