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Would've been brilliant to just focus on a top level passionate chef and a clever manager with a deep understanding of the industry taking a small country side restaurant to the highest level organically. But the moment that head chef from Sapporo showed up disguised as a 2nd lead love interest, it went back to being a stereotypical cliché romcom with 0 substance, then the show kept getting derailed from its bread and butter with evil chairwoman and the classic misunderstanding stereotype where one lead cannot explain their POV to save their life and we wait two episodes for them to make up again. Everything was too dramatic and not "fine dining" related after episode 5. Just an aesthetic looking meal with no flavor. Quite the lazy trick they pulled with the french judge giving them a 3 star out of nowhere, where is the authenticity? the organic growth? no actual journey just random events put together in a badly paced 10 eps show

Enjoyed the show, loved the actors.
But i want to rant over how vague and impossible the murders are to commit, simply unrealistic.
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Reporter murder : Heavily drunk, unaware of surroundings. House easily barged into, poisoned, nothing to note its a crime an idiot can commit. moving on

Superintendent murder : Rich neighborhood, probably cameras everywhere, secured villa with minimal entries and locks, nothing broken on entry, howd she get in? target is a professional experienced cop who was likely aware, still failed to notice the attack? Stabbed once in the neck with a screw driver that was never removed, means the blood wont gush out and the victim has several minutes infact to perform actions, somehow died on the spot with 0 resistance? was he paralyzed before? its too vague

Woman murder : Snuk into backseat of the car, how did she unlock? choked the driver with a rope for 35 minutes while she drove? driver was aware of the culprit as she tried to get a cops attention on the rode by running a red light. If you could be saved by another's attention, why not crash the car? 35 minutes is enough regain proper thought process. Not even an idiot would drive all the way like she did.

Chairman murder : Snuk into a chairman's office on a high floor, staff didnt notice? they stay late at night as well. Hid from chair man and snuk from behind even though his chair is right infront of a wall meaning his vision would see over 90% of the room, no blind spots. Hit once with a syringe at lower cervical level, caused a glycemic related death. But glucose and insulin reactions arent immediate? how did the chairman not resist? he shouldve had enough time to freely resist. Wiped CCTV, where did she get authorization from? its not simple entering a security room for a 10k+ person occupied building and erasing cameras for a whole floor, its near impossible if youre not authorized let alone an imposter.


Boat murder : CCTV confirmed FL getting on the boat but couldn't confirm culprit doing so too? victim was aware of someone else on the boat but still failed to resist? how did she kill him immediately? all what was given is a man hung by a rope undwrwater. too many questions regarding the state of incapacitation.

Hunting murder : Isolated area, roads leading to it are little, all on camera. almost a sealed room. how did the culprit arrive and leave without being caught? move over to hospital, crowded, surveillance everywhere, cops are present with victiks arrival. Culprit dons some rags and drugs the victim to death. CCTV wiped? not caught on it? how does she enter and leave un-seen again? Task force runs a match on staff against people caught camera. find nothing. means she wasnt caught on it? or did they overlook?

Rooftop murder : Assembly man, extremely important political figure, likely highley gaurded, even tracked by gps ( its quite common for important figures to do this). Kidnapped by a girl 60-70% his size and dragged to a rooftop of a highly surveillanced luxurious building complex. Culprit seemingly drops the patient without being present because how else does she avoid everyone whos on their way up? while shes going down? seen taking a cab at floor level? how did she get there?


Well this is my thoughts stormed here, none of these assumptions are concrete and is just speculations, i merely gathered context and asked questions.

