Good Boy Episode 1

Terrible start to a promising plot

I want to like this drama. I genuinely do. The cast alone was enough to convince me to watch it but this first episode was not it. The first hour was a boring and mildly annoying "introduction" (if you could even call it that) to our band of good misfits who are part of the top 1% in the country. For a first episode, it focused more on building up the "plot" and the case instead of properly building up our characters. It's as if the characters were all conveniently and boringly placed into this corrupt mess of a police force and then they also conveniently come together to solve the Golden Bunny case right at the last few minutes of the episode to showcase how good /capable they actually are. I keep saying conveniently because almost everything just falls into place in the last minutes of the episode which is baffling given that it's only the first episode and in the past hour they just kept showing how terrible everything is. The final 30 or so minutes convinced me to continue watching despite ranting the whole hour about how boring and terrible the build up is, but I can already see myself feeling the same throughout the drama. It's as if they have the ingredients for a good drama but it all gets messed up because of terrible direction and writing ;-;

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