Warning: spoilers
I hoped this series was going to be a good one. But in the end it felt like the series was being written one week at a time rather than being fully fleshed out.
Spoilers here: the young male lead I thought did a great job. There was the tension between the old cop and the younger man whose father was accused of the crimes. It reminded me a bit of Memories of Murder. Of course a number of these Korean crime dramas have the Hwaseong serial killings as a theme. But the series kept going off the rails for me. Dr. Oh, who survived the original killer, was just a horrible character. Early in the series she has a split personality, then that confident vengeance-seeking persona just disappears. The young woman who does the web series accurately predicts everything about the new killings? The young killer is told by the young cop that Gab Dong was responsible for his father's death, even though Gab Dong killed women only? This leads to an obsession to find the original killer to teach him how to control his murderous impulses (where did that come from) and to do this he starts mimicking the original killings? Killing a flight attendant...on a plane...when everyone knows you were a suspected serial killer? I can stretch my imagination but not that far. Would have been more believable and in line with mimicking the original killings if he had killed the female cop. Possibly some of the translation from Korean to English hurts...I'm finding it hard to believe that the original killer's cop victim left a note in a book that just said 'i like you' and he was to get that message, and that it remained in that book decades later.
A great idea, just not executed by the producers to bring the story together as a whole from the outset.
I hoped this series was going to be a good one. But in the end it felt like the series was being written one week at a time rather than being fully fleshed out.
Spoilers here: the young male lead I thought did a great job. There was the tension between the old cop and the younger man whose father was accused of the crimes. It reminded me a bit of Memories of Murder. Of course a number of these Korean crime dramas have the Hwaseong serial killings as a theme. But the series kept going off the rails for me. Dr. Oh, who survived the original killer, was just a horrible character. Early in the series she has a split personality, then that confident vengeance-seeking persona just disappears. The young woman who does the web series accurately predicts everything about the new killings? The young killer is told by the young cop that Gab Dong was responsible for his father's death, even though Gab Dong killed women only? This leads to an obsession to find the original killer to teach him how to control his murderous impulses (where did that come from) and to do this he starts mimicking the original killings? Killing a flight attendant...on a plane...when everyone knows you were a suspected serial killer? I can stretch my imagination but not that far. Would have been more believable and in line with mimicking the original killings if he had killed the female cop. Possibly some of the translation from Korean to English hurts...I'm finding it hard to believe that the original killer's cop victim left a note in a book that just said 'i like you' and he was to get that message, and that it remained in that book decades later.
A great idea, just not executed by the producers to bring the story together as a whole from the outset.