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The one thing I can't stand is bullies. However, the one thing that I absolutely love is bullies getting owned. This series reflected a lot of that. I will say I know the actress who played the teacher was in Bad And Crazy and I liked her character because she was strong in that but was kind of dismayed because she was weaker in this drama. I guess I'm spoiled. Whenever I see a Korean actor who can fight I expect to see them doing so in every drama they play in. Shame on me for being like this but I can't help it. I'm all for the male heroes in these dramas but when I see a female who can stand on her own it gives me some glimmer of hope that females portrayed in dramas aren't so weak after all. So yeah I whooped and clapped for the one lonely female student who held her own.

This drama stayed true to it's roots. The MML wanted to study and he stopped at nothing to do so. I felt so bad about his studying skills though.

What I can't get over is how my portrayal of Korean schools are. Are they all portrayed as being schools for bullies?? I will say some of the actors looked a little too old to be in high school. You could see the age on these actors faces close up.

I truly liked this drama until the last episode. Most of the scenes I watched gave me goosebumps. I even yelped and applauded out loud in one particular scene because I wasn't expecting what I was expecting.

Now why did I not like the last episode? Because some scenes were drawn out longer than they should and it was wrapped up rather quickly. I guess I wanted to see more justice done and wasn't satisfied hence the 9 score. I'm a bit leery about giving things a perfect 10. I don't do that unless I truly truly enjoyed a drama that gives me closure at the end. A lot of Kdramas don't do that.

In my opinion, this drama was way better than Weak Hero Class and yes, I did love that drama as well but this one was better.

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This slipped under my radar for some odd reason. I don't know how I missed this but was glad that I was able to find a Kdrama that had some action in it without the romance.

I'm one of those people who have no idea who the main character is because I never came across a drama with him in it. Now that I have and know that he has some great fighting skills I guess I'm going to have to find other things he's been in. I tend to follow those who have excellent martial art skills. The two female leads had some mad fighting skills as well.

I was digging this drama until the 3rd episode. It went completely in a different direction. Those who you thought were good were bad and those who you thought were bad were good at one point.

The main character is known to be the type of person who don't follow the rules too much. He tends to ignore authority and will do things his way. Sometimes for the worst. Because I waited too long to write a review I can't remember some of the stupid things this guy did. He managed to do a lot of stupid things throughout this series. The FL was really annoying at times. The constant yelling and showing her frustrations on someone who don't know how to follow the rules got to be pretty old.

The so-called actual bad guy made me wonder how on earth did he have so much power over people and why keep the evidence on them??

When the last two episodes came I was so disappointed. All the evidence the good guys had on the bad guys weren't fully utilized. We had to rely on a surprise witness. The emphasis on the MP3 player shouldn't have even been brought up because it was never shown why it was important.

The chemistry between everybody was ok. It wasn't as strong as I liked. The ending was so cliche...I don't like cliche but what can you do when you have nowhere else to go.

My only wish this year is to be able to find some well worthy Kdramas to watch. I didn't have much luck last year.

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I remember a few months back when I was trying to find a Kdrama that had action in it without the romance something like Killers Shopping-something came up. I watched the first episode of what I thought left me uninspired so I never went back to finish. A few days ago I find myself doing the same thing: trying to find a Kdrama that had action in it without the romance and sure enough something like Killers Shopping-something came up again. So I clicked on 'A Shop For Killers' thinking that that was the drama I was trying to watch and dropped but realized it wasn't that. I think that's what I was trying to watch in the first place but clicked on the wrong drama. So now that I finally get the right drama right I started watching it. I mainly watched because I liked the male lead from Bad & Crazy. In all of my reviews I tend to cling to Korean actors who have some serious fighting skills so that's why I decided to watch this.

I'm going to solely focus on the last episode because to me, that's the nail in the coffin. The final tie up to everything that happened in the previous episodes. I'm always reviewing the last episode because I like closure. Unfortunately the last episode was the only episode that left me underwhelmed.

