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09 March 2016

Mrs. Cop Review

Title: Mrs. Cop
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Episodes: 18
Broadcast period: 2015-Aug to 2015-Sep
Cast: Kim Hee Ae, Kim Min Jong, Lee Da Hee, Son Ho Joon and Lee Ki Kwang.

Choi Young Jin (Kim Hee Ae) is the squad head of her police squad, and close friend to the captain Park Jong Ho (Kim Min Jong). She is good at her job, and deals with some of the most brutal cases in the police station, but is also a single mother to her 6-year-old daughter, who is being taken care of by her aunt; Young Jin’s younger sister.
When her chief and even higher ‘higher-ups’ want to make an innocent man go to jail, so the story about the actual murder can be hushed down, as it involves some politicians, Young Jin becomes furious and wants to fix I, but the entire situation, as well as her job, gets complicated, and she resigns.
Two years later, Young Jin now has much more free time and spends much of her time with her daughter. Though she misses her work, she is unable to tell her sister and daughter. That is until Jong Ho asks her to return: she is made the head of a special task force that is to uncover the murder of a young girl. And she is joined with 5 other members, whom all are a tad more different than the usual detectives…

Hmm, I am not content with my summary, but I think I covered most of it.
This drama is one of the funniest and coolest police dramas I have seen, and it’s not all that amazingly made. On a Korean crime/police/action rate, this one is up there with IRIS (the first one) and Phantom. I enjoyed almost every single bit of it, and the couple in the drama were one of my favorites in the year of 2015. Even though they had little romance, their chemistry was incredible – and funny! Or rather my type of funny… Just enough without being ridiculous (I’ve heard complaints about my humor… So you might not agree on it being a comedy). I liked all characters to be honest and I found the storyline good to. So hell year recommendable!

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars
♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts

30 March 2014

Answer Me 1994 Review

Title: Answer Me 1994
AKA: Reply 1994
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 21
Broadcast period: Oct-2013 to Dec-2013
Cast: Go Ara, Jung Woo, Yoo Yun Suk, Kim Sung Kyun, Son Ho Joon, Baro and Min Do Hee 

In the 94’s the first Kpop group emerged, but also the basketball hype was massive after the success of the TV series “Last Game” about a high school basketball team. That led the Korean basketball team to get noticed a lot and made them get their own fan bases. A member of that group is Sung Na Jung (Go Ara) who loves Lee Sang Min, one of the most popular players.
When the Sung family, Na Jungs family, moves to Seoul from the country side, they decide to become a boarding house for country kids that start in college. They themselves are a family of three, mom, dad and daughter Na Jung, but also neighbor ‘Sseureki’ (Jung Woo) that used to be friends with their son who passed away, and he somehow filled that spot in the family. Moving to the boarding house are: ‘Chilbong ’(Yoo Yeon Suk) a baseball protégé, ‘Samchunpo’ (Kim Sung Kyun) a clean-neat fool of a country bumpkin, ‘Haetae’ (Son Ho Jun) a kid who wants to be more Seoul-ish, ‘Bingeure’ (Baro) a kid who doesn’t know what to do with his future, and Jo Yoon Jin (Min Do Hee) a Seo Taiji Boys fanatic.
This drama revolves around how these youths also known as generation X, are living in the big city and how they accustom to life, love and future…

I am a huge ‘Reply’ fan so this one I had to watch, even though I never heard of any of the actors. I seriously fell for them all and I like the overall story a bit more than the first Reply drama. I knew - like many others - what the ending was going to be due to the way of portraying the drama, and also the flow of it all, and yet I sort of had the same feeling in the other drama. The drama is a bit different though, due to the focus on historical things instead of idols and kpop, which made me a bit more intrigued while watching. The couples were cute, funny, and had me rooting for them from the beginning.  I love they kind of did a mix of both 1997 and 1994 towards the ending, kind of makes you squirm.
So all in all, a definite watch!

☆☆☆☆½ / 4½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts