People can not be divided as the good and the bad, because they are both.

If you want simple crime show with typical good police officer catching bad guy this isn't for you. But if you want a slow-paced crime show with complex morally ambiguous characters then you are in for a good ride. Pls do not pay too much attention on the score i gave bcs i don't think rating can measure how good a story is.

In term of the crime-solving, the execution of it in Watcher isn't perfect. As much as I loved the show, I can't turn a blind eye on the unnecessarily complicated plot that sometimes makes you don't even know what's going on despite it being a slow-paced show. The writer throw too much misdirection to stray the audience from guessing the actual culprit, when it's so obvious who the main culprit is. And because of that when the very much obvious actual culprit is revealed, the revelation felt flat and the misdirection become a waste.

Then what makes Watcher worth a try?? The complex characters, psychological aspect, and the portrayal of police corruption.
I think Watcher is more of a character driven story rather than case driven. They focused on how a single murder case can affect the mental health and morality of the people involved. And thus in this story the main leads who are affected by the tragedy turned into complex broken characters that you can not judge simply as 'good' or 'bad'. Kim Young Goon, Do Chi Gwang, and Han Tae Joo are all have questionable bad sides, but at the same time they also can be considered good people, that's what's make the characters felt very real and human. And the concept of morally gray characters also applicable to the police.

In many crime drama police always portrayed as good side where everyone fighting the injustice, but that isn't the case on Watcher. In this story Police are organizations that doesn't free from corruption, they are as badly as the criminal they catch. It's a realistic portrayal of how police actually are in real world (at least in my country they are like this).

TLDR: Watcher is a good watch for people who enjoy crime drama with character driven story with psychological aspect.

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