Not your typical psychological thrillers...

The series is more focused on the job of a profiler rather than the criminals. Normally, crime- thrillers provide their audience with thrill through their cat-mouse chase, where it seems difficult to catch the criminals and includes various efforts to do so. However, this one is different from the usual. This one is more of a way to make the audience familiarise with the job of profilers and their need in the society to catch the criminals , which is why it slowly progresses in that direction to make the viewers learn about that process from the scratch. It's more towards a maturer side rather than providing immense thrill.
Moreover, it will be more likeable to the people interested in knowing the 'criminal psychology' specifically rather than watching a criminal chase. Here, the investigation process and getting a confession out of the criminals through a mind war is the thrilling part rather than catching the criminals.

Also, this drama is significantly focused on the development of the leads as profilers since they didn't started with it originally in their careers, but rather felt the need to study such criminal behaviours as it would help in reducing the time to catch psychopathic criminals, who kill solely for the purpose of pleasure and therefore normal investigation methods fail to catch and identify them as the perpetrators. You cannot catch them solely through their MO unless you understand their mind and psychological behaviour which is different from a normal human being.

The series is set in the time frame of the year 2000-2004 specifically which the viewers need to keep in mind as they watch the show, since psychopathic criminals was not a normal deal back then and science was still evolving. The leads are also learning through the process of profiling and updating their knowledge by interviewing such criminals. One thing needs to be noted is that, there wasn't much development of such educational field of criminal psychology back then and therefore it had to be studied by our lead actors by themselves rather than learning it in a college or something. You should therefore enjoy the process of them getting better at their job each day and with each case, where they also learn to embrace their own hearts within such evil environment where the criminals do not repent or feel remorse over their killings and if had chance would still murder more people.

Also, there is a misunderstanding through the summary that the series only involves a single case i.e. of 'Red Cap' however this series includes more number of cases specially involving different serial killers.

I hope people enjoy this show as I did as an avid learner of criminal psychology.
Thank you!!

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Even better Well-paced than the First Season with Back to back Intriguing plots!!

I didn't wanted to waste time writing a long one but I think it will be useful for future viewers so here we go...

People are criticising Go Yoonjung but I think they didn't carefully reviewed her character and the circumstance her character was set in. Go yoonjung perfectly picked up the Naksu's character that Jung somin had created and left, just keep in mind that due to special circumstances naksu's character is like that of a person she was before getting exploited by jin mu. I heard this advice and it was so fun to watch her acing the character. She perfectly carried the flow of Naksu's character in the right amount, since she was now also carrying the duty to carry out the character of a priestess. She lost all her memories so giving her mudeok's heavy elements means she remembers all her tough times while training, and killing people. But since that cannot happen, they give her features of cho yeong (the child who held the hand of jin mu not crying even when she saw her father dying before her). An innocent, curious and bold child, who likes to have her way and is willing to play tricks every now and then. Its perfectly fine if she appears as a 3rd person, like cho yeong, since she is not naksu anymore nor mudeok, she only has those personality traits. she forgot everthing and is now making new memories with jang Uk, so she appears both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.

I got goosebumps while seeing how Go yoonjung even picked up the habits of her character that Jung so min created, the same way of speaking and making that face , and calling "jang uk". No one can recreate a character so perfectly as she did. I'm beyond impressed.

This drama was really perfect. I even liked it better than the first season. First season had some filler episodes but I'm glad that they made this season well-paced. There was always something intriguing to look forward to in the next episode in S2. The story kept being tight from start to finish. The script was really good. They created many interesting theories and then unveiled them to the viewers nicely. This season really filled a lot of plot holes for 1st season. This season deserves higher rating than the previous one for me.

It's been a long time since a drama made me tear-up. I felt the sadness and bittersweet fate they had so deeply that it ached my heart when this only just a fictional story. All the actors did a wonderful job. It really is a thing to ponder over, how both ML and FL had such a bitter fate.

Jang Uk: He had to suffer from his gate of energy being sealed by his father, he had to live among hurtful rumours , lost both his parents, had to experience numerous life-death situation while training to finally reach Chisu, lost his only precious love by getting stabbed, had to suffer the consequences of having ice-stone within him, facing wraiths everytime, and now again fear of losing his love and so on.
Naksu: Had to see her family die, train hard till death, lived alone all his life in seclusion, had to kill numerous in the pretence of avenging her father, lost all her powers, trapped inside a weak body, got betrayed by Jin Mu who she thought was helping, lost his love, had to kill herself, had to maintain distance from Jang Uk again when she knew she could again not be with him, etc

Also, I'm glad that the crown prince got to be the king, he is the best king the country of Daeho could ever get. He is greedy but not enough to harm his own people. He knows when to stop his greed, and that the powerful ain't always an enemy but an ally. Jang Uk is better off a powerful person who wants to protect his loved ones. But Go Won knows that marriage and bride is not in his control, and that all that is a responsibility. jang Uk is a free person so I'm glad that he remained free and unbothered by these worldly material things like owning the throne. Crown prince is rather perfectly balanced to be the king than his father or mother ( both the soul shifter shaman, and his biological mother), Both his parents were foolishly greedy but he knows when to back down before things go out of control.


I'll forever remember this classic masterpiece!! I hope people take this drama as one of the top ones that all future generations gonna watch

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