what's going on tom my apple tv plus fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files
elliott back again with a brand new tv review and today we are talking about the very first korean
tv series on apple tv plus by the name of dr brain a new sci-fi thriller which i got to check out the
other day really excited to let you all know what i thought about this first episode and let you
know if it's worth checking out on this spoiler free review before we break it all down do me
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was on your radar but more importantly once you've seen this first episode what did you think about
it are you intrigued did it pique your interest what do you think about the narrative and the
performances so far and will you be back to watch this on a week-to-week basis on apple tv plus
let's talk about it in the comments below so my goal in this video is to give you guys a little
bit of insight if you're not too familiar with the show give you my thoughts on the first episode and
by the end of the video i'm gonna let you all know if it's worth checking out and if i'll
be back to review this on a week-to-week basis with all that being said let's get into what dr
brain is all about this new limited series on apple tv plus dr brain will consist of
six episodes and was created produced written and directed by the incredible director kim jing woon
the director of 2010's i saw the devil and the show will be starring lee seung-kyen and
the story follows a brilliant brain scientist who suffers from horrific personal tragedies
desperate to uncover what happened to his family he conducts brain sinks with dead to access their
memories for clues so going into this new apple tv plus sci-fi thriller i was really excited for
it first and foremost as you all know i'm always a big fan of apple tv plus content even though
one of its most recent new shows by the name of invasion which i've reviewed the first episodes
wasn't a fan of that series but i always give apple the upper hand when it comes to new content
so i was really excited to see what the show was about saw the trailer a month ago was intrigued
very fascinated by it knowing that the director creator writer was the same director behind i saw
the devil which is extremely underrated thriller film highly recommend you all give that a watch
knowing that our lead actor was a part of parasite which i thought he was fantastic that film so
i was hooked based on what was in front of the camera behind the camera apple tv plus
sci-fi thriller sign me up so what do i think about this first episode let's briefly go over
the my thoughts in the first episode without giving too much away just giving you all just
a brief recap of what you all can expect from the first episode we meet our main character c
wong who is a brilliant scientist who we learned very early on the episode he suffers from a lack
of empathy he suffers from a lack of emotions and he really doesn't have the best social skills so
within that first half of the show you're meeting him as a young kid you meet his mom who wants the
best obviously for his son wants to kind of get him in different programs to kind of learn what is
it exactly my son is missing unfortunately without giving too much away something does tragically
happen to his mom but in this tragedy he's able to you learn very early on this dude this little kid
has incredible memory and he is vowed to after something happens to his mom he kind of puts it
on himself to discover the mysteries of the brain why is it that i can remember every single little
detail of what happened to my mom and what is it about the brain that we're not exploring so that's
kind of the first half of the episode and kind of learning who this little kid is learning why
he was just brilliant scientists are so driven by unlocking the capabilities of the human mind
was something that you really kind of dive into in that first episode and mostly in that first half
so kind of going a little bit deeper into this character once we kind of meet him as a kid and
you meet him in the present day again brilliant scientists brain scientist but he's very closed
off like i said up top he's very socially awkward he lacks empathy he lacks emotion so you're seeing
him as an adult really driving himself to discover and unlock the memories and unlock the brain
capabilities so that kind of leaves things out for social life he doesn't really hang out with
his friends at work they offer him to go out for a beer but he's just so driven to define
what it is this brand can do so that's kind of again learning all that within the first half
of the show was very intriguing to me but it was really interesting because when i saw the trailer
and when you read the synopsis which i'll put in the description below it says that something
happens to his family so i'm thinking wait how does this awkward you know socially awkward
person that doesn't have empathy how is he able to get a girlfriend marry her and have a kid well
this is when the show starts to unfold and you start to learn a little bit more about
his story and learn more about his human side so you see within his first episode okay he seems
to be someone that when he meets the right person he's able to open up and you see his interactions
with his wife his interactions with his son but you see that it is a day-to-day struggle for him
to have that empathy to be that father to be that husband as you see the struggles between him and
his wife about simple things like my son is going to be similar to me he doesn't need to be a social
butterfly he doesn't need to have a cat in his life he can be perfectly fine just like me so
you see a bit of a rift between him and his wife without getting too much into the details as the
synopsis reads as a trailer showed something tragically happens he had to get in his life
involving his son and once something happens to his son his wife goes down this kind of spiral and
