Well...I said I would change my rating once I'm done with this drama but alas....my rating stays the same.

If I had known this series was going to go the way it did I wouldn't have watched the first season over. That was a BIG BIG BIG mistake. But it's not my fault because I thought the second series was going to be like the first.

I was so dead wrong. This series was so bad that it made me go back and see who the writers were. I was thinking did the original writers do something wrong to the new writers?

Sadly enough it was the same writers!!! How could they have done this to the people who fell in love with the first series??

To anybody who watched the first drama, everything that you loved in the first drama....it's not there in this drama if you haven't seen it.

There were stupid things in this drama that was a waste. For instance the so-called 'evil' characters who struggled to speak Chinese. There was no purpose for any of them. The extra counters...why?? Another waste. Ju Seok becoming more powerful than anybody and the explanations as to how he was so powerful didn't make any sense. Not to mention the fighting scenes if that's what you call it. It was more like a telekinesis battle than anything. Everybody got choked by thin black air so many times that I was shocked they were still able to function.
Then there's So Mun who turned out to be the cockiest and most powerful of the bunch while Mo Tak just sat back in the shadows. Mae Ok was the only character who progressed. She fought more but still had that endearing heart of hers. That was the one saving face for me. Then there was a gun battle....why??

The last episode had me skipping through a lot. For the take down to be so quick it sure was drawn out. The series could've easily ended within the first few episodes but again, everything was drawn out.
I wanted to like this series but it wasn't the same as the first. I shouldn't have been so greedy by wanting a second season to come out.
For what it's worth the very last few minutes of episode 12 was worthy of a second watch.

if a drama is good and they only stick with one season, I will be fine with that.

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I just binged on this yesterday. I was all for seeing another bad a** female fighter! It's about doggone time!! Korea needs to portray Korean actresses better than they do. I grow tired of the cliche sappy romance from a love sick, stupid, and poor actresses. I do believe that's not what Korean actresses who portray ordinary females are like.

My rating for this quickly dwindled by the 8th episode. Once again we have the boy hates girl motif but then all of a sudden he turns out to like her and then they have this fling and then something stupid happens because of love. Ugh....I HATE HATE HATE dramas like that!! It ruins the whole atmosphere. I didn't see anywhere where there was any type of romance in this which was another reason why I eagerly watched this.

I liked the female lead. I'm always for a Korean actress who's tough as nails and take no junk. She was relentless to the end!

This story hit home for me because it's something that happens in real life which happened to me last year. The scenario is different but the turn out was the same. The plot was all about revenge and it didn't stray. I did get confused by the 'who dunnit' factor because of what was said in the last episode.

I'm glad this only had 8 episodes. I don't think it would've been strong enough for the usual 12-16 episodes.

Will I watch this again? Most likely no. I do love action though but this won't hold the same feelings if I watch it again. Maybe somewhere down the line I may watch it again. Maybe.

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I'm going to talk about the takeaways from this drama and there's A LOT OF 'EM!

First we learn the ML has CIPA-a person who can't feel pain, right? But it's only shown in the first episode and it's a really short clip.
We learn the FL develops and instant crush on the ML which is a heavy eye roll for me.

Then we see weak plots about different characters exhibiting pain that barely gets covered.

One episode has a supposedly virus outbreak but that quickly dwindled.

Then the FL learns of the ML's secret and she becomes even more clingy and naggy ( yeah not a word but I can't think of anything else.) She becomes so annoying that I began to look elsewhere when she starts whining and crying over stupid stuff. I had to ask myself is there not ONE episode where's she's not crying and wondering why the ML don't have feelings for her or why he's not showing enough feelings for her?? At different points she made his issue all about her.

The next is that prosecutor and nurse. Call me crazy but the way she handled the guy who had anal cancer was so wrong and yet she didn't get in trouble for it and that prosecutor should've been disbarred for trying to get someone who served their time fired. Isn't that harassment?

