ShortCircuit

LOL, OJH's fainting/sleeping when drinking made a comeback :D

I like it - they really coordinated the rejection of their "promotion" beautifully, LOL.

Those guys in SIH - minus TaeSung - are scum, just as the killers they're after. I mean, shooting someone off because things happen in a hot encounter... okay. But kidnap, torture him for hours, make SSH basically murder him through that anesthetic... That's low. Very low.

I'm just waiting to see what his older brother, the psycho, will try to do in order to get at SSH. I bet he's going to throw out in the air all his business with HaeSong and the Kwons.

I definitely didn't expect a kind of mellow slow moving mystery to turn The Bourne Identity at a snap of fingers, LOL. That came from the left side :D But now things are moving on SSH's side, too.

I'm taking back what I said about Dongrim, he's not the snake in the grass, he can't bring himself to betray HWS, awww~ Let's give him a hug. Also, nobody in that mausoleum is sane, up to and including the wife. And oh, Mr. Kim is DEFINITELY a HUGE fan, he's fangirling so hard for HWS and not even undercover like TaeSung - or is he?... I'd love it if he were on the good guys' side, he's cute in his obsession :D

Wow, I definitely didn't expect things to turn out like that!! The plot thickens...

The initial case is still the one undecided, Hee-Ju's murder is probably not linked to the serial killings (and that one is about closed, give or take what the killer decides to do in order to get away). The side-stories in the first season get some sequels, so to speak (KDC's family is still around, Hee-Ju's grandfather seems to be important too, Eun-Hye is still not out and in the clear from her 'hood times and so on). And there's a lot of mystery related to the circle in which the killer of HJ is moving...

Have patience, things will develop :D

The South Korean prosecutors are directly and closely involved in the conduct of any investigation. The Criminal Procedure Act (article 195 and 196) provides them with the legal authority to conduct investigations themselves and to direct investigation agencies. Furthermore, they have ample resources to carry out an investigation on their own initiative. (says so here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1756061618301782)

From other dramas, I gathered the police usually tends to investigate petty crimes and even get involved in more complicated crimes, but (presumably, take it with a lot of grains of salt, LOL), white-collar crimes or investigations involving more sensitive and politically-linked cases usually go directly to the prosecution (think the former president of SK who went to prison, or the related case of the Samsung CEO&heir who did almost 7 months in prison for fraud and bribery and was just released a few days ago). The police can and does support the prosecution via gathering evidence and maybe give statements, but the prosecutors are above in hierarchy and can decide how a case goes to trial and how it's followed up, if need be.

I remember that - I thought, though, that there was something about clans. I mean, they used to have (and keep records) of who was from this or that clan. And I imagine they'd be pretty careful of whom the clan name came to.

But then, it's going to come up again some time, I think (because Mrs Kwon lost a child - who was the child, who was their father, how did it happen? Maybe it has some relation to MinJo's "accident"...

After ep 4 - well, I'm invested now. I thought it moved too slow, but the pace is just right. It's not the roller-coaster that TDJ was, but there's some substance. And I LOVE the hate/love WooSin has with Mrs Kwon, LOL, she's absolutely bonkers. But they both seem to enjoy those scenes, it's like they're old friends. I'm living for their interactions :D

BTW, why is her name Kwon too? Is it the same name as the HaeSong boss, or just a coincidence?

Actually what came through for Chen Yu was that he's rather calculated, or at least intelligent enough to pick up clues. I mean, they said he ws first in class in his major. He didn't seem that emotional to me, maybe feeling guilty or something. But it's early scenes yet.

And yeah, the twin jades (LOL, wink) necklaces do look a bit tacky/romantic. BUT let's let the boys be :P

Still, the broken corner of WZF's jade necklace and his wounds show he's the one who killed the cook/druggie. Even if they explain it away as self-defense, I don't think it works that way in China. He (Feng) is still a killer... And he's on a vigilante track. We'll see where that leads.

Sadly, I'm one of those who studies in perfect silence, because I am easily distracted (yes, even by low and calming BGM LOL).

