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Ok.. this was very good. But it is a crime drama for adults. No romance or that much action. It is all about the interaction of the characters in the concept of criminal psychology.
9,5 out of 10 from me.

Probably. It is usually the stage actors that give the best performances because they are able to stay on character .

Anyway this guy is a fantastic actor, I have watch him in second and guest roles in films and dramas and I'm of the opinion that he should be cast in a lead role because he is very very good.
Particularly at the interrogation scene on episode 10 that it was like a monologue and in a constant close up shot for 20 minutes straight ( with some other shots in between). It is the scene where the profiler freaked out.

You are spot on. I looked up to see who he is. His performance is incredible.
It is to wonder why they don't cast these otherwise guest character actors to lead roles.

Kim Jung Hee who plays the killer in episodes 6-9 should definitely get an award. His performance of the psycho killer is incredible! Fantastic actor.

Why? Are perhaps less valid than the positive ones?
Everyone here is entitled to her or his opinion. You don't have to agree with other people's opinions but they can be valid either way.

I didn't say that the music is bad per se. What I'm saying is that it is way too epic, way too loud and over used as a background for this drama.
At episode 7 f.e I had to mute the sound. That epic music was playing during almost the whole duration of the episode.

It is not a particular part of this review that is more revealing than the others. It is the whole of the review that reveals way too much. How the plot develops, that the director shows the culprits from the very start, what is the role of Kim Na Gil and so on.
Personally I didn't want to read that many details before watching it. That is the reason why I suggest to add the spoiler alert.

The concept of this drama is not to show that they were super knowledgeable and successful from the very beginning but to show how hard it was for them to establish this Profilers department/ division ( whatever that was).
They didn't have neither the knowledge nor the means, neither the approval of the other investigators, but they stuck with their initial idea that something like this could have been helpful and finally managed to have some success. It is the story of how they made it case by case.

Your review is very good but you reveal way too many things about the plot so I would suggest to add that your review contains spoilers.

That music is constantly banging in the background and it is also unjustifiably intense. The scenes are intense by themselves. They don't need this loud nonsense on the background.

The OP said that those reviews lost their upvotes.
I don't know if that is possible but in any case, the upvote downvote function is useless IMHO because each and every reviewer is entitled to his/her opinion.
If you haven't watched a drama yet it is impossible to know if a review was accurate and by the time that you have already watch it, you have your own opinion about that drama and somebody else's opinion is not relevant any more.

It would be better if the reviews could be categorized in positive and negative ones according to the rating that each reviewer gave to a drama. Because many users, including me, want to read some positive and some negative reviews before they decide if they want to watch a drama.

The admins should also consider to block from reviewing those who haven't watch at least half of the episodes of each drama. I have seen countless "stellar" reviews done immediately after the release of the first episode of a drama that is still airing, usually done by the fans of the one or the other actor, recommending this drama to other users.

This if anything else is not helpful. And it is stupid too.

I don't think that this can be done. Are you sure that they were the reviews of the same users? Perhaps they were different reviews that changed position in the list.

Whatever is the case I think that the upvote and downvote function on the reviews is useless and attracts bots.
We are all entitled to our opinion.

I think that it would be better if the reviews could be separated to positive and negative ones according to the reviewers rating. Negatives with rating under five and positive with rating over five.
I -personally- want sometimes to read some of the negative reviews and I have to scroll down for ages, particularly in the most viewed dramas.

I wasn't talking about this drama in particular. But I saw a similar scene in this drama too. This drama might show real cases but most of K-dramas don't. But all of them repeat the same cliches. That the bad guy is wearing a jokey hat or a hoodie looool to hide himself in places that no one else is wearing a hat!

Regarding stalkers. If you suspect that someone is following you with dubious intentions it is better to confront him and raise an alarm, even if it is the wrong alarm, than risk an attack. It is better to be safe than sorry. And it is not recommended to seek refuge in some isolated back alley. This is common sense that the female victims in K-drama land don't seem to possess!

Why... is there a particular reason we have to ban negative reviews?

The reviews are ranked according to how helpful they were. If a review has a lot of upvotes but MORE down votes then goes to the end of the list.

Generally speaking now.....Can someone explain to me why all K-drama villains wear those jokey caps and on top of that they are wearing them in places that no one else wears a hat in order to hide their identity??! lol The bad guy is always wearing a summer hat in the middle of winter, in the middle of the night and he follows a woman that instead of going in a place with a lot of people she turns for security in the most isolated street ever!

Also can someone explain to me why all those women that are followed by a guy, put their heads down and ran like chickens instead of confront this person and start shouting in order to alarm the neighborhood that they are followed?

I'm not asking these questions because of this drama, I'm asking because I have seen them repeated in a trillion other K-dramas.

It is not the in laws and the families that are always responsible for the/any marital problems. It is that they make them worst when the married couples can't work out their problems in private. If the couple inform them that they are thinking of a divorce, ( something that is going to happen by default when you fill for the divorce ) then they become part of the equation.

Also the case of my friend is not my only experience. I divorced too but at least I didn't have any children at that point and I didn't turn back to have a child with my ex husband.

If you make that come back with the hope that the child will resolve the problem ... that's it.... you are done... for good! And if there is already a child and you go for a second one hoping that this will solve the communication or infidelity or whatever other problem, then it is certain that you are going to end f@cked up. Because such kind of problems can't be solved with children, or by the children.

So in order to conclude and share a bit of my hard earned wisdom. Make sure that your relationships are stable before you proceed to have any children. And if something is that wrong that makes you consider a divorce then take the divorce and move on to find something better. Divorces are easy to get nowadays. And don't listen to any parents or in laws because in most of the cases their attitude is to retain the marriage just for the sake of the marriage at any cost without considering the mental or personal cost for those who will have to live under the same roof with a person that they don't appreciate that much anymore. The parents usually idealize the situations they don't live into these situations.

I noticed this too. That it was impossible to get into the phone call situation by the time that he prevented the kidnapping of his daughter.
This technically should have cancelled the whole plot!
But aside this, the thing that didn't make, for me at least, any sense was that he had flash backs from the time line that he was killed in the villa.
He didn't live as you think in both of these timelines and his memory couldn't catch up because he was dead in one of these timelines.
This time line was cancelled completely so he shouldn't remember it. How could he remember it? As what? As dead?! ha ha haaaaaaaaa sorry for laughing but I still find it very funny.

Anyway the problem with all these time travel dramas is that their scripts are probably not written and completed in advance in order to avoid the time travel paradoxes.

If the ML is killed in a past time line it is impossible to remember it in its present time line.
If he cancels the sequence of events that lead him to the phone calls, then the phone calls never happened and he probably wouldn't be able to cancel the kidnapping.

What I want to point out is that such kind of scripts cannot be written without preliminary plans. Which they don't use and that is the reason why most of these dramas have problematic plots.

But the worst was the Sisyphus one. By far. They lost and I've lost completely the plot midway. Nothing made sense.

I have wondered plenty of times if the actors that are cast for the roles realize what sort of nonsense they have to play. Don't they feel the need to point out to the director that the one or the other scene doesn't make any sense? looool

I haven't watched this yet. I liked though both W and Memories of Alhambra. Both had fantastic concept and effects.

Younger generations must learn how to be patient! lol