You spent so much money to fly over there, but you couldn’t even get a photo of me. Why? Because you didn’t know the Gebauers already abandoned me 12 years ago.

[ID: 6 gifs of woo do-hwan as kim min-joon & yoo ji-tae as choi kang-woo in "mad dog". the purples and greens have been emphasized. kang-woo grabs min-joon by the throat and slams him back into the wall, baring his teeth and asking, "are you here to die?" after the initial shock wears off, min-joon only smiles and tauntingly answers, "kill me, if you can." /end ID]

Oh my word! Sadviper is about Dohwan?! (Hi hello). I adore mad dog so much. I haven't watched Save Me because I think it's too heavy and my mood just won't allow me to, and I find My Country so unrewatchable because of sheer amount of stuff Seonho goes through and tkem is tkem and there just wasn't enough. But Mad Dog is so satisfactory because because, what can I say, it just is. There are moments to suspend disbelief but it's really good. And I adore it. Sorry for babbling in your ask box like this.

HIIII YES SADVIPER IS OUR DEAREST MAD DOG HWANITO!!! Imagine, me, several years younger and clueless to this man's existence, enduring 2 episodes of Yoo Ji-tae flashbacking over his son's sneakers, only for the odd, overly-smiley-yet-persistent nerdy guy from the architect firm to slither into the end of ep2 and unrepentently reveal that he's the BROTHER OF THE EVIL PILOT and he owns the building! And he has blackmail on them all!!! HA HA! Unfazed when getting strangled! No shame whatsoever, he will manipulate you all to get what he wants! His smile is his shield! BUT!! We gradually see how devastated, desperate and lonely he truly is. (Eventually I would discover that sadviper(tm) is hwanito's best agitated state of being, may he always pick angsty bad boy roles <3)

Mad Dog has all those nuanced expressions of (suppressed or outright) anguish we love so much. But it's also got the found family stuff to balance whatever grief Min-joon gets into. His wiggly and twisty deceptions become a source of good in uncovering the truth; the team softens up to him and start having more banter in their clashes; they go into protective overdrive when it turns out Min-joon is awfully helpless at defending himself; Min-joon then imprints on overbearing Mad Dog Dad and for a few scenes we get both whump AND the cutest house-fluff caring that really curls your toes.

That's what is sadly lacking in My Country and Save Me. =/ Those are all pain with very little comfort. Though if you ever do get the fortitude one day, I hope you can experience Save Me's Dong-cheol, who is the most admirable, heroic, brave, caring, and intelligent young man I've ever seen and I think I screeched in woe a couple times over his fictional existence because I would've married him right there despite the booze and cigarettes he seems prone to. (The show does have a happy ending if that helps) It's rather fascinating to see how both roles required the same type of cosplay, but Dong-cheol had none of the slick "viper" aspect that Min-joon had once the cosplay ended. A testament, really, to WDH's character choices.

I'm sloooowly working on a 2nd Mad Dog interview translation (though it's not much different than my previous one; all the magazines pretty much ask the same questions and get the same answers). But other than every show you've already mentioned, I'm afraid I can't recommend anything else in WDH's filmography that would compare...

Thankfully, we have his upcoming Netflix mini series to look forward to. It will probably look amazing and be really dark, lol. Yet how can we resist WDH as a boxer bodyguard loanshark thug fighting on the better side of what I presume will be a morally gray underworld? He has the face of someone who straddles the line between good and evil. :3

Thank you for chatting about Mad Dog here!!!