There is no suspense from the start as you are shown Killer's perspective from the very first case yet the thing that keeps you interested is what is the reason behind their actions. It kept me interested throughout the show. As the show goes on, you already know who the killer is and who she is targeting but you want to know what might be her next action. I feel like Kara was the best in the series.
People seemed to prefer ML over FL but I felt the opposite. Although I agree that the FL is slow and trusting nature, she is right about getting evidence. From the detective's perspective, Kara gets more and more suspicious as the drama goes on and not right from the start yet the ML jumps the gun and says she is suspicious right from the first case. By the 2nd episode he says to FL not to hang out with Kara. He has his doubts, which is good but what good is interrupting the investigation if you dont have the proof. We know he is right because we are shown Kara's perspective from the start but if you think about what the detectives know during the first 4 episodes at least, its not as suspicious.
Another thing that I see often, and this drama does it as too, is people entering ICU without any gowns and masks which is really stupidly inaccurate if you entered ICU to visit your friends or family in real life. I would understand if it was difficult thing to achieve but getting gowns and mask is not that hard of a task.
Chief Kang was the most naive among all the characters despite the high position, 27 years of experience. She was too blinded by her goal. She asked the ex-Chief/Current Congressman to call her by her friend's name but I can say for sure that her friend would have hated the fact that the name was used in vain, to commit crimes and to conceal justice. The same justice the friend was trying so hard to protect and killed herself for. I hated the fact that she made the choice to commit those crimes after adopting her friend's name. They really tried to make the death of Chief Kang a sad one but I felt no sympathy for her. She did not deserve any tears or good words. I would have loved to see more scenes between Chief Kang and Eo Su Seon because Eo Su Seon resembled the ideologies that Chief Kang's friend represented. There would have been a good dynamic between them if the show focused a bit more on that.
The ICU scenes were well researched in this drama because I don't remember the last time in a drama, where I saw people going inside ICU with gowns which is accurate in real life too. Many dramas just show people going in ICU without any gowns.
The early episodes were filled with some serious moments and really well complimented with funny moments. Even the criminals showed emotions, were caught off guard, felt like they were humans too and didn't feel "untouchable". Great overall
Apart from the people at the higher positions, the characters who were shown as "evil" initially all had really good character depth. They all had their own reasons to fight and backstory which was shown well. They were following the orders from top but they had struggles emotionally to complete the order. Relationships between the "evil" characters were well done with the flashbacks. It all felt very natural. Unlike many dramas where couple of episodes would be forced because everything is revealed already, this one had good use of backstory and used the backstories as a build up to the final few episodes.
The character depth and struggles of the students however was not shown/emphasized well enough in my opinion. Also the ending was full of action but it kind of felt underwhelming given they spent around 8 episodes to build it up with amazing backstories.
If there was more emphasis on: Weight of emotions Bong Seok had felt being protected by his mom all the time and guilt Huisu felt that she caused her dad problems because of her actions, along with good ending episodes it would definitely be 10/10 for me
It has been years since I last binge watched anything. This is one of the best dramas I have ever watched. 10/10 drama. will 100% recommend if you want to be a better human being.
The camera works during the fights and the visualization of possibilities was really well done. Really creative!
Some confusions with who the real father of Jae Yeong is. Chairman cha did say that the father was a simple man but I felt like it was a cover for someone. They did mention that the chairman and Hee Sung fell out at one point and Bok Soon and Hee Sung were having sex. Felt like they were close and it did seem that she cared about Hee Sung so it could explain everything if Hee Sung was the father
People seemed to prefer ML over FL but I felt the opposite. Although I agree that the FL is slow and trusting nature, she is right about getting evidence. From the detective's perspective, Kara gets more and more suspicious as the drama goes on and not right from the start yet the ML jumps the gun and says she is suspicious right from the first case. By the 2nd episode he says to FL not to hang out with Kara. He has his doubts, which is good but what good is interrupting the investigation if you dont have the proof. We know he is right because we are shown Kara's perspective from the start but if you think about what the detectives know during the first 4 episodes at least, its not as suspicious.
Another thing that I see often, and this drama does it as too, is people entering ICU without any gowns and masks which is really stupidly inaccurate if you entered ICU to visit your friends or family in real life. I would understand if it was difficult thing to achieve but getting gowns and mask is not that hard of a task.
The ICU scenes were well researched in this drama because I don't remember the last time in a drama, where I saw people going inside ICU with gowns which is accurate in real life too. Many dramas just show people going in ICU without any gowns.
The character depth and struggles of the students however was not shown/emphasized well enough in my opinion.
Also the ending was full of action but it kind of felt underwhelming given they spent around 8 episodes to build it up with amazing backstories.
If there was more emphasis on: Weight of emotions Bong Seok had felt being protected by his mom all the time and guilt Huisu felt that she caused her dad problems because of her actions, along with good ending episodes it would definitely be 10/10 for me