Suspicious Partner (2017)

Suspicious Partner, que je viens de finir à l'instant c'est l'histoire d'une jeune femme et d'un jeune homme qui travaillent tous les deux dans le domaine pénal comme avocats ou comme procureurs. C'est le décor dans lequel se déroule l'ensemble du scénario. Au début il y a beaucoup de rebondissements et donc on est très vite pris dans l'histoire. Néanmoins je dois avouer que je n'ai pas tout regardé d'une seule traite. Il y a des moments ou il y a moins d'action et où l'histoire traine un peu. J'ai aimé le début et la fin mais c'était truc trainent en longueur, pas en ce qui concerne l'affaire de meurtres mais plutôt les intrigues amoureuses. Vers l'épisode 13 ou 14 ça devient un tout petit répétitif. Rien d'alarmant mais c'est dommage. Le début est très animé et jure avec la seconde partie du coup ...

Je n'ai pas énormément accroché avec les personnages au début mais on s'attache à eux quand même. J'ai même failli m'attacher au méchant de l'histoire qui est à mes yeux le personnage le plus complexe et le plus intéressant de l'histoire. Avec ce drama on a tendance à voir un peu les choses arriver. Je regrette un peu que l'une des intrigues secondaires n'ait pas pris la tournure que je souhaitais. L'intrigue entre les parents mériterait aussi d'avoir un peu plus de temps d'écran quitte à perdre des parties moins intéressantes comme certaines scènes à l'hôpital. J'aurais aimé que le changement de poste de No Ji-Uk soit plus profondi à la fin, qu'on parle plus de son ressenti. Idem pour le ressenti de l'héroïne vis à vis e son père, etc. Je trouve que les sentiments des personnages étaient prometteurs mais pas assez creusés.

Néanmoins la série s'appuie sur un plot solide avec des retournements de situation bien sentis la plupart du temps et appuyé sur des personnages iconiques. Le début avance vite et l'intrigue se tasse un peu sur la fin mais cette fin n'est pour une fois pas bâclée (je déteste quand toutes les intrigues se clôturent dans les 15 dernières minutes genre on avait plus le temps alors voilà, c'est très frustrant pour moi). Donc une vraie fin pour les intrigues principales et un peu moins pour les intrigues secondaires (c'est plus subjectif et laissé à l'appréciation des spectateurs). Ce drama se regarde facilement même s'il n'est pas exceptionnel dans son genre ça n'en fait pas moins un bon drama !

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If you like love sick dramas then you'll love this

I tried watching this because it was considered to be have suspense and action with romance on the side. Unfortunately it's majority oozing, drippy romance with a touch of comedy and very little suspense.

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who came to watch this because of The K 2 and Healer.

I was disappointed because the first 21 episodes I watched were the same lovey dovey eye roll that I have tried to avoid in a lot of Kdramas.

Now when I first started watching Kdramas which was last June or July of 2020 I became hooked. Not because of the romance but the action and drama itself.

This one I just couldn't stomach because of the main female lead. A lot of Kdramas always have the female lead playing the love sick idiot and it's really ad nauseum for me.

If I was a lovesick preteen or teenager then this would've worked but I'm no longer that. I also don't mind a little romance but this was overly done.

It will have to go on the back burner for the time being for me.

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Super Drama, Super Chemistry

I know I was 7 years late to have this review, but this drama of Ji chang wook really hit me so hard. I love the story
suspense thriller and law drama. The support role cast and even the OST.
I already watched some dramas of JCW but the prosecutor image was really suitable for him plus the fact that
his chemistry between Nam jihyun is absolutely perfect eventhough there's age gap between them.
I will surely rewatch this drama over and over again. I wish they end as a real couple in real life (so delulu me hahaha)
Noh Ji Hyuk and Bong Hee (my fave character so far)

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although it's predictable but it's so amusing , funny  ,delightful with lots of romance & friend ship
the beautiful thing  in this drama that the law cases in the back seats
or it is  related to the main roles so it  doesn't drag u away  from the main stories
for me this drama is the  type i do really love with fast event's & happy ending

