The First Responders Season 2 (2023)

Unforgettable Collaborations, a Mastermind Villain, Nail-Biting Plot Twists, and a Beautiful Romance

This drama is one of the best dramas out there if someone is looking for a lot of thrill with nerve-wracking plot twists and cliffhangers and a drama with well-structured crimes as well as investigations then then you have reached your station. One of the best things that makes this drama stand out is how real the drama looks for example here the ML doesn't just magically solves cases but rather goes through various iterations again and again making sense out of the evidence and drawing various plans, this is what that is usually missing from most crime-thriller dramas. Another aspect is that the characters all had their own lives instead of all working on the same case for the sake of the plot always surrounding the ML Instead all had their own share of things to take care of many were investigating other cases many helped ML solve the cases through their own domain expertise which is also different than another other drama out there which made this drama look more like a real-world situation where we sometimes collaborate with someone other time with others, sometimes someone asks for help sometimes you get help from someone, if someone is injured or takes holidays we have their replacements. So for me, it felt more like watching a separate world through the camera lens. Wait there is still a lot more😂😂.
The plot revolves around the police department, NFS, and firefighters, and here we see cases that involve all three of them working together or at least called together on sites which later turns into collaborations. Each place has a set of repeating characters which we can consider the main characters yet they can also change given the circumstances It doesn't mean that any of them lack substance rather all will end up becoming your favorite For example here Doha was an addition that I really like his collaboration with ML just makes sense they are a perfect duo just like how we saw Jindo dog and Bulldozer together in S1.
The cases are much more extreme in S2 than in S1 making us think how the hell are they gonna do, whether they will make it out alive or not. These cases will keep you up all night until you complete the whole drama😂😂. There is also slight romance in the drama, not many scenes but it will surely melt your heart whenever you see them together in any scene. Both ML and FL have their own love language and their own way of expressing it. Oh man at this rate I will keep on going all day long talking about them😂😂 let's move on.
This drama also has one of the most brilliant villains who made all the best of the bests in the drama (like Jin Ho Gae, Kang Do Ha, and Yoon Hong, etc.) run around in the palm of his hands. He was the main mastermind pulling all the strings from behind but no one could even speculate even the crimes he drew let alone his identity or his involvement. This man literally used the whole country as his playing field and our character as players to play with. He was always working on many things at once unlike the normal villains who give their all in only one crime until they fail and move on to another, he on the other hand always had his hands full of plans to execute.
Although S2 is a little bit behind S1 but cases shown here are better than S1 and it also has much much better collaborations between the different teams, departments, and characters. The lineup at the end of S2 seemed too overly powered to me where all the best of the best were working together so I don't know if S3 comes out any of the villains would even last a single episode😂. I would really love to see the actors working together again, especially the ML and FL. I don't know if there will be another season or not but all I know is that this drama created a whole different level or standard for other crime thriller dramas to work towards.

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Just lit as s1. Shouldn't be dropped halfway in any circumstances!!

I'm one of those who waited half a year to watch s2 and without any doubt i can say ,this never disappointed.

S2 was fresh with so many new charecters(some still remains a mystery),ofcourse there were some tissue grabbing and sobbing moments,but was extremely entertaining ,thrilling and satisfying with the ending.


Mild Spoilers ahead !!!!

After the 3-4 th epi ,the story faced a slow pacing (maybe because of the loss of someone) and also due to a diverted less significant' case' than the previous ones. But to my great surprise the show retrieved the initial momentum the very next week. To be honest,it made me completely forget the trauma that was given in the earlier episodes and was fully immersed in the new story arc.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐒2 was being connected with S1 .Certain charecters and events had great importance in season as well, which made it feel like Master plan or something of the writer.

The only thing which was disappointing in my opinion was ,
(𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱)
Im a great fan of PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE [2018-2019] which infact is by the same writer(i think). She did this very similar doctor character in PFJ too, so that felt easy to pin point the main antagonist. Moreover, the antagonist was more obvious than the previous season, nevertheless the journey was worth every second.

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I can't with the writer-nim

This series is super duper good and I liked the first season and some say they likes first season better but imo I like secong season way better because they introduced new character new Villians new strategies and new plots I know ik dojin died and we were all in trauma some even dropped and those you dropped they be missing reall good I didn't dropped drama mabye i wasn't that emotionally attached to dojin ig but now that hogae is at the place of dying i cried so much my eyes are still swelled from yesterday and now I know what people who were more connected to dojin felt cus I think I'm more emotionally connected to hogae and Im depressed after yesterday's ep I'm delulu and I feel that Hogae is still alive he can't be dead like we need hogae and seol together but yeah I hope delulu come trululu and Writer-nim did seol real dirty they killed off the trio like what and now Dex be hitting on her like wtf--!?


anyways will continue and complete the drama I really wishes we would see S3 with Hogae and seol and mabye dojin will also crawl Outta grave so yeah that just my opinion please come for me.✌️

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The season where the writer packed her bag and ran away

For me, this drama is both good and bad. tbh After watching the first season, I wondered why they even needed a season 2? Except for wondering if Do jin and ho gae were alive and the unknown mastermind behind the crimes, I was wondering what kind of story is left for them to stay. is a second season even necessary to tell the remaining mystery from S1? And well, I wasn't surprised how S2 spanned out over the 1 and a 1/2 months.

