Taxi Driver (2021 Korean Series): Difference between revisions

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Compared to Season 1, Season 2 ends on this note, albeit a bit more somber: {{spoiler| The Rainbow crew have successfully taken down another villainous organisation hell bent on destroying them and it's leader, Park Min Geon aka The Bishop is now dead, finally freeing them and the entire world from the clutches of a sociopathic dictator and they remain a team and continue taking in more clients to help get justice for. For bonus, Go-Eun has also moved back in to Do-Gi's apartment complex as his neighbour and promises to keep him company after their work every night. However the tragic fallout of this ending is that On Ha Joon is dead after he found out about his true origins and his real name: Kim Dan Woo and he ended up sacrificing himself to kill the Bishop and despite the fact Do-Gi seems to be doing well after the harrowing events of the finale episodes, it's clear that he is completely emotionally, physically and mentally scarred from his ordeal with the Bishop and Geumsa organisation, which will worsen his PTSD caused by his mom's murder and haunt him for the rest of his life. On the bright side he still has the Rainbow crew beside him.}}

* [[Black Comedy]]: One of the important aspects of the series. Whenever the Rainbow crew do a lot of revenge missions on behalf of their clients, dark humour and absolute chaos is to be expected during it, unless it goes completely dark.

* [[Broken Bird]]: Kim Do-Gi, big time! As if he hasn't suffered enough during his time in the military and eventually discovering his mom brutally murdered, things only get much worse for him as the series progresses where he goes through more physical, emotional and mental trauma as a deluxe taxi driver.

* [[Casting Gag]]: Some of the actors in the series portray characters through which they end up adding [[Irony]] to or parodying their previous roles or situations their earlier characters were in:

** In ''[[Train to Busan]]'', Kim Eui-Sung portrayed one of the villains Young-suk, a selfish cowardly businessman who is willing to sacrifice and throw people under the bus and let them be killed by zombies. Here he portrays Jang Sung Chul, a kind hearted, cunning and doting CEO of Bluebird foundation and leader of the Rainbow crew, who himself can serve as a [[Composite Character]] [[Expy]] for both Seok Woo (Flawed adoptive doting father who tries to make up to his "child" and protect him from any harm, Do-Ki in this case) and Yoon Sang-Hwa (An [[Action Dad]] who is a [[Papa Wolf]] for Do-Ki and his own crew) and much like everyone else, is also willing to put up a fight with the psychopaths and cowards.

** In ''[[Vagabond (2019 Series)|Vagabond]]'', the leads portrayed by Lee Seung-Gi and Bae Suzy have to go and interrogate the co-pilot and one of the perpetrators of the B357 Kim Woo-Gi about the mysterious [[Big Bad]] at a mental institution he is kept in, only to witness him getting kidnapped by the mooks of the criminal organisation and Dal Geon was also kidnapped by the revealed main villain while Hae-Ri was searching for him, after uncovering the truth behind the conspiracy, to get killed with Kim Woo-Gi in a fire (Dal Geon was saved though by a badass assassin Lily but had to fake his death). Meanwhile in the series, the roles get switched in which Jang Hyuk Jin (Kim Woo-Gi's actor from the former series) portrays Choi Kyung Goo who also, much like Dal Geon with Hae-Ri, ends up going to an insane asylum with his investigation partner/close friend (in this case Park Jin Eon) to interrogate or check on some of the insane criminals to collect any intel and clues related to the mysterious [[Big Bad]], only for him to witness them being kidnapped by the mooks of the criminal organisation and much like Dal Geon, Kyung Goo is also kidnapped to be killed by the revealed main villain (alongside Sung Chul) while Jin Eon searches for him, after his team end up uncovering the actual masterminds. Kyung Goo is also saved from his ordeal by a badass assassin (Do-Gi) and luckily, is able to reunite with Jin Eon and others (unlike Dal Geon, who ended the series faking his death to take down the actual villains and leaving behind Hae-Ri and her team).

 

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