Details

  • Last Online: Dec 27, 2022
  • Gender: Female
  • Location:
  • Contribution Points: 0 LV0
  • Roles:
  • Join Date: June 11, 2020
Memorist korean drama review
Completed
Memorist
1 people found this review helpful
by Lilac Francois
Oct 30, 2020
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.0
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 10.0

Memories doesn’t have any power

This is a great story about a detective with a superpower that make him able to see the memories of anyone he touch. He could definitely see whose the bad guy and whose the good guy, but memories it self doesn’t have any power... you still need to gather evidence and all the usual stuff. It’s such a struggle to keep being a good guy if you could see all the dark side of everyone memories. These struggles are conveyed wonderfully by this drama.

When I first start watching this, I think that it’s not that interesting, the first few episode feels like your typical villain of the week set up, you know, like CSI, but it’s actually just a set up before we got to the main plot of this drama. There are so many subplots and twists that you could never guess where everything would go. When you think you already have everything figured out, it turns out to be another red herring, or it’s just part of a bigger picture that’s still covered in shadows.

It’s beautifully written and there’s no obvious plot hole, but the pacing is a bit uneven. There are a few episodes that feels like there’s too many things happening while there are episodes where it feels dragging. I wish they give a little bit more hint, because the conclusion for me feels a bit too out of the left field. But overall, I’m very satisfied with the stories.

The acting is top notch. Everyone portray their role wonderfully. I really love Dong Baek, our ML portrayed by Yoo Seung Ho, he have such a complex character, sometimes I really want to punch him, but other time I want to cry with him. He’s so miss understood and it’s understandable why a lot of people hate him, but once you know the real him, you could see what he show the world is not who he really are.

Our FL, SunMi, played by Lee Se Young is such a strong woman. She have great confidence on her own ability, she also have such a strong moral code and a very intellectual mind. Her chemistry with Dong Baek is great. The two side kick of Dong Baek, played by Co Chang Suk and Jang Eui Su also have a really great chemistry with our ML and help build his character.

The music is ok, I love the ending theme song, not really paying attention to the other music. Cinematography is also good, since this is adapted from a webtoon, some of the scene reminds you of reading it in the webtoon, very nice.

I think you definitely need to rewatched this drama, because you would want to recheck what you miss during the first time watching it. There are so many plot twist and side characters that could be important shown in the beginning that you may not pay attention to but are actually quite important. I will start rewatching this after I finish this review ;)
Was this review helpful to you?