SPOILER

what bothered me much that the story of the second leads didn't take it's place well
& i don't know how the misunderstanding come from  if they didn't  cheated him actually
they didn't explain  that part  they left it to our imagination & why  didn't  Choi Tae Joon Confess to   Ji Chang Wook  with the truth of what had happened really
 why he bears that his friend accused him with betrayal  ??
till the end i was waiting to tell us the truth about what had happened between choi tae & ji chang ex-gf

that's only the reason that made me give it 9.5 instead of full 10

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This was precious, and everything is alright in the world. Granted, Suspicious Partner wasn’t a perfect show but it was a good one, particularly when it came to presenting well-rounded characters and their personal journey to become whoever they were meant to be. Let’s put the romance aside for a moment and concentrate on what this show really did right, which was giving each character their own personal story and life, apart from the main murder-mystery story and couple. It wasn’t all about one or two people, it was about all of them, which is why it was so easy to fall in love with each and every one of the characters the more you got to know them with each passing week.

We were introduced to Ji-wook as a grumpy, hard-ass prosecutor but soon found out he had vulnerabilities that ran deep into his past and soul. Ji-wook, though, wasn’t a wounded hero. He was a well adjusted young man, from a loving and caring family, with a flair for angry rants and soft spot for dirty but pretty leading ladies. He wasn’t perfect, he made mistakes -which I’m glad Bong-hee called him on it today- and learnt from them. At the end of the day, he was a better man that the one we met in the first episode.

Same goes for Bong-hee who from the first scene was shown as a badass, independent and courageous young woman but if you look deeper you could see she had insecurities about her personal and emotional life that she needed to overcome in order to become a more grounded person. Bong-hee never once disappointed me, even when I wanted to tell her to make up her mind quicker, because if she always did something right was to respect her own times and admit when she was wrong.

Ji-wook and Bong-hee are going into my TOP 5 list of Favourite Couples of all time. Their chemistry exploded in the screen ever since the subway pervert indirectly push them together (Where is that guy? I wish I could have seen him one las time!). Maybe it was fate that made their paths cross several times but ultimately it was their choice to stay in each other’s lives. They kept on choosing each other over and over again, even when everything was going to hell and they made some questionable decisions, they kept fighting for each other because of the love and friendship they shared. And if that’s not love, I don’t know what is.

All of this it’s really important to me to have in Dramaland because I don’t want perfect characters that don’t show improvement, a difference or understanding of who they are as people, between who when the show started and when the show ended.

The law firm shenanigans were one of the highlights of the show, of course, but then again every time more than two characters got together in the same place, you knew something good was going to happen. I love how at the end they just kept on running their business on Ji-wook’s house even after he and Chief Bang were long gone, back to the prosecutor office’s. Like it was a matter of fact that it was the place to be and grow for them. CEO Byun remains one of the best Dramaland Fathers, funny and caring, who in his own way wished only the best for his kids. Same goes for Chief Bang, the most extraordinary Ship Captain I have seen in years, he was the perfect Hyung for all the crazy lawyers.

I wish Yoo-jung could have been better explored, especially because it would have give her more redeeming qualities and I would have grow to understand her motivations better. To this day, Yoo-jung remains the woman who did a wrong and ran away, and didn’t properly apologize to either man. I do get she took her punishment quietly, in a way that because she had no other friends other than Eun-hyuk and Ji-wook, by going away she ostracized herself but in contrast and comparison to what Eun-hyuk went through to get his friend back, she falls short.

I spent a good portion of this show wishing for Eun-hyuk to be showered in love and I got what I wanted, just not how I thought it would look. I like the idea of Eun-hyuk and Yoo-jung starting over because they need to get to know each other as adults in order to figure out if they want to be in a relationship, especially her who had never seen him as a love interest before. But I thought the writer would break the Second Leads Get Together Law and actually make him realize he can do better with someone else *coughJi-haecough*

As I mentioned in a past review, I think Ji-hae was one of the better and most improved characters through out the show. Her growth is clear when instead of making a move on Eun-hyuk, knowing he’s with Yoo-jung, she makes the choice to try to move on from her feelings for him.

