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The newest K-drama featuring Lee Dong-wook and Lee Sung-kyung, The Nice Guy, has just hit our TV screens and piqued the interest of noir action drama lovers already. The plotline of this series is quite promising as it will show us the struggles of a man navigating his life as a gangster along with his first love.
Park Seok-cheol is the grandson of a gangster family, which shares a complex dynamic. The Nice Guy has released two episodes so far, and the cinematography is unique with respect to the recent K-dramas that we see nowadays.
As for whether Seok-cheol is able to save Kim Jin-ho, by the end of episode 2, it is revealed that he manages to save Jin-ho.
Let's dive deeper.
Breakdown of the events of The Nice Guy episode 1
The first episode of The Nice Guy starts with an injured Seok-cheol traveling via metro. On the other hand, Kang Mi-young is seen waiting for him at a bus stop. He reaches the bus stop and sees Mi-young, and they set out to leave.
However, before they can even begin their journey, Seok-cheol is stabbed. Though the beginning is quite grim and heartbreaking, the scene that follows is quite hilarious. He might be a gangster, but his real calling is towards poetry. He plans his exit from this. He is refused by Sang-yeol. He gives Seok-cheol an offer. If he can solve the issue, then he will be able to leave the gang. Seok-cheol promises to solve the issue, but with the condition that he will not use violence.
Breakdown of the events of The Nice Guy episode 2
The second episode of The Nice Guy begins where it left off in the first episode. Seok-cheol, Seok-hee, and their sister run off after the brawl. Seok-cheol thinks about his sister and about his family’s debt while driving.
As the episode progresses, we see a disinterested Seok-cheol in the meeting of his gang about the area they want. Here, Jin-ho's significance is mentioned in the gang. Seok-cheol decides to visit the area to make the tenants understand the situation. However, things do not go as he had planned.
Later, he visits the area and finds that the tenants and the gang members are brawling, and Kim Jin-ho throws gasoline on himself and threatens to kill himself if the gang members do not stop.
To prevent Jin-ho from dying so that he can freely leave the gang, he decides to stop him. A fight ensues between the two of them, and Seok-cheol uses his strength to overpower him and takes him to safety. Seok-cheol’s name appears on the paper because he saved the man.
This makes his father really proud. Though saving him means Seok-cheol is a step ahead to his goals of leaving the gang, his father’s debt makes his situation difficult.
At the end of episode 2 of The Nice Guy, we see Seok-cheol’s father arrive at the gang’s building with the thought of getting money for his debt; however, if he takes the money, Seok-cheol will have to repay the money and will not be able to leave the gang.
The Nice Guy episodes 1 and 2 set the tone for the rest of the series. There is humor and complex drama that leaves the viewers intrigued. In the later episodes, we might be getting more and more answers; till then, we will have to keep waiting.
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