Why Am I Here

Shallow Plotline with Quick Pace

Yet another rom com plunged into a pit of downfall. Truthfully, the story of this show ain't really deep and promising from the start. But as things go on, the writer seems to do quite a good job for putting together a Genie and a psychopath. Things are looking better until the story about Khalid kicks in. This part of story is unnecessary, unimpactful and really destroys everything that have been built, especially the storyline about two previous wishes from Ka Young. Everything becomes too makjang-ish, even for a fantasy genre show. The war between Iblis and Elljael is questionable, they fought for years but somehow Iblis able to end it quite easily. The pace of the show is really quick, borderline between enjoyable and confusing. It's not easy to understand a psychopath like Ki Ka Young, but for me it's more difficult to understand how can Ka Young fall for Iblis out of nowhere though she mostly has no emotion.

The visual effect of this show gives an eyesore. It's really awful and I think for a 2025 show, they should've tried harder. On the other hand, the soundtrack is quite great.

The performance of the casts is quite alright, nothing bad but nothing too special. The chemistry between Suzy and Woo Bin is also good. In my opinion, the one who does an impressive job here is Ahn Eun Jin.

Watch this show if you're looking for a quick adventure and when you don't really need to explore some "details".

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They're Serving Us Lawyer's Mukbang Show

I don't know but I feel something's off with this show. Normally calming shows like this have something emotionally hooking to keep the audience interested, but apart from the final two episodes this show feels so empty. The show was promoted as calm and heartwarming series. However when I went through the first episode the first cases are really dark. Luckily, the cases are all resolved safe and sound. The problem is, the writer does this pattern repeatedly until we fed up, no matter how easy or difficult, big or small, malicious or petty the cases are. It looks like the writer is trying to put cases as many as possible so they can bring a lot of "life messages". But as they slip away quickly, the audience may not be able to be emotionally attached to the case before they decide to close the case and bring the other one. I even think more effort shown on screen on the Watch Theft case compared to Hui Ji father's case. Also on the Student Attempted Murder case, Chang Won is a bit distrubed when defending an opposing party on a similar case, but they never show how he overcomes it.

Lunch and dinner maybe the two key events in this show. Somehow I can't find this "friendship" to be categorized as healthy. Apart from Ju Hyeong and Hui Ji, they rarely share any personal thought and burden between them. Their responses when Mun Jeong says her boss rejected her maternal leave request aren't convincing either. I thought after Ju Hyeong reveals his story of taking a case against his ex, everything will be better. Everyone begins to help each other, even on Hui Ji's father case, but I was wrong. Sang Gi hides his desire to enroll in a PhD program, Chang Won hides the pressure coming from his father. To me, they just look like lunch partners, not friends. The writer should highlight the original reason about how they end up together because they aren't coming from the same company and they don't seem really close enough.

The story about Kim Hyeung Min also remains unclear. It doesn't show about her backstory apart from she failed to become a lawyer, especially why does she has a lot of enemies? Alos the love line in this story comes up pretty early. But personally, I think it has been brought up too often for a slow show like this. To make it worse, this plot is probably the best part of the show.

Looks like the main leads are carrying hard this show. Lee Jong Suk plays a logic-oriented attorney, Mun Ka Young plays a more opposite trait, emotional-oriented attorney. They both play their character excellently, and their romance serves well. Kang You Seok has been really busy this year, but it is still a waste of talent because his character isn't very special.

This show has a weird pace, quick on the case but slow on everything else. Yes the final two episodes are excellent, but the path to it doesn't seem encouraging enough. I don't think it's worth for rewatch given the story is calming but feels hollow.

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Eccentric Style of Time Travel Show, But Fell Out at The End

We have another time travel drama again! This time it was Shin Seo Ri, the FL, who travelled from Joseon era to the modern Korea. By reading the summary, I thought it was going to be a usual romcom or something like that. However, this show was executed in the unusual way. Everytime you see a situation that makes you think "oh, this is going to be another cliche", they snapped it out and brought something unique.

However this unique executions stopped in later episodes. They were too makjang-ish even for a fantasy show. The way Seo Ri casually time travelled back and forth in the last episode was peak makjang. This show is also a plot-hole fest. As someone time travelling from the past, adapting to the latest technology should be difficult. Normally a time traveller in a drama gets a sidekick who constantly gives a brief about their usual habit etc. However, Shin Seo Ri was totally alone. Yet she was able to use a smartphone (she even left it at home at the beginning), pick up some foreign words easily, and even understand medical diagnose from doctors. A lot of questionable storylines including: why Seo Ri's parents did suicide, why Mo Tae Hui suddenly changed her goal, why Choi Mun Do's assistant betrayed him, and what the heck was the extras actress trying to pull? The ending was underwhelming for Mun Do in both Joseon and present era, like after all these pains he didn't taste his own medicine.

