To disregard the details and development of his character would bring the series dull and uninteresting. His background story is a satiating one that has psychological depth and evokes both empathy and annoyance to his manipulative and psychopathic behavior. Viewers will hate him as well as feel sorry for him.

The antagonist, Sigma, serves as one of the highlights and best roles in this drama. It requires one to think, analyze, and perhaps mentally compute the entanglement of the past, present, and future well-executed in a perfect amount of humor and heart with moral lessons. In the drama, the cycle of trying to fix the past and changing the future pushed the genius, Han Tae-sul to sacrifice his life, to which the fighter, Gang Seo-hae took chances not to happen. He was forced to face the impossible task of rolling a boulder up a hill that rolls back down repeatedly. Putting aside the minimal flaws, the drama stayed true to the myth of Sisyphus, a Greek legend who was punished by the god Zeus for trying to cheat death. Despite the drop of viewership ratings in Korea, it remained one of the top 10 most viewed in Netflix Asia for weeks. Each supporting role has a powerful story and moral lesson that revolve around life regrets, chances, and sacrifices. However, steady viewers are captivated by the unexpected twists, complexities, and mysteries that each episode brings excellently performed by Park Shin-hye, Cho Seung-woo, and the rest of the cast. Ideas such as the refrigerator that is undamaged by several bullets and where the female lead was falling down the forest but suddenly landed in an abandoned building are too hilarious and surprisingly terrible, compared to the excellent plots, directing, and editing of the action-packed Vagabond, Arthdal Chronicles, Kingdom, Mr. Action scenes such as the sloppy gunfight where the armed men cannot pull a trigger in the perfect opportunity or run fast to chase the target are just illogical and unrealistic. The show is great overall despite the loopholes in the storyline, pitfalls, and imperfections in a few technicalities. The gist of the story aims to fix the past and alter the ruined Korean peninsula through the collaboration of Gang Seo-hae (Park Shin-hye), a trained warrior who came from the post-apocalyptic future, and Han Tae-sul (Cho Seung-woo), a brilliant Engineer who was the key to high-technology’s time-traveling machine.

Sisyphus: The Myth is a Korean science-fiction genre combined with action, drama, adventure, and romance.

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