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Should be Called "The Coroner & Her Team".
Really was the dark horse drama people are mentioning because like everyone else, I expected a decent watch but this show had a lot more for me. First added this to see ARP in a series ML role that didn't paint him as a goofball. I know LL from other dramas and felt that this couple would be a good team. Both second leads and some of the support were familiar though not all. I felt that this should have been called "the Coroner & her Team".
Pros: The whole point of the story was to solve cases; 7 smaller ones and the last was the reason they were there. Some of the cases tied back to the last one. There was no miscommunication or misunderstandings between our couples at all. I saw some reviews calling the FL a "Mary Sue" that she was perfect but she was far from it. She constantly put herself in dangerous situations sometimes before she even knew she couldn't handle them to help or save someone. As a doctor/coroner, that's what they do even in real life. If they can help, they'll go and do it. The ML was a strategist of the highest order who was a martial arts master who could wield almost any weapon. Growing up in the barracks being taught from a young age helped with that. Both ML and FL had people they wanted to vindicate and get revenge for and very quickly learned they were on the same side. He fell first and hard,she was a bit slower, but once she got there, she was determined to be with him till death did them part. Though I know this was not a romantic series, they did do romance well for the leads; as well as were cute for the other two couples. Though she took on a different name and hid in a house full of vultures, he figured out fairly quickly who she was. He fell for her intelligence and caring first and then everything else. 2nd and 3rd couple were also good and extremely helpful. ARP definitely proved himself in this role. He could go from intense happiness and joy to total shock and heartbreak in seconds.
The pacing was well done; all of the cases though we as the audience knew who the perps were from nearly the get go, were carefully thought out and explained. Loved the fighting scenes, all of them. We started figuring out that the mastermind behind the entire thing of killing FL's parents and hordes of other people was the emperor himself and he wasn't even the real Emperor toward the second half of the series. There were a little hints here and there, but not until the second half, and those cases, did the leads, and we have the audience started putting pieces together. The original two sons of the real emperor was in a way of a smoke screen because the fake emperor wanted to kill them anyways, but not by his own hand. He was the twin of the real emperor that because of one fateful decision made by the Empress Dowager re-shaped everyone's lives and caused many unnecessary deaths. How, you may ask? You'll have to see for yourselves. Comedy was small but natural.
Other great characters both on the protagonist and antagonist sides were the people involved in the cases be they bad or good, and how they played them as well as the two grandmothers, all the cousins even dad of ML and both wives of the fake emperor and the official leader of the flower cult who also had a bone to pick with the fake emperor and finally caused his death. What was very good was that every single character exited out properly. There were no loose ends. there were no well where did he go suddenly? There was no rush to the finish line. That was something I was a bit afraid of, but they solved all eight cases and everyone got what they deserved. Plus the right person was put on the throne at the end. Another huge positive was that it literally ended the way it started just with a lot more hands. If before being a coroner was a nasty profession that only men could handle and women were completely looked down on, and it was never advertised then by the end, she had students of both sexes learning how to perform autopsies, and there was a reform in the law based on all of the cases that they had solved. And now they were again working together to solve yet another case. It wasn't them sailing off into the sunset together with a kiss, but exactly how it started; with a case.
It was obvious that this was a cheaper production because all of the outside and natural forests and woods and things were fake, but you didn't really pay attention to that too much as there were so many things going on at the time. OST's landed, costumes and sets were good. Solid script with solid acting; people stayed for as long as they were needed in the story. I also knew that I was not watching a documentary on anatomy so I did not expect there to be accurate organs or anything of that nature when she performed the autopsy. I was just there to watch a story and see her go from point A to point B. I know there were a bunch of people in the comments that had forensic experience and that's great but in order for them to be that accurate in everything forensics, it would not be able to pass censorship.
Cons: I don't have a lot to add to this section, but one of the things that got me was the fake emperor's over acting toward the end. I wasn't sure whether that was part of the script or whether the actor was just adding his own feel for it, but he was overdoing it way too much, and it kind of threw the balance of his character off. One could argue that his mental state was slipping because of just how many people he had killed that were related to him. But it was just a bit too much. Also as a fan of YSZ I really wish they would've introduced his character sooner then in nearly the last 10 episodes of the series because he was very important and it felt a little bit like his character was rushed though he did have his purpose considering the heavenly society, a.k.a. Cult was one of the major cases and just things in general in the story. The other thing was couple number two and the way they whined a lot, especially the female, though she could totally kick ass with her sword and maybe even a whip, but sometimes she acted like a 12-year-old and that was something I'm not particularly fond of. I do wish that there weren't as many interruptions from just about everyone and for the leads to have had a little bit more kissing in the show; some people couldn't read the room to save their lives! Or even a situation at hand. That's it I don't have anything else.
