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Bad Guys korean drama review
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Bad Guys
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by Mivaaa
Jan 18, 2020
11 of 11 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
This review may contain spoilers
Say that you are a fan of something? Lets say that that something is charming psychopaths in tv shows and drama. Then let say that shows continue to ruin these shows by implementing some kind of “the thing you came here to see is a lie”.
Before I begin my spoiler review I will say this if you are a fan of darker shows with redeemable bad guys then you will enjoy this show.

Let’s start!

The story:
So the story seem to be pretty straightforward. You have a gritty and hard-to-control police man that gets to be a team-leader over a group of criminals. Their purpose is to catch other bad people like murderers and gangsters. Every time they succeed, they are rewarded by a couple of years shortening of their prison time.
You have the professional and cold hitman killer, the strong gangster and the rumored youngest serial-killer and psychopath.
Alongside the different crimes they try to solve there also exists another storyline. That of the psychopath and his memory loss. He do not remember killing anyone yet he still has a life sentence in jail. Why are people continually trying to get him killed and is he the one that killed the team-leaders daughter? All of this is what the show tries to answer for us. This is where the show get ruined. You see, dear reader, I am a big fan of psychopaths when watching shows and I do not like fake outs or redemption when talking of these characters. Yet that is exactly what this drama chooses to do.
Let us make the best and coolest character on the show actually be innocent so that we show that good people can be emotionless as well. I just wanted to watch a good Korean drama with a psycho that kept these characters dark. I am not only talking about the psycho now. The show gives redemption to all of the bad guys on the team. The gangster want to become an honorable man, the hired killer realize the damage and pain he caused by interacting with a pretty lady and as mentioned just now the famous serial-killer is in fact not a killer at all.
This is triggering and irritating. What if I am a person that likes to cheer for bad people in fictional stories? Why do we have to make the main characters actually good people just because they are the main characters? WHY?

The characters:
Initially all of the cast are great! The difference of their personalities and all of their violent tendencies clashes in a comedic fashion making their interactions both interesting and entertaining to watch. They start off working together not because they care or respect one another but because they need to and can utilize the others skills to gain positive results for themselves. The gangster is a typical slow and aggressive type that still have some loyalty. The hired killer keep a cold expression whenever dealing with violence and the genius psychopath never changes his facial expression, whether it be because of anger or being attacked.
But again all of this falters when they start to care more about each other than their own set of rules they have created for themselves.
The gangster almost chooses to die himself instead of killing Psycho for his boss. Same with the hired killer. Throwing away all they know because they hope to become ”human” once more.
The biggest disappointment for me was the psychopath. I kept on waiting for that one moment where his calmness would transizione into the behavior of a psychopath. This never happened and that made me feel stuck with a gloomy fellow that had nothing more to offer than being smart.
Then we have the rest of the cast. The policewoman everybody’s watching hates, the prosecutor everyone think is a bad person an secretly the one behind everything and the mad dog, team leader. Revenge and hatred incarnate.
Look at that. The policewoman keeps on being boring and irritating. The team leader chose these people for a reason beyond catching bad people and he is deep in depression after the loss of his daughter. Enough to do anything to avenge her death.
And finally, the prosecutor! Surprise surprise, he is a bad bad man and crocked in all the ways.
It all could have been so good! Why!
The acting is amazing and incredible, do not get me wrong, the writers are to blame here.

The music was good enough. It helped building suspence and shivering thriller feels.

I won’t be watching this again. I guess one could say that I have been scared by this experience. All I wanted was bad people to cheer for, instead I get bad people, actually being good people, trying their best at returning to a normal life.
Overall and lastly: if anybody has a drama that utilizes bad guys like psychopaths and let them stay bad, please recommend them to me. I am tired of all main character being good heroic people.

Have fun!
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