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This is so crazy!
This is analysis with copyright Instagram @cinedoramasAs I mentioned above, Search had everything to have a little more history in addition to its 10 episodes.
In addition, the plot was not there these things, but in my view was too rushed.
Throughout the plot I had a few moments when I didn't understand much of the context of the scene in specific episodes; Three and six. (I won't say why, because this is not the spoiler club, this is just an analysis).
- In short, Search presents a story with good suspense (say in passing, it gets to be funny how it stands out in this genre, being that it was more comical than everything), military context and without novels. The set design, the techniques of filming and character development are good.
Overall, there were some mistakes: The weak script, stories that were told in the first 3 episodes, but that did not develop, the events that were released, and cuts /jumps in time that made those who watch, stop and try to understand what was happening.
(Ps: In my view, in the first episodes it became evident that I WOULD HAVE MAYBE a novel, but the same did not occur).
That is, watch the kdrama already aware that there are no novels.
- In the first episode, Search arrested me. Watching the night a drama that is highlighted as 'mystery, suspense and terror', did not scare me at any point.
Everything was going well, until episode 3 was a little confused... Episode 4, I felt that they tried to repair* the error of the previous episode.
And then this drama only got me back in episode 8.
That is, overall it was too DULL to follow this drama.
There's not much to comment on, because as it only has 10 episodes, I can give without wanting many spoilers, so I'll stop here.
*Analyzing the characters*
Yong Dong Jin:
Dong Jin introduces himself to the public, as a military and dog trainer, who counts the days for his dismissal. His personality was the most attention-shaded to me: considerably he does not know how to 'listen to his superiors', that is, 'an order'.
- Fact: There's a hole in his and Son Ye Rim's story, both of which seemed to have had some relationship in the past, but that to which, we'll never know what really happened. That is, they presented the probable relationship of both, but simply did not develop it.
Son Ye Rim:
The most interesting female character the plot tries to build. His cold answers and crossed glances at Yong Dong Jin made it clear that some sort of romance could come later... It was just achismo even!
Song Min Gyu:
Let's go to the part that held me the most in the plot... Yes, the main character who is a villain and very proud. What makes Search a bit good, was to see the unfolding of this. It wasn't bad or something chopped, on the contrary, it made me want to watch the next episode.
Min Gyu introduces herself to the viewer in an authoritarian, meek, totally proud way and who thinks he is superior to his colleagues. It is the typical character who always seeks the easy way, only it is not the right one.
- Perception and Critic:
Many ideas, a lot of time in the air and two writers who tried to put together both stories, but who in the end knew how to have the right attention and organization. I don't have to come here and talk about how a beginning, middle and end story should be made, right?
What becomes boring, is that Search had everything to become a good drama, but that unfortunately lacked organization and listing of the facts.
Back in the past and then coming and going to the present, was one of the points I hated the most. The story becomes shallow, weak and fragile.
Search has more room for a movie than a drama.
To be honest, it was exactly this perception I had when I finished watching it.
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Good acting & poor writing
I think this has really good story line but it is poorly written.. actully they could hv make best drama with this story line.. actors r given thire 100% to this drama.. but plot is written poorly soo it is unfair to actors.. i feel like scenes are not line up well and drama is mess.. 1st 2nd and 3rd episodes make our hopes up and make us exiting, but after tht it slowly start to drop and drop while distroing our hopes.. and end episode not make sense.. when u start to watch it u r craving to know what hond why it happend u want to know every single details but believe me they r not going to tell u wht u want to know.. they r just telling us few things and nit in details.. i am desepointed.. but i gave drama 8 stars becoz effort of cast..Was this review helpful to you?
Good show with great potential, but hasty editing
This show is very interesting and fun to watch. I loved the military stuff and all the action. I also really liked the lead actors and the overall story. However, the action scenes might be a bit slow if you're into intense action. But I found it pretty suspenseful and enjoyable. Unfortunately, the CGI was a 'B' at best. But to make things worse, the editing was pretty bad- like really bad at some parts. There were some very 'rough' transitions and a few scenes even repeated themselves. Hopefully, with time they will correct these but I don't know how if that's possible or not. That said, it was still a pretty good drama. The story was cool, the acting was very good and I loved the military aspects. I wish there were more military Dramas like this.It is worth a watch if you're into military dramas, and if there were a season 2 I would also watch that too, but I'd hope that they get a better editing team.
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How are people not talking about this show more???