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The focus of the entire series is wrapped around the uncle and a rogue military man. Throughout the drama we get to understand what the feud is all about. Understandably so we know why the feud is the way it is which is a relief to me. But here's where I get angry...NOTHING happens to the rogue military man and the bad guy who kept the rogue military in play. What was the point??? The episode is a hour long and what do we get? A LOT of useless dialogue. There's a lot of gun fights and fighting but without that this last episode would've failed its mission terribly. I don't think there will be a season two even though the antagonist isn't dead. It wouldn't make sense because all of the henchmen are dead. I also wasn't shocked about the last few seconds of the episode. It confirmed what I already knew.

Korean dramas always have a tendency to go south at some point. To make a drama more enjoyable I wish they would stop doing that.

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This review is going to contain heavy spoilers so if you haven't watched this drama yet and is planning on watching then don't read this review.

I came across this drama in my Netflix recommendations. I like the main ML because he can fight and the first Korean action drama that I watched was Rugal. I love that cast and wish all of them would do another action drama together.

Anyway, this drama is about a female who keeps taking civil service exams and keeps failing and it finally gets to her emotionally. Then a cat emerges and that's when everything starts.

In the beginning this drama hit home to me. It shows what one goes through when trying to do something they love but can't. One would want to quit because of that. Not getting too personal but I can relate to some of the scenarios in this drama and how some character felt.

Heck, there were a few scenes in this drama that nearly had me in tears. The two FL capitalized on their emotions very well! I liked the two main ML's as well.

What I didn't like-which I never like-is the romance factor. I knew it was going to turn into some type of sappy romance story and was going to heavily focus on that and derive from the main plot-which it did. The other thing I truly despise in a Korean romance drama is the fact that they make the female turn into a whiny spoiled two year old idiot! Just when I started to like the first FL's character she starts talking like a two year old who throws a temper tantrum because they can't get what they want and she does this in just about every episode!
The second thing that I don't like is the over the top unnecessary comedy. I actually love the second MML but hated that they made him the silly side kick. I liked when he was serious and gritted my teeth when he became the comedic idiot when the time didn't call for a comedic idiot.

I liked the best friend. I wish I could be besties with her, lol!

Now here's where I'm going to talk about the 'why Ms. Night and Day happened....That's it right there! Why did the MFL change into a older woman by day and go back to herself by night? What was the purpose of that cat? Throughout the beginning they were looking for the cat but then it was forgotten. Why?? What was the purpose?? Then by the 15th episode, if what happened to her was a curse the explanation just dissipated...like the reason never existed.

The second love syndrome needs to stop as well. I hate when two people vie for one person and that person always chooses the opposite.

I loved the parents but their reaction to their daughter changing was small. 16 episodes that was over and hour and they only had a five second reaction to their daughter's appearance??

Last but not least, it also irritates me when the bad person has been dealt with but then there's one last episode to watch. Honestly everything could've ended with episode 15 with the ML going back to Seoul and the MFL finally gets a actual job but they had to do the cliche thing where both just so happens to end up in the same place and continue that sappy romance that was suppose to be left behind.

It would've been a very excellent drama had the writers not have to throw romance in everything. Dramas can survive without the childish sappy romance you know!

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Having never watched any anime or manga-don't even know what manga is-I guess I asked for it.

After reading several reviews it seems like I'm the only one who's never heard of Yu Yu Hakusho. I didn't even know this was based off of a 66 episode anime either which is why this didn't grab me.

So this series to me just started from the middle and ended in the end. The characters were announced but with weak background stories. I'm guessing to those who already were familiar with the characters, those who knew needed no introductions.

The special effects were amazing. The fighting scenes as well. But I have issues with Japanese and Chinese fighting. It's like they have no reason for a fight, they just walk up to each other and claim to be better than the other then a fight ensues. That's most likely how some of these fight scenes went down. The male ego strikes again!

I also don't understand how the guy in the blue was human but was able to get powers close to the end of the series. I'm guessing there's a back story to that but with 66 episodes crammed into 5 episodes we gotta take what we can get.

The series was fine but it turned into that damsel in distress...If I had a $1 for the amount of times I said I hate when dramas make it all about a girl, I would be a trajillionaire. Is this the only way a movie or drama can go? Can they not always make it about a friggin' girl?? It was fine with the guy trying to combine two worlds. It could've been left at that!