Then out of the blue the ML starts having problems with his health. Episode 1-8 he's doing fine then the next few episodes he's having health problems then close to the end he goes to do some research about his disease. We see he's not doing good then the writers time stamp the last two episodes of making it seem as if three years past and the ML shows up out of the blue and the FL goes into her clingy, crying, nagging self...again... By this time I'm skipping a lot of her whining and literally stalking the ML because he didn't call her.

The last episode was the most let down of all the other episodes. The writers had no where to go and just let the uninspired sappy romance go on forever!!! The other doctor and sister's relationship was more believable than the FL and ML.

I like medical dramas and thought this would be a good one but alas, I only watched because I literally had nothing else to do. I just hurried and watched the last few episodes just to get them over with. I could've dropped this but I was curious as to how it would've turned out. With the same three songs being played over and over in each episode, the crying, the sappy uninspiring romance....this has definitely been a medical drama let down for me and is a sign to truly skip dramas that have romance in it. No matter how good it is, if it's got romance in it like this I will avoid it like the plague!

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Allow me to be the odd one out the bunch when I say I am truly upset for watching this drama!! Of course I watched it like everyone else: because of Lee Joon Gi. I've only seen him in four dramas and I loved him in every single one because...you guessed it-mad fighting skills. But alas, he wasn't my favorite character in this drama. It was Park Chul Min who played the father. Even though he was barely in it, the scenes he was in had me laughing. You could tell he enjoyed playing this role.

I wasn't really digging this drama anyway because of how slow it was. I was going to give it a seven but the very last episode made my blood boil!!! i was eager to see how this ended and was hoping for justice but I wonder if something else is going to be done with this drama hence the reason for the ending.

Even though I've only been watching Korean dramas for almost 3 years now I have come to accept that any 12-16 episode drama will not have a good last episode and this one was no exception.

If you want to see justice served up to the very end I'm telling you right now, you're going to be disappointed. Had I known this I wouldn't have watched this drama.

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Disappointing last episode

My review is based off the last episode from this drama. To me the last episode should be the nail in the coffin. The final closure from all the other episodes that took place in order to get to the finale right?

Not this one.

It was well over an hour long so I thought everything was going to be pieced together and everything that happened in the first 10 episodes will close out in the 11th.

In my opinion it was a let down. It didn't seem like justice was really served. The first episode had me eagerly anticipating how the bad guys were going to pay but in the end it fizzled. There was too much emphasis on one thing when that could've been wrapped up either in the first 10-20 minutes or so or the last 10-20 minutes. I was given more fluff than I needed. Plus everything went on for so long that most of the plots just ended by story telling from the news. Korean dramas have a tendency to do that. If they can't act it out they'll talk it out in a news segment and that's why my overall score is the way it is.

It ended as if there may be another Queen Maker drama. For this drama's sake I'm so set against it. I'm glad there were only 11 episodes. I don't think it would've lasted for the normal 16.

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I wasn't going to finish this drama after watching the first episode but someone suggested that I should finish watching because it gets better.

Well, to be fair I stuck it out because I was hoping as nice as the main ML was he wasn't going to go by the actual psychopath's diary.

I'm not going to go into a whole spiel about this drama. I'm just going to talk about the takeways that happened throughout this series.

First the comedic scenes. There were a lot of comedy scenes but I only laughed a few times. It was because 'in my opinion' some of the comedic elements were too over the top. The constant yelling, screaming, whining, and crying by the main ML didn't help much.

The dumb skills of the two constable officers. The fact that a lot of the times when the main ML did something off the wall these two cops thought it was just adorable when in the real world that person would be evaluated for mental issues or got arrested.

The private detective who'd been a police officer for 20 years which turned into 15 close to the end of the series was horrible at blackmailing. You would think someone with a 20 year skill would be a master of their craft but they made this guy look like a amateur blackmailer.

The second ML was just too creepy. He was the only one that was more believable throughout the series but he did stupid stuff too.

