Suspicious Partner

After twenty hours of just melting over Chang-wook, I can report that I could have easily melted for another couple dozen hours. But I'm happy to award points to the others as well. His girlfriend is a great, sensible, and incredibly fun main character. Their lovey-dovey groping didn't cease to amuse me towards the end. It's just that I've basically had a weakness for all of them, including the bad guy. I enjoyed the cases, I laughed very hard, and even tears weren’t lacking. You probably don't want to hear about the butterflies in my tummy and how I replayed some scenes over and over. So I'll close with a bit of objectivity and admit that I was bored for about half an hour with one episode. The reason? Not enough Chang-wook. God, what did it do to me this time? 5 stars. (05/13/2019)

After a while, I thought it was time to check out some Korean series again, I was kinda in the mood for it, so I looked to see what's on and Suspicious Partner caught my eye because a lot of people were praising it, and besides it stars Chang-wook Ji. And the beginning was really good. It looked atypical, not like every other romantic-comedy-something in Korea. But then my enthusiasm broke. Maybe it was also because it was pigeonholed into that sort of Korean soap opera standard and the series couldn't impress or excite me with anything anymore. Even the acting performances didn't draw me in, they couldn't break out of the average. Chang-wook may be a joy to look at, but somehow that's not enough to give me much joy in watching. Plus, I simply stopped enjoying the main character – I still have no idea if it was the way the character was written or the actress herself. But I wasn't entertained, I couldn't empathize with anyone because I didn't care about them all. In the end, the most interesting thing to me was our mentally disturbed killer, who dominated intellectually. The series, which certainly doesn't stand out from the pack, has a very fluctuating quality – it has high quality here and there that soon dips below average, but mostly just hovers around average. So it's not outright bad, but if you’re not in it to drool over any of the cast, I don't even have any reason to recommend it. A better 2 stars. (07/15/2017)