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Enjoyable to watch in my opinion. Congratulations on the crew who were involved in making the series. The interaction between Park You-Chem and Shin Se Kyung was superb. The support actors were great. The comical scenes had me in stitches laughing. It was suspenseful, but at times a little far fetched in places, e'g stakeouts. A light hearted murder mystery. The title through me, but once I got into the series I warmed to it. It was a series of a different nature, unbelievable it may be, but it was different. It was nice to see a happy ending, as most endings end in tragedy. Good entertainment for me. Left me thinking at the end that there maybe a sequel up and coming. Looking forward to it if there is.Was this review helpful to you?
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So unrealistic like they didn't even try
Okay, I get that it's a fiction story. However, there are a couple of things that I cannot "let go" just because it's fiction:1. Synesthesia doesn't work like this. Yes, the person with synesthesia might see scents, but not purely see without feeling the smell. The basics of how synesthesia works: when some part of brain senses the trigger, it activates not only related, but one more part. Meaning that you can hear and see, smell and hear, etc. What you cannot do is see the smell without hearing it - like when you are standing behind the glass or with nose closed. If that would be possible, MC would be able to see smells by photo. That's just so absurd that it pisses the hell out of me. Also, just why should eye be different, and ability working on one eye only? It's a brain condition, not eye.
2. Cliché: people with rare disorders. These people do exist, and it's totally ok to have them in a series, however, the point is that such disorders are actually RARE. And 3 people with rare disorders, caused by trauma (synesthesia, having no senses, and face blindness) meeting together is either laboratory or a beginning of the joke. Or they had some "club" and decided to meet. It's close to impossible for them all to be connected like this.
3. Very, very prolonged series. You already showed that main characters are getting married - why do you need details of that additional investigation to make them decide they want to work in that field? Just leaving that dinner scene (where "Oh this is from X whom I helped, this is from Y whom I helped" could have ended up a nice conversation about "You know, I wish to continue working on cases". Why do we need a full episode - no idea.
4. Police not able to work without a person with superpowers. For real, that last scene, where cops are desperate with amount of cases where people need help - just how they were working all this time? How were they solving crimes without MC?
5. Cliché 2 (and this one is super butthurting): you found out that something in your past affected your spouse in a bad way, and they don't know about it. You feel guilty. What to do? Of course, break up without telling the real reason, just "I stopped loving you". No, that's not how it works! You talk and express your feelings. This cliché is just too much.
6. Keeping secrets: at the beginning I was really happy that no matter what characters find out, they share it with the team, and we go further with the investigation. But at some point they just stopped, and started keeping secrets - while revealing the trooth could have helped solve the cases faster.
7. Young MC. I really like Shin Se Kyung's acting and so on, but why does she always play the younger version of herself as well? I mean, she is beautiful, but in any way doesn't look like a high schooler. She and Kim So Hyun are supposed to be ~ the same age in flashbacks - but I'd be damned if you can look at them and honestly say that they look like the same age. The person in 30, no matter how young they look, should not play a high schooler.
8. Corpses. They didn't even try to apply some basic "corpse" make-up for actors. One thing is a person who was in a car for a day or two - being with a normal, even a bit tanned skin - but the person who was in the river for a couple of days, and dead a day before that - looking like a sleeping person is just too much. They didn't even try making them look dead. Check A Korean Odyssey - there make-up is top-class in this matter. Here you can't tell alive and dead person apart.
I'm sure there were much more things that made me upset in this series, but I'll stop here.
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Korean is not really my cup of tea, so I didn’t watch it much. But, thriller is my cup of tea genre, so when one of my friend recommend this k-drama to me, I’m willing to watch it. I watched this on 2016, BTW :D
The plot is beyond my imagination, which I like it because it’s anti-mainstream. I love when the movie / drama contains any psychological issues and this drama provides a lot of it. Not only that, this drama have a twist plot which makes it even more better for my taste ^_~
Now for the casts. I enjoyed the interaction between the hero and the heroine. At the first I didn’t feel so much chemistry between them, but as time goes by their chemistry built and I feel pleased with that ^_^
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Un début de série assez chaud... pour poser l'intrigue qui est assez intéressante. Ce drama que l'on peu classer dans la section Policier, l'est aussi en parallèle dans la section Romance compliquée ...Les acteurs jouent vraiment bien et le "méchant" (je vais pas spoiler pour ceux qui ont pas encore regardés) est vraiment effrayant jusqu'au bout ... sa personnalité fait meme un peu pitié je dirais sur la fin mais bon c'est l'histoire; lol.
En même temps c'est quand meme un tueur en série hein ... L'actrice joue tres bien, et le concepte des odeurs transformées en micro objets colorés est vraiment intéressant et novateur.
Pour l'histoire d'amour, les deux protagoniste forment un joli couple... un peu décallé. Elle avec son odorat hors du commun et lui avec sa perte des sens. Après avoir terminé cette série je passe d'une note initiale de 8 (en cours de visionnage) à un 9. Une série qui m'a au final beaucoup plu avec une fin comme je les aime ....
Une série en somme assez simple mais bien dévellopé. Si vous aimez les énigmes à résoudre foncez, ce drama est écrit pour vous.
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Right blend of RomCom, suspense/crime/mystery to make a very entertaining story
Right blend of RomCom, suspense/crime/mystery to make a very entertaining story.Being connected by a tragic past is nothing new with this type of genre but it's still very refreshing, not having a jilted best friend turned evil. It has a straight forward love story, from their tragic past to meeting again by accident, to being friends then turned to lovers.
What was weird was the mystery part. For televiewers, knows who's the main villain for most part of the story while the so called detectives goes round and round on finding the culprit.
