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It's the most viewed show on Disney+ in several countries last week, including South Korea itself. We'll see how it will turn for the next episodes.

Did you watch episode 2? Gi-tae and his junior from KCIA discussed how the prosecutor's father had been in an asylum for 20 years. He obviously doesn't fit to the current South Korean society and refuses to play by common rules. The laugh may or may not be a hint for some hereditary neurological/mental issues of the character who focused on his goal and doesn't care about possible costs, including personal ones. Probably the message is sometimes the society needs a literal crazy, insane person on an important job to achieve just some level of justice, because any sane person would feel they have to get along with it, because there is too much power behind criminals, because it's in national interests, because this or that.

There wasn't any sex scene, nudity or even a kiss in first 2 episodes. It's a political crime drama thriller, and overwhelming majority of scenes are about various crime, investigations and East Asian politics of 1970s. But one of the main character (yet to be introduced) is an owner of the high-profile brothel for members of the elite. We'll see, how it's going.

Didn't they work in The Negotiation together? Anyway it would be interesting.

Yes, they were. But all Rainbow Taxi's members were competent enough in general and outstanding in their respective fields. Sometimes Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon served as comic relief, but they weren't silly, and jokes weren't made at their expense. That's why the show had been working. It used to be a team project.

The show's creators put their main characters through traumatic experience and dramatic ordeals, but they weren't cruel to any of them and didn't make them to be cruel and/or condescending to each other.

Is this site only for puff pieces? I thought it's for critics too. Can anybody criticize anything, or critic in general is forbidden, because it might offense someone, so anyone has just to suck it up and be silent?

I watch this season, because I loved season 1, it's one of my favourite K-dramas of all time. I also liked season 2, but I didn't love it, because it had too much levity, so I hoped season 3 would return to its roots and be more dramatic and serious. I wrote it here before the premiere. The first couple of episodes had its flaws, but they seemed to be a step in a right direction.

Both previous seasons didn't have that issue I write about, that's why I write about it. All Rainbow Taxi's members were competent enough in general and outstanding in their respective fields. Sometimes Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon served as comic relief, but they weren't silly, and jokes weren't made at their expense. That's why the show had been working. It used to be a team project. If those issues were in the first season, I would have just stopped watching in the middle of the season and forgot about it. But it is the show I have really liked for years suddenly changing the style and direction. So here I am.

What can I say? Deal with it. You can just stop reading me. Or maybe I write things one should think about.

I am watching episode 11 now, and I have to take a break, because it's too much. I have already complained how this season turned Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon, aerospace engineers and the most intelligent and educated members of the Rainbow team, into a couple of incompetent clowns. And here we are again! Gyeong Gu does another dumb thing, and then Kim Do-gi says a basic obvious thing, like it's some kind of revelation. I am so annoyed, you wouldn't believe. I'm not angry or mad, because it's just a TV show, but I am being really, really annoyed right now.

I know about the cast issues. Well, I have seen 4 episodes and I can say it's both. The show is mediocre in terms of performances (from pretty bad to pretty good) and subpar in term of writing.

Oh, thanks.

Can someone explain me the scene with the Baek siblings and their mother's memorial scene. Why weren't the middle sister bowing? She was just standing at the door of the room and watching at her brothers. I Is it a gender thing? think I remember daughters doing it for their late mothers in other Korean shows. Was it some kind of statement from her? She seemed to be loyal to Ki-tae in the next scene of the supper, so she wouldn't challenge him like this.

The show is pretty great, and it may become the best K-drama of 2025 for me. Can they stick the landing of the season and the show in general? I had some hope for Nine Puzzles (both shows are from Disney+), but it didn't stick the landing, the ending was predictable, but unsatisfying at the same time. Tempest also had its highs, but the lows were too low, and I ending and motivations of the characters were very underwhelming, even disappointing.

This show has had spme flaws, and it remains to be seen, if those flaws are fatal. I like they made it a bit of competence porn. Like. there isn't anything superheroic or extraordinary, just people doing their jobs properly. So I thought the certain actions of Jang Gun Yeong toward the ending of the episode 2 had some hidden agenda. No, it happened to be just a mistake, and example of incompetence and negligence. It's all double hijacking once again.

