Not a perfect drama, but certainly a very innovative one.

Not a perfect drama, but certainly a very innovative one. I'm saying again what I'd in previous episode that people need to understand that the story of this drama is set across the events taking place in the span of 24 hours and not multiple days.
Considering this drama was set across 24 hours, it's believable that why police weren't able to apprehend Si-woo.

The basic plot is that a serial killer kidnaps the daughter of Lee Ho-cheol. This killer has been living in plain sight as Ho-cheol's neighbour. What follows next is the cat and mouse chase between Ho-cheol, Kwon Si-woo (serial killer), Bae Tae-jin (assassin) and the cops.
Ho-cheol racing against the time to save his daughter from being getting killed by Si-woo.

Personally, I liked the idea of this story. It was like 24, US drama.
Yes, the execution wasn't perfect, but it wasn't that bad either. The story could've been stronger.
But what I think the biggest drawback is that there were only episodes per week. This kind of acted as "continuity-breaker"
People couldn't stay connected with the story because of the duration.
If people would binge-watch it in a go, the story would make much more sense.

The ending kind of open-ended. Most of the things were ended perfectly, but I still think there is a chance of a sequel.

Overall, the weakest drama from OCN in a long time. Nevertheless, a nice drama and full points for the experiment.
The direction was weak, as was the story, but the acting was spot-on. Lee won-keun literally gave me chills with his performance. He was very good as a serial killer. His chilly smile would send shivers down one's spine.
Nice comeback for Jin-goo after disastrous Legal High.
Ha Do-kwon nails most of his roles, and here also he was perfect.
What I rue about is that there wasn't much to do for Lim Hwa-young. She was good as a cop, but some scenes should've been added showing the mother-daughter bond, particularly at the end.

A nice 8.0/10 from me.

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Different from usual revenge dramas.

As implied from the headline, this is a revenge drama.
The story is about a teenage girl falsely implicated in the murders of her parents, released from prison after 10 years and going on revenge mode to avenge her wrong imprisonment and murder of her parents.
The plot: Taking a u-turn from usual revenge dramas, this drama focuses on the main leads getting revenge by conning the bad guys. As said above, FL is implicated in her parent's murder but found support in an able lawyer who has the problem of being overly emotional with the cases. FL is supported by a bunch of her "colleagues"and together they formed a perfect team to avenge for what they had to suffer in the past.
Acting: This is the best thing about this drama, the acting. Everyone has done a splendid job here. I loved the dynamics between Ro-Um and Moo-young.

This drama do suffers from the obvious low moments in the plot which can be overly complicated at times. But the biggest positive is that the writers were able to wrap things up perfectly. In an era where kdramas are sucking at the ending, this drama feels like a breath of fresh air about how they approached the story and how well the ending is written.

I feel like the ratings are not doing justice to this drama. We have mediocre products like movies of certain big stars getting ratings of more than 8, while such good dramas are stuck at 7.7.
Don't go with the ratings. You will surely enjoy this drama.

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