‘The Worst of Evil’ is set in the 1990s. Park Jun-mu is a rural police officer who goes undercover as Kwon Seung-ho. His mission is to infiltrate a gangster organization, Gangnam Union, by getting close to and taking down its leader, Jung Gi-cheol. The organization is a drug cartel that is selling Gangnam Crystal, a new powerful drug, The customers can usually purchase the drug when they visit the nightclubs also owned by the crime lord.
Park Jun-mu succeeds in becoming a gang member but since he’s new he has to earn their trust. Relationships in life are ever so complicated. Park Jun-mu is married to Yoo Eui-jeong who is also a cop, who also has a history with Jung Gi-cheol. During her high school years, they attended church together and sang in the choir. They were close. But when they grew up he became a gangster and she decided to work in law enforcement as a narcotics officer in the security division. She is involved in the investigation. Even though they are clearly on opposite paths, and don’t have a romantic relationship, Jung Gi-cheol still has feelings for her.
Park Jun-mu accidentally learned about the relationship between his wife and his new boss. As if he wasn’t already walking on eggshells trying to convincingly play the role of a bad guy, now he has to make sure that his marriage to Yoo Eui-jeong is also kept secret. The first time Jung Gi-cheol saw the two of them together, he immediately believed that Park Jun-mu had plans to be disloyal to him by snitching to the cops.
Park Jun-mu had just informed his wife that he was now working undercover. Knowing that the confrontation might get heated, she immediately stepped forward to diffuse the situation. She spoke softly, but directly and plainly to Jung Gi-cheol as a dear friend. To make sure that her husband’s identity was not revealed, she assured Jung Gi-cheol that she also knew Park Jun-mu as a childhood friend. Small world, isn’t it? Whew! That was intense and close!
From that point on, the relationships between the three main characters is rife with tension. That’s in between the heated and violent moments when the bad guys are fighting each other and rival gangs over territory and power.
My personal rating is 9 out of 10 stars. It was a typical gangster series with drugs, guns, and violence. But the love triangle was “atypical”. The best way to explain why I thought “The Worst of Evil” deserved this rating is to quote from an article by Joan MacDonald contributed to Forbes:
Yeah! That’s what I thought too!
Disney Plus Singapore. “The Worst of Evil | Official Trailer | Disney+ Singapore.” YouTube Video. YouTube, September 11, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qtpG1kqfI.
Copy and paste this URL into your WordPress site to embed
Copy and paste this code into your site to embed