Seems to me the author wrote the killer as a super-human machine that can get into any room and kill anyone with minimal resistance faced, and leave no traces and cant be csught in a country where your hotel bathroom likely has cctv in it. In my opinion the author didn't want the hassle of making the murders realistic so they made them completely vague and up for interpretation and guessing, which is basically a " look but dont touch" mechanism, the moment you give it thought and touch it everything crumbles

I tend to figure out these riddles immediately because kdramas are rarely genius in their mysteries. But if all i cared about was the truth id go to the comment section. The actual delivery and connections are what matters. This shows actual problem isnt the easy killer riddle, its how vague the murders are, almost all the murders seem impossible to perform and the show gives 0 clues despite the entire cast being detectives. i wrote a whole comment about it on here in detail

interesting you talk about mouse, because the show gave it away in the ending of the second episode (hospital scene). I loved mouse because although the killer was so obvious from the beginning the show had fleshed out beautifully for the viewer to appreciate the journey, which is what this show lacks.

That penthouse role dictated her career, she cant outrun it at this point

oh no i agree there, i gave the drama a 7.5 and i think its nothing special but i did enjoy many aspects in it enough for it to get a good rating. This show is actually good in my opinion. Regarding the critiques maybe they do leave out the positives which is sadly misleading for people who might enjoy the show if they just tried it

yea it's how it works here i know, but still you gotta call out weird shit when u see it

You also take into account the presentation of food, a tv show thats pleasant on the eye but is horrendous in every other department would get a 3 or a 4 bcz although presentation matters, there are other imprtant things and if you give something a 7 it means that show passes in almost every department bcz it earned 7, missed 3. those 3 cannot be so important yet take up so little space. I dont check rating before i watch anyways bcz ratings are subjective especially on sites like this...still weird

so basically MDL viewers overrate everything is what I'm seeing , a 7 is a 7 no matter what. no show or film should be rated from 5 to 10 no matter the budget they had. There are countless films and shows with way bigger budgets and can deservedly get below a 5. This show is the definition of " good" nothing more nothing less. Whoever bashed it should just give it a 5 or lower because it sounds to me that people on here have no idea how to rate. Giving something a 7 when you vocally express your distain is like tasting a burger and spitting it out then saying " yea I recommend this order its a 7/10"

same, you'd think most people did since they gave it a 7/10 Lmao

she wasnt really bad, her character was written to be un-expressive and passive. nothing she can work with sadly

why do people give shows a 7/10 and trash it in their review? it makes no sense you gave it a 7 ( Good) . learned to never trust MDL users

well im complaining because i too have a perspective and i dont agree with alot of the comments, simply sharing my opinion on the matter. didnt say youre not allowed to dislike her infact i said that's why her character is interesting, because her actions can divide the audience.

no way u just said "newbie" and "dramaland" LMAO sorry thats just fuckin hilarious. dont worry friend ive seen thousands of films shows and anime i know whats interesting 👍. and this one is, not by much ill admit but she is definitely entertaining.

because i can understand why a poor person would want to be greedy? Why should a kid not want to enroll in a school where the tuition fee is that abusrdly high? i mean its a palace of a school ...and for free? thsts the opportunity of a lifetime? opens so many doors. That is a totally normal decision everyone should make. regarding the last sentence no you dont have to like her. thats what cool about her being the MC shes a gray character who you can totally hate because her actions are indeed questionable for some. shows dont need a lovable mc, just enjoy the story as a whole imo

im fond of her character because shes interesting for a change, an MC who you can dicuss whether their actions are good or not. it makes the show interesting bcz everything isnt just plain obvious. the mc might not be nice and could be dumb to you but thats what makes her character unique in the end , u can totally not root for her and that's pretty entertaining in a show

why r u self inserting lmao, have u stopped to consider that maybe her character is just a person who might not be that smart? i dont really think shes that dumb your overreaching hard here also its literally a story things have to happen and actions need to cause them thats the point. if dumb ppl kill your empathy to them being bullied then you have a serious problem

this show is not moving at all, 30 minutes an episode is criminal barely anything is progressing i have no clue how this gets wrapped up for season 1 at all. alot of questionable decisions by the writers too

people saying the FL isnt likeable and i dont really get it? why does every FL have to be a perfect shy lovely princess? she's nice to the people who treat her well ( very limited everyone around her is barely human) and she's just trying her best to fit in her enviroment even though it seems impossible. she's just kinda dumb which is a normal flaw but other than she's really a normal person, yall acting like most people wouldnt do anything to be rich