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I apologize if there are a lot of mistakes here, I translated my review using google translate 😅
I really liked the previous work of director Song Yeon Hwa - "Hunted", so I was happy to start watching this drama.
The story was interesting, but not without its drawbacks.
The recipe for an ideal detective thriller for me is to be realistic and show more investigations than drama/melodrama.
Here they did not quite cope with this task.
Too much drama/melodrama out of nowhere.
I would shorten the series from 10 episodes to 8.
I do not mind the slow narrative, I even like it and it seems realistic, but I do not like what they waste our time on.
If they removed the scenes where the characters whine for a long time and annoyingly, cry, are silent and just look at each other mysteriously or repetitive dialogues and running after the daughter, it would be better. (IMHO)
The actors play well, the drama is well filmed.
I would just like more realism, the picture is TOO clean, every frame and look is licked, it doesn't look very believable. Many scenes look like decorations, especially the main characters' house, it doesn't look like a house where a family lives, especially a father and a teenager, there is no comfort even when the mother was there.
Teenagers from the gang looked like models with new hairstyles.
Special thanks that there is no politics in this drama, otherwise it is impossible to watch when elections, conspiracies, deputies, chaebols, corrupt officials and police chiefs are dragged in everywhere. It all seems so cliche that you don't even want to watch it anymore.
It is also pleasing that disagreements between colleagues at work remain more or less professional, and do not slide into a farce and fistfight, as often happens. (The team of main characters is good and professional, and the other workers envy them every time, plot, yell and fight with them) For me, this immediately gives many minus points.

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Everything could have been different if the main characters' family had taken care of their child, talked to her, taken her to sessions with a psychologist/psychiatrist. This was not the case here, there was no hint of it, there was not even an offer to visit a specialist, although the mother had been visiting him for years...
The father, in principle, did not know anything about his daughter and ex-wife. (Okay, let's say work was more important to him.)

The daughter only causes irritation.
I caught a facepalm when she said, "Mom just had to ask me...😔"
Girl, that wouldn't have worked, your father would literally ask you what you were offended by and you'd answer, "Are you suspecting me?? 🙄" Or you'd answer with a thick layer of sarcasm, something like, "Yeah, I killed EVERYONE."
You could have tried to be a normal kid and tell your parents everything, instead of keeping silent and getting into even more trouble every time.
You could have not acted like a psychopath and not made murder plans or dossiers on everyone you knew...

I was a little upset by the cliche that a large police station doesn't have any security or a security checkpoint at the entrance. And also that witnesses and suspects detained for questioning are led through corridors where any passerby with a knife or other weapon can enter.

The most disappointing thing for me was the lack of explanation of what happened to her brother in the past. We were told it was an accident, but I would have liked to know more details, see a scene from memories or maybe just a third person flashback. (In case his sister forgot the details due to shock)
But we don't know anything... What were they doing? How did it happen? Why was the girl covered in blood?

I thought the blood was from the boy falling, but then why is it on her dress? Or was the girl climbing down to him? How did she manage to get back up then, it seems impossible for a small child... So many questions, but few answers.
The parents also had all these questions and logically, specialists should have worked with a mentally traumatized girl to be able to help her and find out the truth.
I waited for answers until the very end, but I never got them.
It seemed like the director wanted to engage the audience in an interesting way, but couldn't explain it properly or connect it to the main plot.

But overall, I liked the vibe of the drama, I want to see more realistic dark detective thriller Kdramas like in Scandinavian series.

Personally, I'm already tired of action dramas with a lot of inappropriate humor and immortal heroes.

My rating is 8-8.5/10, worth watching.