Overall I liked this drama, moreover it completely hooked me since the beginning! so I will start by saying I do recommend this drama. Nevertheless the thing that infuriates me about this drama, is that it could have been such an amazing drama, it had all the potential, and it was all just wasted as the episodes went on.

First, the acting. Song Seung Heon was amazing! his acting as Black was 10/10. The supporting characters specially the detective were great as well! The second female lead I think she did a great job considering the poorly developed character she was saddled with. Go Ara, ah well, she was ok. I don't know if it was the character that was written like that, or the way she played it, it was a bit annoying, and like she just had two modes, depressed or hyperventilation. It absolutely bothers me every time when we have such a well rounded and developed male lead character and the writers just sort of settle on a less than effective half baked main female lead. And if there is one complain i have regarding the acting is that I couldn't feel much chemistry between the two leads. They didn't even feel like good friends... damn the actors playing the little kids did a better job at appearing in love with their respective crushes!!

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The story, it had so much potential, so many twists and turns, and a very interesting premise! but either the drama was supposed to be longer, or shorter, but for some reason 18 episodes wasn't the right length. If it would have been shorter maybe the writers wouldn't have been tempted to include a last minute turn of plot and a villain we had never heard of! (such a huge sign of bad writing!) or it could have been longer so the loose plot points could have been wrapped up more smoothly. The problem is that the writer or director seemed too keen to wrap everything but didn't manage to do it, they established so many rules during the world building that it was impossible to follow them completely and inevitably the ending didn't comply and thus didn't make sense. And that is where the problem lies. The body of the story is so good but its the ending that completely let me down. Last minute happy ending complete with childish makeup and funny wigs, ending that not 5 minutes prior we were told categorically it could never happened! None of the things that happened in the last 45 minutes of this series made sense. And it sadly erased all of the great world build up we had so far!

I say watch it because you will enjoy the majority of it, and you can make up your own mind about it!

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