For those who isn't familiar with this anime turned into a live action series, you may be disappointed. It may not grab you. I tried to enjoy this but seeing how I felt left in the dark, I'm just going to have to leave the anime turned into live action dramas alone.

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So I ended up doing three no-no's which made me nervous about watching sequels to several dramas that I watched previously.

First: DP 1 & 2. I didn't watch the first season over because I didn't think I needed to but there were scenes that they recapped that I completely forgot about. If I had watched the first season over then I would've better understood what the recap was about.

Taxi Driver 1 & 2. I got this one right because season 2 picked up where season 1 left off.

Uncanny Counter 1 & 2. This one was a big mistake. If I had known season 2 was going to go in a different direction I wouldn't have watched season 1 over.

This one...I knew I should've watched the first season over but didn't!!

I remember from my first review how I stated that this drama was like the US Chicago franchise all-in-one! The second season is a continuation with newer characters.
They capitalized on the autopsy scenes a lot more and I gotta say I was impressed with the way they did those silicone bodies. I don't know how the actors who had death scenes felt about watching a recap of their bodies being cut open on a autopsy table (don't know the correct term for that) but I gotta tell ya, Kim Rae Won who played as Jin Ho Gae looked uncomfortable and who wouldn't blame him.

The main plot that the second season dealt with was arson and bombs but there were other small plots throughout in order not to be monotonous which worked for me.

I loved the cast choices. Sometimes a casting director can get it right. I loved the Bull dozer and Jin Ho dog chemistry but I also loved the bomb tech guy and the Jin Ho dog's chemistry as well. But my favorite character was Woo Sam Soon the female character with the two daughters. She was my favorite because she was tough, smart, and hilarious. I love female Korean actresses like this. Not Song Seol...She got clocked in the head so many times I was hoping she would've been written off but they had to add that sappy romance that I seriously hate which is why my overall score is low. It's also low because the way the last episode happened. The bad guy revealing himself out of the blue when the last few episodes he tried to hide his identity left me with a 'WTF' moment! Then he had to kidnap a girl and the male hero comes to save her and they fall in love....eye roll with a barf bag please!!! Can they not put that kind of romance in a drama??? It's so cliche and stale!!!

I would like for there to be a third season but after seeing Uncanny Counter 2 I've learned my lesson and will be satisfied with the 2 seasons we were given.

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Once again we have another drama of how the military and the government responds to bullying in the military.

Of course I watched the first season but I didn't rewatch that one. I should have because there were scenarios in the second season that recapped some incidences from the first season that I forgot about.

I will say it again because I believe I commented about this on the first season on how Koo Kyo Hwan who plays as the second D.P. Han Ho Yul saved this drama. If it weren't for him I don't know if this drama would've made it. But that's just my opinion.

I had no idea Jung Suk Yong who plays Oh Min Woo had some serious martial art moves!!! Seeing him kick several people left me with my mouth gaped open for a few seconds.

Again, this drama isn't for the faint of heart. Those who have survived being in the military get it. The sad reality is that this type of thing is still going on nation wide. You'd be surprised as to how much the military government covers up stuff like this that happened in this drama.

Even though I'm not apart of that lifestyle and don't care for it, episode 3 Curtain Call made me mad and almost bawled at the same time. It's sad that no matter what your lifestyle is trying to serve your country shouldn't have to have consequences but it does.

I liked this drama all the way up till the last episode. *******STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST EPISODE*****
There was a character in the last episode of season one who we thought blew his brains out from the bullying he received while in training. In one episode of season 2 they show he's still alive.
The main purpose for this second season was to show how bullying has been covered up. I thought the guy who blew his brains out was going to recover and testify. Nope..they just show him at the end of episode 6 showing that he's fully recovered and goes back to the base where he was bullied to show Jung Hae In-Ahn Joon Ho that he's fully recovered and that's it.

If I had known this drama was going to go in the direction it went I wouldn't have watched it. It was a good watch the first time around but I won't be rewatching this.

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I watched several Korean dramas that involved some type of time travel and this was one of them.

I couldn't decide what rating to give this after seeing the very last episode.