The highlight of the show? It's obviously the casts performance. Lim Ji Yeon succesfully pulled a ruthless-emotionless (and old-fashioned) woman. All the casts here successfully increased your blood pressure in their own way. The ost for this show is really good.

Should you watch it? Yeah, it's quite refreshing. Especially if you want to see how a common cliche build ups got twisted in a unique way.

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Great show! It's very lightweight and easy to enjoy. Four nosy housewives were on a roll, solving a serial murder and other cases, from daily issues to the difficult one. Together, they formed ZoomVengers, a private detective squad, contained one with a "Sherlock" brain, one with an outstanding fighting skill, and two others... not so sure actually (good with acting skills, and the one provide logistics they said). It has good mixture between mystery and comedy. And the plot twist deserves an applause. Storywriters aren't brave enough to pull such plot twist lately.

The building residents were mostly brainrot. How come they dismissed the flasher issue when they mostly talked about building price? Was the flasher planned to became a tourist attraction? They even with no shame, clapped the ZoomVengers walking out from the Tae Sun's case scene, including the security guards! Like a normal superhero story, it definitely has a lot of plot armours. Tae Sun astonishingly failed to kill So Hui, when he never failed before. The shotgun at the supermarket case held too much magazine. The kid Eun Byeol had nearly no impact. The comparation of Kong Mi Ri to Sherlock Holmes was a bit loose though. She didn't even have Holmes trademark skill: being quick-witted.

It's a good show if you're looking for a lightweight mystery show, when you can enjoy it without having to process everything in your brain for too much.

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Surprisingly, it's a great show. The overall storyline is very cliche, like your bedtime fairytale story. It always very lightweight, cheerful and happy around the main couples. On the other hand, it's also very absurd. This absurdity is the strength of the show and the way they cover up the clicheness of a fairytale story. Don't think about realistic because the overall show is very absurd and hilarious, especially the first half. I like the twist about the interpretation of "Cinderella". The comedy style of this show is slapstick-ish. The storytelling style with main leads absurd thought depictions, animations and insulted narrations also seems fresh.

I feel the quality of the story has gone down a bit in the second half of the show. The story about Cha Min's mother feels unnecessary.

Watch this show if you're searching for a lightweight comedy show.

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Hilarious Journey of Chaotic Superhero Group

What a chaotic-absurd superhero story. I loved how hilarious and ridiculous it was at the same time. I like the premise, the main superheroes acquired such useless skillsets. They couldn't even control when they power were going to appear by themselves, they had to stick together to make it works. Son Gyeong Un's superpower was a bit useless at the beginning, they initally let him stay in the group just to insult Kang Ro Bin. The first half of the show was a bit slow and somewhat painful, you may even question whether you are watching the correct genre. But bear a little longer, it's all going to pay off. Funny things kept coming here and there. Their thought process often involved something silly. Even the enemy collapsed after being scolded 🤣.

For everyone who were saying Cha Eun Woo is a bad actor, at least it didn't shown in this show. He did a pretty good job. Although the star of this show is of course Park Eun Bin. She always delivers when playing someone with a mentally-special condition. Choi Dae Hoon did again excellently with such annoyance to the whole show, and Im Sung Jae completed the characters to become the team of defects.

It's a shame that such a great story was executed a bit carelessly, must I say. It's like they started the story in the middle, missing out the openings and closures. I couldn't get how Son Gyeong Un kept crashing in Eun Chae Ni and Kang Ro Bin hideout, they were more like arch nemesis. They didn't tell us why the eternal heart ended up in Chae Ni's, did she have something actually "special"? Also, did Chae Ni had zero fear? It always required a caffeine to make her heart beat fast, so she never got nervous in such difficult situations? The brain control power was very strong that it could even control Wunderkinder such as Un Jeong, yet it had zero effect on Chae Ni? There weren't any closure for Ho Ran and Ju Ran too.

They hinted for second season? Yeah perhaps that will give closure for what hadn't been done. Great for rewatch too as it's very funny and lightweight.