Woah. This show was so unexpectedly good! When I first found this on MDL by complete chance, I wasn’t expecting much, as I hadn’t heard any hype or recommendations for the show. However after watching it, I believe it compares to some of the top thrillers/mysteries/military k-dramas and even exceeds them in many ways. Full disclosure- I actually finished the show a few months before writing this review so I don’t quite remember all of the small details, but honestly the show was so good, i’m already considering rewatching it. The pacing was so well done- rare in K-dramas honestly, the acting was amazing and so was the plot. Nothing felt out of place or took me out of the show, and I felt engaged the entire time (rare for my adhd self lol). If you’re looking for an all-rounder good show, I would HIGHLY recommend this show, even if it’s not as popular as others, it really deserves to be. You won’t regret it :)Was this review helpful to you?
Great action series
Loved this series. can’t understand how anyone would not. Great actors.I would definitely watch it again. It’s full of intrigue, and you have to keep focused on the storyline to find out who each character is linked to. it can be difficult when remembering the character names are a challenge.
Sad at times, funny, Suspensful, loveable characters with some moments of frustration/hate for the baddies and great revenge, which we all look for!
The ending…well, you’ll have to watch it to see how it ends!
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Fantastically paced show, shame that only in the second half.
Honestly, if this series started on 6th episode or if the pace of the action was the same throughout the whole show rather than only during second half, I’d gladly gave it a ten point score. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. For the first half of the show we can observe festival of very poor CGI (honestly, couple of times I had to check when this series was made, because for a moment I assumed that in late nineties) and very two dimensional characters. I call them “one line characters” these are the ones, that you can describe only by one line. For example “This is John, he’s the drone guy”. And we have around five characters like this introduced in one scene. This is luckily corrected on the second half of the show (two dimensional characters, not the CGI, this is poor till the very end) but I felt that it was way too late for that. And shame, because on about 6th or 7th episode this show starts to be amazing. We finally get some depth to the characters, action gets on its track and motives are finally clear.
I’d get back to the beginning of the show once again. Let’s talk about how this show is made. Because for some time we have a plethora of singe scenes that seemed to be cut in half. And there’s like a hour long break between those halves, which results of situations like this:
In first half of the scene enigmatic character enters the restaurant. The owner is suprised, since she haven’t seen him for ten years. We don’t see the face of the character, he doesn’t say a word. Cut.
Second scene, about half of the episode later, we finally see the face of the character, he sits by the table and orders. Brother of the owner explains that this is that guy who haven’t beed visiting the restaurant for a couple of years. We get the name. How it’s relevant to the story? It really isn’t, we get a bit of more explanation at the end of the series, but it’s not so important to make viewer figure out who this guy is for half of episode.
Plus he have a lot of characters to follow, a lot of threads that happen simultaneously (or at least that’s how they’re shown), we have characters from the past and their present versions. I was watching it on Rakuten, where you can turn on comments from the viewers, and trust me, not only me had problems to follow what’s happening on the screen.
The problem is, that if I would have some more of social life or we wouldn’t be in the middle of the pandemic, I’d decide that my time is too precious for this. And that would be a big mistake, because last five episodes are amazing. At this point we finally have some character development (finally we can clearly see who’s who). Scattered pieces of the plot finally come together. All lines are connected. And even silly moments don’t hurt so much (I mean fighting using Samsung phone, because you know, product placement, we need to show how durable this thing is).
To finalise, I can say that it’s either great show with poor beginning or average show with very good ending. I guess it all depends of which perspective you’ll get.
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SHORT AND THRILLING!!!
The plot was interesting every episode was thrilling. The acting was great.The drama was unpredictable. we don't know what exactly it is a psycho, zombie, animal etc. it makes us stand on toes.
The past and present of the story are related which is only reveled in the end was good.
the role of different military officers during a mission was shown beautifully.
the heartbreak when lost someone in the team was touching.
the living in military zone was shown in a good way.
the people interested in thriller can blindly go for it.
IT'S A GREAT THRILLER AND SUSPENSE
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A+ Story, Acting, Series
'Search' is definitely in my top 5 dramas of all time. I was hooked from episode 1 on the eerie subject, location (DMZ), and suspicious characters. When I began the first episode, the opening theme immediately reminded me of the movie 'Sicario' (another creepy one!).While stationed along the DMZ, the main character, a South Korean military dog handler named Dong Jin, falls into an unexpected situation when he is just one week from discharge. Something strange is afflicting the land and people surrounding the DMZ. The writers tied that opening synopsis into the ending SO WELL, I nearly cried. Learning all about Dong Jin's past, the 1997 DMZ incident, and how each of the unit's characters fall into play together, kept me hooked. I can't recommend this series enough. I normally only watch romantic comedies, but took a chance this week and picked up 'Search' -- I was quite pleasantly surprised!