unfortunately we know that c wong isn't the type of person that you can kind of lean on when you
have that emotional support because he's not there emotionally speaking so that's kind of really the
first half of the episode you see his young life you see what happened to his mom and see how
that kind of drove him to become this brilliant scientist to study the brain you find out that
he has another tragedy that kind of sparks more of who he is as a person and why he's just so
driven on discovering what it is this brain could do so that's where again i'm really intrigued by
the first half i'm liking the performances there's nothing too thrilling in the first half but again
it's building the characters it's kind of building that foundation of who this character is and why
he is the way he is but it's in the second half that really gets interesting this is where you
get more of the thrilling aspects if i'm being honest it gets creepy it gets eerie and we're
gonna kind of talk about it without giving too much away but he is doing he has this success
in his experiments with his uh lab rats and he wants to take it to the next level and experiment
on human trials but not alive trials but dead people so he takes it upon himself to do these
what he calls brain things he takes a dead body he gets into their mind and he starts to see a little
bit of the memories obviously this is his first time experimenting on this so everything's new
to him but remember i told you all up top he has incredible memory but he's not able to remember
what he saw in those cadaverous bodies so you're like okay what's going on how is he able to do
it to these bring sinks and this is where we get more of the mysterious aspects of this narrative
this mysterious detective comes to him and starts to ask him about his wife again the trailer the
synopsis reads something tragically happens to his family so you're thinking as an audience wait
his wife i thought that something happened to his wife and that's when you start to like oh what's
really going on with the story and you start to see other policemen start to get involved because
something happens to let's just say there's a relationship that he learns about between his
wife and some other gentleman that we don't really learn too much about other than something happens
to that gentleman and i'll just kind of leave it at that and just kind of wrapping things up within
this first episode again i hope i'm i'm sorry if i'm being vague because i want you all to kind of
discover this like i did but as we kind of wrap things up in this first episode the brain sinks
he starts to do another brain sync and he starts to see deeper into people's memories and it gets
dark and it gets sinister and as he does his brain stinks and when he's done those memories that he's
starting to see starts to bleed over into the real world so this is when the show gets really creepy
he's starting to see dead people he's starting to see these crazy hallucinations it's it gets really
weird towards the end of the episode and and this is what i love about great television what's the
thing that's going to make me come back so without giving too much away as i had mentioned there's
something involving the mysterious nature of what happened to his son and what happened to his wife
and as the episode ends the mystery box unfolds because we see something that involving his wife
he wants to do something that can give him clues on what happened to my family and that kind of
last scene makes you as an audience say what's going on where have you been and what exactly did
happen to your family so really great way to end the episode it complicates things but in the best
way possible so from a production standpoint the direction was really sharp the writing was really
engaging the performances really kind of kept me engaged but it's really within the narrative
seeing this guy at a young age seeing where he comes from seeing his lack of empathy seeing the
loss that he endured at a young age fast forward 20 years later having all that great detail within
the first 15 minutes makes you understand why he is socially awkward to his workers has a struggle
with his wife and his son something happens to them he goes on this path to unlock the memories
to unlock the brains of the dead and that's where again the show just really adds another layer
to again kind of supernatural dark you know entities going on some creepy eerie images so
this show really has my interest and i'm really excited to see what this show has up his sleeve so
again sorry for the vagueness i i didn't give too much away there's still a lot to discover within
this first episode but hey i thought this first episode was fantastic i'm going to say it again
korean cinema korean television always just gives me what i want in my type of sci-fi whether it's
horror whether it's you know family dramas it's always top-notch and i'm really impressed by
this first episode and i'm really excited to see what the rest of the show has to offer so
if you ask me i want to watch this show regardless if you all want to see a review or not but i want
to know if you all are going to watch this with me do you want to break this down on a week-to-week
basis let me know in the comments below and of course once you've seen this first episode
what do you think your pros your cons maybe some of your thoughts and theories of what's
really going on let's talk about in the comments and again if you all want me to
review this on a week-to-week basis let me know in the comments by liking the video sharing the
video and lighting up the comments with what your thoughts are on this episode
and of course what you hope to see in the weeks ahead so that's my thoughts on dr
brain really intrigued very fascinated by it and i really want to know the mystery of this show but
again let me know your thoughts in the comments if you stuck around to this point in the video
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