This drama is one of the type of dramas I love to watch. Every episode did not disappoint in the least.

The first episode threw me off because I didn't know the main actor was playing dual roles. I guess I should've read the synopsis first. I'm not familiar with the ML but I thoroughly enjoyed the chemistry he had with his cast mates. As a matter of fact I loved all of the cast mates. Including the ones that got on my nerves.

I know I'm odd but when I saw Jo Hee Bong in this I had to watch. Even though he plays in a lot of cop dramas, the characters he portray never disappoint. After seeing The Tunnel and the way that cast got along I try to find dramas with those actors in it.

The one thing that had me sighing was the back and forth 'gotcha' moments. It was portrayed really well but I wanted some of the scenarios to either speed up or move along.

I also loved the ending. I wish it was played out a bit more but then a lot of last episode Korean dramas don't know how to end so I had to take what I can get.

The best part about this whole series was that there was NO ROMANCE anywhere in this! I'm trying to stick to dramas that don't have this. I even liked the end with the bloopers. I wasn't expecting that.

Sometime in the near future if I get a chance I will watch this series again.

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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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As I stated from my first review about the first season of BG: Personal Bodyguard I was a bit nervous how this would hold up to it's predecessor. In my opinion it shocked me that it held up well. A lot of sequels and prequels aren't capable of doing this but this one did.

A lot of the first original cast was in this minus the captain which made me glad about because I did enjoy the cast.

Every plot in this series was different from the first season which I was glad about.

The episodes were fast paced. There was never a slow episode. I think I was able to finish all of these in one day. It wasn't too much and it wasn't too little. It was just right for me. The only thing I'm disappointed in is that there may not be a 3rd installment of this.

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I just finished watching this whole series and is debating on whether I should watch season 2.

When watching these Korean dramas if they grab me from the get go I will binge watch. This one almost lost me on a few occasions.

When I saw who the female lead was I had to watch. Why? Because I thought she would be doing some top notch fighting like she did in Good Casting but I was highly dismayed that she absolutely did not fight. She was portrayed as a housewife who couldn't defend herself...ugh!!

I don't know why but I feel compelled to say this: Korean women dress very very TACKY! I found most of the women's wardrobe horrible.-sandals with socks??? Skirts that looked thrown together....I won't even talk about the shoes... Their wardrobe was highly distracting to say the least.

The way I am is when I see anyone who have bad fighting skills I'm immediately drawn to that person. I will try to find any and everything they're in just to see their fighting skills.

I stuck this one out because it had a very minimal Sherlock 'Holm-girl' to it. I don't know why the police force was there. They made it like they were incapable of solving anything which annoyed the heck out of me.

I also stuck it out because I loved the detectives Ahn Kil Kang, Kwon Sang Woo, and Lee Won Keun interaction with each other. They felt like actual brothers to me.

I also like the fact that they had different scenarios throughout the series. It wasn't a long drawn out plot.

I was a little dismayed at the ending. It's like they don't know how to end stuff like this! All the Korean dramas I've seen had just about all horrible endings. I don't know what I was expecting but I wish it was better than how they ended it.

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So this came out in 2015 and I didn't start watching Korean action dramas until 2020. I keep hitting slumps when it comes to a action drama with no romance in it.

When I saw that the ratings was only 7.7 I decided to watch to see if the ratings should stick. It shouldn't. It should receive a higher rating.

I mainly watched this because of Park Sung Woong and Lee Won Jong. These two have done dramas together and they meld really well. It's just something about these two that makes the dramas click. I like Woong's demeanor. Ever since Rugal I will try to find anything he's in.

I didn't too much care for Kim Bum. His facial expressions was the way he acted-disinterested. I know his character was suppose to be going through some pain but by golly, smile once in a while!!

Kim Tae Hoon's character was weak. I don't even know why he was in it. He got captured and beaten so much....his end scene wasn't necessary either. I felt relief when he was no longer in the picture. He was like a unnecessary filler.

It's so funny I could name all the other actors I've seen in several action dramas that played in this. Why do Lee Kyung Young play a bad guy in every drama he's in??

