Blatantly overrated! A decent watch, occasionally entertaining, story meh
Entertaining premise with below average execution.
Acting is decent but not perfect. Lee Jehoon as Kim Do-gi is the one with most screen time and also that might be why his acting flaws become obvious over the course of the drama. I do not think he can hold the main role with such script. Therefore, to mitigate that, the screenwriters should have pushed all members of the Rainbow Taxi team (Seong Cheol, Go Eun, Gyeong Gu, Jin Eon) to have equal screen time, and well polished background stories. The team members had quirks that would appeal to audience much more than blatant exposition of Kim Do-gi's as "hot and dangerous" over and over again. We get it, he is handsome but it becomes boring after exactly one episode and that cannot carry the whole 16 episodes...which seems what the screen writers intended. And again, it is not justified why Do-gi is the main character, as his story is not presented with particularly more depth, than any other.
Then as for episodes, well, all stories they have a pattern of being quite one layered. Killers/criminals are straight-up bad evil guys without any complexity. Do-gi beats them up, the team chips in marginally (but never can do anything on their own). Even the main characters have very weak development. I am generally disappointed by the script.
What is holding this drama up is the novelty of each episode having a new interesting premise (albeit I forget what I watched the minute I stop watching).
Brainless entertainment that you can enter with low expectation.
As the fan #1 of brainless entertainment, I will watch S2.
...But 8.8 for this drama? Someone must be tripping, and it ain't me.
Thanks for reading,
JPX
Acting is decent but not perfect. Lee Jehoon as Kim Do-gi is the one with most screen time and also that might be why his acting flaws become obvious over the course of the drama. I do not think he can hold the main role with such script. Therefore, to mitigate that, the screenwriters should have pushed all members of the Rainbow Taxi team (Seong Cheol, Go Eun, Gyeong Gu, Jin Eon) to have equal screen time, and well polished background stories. The team members had quirks that would appeal to audience much more than blatant exposition of Kim Do-gi's as "hot and dangerous" over and over again. We get it, he is handsome but it becomes boring after exactly one episode and that cannot carry the whole 16 episodes...which seems what the screen writers intended. And again, it is not justified why Do-gi is the main character, as his story is not presented with particularly more depth, than any other.
Then as for episodes, well, all stories they have a pattern of being quite one layered. Killers/criminals are straight-up bad evil guys without any complexity. Do-gi beats them up, the team chips in marginally (but never can do anything on their own). Even the main characters have very weak development. I am generally disappointed by the script.
What is holding this drama up is the novelty of each episode having a new interesting premise (albeit I forget what I watched the minute I stop watching).
Brainless entertainment that you can enter with low expectation.
As the fan #1 of brainless entertainment, I will watch S2.
...But 8.8 for this drama? Someone must be tripping, and it ain't me.
Thanks for reading,
JPX
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