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Divorce is not the end, but maybe the start of a new relationship

Good Partner turns out to be a great legal show. This show brought a new way to see a divorce case from another viewpoint. They clearly depicted the sturggles and pains in every divorce case. Also it emphasized that divorce is not the end of the world, but maybe a new way to re-arrange the relationship. Not only and always about the clients, this show put spotlight on the divorce attorneys and the challenges on how they handled the quarelling couples. More importantly, being a divorce attorney doesn't mean that they're exempt from marriages and divorces themselves. The depiction of the cases were close to realistic, there were several cases being dragged intentionally by the clients, while some chose to withdraw prematurely.

Jang Na Ra deserved a praise here, she got that Daesang for a reason. Impressive job from all of the casts, including the divorce clients. I also like the character developments. Cha Eun Gyeong was once a cold and profit-oriented divorce attorney. She matured a lot after the divorce hit her hard.

Although it's been a great journey, I think this show would be better if it ended after Eun Gyeong opened her own law firm, or even after her divorce finalized. There were several unimportant plot, and even a bit draggy, that seemed forcefully inserted just to meet the episode numbers requirement. These subplots couldn't match the importance and tense of the spotlight plot of Eun Gyeong divorce, especially the Daejeong management change plotline. It felt very unnecessary.

It's been quite a while since I saw a good legal show. It's very recommended, particularly because the divorce-cases-focused theme is fresh and rare.

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A Great Show to Go Through A Breakup!

Ooh, another underhyped show! Judging by the summary I thought this show is going to be another goofy romcom, because a dating coach failed in a relationsip? Turns out this show involves a quite heavy topic, yet packed it in a very lightweight way: breakups. This show talks about two people going through post-breakup hardships. Each people has their own "coping mechanism" to respond a break up. However a break up is not about a winning or losing. If you have a wrecked car you can jump off from it, or bring it to a repair shop and drive it again.

I love the pacing of the story, it's somewhat slow-burn but really heartwarming. The intensity were building really slowly, but it was worth it at the end. It was also very funny on the middle part of the show. The ML and FL are really insufferable at the beginning, but I love their character development, maturing slowly as the story progressing. Great performance and chemistry for Yoo In A and Yoon Hyun Min. Also outstanding performance for Kim Ye Ji as Bo Mi and her chemistry with Jin Ho, and great performance from Hong Hwa Yeon too!

Several things that bother me: There was a scene where Bo Ra had a drink with Yu Jung after her boyfriend dumped and cheated on her. She insisted that she would try to win him back. I couldn't understand why Yu Jung cheered her on this instead of telling her to let go, because everyone should know this would bring more pain to her. During the period where Ju Wan was trying to get back with Bo Ra, where the heck was Da Mi going? Also the ring that Ju Wan offered to Bo Ra at the end was the same with the one that Su Hyeok bought at the beginning (and was rejected when he treid to refund). It was the last piece when Su Hyeok bought it, how could it end in Ju Wan's possession? I also think the story about Sang Jin and U Ri is unnecessary.

This show is must watch at least once. A very beautiful way to deal and cope a breakup. And since this show is a quote producing machine, let's conclude the review with Bo Ra's final word in her book:
"Our love is neither a perfect happy ending nor a sad ending, it's an open ending. There's no such thing as a strategy for love, that never fails."

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I Hope for Nothing, I Fear Nothing, I am Free

What a beautiful and lighthearted show! It's very easy to enjoy this show. This show is about three women in their 30s with a big personality difference: one is grumpy, one is somewhat dumb, and one is a workaholic. They all had their own problems. However drinking was always a solution for them as they said: "I drink when I'm happy, I drink when I'm sad, I drink when my friend's happy, I drink when my friend's sad."

This show is able to cover multiple issues at one time including, workplace harrassment, sexual harrassment, over-controlling parents, grievance, LGBT, woman empowerment, and many more. It's also surprisingly succeed to stir the audience's emotion: from anger to joy to sadness. Some topics are heavy, some are funny, and others are heartwarming. First two episodes are heavy so you might need to hang on, and episodes 9-10 are extremely sad. The comedy is written in the absurd-ish style (similar style to Be Melodramatic). It's hilarious and enjoyable. It also highlights the beauty of friendship. What an amazing storywriting.

The main actresses successfully carried out the job to be the three women in the spotlight. Since this show is quite short, they sacrificed the backstory of characters. They actually had each, but it wasn't really deep. However, I don't see it as a big problem.

It's a great heartwarming show to watch. Also it's good to revisit this since it's quite lightweight.

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Another Underrated Romcom Found!

