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WHY IS THIS SO HIGH RATED?
Suspicious partner has been one of the most highest rated drama and for years of putting this off to watch later, I finally decided to give this one a try and was even quite excited to do so. Watching JI Chang Wook's Healer which I really liked and Melting me softly which I didn't, I was excited to watch his star in a legal drama and playing the role of a lawyer.
After watching 20 episodes which is 50% of the drama I can confidently say that now I can give a verdict.
THE GOOD:
1. JI CHANG WOOK - the confidence with which the actor potrays the character is just so charming and will draw you in. His ability to potray emotions, be vulnerable, frustrated, sad or simply flirty with that classic charm and smile of his is what makes this drama watchable.
THE BAD:
1. UNDERDEVELOVED ROMANCE: this drama is pretty self aware with it's biggest selling point being the romance of the leads yet it fails to do so. We have their first meeting then a 3 month leap, then again after an incident another 2 year leap and they meet again and their story moves forward from there, but most of their scenes doesn't even make your heart flutter, most of the time its the FL who is in her feels because of her one sided love and even when the ML cares for her, the scenes are so sparce and rare that sometimes you even question does he really have genuine feels for her?
2. FEMALE LEAD: continuing with my earlier point, before the 2 year leap the FL is already in love with ML, but, apart from the guy saving her life while sacrifising his ( which is also because of his own morals and conscience) not entirely linked with the female lead and thus losing his job in the process, in the two months they were together there was barely any scenes for them to fall in love with each other so deeply( later it was revealed that male lead has always loved her but never realised).
We are watching a legal drama so we would naturally expect a smart , mature and classy female lead, but we barely see her in the court room and even when we do its either the male lead doing everything and her just sitting their not contributing to anything, even when she presents her arguments she comes off as childish who is reciting lines without any conviction, confidence, personality or charm and her high pitched baby voice which works when she wants to be cute but fails horribly while presenting her side of the argumets, thus her just ended up becoming a classing accesory for the male to be her night in shinning armour, even then you question, what is really so likable about the female lead again? She doesn't fit and is extremely surface level.
3. VERY SLOW PACING
4. ABDRUPT TONAL SHIFT : one second there is a serial killer and investigation another someone is making a corny joke or some abrupt shift to romance that it's going to hit neither of the feels.
5. UNINTERESTING SIDE CHARA CTERS: this is only drama where not a single supporting characters interests you. the dialogues are bland which doesn't help either.
6. CHEATERS ARE GIVEN REDEMPTIONS : cheating is always a choice not a compulsion but to see that both ML and FL were cheated on but instead of feeling disgusted by them they are actually being frieds with is diabolical. as and adult who went through a similar situation i was disgusted by those characters and there were three of them.
7. MAIN STORY AND ITS SUSPENSE TAKES A BACK SEAT AND THE MOTIVATION OF THE KILLER AND PLOT WAS PREDICTABLE.
8. BORING COURT ROOM SEQUENCE.
9. UNREALISTIC AND DUMB DOWN LAWYERS AND SITUATIONS WHICH MAKES THE VILLAIN SEEMS INTELLIGENT.
10. VERY MEDIOCRE OST AND FORGETABLE.
FINAL THOUGHTS- started great but after a while it was lawn inducing. tried to do too much and failed at everything.
So the question arises WHY IS THIS ONE SO HIGH RATED?
After watching 20 episodes which is 50% of the drama I can confidently say that now I can give a verdict.
THE GOOD:
1. JI CHANG WOOK - the confidence with which the actor potrays the character is just so charming and will draw you in. His ability to potray emotions, be vulnerable, frustrated, sad or simply flirty with that classic charm and smile of his is what makes this drama watchable.
THE BAD:
1. UNDERDEVELOVED ROMANCE: this drama is pretty self aware with it's biggest selling point being the romance of the leads yet it fails to do so. We have their first meeting then a 3 month leap, then again after an incident another 2 year leap and they meet again and their story moves forward from there, but most of their scenes doesn't even make your heart flutter, most of the time its the FL who is in her feels because of her one sided love and even when the ML cares for her, the scenes are so sparce and rare that sometimes you even question does he really have genuine feels for her?
2. FEMALE LEAD: continuing with my earlier point, before the 2 year leap the FL is already in love with ML, but, apart from the guy saving her life while sacrifising his ( which is also because of his own morals and conscience) not entirely linked with the female lead and thus losing his job in the process, in the two months they were together there was barely any scenes for them to fall in love with each other so deeply( later it was revealed that male lead has always loved her but never realised).
We are watching a legal drama so we would naturally expect a smart , mature and classy female lead, but we barely see her in the court room and even when we do its either the male lead doing everything and her just sitting their not contributing to anything, even when she presents her arguments she comes off as childish who is reciting lines without any conviction, confidence, personality or charm and her high pitched baby voice which works when she wants to be cute but fails horribly while presenting her side of the argumets, thus her just ended up becoming a classing accesory for the male to be her night in shinning armour, even then you question, what is really so likable about the female lead again? She doesn't fit and is extremely surface level.
3. VERY SLOW PACING
4. ABDRUPT TONAL SHIFT : one second there is a serial killer and investigation another someone is making a corny joke or some abrupt shift to romance that it's going to hit neither of the feels.
5. UNINTERESTING SIDE CHARA CTERS: this is only drama where not a single supporting characters interests you. the dialogues are bland which doesn't help either.
6. CHEATERS ARE GIVEN REDEMPTIONS : cheating is always a choice not a compulsion but to see that both ML and FL were cheated on but instead of feeling disgusted by them they are actually being frieds with is diabolical. as and adult who went through a similar situation i was disgusted by those characters and there were three of them.
7. MAIN STORY AND ITS SUSPENSE TAKES A BACK SEAT AND THE MOTIVATION OF THE KILLER AND PLOT WAS PREDICTABLE.
8. BORING COURT ROOM SEQUENCE.
9. UNREALISTIC AND DUMB DOWN LAWYERS AND SITUATIONS WHICH MAKES THE VILLAIN SEEMS INTELLIGENT.
10. VERY MEDIOCRE OST AND FORGETABLE.
FINAL THOUGHTS- started great but after a while it was lawn inducing. tried to do too much and failed at everything.
So the question arises WHY IS THIS ONE SO HIGH RATED?
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