I love police dramas because of their chemistry but the chemistry in this one wasn't there. It was mainly about the main ML struggling with guilt in what he thought his father had committed. His goal was to make sure the victim whom he saw struggling to get along with life wouldn't get hurt anymore. Yep...it's about a girl...it always is.

I recognized the main ML from Psychopath's Diary. I really didn't care for him in that drama but I liked him in this one.

I just became somewhat disappointed by the last drama. I figured out who the main culprits were by the 5th episode and by the end it turned out that I was right. This was kind of disappointing because I was hoping I was wrong but I wasn't.

The origin of how the 'Train' came to be was never discussed. I wanted to know what it's purpose was. By the last episode to me, it just wasn't no point of why the 'Train' existed. It didn't have a proper ending for me. It just seemed that the way the people's lives were will always be in a loop.

It was a good watch but I kind of felt let down in the end.

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So I'm hitting a K-drama slump and came across this because it has some of my favorite Korean actors in here. I also thought Kim Nam Gil was going to be fighting but he only did a spit of it. I truly hate seeing martial art fighters pretend they can't fight!

The story line is unbelievable but I watched this drama in it's entirety because I was curious.

I began getting frustrated right away because of that 'Disney love at first sight' mumbo jumbo and I seriously HATE that.

Next was the story behind the acupuncture needle box. It was never covered. Then there's the time travel...We all know it's impossible so why when the MML and MFL disappears whenever the main ML dies everybody is OK with it. They ask questions but is completely fine with no answers.

The main FL got on my ever lasting nerves. I hate that 'I hate you, then I like you, but then I hate you, but now I can't live without you' routine. She acted like she was the best there is and you'll just have to deal with it.

A lot of the times the actors kept looking at the camera. I guess they looked at the camera so much that the editor just said forget it.

The so-called funny scenes didn't make me laugh. It was too over the top. KNG is already a goof ball. I seen a snippet of Man Of The House with him in it and he was adorable to watch. So watching this drama was like watching KNG just living his life with the cameras following.

The sad part about this drama is that each episode was so slow I forgot I was still on one episode! This drama could've ended with just only 12 episodes. The writers did a good job by making it drag on for ever to make it last, though!

Some people stated this was the best drama ever...I've seen better.

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So I've been catching up on my usual shows which means I haven't watched anything Korean within the past few months so I've been out of the loop as far as what's the Korean drama to watch these days.

I came across a trailer for this on Netflix and thought why not. I mainly watched it because it had Lee Won Jong who played as Moscow in it. Whenever I see a drama with him in it I watch it. I don't know why but I do.

Anyway, this was a very very slow drama. There was only maybe like two episodes that had me on the edge of my seat. The other times I could only make it to about one or two episodes at a time. From the constant disobedience by Yeong Min who plays the director to Seon Woo Jin's face I found myself being easily irritated by these two. There was no build up in either character. It was just the same in every last episode. Plus the rushed crush between The Professor and Woo JIn's character felt-what's the word...icky?? It just didn't seem to match. The immediate falling in love just didn't feel right.
And what's a Korean drama without some political propaganda thrown in? I don't think this series needed this type of filler. Going through every character's backstory would've sufficed.

It was an OK watch. I think if it had the whole 12 episodes I probably would've dropped it. But the way episode six ended...if I had known it was going to end the way it did I would've waited till the whole thing came out. And then again if the whole thing was out and the way episode 6 ended I would've watched episode 7 to see if I would keep it going, lol.

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I've come across some pretty horrible Korean movies and was trying to stay away from such but I saw a preview on top bad a** action scenes from Korean movies and seen a few snippets of this movie and it peaked my interest. I love love love action movies that involve some sort of fighting so yeah, I had to watch this.

I was a bit skittish about it but in the end I overly enjoyed the main two characters. Their chemistry was truly awesome. I think it was because there was no sappy romance in this anywhere. That usually kills the vibe for me.

There are a few take-aways from this such as how the main ML came to become a private investigator. I don't even know why they had this subject in the movie because he didn't really do any type of PI work. He just so happened to mysteriously know who to go to when he was working with who he thought was another private investigator. There was also a snippet of his life. One minute he's a PI but then we learn he had top notch skills in the military?? I wanted to see more of that.

