this kdrama gave me a panic attack.

I have never written a review before. Never bothered, even for my favourite dramas.
But I had to for this one. Solely because the second episode gave me a horrid panic attack.

I went into this excited. A plot about abuse against women and children and a badass duo who fights for them and possibly hearing stories from these victims and getting a feminist message through, that is what I expected and if that's what you're hoping for this is not where you'll find it.
An attempt was made to bring up issues like victim-blaming, slut-shaming, and sexual assault against men. But this all fell to the ground because of the sloppy plot that was full of holes.

None of what I'm about to say is a reflection of my opinion on the actors, I am solely talking about story, plot, etc.
Frankly, the female lead was the most unlikeable character I've seen in a kdrama. I love complex characters, I love grey characters, I even love characters that are evil. But I hate badly written characters and characters that do evil things while the writers try to force us to like them. This is what the female lead is to me. She immediately shows no empathy and cruel behaviours, which I don't really mind as long as it's well-written. But then from episode 2 and on she gets progressively worse. She mistreats victims and tunnel visions often and the only punishment? a scolding and them some attention bc of how successful she is. They keep trying to show her as likable or as a strong female character, she is not. Embrace her as unlikable if you wanted to write her like that.
The second you write a character, a female lead character, that you want me to like and sympathize with then do not show me her doing the things she did. She never developed. She only got worse and only became increasingly annoying.

The male lead was my safe haven for the first couple of episodes but unfortunately his writing also got worse. I was so excited to see a talented, gentleman who was very empathetic and not the typical male lead, especially because he was a psychiatrist that became a prosecutor, that really was what attracted me to the show. But he is disappointing.

I feel bad for the cast because many of them did a good job despite the less than ideal script they had to work with.

There were major plot holes and if the writer didn't know how to wrap something up or how the protagonists were going to win a situation then something ridiculous would happen.
I don't even wanna begin with the inaccuracies of the court scenes.
So many villains were written way too cartoony. They were like villains from a children's movie. They'd evil laugh and suddenly shift into this "evil" character. It was upsetting because the issues they are writing about are so sensitive.

Do not watch it lightly.
Take care of yourself.

Especially LGBT+ people. Someone gets outed by the female lead and then we hear him get assaulted. Do not watch it.

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