I loved this. It had the right amount of mystery, drama, and action scenes although I can't understand what those Korean men be on that allows them to get cracked on the body numerous times with a pipe or a 2x4 that allows them to be able to pop back up and fight some more. That always baffled me in these action dramas.

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I, like some people watched The Tunnel first and loved that one. When I saw that Signal had almost the same premise as The Tunnel I decided to watch.

For some odd reason I only made it to the first episode. The female lead messed it up for me. Her demeanor, and facial expressions made this less enjoyable to watch.

Someone stated that I should definitely watch so I followed their suggestion. To my dismay I really didn't like this too much. The male character who was in the past played his parts to where I clouded up a bit in some scenes.

To me the two male cops connected even though they never meet. Other cast members seemed to be disconnected from each other.

The cases that they dealt with was interesting but in my opinion it lacked intensity and depth. Especially the last episode. It caused me to be so disappointed with the days I spent watching this. Some of the dramas that I've seen know how to wrap it up in the last episode and a lot of dramas that I've seen don't know how to wrap it up and this was one of them.

The pace in every episode was extremely slow too.

I wanted to like this but unfortunately I'm one of the few who didn't care for this too much.

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I'm just going to say if you like the American TV show of Leverage then you will like this. You got the brains, brawns, tech smarts, and well, the chick isn't a grifter but she can drive. I definitely loved the brawns guy. I loved the chemistry this cast had. I realize the chemistry in most of the dramas I've watched is pretty awesome. If you don't have that then the show won't work.

I definitely watched this because of Kim Won Hae-the prosecutor. He has tremendously grown on me in the dramas I've seen him in. I wasn't too fond of his character in Strong Woman but he played it well. I even laughed a bit at his scenes. He even played a Russian in Fiery Priest!!
I also loved Tae Won Seok. The way he just walked up to people and just slapped them was hilarious!! The main lead and the tech were OK.

Since I've watched the five seasons of Leverage on a few occasions, I could do the same with this as well.

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Hilarious

When I saw the preview I had to watch. I think I watched this because the main character was in Vegabond.

I have said this in just about all my reviews about what I like and dislike in Korean dramas. I love love love the action and comedy but I seriously am starting to hate the cliche romances. I most certainly didn't care for the romance in this.

All of the actors played their characters really well. Some had the chemistry and some did not. I also hate being hard on female Korean actresses but I seriously can't stand the way they portray the Korean women. I seriously can't!!

The premise of this series consists of bumbling newbie detectives who grow towards the end. How they made it was hilarious in itself. It sort of had that Naked Gun, Who's Harry Crumb vibe to it.

This is a series where you can just watch just to get a laugh out with a hint of mystery and unfortunately romance. If it weren't for the romance stuff I would given this a higher score.

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Good watch

I'm not familiar with the main character but I'm pretty sure I seen him in something other than a Korean drama but I can't remember. I watched this mainly because of Park Sung Woong who played chief Kang Dong Cheol and Go Gyu Pil who played the owner of that tavern. These two have grown on me since I started watching Korean dramas last year.

I was going to watch this last year but I had watched The Tunnel-which I loved-and Signal-which was OK. Seeing that this one almost had the same premise, I put Life On Mars on the back burner for the moment.

This series was a bit slow which I was OK with because I was able to take my time and watch. Towards the end the episodes were a bit shorter which went by fast so I ended up being able to watching the last six episodes in one day.

I began watching these Korean dramas for the action, drama, comedy, and chemistry and this one had all the above.

I liked the way they did this. It gave me a glimpse of what a person could experience while being in a coma.

I liked all of the characters except for the female...Oy! Her facial expressions always made her look like she'd been goosed and her voice was annoying. I found myself cringing every time she said something.
I did like how they made her bad a** but then they turned around and made her weak. Ugh!!

I'm glad there was no cliche romance in this!!

