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Really not a reason to avoid it. It's not like "some other shows".
There's no long drawn out fight for affection with back-and-forth.

It's weird that the production seems to have been in three stages:

- the episodes people call boring, with mostly English-lyrics music, and not that much product placement (just the "official beer sponsor, official water sponsor, official fast food chain" crap)

- Korean-lyrics songs appear, hand in hand with over the top product placement ("DRINK THIS BEFORE ALCOHOL AND YOU WON'T HAVE A HANGOVER!", now a closeup on our official instant coffee sponsor, "THIS IS THE DOG FOOD THAT WILL MAKE YOUR SAPSALI HAPPY!", and the absolute worst: "BUY THIS POETRY BOOKY OF SAPPY PHRASES — QUOTES FOR EVERY OPPORTUNITY — SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!")

- the final episodes feel more rushed in terms of production and sometimes feature sloppy writing; the advertising is back down to a more reasonable level

I agree that the 'mystery' reveals in C.T, are usually obvious beforehand, but maybe you (and whoever tagged it as genre 'Mystery') have the wrong expectations here?

The answer to "what's a cool whodunnit that will keep me guessing until the last episode?" could never be Chicago Typewriter. It's obviously not written as that. The only real mystery element is the characters trying to pierce together their previous lives (in-universe!), but that's not really what the viewer does. There's never even any unreliable narrator, no characters put there just to mislead you, none of that.

It's not a mystery show, and thus weird to rate it based on that.

Technically she has four suitors, but it's not Boys Over Flowers KR.
So it's 90% the male lead.

If anything, I'd say the male lead should have found himself a better female lead, but Kim Won's love interest Jun Hyun Joo was the *only* female character under 40 that didn't spend at least a quarter of the screen time being a straight up terrible human being.

Can't say I understand the second lead syndrome here at all, he's just too much of a bully and general asshole.

To be fair 99.95% of English-speaking actors in K-dramas are unbelievably terrible, and about 70% of the time you can't understand a word of their "English" either — and usually there's no English subtitles for "English".
It could have been worse.
Since those actors and scenes quickly fade into irrelevance, it's not that big of a deal in the long run.

You should probably have watched any of the usual F4 (Boys Over Flowers / Meteor Garden) or Cinderella stuff before, tho.

IMO around that episode he would have either had to *find a new Female Lead* or take somewhat drastic action against his father, but neither happened. He just sulked and "got drunk" and into fights or whatever.

It was really missing a scene where the post-surgery chairman appreciated how his two sons and his ex-mistress (and Yoon) fought for him, but then again, it was also to ward off the locust swarm of blood-sucking relatives, not just filial loyalty.

A "F4 ripoff" plot that usually goes nowhere, lead characters that do nada, and legions of school bullies one's supposed to cheer for.
In the worst third in terms of product placement too, like that "N" drink being in every scene no matter if USA or Korea, or how there's an episode full of Asics shoes, and then even an Asics shirt.

Kim Tan loved Kim Won, but Kim Won as the older one knew they were destined to fight for the company in the future, which is how their father set it up to happen too during the show, and that essentially blood relatives are the most likely to stab you in the back in a chaebol setting.
He also scolded his brother as clingy and naiive (because he would never be suited for the 'real world' like that), though privately to his girlfriend he praised him as warm-hearted / caring.

Kim Won saw exiling Kim Tan to the US as locking up a rival, much like Kim Tan's mother was locked up for a good portion of her life.

The show regularly emphasises class/status differences, and in that sense a person from the lowest class would never be allowed to be in a relationship with the future heir of a conglomerate.

The story boils down to two fathers-to-be desperate to provide/pay for their unborn children, as well as the triumphant story of how one of them "cures" a lesbian. Not sure that's a very appropriate theme in this day and age.

It's apparently been eighteen years since I last watched this, so it seemed a good opportunity to give it another go.
I'm not sure if something is wrong with Netflix' version, but the sound is awkward and unprofessional during (some?) action scenes. Might just be the movie.

At the time I first watched this I gave it an 8/10, and while I wouldn't give it the same rating today, it's definitely worth a watch for any action movie fan.
If you want to understand every detail, be prepared to pause and re-watch a good few scenes. The director makes sure to show or explain things just enough that understanding them is technically possible for a human being.

The previous season has a 100% "The Raid" episode already, https://kisskh.at/9916-bad-guys#comment-6901507

In this one it wasn't as much like that.

Not in the sense that two or more guys establish a new one.
There's a whole lot of bro-loyalty between the police guys, but that's pre-established and is not altered during the show's arc(s).

It's a tiny bit like a reboot; they very very very rarely reference the other one, it's at times evident that the same writer wrote it, but it's really a stand-alone story in an unrelated scenario.

From what I know "38 Task Force" also ties in to it just as loosely.

Violating terms of service isn't by itself illegal.

I've used VPN to watch Netflix for years now, and if they had any intention of stopping this they could easily have. So far they intentionally choose not to. It's not a matter of being caught or not, I'm absolutely certain their system knows all about it.

Also, please don't upvote all your own posts, it reflects poorly on you (and whatever you write).

Any internet business tends to reserve the right to close your account for whatever arbitrary reason. It's possible that any of
- VPNing to watch region restricted content
- VPNing to pay much less in a cheaper region
- sharing an account with several people that don't live together

will eventually get punished strictly. So far it's not the case. Generally Netflix always prioritizes growing their viewership and pleasing customers over alienating them. Sure, it might change in the future.

P.S.: Episode 04 is a straight-up copy of The Raid: Redemption (2011).