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As a big fan of thrillers, horrors, and criminals I quickly added this drama to my watchlist when it popped out at my recommended page. However, as I lately often end up getting this feeling of disappointment at the end of the drama, either because of the plot holes or tension lost halfway through I didn't watch it immediately nor started watching it with big enthusiasm.
I did have some hopes as I started watching when I found out that Children of Nobody has the same screenwriter as Achiara which I really enjoyed, but worrying that it would end up being another overdramatized, not too interesting series my hopes weren't too big.
How happy I was to find out I had no reason to be worried. From the first episode, I fell in love with the atmosphere, tension, acting, characters... The whole drama in general. I couldn't wait for the next episodes to come up getting all excited since the morning of the day they were coming out.
Obviously, I was still kinda anxious since let's be real here, it happens often that the captivating drama you would recommend to everyone at first becomes a draggy, filled with plot holes mess at the end.
It wasn't the case this time. Children of Nobody gets more interesting as we go deeper, the plot is developing and getting even more intriguing as the action develops, the characters are acting logically are well build and thought through, plot holes are nowhere to be found, therefore as I was watching I was getting more and more invested.
This drama also became the first drama that I'm currently watching with my parents. We are not watching new episodes together but I'm watching them one more time when the lyrics in my native language come out since neither I or my parents are not native English speakers ( which you can probably tell reading the review heh) and they don't understand English enough to watch it.
Anyway, my parents are far from being enthusiastic about Asian dramas in general, but since I'm learning Japanese for 5 years now they just kinda think of it as my passion and weird interest and don't mind it too much, which doesn't stop them from harsh commentary and ridiculing content I sometimes show them.
It was also the case in Children of Nobody case so when I put the first episode on the TV screen in the living room, being all the way enthusiastic and immune to protests, dad was commenting sarcastically about every scene from the start to something like the almost end of the first episode. But as it finished, he fell silent, and after waiting a while he asked: "why are you not playing the next one?" > <. It was the first time it happened and we watched all the episodes available in my language and as I asked if he wants to know when new ones came out, he said he does ><.
Therefore I'm also kind of thankful to this drama for the opportunity of watching it again with my parents as our tastes are usually a lot different > <. I guess it was a good choice to show a psychological drama to pair of psychologists, hah ><.
Anyway not to take too long, in summary:
Children of Nobody is a truly amazing gem and I can't find enough words to express how much I love it.
It became my favorite drama in no time. Excellent acting, thought through rich plot, the tension, not becoming any less interesting, but in contrary becoming more engaging as the action goes... This drama has it all and more.
So if anyone is hesitating: watch it, you're not gonna regret it!
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If you don't have ANYTHING else to watch don't mind getting annoyed by lack of logic in almost every aspect of the plot, hypocrisy of the main leads, doesn't mind the lack of actual mystery(since you can deduce everything from first 2 episodes) and like ghost connected stories- then go ahead and watch this drama. But honestly can't recommend that.First of all, there are numerous little plot holes almost everywhere through the plot. Starting with ex-detective doing a hearing with a possible serial murderer, going through the unlogical actions of characters(needed to push forward a wreck of the plot since the whole mystery was pretty much obvious since the beginning), ending up with just obvious plot holes making me question why am I even continuing to watch this show (for example, detective get almost killed, the murderer says she will kill her like others- but then when detective arrests her- they say there is no proof???? SHe just attempted to kill someone and confessed to her previous crimes though????).
The answer to that question is simple though- the sole reason that I dragged myself to the end was Popeye- Jo Ha min.
He was an only complexly build and acting fairly logical character in this whole mess of a drama and my heart ached for him.
The main leads on the other hand- oh gosh, it's been long since I last disliked main leads SOOOO MUCH. Their actions and behaviors were just purely illogical and was pissing me off countless time.
I guess the moment I was pissed the most was when the female lead reached the peak of hypocrisy- while calling her "father" who abused kids to the point of them pissing themselves from fear, a "good person" (because he was KILLING AND ABUSING thinking it would bring his daughter back) she treated Popeye- the boy who after losing his alcoholic mother since early childhood was abused, looked at his friends being beaten up, manipulated and just purely robbed from his life-like a literal trash saying "he made a choice to become a monster"?????? Ok if we are heartless and apathetic enough to say that and think it's even remotely true- then what about her father???? And her who also was there and didn't stop anything???
I almost always side with the female lead but this time I kinda wanted to punch her almost whole time...
The male lead too- not minding the woman who sold orphans for organs walking free??? And making plans with her???? What??? And you call yourself a "good detective"????
As I said before- there was no mystery- or more like they acted like there was some while anyone could tell what happened since the first two episodes and all the plot twists were almost forced by a lot of illogical happenings.
Generally- just don't waste your time and nerves, there is a lot of better mystery dramas out there. You may watch it if you really love spirit, supernatural related dramas but there are better ones about that out there. For me the only reason to watch this drama is Popeyes character.
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