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A promising premise's inheritance - you can't have it all
Can you make law interesting, especially laws regarding the dead? I bet someone could, but this drama couldn't.
I refused to take this off my list after everyone with similar tastes as mine said it's not worth watching. I just love case-by-case detective dramas and this one was short and had an actor I wanted to see more of as the lead.
Luckily, it was short. Luckily, the acting was good. That's about all the positive I have to say about it.
It was about as bland as the dinner I made while watching this but unlike with my food, nobody remembered to add spices to this drama. It's so standard and cliché, even the negative points are the same as with any other drama that fails at making itself interesting.
Characters are acting out of character - or, should I say, out of their stereotype - , the cases aren't solved by ability but by bending the law first and everybodys' super powers aka super convenient luck later. Whenever it became clear the drama lacked the ability to create true depth we got served misplaced dull comedy that was mostly only funny because of its randomness or its wannabe inside joke character. Supposedly wholesome moments felt cheesy and after everything else already had let me down, I wasn't in the mood for that.
The ending is rushed, we get a grand speech, curtains fall, applause. We see all these strings come together but never find out how or why they do.
I know I am a rare case but I really want to see people doing their job in these dramas. Show me the dull detective work, explain the dull laws, give me bureaucracy, be smart about playing the system with the authority you have. Maybe bend the rules if you must, but stop doing things that go far beyond the scope of what you're meant to do and what the law allows you to just to get the story moving. If your initial setting does not provide the characters with the abilities and authority to solve the problem you hand them, you make them grow until they can. Not make them the heroes bulldozing their way through when in reality it would be them being put to prison. I'm so tired of this trope.
Overall, I think this drama wanted to be a light entertaining crime drama where quirky characters solve weird cases in a quirky way. Then someone remembered "oh, we need a moral of the story" and everything got hugely exaggerated into a fight against a system this drama never was set out for.
TL;DR
The writers kinda wanted to fuse two different tones - one light and quirky, the other serious and meaningful - into one drama and it just didn't work.
There was no time for foreshadowing, for building a decent plot, create interest in the profession or relatability for the characters. If your initial setting does not provide the characters with the abilities and authority to solve the problem you hand them, you make them grow until they can. This drama wanted to do so many different things at once that it forgot it had to do one thing at least decently to make it good.
There is only one reason I would recommend watching - you want to see something light and easy, you don't mind seeing the same three tropes in an inheritance trenchcoat and you somehow relate to inheritance issues.
I refused to take this off my list after everyone with similar tastes as mine said it's not worth watching. I just love case-by-case detective dramas and this one was short and had an actor I wanted to see more of as the lead.
Luckily, it was short. Luckily, the acting was good. That's about all the positive I have to say about it.
It was about as bland as the dinner I made while watching this but unlike with my food, nobody remembered to add spices to this drama. It's so standard and cliché, even the negative points are the same as with any other drama that fails at making itself interesting.
Characters are acting out of character - or, should I say, out of their stereotype - , the cases aren't solved by ability but by bending the law first and everybodys' super powers aka super convenient luck later. Whenever it became clear the drama lacked the ability to create true depth we got served misplaced dull comedy that was mostly only funny because of its randomness or its wannabe inside joke character. Supposedly wholesome moments felt cheesy and after everything else already had let me down, I wasn't in the mood for that.
The ending is rushed, we get a grand speech, curtains fall, applause. We see all these strings come together but never find out how or why they do.
I know I am a rare case but I really want to see people doing their job in these dramas. Show me the dull detective work, explain the dull laws, give me bureaucracy, be smart about playing the system with the authority you have. Maybe bend the rules if you must, but stop doing things that go far beyond the scope of what you're meant to do and what the law allows you to just to get the story moving. If your initial setting does not provide the characters with the abilities and authority to solve the problem you hand them, you make them grow until they can. Not make them the heroes bulldozing their way through when in reality it would be them being put to prison. I'm so tired of this trope.
Overall, I think this drama wanted to be a light entertaining crime drama where quirky characters solve weird cases in a quirky way. Then someone remembered "oh, we need a moral of the story" and everything got hugely exaggerated into a fight against a system this drama never was set out for.
TL;DR
The writers kinda wanted to fuse two different tones - one light and quirky, the other serious and meaningful - into one drama and it just didn't work.
There was no time for foreshadowing, for building a decent plot, create interest in the profession or relatability for the characters. If your initial setting does not provide the characters with the abilities and authority to solve the problem you hand them, you make them grow until they can. This drama wanted to do so many different things at once that it forgot it had to do one thing at least decently to make it good.
There is only one reason I would recommend watching - you want to see something light and easy, you don't mind seeing the same three tropes in an inheritance trenchcoat and you somehow relate to inheritance issues.
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