The main female had no back story either. All we knew was that she was a sacrificial newbie for undercover work for the NSI.

There's one character who always seems useless to me whenever I see him in a drama: Kim Tae Hoon. How does this guy get cast in anything?? It's like his roles are just filler roles. It makes me think that when he auditions for something they will just put something in it for him to just fill that empty space they need to fill.

As I said, I usually try to say away from Korean movies because of how they're done but this is the second movie that I could re-watch.

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Don't watch if you're motion sensitive

OK, starting off, I didn't know Korean dramas existed until the summer of 2020. Since then I've been hooked on Korean dramas. Since most of the dramas I've seen were truly enjoyable I thought I would give the Korean movies a try. I've seen a handful and only liked one...one out of the maybe 6 or 7 that I've seen since the summer of 2020.
Being dismayed at the majority of what I watched I went back to the dramas.

While browsing on Netflix, this came across as one of the top ten movies being watched on Netflix. When I saw 'explosive' and 'Asian action' I had to watch. I am a action movie buff and will watch anything that has 'action' in it.

When it started it warned of nudity, gore, violence, and strobe lighting. I wrinkled my forehead when I saw 'nudity'. I've never seen any Korean dramas or movies that had nudity in it. This was my first and hopefully will be my last. I don't know why there was a nudity scene in this. It didn't make any sense.

Now about the movie. You get a partial naked guy lying in a bed who have no memory of who he is and then discovers he's lying in a blood soaked bed. There was no shock value to that at all. It then cuts to a phone video of him kidnapping a doctor. That scenario gets lost immediately because it never get into what the video was about.

After that it's fight or flight and that's how it was throughout the whole movie.

Now I'm not a fan of zombie anything but I stuck it out.

The 'action' scenes were unbelievable and I don't mean that in a good way. From jumping from moving cars, moving trucks, moving buses, a moving train, and moving helicopters it becomes a hysterical laugh. There's too much of that going on. Then the helicopter scene where the ML can flip the helicopter to where he's behind another helicopter....sounds like a kid's fantasy of make believe. Plus no matter where this guy tried to run he was always found. When it comes to trying to find a fugitive in a large country it's impossible to do unless they do something stupid. This guy never got a chance to hide because he was always being found. Didn't understand how he was found in the middle of the woods either.

There's too much winding, turning, spinning...I didn't know how bad all of that motion was until I stood up. It affected me. So right now my head is swimming a little and I feel a bit nauseous. They also weren't kidding about the strobe lighting.

The part that really made me mad that I wasted 2 hours and 14 minutes was the ending. It was like this guy couldn't catch a break.

Sorry for the long winded review. It's just that Korean movies to me miss the mark a lot! I believe I'm done trying to find a good Korean movie. It's like fate: it'll never happen.

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What usually draws me into these Korean dramas besides the story synopsis is the reviews. This drama received high marks from viewers like me so I went in anticipating on binging on a good drama.

For the most part it was good. I absolutely love the Korean police dramas because it involves a chemistry that is absolutely awesome to me. Plus there's some fighting in between and anybody who's ever read any of my reviews will see that I watch Korean dramas mainly for the action which involves martial art skills.

This drama however really really moved at a snails pace until about the 10th episode for me.

For one it was hard trying to enjoy the main FL because she resembled a anorexic male in my eyes. They say the camera adds 10 pounds but by golly this person was so thin I could see some of the skeletal system when they showed her in a wife beater from behind. It was horrifying and needless to say they showed her wearing more clothes thankfully.
She was so thin but yet she was able to take on a few guys including the biggest one: Ko Hee Dong played by
Tae Won Seok. He's been one of my favorite Korean actors since I first saw him in Player.

Aside from this drama moving at a snails pace I thoroughly enjoyed every cast member in this. The chemistry between the three classmates was so funny and endearing.
I loved the fact that everybody was able to get along with each other despite the age difference. It kind of creeped me out in the beginning but I soon felt at ease because of how the story line was written.