The frenemy-ship between Bong-hee and Ji-hae was another highlight for me, and every week I was looking forward to see what these two would do. I love that Bong-hee ended up living in Ji-hae’s apartment for a year and I wish I could have seen more of that living arrangement, the same way I would have love for the three girls to form a bond sooner so we could have gotten more drinking scenes of them, and their exasperated men picking them up. Pffft!

Of course I cannot possible end this without mentioning Hyun-soo. This writer has a knack for creating complex criminal characters in a way that you actually grow to care for, despite their actions. There wasn’t a moment in which I didn’t try to figure out Hyun-soo’s motivations or mind, what had happened in his life for him to become a serial killer. Or what had happened to that young girl he loved so much. The truth gutted me because even when I didn’t agree nor validated his actions, I understood in some level where he was coming from.

With such a compelling story and charismatic cast, Suspicious Partner it’s a show I will make sure to come back to again, and again. And again.

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I really enjoyed the loveline in this drama, as it was very cute and swoon-worthy.

JCW's makeup was too much, but I enjoyed staring at him in this drama all the same. NJH was an adorable main lead and the progression of their romance was believable.

As many reviews said, I agree that the beginning was strong and steam dropped off as the writing focuses on resolution rather than storytelling,

Watch this one for the romance and not for the crime-solving. Also there are frustrating one-dimensional characters in the supporting cast such as the chief prosecutor and the 3rd female lead.

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Amazing Villain Who Stole The Show

I quite enjoyed this, and it was even the best drama I've seen so far in SOME aspects. So let's dissect all my feelings I have about this:

PRO
- Ji Chan Wook is very charming and I loved looking at his face and listening to his voice. When he was wearing glasses and had his hair styled out of his face he was almost too good-looking and I kinda lost focus of what's going on. Should that be a con...?
- The villain in this was AMAZING. To me the actor gave the best performance, but also the script was just very solid. Super good writing throughout the whole crime/investigation portion of the show. Very solid arc for the villain as well.
- All the character relationships come to really satisfying conclusions. I was quite happy with where everybody ended up, especially in relation to each other.
- Very likable side characters. By the end I loved all of them, even the ones who were a little hard to digest in the beginning.

CON
- Bong Hui's personality swayed quite a lot from my initial impression of the character. Just the fact that she talks about s*x in a kdrama made me wanna see more of her. A female lead acknowleding that s*x exists?!!? Unbelievable. (Do I even have to censor s*x? I don't know what the guidelines are and don't want my review to get taken down, so, sorry if this looks silly to you.) Unfortunately she kinda turns into your standard fare female lead after a few episodes. Bubbly, easily upset, a bit childish and naive when it comes to romance. My main complain was kinda towards the end of the drama when Bong Hui and Ji Uk have more time to spend together and go on dates and such. Her body language around Ji Uk makes her seem very uncomfortable. I almost can't believe this was intentional. She leans away when he leans in, she takes a step back when he comes closer, she makes a really frightened face when he makes advances towards her... That's not the behavior of someone who's attracted to that person and it detracted from the believability of their relationship. Their steamy kiss that led to s*x also came kinda out of nowhere to me? They spend the whole day barely holding hands. What made them so h*rny??
Anyway, this might seem nitpicky, but this is really something I look for in romcoms, so, yeah, I'm gonna be nitpicky about it. I don't need steamy scenes or anything, but at least make me believe these people are attracted to each other for real for real.

In conclusion: Amazing villain who stole the show for me. I'm not a rewatcher, but I might even rewatch this eventually...

And that concludes my two cents.

