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Hello Monster korean drama review
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Hello Monster
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by dvadout
Apr 11, 2021
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 3.5
Rewatch Value 7.0
This review may contain spoilers

If your ears are sensitive beware of the music!

I just finished watching this and I will say this is why I like Korean crime dramas as well as the action dramas. I'm not big on the romance aspect so when I saw that there was some romance in this I was hoping that it wasn't the cliche romances that Korean dramas have. It was but it wasn't overly done-thank goodness!

To me some episodes were slow so at times I took a break from watching but sometime after the sixth episode I found myself binging.

I'm American who sucks at names and the characters names in this series had me so confused because there were too many Lees in this. Even the main character played Lee somebody. So whenever they said something about a Lee I had to try to remember who they were talking about.

I will try not to give away what the series was about but my favorite character was Min Sung Wook who played Son Myung Woo. I don't know how this series would've made it if it wasn't for him. My second was Choi Deok Moon who played the friend. Yes, people I'm copying and pasting these names as we speak. The team leader-Lee Chun Hee seemed like he shouldn't have played that character. I thought team leaders had strong leadership skills but his skills seemed so lack luster that I wondered why they made him a team leader.
The first bad guy-Do Kyung Soo-played his role exceptionally well. I was shocked they didn't keep him as the main bad guy. The second guy who played as the first bad guy had me at a meh.
The little kid who played young Min was just too adorable for words!

I loved the brotherly banter as well.

Throughout the series I figured out some scenarios before it was revealed which I felt the writer didn't do well in trying to keep the mystery going. Also there were some things that were left unfinished. I hate that!


The chemistry between the whole specials team unit was what made me binge. I love crime dramas like this because everybody is treated as equals.
I'm never a fan of female Korean actresses because of how they're portrayed but I liked the female officer.

The music-oy....I had to mute the volume on a few occasion because some of the songs came in at times that made the scenes seem cheesy at best. Plus there were times when the tones became severely high pitched. My ears have become sensitive to loud noises and this one almost did me in.

Once again Korea struggled with the last episode. It left me speaking like when a Korean actor gets confused in a scene. It was all over the place. Sometimes they just need to end the series at 15 episodes because the last episode is always a downer.
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