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bon départ mais on s'essouffle
un peu trop vu et revu comme scénario, les effets spéciaux des derniers épisodes sont pas terribles ils étaient mieux dans les premiers épisodes, ce qui m'a donné envie de poursuivre d'ailleurs. je trouve dommage que le chien soit quasi inexistant dans les 5 derniers épisodes, dommage, pour un maitre chien !le jeu d'acteurs est correct, manque un peu de conviction. certains rôles n'apportent rien.
des flash-backs qui, à part une infime partie d'entre eux, étaient inutiles, c'est dommage car on se lasse du coup.
Les effets spéciaux sont bien réussis dans l'ensemble, dans la forêt, mais à la fin ça dérape....
concernant le scénario, des points de l'intrigue manque de développement, certains passages sont incohérents ou improbables
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Un titre prometteur et décevant
Depuis "Descendant of the Sun" je fais une fixation sur les séries avec des militaires (un fantasme de jeunesse et Song Joong ki doit y être pour beaucoup). J'avais beaucoup aimé "Crash Landing on you" (ma crise d'hystérie d'ado n'a pas encore atteint son summum) c'est donc avec joie que j'apprend qu'une série type militaire était planifiée. Et pourtant, je vais devoir déchanter très vite...La série n'est pas mauvaise en soi mais pas assez prenante pour que j'y ai pris un réel plaisir. 10 épisodes étaient peut-être, de manière assez contradictoire, insuffisants. Il y avait encore tant à raconter, tant d'interrogation inachevée...
J'ai apprécié le côté SF du scénario, assez intéressant sans être d'une grande originalité (le coup du virus est assez classique). Mais tout cela a été selon moi sous-exploité. Et beaucoup d'incohérence, de non sens dans le scénario.
Je n'entrerais pas dans le détails afin de ne pas gâcher le plaisir de ceux qui veulent le voir. Mais une petite équipe qui est loin d'être l'élite se voit assigner une mission à haut risque avec des cibles surhumaines? Hum, j'ai eu du mal à adhérer (mais pourquoi pas).
L'histoire de la caméra : pourquoi? quand? comment? (ou alors j'ai raté quelque chose en allant à la pause pipi...). D'ailleurs, mon mari me disait "j'espère qu'ils ne vont pas nous faire le coup du caméscope dans l'eau qui fonctionne encore 23 ans plus tard", cela n'a pas loupé.
Que faisait la cible dans le village, qui était-elle? Pourquoi des couleurs différentes? L'ennui est donc qu'on nous pointe dans une direction et puis, plus rien. C'est plutôt frustrant.
La relation entre les personnages est très loin (TRES) d'être forte, réelle, fusionnelle...L'alchimie entre Yong Dong Jin et Son Ye Rim est proche du néant. On nous montre trois fois rien, on ne sait donc ni comment et ni pourquoi il y a eu une relation entre ces deux là. Ce qui a pour conséquence un manque d'empathie de la part du spectateur. Je m'attendais à plus de bromance entre les soldats, un peu comme dans 'Descendant of the sun" et puis, non, un semblant d'amitié.
Suis-je un peu dure? insensible? peut-être, mais je n'ai pas réussis à m'attacher à un seul des personnages, et à ce niveau là, il m'était donc dur de sympathiser avec eux. Et puis il faut avouer que les vilains de l'histoire manquent cruellement de charisme et d'intelligence...Bref, un drama qui avait du potentiel et qui au final s'est un peu cassé la figure et qui ne restera pas dans ma mémoire longtemps.
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Satisfatório do começo ao fim
O drama se desenvolveu bem e a história realmente pode ser contada em 10 episodios, com uma temática interessante que deu certo.Tive medo que a história não pudesse ser bem explorada e infelizmente um ponto ficou sem muita explicação, a parte do projeto Joseon mas entendi que não foi realmente o foco, e sim o que veio depois dele.
Os protagonistas foram bem explorados e foi interessante ver como eles lidaram com as coisas, e mesmo que o romance não fosse o foco e esse sendo um drama da OCN não esperava um ship, eles sendo ex-namorados com essas briguinhas momentâneas e a forma como se entendiam bem foi suficiente. Queria mais? Queria, mas aceito o que tive.
Ver o protagonista usando o nme do pai no fim me deixou emocionada e ver que todos ainda ficaram amigos, foi um fim satisfatório.
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