In television series Psychopath Diary (2019 to 2020), South Korean actor Yoon Shi-yoon plays a pushover who believes himself to be a serial killer after losing his memory in an accident. It was fun watching him alternate between being meek and trying to be mean, a scenario that was milked for laughs.
In his latest series Train, Yoon proves he is equally adept at playing the dramatic role of a tortured detective. And it is such a turnaround from Psychopath Diary - he even looks so different that it was a few episodes in before I realised it was the same actor.
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