Hyun Bin has been immaculate, it might become my favourite male performance of the year (the female one is Dear X, of course): charismatic, charming, precise (I want to see how the character changes in different circumstances, so we'll see). Jung Woo Sung's performance is a bit peculiar, especially his manner of laughter is weird and a bit uncanny., But I hope it's a future plot point, and as much a sign of his hereditary mental issues (his father has been in an asylum for 20 years) as his dogged determination at work. that's why he doesn't fit (someone may say he is normal, it's the "normal" society that's actually mental).

I also like some other things, Maybe they are common knowledge for Koreans, Japanese and other Asians, but they aren't very well known for Westerners. Like the structure and Korean origin of a huge part of Japanese yakuza. Or interesting cooperation of North Korean, South Korean and Japanese special services in the illegal drug industry despite complicated historical relationships between countries.

>quitting alcohol and coffee

Good for him. Is it newsworthy though?

To be honest, I would be okay with Rainbow Taxi eliminating villains. Just show me a consistent and plausible character ark leading to that. I would believe in it in season 2, but they made a step back and turned the season into something light-hearted with music performances and whatnot. Or it might have been some events at the beginning of season 3 shocking the team, so they became a bit unhinged. That would work for me too.

But it didn't happen, and there is no main storyline in season 3, like in season 1 and 2. It's just a vigilant procedural now, a collection of unconnected stories from one vigilant's life with some secondary, almost useless colleagues. So there isn't any space for character growth, progression or even the opposite, regression and spiraling into righteous vengeful insanity. Things just happen to the main character, and that's it.

Well, we see it with ratings and score. Season 1 and season 2 had 8.8 and 8.9 on MDL, but season 3 has had just 8.2 (and it was 8.1 a few weeks ago). I don't know if it's made up by streaming and international numbers, but ratings of season 2 in South Korea were between 13 and 18%, season 2 finale got 21% nationally, season 1 was between 12 and 15%, season 3 barely gets about 10-11%. The audience decreased 1.5, maybe even 2 times. Numbers are still very good, but they aren't outstanding anymore. But again, maybe viewership specifically depends on streaming more than few years ago, I don't know.

She gave up. Furthermore, she gave up long time ago. Kim Do-Gi had said it a few minutes earlier, "Everyone has their failures, but you have been spiraling just after one failure." She could have made a real successful agency, she had an eye for potential idols and knew how to train them. In sport many successful coaches are former athletes who didn't reach real success or realize their potential, because of various unfortunate circumstances (like accidents, injuries and so on). But she decided to harm young girls to make them "pay" for what had happened to her decades ago (when majority of them haven't even been born). So it was easy for her to give up once again.

Well, it's not even "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," it's "we must repay them a hundredfold," like they said in the cars in episode 10.

Well, I am not an author of the original commentary, so I didn't write "many," just gave the first example I remembered. Someone would add Kim Soo-hyun. But I just don't know, if he is a rapist, and I don't want to label anyone without solid proofs.

That happens all over the world, sure. Look at Hollywood and Epstein files, for example. I'm not Korean and I don't think South Korea is worse than an average country in that way. Actually, in my opinion, it's quite the opposite. I think maybe Koreans should be more moderate about celebrities: less obsessed and worshipping, but more tolerant and forgiving as a society. Especially if a person had already been punished for their actions, or if nothing has been proven yet (like it happened to Lee Sun-kyun),

I don't like Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon are reduced to a pair of dumb clowns in this season. They are aerospace engineers and inventors and used to be arguably the most intelligent members of the team. They also had their own motives and agenda in Rainbow Taxi. But in this season they exist to ask dumb and/or obvious questions for Kim Do Gi to say plot points for the audience and be laughed at in questionable situations. They have never saved the day actually, and Kim Do Gi could easily work without them. Pyo Ye Jin and Kim Eui Sung have become glorified extras. They also don't have a lot of to do with the plots. I love Lee Je Hoon, but the team spirit is gone in season 3, it's basically a one-man show. I blame writers of the show. Maybe it's really for the best to end it now. Or at least something has to be done to the main cast dynamic (for me chemistry is still there), we need more real team work.

Lee Kyung Young and the statutory rape of a minor, for example.

I see why the network has been sitting on the show for three years after it was shot. It's uneven, the storyline is disjointed, characters are a bit cliched. Yoo Ji Tae still has his charisma, and it's probably the best part of the show. Episodes are short, the first episode is 44 minutes with the intro and credits, the second one is even shorter, about 35 minutes. It's very weird for K-dramas.

I am not sure I am going to finish the show. I'll give it another chance next week.