I like the actors, I think they gave theirs characters justice. Even the ML and FL had a good on screen chemistry.
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As a side note, I'll mention the other actors as well in case you're curious. An honorable mention should go out to Park Jin Joo for being an amazing side actress. Although I was never really bothered by it, many people have commented on Shin Se Kyung's emotionless face when she acts. Compared to her roles in HIgh Kick Through the Roof and Fashion King, Shin Se Kyung has improved quite a bit on this, and somewhat on her laugh. I've seen Yoo Chun in Sungkyunkwan and Rooftop Prince as a lead role but neither really like or detest him. He seems to always just be there but never gives a memorable performance, though I liked him some in variety shows. Unfortunately his comedy in this one sort of annoyed me and both the writing for his character and his acting when carrying the script out made me side with Kwon Jae Hee and dislike him even more. The romance in this drama was something like that of a side-couple in another drama. It's there, you watch it, but you're really waiting for the main character to get back on screen (Kwon Jae Hee). Another reason many seem to side with Kwon Jae Hee is that the writers made the detectives seem stupid. Many times they would just stand around and wait for someone who wasn't even a detective to do all the work while someone was dying. Yeom Mi was the only semi-intelligible one.
That being said, since I gave this drama a high rating, you can see how much Nam Gung Min carried the drama. I didn't plan to watch the whole thing in a couple of days because I thought it would be a weird drama from the title but this is one of the few dramas that you end up marathoning. Yes, some parts with Oh Cho Rim and Choi Moo Guk like the theatrical parts are odd, but the villain makes this drama well worth the watch.
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Good balance between romance and suspense
I really enjoyed this drama. The story is a big unique in terms of the special abilities/conditions. It has enough romance to satisfy romance-addict like myself while also keeping the non-romance crime suspense storyline. The pace was good, not too slow but not rushed either. It also has a couple of great reveal moments.SPOILER:
My only complaint (and this is totally personally petty me) is that although Namkoong Min did a good job, I don't like seeing him as a bad guy just because I like him and tends to want to root for him.
Oh and this drama has one of the most unique, creative, and sweetest proposal ever.
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Great series
As a student, Choi Eun-seol (Shin Se-kyung) is a witness to her parent's murder. The killer, who turns out to be the infamous "Barcode serial killer" attempts to kill Eun-seol who gets away but is hit by a car during her escape. The accident leaves Eun-seol in a coma with little hope of waking up or recovery. The same tie Eun-seol is admitted, Choi Moo-gak (Park Yoo-chun) goes to the hospital to see his young sister who had been in a minor traffic accident. Moo-gak is shocked and devastated to find his young sister lifeless in the hospital bed with her throat slit. Miraculously, about a half year later, Eun-seol emerges from the coma. There are three things that are different about her when she wakes up 1. One of her eyes has turned green 2. She cannot remember anything 3. She is able to visually see smells with her green eye. Moo-gak was so devastated by his sister's death that he was unable to sleep or eat and winds up fainting and being close to death for a period of 10 days, and wakes up to find he has lost his sense of pain, smell and taste. After his sister's death, Moo-gak became a police officer and aspired to be a detective. Eun-sol aspires to be a comedic actress. When the two fatefully cross paths they discover each needs something fro the other. Without senses, Moo-gak needs Eun-sol's ability to smell and use it as a tracking method and Eun-sol needs a partner for her acting skit in order to advance with the troupe she has associated with.This was an amazing drama. i liked the "magical" element to it where, when she sees smell, it is all colorful and unique. I like the crime and suspense and the way the detectives grew into a great, caring and cohesive team. The romance between the leads was perfect - I could see them together in real life. It is a shame Park Yoo-chun was incarcerated as I enjoy him so much as an actor. I loved him in Roof Top Prince as well. I hope he can get help with his drug issues and is allowed to recover his career. I think as the American fan base grows there will be more foregiveness for these types of things. The title made me hesitate - how the heck can someone SEE smells? But it was "magical" and added such an intersting level to the story that I loved it. If you want a great crime, drama, romance with a unique twist - this would be the one. It ended well too!
Personal Rating:
Story: 9.5
Acting & Cast: 9.5
Music: 9.5
Cinematography: 9.0
Overall: 97/100
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Story smells week with one of the worst kisses i have ever seen...
This is a story about a couple that is different from usual dramas, but not very developed. The beginning is promising, but it does not deliver.We also have a villain that is very precise and intelligent as a psychopath normally is, but does some things in the end that are completely opposite from his character.
STORY - Choi Moo Gak lost his younger sister to a psycho and lost his ability to feel anything. He worked in a aquarium and now is a police officer.
Oh Cho Rim is a girl that, due to an accident, develop the ability to see smells, but lost all her memories. She is the only witness to the murder case that involve the psycho that killed Moo Gak’s sister, Known as the bar-code murder. The accident ocurr while she escaped the psycho who murder her parents.
They meet and they help each other. He becomes a police to find his sister’s murder and she became an actor in a small comic theatre company.
They start to have feelings for the other and they kissed… and, for me, another murder occur. The end of any romantic possibility between this couple. Even Wall-E, C3PO or BB-8 kiss better!!!!
The psychopath is interesting almost until the end. The plot is ok, but there is not much juice…
Her ability should been explored more …
ACTING – not bad, but there is romance between two robotic persons. I hope that they will find happiness in real life without the necessity of romantic gestures! The other cast is ok. The psycho and the police force is good.
MUSIC – maybe not bad, but not my kind of taste.
REWATCH – no, there are dozens of better dramas in this genre.
OVERALL – I was interested in the way the murders would or not be discover. There is some tension and unpredictability to support going through until the 15th episode. Cute scenes in the last episode, but too long, as well as all this drama.
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