Circle tells a story of two worlds connected, which feels like W: Two World starring Han Hyo Joo and Lee Jong Suk. But this Circle tells a more different storyline, which up till now, I am also curious as how the story will unfold.
The drama is divided into two parts. The first is set in the present, The Beta Project (2017); which is about twin brothers who think they saw an alien in their childhood. The younger brother, Kim Woo Jin's (played by Yeo Jin Goo) university suddenly has an array of suicide cases. A student who looks like the alien (played by Gong Seung Yoon) but claims she's not and Woo Jin thinks that the suicides are actually murders. They work together to stop the organization behind it. The second setting is in the future, A Brave New World (2037), the story is about an alien invasion in 2017 and the subsequent new Earth in 2037; which is separated into the “Smart Earth” where people’s emotions are controlled and no crimes or illness exist, and the “General Earth” where people still suffer from rampant plague and lawlessness.
In 2037, there is a detective which name is Kim Joon Hyuk which I assumed, he is the future Kim Woo Jin or maybe one of the twins. Joon Hyuk insists on going to Smart Earth to find out the mystery of alien invasion in 2017 and dig the secret between the missing twins case. Which I guess, he is trying to find out what has happened actually in the past.
In my opinion, Circle began with a literal bang this week, and after months of trying to find a fix for my drama slump, I’m almost hyperventilating at how good it is so far. I was nervous because I didn’t know whether the two timelines would mesh, or whether the whole dystopian future would be executed well. But, almost everything, from the fast pacing to the rich background stories to the high-quality acting, is on point. So without further ado, I give you Circle.
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