D-day Movie Netflix

[Apolito Ghosh]

Disasterstrikes the capital city when an earthquake suddenly wreaks havoc on Seoul. The medical-thriller then follows the immediate aftermath as a rescue team of medics and emergency crew is put together, doubling down on their efforts to treat the injured and save survivors.

As Hye-sung oversees his patient being wheeled into the ICU, he asks Ddol-mi about her father. She pointedly ignores him, though, despite his awkward attempts to engage her in conversation, and when he returns to his patient, she stomps out of the room. Watching her go, Hye-sung stumbles into a table and faints.

Hye-sung tends to his mother, still outside in one of the triage tents. He teasingly tells her that Woo-sung said he should dye her hair to hide the grey, and as he cheerfully preps the dye, he accidentally bumps into her bed-side table.

They drag Captain Choi up, and once they realize that Woo-sung is left behind, they scream helplessly after him. Now alone in the gloomy tunnel that is gradually collapsing around him, Woo-sung removes his helmet to face the camera the news reporter had fastened to it.

A very sad episode...but I've a couple of questions.

1) Why are there only 2 minutes of oxygen left in both Capt Choi and Woo sung's tank? WS went into the tunnel later, so technically, he has more oxygen than Capt Choi.

I don't really know what odilettente meant by this, but I think that Kim Young Kwang did the crying the scenes very well. It was not over the top wailing, and it was done rather tenderly and poignantly.

I think that's what ugly-crying means: an actor committing to crying, and not caring that their face naturally wrenches into unpretty patterns. It's a good thing (well, unless there's lots of snot. I think everyone agrees that torrents of spit and snot can be a step too far.)

I meant it as a compliment! Instead of crying prettily with thoughts on how to look best for the camera, I respect Kim Young-kwang for committing to the emotion in the scene and portraying very realistic expressions grief.

Yes, please check out. I actually like this drama and in spite of director Choi, whose evil character isn't all that unique in dramaland, I find the other characters and their stories compelling. Sorry you didn't feel it, but I cried buckets over Woo-Sung's sacrifice & death. My son is a firefighter & ex-Marine. He would have done the same for a brother. Your recaps have become so biased that they aren't worth reading. I read recaps for further enlightenment. You don't deliver.

And javabeans, if you happen to read this, why so much love to Bubblegum? Seriously, I love the lead actor (My Girl, Blade Man), but zero chemistry here. Whereas I usually can't wait for the next episode (like D-Day), I take my time watching Bubblegum because it is almost as boring as She's Lovely. What saves it for me is the side characters.

I've been reading D-Day in general and when I decided to pick it up, I really couldn't grasp the story anymore. It was genuinely infuriating to see the rescue workers being repeatedly denied or making unnecessary sacrifices that could've been averted and I do agree with Odi that the sacrifice of Hyesung's brother seemed to exist exclusively for angst (even if I could understand why it happened). Hopefully the show picks up, with 2 episodes left to go. Fingers crossed for Woojin's return- god knows he's the only other competent doctor out there in this show.

That's what I've experienced in actual emergencies: there are the people with the authority during normal times, and then there are the people who actually get things done. When everything hits the fan, many of the first category kind of lose it - they freeze or they look for guarantees or they try to control things out of their scope. And then there are the others who say "screw it, I can do X Y and Z, if we add that to what you already have, what do we get?" Those MacGuyvers are the ones I look for in an emergency, because we get things done fast.

So in the absence of the military (who are more organized and capable and whenever they show up, I just do what they say), it boggles me that the more intuitive doctors didn't start allying with the rescue teams. They had an entire tent city out there! I assume that most men in Korea have been through military training and that the men inclined to become doctors probably were very interested in the mechanics of setting up a field hospital!

This show took place in an alternate universe where Korea doesn't have mandatory army service, where America doesn't have major allied bases in-country, and where a single hospital director can make criminally negligent decisions while keeping his entire staff frozen. Sucking Woo Sung down a water main was both telegraphed and unsurprising.

Totally agree! This show could have been so much more than what it has turned out to be, and that frustration and realization that this is NOT what could really happen, at all, has taken me out of the story. And once you are out of a story, looking at it dispassionately as a piece of fiction, you see manipulative writing - like the sacrifice of the Noble Young Firefighter, for what it is - just a cheap ploy.

