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rachel

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rachel

Singapore
Signal korean drama review
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Signal
2 people found this review helpful
by rachel
Mar 19, 2016
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.5
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.5
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 7.0
This is truly a special Korean drama - one of those that have the perfect combination of great writing, great acting, and great directing. At first instance, it gave me a True Detective vibe, which shows the ambition of the show from the get-go. For once, there were no overwhelming loveline in the story. Just a overwhelming sense of tragedy and injustice, which is precisely what the audience SHOULD be feeling, because those are exactly what drive our main characters forward throughout the show. Police corruption and injustice seem to be popular topics to cover in Korean dramas, but if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that wrongs must be made right. The writing was not simplistic at all; the storylines are tightly woven together and the stories are carefully told and not laid out all at once to force-feed the viewer with information. The writer gives it to us bit by bit and allows the story to unfold naturally, so the viewers can come to a gradual realization of the real horrors of the injustices. I was totally hooked to the show to the very end; it genuinely kept me coming back for more after each episode. The 3 leads are not actors you see often on TV so it was a real bonus to have them join this project. Each one of them did a great job, especially Jo Jin Woong, truly the star of the show. It was also great to have, for once, a strong female character who was placed front and centre of the show, NOT for the sake of having a lead female character. She was a capable detective who HAPPENED to be a woman. Isn’t that fab? Clearly from the above, I highly highly recommend this show for a gripping and rewarding watch.
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