Let’s hope Gang Seo-hae’s ‘hunger games” training from the future sustains her rigorous responsibility to protect Han Tae-sul in Sisyphus: The Myth!
While this series is truly engaging for viewers who like puzzle solving, ample patience and attention are definitely needed because it’s easy to get confused. Expect your brain to work analyzing the events and the movements of the characters as Sisyphus: The Myth shows no sign of downplaying its intensity.
Also, the series is underway in establishing the concrete line of the heroes’ allies and enemies. But, with how the plot twist still slowly being unearthed, we’ll never know if it will blow our minds or disappoint.
Episode Recaps: 01 & 02 | 03 & 04 | 05 & 06 | Mid-Series | 09 & 10 | 11 & 12 | 13 & 14 | Finale Week + Review
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Episode Recaps: 01 & 02 | 03 & 04 | 05 & 06 | 07 & 08 |
Sisyphus: The Myth Episodes 5 & 6 Key Moments
“Do you know what its like to be alone?”
Escaping their captors, Tae-sul and Seo-hae invade Seo-jin’s clinic but was caught by her. The latter urges Tae-sul to inform Eddy but he still has Seo-hae to protect.
He also learned that she’s suffering from malnutrition. That nagged on his subconscious so when she woke up the next day, he made sure Seo-hae was well-fed and with ample nutrient supplements.
However, getting the picture of how he will cause the world destruction, he suggested that they should part ways. Insisting she only knows of him and that he can’t do everything on his own, Tae-sul still asserted he likes working alone.
Throwing the cash he gave her, she told him how there are a lot of money in the future that they use to light a fire.
“Back in the old days, people know everything about their neighbors. But these days, people don’t even know who lives next door to them.”
At the Control Bureau office, police officer Hyun-gi was introduced to what the office does. Of how they manage the illegal entrants from the future.
Hwang Hyun-seung further educated him of how the uploader, a time machine, will be invented in 2021. That same uploader is how the uninvited people from the future travels back to the present time.
Obviously having a hard time buying what the Control Bureau chief was telling him, Director Hwang dropped a bomb telling him of his mother’s passing. Director Hwang introduced Seo-hae, an illegal entrant, to Go Yoon as the culprit to her mother’s passing.
He prepared a well-made pitch of the evil deeds the people from the future did which pushed the police officer to be on their side.
“He was always covered in oil working himself to the bone at an auto shop, but he just wanted me to be happy.”
Feeling dizzy roaming around the healthy city she was deprived of, Seo-hae runs and caused a road commotion while crossing when the red light is on. Tae-sul approached him and tells her that he knows how to feel alone ever since his brother died.
Making her promise not to lose the opportunity to meet his brother, he agreed to her protection offer so they can save the world.
They head to a bath house after, a place that holds a memory of Seo-hae with her father. Meanwhile, Go Yoon begins suiting up as agent of the Control Bureau.
“After this is over, let’s go to an amusement park.”
Tae-sul and Seo-hae gatecrash Chairman Kim’s party in search of Han Tae-san. Unknown to them, the Control Bureau also got the clearance to attend the party as servers.
Sensing something is off in the beautiful woman who did not bother greeting him at the party, Eddy Kim approached Seo-hae but when she saw Tae-san, she excuses herself and goes to their original plan.
Tae-sul stumbles on Chairman Kim’s room and finds a contract agreement related to the technology he created to Sigma. At that same moment, Seo-hae spots Tae-san again while Eddy Kim chases after her. Ordering his men to get Seo-hae, Tae-san drags her inside a room and tells her to stay away from Tae-sul.
Hyun-gi wounded the escaping Seo-hae with a sniper shot, but Jae-sun came to her rescue.
Meanwhile, Tae-sul confronts Chairman Kim about the agreement transfer of his technology, but he blames him for not knowing that Sigma is the company’s legit investor.
His skipping of shareholders meeting caused his unawareness of the situation. To make the matters worse, the old man knows about the Control Bureau and even got a tip that their operation will ensue soon.
Frustrated, he motions to strangle the Chairman but Seo-jin knocks him down with a tranquilizer shot. When he woke up, he was back a few days to the past with Seo-jin and Eddy Kim insisting a reality different from what he experienced.
“We have to find the key. Your mother won’t survive without the medicine they give us.”
It turns out that Seo-jin and her father cut a deal with the Control Bureau to get the rare medicine, her mother takes to survive. They manipulate the treatment served to Tae-sul, but in reality they were messing up Tae-sul’s memories while feeding him medicines that he does not need.
Their goal is also to get the “key” to give to the group helping them. While drowning in the delusional effect of Seo-jin’s medicine, Tae-sul sees an epiphany of Seo-hae waking him up to the phantasm intentionally created for him.
Escaping Seo-jin and the Control Bureau hounds, he found a way to contact Seo-hae, who was actually on his tail subduing the men keen to recapture him.
Sisyphus: The Myth Episodes 5 & 6 Musings
I actually feel weird being drawn to survival scenes of Park Shin Hye in the future. But its really one of the things I lool forward to and one that is needed to balance the direction of the present timeline.
The turf war was another empathizing moment about Seo-hae’s fate. We saw her battle with her father to survive a group of people as she got a lesson from her father not to waver or she will lose something precious.
Their father-daughter moments always tugs heart especially since those are giving the disheartening situation of Seo-hae’s future. It warrants why her father really hoped for her to experience the life she wasn’t able to experience, and he can only describe to his daughter.
Sisyphus is also explaining questions convincingly as the narrative rolls like why Seo-hae can’t contact her family. It also revealed an incident which pushed Han Tae-san’s obsession of protecting his brother when he saw an illegal entrant in 2001 holding a picture with written dates of assassination attempts related to Tae-sul. For all we know, his goal is to prevent all those assassination attempts to befall on his brother.
Another ominous character was introduced who held Tae-san captive somewhere in the waning seconds of episode 6. I’m betting he is the “Sigma” part of the series. Now that we have all the competing groups settled and all motivations presented; preparing for a riveting showdown would go next.
Will Seo-hae endanger Tae-sul?
It’s now hard to disregard the possibility of Seo-hae jeopardizing Tae-sul because both her father and Tae-san mentioned for her not to contact Tae-sul. Tae-san also hinted being in contact with her father. I think the two share a connection as well.
There’s a lot going on in this series, and its still definitely a good thing. I can’t wait for the mid-part reveals since usually that’s the pivotal stage of the narrative going to the climactic high of a story.
If the series can also go for a showdown among the Control Bureau, the Broker and Sigma – the better.
Where Are We Heading?
I expect the events leading to the completion of the “uploader” (time machine) would ensue along with all the chaos between the opposing sides. Usually in time-traveling stories, the set rule of creating a ripple that will affect the future is established.
So, I’m still pondering if after the uploader was launched, were there people who escaped to the future, or are the presented “future people” pure remnants of the war survivors. Of course, we can’t rule out that with a looming destructive war, the logical thing to do is to escape it. This led me to mark the man Tae-san found in 2001 to be a crucial scene that we should not forget moving forward.
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