closetdramaqueen

i didn't notice the comedy tag on this so i thought it would be the usual (i.e. serious) kind of crime drama. the poster should have been a dead giveaway. idk how they managed to balance out the laughs with the gruesome murders but i am loving it. can't believe i put off watching this for so long!

this show was so well executed! i love how it really focused on the characters and their sense of community. i thoroughly enjoyed watching the fiery and complex chemistry between the two leads. theirs is one of the best partnerships i've ever seen in a crime drama. another equally chilling relationship worth mentioning is the one between the councilwoman and her son. just when i thought i could not dislike her character any more than i already do... that woman is just so twisted, i can't even.

i know, i didn’t mean it literally :)

ok so he is fishy, i wasn't just imagining it. lol. i was looking for discussions about him bec i found him a little too indifferent esp for a cop.

thought so too! she def looked disappointed at the hospital

sometimes i feel like the writers of this drama lurk in the comments, pick out some of the theories/conspiracies on here and make them a reality.

Their chemistry is on fiiiiiire—like, even better than YJG's chemistry with any of his previous leading ladies. I really like him in this role and genre. He's a great actor, don't get me wrong, but I just did not enjoy watching him in a romcom. On the other hand, I've only seen SHK in Soul Mechanic. I personally didn't care much for his acting there, so when I realised he was in this, I was a little disinterested. But, after watching just the first episode, I was convinced that they could not have cast a better lunatic.

The story itself is nothing new. It shares the same characteristic features of other kdramas in similar genres: a longstanding mystery, wrongful accusations, politics, etc. It also doesn't get my heart racing like a good thriller does. But what I like about it is its very micro approach in unraveling the "big mystery." I find that it really takes its time telling the characters' stories, their relationship and interactions with each other and their sense of community. So much so that I become invested in the characters. That's why it's so so sad whenever someone from their little family turns out to be a suspect or victim even if they're all shady and not exactly likeable.

This show feels more like a melodrama to me—a really, really well-executed one—with a side of mystery. It might not get my heart racing from suspense but its gradual and delicate revelations hit hard. Every. Time.

same :( and the way ha ni felt frustrated and helpless. ugh. i skimmed through the rest of ep 12 and decided not to watch it until this whole unnecessary plot with the aunt is resolved (hopefully by the next episode because it's such a waste of screen time). i was wondering if ji eun really went through with it at the end of ep 11, and i was so so glad she didn't. i feel really bad for yoo hyun's dad too though :(

i also think it's the opposite. he had always been the killer and real son but pretended to be an outstanding person. he actually was quite cunning and bold, going so far as inserting himself in ko moo chi's investigation. after getting hit on the head, he has (temporarily) forgotten who he really is and is just going with what people are telling him. but little by little, we see his killer instincts (literally) kicking in.

*JBR's amnesia—i hope it lasts and he works with ko moo chi to catch a killer instead of mislead the investigation like he has done previously. the big reveal is going to be an emotional roller coaster for ko moo chi and bong yi though.

i'm also glad they're starting to shed some light on hong joo's story because they didn't really explain her relation to the past killer (if any) in that scene where she seemed to have lured the female college student into the forest when she was a child.

i looooove this "second half" more so far. for the first time in a drama, i'm actually happy about them using this particular trope* to develop the plot.

amen to that. i was enjoying episode 10 until she came along. so tired of her!!!

i love how hjw took a page out of lds' playbook almost as soon as he returned. here's hoping that pushing each other's buttons will make them better partners instead this time around.

LOL

i thought for a hot sec that he came back to help :(

looool same thoughts :))

i’m just putting out other theories and opinions. the show isn’t over yet, and if anything, we have more questions than answers. so it’s best to keep an open mind :)

i don't think daniel lee was the one responsible for it. also, they most likely were not switched at birth but it's possible that han seo joon's ex-wife abandoned her son after failing to kill him herself and somehow ended up with the other kid with the psycho/genius gene. she definitely has plenty of secrets we have yet to uncover! another theory i read here is that yo han is her other son from her second marriage but from what i remember her real son murdered his step-father and both his siblings as there were three bodies in the police report.

lol well episode 5 certainly was a rollercoaster! as if the plot itself wasn't confusing enough, they had to present it in a way that was just so convoluted. at least episode 6 was better in terms of unraveling certain parts of the mystery imo. not sure which bits you want untangled but from what i gather, as of the end of episode 6, jbr is def not the person he presents himself to be (some say him getting whacked on the head is the cause but personally i think he was pretending from the beginning as psychopaths do and him killing the bird is basically the writers way of letting us in on his secret). he could very well be the real son of han seo joon and/or the present-day killer and yo han seems to be aware of this and might just be trying to stop him. not sure if this makes yo han the other kid with the psycho/genius gene. if he is, idk how he ended up with han seo joon's ex-wife.

i just assumed that too since no one here brought it up yesterday but honestly i found the whole thing messy.