Would you recommend it? I absolutely would. This drama came out of nowhere and slayed quite a lot of other dramas that have dropped recently. I think it's a great watch, especially if you like the detective crime solving portion of things with great friends and a partner who always has your back.
Pros: The whole point of the story was to solve cases; 7 smaller ones and the last was the reason they were there. Some of the cases tied back to the last one. There was no miscommunication or misunderstandings between our couples at all. I saw some reviews calling the FL a "Mary Sue" that she was perfect but she was far from it. She constantly put herself in dangerous situations sometimes before she even knew she couldn't handle them to help or save someone. As a doctor/coroner, that's what they do even in real life. If they can help, they'll go and do it. The ML was a strategist of the highest order who was a martial arts master who could wield almost any weapon. Growing up in the barracks being taught from a young age helped with that. Both ML and FL had people they wanted to vindicate and get revenge for and very quickly learned they were on the same side. He fell first and hard,she was a bit slower, but once she got there, she was determined to be with him till death did them part. Though I know this was not a romantic series, they did do romance well for the leads; as well as were cute for the other two couples. Though she took on a different name and hid in a house full of vultures, he figured out fairly quickly who she was. He fell for her intelligence and caring first and then everything else. 2nd and 3rd couple were also good and extremely helpful. ARP definitely proved himself in this role. He could go from intense happiness and joy to total shock and heartbreak in seconds.
The pacing was well done; all of the cases though we as the audience knew who the perps were from nearly the get go, were carefully thought out and explained. Loved the fighting scenes, all of them. We started figuring out that the mastermind behind the entire thing of killing FL's parents and hordes of other people was the emperor himself and he wasn't even the real Emperor toward the second half of the series. There were a little hints here and there, but not until the second half, and those cases, did the leads, and we have the audience started putting pieces together. The original two sons of the real emperor was in a way of a smoke screen because the fake emperor wanted to kill them anyways, but not by his own hand. He was the twin of the real emperor that because of one fateful decision made by the Empress Dowager re-shaped everyone's lives and caused many unnecessary deaths. How, you may ask? You'll have to see for yourselves. Comedy was small but natural.
Other great characters both on the protagonist and antagonist sides were the people involved in the cases be they bad or good, and how they played them as well as the two grandmothers, all the cousins even dad of ML and both wives of the fake emperor and the official leader of the flower cult who also had a bone to pick with the fake emperor and finally caused his death. What was very good was that every single character exited out properly. There were no loose ends. there were no well where did he go suddenly? There was no rush to the finish line. That was something I was a bit afraid of, but they solved all eight cases and everyone got what they deserved. Plus the right person was put on the throne at the end. Another huge positive was that it literally ended the way it started just with a lot more hands. If before being a coroner was a nasty profession that only men could handle and women were completely looked down on, and it was never advertised then by the end, she had students of both sexes learning how to perform autopsies, and there was a reform in the law based on all of the cases that they had solved. And now they were again working together to solve yet another case. It wasn't them sailing off into the sunset together with a kiss, but exactly how it started; with a case.
It was obvious that this was a cheaper production because all of the outside and natural forests and woods and things were fake, but you didn't really pay attention to that too much as there were so many things going on at the time. OST's landed, costumes and sets were good. Solid script with solid acting; people stayed for as long as they were needed in the story. I also knew that I was not watching a documentary on anatomy so I did not expect there to be accurate organs or anything of that nature when she performed the autopsy. I was just there to watch a story and see her go from point A to point B. I know there were a bunch of people in the comments that had forensic experience and that's great but in order for them to be that accurate in everything forensics, it would not be able to pass censorship.
Cons: I don't have a lot to add to this section, but one of the things that got me was the fake emperor's over acting toward the end. I wasn't sure whether that was part of the script or whether the actor was just adding his own feel for it, but he was overdoing it way too much, and it kind of threw the balance of his character off. One could argue that his mental state was slipping because of just how many people he had killed that were related to him. But it was just a bit too much. Also as a fan of YSZ I really wish they would've introduced his character sooner then in nearly the last 10 episodes of the series because he was very important and it felt a little bit like his character was rushed though he did have his purpose considering the heavenly society, a.k.a. Cult was one of the major cases and just things in general in the story. The other thing was couple number two and the way they whined a lot, especially the female, though she could totally kick ass with her sword and maybe even a whip, but sometimes she acted like a 12-year-old and that was something I'm not particularly fond of. I do wish that there weren't as many interruptions from just about everyone and for the leads to have had a little bit more kissing in the show; some people couldn't read the room to save their lives! Or even a situation at hand. That's it I don't have anything else.
Would you recommend it? I absolutely would. This drama came out of nowhere and slayed quite a lot of other dramas that have dropped recently. I think it's a great watch, especially if you like the detective crime solving portion of things with great friends and a partner who always has your back.
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