This show had some of the best cliffhangers of any drama I've ever seen. Plot twists you really didn't see coming. And although there were some minor flaws in the plot and lots of things left unexplained, the story made sense, went at just the right pace and was what I would call addictive.

But then we get out of prison... (for the final time)

And from this point onwards it slowly starts to go downhill. However, the show was still salvageable and could have been a good 9 maybe even higher. Only if it wasn't for the last 10 minutes of the show. These 10 minutes give a sentiment that oppose everything established in the show so far. It is not a good ending and it does not feel justified. All the build up and all the people we have got to know, get thrown away for a simple and senseless ending.


Explaning the problems this drama has in my opinion. !!!Warning Major Spoilers from this point onwards!!!

The main problem of the second part is that the real power of big mouse is never demonstrated. Park Chang Ho (PCH) was more like a little mouse (a prey). In the prison he demonstrated real power going from a nobody to a god, managing to outsmart even Big Mouse himself. But then he gets to live and from this point onwards, he starts to weaken. Maybe the man needs to live under the fear of dying to actually be able to perform.

So we get out of prison and the first main thing that happens is that he becomes the lawyer of big mouse and his main goal is to destroy the organisation of Major Choi DoHa and Chairman Kang. But from this point onward the opponents keep on getting the upper hand (I get it, we need it to keep the plot going, but it does not seem like the opponents get some unfair advantage or luck, they are just smarter than Big Mouse). This does not mean that the smart tricks stop entirely, but the power and reach of the organisation of Big Mouse is never really shown. The three main important guys from big mouse are the prison guard, Jerry and PCH's lawyer friend, but other than the fighting gang, we see like one outside guy actually able to pull some strings. Most of the things they do are giving PCH small information, but often Major Choi is already one step ahead and the 'friendly criminal and big force' Mr Gong Ji Hoon is needed to help Big Mouse but turns out he is just useless. The only time we saw the real influence of big mouse was with the police escort and allowing Ko Mi Ho to speak during the interview. But why couldn't they protect their witnesses like Jang Hye Jin (why did she even need to come back) and more importantly Hyun Ju-hee when se was supposed to testify. (Like they know Do Ha is a manipulative monster, but well he wouldn't do anything to his wife or something...)

The things I didn't like include Mr No (Original big mouse) dying in a stupid way as a big maffia boss. Also the backstory of his daughter was not really big enough to make me feel sad for him (It gets pushed to the background by all the other evil deeds of DoHa/NK Chemical and make that the main driving force of the battle of PCH). Then we have Ko Mi Ho getting terminally sick from the radiation, but continuing to fight and reveal the truth, but this was all for nothing. Also they did have no business putting her dead at the very end of the show and then justifying it by letting PCH kill DoHa by using the same water that killed his wife. You know this likeable guy who wanted to become a 'kind' big mouse and fight evil. Yes, he just killed the 'real' evil guy by doing the same evil stuff Do Ha has been doing the whole time (Yes it was revenge, but it would've been sweeter revenge if they just won in court.

Then the final issue: the rushed, unsatisfactory and inconclusive ending. We needed at least one episode more, or they could've cutted some of the shenanigans from the 5 episodes before it. The current ending leaves plot holes and makes me wonder about what the message is. How does the story continue from this point onward? DoHa is dead and some of the evil guys are locked away, but is the entire organisation of NK chemical really gone?? Is there a guarantee they won't come back, if they do will PCH just kill them all? What will PCH do now, just continue being a "normal lawyer" (he was really good at that lmao), or play Big Mouse and kill more evil guys "to save the world"?
Also what tf happened with the son of chairman Kang, why was the plot even introduced, why no lawsuit??? They could at least let Mi Ho have her revenge for Tak Kwang Yeon (the sick prisoner who took the blame for Kang's son).