Beatrice

The show takes place a year or two from the air date with some technology that's quite a lot more advanced than what's commercially available presently, both in terms of software/hardware, as well as in biological advancements with artificial food and artificial replacement organs. The core or rather who should have been the core is Blood Free CEO Yun Ja Yu who is under constant threat by people in the meat and fishing industry who feel their livelihoods being threatened by her company. She's wary and shrewd, rightly suspicious of ex-military bodyguard Woo Chae Woon whose constant presence and connection to the recent events is way too many to be coincidental. The tiring romance trope has her brain cells evaporating in his presence with him easily gaslighting this brilliant woman out of her suspicions despite not knowing him at all. The show pays lip service to how she has protocol of switching hotels until her state of the art safe house is finished, but in the end she just chooses to go to Chae Woon's house at his suggestion which was already shown to be easy to be infiltrated with her own Blood Free security team breaching it and waiting for him while petting his cat Minshik. Chae Woon also is gone for long stretches of time with no mention of what arrangements of care made for his cat. Ja Yu is the one who is thinking of the cat's wellbeing more than he does. It's shown in flashback that she went to the same university as her co-founder On San as students of Dr. Kim, but she's never shown participating in the science portions. The show is so unwilling to let her take some kind of forward momentum of her own and when she does, she's instantly punished physically for it and spends the entire finale passed out with her organs exposed.

The show has a problem with giving their characters connection as well. They characters Ja Yu and Chae Woon would be having a conversation and you think they're finally going to get to the core of who the other person is, only to have them only show the audience, but all the pertinent information is just being thought of in the character's head and not being shared with the other character. It was so weird that they show us Ja Yu, Chae Woon, and the late bodyguard Ho Seung having a conversation and bonding in Chae Woon's yard after he's already dead, like the show suddenly remembering oh yeah, we need to form some emotional stakes. If the show doesn't want to explore the characters, it should at least explore and address the concerns that are brought up with the new technology that the farmers are concerned about displace them are protesting, but that's just back drop and everything in the show is basically centered on the characters searching for who bombed the former prime minister. Surprise, it's the current Prime Minister who wants Ja Yu's organs, his political maneuverings. The top secret area where the organs are stored look like a space ship in an unintentionally funny design choice kind of way. The best scene that takes place in there is Dr. Hong strangling the Prime Minister's goon with an intestine. The poor doctor had gotten kidnapped twice by traitor colleagues twice and she became tougher with every violent encounter. Her jumping out of the car that second time was smart too. If only Ja Yu got to do that. Her bodyguard driver did that, but she didn't jump herself. If's pretty sad that despite having a female writer, the female main character still gets the shaft in moments of agency to save herself or to outsmart her oppositions. I hope if there is a second season as it seems to imply, that it will be better.