What mostly disappointed me was how the character's settings were arbitrarily mutilated by the author from her own hands. I'm not crying over Do Jin died, but I'm unsettled in HOW he was killed by the author, at least Do Jin should have been given a more heroic death, but instead, a MAIN character was just killed within 4 episodes and the story just continues with. "oh he is just dead, bye bye". Not only Do Jin, they removed the characters Bong An Na [Scientific Investigation Team / Do Jin’s sister], with just a "oh I'm going abroad, bye bye". I mean if they are going to remove the actors/characters, they shouldn't have introduced them for S2 in the first place! Or start the season with a time skip instead or something! But NO! They just stuffed them in and then stuffed them out, which is annoying, And then down the story, they just came out with some poor excuse to remove Yoon Hong [NFS] from the picture temporarily, so as to introduce the character Han Se Jin. AND also, after Do Jin's death, the character setting for Song Seol went haywire, greaving over Do Jin and giving the watchers mixed messages.

So my point is the story wasn't solid. At least season 1 had enough substance to run on to keep up with the topic "First Responders" but in S2, I felt the writer was struggling in the storyline, albeit coming up with "substance" to go with. But I felt like it was gradually moving away from the topic of "First Responders".
But I have to agree S2 was much more thrilling than S2, although slightly annoying.

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I have watched hundreds of kdrama's and never wrote a single review about any of them but this one I was so fricking emotionally invested in this such a good drama i cannot recommend it enough although the writer did make me cry my eyeballs out when---- Dojin died and also the last 2 episodes the ending the plot twist oh God so happy that I came across this drama so sad that it ended so soon will miss waiting to watch every episode release every Friday Saturday's....p.s will miss my "jin hogae". "Soon seol" so much....😭Hope this drama will have a season 3... AGAIN TO ANYONE WHO IS HESITANT TO WATCH THIS PLZ DO YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT....✨from one kdrama fanatic to other❤️

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Brilliant from start to finish

I understand that a lot of people dropped/disliked and rated down this show due to [spoiler]. But I for one have to say that I'm very very glad I didn't stop watching then because every single minute of the show blew my mind.

Contrary to what the ratings might tell you, I actually felt that season 2 was superior to season 1 in terms of everything, cases, plot, new characters that were extremely fun and old characters that continued to be extremely fun. The leads did a fabulous job, and so did all the supporting characters. Admittedly the main antagonist was the typical psycho type that seems to be rather common in KDrama, but even their interactions with other characters was interesting to watch, and the final showdown was well done regardless so I couldn't even feel disappointed about it. But still, I'm someone who enjoys it more when the villain is well written, not just in IQ (which is true in this case) but also in EQ (which is unfortunately not true in this case), which is something impossible to do when it's a psychotic thrill seeker with no real motive for doing all the horrible things that they do, which is why I'm rating the plot slightly down. (The only show with a psychopath that I liked for the bad guy despite being a psycho is Hello Monster, which managed to pull off the psycho character quite well.)

(All that said and done though, I still teared up in the last episode's ending credit's last shot when they showed [spoiler]. So forgive me for ducking rewatch value as well.)

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Police + Firefighters + Forensic teamwork!

Season 1 left viewers with a cliffhanger and had me wondering if Dojin and Hogae died....until....the news of Season 2 came out and I knew they didn't die cos main characters don't die right?!

Only for the writers to kill off Dojin in Ep 3.. Very heartbreaking to witness Dojin's death but at least, they gave him a proper goodbye that speaks highly of his loyalty and pride as a firefighter. Dojin's death actually let side characters from Taewon Fire Station shine even more.

Season 2 cases are more entertaining because of the introduction of bombs + new characters (Kang Do Ha, Woo Sam Soon, Han Se Jin). Not to mention, the funny scenes between Dojin-Hogae, Myungpil-Hogae and Doha-Hogae. Their bickering moments are what made the drama a little less serious.

Conclusion is: You have to watch it yourself to feel the thrill throughout the 12 episodes.

I would have given this a 10/10 rating but I still can't get over Dojin's death thus an overall 9.5 rating.

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Not Good Enough

Korean Drama " The First Responders Season Two " is the continuation of the action drama involving the stories of first responders who put their lives in danger in order to save others.

This time around, the drama takes on a louder, more extra approach to the cases, with the stories being on a bigger scale, involving serial killers and criminal masterminds. However, at some point, it got a bit unbelievable, too Hollywood material and less the more realistic direction that the first season had taken.

Also, the big twist in the beginning, though it was unpredictable and nicely handled, felt, in the end, just convenient for one of the leads to finally get the girl. For me at least, the romance should have been omitted and they should have kept things more focused on the case.

Finally, the action scenes were well-handled and the performances were enjoyable.

So, overall, three and a half out of ten.

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