What an underrated show! I don't understand why people rarely say this title when recommending romcoms. Coming in 2020s, this show has an old-schoold romcom vibes with hefty amount of romance and comedy, and of course cruel side stories such as family rejection and triangle love. The romance is very nice and the comedy is quite generous compared to so-called "romcoms" nowadays. It clearly has far better story and character development, rather than just a couple cluelessly fooling around like in several romcoms lately. There are a lot of side stories in this show, but I don't think they overpowered the main romance storyline. Other plus points are no childhood connections and no White Truck of Dooms.

The chemistry between Kim Da Li and Jin Mu Hak is exceptional. I like how the writer depicted Mu Hak. Even though he's slightly behind in intellect, he still has a great business sense. He was able to smelly fishy schemes on multiple occasions. Mu Hak has a very silly family, and thankfully they were able to avoid drastic personality change and keep this silliness even with the addition of malicious intents. Additionally, this show has an oustanding soundtracks too!

However, a romcom is always a romcom. A sudden change of vibes, especially due to malignant side stories, is always unpleasant for me. In this show, the sudden vibe change lasts quite long. I don't like how Da Li responded her uncle's request. He had a beef with her father and she even barely met him, so why did she even consider his suggestion? After that he for no reason decided to give up the idea and return to the US which is adding more ridiculousness. Song Ji Won didn't do well as the museum intern. The way she bumped into Da Li looks very awkward. Also why An Chak Hui is in the Main Role list? Her screentime is minimal, same things goes to her character's impact to the story. And the most annoying after all, it looks like Jang Tae Jin didn't get what he deserve at the end.

To sum it up, it's a great romcom with an appropriate number of romance and comedy, that will bring you back a vibe of old-school romcom kdramas!

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This is your not-so-typical kdrama. The vibe is uncommon, very lightweight and yet... heartwarming if I may say? It doesn't have a blunt storyline about something. Just daily life of a policewoman who constantly quarrels with her mother, and the silly events that happen to her almost everyday.

This show weighs heavily on her and her mother, female-centric to be exact. Jeon Hye Jin does well here. Choi Soo Young, though she's a bit off in several occasion, still picks up an excellent job. Casting Park Sung Hoon is quite a waste. The male characters don't get much highlight here, morelike just a supporting role so it's disappointing that nothing much he can do.

The story is very lightweight and easy to digest. However I found the killer story is a bit dragging, especially near his arrest. The story after that event never comes back to the same level with previously. The ending is quite unfavorable for me. I don't mind the unfinished romance, but that world trip is out of nowhere. Her police squad doesn't even give her a proper farewell for the trip. Gong Ga Eul story also left out hanging. I thought they were going to bring up something meaningful from it, but at the end it's just nothing.

Still a recommendation for a rewatch since it's very lightweight and warm.

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If You Don't Have Enough Idea for 14 Episodes, Just Shorten It!

How many trope do you want? Yes! This show compiles a lot of mainstream Kdrama tropes, but the way they execute it is neither cheesy nor cringe. Thankfully, they didn't include childhood connection in this tropefest. It is very sweet and while office romance usually pisses us due to cringey situations, they successfully make us invested in it. The simplicity of trope execution is enough to hook us, well at least up until the 10th episode.

Instead of making this show with weird number of 14 episodes, they should stick to 12. The introduction of Yu Tae Yong makes the story becomes ridiculous and unbearable. It's making such side story to be too malicious and takes too much focus, and instead they should focus about DA RIM'S SISTER. WHY ARE THEY FORGETTING HER? Episode 13 is clearly a filler. The breakup is ridiculous thanks to zero communication between the leads and dumb brain of FL (like you choose to trust Ji Hye over Ji Hyeok???), only for them to reunite again in the same episode. The premise about selling the house, going to aunt's house and addition of Kim Sang Sik are also uneccesary, and all of them happens in one episode. And unfortunately it doesn't stop there. There are still 𝗐̶𝗁̶𝗂̶𝗍̶𝖾̶ ̶𝗍̶𝗋̶𝗎̶𝖼̶𝗄̶ black sedan of doom, memory loss and another stupid breakup in one episode. Such a shame that the quality of the story plummeted so hard into a mere cheap romcom in last two episodes. How Da Rim is able to sell the house without Ji Hyeok knowing when Ji Hyeok's mother live together with her mother? During the fire incident at the art gallery, Ji Hyeok tells Da Rim that he's going to wash his pants. However after the fire start, Da Rim rushes straight to the Director's Room instead of going to the toilet. The smoke is so thick that it's even spread to the exhibition hall in the first floor, yet Da Rim is able to see through the Director's Room door, the place of the fire source.

