The Brilliant Healer’s New Life In the Shadows Season One Review: Brilliant Is A Great Way To Describe This Show

The irony here is that I randomly choose to watch this to keep myself entertained one day as I was laying and recovering from not feeling well. This story stars an unlicensed healer named Zenos who was self taught and came from the slums. He was out of his part after being called useless and now seeks to make a new life for himself.

I’ll actually start with the characters first which is a bit different than what I normally do. The characters here are all amazing and I really enjoy Zenos a lot. Not only is his banter hilarious with the other characters but he’s so entertaining to watch. He has no idea that he’s a prodigy in the healing world as he opens up a secret clinic to heal those in the slums as a means to make money. So as he attracts new characters with his strong moral value, powerful healing and quirky nature we see the cast grow with equally entertaining characters. This show sort of goes the harem route as most of the characters in his new life are women but they all are well fleshed out characters. They each add their own unique contribution to the show and have their own quirky personality. Not only do they entertain with their banter and fun interactions with each other but with how they interact with the story. Plus you see characters from all walks of life here so you get to see all of the sides of the moral argument and how they affect people in kind.

Which is why I started with the characters because while the story is amazing the way it’s executed so well is due to how the characters respond in kind to it. The land Zenos lives in is full of healers, but while he heals everyone equally the world around him doesn’t always share that moral compass. In the high society of healers the elites tend to prioritize some life over others and pretty much anyone over someone from the slums. It’s one of the reasons Zenos attracts so many characters because he doesn’t discriminate against the slums and actually changes their entire way of life with his healing magic. The story strongly dives into the battle of viewing all life as equal versus whether or not some lives are more important than others. It does this so well that I really adored how it pushed the characters into these deep and meaningful conversations as their views clashed with each other.

As serious as the story’s overall theme is it balances it well with bits of humor. For every moment that left me in awe with it’s complexity and execution there was another that had me smiling and laughing over the joyful and well executed banter during the jovial moments. Some of those moments include Zenos casually doing inhuman feats with his healing magic to the shock and awe of the people around him. In all honesty when I started this show the plan was to watch about three to six episodes and call it a day to do something else. Instead I watched about 10 episodes in one go and stopped to go to bed.

Overall I was incredibly impressed with this show. It takes a very complex moral topic and does a great job telling a story around it. Then on top of that you have a slew of very entertaining characters that are used to explore this argument in every possible way. On top of the serious nature of the story there’s moments that take a break from that and show us cheerful and jovial banter that entertains and easily put a smile on my face. There’s a lot more to the world around Zenos and we clearly have more story to tell and I’ll be pretty upset if we don’t get another season.

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