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A decent series, could've been better!
The Judge returns is a good drama with an interesting premise of what if someone, a corrupted judge was given a second chance to redo his bad choices and live as a good guy, what will he do? how is he going to deal with situations he had already lived? and that's kind it.
The story as you can imagine already, is nothing new or spectacular but it was fun overall and an enjoyable experience to be honest with some issues here and there and around the ending which is why i'm saying it could've been better.
The acting as expected was good especially the ML and the antagonist Kang, the tension and everything between them was amazing, the action was also not that bad even though we only had few instances. The music in other hand was meh.
Now, if you're reading this review then let me tell you, the first 2 episodes are slow and boring with high intensity bg music, you feel like you're watching a cheap series. It's only after ep 4 that i started feeling interested, and i'm a person who don't give a chance like that, when i don't feel connected in the first 2 or 3 episodes, i drop the series and well, i didn't do that here and i wasn't wrong.
The thing that was never explained though was how the ML came back to life? I mean, how and why? and by 'WHY' i mean, why him exactly? what happened? I understand he was given a chance to redeem himself but It was never stated nor explained why he came back to life and especially 10 years in the past? This question was never answered.
I liked the tension between the ML and the antagonist but i felt like the ML was playing on easy mode as well as the rest of his friends. like you're telling me that these guys with all the power and money they had couldn't at least be a problem? be some kind of threat? I think this point really made risk/reward feel cheap and whenever you're watching, you just know that Judge Lee is having it figured out. It's fine though when the ML is smart and one step ahead, this is something we're used to in fiction in general but when there's no real threat that could seriously harm the protagonists then it's nothing really.
The ending was not really what i expected and it's directly connected to my previous point of threat. Kang (i'm sure he's coming back with more power) was presented as this evil person who trust no one and do everything to achieve his goals, something about that point was wrong because the ML met him, made him trust him and then knocked him out and that was so easy that you feel disappointed. 14 episodes building him up to just put him down in 2 episodes? like Come on.
The final thing that i want to address is why do we actually need a 2nd season? like, don't get me wrong, i might watch it when it comes out but why not just do something different and keep the antagonists down for good, why do we need to watch it happening all again?
I understand the financial reasons behind this move and also from a writing standpoint. You know that the antagonists were put down real quick, you know there was no real tension or serious threat, you know you heroes were going on easy mode but was it intentional or somehow you know you made lot of mistakes? Well, i don't know who can answer that question but as a viewer i already made my points clear.
The story as you can imagine already, is nothing new or spectacular but it was fun overall and an enjoyable experience to be honest with some issues here and there and around the ending which is why i'm saying it could've been better.
The acting as expected was good especially the ML and the antagonist Kang, the tension and everything between them was amazing, the action was also not that bad even though we only had few instances. The music in other hand was meh.
Now, if you're reading this review then let me tell you, the first 2 episodes are slow and boring with high intensity bg music, you feel like you're watching a cheap series. It's only after ep 4 that i started feeling interested, and i'm a person who don't give a chance like that, when i don't feel connected in the first 2 or 3 episodes, i drop the series and well, i didn't do that here and i wasn't wrong.
The thing that was never explained though was how the ML came back to life? I mean, how and why? and by 'WHY' i mean, why him exactly? what happened? I understand he was given a chance to redeem himself but It was never stated nor explained why he came back to life and especially 10 years in the past? This question was never answered.
I liked the tension between the ML and the antagonist but i felt like the ML was playing on easy mode as well as the rest of his friends. like you're telling me that these guys with all the power and money they had couldn't at least be a problem? be some kind of threat? I think this point really made risk/reward feel cheap and whenever you're watching, you just know that Judge Lee is having it figured out. It's fine though when the ML is smart and one step ahead, this is something we're used to in fiction in general but when there's no real threat that could seriously harm the protagonists then it's nothing really.
The ending was not really what i expected and it's directly connected to my previous point of threat. Kang (i'm sure he's coming back with more power) was presented as this evil person who trust no one and do everything to achieve his goals, something about that point was wrong because the ML met him, made him trust him and then knocked him out and that was so easy that you feel disappointed. 14 episodes building him up to just put him down in 2 episodes? like Come on.
The final thing that i want to address is why do we actually need a 2nd season? like, don't get me wrong, i might watch it when it comes out but why not just do something different and keep the antagonists down for good, why do we need to watch it happening all again?
I understand the financial reasons behind this move and also from a writing standpoint. You know that the antagonists were put down real quick, you know there was no real tension or serious threat, you know you heroes were going on easy mode but was it intentional or somehow you know you made lot of mistakes? Well, i don't know who can answer that question but as a viewer i already made my points clear.
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