> IDIOTS and time-travel don't mesh well

So you got lured into the show since you’ve watched Stranger/Secret Forest and fell in love with Cho Seung Woo? Understandable, he is that good, after all. No one will blame you. I added it too, looking at such a promising cast. But you’re still not sure what the plot is about? **Welcome to the MYTH CLUB**

PLOT
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So who or what is Sisyphus? When I hear about Sisyphus, I think about the guy who tried to run away from death but ended up being captured by Zeus for even trying to think he could do that. He ends up basically with this painful task of constantly rolling a boulder uphill. From beginning to the end its all about running (escaping death) ..... Run away from logic and Run away from the bad CGI ....Run away and don't watch this show :wink: .

The story is about Han Tae Sul (Cho Seung Woo), a genius engineer like Tony Stark but with mental issues and guilt ridden over his older brother and makes some stupid-stupid decisions in this fantasy (sci-fi) and action drama .

Add in an female warrior from future that wants to save the world and idiotic Sigma [spoiler]the first time traveler and childhood friend of Tae Sul and his goons [/spoiler] who insists that future is linear as its a mirror of the past and can never be changed.

However, what matters more so than anything in a story like this is the ending - because you can create all kinds of mess and sticky situations, you can twist the world upside down and look as clever as you like - but if you can't end it properly, then it rather undermines the weight of what came before. This story, in my opinion, failed heartily on that front.


CAST
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Cho Seung Woo as Han Tae Sul is a polar opposite to his previous characters like Hwang Shi Mok in Stranger/Secret Forest. He’s so good you will forget he ever played the stoic prosecutor from the TVN hit. He is the only silver lining of this show despite its poorly written character that wants to give a vibe of arrogant genius who makes some dumb emotional decisions

Park Shin-hye does a 180* and does some kickass action with her blank face ; I was never fan over her romance dramas anyway as she was never that expressive.

The Leads' relationship feels more like comradeship and less like romantic one. If at all it is present, it is not so passionate and intense given their life-threatening circumstances; we can excuse as they were always running for their life.

[spoiler] Kim Byung Chul [/spoiler] aka Sigma plays the bad guy really well, utterly psycho, he's a great actor though one I always regret seeing if only because he's going to nail the bad guy every time and make me hate his character . He toys with the main leads mercilessly and the unhinged expressions and whole body language throughout are brilliant.

As frustrating as it is to see **The Sigma** exploiting everyone in present and openly declaring the end of the world and people still choose to save their loved ones in present to destroy the future. The Control Bureau and Asia Mart must have the most incompetent marksmen in the universe that SeoHae-TaeSul managed to escape them every time [spoiler] nicely explained in the end as all of it is planned by Sigma but I can't believe he needed to go such elaborate plan to get the blueprints; he could have just stopped Seo-hae from going into the future and Tae-sul would have gladly delivered it to him [/spoiler] All the remaining characters are forgettable and incomplete just exist to help Tae-Sul and Seo Hae run during the chase.

VERDICT
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Sisyphus the Myth starts a sci-fi but finishes as fantasy because of the following problems :

**What is the beginning of the time loop. ?** How did all this began that is, the events right before the first loop are hardly explained. I believe that explaining a bootstrap paradox is an unimaginable task. In many ways this is fundamentally a tragedy type of a story - because they're from different times, the main leads either solve the time loop paradox and can never be together, or they stay together but Korea remains destroyed and the time loop persists. I think they could have actually played to that as a strength more, and possibly it is indeed what they were trying to express, but they blew it - in my probably flawed opinion of course.

Despite the flaws, there are a couple of appreciable elements like
1. ambitious production; although the initial fights and stunts scenes felt amateurish in CGI the events of the future were well produced. The drone chase scene was a personal favorite.
2. Fights scenes were really good, especially the last fight of future timeline and despite the ever looming question of "save the world", the intermittent scenes of future events were very imaginative.
3. Badass FL and Genius ML both bring something unique to the plot (run chase) and i liked their interactions.
4. The "Act of Kindness" (without letting the spoiler out), that was the best moment in the entire drama and gave the best "glimmer of hope", an essential feature of the Sci-Fi genre.


Was a great beginning and felt like first they had the potential to explain a time loop in Kdrama perfectly with science and without fantasy but falls flat in the middle and was a painful experience to finish it.

It's worth a watch for the action, it's worth a watch for the cast, but expect things to make you go "wait, what?" and just pat yourself on the head and say "its ok, just... ignore it and enjoy everything else".