I'm going to have to try some lo-fi some time, though, just for a look on the other side of the studying fence :D

So there's an interesting relationship between Chen Yu and Wu Zhen Feng. Feng might have been a policeman, as the description says, but it looks pretty obvious he's a vigilante/killer now, doing justice his own way (again, I'm amazed they allowed this. Maybe they had some terms for c/rights expiration, LOL, as with TOoL, and risked it to air it anyway so not to lose all that work and money - wow the list of sponsors at the end! - that went into it).

There's no inkling as to CY's family background for the first ep, and given they're all mostly in uniforms I guess the intimate aspects will relate to friendship between two cops or newly graduated officers or whatever. There's time.

I wonder how they'll manage the corrupt Cpt Liu - he couldn't be undercover or a drugs' relation while at the same time sending teams to investigate his link into the network... But there are scenes in the ED that show him standing with the rest of the cops at some monument, probably honouring fallen cops, so that would undermine his corruption role... I'm pretty interested in seeing how they do it.

So, after one episode - CY and WZF will play hide and seek, probably WZF leading the police a merry chase to catch all the druglords, and eventually either 1. WZF ends up in prison and lives, or 2. he sacrifices himself to save CY and dies.

I hope I'm wrong and there's plenty of turns and twists and nothing close to what it appears to be from ep 1 :D

I can see why they would get shy of showing it on TV, actually given the current political situation, I'm kind of amazed they're releasing it on the web, too. Going by the first episode only (so much to see, so little time! T_T), there's a corrupt cop, drug networks operating freely for years under the nose of said police officer (big no-no), unruly policemen (LOL, talking over their superior, as if :D, but it's a drama, it passes :D), a vigilante ~hero~ with suspect connections etc. I'm sure there'll be a later spin in order to make it all wash and have a nice, censors-approved drama, but so far, it aims at being much darker than expected.

Technically... The OP reminds me of Be Reborn (and I've already recognized a few faces from that series, LOL, DSH you changed teams :D - well, not DSH, Tian Xiao Jie appears to have had a cameo as the officer who got hurt three years back, really hoping he'll be back, he's kind of addicting in a strange way; I also hope I'm not mistaking him for someone else LOL), the edits are also kind of similar (though TBH, it wasn't all that smooth, but as I said, I've only had time for ep 1, I hope they improve as they move along), and there are a few more this reminds me of, in terms of how it's filmed, the light/darkness contrasts, etc (like Medical Examiner Dr Qin, for example). The music, sadly, isn't anything to write home about (or not yet, anyway. The ED is the usual spoiler-full fast cut of all important scenes that they could put in, LOL, and the song, better not listen to it...) The cast - for what I've seen - does a good job, WYB was a little too loud in the first scenes, but I guess it's either the role, or he was still adapting. There's place for improvement, he can do it.

Anyway, onwards to the speculations...

And we have a love triangle LOL, poor detective's going to find out the chief's daughter is really NOT all that into him (or who knows, she might see the light eventually :D)

I do NOT like what's going on with Eun-Hye, those punks are going to cause some real damage, I hope they don't end up killing the grandpa who might want to help her. OJH, hurry up and do something!! Or KDC, but he'd take some hard road to follow, if he knew.

The TJ Group drama is pretty strange - so the mother sent the daughter away and killed herself before her (son? I couldn't make out well who was breaking down the door) family did it, and then the daughter came back for vengeance? And she seems to have some psychosis too, that Tae-Ho knows about and is caring for. At this time, given her words about Hee-Ju, it's either her or Tae-Ho who killed her... The other girls were the serial killer's work (and HIS sister is another piece of work - I get it, she's uncomfortable speaking about it... but people are dead!! He basically confessed to her, she definitely understood that, and she's still not talking? The heck!!)

OJH is smiling a LOT more than in the first season, I like his little not-so-hidden smiles a lot. (So does everybody else, obviously, LOL). KDC learned to play his boss like a fiddle, LOL, I loved how he indirectly told him they gave the case to the other team, while not admitting THEY gave it away LOL.