There was one scenario that was talked about that didn't even have any type of closer. One thing I hate about Korean dramas is that they cover so much in these episodes that a lot of scenarios gets left out.
Also one of the things that makes me cautious about watching a 16 episode drama is that the last episode. Most of the time it's a miss. Rarely do I get a few that get hits and this one almost had a miss. One scene in particular dragged on and on. It got to the point where I was lost concerning the meaning behind the 'stigmata killer' because it absolutely made no sense-to me-but the creators seemed to have made it work.
Plus I didn't binge on this because of how slow it was. Bad on my part because I suck at names and by the time I went back to finish I forgot who was who.
It's an enjoyable drama none the less.

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I'm trying to figure out how to post this review without it being too long and giving away many spoilers so I'm going to try to do the best I can.

I'm almost into my 3rd year of watching Korean dramas and will try to find any and every drama that has martial arts in it. This one does. I came to watch because of Cha Tae Hyun. I'm not too familiar with this actor but the two dramas I've seen him in led me to watch this. If anyone have read my reviews you will see I only pick dramas that have action in it. There are a few that don't have action but I'm a action fanatic none the less.

Because I've been watching Korean dramas for almost 3 years, this have a lot of actors that I recognized that have become my favorite actors. I can't name them all because I would have to copy and paste but do know there's about nine actors in this that are my favorite.

Now, to the story. I'm not much of a fantasy, historical, period piece type of watcher but the first episode reeled me in...a bit. It's about a girl of course which I steer clear from these type of dramas but again, it had fighting in it and I wanted to watch to see if I would stick it out.

The special effects were bad but you will get use to it and it begins to look normal at some point. The plot is about a wizard falling in love with a girl whom he and his best friend like but there's something of a betrayal occurs and revenge needs to be done and this is what happens throughout the series.

The main character for some odd reason have the life of a cat because he dies on several occasions but is somewhat resurrected each time he dies. The second main character have only one goal: kill his best friend whom he felt betrayed him.

The one thing that made me angry about this drama was how the evil deeds that were done by the bad guys were able to escape major punishment while innocent good people died.
I liked all of the characters except the king. They made this guy truly weak. He had no voice but the minister did. I didn't understand why the king didn't get rid of the bad guys. At one point he allowed the system to frame a innocent person and signed some type of paper that allowed him to be beheaded. His judgement was so bad I understood why the bad guys wanted to get rid of him.

There were plots in this drama that made me wonder why it didn't end when it should've but when you have 24 episodes you gotta make subjects last.

There's more I would like to talk about but this is already long enough. I give the last episode a thumbs up and a thumbs down because some things were addressed quickly while other things dragged on. I'm unfamiliar with Korean period pieces and really isn't into that type of genre but if another drama comes out that's similar to this, I would give it a chance and watch it.

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I just finished watching this and I fairly enjoyed it. What I didn't like was the 'romance' part. OMG!!! Korea...enough with this already! It felt forced and rushed! There was no romantic chemistry between both the main leads! Don't get me wrong, I do like a good romance every now and then but I like romances that have a story behind it. A build up, and great chemistry. For the record, I know for a fact that NO GUY has ever said they have butterflies when they fall in love! When the main male lead said that I was thinking what female wrote this?? Plus they made the MFL act stupid. Wanting the guy to profess his love and all that other dreary crap that could scare a man away was put into this.

I'm always getting introduced to new faces because I'm still in the honeymoon phase of Korean dramas and I loved the two male leads. Their chemistry was OK. I did like how the main ML had to play two types of personalities. I bet that was hard to do at times.

There was a part in this where it reminded me of the ol' school movie Ghost. Patrick Swayze's character needed Whoopi Goldberg's character help in helping his girlfriend because she was in danger and Goldberg's character stated she wasn't going to help him and she didn't care what he did so he sang...a lot! There was no singing in this but the second male leads antics to get help had me reeling. That part made me truly like this drama.

I liked the police team. I loved their chemistry so much that it made me wish I had a police wife....I never heard of that term ever but I still want one, lol! This is why I love police dramas.

Besides the stale romance this kept me interested throughout the whole series. I always like seeing the bad guys getting punished and that's how this ended.

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