Pfff
*sigh* Yep, it is bad. Really bad. The expectations were low and yet it still surprised me. If someone tells you this is a 10, they are trolling you (or they are paid). Or they have a mental condition... Or they are missing the fact that a review should be about quality not personal feeling. So, again, a mental condition. But I digress.
Visuals. Well, the OP is better, now if feels like a proper show. And very sparse good cinematography. Other than that, bad.
Sound design. Does all the heavy-lifting. Seriously. Dunno who the guy in charge is, but he should get a raise. Fantastic work for every scene, even if the story was sht.
The pacing, dragging. Yeah, yeah, so everything is the same, you get the idea.
The "good" parts. While the first season was silly and you could enjoy the fun, even when the story was sht, this one got "serious" while still being sht. So, there's nothing left to keep it alive.
Lets start with the most obvious ones. The writing is extremely bad, full of red herrings, plot devices, plot contrivances and so on. Just to paint a better picture, I guessed every fkin' thing they tried to do. How? Just by guessing "let me guess, now they will make this happen, just because it would be silly. And here it goes, yep". When episode 3 ended, I was sad because I thought I guessed something wrong, but then episode 4 happened and I laughed. And now I'm talking about who the villain is. And I also guessed what his motivation would be. The simple reasons (the five ones), not all of what we got, there was no way to "guess" all that nonsense. And then I guessed the parts for the later episodes. All the red herring, all those "subverting expectations" failures.
Another point to mention here: the season is full of manipulative editing. Thats the proper name for it, I'm not calling names. For example, when a scene is modified by cutting out some dialogue while first watching it, only to be added later in a flashback, to pretend being a reveal. In other words, manipulating your emotions. And the "funny" part? Not only are they doing it every time for this season, they even added for some scenes that happened in the first episode, to change the narrative. Their would-be defense? "Well, we never saw it so you don't know, it could've happened like that". So yeah, everything changed. And with it, character assassination. Because making a "cool" character acting like a "loser", just to make the scene feel emotional, its exactly that, out of character. Anyway, you get the gist. I wont keep going about it. Just know that it is full and it is sht.
Oh, quick side note. You're a paramedic, a person trained to act under pressure and what do you do in case of danger/emergency? You just stay in place and only turn around, yes? And then just look at that person, zero defensive maneuvers, like raising your arms (something etched in out DNA, something that they even said in this sht show), yes? *sigh*
Another side note. This one make me cringe-laugh. "-Go in US and learn. -No, I'm going there to teach them our forensics methods. No one can compete with Korea's forensics skills in speed and accuracy". You gotta admit: that is funny as hell.
OK, the last 5 minutes or so were really fun/good. This time for real. Too bad the show wasn't full of all that.
To sum it up. Sht season. From the writing, to the editing, everything is extremely bad. And I must repeat myself. If you hear someone saying it is good, they are trolling you. You can enjoy it (I don't know who though, but again, there are people who enjoy hitting puppies, so sure, why not?), but the quality is bad. Since the ending of the previous one, when you can see them trying to make the story more "legit", you can feel that its gonna go sideways. Maybe they wanted higher viewership ratings or something, so they went with the safe approach: emotional manipulation of the simple people. Thats all there is to it.
It gets a rating of 4. Apart from the sound design and some sparse good acting (or even really good, from just a few), nothing works. No enjoyment, no rewatch value etc.
Have a lovely day.
Visuals. Well, the OP is better, now if feels like a proper show. And very sparse good cinematography. Other than that, bad.
Sound design. Does all the heavy-lifting. Seriously. Dunno who the guy in charge is, but he should get a raise. Fantastic work for every scene, even if the story was sht.
The pacing, dragging. Yeah, yeah, so everything is the same, you get the idea.
The "good" parts. While the first season was silly and you could enjoy the fun, even when the story was sht, this one got "serious" while still being sht. So, there's nothing left to keep it alive.
Lets start with the most obvious ones. The writing is extremely bad, full of red herrings, plot devices, plot contrivances and so on. Just to paint a better picture, I guessed every fkin' thing they tried to do. How? Just by guessing "let me guess, now they will make this happen, just because it would be silly. And here it goes, yep". When episode 3 ended, I was sad because I thought I guessed something wrong, but then episode 4 happened and I laughed. And now I'm talking about who the villain is. And I also guessed what his motivation would be. The simple reasons (the five ones), not all of what we got, there was no way to "guess" all that nonsense. And then I guessed the parts for the later episodes. All the red herring, all those "subverting expectations" failures.
Another point to mention here: the season is full of manipulative editing. Thats the proper name for it, I'm not calling names. For example, when a scene is modified by cutting out some dialogue while first watching it, only to be added later in a flashback, to pretend being a reveal. In other words, manipulating your emotions. And the "funny" part? Not only are they doing it every time for this season, they even added for some scenes that happened in the first episode, to change the narrative. Their would-be defense? "Well, we never saw it so you don't know, it could've happened like that". So yeah, everything changed. And with it, character assassination. Because making a "cool" character acting like a "loser", just to make the scene feel emotional, its exactly that, out of character. Anyway, you get the gist. I wont keep going about it. Just know that it is full and it is sht.
Oh, quick side note. You're a paramedic, a person trained to act under pressure and what do you do in case of danger/emergency? You just stay in place and only turn around, yes? And then just look at that person, zero defensive maneuvers, like raising your arms (something etched in out DNA, something that they even said in this sht show), yes? *sigh*
Another side note. This one make me cringe-laugh. "-Go in US and learn. -No, I'm going there to teach them our forensics methods. No one can compete with Korea's forensics skills in speed and accuracy". You gotta admit: that is funny as hell.
OK, the last 5 minutes or so were really fun/good. This time for real. Too bad the show wasn't full of all that.
To sum it up. Sht season. From the writing, to the editing, everything is extremely bad. And I must repeat myself. If you hear someone saying it is good, they are trolling you. You can enjoy it (I don't know who though, but again, there are people who enjoy hitting puppies, so sure, why not?), but the quality is bad. Since the ending of the previous one, when you can see them trying to make the story more "legit", you can feel that its gonna go sideways. Maybe they wanted higher viewership ratings or something, so they went with the safe approach: emotional manipulation of the simple people. Thats all there is to it.
It gets a rating of 4. Apart from the sound design and some sparse good acting (or even really good, from just a few), nothing works. No enjoyment, no rewatch value etc.
Have a lovely day.
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