Our Police Course (2022)

A drama that will remind you of your friends and college days

Rookie Cops is a drama that I expected to be like other high school or college dramas, that can get lost somewhere halfway the run, but that is not the case with Rookie Cops. It is a drama with comedy, romance, suspense and action blended effectively together. A funny scene can turn into something more serious, but it doesn't feel out of the place. The plot for cases and the students investigating them felt a little far-fetched at times, but the actions (even the action scenes!) of characters felt realistic to me, as that is what you would expect a freshman to behave as, whether from a police university or not. It is a drama where strangers become friends and they go on become close companions to each other.

During the first couple of episodes, Kang Daniel's character and acting felt stiff and cold to me, but soon you can see the improvement in both. Chae Soo Bin was lovable and relatable as a character as usual. I enjoyed everyone's acting.

The music wasn't too obvious and something that would stick with me, but I found it to be entertaining and suitable for the scenes.

Overall, I enjoyed this show (better than I expected).

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Messy downhill ride

Honestly, it started off quite well setting up the characters, stories, only to ruin the whole show for me.
What I liked:
The music was decent.
The show opening.
Friendship.
Colourful setting, pretty faces...
What I disliked:
The show TOTALLY failed to integrate the romantic & campus vibe with the crime aspect of the drama. While watching, each half, felt like a different drama with similar actors(honestly, even Police University did better at this one). Honestly, it should just have stuck on one side & made the other a complimentary.
The acting sucked, for most of the time, esp. Daniel(hate me or not, that's my opinion), he obviously needs more experience if he ever considers taking on more main roles or it would just be a waste with his face & opportunities.
No character development, the characters just remained blunt, like what they learnt went through one side of the head & went through the other. Plus it felt like a huge percentage of the characters were thrown off the show(shadowed) as it progressed.
The main couple, no chemistry, like things just happen because the writer has pen in his hands & dictates the scene. They should have just stuck with the other couple & limit the rest to friendzoned or whatever...
The deal breaker, Dae II's death; honestly you don't go & kill off the most lovable character in the whole crappy show just to create a sad environment & try to evoke emotions from the viewers & confrontation basis to the villain.

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A prototype story meant to cause frustration through repetition before the final pay-off

Well, that was a rollercoaster ride!

Rookie Cops is a prime example of a show that has a structure that frustrates me throughout the entire story, and serves as a prototype for other shows that exhibit similar story telling.
Don’t get me wrong, the show was good, and I’ll talk about the good stuff in more detail later, but it was frustrating to watch nonetheless.

A story can be comprised of smaller stories, which serve as a purpose for character development or the incremental progress towards the main goal. This is exactly the route Rookie Cops decided to take. The students, still naïve, morally guided and always seeking justice, find themselves in various troubling situations, where not everything goes according to plan, if anything at all. During these various encounters with unlawful citizens they find out how awful some people can be and how difficult it can be to catch some of the criminals. Not only that, they also realise that their plans are full of gaps that can be exploited, and that good plans can also have negative consequences.

The extreme justice seeking behaviour, naivety, total disregard for possible dangers and the repetition of such behaviours is the way to get me frustrated. To be fair, I also am extremely concerned with justice, and I often disagree with how people are being punished or treated in relation to how the public perceives the perpetrator and their crimes. Justice, is not the rehabilitation of the criminal, justice has nothing to do with human rights, justice is when the people feel that the perpetrator in question is punished or treated in a way that is equally or more harsh than the crime they committed to the victim. Justice has nothing to do with preventing crime, it has to do with pleasing the population and gaining trust in the system, not with giving certain people second chances.
I find it important to make that clear, because it seems that people really do not understand why prisons exist or why people threw tomatoes at criminals, or paid to watch someone get decapitated in the past. There’s a reason why people lack faith in the judicial system, especially nowadays. While this show does not mention any of the punishments given to any of the criminals, the way they get captured is too light. Think about of Ottomans, who amputated hands from thieves in some severe cases. Compare this to today’s system, where any small injury of the criminal can cause an investigation or punishment to the cop, this is a bad system, and now wonder that so few people actually want to do such dangerous work while barely being able to defend themselves or carry out the work they have to do.
This is why I dislike justice seeking behaviour, because most of it, has nothing to do with justice, it’s punishing criminals, trying to cure them, while treating them with velvet hands. The naivety, disregard of danger and repetition of such behaviour should be clear enough of why it frustrates me.

Because of this, I cannot give the show a 10/10 even if the rest of it was perfect, which it wasn’t, but it was good.

I know that if there’s anything people dislike about the show, it’s the characters. I found the characters to be fine, the male lead is calm, somewhat difficult to read emotionally, but not boring. The female lead was amazing, she played her role really well in all situations. The side characters were interesting in their own way, but Ari and Woo Joo Young really lacked depth that Yoo Dae Il, Kim Tak or Ki Han Na had.

I don’t want to make this too long, so the final thing I want to say is that, the plot twist at the end of episode fifteen was glorious! They face on Jo Hansol when he saw they captured Go Eun Gang instead of their prostitute was so satisfying to watch! The soundtrack that played during that scene and during the credits was great too, written by the male lead of the show Kang Daniel. At that moment, Jo Hansol really didn’t know what to do anymore, he just didn’t have anywhere to go. Anything he’d do would just lead to his demise.