There was one scenario in one of the episodes where the main ML was stuck in a car with charcoal bricks. I guess that's commonly used for suicide purposes and the main ML could've rolled down the windows, or he could've slid to the passenger's side of the car and unlock the door-because the driver side was blocked, but no he just sat there, screamed, cried...did everything but the right thing in order to survive.

The last episode was the reason why my rating is the way it is. It didn't have that closure that I was hoping for. It dragged and it just seemed like the writer didn't know how to end the series so they just put in a little of this and put in a little of that but left out things that I thought would be the icing on the cake.

There were a lot of people who stated that this was the best drama ever. No offense but I've seen better.

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So being in a Korean action drama drought I decided to watch a Korean movie instead. Since July of last year Korean action dramas have been my go-to and has helped fill a daily void of not having anything to do and to watch.

But it seems like the Korean action dramas-sans the cliche romance has come to a stand still for me.

I watched this movie because of Park Seo Joon from Itaewon Class and have grown to like him. His partner in crime Kang Ha Neul was awesome as well.

Even though this wasn't a top notch action/mystery movie it was something to watch to surpass a few hours.

The relationship between the two main characters as besties won me over. They also had awesome supporting cast members as well.

There were some things that touched a reality shock such as runaways and illegal infertility scams but again, it was something to help surpass the time.

If you just want to do that just watch. It didn't disappoint me in the least.

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Well, call me the odd one out of the bunch who really didn't like this. I seriously took a nap after every episode! It was just that slow. The main character had only one facial expression and that was the 'confused' look. It grated my nerves!

I watched because I liked Lee Gi Young in Vegabond. I will watch anything he's in because he plays his characters really well. I even liked Jeon Sung Woo. His skills and gulliblenesss-yeah I know it's not a word-made him more likeable than any other character in this series.

I even liked the female cop. She was bad a** to the end.

Sadly no one in my opinion could save this series. To me it took too long to get to the plot and then in the end you find out the person who was behind everything wasn't the person you expected so I don't know why they took that issue in that direction.

Plus the ending was so freakin' cliche!!

I kinda got the gist of the ending due to Keifer Sutherland's show that has the same premise as this. I like Sutherland but he portrays the same character in anything he plays in. I can't tell if he's disinterested in the roles he play or he's portraying a laid back type of person either way I didn't see his version and wish I hadn't seen the Korean version.

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This was a very watered down drama with heavily loose trials thrown in. This drama shouldn't have been called Divorce Attorney Shin...It should've been called the American version of Friends because that's basically how the show went. Three best friends hanging out on a daily basis with a few watered down cases involved.

I watched this drama because I love the three male leads. I've enjoyed seeing each in their own respective dramas. I didn't know the MML knew how to play the piano!! Of all the dramas I've seen him in, his piano skills was never introduced or I missed something. It's good to see hidden talents of actors though.


That trot music and them singing...waste of drama minutes for me!

I did like the second FL who worked in her grandmother's restaurant. I didn't care for the first FL. She was too fluffy for me. Her doom and gloom facial expressions was what irked me the most. She did outshine in the last episode where she went off on one of her viewers. If they would've made her a bit more feisty throughout the series then maybe I would've liked her. The mother and son duo with her didn't mix either. It was awkward to say the least. The kid had better sense than the mom.

Other characters that was apart of the law firm was useless. The new male lawyer was annoying to say the least.

The mediocre cases that was presented made me wonder what was the point?

I did, though, like how they portrayed how children react to adult problems. Kids are more in tune with their surroundings more than you think. Those two little boys out did the adult actors!!

I also had a problem with how slow each episode was. Either I'm losing interest in things a lot faster with these dramas or they're that slow. By golly I found myself pausing each and every episode more than 5 times. Don't even get me started on the last episode...OMG!!! It was only 1:20 but it felt way longer than it should've been.

