Catch The Ghost (2019)

Empecé a ver este drama con la certeza de que iba a ser uno de los muchos que dejo por ser aburrido o absurdo y para nada fue así
La trama tiene el toque justo de humor sin sentido para una historia que es tan seria, los personajes aun no terminando de cuajar como pareja tienen muy buena química como compañeros y es algo muy interesante de ver
Hay un personaje al que de verdad le hubiese dado un par de bofetadas por el carácter innecesariamente malhumorado que le han dado, pero porque no me cuadraba con el personaje que jugaba, pero se resarce en los últimos capítulos

En fin, donde en un principio no pensaba ni verla yo, se la recomiendo a todo el mundo. Es algo lenta en algunos momentos pero merece la pena verla

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What I loved: The main couple, and the other subway cops.

What I liked: The case-of-the-week format.

What I was meh about: The main plot. It was draggy in the middle, but kept me engaged in early and late episodes.

What I hated: Ha Ma Ri, the metro police in general (they're terrible at their jobs).

The driving force of this drama, for me, has been the personal stories of Go Ji Suk and Yoo Ryung. Both of them are very warm-hearted people who have had to take care of their disabled loved ones all on their own, so they both have experienced a lot of suffering. The case-of-the-week format worked for me as well, with each case having Ji Suk warming to Ryung's style of doing things more and more, as he comes to understand her drive to save people.

The main plot is admittedly weak, because the police seem ridiculously incompetent at finding clues to the Subway Ghost case. The way it's written, without Ryung's help they would never have figured out who the killer was. Lieutenant Ha Ma Ri is lousy at her job, because chooses to be a hateful bitch rather than be a good detective. Ma Ri ignores Ryung's pleas to investigate her sister's disappearance, as well as her theory that the killer used the subway tunnels. She also finds every opportunity to verbally spite Ryung and put her down because Ji Suk falls for Ryung instead of coming back to HER. Ma Ri could have been a great character, but instead she's just plain hateful, an incompetent detective with an inferiority complex.

I like this drama a lot, despite its issues. Some of the lines, like Ryung saying it was her sister's fault (if you've seen it you know what I'm talking about), made no sense at all, and irritated me because it had been established that due to her sister's Autism, her mental state was about the level of a two year old. How can a two year old be to blame for what happened? I can understand why the villain blamed her – he was out of his senses with grief and anger – but I don't understand why anyone else would blame her.
But 90% of the time I really enjoyed watching this drama. So I will recommend it to those who are a fan of slow-burn love stories that have a lot of spark, because the chemistry between Moon Geun Young (Yoo Ryung) and Kim Sun Ho (Go Ji Suk) is amazing in this drama.

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