It’s only four episodes long but Naked Fireman is a decently written mystery that deserves four hours of your time. When ex-convict Oh Sung-Jin informs his childhood friend, Kang Cheol-Soo, that he could make a tremendous amount of money posing nude for a young female artist, Cheol-Soo quickly turns him down. Although the promise of a … Continue reading Naked Fireman
Imagine someone invents a pill that is capable of wiping out all your rotten memories, will you take one? Wrap your head around this… “Memories make us take responsibility and memories serve justice. No matter how torturous, brutal, or awful our memories are they’re who we are.” That’s a quote from the new science fiction … Continue reading Circle: Two Worlds Connected
The biggest mystery in the Kdrama Queen of Mystery is: where did the ending go? Ten minutes before the end of episode 16 I thought, “If they don’t hurry, this show’s going to have one of those abrupt endings I hate.” Well, I was wrong. They didn’t hurry and, surprisingly, the ending wasn’t abrupt… because it wasn’t … Continue reading Queen of Mystery
It took about four hours for me to become completely immersed in Chicago Typewriter but by the time the fifth episode was over I was not only hooked but emotionally involved as well. Yes, I even had to fight off a rather large lump in my throat by the end of the show. The Plot A … Continue reading Chicago Typewriter
Tunnel. Not since Nine: Nine Times Time Travel have I enjoyed a time travel drama so much. Tomorrow With You was very good but lacked the nail-biting suspense held by the other two. We get to watch, sitting on the edge of our seat, as Detective Park Kwang-Ho chases a serial killer suspect 30 years into … Continue reading Tunnel
Dr. Frost. Sounds like the bad guy in a kids’ cartoon, doesn’t it? Well, it’s actually a ten hour/episode Kdrama about a university psychologist who often helps the police with their crime investigations. Some of the cases link together, connecting into the sub-plot which spans four episodes (not all in consecutive order) while others begin … Continue reading Dr. Frost
On March 7, 2015 Japan released the first part of a two part suspense-mystery film based on the novel Solomon’s Perjury by author Miyuki Myiabe. Now, Korea’s turned that same book into a 12 episode Kdrama using the same name. If you enjoy mysteries this one needs to go on your “Kdramas I need to watch” … Continue reading Solomon’s Perjury
