Funny (rookie) cops

I love the first episode and move on to the second. I'm watching this alongside Signal (tvN, 2016) which is more on the serious side, so I find these first episodes of You're all Surrounded funny and very entertaining. I can feel how frustrated Detective Seo was when his rookies (all four of them!) were 'caught' by other detectives (who had no idea who they were). Cha Seung Won is great, as always.
And I felt like giving Dae Gu a slap or two when he stated facts to the crazy drunken girl at the club. Yeah dude, I know you're smart and knowledgeable, but that's not the place to show it all off! If you're that smart, you should know that you need to look out for your 'idiotic' partner (as he said to the person on the phone) and the other two.

Overall it's an entertaining and interesting 2nd episode. Will go on to watch ep. 3 and 4, and hopefully still be entertained until the very end.

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From promising to boring!

Holy cow! Things took a turn, a turn to Boredom Ville. What's worse is that Eun Dae Gu/Kim Ji Yong is the mayor of Boredom Ville. Don't get me wrong I completely understand that Eun Dae Gu is supposed to be a completely different man from the boy Kim Ji Yong. I get that. But he's so uncompelling at this point. Lee is a big draw for the drama, I feel like they could have made him mysterious while making him interesting. You know witty and boyish charm are huge Lee draws. Not to mention when he smiles. At this point he doesn't even talk much let alone show much emotion, so smiling is clearly off the table.

Even the small hints of Eun Dae Gu setting up surveillance on Seo Pan Seok and the hint that he might be working with someone to find out what happened to his mother wasn't enough to stir things up. Overall the episode was a dud, and while it did try to flesh out the other characters it just annoyed me. Eo Soo Sun so far is not showing promises of being a kickass Detective. She's already vomited and done some pretty annoying (AKA sexist stereotypes) to highlight why a woman shouldn't have the job. There is one strong female lead that has some promise, Kim Sa Kyeong, but they're only teasing viewers with her right now. The other two rookie detectives are underwhelming. Ones rich and doing this as a past time, and is quite the ladies man. The other is a crazy oversensitive guy . . . and annoying. Seo Pan Seok already exhausted his charms by repeatedly scolding and giving the rookies a hard time. No really, there are only so many times viewers can watch Seo Pan Seok tell the rookies to give up and go away.

Hopefully things shape up. Despite myself I will push on. However, if things don't take a turn for the better this will probably be a series I don't finish.

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