To me, a very mediocre k-drama. The characters are predominantly caricatures, and VERY inconsistent ones while at it. The main plot is boring and the plight of the leads isn't interesting. It throws in a whole bunch of random makjang elements, but those never serve to make the overarching storyline interesting (or gripping).
The production is of course excellent, though I wouldn't say there was any memorable music / OST. The legal angle is in some ways very good, in others the typical ridiculous case-procedural in which a court battle takes a week from start to finish rather than a year. (Yes, how else would a TV show work.)
There were a bunch of filler episodes, especially the double episodes, and I wouldn't call the ending satisfactory.
Dong Geu Rami was my favourite supporting character / performance. Sadly she too was just the classic k-drama best friend who doesn't exist except when pulled out of the FL's pocket for support & advice.
There's a normal 24 FPS but also a 60 FPS version of this? Anyone know the story behind the filming? Korea's 4K channel UMAX I think showed it in 60 frames per second.
"Underdog Detective is an official adaption of the popular Chinese TV series Luoyang. The game starts 10 years before the TV series' story, when Equinoxes, an organization of killers, and Eosos, a government-back spec-ops agency, are in the constant state of conflict. As the imperial capital, Luoyang is torn between their conflicts, Underdog's Dwelling, a lawless corner in the capital, becomes the next battlefield…"
Leaving all Netflix regions on 2022-05-15: https://unogs.com/title/80986918
Does the Netflix or international version have missing licensed songs or missing singing scenes and such like the Reply 19xx series?
=> Yes, for example in Episode 8, there's maybe two minutes (2:16 by my count) missing from Netflix. NF@17:50 you have a cut from car to karaoke score, while Dramacool etc have ML singing karaoke for about 76 seconds. The following duo karaoke is 32 seconds longer on Dramacool. 38/39 minutes in, mood background music is replaced poorly on Netflix, and FL's stare lasts longer on DC. Another 'stare' has been shortened at 40/41.
Any ideas on where to watch this? I have tried Viki, Prime, Netflix and the others and nothing found.
Today / tomorrow (18 Apr 2022) it's leaving every single Netflix region it's on: https://unogs.com/title/81072807 – so maybe it's going to pop up on some other service(s) soon.
The ending is good... That kiss scene at the end was so hilarious.... I wish they had an official wedding. I also…
No, it's much earlier. First, ML dreams that he drives to FL's family home where her sister lives, and instead meets Mr. Lai with a pregnant FL. He wakes up feeling really troubled by the dream. Afterwards, when he goes there for real with pretty much those fears, he finds Amy and her boyfriend. He learns that FL's sister and her husband are away to help the husband's ailing brother, and that Mr. Lai is married – not to FL but to a flight attendant.
Later on when he greets FL and her daughter at their home, his wife is also mentioned. I believe it's the same conversation where he tells FL that ML has been calling him and he will only take the call with her permission.
Towards the end, literal hours were spent on unnecessary reheated side characters. Some of them even kept coming…
The villain's redemption arc just took way too fucking long.
The whole "we know it's each other but pretend we don't and pretend the other doesn't" thing before was a complete waste of time as well & made no sense.
Towards the end, literal hours were spent on unnecessary reheated side characters. Some of them even kept coming back over and over again. If not for a new actress introduced in the last episodes as the only saving grace, they'd be complete skip material.
The characters are predominantly caricatures, and VERY inconsistent ones while at it.
The main plot is boring and the plight of the leads isn't interesting. It throws in a whole bunch of random makjang elements, but those never serve to make the overarching storyline interesting (or gripping).
The production is of course excellent, though I wouldn't say there was any memorable music / OST.
The legal angle is in some ways very good, in others the typical ridiculous case-procedural in which a court battle takes a week from start to finish rather than a year. (Yes, how else would a TV show work.)
There were a bunch of filler episodes, especially the double episodes, and I wouldn't call the ending satisfactory.
Dong Geu Rami was my favourite supporting character / performance. Sadly she too was just the classic k-drama best friend who doesn't exist except when pulled out of the FL's pocket for support & advice.
Korea's 4K channel UMAX I think showed it in 60 frames per second.
(I would just watch this one.)
Maybe would have been better without the whole CN dubbing thing. (I assume it's originally Cantonese and I watched it in Mandarin.)
"Underdog Detective is an official adaption of the popular Chinese TV series Luoyang. The game starts 10 years before the TV series' story, when Equinoxes, an organization of killers, and Eosos, a government-back spec-ops agency, are in the constant state of conflict. As the imperial capital, Luoyang is torn between their conflicts, Underdog's Dwelling, a lawless corner in the capital, becomes the next battlefield…"
=> Yes, for example in Episode 8, there's maybe two minutes (2:16 by my count) missing from Netflix. NF@17:50 you have a cut from car to karaoke score, while Dramacool etc have ML singing karaoke for about 76 seconds. The following duo karaoke is 32 seconds longer on Dramacool. 38/39 minutes in, mood background music is replaced poorly on Netflix, and FL's stare lasts longer on DC. Another 'stare' has been shortened at 40/41.
First, ML dreams that he drives to FL's family home where her sister lives, and instead meets Mr. Lai with a pregnant FL. He wakes up feeling really troubled by the dream.
Afterwards, when he goes there for real with pretty much those fears, he finds Amy and her boyfriend. He learns that FL's sister and her husband are away to help the husband's ailing brother, and that Mr. Lai is married – not to FL but to a flight attendant.
Later on when he greets FL and her daughter at their home, his wife is also mentioned. I believe it's the same conversation where he tells FL that ML has been calling him and he will only take the call with her permission.
The whole "we know it's each other but pretend we don't and pretend the other doesn't" thing before was a complete waste of time as well & made no sense.