This drama focuses on a group of detectives in the Seoul Gangnam Police Homicide Division who solve crimes based on real life cases with their variety of skills and investigative methods. At the forefront of the team is the impulsive and hotheaded detective Park Se Hyuk and the cold, commanding police chief, Jung Il Do. Park Se Hyuk's passion for his work and rough personality results in a tendency to take action first before thinking later, in contrast with Jung Il Do's by-the-book style. However, his greatest weapon is an instinctive knowledge of a criminal's tricks and mental workings that he gained from his father, the legendary thief, and his own childhood in the streets. Together with the other members of a special team formed to catch Lupin, a notorious burglar, he juggles work with his own personal quest to find his father and confront his older brother, a crooked detective.
Cast:
Song Il Gook as Park Se Hyuk
Lee Jong Hyuk as Jung Il Do
Song Ji Hyo as Jo Min Joo
Park Sun Young as Heo Eun Young
Sung Ji Roo as Nam Tae Shik
Sun Woo Sun as Jin Mi Sook
Kim Joon as Shin Dong Jin
My comments:
Crime Squad (KBS, 16 episodes) was a drama that I used to kill time during the Easter holidays. I watched it for Song Il Gook and I only find this drama average, nothing spectacular or memorable but not overly bad. Each homicide case usually takes about 2 episodes to get solved and some of them did give me goosebumps. Take a moment to notice that most victims of the cases in this drama were women. I think the cases are what kept me going, along with the mystery behind Il Do secrets regarding Se Hyuk’s daughter.
The biggest problem with this drama is that the cast seems to have zero chemistry with each other. The homicide team’s chemistry was passable but everything else failed. Romance chemistry between the leads – failed, even the supposed tension between Se Hyuk and Il Do, sorry not really there. It doesn’t help that Lee Jong Hyuk’s appearance keep reducing as the drama progresses and he just appears like maybe 2 times in an episode to give the heads up and he wasn’t much involved in the case solving…
I thought the ladies were so underused in this drama as they were all uninteresting and boring that I didn’t care much for them. It also didn’t help that the romances were so minimal that their existence was merely for background use. Song Ji Hyo has a meatier role than Park Sun Young and Sun Woo Sun and she was cute and likable but as a leading role she was too ineffective. Park Sun Young who was so alive and bubbly in 19 vs. 29 but here, she was like sleepwalking while looking pretty. Also, no wonder that Sun Woo Sun dropped after episode 7 because it seems that the scriptwriters didn’t know where to go with her character…Overall, forgettable drama.
* Opening credit of the drama
No comments:
Post a Comment