sambart
England
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My worst show of 2022 so far
This is easily the worst drama/movie I've watched all year, and for three very simple reasons:
1. The mysteries/muders are not smart -- I off handedly guessed all the tricks 20-30 mins before the reveal. There weren't smart tricks at all and in a real situation you wouldn't need the police or a special detective to figure them out. They were simple to the point it felt insulting to the audience, almost thinking the audience are too dumb to figure out the simplest of tricks.
2. The perpetrator every episode follows the same formula -- whoever is the most famous or well known GUEST that episode IS the perpetrator. You don't need the tricks or any information to figure out who it is so long as you know WHO is the most famous -- and this formula worked every. single. episode.
3. The side characters -- they were the most stupid and most boring side characters I've ever watched in a Kindaichi show.
- The best friend is annoying and stupid, there's no chemistry between our MC and his best friend -- even though they're from the SAME company and are friends in real life. Previous Kindaichi's really played into the soft bl-vibes with the best friend, and this time the best friend isn't even in it for a WHOLE episode sometimes.
- Miyuki, annoyingly useless and absolutely boring she was. It felt like the writer's couldn't decide if they wanted a romance or not. And her constantly coincidentally finding the main clue for Kindaichi every episode was absolutely ridiculous past the point of cute and funny. It was just down right stupid. Plus, there's literally a whole episode she complains that Kindaichi isn't spending time with her, but there is a whole series of murders going on(?!) and she's more concerned about not being able to share snacks with him? It was downright stupid. Insulting to teen girls in all honesty.
- The cop: The actor himself is very talented and very well loved in Japan, but his character is above stupid, it's annoying (see a pattern?) and it completely feels like he only took this role because it was an easy job to get an easy paycheck - it really showed. The cop brought absolutely nothing to the drama when he's supposed to be an intricate main part of the entire plot; he's supposed to bounce off well with Kindaichi both in comedy and in the mysteries. But he's just a bumbling idiot in this season.
Kindaichi (who is the only actual likeable character this season, thank you Micchi) is supposed to be about the MC and his best friends and a loveable cop getting along and finding mysteries with the occasional camp humour that makes you giggle - this 5th season really dropped the ball completely and had NONE of that.
This entire season is sloppy writing, sloppy tricks, sloppy reveals, and sloppy chemisty with characters.
It's sloppy.
Even Japanese audiences weren't liking it - it had the LOWEST Kindaichi viewship ratings ever, and it wasn't even on the top end of viewship ratings for the entire Spring Dorama Season 2022. You can clearly and easily see why.
Glad it's over.
1. The mysteries/muders are not smart -- I off handedly guessed all the tricks 20-30 mins before the reveal. There weren't smart tricks at all and in a real situation you wouldn't need the police or a special detective to figure them out. They were simple to the point it felt insulting to the audience, almost thinking the audience are too dumb to figure out the simplest of tricks.
2. The perpetrator every episode follows the same formula -- whoever is the most famous or well known GUEST that episode IS the perpetrator. You don't need the tricks or any information to figure out who it is so long as you know WHO is the most famous -- and this formula worked every. single. episode.
3. The side characters -- they were the most stupid and most boring side characters I've ever watched in a Kindaichi show.
- The best friend is annoying and stupid, there's no chemistry between our MC and his best friend -- even though they're from the SAME company and are friends in real life. Previous Kindaichi's really played into the soft bl-vibes with the best friend, and this time the best friend isn't even in it for a WHOLE episode sometimes.
- Miyuki, annoyingly useless and absolutely boring she was. It felt like the writer's couldn't decide if they wanted a romance or not. And her constantly coincidentally finding the main clue for Kindaichi every episode was absolutely ridiculous past the point of cute and funny. It was just down right stupid. Plus, there's literally a whole episode she complains that Kindaichi isn't spending time with her, but there is a whole series of murders going on(?!) and she's more concerned about not being able to share snacks with him? It was downright stupid. Insulting to teen girls in all honesty.
- The cop: The actor himself is very talented and very well loved in Japan, but his character is above stupid, it's annoying (see a pattern?) and it completely feels like he only took this role because it was an easy job to get an easy paycheck - it really showed. The cop brought absolutely nothing to the drama when he's supposed to be an intricate main part of the entire plot; he's supposed to bounce off well with Kindaichi both in comedy and in the mysteries. But he's just a bumbling idiot in this season.
Kindaichi (who is the only actual likeable character this season, thank you Micchi) is supposed to be about the MC and his best friends and a loveable cop getting along and finding mysteries with the occasional camp humour that makes you giggle - this 5th season really dropped the ball completely and had NONE of that.
This entire season is sloppy writing, sloppy tricks, sloppy reveals, and sloppy chemisty with characters.
It's sloppy.
Even Japanese audiences weren't liking it - it had the LOWEST Kindaichi viewship ratings ever, and it wasn't even on the top end of viewship ratings for the entire Spring Dorama Season 2022. You can clearly and easily see why.
Glad it's over.
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