I will say I wasn't too thrilled about the last two episodes. That's the problem I've noticed with these Korean dramas. It's like the writers don't know how to end their final episodes. It didn't make any sense. They made it seem as if the main character who was in a coma had dreams of the past which actually did happen, then he wakes from the coma only to be disappointed with the present and then was able to go back to the past?? My question is did he ever come out of the coma or did he commit suicide? The epilogue made it seem as if they were going to have a sequel. Since this was 2.5 years ago I highly doubt it.

I hate when Korea leave stuff like this up in the air.

All in all, I'm glad I remembered to watch this. In my opinion The Tunnel was better but this one was also good to watch.

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Hope there's a second season

Even though this series was enjoyable to watch I'm being generous with my ratings.

The first 10 episodes were awesome but somewhere after the tenth episode the original plot got lost. It went in a whole new direction! The original plot didn't lose it's twist so I don't know why the sudden change happened. The second twist did. It left me scratching my head.

Usually Kdramas lose their focus and starts going in another direction and this was one of them. It made me angry that it did that. Plus the whole reasoning behind why the ML's skills were the way they were was just thrown into the very last episode. The FL to me was just a waste. I don't get why I never like female Korean actresses but I try to like them I do. To me they're just there for looks I guess. I'm not for the looks, I'm for the skills and the FL didn't have it.

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Wish it had more episodes

When I saw that Ma Dong Seok-Bad Guys. Oh Man Suk-Partners For Justice, Lee Deok Hwa-Giant, Suspicious Lawyer-shows I've watched-was in this I had to watch.

The first few episodes were so slow that I almost stopped watching it. By episode 6 I was hooked!

There was no sappy cliche romance in this series at all. Something that I have come to despise in Korean dramas.

If you like revenge shows then you will like this. I found myself laughing, whooping, and clapping when each episode was over. There were two episodes where it nearly brought me to tears but I held strong and didn't bawl.

I never rewatch Korean shows but for the sake of it, I gave it a decent number for a rewatch.

Revenge, no sappiness, yes, one will love this drama.

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If you're looking for revenge....this aint it

Well, I made it to episode 7 before deciding to just drop this all together.

I absolutely love revenge dramas. It's what led me to start watching Korean dramas in the first place.

I'm not familiar with none of the three female leads. I've never seen any of these three in any dramas I've watched since the summer of 2020.

I liked the chemistry of the cast but there was no strong connections.

You get the proverbial bully and politics thrown in and you get some type of drama.

I love strong leads but when I get 3 strong female leads I blow out a sigh of relief because Korean actresses are always portrayed to be stupid and poor. Yes, you have three females each with different backgrounds-there always have to be that one token super rich female-but they all came together to become the best friends ever. It even got to the point where they were 언니 (unnies) throughout this drama. That's the good part.

The bad: THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO REVENGE IN THIS NONE WHATSOEVER!!!! The only thing that happened from the seven episodes I watched was glue in the chair, water thrown on you, spiked drink....pranks, not revenge.
Then it turned into a so-called 'peaceful revenge'. Peaceful revenge??? What the heck is peaceful revenge??? I never even heard of that! In one episode one character explained this whole drama at best: females getting together and hanging out because that's all it was.

Then the end of the seventh episode made absolutely no sense: each female gets threatening notes claiming they know what these ladies did.....I'm thinking what did they do? No seriously, what did they do besides get together and have no clue as to how to exact revenge on their husbands and a principle?
All this drama was about was these ladies and a teenager getting together just to hang out.

The music was even worse. They kept playing that Italian song that builds up. To this day I don't even know what the name of that song is. I just know it's been played ever since I was a kid and I've been around for a few decades (not saying how many).

The screenwriters obviously didn't do any homework on how to exact revenge people who deserve it. This was the reason I dropped this drama. It dragged and it became the same thing in every episode. No build up, no revenge, no nothing.

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Fight scenes...check!
Car chase scenes....check!
Gun battle....check!
Espionage left and right...check!
No mushy romance....double check!!!

Boy this had EVERYTHING that I love in watching a drama. In all the Korean dramas I've watched I never seen any of these that had all of the categories listed above.