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Un peu d'humour, beaucoup de douceur mais surtout des clichés

Je suis passée par beaucoup d'émotions et de stades différents pendant le visionnage de ce drama je ne vais pas mentir. Au début, j'étais mitigée. Puis à partir du dixième épisode, j'ai commencé à bien accroché. Puis après, j'ai été dépassée par certains aspects qui m'énervaient. Encore quelques épisodes après j'ai commencé à vraiment m'intéresser, à vouloir cliquer pour regarder le prochain épisode. Et au final, les dix derniers épisodes étaient surement de trop...

Dans sa globalité, c'est un bon drama. Je noterai surtout le casting que j'aime beaucoup, avec des acteurs doués et qui font très bien leur travail dans ce drama. Je mettrais aussi en évidence l'alchimie que je trouve réussie entre Wookie et Nam Ji Hyun comparé à de nombreux autres dramas où je trouve que malheureusement le matching entre Wookie et ses lead féminins ne sont pas toujours réussis.

Ce que je critiquerais beaucoup, ce qui fait que je n'ai pas apprécié autant que je le voudrais ce drama, c'est le rythme. Au début, le rythme est intéressant mais le plot pas si passionnant. Et comme je l'illustrais un peu plus haut, il y a des hauts et des bas, des moments où l'action s'active et les événements avancent, l'intrigue également ! Puis d'autres où l'intrigue principale n'avance plus du tout, tout ça pour se concentrer sur des enquêtes parallèles qui bloquent à la fois l'intrigue et même la romance.

De plus, je n'ai pas été surprise à un seul moment dans le drama. Chaque événement qui était supposé être un retournement de situation était prévisible 3 épisodes avant que cela n'arrive, si ce n'est beaucoup plus longtemps avant !

Et enfin, dernier bémol, il y a certains éléments de l'intrigue pour lesquels je n'ai absolument pas compris l'intérêt, surtout pour nos personnages secondaires que sont Ji Eun Hyuk (joué par Choi Tae Joon) et Cha Yoo-Jung (jouée par Nara).

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Wow! Un super Rom Com judiciaire à dévorer !

Au niveau comédie, je pense que c'est le meilleur couple de Kdrama que j'aie vue. Le timing des répliques est parfait, parce que Nam Jy Hyun sait faire rire, aussi les fans de Wookie pourront se rincer l'œil, l'acteur lead est canon en procureur/avocat. Les personnages principaux ont des failles, comme l'acteur lead, procureur trop consciencieux et donc antipathique auprès de ses collègues.
Vu le nombre d'épisodes (20 au total), je n'étais pas étonnée par l'etirement de la romance, cela ne m'a pas gênée. Leur alchimie à l'écran est évidente, on les retouve avec plaisir. On profite aussi du dernier épisode et de leur vie à deux, contrairement à d'autres dramas oû tout est résolu dans les 10 dernières minutes.
Je pense que les auteurs voulaient vraiment parler de certains aspects judiciaires et ont utilisé le romance pour attirer le public. Je m'attendais à des enquêtes un peu légères mais ce n'était pas le cas. Faut il libérer un coupable possible ou enfermer un innocent ? Ce n'est pas aussi développé qu'une série policière mais tout de même, le scenario tient la route : on décrit les affaires bouclés à la va-vite par le ministère, les problèmes liés à la reconnaissance des témoins, la nécessité de travailler en équipe, Je n'ai pas accrochée à l'intrigue principale, celui du serial killer, j'ai préféré les petites enquêtes intermediaires. Cela n'a l'air de rien, mais à la fin de l'histoire, le procureur s'excuse auprès de Bong Hui, accusée à tort, c'est significatif dans une culture encore conservatrice comme la Corée.
Le marivaudage entre les quatre lead m'a amusée, les scènes de reunion avec le cabinet d'avocat sont jubilatoires car les rôles secondaires sont vraiment bons. Les quiproquos et running gags foisonnent. On passe vraiment un bon moment, à voir et à binge-watch.. er sans modération !

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