Man, that's awful. I was actually pretty excited to watch it but got side-tracked down the road due to school and now that it's boiled into this I'm more than surprised and perhaps a little disappointed it turned out that way.

Like you really bitched about the recaps of a recapper not liking a drama, THEN turned around and addressed an entirely different recapper, about an entirely different show and complained because that recapper likes the drama they're recapping. *shakes head in amused disbelief*

If he drowned in cold water, which I assume he did since it's cold now and his face was all blue, they technically can't pronounce him dead. The coldness reserve the organs so there's a chance of his heart beating again after he is warmed up. And it's a freaking drama I'm sure they would've been able to pull it off.

(*psst* Cold does indeed slow the dying rate of a body's cells but water-clogging the lungs and those cells aggravates it. And a person doesn't stay alive after freezing for very long. In surgeries, reduced body temperature generally only gives surgeons 45 mins max.)

Another thing is that the protocol, as far as I know is that a person is not dead unless he is warm when pronounced. So even if he was dead already and there is no chance of him leaving, they were still required to perform CPR.

Although, I have to agree with you that some plots in this drama are not realistic enough but then again, when did k-drama ever be realistic? This was the first disaster-themed drama I've ever seen, so I forgive them for giving us a not-so-good one. Not bad, but it's not that good. There are rooms for improvement, and I hope, the next time a drama production decided to do another disaster drama, the plots are to be better than this.

There is very little in this drama that is realistic. There is a lot that could have easily been realistic (or a bit more realistic) if the writer had done some research. By the looks of it, writer-nim didn't even try.

I disagree with setting the bar low just because it's the first disaster-themed Korean drama and because many other dramas are not realistic either. That doesn't mean at all that this drama gets to be crap and unrealistic if it wants to be a good drama (which, personally, is always what I hope we're aiming for: a good drama). It could have done better: there was money AND it was pre-produced.

Except for the CGI in eps 1 and 2, this drama doesn't do disaster. It's all hospital politics, romantic entanglements and a couple of accidents that are handled by the ONE fire team/rescue team and ONE doctor that is capable of operating. Damn, they could have called this "Dr. Lee Hyesung" (like "Koudonori", a currently airing medical j-drama focused on Dr. Koudonori. A pretty decent drama where the writers did do research btw.). Or maybe "The Life, Loss and Love of Dr. Lee Hyesung as He Battles the Evil Director".....

Woo-Sung's & his captain got tangled up with the water surge & the only way to get free was to cut the rope. I didn't see anything that indicated that they had the same amount of oxygen. Might be a recapper mistake.

"It feels a cheap ploy to garner emotion for a character who was unnecessarily killed off"- exactly how I felt. The crush on the nurse an episode or two before he dies was just clumsy writing to make viewers feel worse. I was ready for some light-hearted romance after all the pain and misery in this show- but nope, the nurse's only purpose was to make his death even more sad. No one wants to watch 20 episodes of nothing but suffering. There's got to be an upturn somewhere or it gets boring and feels manipulative.

I said that too in another episode. It's unrealistic because the writer has never seen an earthquake disaster situation since it just doesn't happen in south korea... And he obviously did too little research

Perhaps the next time you want to complaint about a recapper's work, you should also mention what areas that they need to improve on. Don't just send hate, give a constructive feedback too. So that they know what they could improve on with the next writings. Recapping a drama is not an easy job! At least you should appreciate their effort!

Up until now, no first responders had died. THAT'S unrealistic. Does anyone remember 911 & the stories of sacrifices made? As much as I hate that Woo-Sung died, I know that it was a realistic portrayal. In a disaster life & death are random. That's one of the truths that make an event a disaster. In the event of a real disaster I know with certainty that my son would be front & center regardless of politics or personal risk. That's his job. I don't know what candy coating you expect from a show like this. Maybe you just aren't ready for it.

I think this was a pretty crappy show. Woo Sung dying wasn't the most unrealistic thing in it by a long shot - the total lack of military support, foreign aid, foreign intervention struck me as pretty damn unrealistic. What was crappy about Woo Sung is that it was poorly handled, with very weird dramatic build-up and a very contrived final act. But that really has been the story behind the entire show.

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