butchered source material + a lot of nonsense

This show starts up fine, but very quickly goes downhill at a rapid pace. The characters are unlogical in their actions (like fugitive that doesn't care too much about leaving fingerprints, being seen in the broad daylight or even dealing with other police investigations as an amateur detective and gaining fame out of it - ridiculous!) and seems very artifical in their choices and behaviour.

Absurds are multiplying with each episode, with my favourite one being the scene when a woman commits suicide by taking too much pills - despite the fact that it did happen MOMENTS ago, neither her loving husband, nor the protagonist, who needs the woman badly as a vital witness, tries to make her vomit, etc. They just chit-chat with her till she dies!

If scenes like that wasn't idiotic enough, we have a crazy doppelganger of the main protagonist! The doppelganger is sooo irritating in her rudeness and senseless actions, that even the protagonist seems to loose her determination to find her daughter's killer and just play as doppelganger says... out of boredom, I guess.

You can check my reaction for episode 31 (in Episode Guide section of the show), for the worst thing the scenario offers in terms of logic of the crime. It's just too much if you care a bit about human psyche or logical assumptions.

But what is absolutely ther worst for me is how they buthered the source material - they used at least 3 of A. Christie novels and each of the them is scrippted and filmed in a slang-bang manner. The whole drama makes no space for the viewer here to actually try to solve any of the cases of Christie's novels. Actually, these mysteries feels like a homework that protagonist does because... somebody had to, I guess. They are not a pleasure to watch, they have no good tempo and they definately do not invite viewers to use their intellect. Very, very dissapointing. I cannot help but to think that the writer was very bored with the novels and just tried to get his job done without any shade of love for the source material. Especially "A Murder is Announced" feels like a not funny parody of the actual book, but the other mysteries aren't much better. Absolutely the worst adaptation of Christie's stories that I've seen so far.

I do not recommend this show to anyone.

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dissapointment

What I liked about this drama:

- the idea that the patient himself/herself is the best doctor and the best medicine - that you need to treat yourself well in order to live well (it seems simple, but in real life it's really not so obvious)

- the importance of finding a not so obvious passion and that passion serves other people (FL thought she is destined to be a musical star, but she finds joy of life in using her talent in psychodrama and thus helping sick people get better)

What I didn't like:

- some patient - doctor relations are at least disturbing

- the idea of romance between a psychiatrist and his patient is highly wrong and unethical, despite the fact the we - the viewers - believe in purity of ML (that also makes the script artificial - nobody in the right mind could approve such a thing... if it wasn't a tv fairy-tale... It's pretty weird to watch thou, how the rest of the doctors in the hospital are fine with such a relationship)

- the romance between two main protagonists is SOOO unbelievable that even script writers have problems to pull it off and thus we only have some talking bout love, but NO real dates, etc. - It kinda feels like the "romance" is here, cause they were too scaried to make a drama without it, even if it's completely unnecessary or even unethical due to the doctor-patient issues.

- for the whole show I felt that FL is far more annyoing/irritating than actually sick and her story is too watered down and has no good tempo

- other unnecessary romances (including a love triangle of 3 psyhiatrists in which every one of them doesn't confess his/her feelings... just beacause) - all pretty boring and giving no real depth to characters, their past, etc.

- the issue of using a patient "as a medicine" to help a ML get over his trauma for his patient suicide. Very sick and disturbing idea.

Overall, I was pretty dissapointed with the end result.

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too wordy, too artificial and too horrible at times

It reminded me of Great Teacher Onizuka (which I'm not a fan of), especially the beginning when we have two bullies which we make feel terrified to let them know how it is to be a victim. Magically, that instant, they turn into great guys with great personalities. Wow...
My main 2 problems with this drama is that it deals with problems too easy and too artificial and that the show is too wordy. The main hero is reciting a pretty poor script time after time, but it changes everything. The father is abusing his own child. Let a boring teacher give him a boring speech with strong voice. There. Problem solved. Ofcourse, we have friends helping each other and caring for each other (or learning to care), but the focus is still on talking teacher who simply get bolshy, nothing more.
The absolutely WORST thing we see in episode 2, when a coach is willingly destroying his stundent's knee (by damaging training), just for... chances for a date with her rival? It's not only sick as it is, but having an evidence of his wrong-doing, everybody's ok with him staying as a coach for a team and not taking the slightest punishment. I can't believe how horrible idea is this...
There are good parts of the show - the casting (for the most part) were pretty good (especially the students with Kenta on the lead), but the main hero is just a meld of motivation talk and staginess. Overall, I always had the feeling that the guy is not teaching anything, but just mesmerazing with talking and looking cool (or posing to be that way).

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