I actually like the chemistry between ML and FL, not extraordinary but quite good. I personally feel the SML and SFL has more chemistry, but the writer made the SML insufferable and a walking red flag. This jerky Kim Seon U confesses to Da Rim only to prevent Ji Hyeok from dating her, while he actually "isn't ready for any new relationship" himself. He refuses to help Ji Hyeok clears Da Rim's name, and he cuts the communication between his son and Ha Yeong just to prevent she falls in love in her. What a total a**hole, and yet they make them together in the end. Disgusting.

The osts are very great thpught! However, storywise this show is nowhere strong. The only reason they successfully hook us up is the way they execute the tropes. Since it has gone wrong, this show is actually just "another romcom KDrama" which started very nice but ends up in the gutter. Probably the biggest let down of 2025.

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Comedy over Crime

Overall, this show is quite good. The storyline is intriguing and enough to keep me invested, solving crimes with two methods: law and "supranatural". It is nearly overcomplicated as the cases (are trying to) connect each other, but the chemistry between everyone is so excellent that they are able keep the tense lighter. And on top of that, the comedy level is very consistent. At least, they're able to keep it for like 15 episodes, and it doesn't totally disappear on the latter stage though. The addition of Lee Min Gyeong and Park Jin Sang is also hilarious.

The casts carry out their job excellently, especially Seo In Guk. He is the star of this show. While the chemistry is somewhat excellent, unfortunately the casting division didn't do a good job here. Oh Yeon Seo, even though she acts well, doesn't have a cut to be a cop. To me, she doesn't have the aura that able to convince me that she is a police. I know it's quite difficult to pick someone who fits for action, comedy and romance altogether but it still doesn't feel right. The same thing applies to Kwak Shi Yang and Kang Mi Na whom doesn't resemble an ex NIS agent.

There is a massive plot hole in this show. Im Hui Suk is described by other shamans as "too young to be called as aunt". It doesn't make any sense that she picked up Cha Do Won and Gu Tae Su (Lim Yong Ju) when they're both still kids, and suddenly they're now look much older than her. During the campervan arson, why the hell Jae Hui have to try breaking the glass when she has her phone in her hand? On the car chase after the exclusive event, Jae Hui enters her van in a dress but then gets out from the van with a tracksuit. Final episode is a massive let down, I don't think the revenge is served sweet enough. They suddenly forget about Cha Seung Won and everything about the Choekang Construction scandal. Neither the truth about Choekang nor about Cha's family are revealed, instead they serve us a pure makjang at last.

This show is a great to watch if you prefer the comedy over the action or crime.

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I don't have much comment on this. This show is very lightweight, even when the genre is crime. There are multiple cases in this show, and they able to handle them with comedy and lightweight plot. Forget about realism because nothing is realistic here. The comedy seems a bit forced at the beginning, but it becomes better and hilarious as the story progressing. Characters and casts are all also good.

It annoys me a bit that each of the case has to relate with some of the officer personally, like there are too much personal emotions involved. The reason why Jang Tan Sik wants to be a cop remains unclear. Also the reason why Sim Hyeon U kills Jae In seems weak.

I am disappointed that Mu Jung Ryeok doesn't become the Captain at the end, so it's better to have a sequel for this!

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What an underrated action drama! This show is a mix of action, mystery and comedy. The idea is really great, about a chaebol son who accidentally has to become a cop. He later annoyingly uses all the power, influence and money he have to help him solving cases. It has several interesting cases, and involves corruption and collution as well. The overall storyline is really engaging, and the casts carry them out well. Character development is really great. Jin I Su turns from a chaebol son that feel worthless into a good police officer.

Unfortunately, I don't really like a show that contains several cases but has one personal case. Why? Because that case usually involve excessive impossibility. Usually this case looks extremely complicated and unsolvable, and the culprits are extremely powerful while victims involved are extremely vulnerable. Because of this premises, the resolution usually involves excessive level of makjangs. This doesn't really shown in this show though, but it's still there. The sleeping pills from 25 years ago somehow looks new and not decomposed (the pills, not the bottle). Also to kill someone due sleeping pills overdose, it requires a lot of pills. However with such short available timespan, Seung Ju is able to put a lot of sleeping pills into his father's drink. If he is in such hurry, there is a large possibility of the powder or the pill's shatter to be found around the glass.

I really recommend this show! There isn't any romance here though.
I hear they are making a second season without Park Ji Hyun. They MUST have a good closure to connect this two seasons then.

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