We Are All Trying Here
Failure, envy, and the work of staying human
We Are All Trying Here Episode 1 Review: What Hwang Dong-man Hears
"Sister Vengeance" opens with a successful director writing a pitch about a state agency that quietly kills the people who make everyone else miserable, and the
We Are All Trying Here Episode 2 Review: Hwang Dong-man Yells His Own Name Back at the World
Episode 2 picks up where Choi's "stop trying" speech left a bruise and answers it the only way its protagonist knows how — by walking into the middle of a city
We Are All Trying Here Episode 3 Review: A Watch That Tells You Who You Already Were
An emotion-reading wristwatch hands Hwang Dong-man a one-word diagnosis — destructive — and he wears it like a costume for an entire hour, until a stranger scat
We Are All Trying Here Episode 4 Review: The Sleep Paralysis Sermon
A man who has slept badly his entire life sleeps like a baby, and the rest of Hyowon Mansion spends the hour trying to wake him back up. Episode 4 admits — out
We Are All Trying Here Episode 5 Review: The Hour Everyone Finally Admits They Have Been Eating Hwang Dong-man Alive
Episode 5 opens with a man getting beaten in a courtyard and ends with another on his knees, confessing he has been chewing on a stranger's life for two decades
We Are All Trying Here Episode 6 Review: The Producer Who Threw the Rock
Episode 6 puts a creative drought next to a violent act of loyalty and lets the camera linger on the gap — Dong-man floats through traffic on his new engine whi
We Are All Trying Here Episode 7 Review: The Night Everyone Says the Quiet Thing
Episode 7 stretches a Loyal Catering year-end shift into a beach sunrise and lets four people accidentally tell the truth: a co-worker about a narrow dark hole,
We Are All Trying Here Episode 8 Review: Sweating in a Snowdrift, Calling It Cool
An upside-down car in a Yangpyeong blizzard, a phone call about the weather, a runner-up envelope, and a brother who quit poetry the moment a beautiful line lit
We Are All Trying Here Episode 9 Review: No Evil in Him, But Strength
Dong-man signs his director's contract, gets congratulated, gets warned, gets jeered at, gets a loan shark blasting his contact list — and somewhere in the midd