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Okay so honestly I wish I could say more about this drama than just Kim Bum was in it, but Kim Bum was in it. You know it's bad when it gets to the end and you're kind of disappointed when Kim Bum doesn't die 😐. I thought the premise was really good, and it started out strong, but it just seemed to drag to me, and like the whole idea behind the villain was very convoluted. There were a lot of moving parts, and most of the time you were just confused. The biggest disappointment of all was Kim Bum's character, which was to be honest pretty boring. I mean, you could definitely tell that he was hurting, to the point where him dying at the end made more sense than him not, but there wasn't much else to him. All we ever knew about him was that he was in love with this girl that died 8 years ago and apparently he just has no family, no friends, nobody else other than these 2 brother & sister duo in the entire world. Also if I had to see that girl, die one more time in a flashback, I was gonna lose it! I really wish they would have filmed more scenes with her and Kim bum so that we could have seen more than just her getting stabbed 5000 times. By the time it finally showed the actual entire scene, you were over it, like we get it. On top of that there is supposed to be a relationship between Kim bum and this Tae-Min character but the problem with that their relationship is not fleshed out at all. Other than the fact that he is the brother of the woman Kim bum loves, we know NOTHING about how they became friends, why their friends, or how long they've been friends. We see no flashbacks of their past relationship or present one. It's all tell, don't show. We're just supposed to assume that these guys were besties, but there's no evidence of that. So when Tae-Min dies and I was more heartbroken, when the they shot my little scientist guy who invented the virus because he was so sweet. He had a girlfriend that was about to give birth to his baby & he sacrificed his life to save them.
I felt more sad when they shot him then, when they prolonged the death of a main character. I just didn't really care about Tae-Min like he's in very little of the show, and we're just supposed to know about his past and deeply care about him. I felt more for Kim Bum because he grieved. There was also no romance in the show, other than the dead gf. If you want me to struggle through a drama put no romance whatsoever in it and I will always struggle just a little to finish it. Romance, just adds momentum and heart. I think that's why I loved the scientist guy cause he was the only one that had a romantic relationship in the entire show. The other characters were pretty basic. You liked them. You didn't love them. If they had all died at the end, I wouldn't have been that upset about it because sadly, you get to know these characters on a professional basis only and you know very little about their personal lives, the girl is the only one we delve into a little bit. But at that point, her character has been set up as so uninteresting and kind of bland that you don't really care.
There was little to no humor in the show. The one guy that brought in the humor was probably my favorite character.
Also, something that I absolutely despised was that they got the chance over and over again to kill the man who killed his woman and a million more people without remorse and they couldnt because that'll make you as bad as he is, and all that crap. I hated that! I hate when characters who are incredibly evil and have done unspeakable unholy things, the good guys just refuse to kill them. I hate that so much, so that was annoying. It could have saved us so much time in so many lives, honestly, including Tae-Min, he would have lived if he killed him when he had the chance. I thought the drama was fine. It was very much Mrs. Cop, esque, but not as good. Because Kim Bum was a good guy, whereas in Mrs. Cop 2 he was the bad guy, so he gave the drama a cat and mouse game that made it worth watching. All in all if Bummy is the love of your life and you just need to watch something with Kim bum. Here it is, he was in it. Of course, he was amazing as he is in everything. But unfortunately, I feel like because this character is just constantly depressed and just angry at the world all the time, he didn't really get the opportunity to stretch his acting chops a whole lot except in very few scenes. Obviously I watched it for the Bum, I love him; the show however I feel like I just finished it and I've already forgotten it. Which is a bummer, but you have those every once in a while. It was just not for me. I feel like it lacked the family bond that they wanted us to bank on, it lacked heart, It lacked depth, it lacked variety and of course it lacked romance, which is always upsetting at the end of the day. It was just kind of a basic political drama, with enough shockers to keep you going. The little shocker endings were the only things that I found myself looking forward to cause they were usually pretty decent.