Flower of Evil

July 29, 2020

Baek Hee-sung (Lee Joon-gi) is a devoted husband and father who makes custom metalwork in Bukchon. His wife Cha Ji-won (Moon Chae-won) is a dedicated homicide detective. The audience is shown from the beginning what she does not yet know: her husband has a secret past.

July 29, 2020

Ji-won is assigned a case involving murders that connect to a small-town serial killer from years ago. The Gyeonggi countryside investigation begins.

August 5, 2020

Hee-sung's workshop in Bukchon — the hanok alleyways, the craft, the carefully constructed ordinary life — shown in full. The drama uses the beautiful location to make the secret more disturbing.

August 5, 2020

The connection between Ji-won's case and her husband's past becomes clearer to the audience — but not yet to her.

August 12, 2020

Investigation flashbacks to the rural Gyeonggi village where the original serial killer operated — and where Hee-sung grew up.

August 12, 2020

The first moment Ji-won's professional instincts and personal love are in direct conflict. She notices something. She suppresses it.

August 19, 2020

Ji-won's decision about whether to trust what she is increasingly certain she knows. The drama's central question stated most directly.

August 26, 2020

A full return to the Gyeonggi countryside where everything began. The drama's most visually atmospheric episode.

August 26, 2020

Hee-sung's internal world — what he actually feels, what he is capable of — at its most fully revealed.

September 2, 2020

Ji-won and Hee-sung both knowing and neither acknowledging. The drama's most sustained exercise in mutual tension.

September 2, 2020

The full truth between husband and wife, stated. The drama's most emotionally raw episode.

September 9, 2020

Both characters dealing with the aftermath. The Bukchon neighbourhood now carrying the weight of what was confessed in it.

September 16, 2020

The drama's antagonist makes their final move. Ji-won and Hee-sung on the same side.

September 16, 2020

The finale. A psychological thriller that reversed the genre's conventions — showing us the truth and making the tension about whether love could survive it. Lee Joon-gi and Moon Chae-won's performances are among 2020's finest.