Much, much love for the team! This is getting really good :)

What I like best about this second season is the grinding detective work. Finally someone took the pain to put it in a drama!! So many days spent watching thousands of recordings, so much footwork to track a killer's and his victims' steps, so much hardship to make an accusation stick, even if you have some proof they're actually the killer. I like it, I want more!

There are some funny moments, but it's mostly a tense and fast-paced police/heist story.

Yes this is the first one in the sequence. Then Kyoto Inferno, then The Legend Ends, then The Final and then The Beginning (yes in that order).

The first four deal with the introduction of the main characters (the first movie stands alone just in case you're not interested to continue though hopefully you will :D) and their adventures to the grand finale in the story and the original source and the last one, The Beginning, shows how it all started. It's a whole different beast and way differently toned story to the first four movies, so it makes sense to consider it also a stand-alone. And it hits different, too, when you've known and (presumably) liked the characters from the other movies.

So my advice is, watch them in the order they were released. That's the order of the plot pacing (as is in the manga, too, and the anime, come to think of it), and that way they tell a complete and great story.

The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty is being carried by Darren Chen (playing ML Tang Fan) being the most cute ML ever (seriously, cute as in THE cutest), then by Liu Yao Yuan (playing Wang Zhi, a Royal Eunuch) being the most awesome two-faced chaotic good character ever, and by Fu Meng Bo (playing Sui Zhou) being the most stoic PTSD soldier/cook ever. And by Tang Fan being a glutton which makes him attracted to Sui Zhou in the first place, LOL.

Which means to say, it's more of an action/comedy than a romance. Actually, it's so low in the romance quarter, it doesn't even come off as romance. The novel it's based on is also very subtle about it, and most romantic interractions appear in the way the MC and the ML talk to each other (and a bit of that managed to be moved over to the drama). But yes, it's not ANYWHERE near TU in terms of romance. Not even hidden glances there, just a few... suggestive moments LOL. I still would recommend it, because of the trio of the MLs. They're gorgeous. And there's a little girl there who is smarter than the whole lot of them LOL.

If you'd rather watch something with crazy chemistry between (male) leads, there's not a rule you have to contain it to the BL genre (censored of not).

So, not BL, but amazing male/bro chemistry: Under the Skin (CN; warning. This drama CHEATS so hard on not being BL, LOL. But I am happy, because it means there might be a second season in the making :D), The Devil Judge (SK), maybe even Be Reborn (CN).

For BL... well, SK is trying hard and IMHO in the short drama they are making progress - there's a very likable character in To My Star, for example. And Thailand is always ripe with good BL dramas - I Told Sunset About You, A Tale of Thousand Stars, Not Me, Theory of Love. Then there are the Japanese dramas - like 30-years Old Cherry Magic.

There are plenty of fish in the sea, and they're all kinds of colours, which is the best - I mean, you don't want them all to be the same :D

It definitely looks like PCH is actually BM (he either gets a true list of names in the last minute switch, or he really does know some people... If I were him, I'd name the three stooges in the prison, the Chief Warden and the strange robocop guard. That man has killed some people).

As for who could be BM, otherwise... I'm inclining toward JuHee, the Mayor's wife. She's deeply linked with the hospital so she would have a stake in shutting off the report, she has that creepy DNR rule enforced, and she also plays some powerplays. Who's the elder though? I hope it's not going to be some cameo from Lee Kyung Young, he's been everywhere lately and I've kind of had it with him, yuck.

Other than that... Move the plot along, writer-nim, please! Nothing much seems to have changed from the start. For such a short drama, that doesn't leave a lot of time for plot development. I sure hope this won't be a 2-3-whatever number of seasons, I want some actual endings for a change :(

It needs to move a bit faster re: the actual plot. Not saying it's too slow, but we're after ep4 and PCH is still in prison and the original setting hasn't changed much and a quarter of the total time is gone.

Must... go... faster! :D

Though, in the trailer for the next week's eps...

Definitely a HEA (depending on your expectations. this IS a censored BL adaptation so no PDAs LOL). Though there is tragedy on road to the HEA, be warned.

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