In my reviews I always capitalize on the last episode because that's suppose to bring in the closure of all the previous episodes but a lot of the times the last episode is redundant. This sort of was. By the end only a few just desserts was served. In my opinion I really wanted the new wife to get obliterated but nothing came to be and that made my blood boil.

I've been hitting a lot of Korean drama slumps lately! I don't care for a lot of rom-coms but that seems to be all that's left. I'm hoping Korea will bring some better dramas that aren't slow paced and don't have any romance in it...Otherwise I'll be going back to my old routine before I knew Korean dramas existed.

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When I read the synopsis about this drama it didn't intrigue me at all. I don't care for period pieces or westerns but reviewers said this was action packed and I love Korean action dramas so I bit the bullet and decided to watch.

A few weeks later I finally made it to the last episode. When I say a few weeks later I mean that's how long it took me to watch this slow drawn out drama. I should've dropped this after episode 5. I can't understand the high marks people gave this!

Every episode was the same: fight for Korean freedom by getting from under the Japanese rule.

If this didn't have any fighting scenes I don't think this drama would've survived. The main ML have some serious martial art skills as well as his frenemy. That girl had some mad fighting skills too.

For the life of me I would love to learn the secret to Korean vitality because everybody in the main cast who got shot, stabbed, hit with arrows, beat to a bloody pulp managed to survive by the time that particular episode was done.

I was amazed at how the Korean early 1900's resembled that of the US. They had cars, trains, electricity...it was cool but each episode was drawn out, plus they had to throw in that sappy romance I've come to despise. It ruins the whole vibe for me.

This series could've ended at episode 8 but they had to drag that out too by having another episode. It was meaningless. It had no closure which makes me wonder if more episodes will follow. If it does I won't be watching it.

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I can't on good conscience give this a good review. It was so all over the place that I forgot what this drama was all about. There was too much stuff going on. I was so confused on the betrayals as well. If you betray someone, how could you be friends with them? At some point I just gave up. Too many names doing different things that made it even more confusing. Plus as I mentioned before I'm not good with names so that made it even worse for me. There were too many times when the enemies was for and against the main character. I'm thinking where was the writer going with this? It was like different ideas hit them and they just included every idea they could think of and put it in this drama.

My main question was this: why would you agree to go into a prison where you can't protect yourself? It seems like anybody can walk into a prison and stay there if you live in Korea.
Once the main character realized he couldn't get what he needed he should've left but it went on to another plot and then another, and then another. By the time the episodes progressed the main plot was forgotten until the 15th episode.

I was going to drop this but I don't have anything lined up. I caught up on all my regular shows which are in hiatus until the fall. There are several Kdrama sequels that will be coming out that I'm waiting for: Fiery Priest, Uncanny Counter, First Responders, to name a few. I've been looking for something to fill the void until then.
I already dropped two dramas but I stuck this one out.

I will give the revenge factor a 10 though. A lot of bad guys got what they deserved which made me happy. There was some unfinished business though. With the way each episode dragged you would think all the loopholes that happened within the 16 episodes would be covered but they weren't.

It look like a sequel will come out but I doubt it. If it does I know I won't be watching it.

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Dokgo-Poisonous drum. You'll die if you hear the beat.

This mini series reminded me of Tong Memories. It had the same concept: who ever is the best fighter gets mad props and will be feared by many.

So here's where I'll describe the two: Tong, I believe had 9 mini episodes. If you banked them all together, they probably equaled out to one episode of Dokgo Rewind. Dokgo had 20 mini episodes which was combined into 4-40+ minute episodes.
In my opinion this was much better because there were no cut scenes when a fight was about to ensue. There were female side kicks in both but in Tong they made it seem like the females were going to fight but didn't.
This series didn't have that. Everyone fought where as in Tong, the main character barely fought.

This is the kind of dramas that drew me into what Korea had to offer in the first place.

I'm a action fanatic and if martial arts gets thrown in, then you have made yourself a happy woman!

This had fighting scenes throughout. I love how things went in my favor. There were some sad parts which I wasn't expecting but the justice was done in the right places.