Coming off a Korean drama slump I went into this blind not knowing what I was going to get myself into. I wasn't sure if I recognized the main male lead but when I did I knew this was going to be an excellent watch. After seeing him in Good Manager where he played his role like Jim Carey in Pet Detective 1 & 2 I wondered how he would play this role and it was strictly serious throughout the whole drama. He can play a bad guy, funny guy, and serious guy to a 'T'.

What's a Korean drama without political propaganda? I know people get turned off by political dramas but I did not. I was highly curious as to the main mystery behind the main character's motives. The reason is because this reminded me of the very first Mission Impossible movie where everybody was shady and you didn't know who to trust. That's how this drama is. I haven't watched the last episode yet but I now have a gist of who's who.
The fact that every character in this drama was so shady that by I got to the 8th episode I forgot who was the main culprit. I had to remind myself of how the first episode started to get me back on track. Plus by me truly sucking at names I had to keep going back to the cast list to see who was who...I can't believe I truly suck at names! Don't even get me started on these character's real names...oy!!

All in all this held me at the edge of my seat through the first 11 episodes. I don't know if I will recap my review once I'm done with the last episode because the very last episodes of the Korean dramas are usually more misses than hits. I'm truly hoping for the latter than the former.

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Well....I made it to episode 10 a while ago and haven't went back since. Why? Because every episode is the same: you get a mediocre case and the only person who can save the day is attorney Woo Yong Woo...I'm not going to go through the whole introduction of palondromes because it became annoying by the 3rd episode to me.

The series was fun to watch for the first few but then it became monotonous. The writers made the other attorneys mediocre compared to Young Woo. Nobody could figure things out but her. It made me grit my teeth a lot. Those kind of shows irk my nerves. At first these people were on top of their game but then they became stupid throughout the series. Made me wonder why were they there? It was like they could no longer fend for themselves. They needed Yong Woo to help.

The cast is perfect though. I like the whole cast except for the other female lawyer who worked at the other law firm. She just seemed out of place to me.

Once again there's that irksome romance scenario that always gets me. If it wasn't done in such a childish way then maybe I would be gung ho about it but I could see where it was going after the 5th episode. That was another reason I wasn't too thrilled about finishing this series.

I seen 10 episodes and I guess that was enough. Since every episode seemed the same I feel like I'm not missing anything.

There's going to be a second season in 2024. Who knows if I'll go back to finishing this. I just know I'm dropping it for now.

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I had a job where it interfered with the times I binge on Korean dramas so I didn't have anything to fall on when I came home from work.
I recently stopped working at that job so now I have my times back to where I can binge watch Korean dramas all day. But that will stop once I start back working, lol!

I'm in the middle of watching Ghost Doctor but that series won't be over until close to the end of this month so I need something to watch until that series is done. I can't binge watch that show, dang nabbit!

Anyway, I went into this blind. I didn't read the synopsis I just started watching because I saw fighting in it.

One should know by now that any drama that have some form of fighting to it I will be watching and this had a tremendous amount of it.
I'm not familiar with the main male lead. I knew I saw him in something but I couldn't put my finger on it until I searched and realized he was in Goblin. I only watched half of the first episode before I dropped it. It had that Disney love at first sight feel to it and I seriously can't stand dramas like that.
This guy was phenomenal but the second male lead was better! OK, not to make it seem like I liked one better than the other it's just that I don't know who neither are but the second male lead outshined the main lead. As a matter of fact the whole cast outshined in this series.

This drama gave me a true glimpse of what a split personality disorder looks like. I know it had a lighter touch to it but it made me more aware of how this disorder works.
It threw me for a loop because I wasn't expecting what I was expecting. Like I said I went into this series blind meaning I didn't know what the series would be about.

I will say the last few episodes lost it's luster for me. Every bad guy played their role to a 'T'. The last bad guy was weak and his purpose for doing what he was doing was just plain stupid.

As others have said, the bromance in this was tremendously awesome. I didn't want it to end.

I barely give any Kdramas a 10 because I sometimes feel that given it a 10 is an exaggeration but this is one of those dramas that I could most definitely rewatch again that it deserves more than a 10.

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