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Again My Life korean drama review
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Again My Life
4 people found this review helpful
by Giuca
May 18, 2023
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 6.5
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 2.0
This review may contain spoilers

Pomp & Circumstance

I guess they do not have any background composers in Korea capable of writing the uplifting, triumphant score for this drama so they had to use universally known Elgar's piece? Unfortunately, every time this music came on, I forgot to follow the story. It means all the time! But it says a lot about the plot as well since it did not manage to keep me really interested.

Still I finished it. It is a story about a righteous prosecutor who is offered a second chance on life in order to get the big bad man. Killed in his thirties, the lawyer is sent back to his university days where he quickly meets a string of persons. Using his knowledge from the future, he solves a few cases and then there is a SEVEN year time skip. Why? Why seven? He's a prosecutor again but, having learned his lesson from the first time, he does not go after the bad guy alone but uses his network of friends. And eventually gets sort of rid of him but simply by cutting him off from his two closest aides. It took him only ten years to do so! But soon enough, we are led to believe all he did was for nothing because another villain appeared using the previous one's networks! THE END

What I liked:
- songs
- fighting scenes
- female characters
- delusional villain
- time travel

What I did not like:
- background music
- unused great female characters
- brown envelopes
- illogical plot
- comic book second villain
- abandoned fantasy element
- macho tone

The plot is extremely repetitive. The prosecutor decides on a target, then blackmails the target's surroundings with brow envelopes and then arrests him and moves on. The supply of brown envelopes is endless. The prosecutor is mysteriously smiling, smirk on his face and strutting all importantly around.

The main villain, a completely delusional politician convinced he was god sent in order to make the country great again, always calm, emotionless. He has two aides equally emotionless who do all his dirty work while he sits all importantly, cutting his bonsai and spewing metaphorical nonsense about dogs and leashes. Truth be told, he is not the only one doing it: every character does it one time or another while trying to illustrate an event, they all use animal metaphors (dogs, fishes, horses, birds...) which by the end become a complete gibberish.

The lawyer was surrounded with five strong female characters who eventually had not use outside incidental help. Otherwise they were far in the background and would come out only when needed by the MC.The writers even decided to include a useless love story literally in the last 15min of the drama.

I used to be a fan of Lee Joon Gi but I do not like his acting anymore. It looked like he was just on autopilot and it reminded me of Lawless Lawyer but much worse. I know he looks young, but I could not help thinking he was forty as I was watching him play a 19yr old. This is the drama that ends my fan period as far as he is concerned. Every other actor nailed their roles: the bad guys were so obviously bad and creepy, the good guys really good even when pretending to be bad.

The drama is based on a comic so everything is very basic and character development is really hard to notice! The plot is so often seen corruption and unhealthy relationships between the politicians and chaebols and the great companies. Nothing new or original....

Find something better to watch! I am going to!
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