As I said, I'm a action fanatic and there were reviews where this series was disliked. I was going to pass on this because of the negative reviews but this isn't for everybody. It certainly was for me.

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I'm like the few on here who wanted to see how this faired to the American version of Leverage.

That is one of the few TV shows that I have enjoyed so much that I've watched all 5 seasons probably about 4-5 times since it aired and went off the air. I will even watch it if there's a marathon on.

The Korean version in my opinion held up on it's own. They do have the same premise: mastermind, thief, grifter, hacker, and hitter. Although some of the episodes from the Korean version was taken from the US version, the Korean version lasted about a episode and a half where as the American version each episode lasted only 40-42 minutes depending on the length of commercials.

The American version introduced each character with a mini story background as to who they were and how they got started.

The Korean version didn't need to do this. Each individual was introduced without a need for introduction or backstory.

At first I wasn't too thrilled with some of the characters. The hacker for instance, we know can't fill the role of Hardison but he had his own quirky way which he was able to pull off. I also thought I wasn't going to like the hitter but he grew on me.
My favorite was actually the female grifter. You could tell she was having the time of her life playing this role. One of the episodes I actually spit everywhere. It wasn't my intention to do that but I did. She was just that hilarious. I don't remember laughing this hard with the American grifter version.
I also didn't know what bromance was or what it meant until I started watching Korean dramas and the bromance was there between the guys. There was bromance between the American version between Elliot & Hardison. Their chemistry was just awsesome.

As usual this left off as if it was going to continue. I don't know if it will or not. I will say I am truly excited that there will be a American revival of Leverage that will stream on IMBD. The only downside is that Timothy Hutton won't be in it. I hope Noah Wyle can pull this off.

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Now THIS is what I call a Korean action drama!!!

As others stated this is a 12 series mini short. Some episodes are just 13 minutes while some were a little over 7-9 minutes. Too short for my taste but I enjoyed every episode.

The one kid who became known to be the best fighter on the streets barely fought. I don't know if his martial arts skills aren't as strong as the others but the one time he did fight he laid out the leader which was hilarious and bad to the bone altogether.
The one time he did get hit was by his middle school's best friend. That guy was a total douche. His pride was so in the way that he literally got beat in every scene he fought. He did have some mad fighting skills but it went for nought a lot. Even his posse could fight better and none of them got beat after they were beat by the main two male characters.

Some of the 'bad guys' looked a little too old to be in high school too.

As one commenter mentioned females showing up and doing a stare down, I just knew they were going to have some fight scenes but no. It cut away to something else,

I whooped and clapped when I saw Ma Dong Seok doing his infamous slapping in one of the episodes. He's grown on me since Bad Guys.

I was upset about the ending. Korea loves to toy with martial arts fans by making episodes seem like they're going to continue only to not have any more shows.

Forgive the low rating for rewatch values. I haven't rewatched any Korean action dramas that I've already watched. Even though this is too short and wasn't continued there's no need to rewatch especially since I know how it ends.

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Yes!

This was the second Korean action drama that I watched after watching Rugal. Again as I say in all of my reviews I didn't know Korean dramas existed until watching Rugal last year. After seeing that I tried to find any and every Korean action drama that I could find and this was the second one.

I wasn't familiar with the style of Korean dramas but since then I have found myself steering away from the romance type of dramas. I didn't notice the style last year but now I do. I loved the main character, the second main character, and the main character's partner. These three had the chemistry that I loved. I especially loved the bromance between the 1 & 2nd male characters. There were scenes that had me laughing hard.

I tolerated the female lead up to a certain point. She started off likeable but became a whiny love sick puppy in the end that made me cringe. This was the reason I started migrating away from romance dramas.

The fighting scenes were awesome. I kept going back to those scenes. This had somewhat of a James Bond style to it.

I haven't rewatched any of the action Korean dramas I've seen but sometime in the near future if I'm still alive, I will most definitely rewatch this again.

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