I'll take the liberty to write a review about this, even though crime dramas aren't my forte. Cheo Yong had everything in the book to be amazing, 10 episodes later i'm still wondering why the result was THIS lackluster... Shall we find out together?
Story
Your very, very basic police procedural. Cop + partner team up to solve murder cases. They tossed the ghost concept in there to make it original, or more interesting but they failed. Don't expect to be scared or thrilled because the drama is just a typical police procedural. I feel that the drama aspired to be CSI meets Supernatural but it couldn't pull it off.
First 2 episodes are great in setting the tone, the base story and backstory. Episodes 3-8 have an episodic format, episode and different case. I expected those episodes to reduce themselves in soulless cases but usually procedural dramas come with kickass, amazing episodic plots that keep you on the edge for the whole episode. I don't know if this was just me not being a fan of police dramas, but the cases here were extremely tedious. All of them tried to be unpredictable and i could see the punch line when they wanted me to go *wow* but i felt nothing. There was no build-up for that climax to make an impact so it always left me uninterested. Last 2 episodes explore the backstory that was introduced in the first 2 episodes. Not bad, but the ship had already sailed by that moment... too little too late.
I blame everything mostly on the boring dialogs. It wasn't that the cast were acting like reading lines, it was that the lines themselves were unisprired... 75 minutes per episode need some inspirational dialogs to keep me going because my pillow is too fluffy and i tend to doze off fast!
The drama introduced several superntural concepts like human blood injuring ghosts, and other special/magic weapons ect that were never explained. Poor plot development overall
Another major problem i faced was the ridiculous and infuriating camera work. Apparently the cameraman was either drunk or seriously high. I can totally see how it was fun for him to zoom in and out x50 a thousand times during a scene, i would have laughed too had i been there, but me watching it, i felt dizzy and irritated and i couldn't even focus on the conversations.
The budget was overall, obviously very tight and the whole cinematography was pretty basic too. 10 episodes 8 different cases and i remember none right now while i can easily recall cases from other police dramas i watched in the past. The drama was good for cheap entertainment but there are far better dramas of the same genre out there.
Acting
Had its problems but not that bad either. The main cast was pretty solid but not memorable. Oh Ji Ho was good enough, but pretty forgettable and felt like he didn't put any effort in his work -his fighting scenes were mediocre at best. Same goes for Oh Ji Eun, i barely remember her face. Jeon Hyosung was the only memorable actor in this, not because her acting was impeccable but because her character was the most likeable one.
The supporting cast was mediocre to bad with no enjoyable performance whatsoever.
Recommend/Rewatch
I will never rewatch this of course, i regret finishing it to be honest. I could only recommend this to police procedural fans who know what to expect. This is not your average kdramas, no romance ect. It wasn't bad but there are better similar dramas out there.
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