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I dropped it at episode 4. I was never a fan of Kim Woo Bin, but he is the only highlight in this mediocre series. I dislike the plot (too boring), the characters (no personality), the lightening (it's just dark), the cinematography (not that great), the music (very annoying), the CGI (rather bland), the action (not very creative), the dystopian world (too generic).
Sigh.
I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi, but this ain't it.

It must be investigated. You have a mother who lost her 17 years old child, and the boy was pretty polite, not even a spoiled brat, didn't complain and even asked how the other guys were doing, and then the doctor forgets to check on him. Dr. Jung was just doing some stitches on another guy's leg, and Dr. Cha then comes and lectures the mother who grieves and almost threatens her, while we are supposed to applaud his behaviour, since it was meant to show us he sticks up for his doctors and the hospital? What's wrong with the writers? How can you behave like that towards a grieving mother who was ANY RIGHT to be upset? And Eunjae later talking with Woojin about their living situation after she failed in resurrecting a child? Like it didn't bother her much? In the same episode we have Ah Reum who has a hard time losing her patient who looked like he was way above 80 years old and should be long in grave anyways?!? What did the writers smoke?
Sorry for the rant, and I'm a big fan of this series, but the writing was atrocious in this episode. ATROCIOUS. I felt like watching a bunch of stupid zombies. Only Dr. Jung showed a reaction, rightfully so. But if such a young child dies in my hospital, and nobody knows why, that would be the story of the day. I would have a hard time sleeping at night. But nope. Moving on! Shit happens!
Btw: my father died when I was rather young, and they neglected him too in the hospital. Several times. So I guess I'm biased, but I can't root for the poor doctors in this situation, though I feel for Dr. Jung. But he is not the one who lost a child!

A 17 years old dies suddenly of a heart attack despite no prior signs, no pain, no wounds? They even checked his pulse and blood oxygen etc. NO AUTOPSY? Are they trying to get us used to SADS (the Sudden Adult Death Syndrome) since we know recently young people around the world die suddenly of heart attacks because of the experimental gene therapy, the so called Covid "vaccine"? I digress, but seriously ...
The reaction of the whole team was strange to me. Dr. Jung indeed forgot about the patient, which can happen. It was unfortunate. But everyone of the older stuff (Dr. Kim, Dr. Cha etc.) didn't react much like it's no big deal? Dr. Cha's speech was good, I guess? It didn't convince me though, as if the life of the boy wouldn't be important. They were all like "shit happens". And now they make it all political. The mother and congress woman will be the big enemy, because her son died? How tasteless is that? They really used the death of a 17 years old to create a villain?
I will watch the next episode tomorrow, but I really hope they solve this case somehow, and not just bury it as some random heart attack. He was 17 years old! That must be investigated!
Oh, I forgot about those stupid gay jokes we got at the end. I wonder who had the idea to put those in after such a tragic and heavy episode.

I watched ep 5 and what a controversial episode! Spoilers below.

First acting is on another level ... really ...

The best thing for me in those 4 episode was the confrontation between Woojin and the new doctor. Woojin's character is well written. He may be a bit harsh, and he isn't used to the teacher role, but he is fair, modest and always puts his patients first. He is hard working, doesn't get tired easily, and while it was obvious how bad he felt about the mistake he made, he didn't cry about it and went forward, working even harder. It's nice to see how teacher Kim trusts him and respects him as a surgeon and a doctor. Nobody made a big deal of the mistake either. They are a competent team and know that something like this can happen, and nobody is to blame.
The new doctor on the other hand is cocky and lazy, but it seems he is pretty smart. So I guess they will make good use of him. But I love how he tried to provoke and mock Woojin, and how it backfired, because he was wrong about what kind of guy Woojin is. He thought he is arrogant, a I-know-it-all, who thinks he is so much better. But that's not true. I really like how the character feels the same as in s2. He was a bit difficult back then, but always focused on the work, very righteous, and willing to learn and get better.

