Great fun for a drama with a decidedly dark side
May 2025
I so enjoyed this! The often dead-pan humour, the mix of characters (a few quirky, to say the least 😄), the cast/acting, and most importantly, the plot, which is actually very dark.
The soundtrack fit really well, too.
Cha Tae-hyun is a favourite actor, and I feel he's quite underappreciated. No one does acting via wonderful facial expressions, quite like he does.
Lee Sun-bin, as the tenacious and often principled [for a] reporter, spent most of the drama with messy hair and looking like she needed a good rest - but it fit the character. She was all about the job of breaking stories and revealing the truth, never mind how dangerous. Everything else came second.
The very early episodes had some really OTT elements. Luckily I could overlook those and stuck with it; mainly because there was more I was starting to enjoy about the series, that it didn't put me right off.
It is a blend that doesn't always work... a darker side, comedy, tongue-in-cheek and at times whacky... but as far as I was concerned, it worked in this. I found myself laughing in just about every episode, and getting really tense in others.
Lots of twists and turns, too; plus a great climax.
The way the music changed whenever one particular character, played by Yoon Kyung-ho, appeared, made me giggle every time.
It also demonstrated the power of the media.
Definitely worth a watch, and I'd have given 10⭐️ for rewatch value, were it not for knowing the ending 2nd time+ around.
I so enjoyed this! The often dead-pan humour, the mix of characters (a few quirky, to say the least 😄), the cast/acting, and most importantly, the plot, which is actually very dark.
The soundtrack fit really well, too.
Cha Tae-hyun is a favourite actor, and I feel he's quite underappreciated. No one does acting via wonderful facial expressions, quite like he does.
Lee Sun-bin, as the tenacious and often principled [for a] reporter, spent most of the drama with messy hair and looking like she needed a good rest - but it fit the character. She was all about the job of breaking stories and revealing the truth, never mind how dangerous. Everything else came second.
The very early episodes had some really OTT elements. Luckily I could overlook those and stuck with it; mainly because there was more I was starting to enjoy about the series, that it didn't put me right off.
It is a blend that doesn't always work... a darker side, comedy, tongue-in-cheek and at times whacky... but as far as I was concerned, it worked in this. I found myself laughing in just about every episode, and getting really tense in others.
Lots of twists and turns, too; plus a great climax.
The way the music changed whenever one particular character, played by Yoon Kyung-ho, appeared, made me giggle every time.
It also demonstrated the power of the media.
Definitely worth a watch, and I'd have given 10⭐️ for rewatch value, were it not for knowing the ending 2nd time+ around.
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