The final episode was somewhat disappointing, as I had hoped the capture of Jo Hansol had taken a different direction than it did, and not knowing what punishment he and the corrupt former officers faced after trial is wasted potential, as it’s a moment where you can really influence people’s feelings.

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Slowly getting boring

I really love how the series start, so youthful and fun. However it took 90 degree turns at the middle and becoming depressing. The ML and FL relationship is not as cute as before and somehow it’s like watching a different series. I’ll easily give 9/10 for episode 1-12 but the rest really went downhill. Too heavy if you want to watch something light .

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Daeil’s death is so unnecessary! They should just let him live since the series is almost reach the end. And, I hate how they wrote Shin Ari character. She’s selfish and annoying. Always unnecessarily screaming and being mean to daeil. The fact that she didn’t even bother to ask how Kim Tak is doing during their first meeting after a while and still have the audacity to say something selfish like the world only revolves around her. How can she beg to be with him again since every one know abt them so it’ll be embarrassing for her to break up. Definitely a wtf moment watching that scene.

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I wasn´t expecting this drama to heal me but it did

I was having a hard time watching dramas, Like I wasn´t able to find a really good one this days.

And I even thought that my energy to watch them was gone and it was over (I´m being a littler to dramatic over here).

But this drama healed me for real, I watched it like in two days and I was surprised that it was this good, because I was not expecting so much from this. It keet me hooked since the beginning to the end. The characters where all great and have an story to tell, the acting was good also and I didn´t find a dragging point on this drama (Except the music that was kind of random) but overall it was good and enjoyable drama.

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Will never forget how they got me tearing at 2 am because of THAT.

This is not the greatest review, just wanna say it was GOOD and I´m already in love with Kang Daniel.

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Quite nice

I wasn't really dying to watch this drama, but decided to give it a shot since I like Kang Daniel & Chae Soo-bin. I also wanted to see more of Lee Sin-young's acting since he didn't play much of a role in Crash Landing on You.

I generally enjoy watching light-hearted dramas, and Rookie Cops was no exception. The storyline was well-developed in my opinion. It wasn't too draggy and did not pass by too quickly. I thought the acting was pretty nice, but nothing spectacular.

This drama kind of reminded me of Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo, but with some crime/mini-thriller elements to it. The plot was nice but I wish they touched a bit more on the 2 leads' romance. I also think it was a bit unrealistic that the kids would throw themselves into danger so recklessly, which is why I gave a lower score for the story. Overall, a pretty nice drama with nice OSTs.

In summary:
What i liked - it's a feel-good & light-hearted drama
What i disliked - sometimes unrealistic

Star of the show: I don't think anyone was really "star quality" but honourable mentions are Park Sang-hoon (empty package boy Lee Se-hyun) and Kim Kwon (Jo Han-sol).

Rating: 7.5/10

Watch if you like light-hearted dramas.

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Recommended drama so far

Recommended drama so far imo. Im always skip the intro part when i watched kdramas, but not this one. It's so disney like and i love it. I saw few comments saying abt ML acting is too cringey, stiff etc. As his fans and also kdrama lover, i always told myself not to be bias when giving review.

He might not be excellant in his acting yet but it's not that bad either compared to other idol turn actor who have been in several projects but still couldnt grab my attention to watch them. I agree that there are part tht a bit awkward in his acting, but i believe it will be improve when the drama progress. And i saw this in ep 3&4. I love his eyes expression the most. He might need something to work on his acting, but is not tht bad to get overly criticize (positive criticism is welcome since that what a newcomers need the most)

Im looking forward for more character development for the ML since what i saw from ep 1-4 the drama are focusing more on FL character.

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So far, so good ?

First off, I love the intro. Besides being cute, it shows the stark contrast between the 2 lead actors.

The flow of the story is nice and it has a good mix of comedry, drama and suspense. It touches on family life, growing up, etc. I'm loving it so far. Looking for the romance between the 2 leads soon.

As for the cast, Chae soobin has always been one of my favorites. She's a natural. As for Kang Daniel, besides a few awkward moments, he did well for a newbie actor. I feel he's lucky to be paired with CSB for his first drama. And I love their chemistry🥰

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This is a must watch drama!

In this drama there are a lot of plot twists and its enjoyable because of the many stupid and funny moments that happen. I really reccomend you guys to watch this fully. There isn't a bit of the drama whre there is no action. This is an action packed drama with a little bit of sadness in there. I had so much hipe in this drama that it wouldn't get boring and it didnt fail me. I would say there wasnt a specific part i didn't enjoy. I enjoyed every scene i watched. And also if yall are wondering why one of them look so familiar, it's becauee he played in Crash Landing on You...😁

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The cast was excellent in their roles and really brought out the journey of discovery.
The story was well developed with interwoven romance building up to the finale of defeating a psychopath as they battled with hardships and learned some secrets that could've destroyed friendships but didn't let it. The brother's death right at the start j forgot about it until it got brought up again. They learned the true meaning of justice.
It was light and funny with the best friendships between all of them through intersections, the girls together and the boys together
I would love to see more prices with these actors in

However I wished we see the future with them becoming full-fledged cops and now is in the workforce

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