I'm only here for the cases, the surgeries, the teamwork, the side characters and the clashing of personalities and learning experiences. Couldn't care less about the romance and the father-daughter relationship and some of the politics. The latter is pretty repetitive. The formula is always the same.

I don't think he forgave him, but he understood the positon Jin-han was in. Jin-han was fighting corruption too, but didn't succeed. At the end he became part of the system, and had to do the dirty work for Jang to protect his family and most likely his own life too. His son was ill. He was not as strong minded and righteous as Taek-Rok. That was the whole point of the series and what made Taek-Rok a hero: his strong mind and strong sense of justice. Even his so called friends got corrupted. How do you survive in this system? Go against them or play their dirty games with them? Heroes became villains sooner or later.
I think Taek-Rok just felt guilty for maybe leading him on the wrong path and he wanted to get him back on the right one, since he knew there was good in ihm. Also, if he gets to jail, what happens to his family? It's controversional for sure, but I think Taek-Rok was just tired of all this bs, felt guilty and had seen enough people die. Jin-han is a good cop and can do good things in the future. At the end of the day he was just a victim of the corrupted system. Of course any adult is responsible for his own decisions and actions, but there are bigger fish to catch. There is potential for him to redeem himself. But well, I guess he is dead? We will see in s2. I can't imagine him playing cop after he killed two people. I honestly thought he would aim the gun to his own head and kill himself. This end would have been more fitting.

The only criticism I have: the motives of the antagonist weren't presented very well. It was enough to understand what's going on, but still they could have shown us more of this character and his struggles. I don't have a problem with the plot, I just thought the revelation was too fast and sloppy.

Don't get fooled by the low rating. Great series.
It's about corruption like it's always in such dramas. But here you really feel the struggle of being a cop, not get corrupted, to fight the system and not become part of it. You must be brave, smart und you must carry a lot of weight on your shoulders, and at the end of the day the good guys may still feel it was not worth it or they did not enough, they made mistakes. It feels hopless at times, but there is beauty in the struggle, if that makes sense.

Spoilers below.

I would have liked it better, if we had gotten a new main couple. I enjoyed them in s2, but I feel their story is finished. Two new doctors with some struggles or a difficult past, a new romance, that would spice it up a bit. Well, I'm only at Ep1.

I watched five minutes of this vid. Call me crazy, but if they switch languages and you just listen to them, it doesn't concern me at all. But watching a series and having to read subtitles, I think that throws me off. When they talk English, and the subtitles are in English too.
Btw, I educated myself about Taglish, so now I get it :)

I find it really strange that they talk in two languages at the same time. I don't think that's comfortable, and that's coming from someone who lives in a trilingual country. I only talk in 2 languages if I have to translate for someone, or when I know that I talk to someone who only speaks a certain language. Sure, there are some slang words you use regularly, but not to the extent where they build whole sentences, and then they switch again. I mean, it shouldn't concern me, but still ... I wonder if this is supposed to be "cool" or something, and that's the real reason for them doing it.

But why does everyone have a different accent? Or is it just me hearing it wrong?

I'm new to phillipine BL, but why are they talking in English. The country sure isn't bilingual, they all have an accent.

This was a beautiful and interesting series to watch, but I disliked the very heavy depressive undertone, and I enjoyed the storytelling, filming etc. much more than the characters. Those two weren't likeable at all.

Well, I disagree. I don't remember a single character of Kingdom. Not one made an impression on me.

Maybe the series is not for everyone. I was very annoyed by the characters, but at the end I loved every single one of them and cried with them.

Same here. I didn't like it at the beginning, took me at least 3 episodes or 4 to get into it. Now it's my favorite, and I rewatched the whole series lately. Don't give up. This is much better than All Of Us and Kingdom.

Hedwig is not a German story in the sense that I don't think the movie is well known in Germany. The producers, script and song writers were all American. They just created a rather silly German background story for the main character. I love the movie, don't get me wrong. Not that it matters, but Hedwig is such an American movie that it cannot get more American. And the writer of this series, Werner du Plessis, most likely is half French or whatever. Because du Plessis is not a German name.