there are character driven stories, and plot driven stories.. but this drama made me realize there's a 3rd type "acting driven story"... this show had neither plot nor deep characters... but the acting from everyone (especially from kang joon and his intense eye acting) were fantastic, the ost also was the most "thrilling" part :)

for me personally, it's been a long time since a crime thriller drama grabbed my attention every second of the drama... and here we just had 2 plots, who killed the mom/cut the fingers, plus the whole dragging mess of the ledger and the secret society.. I have to say it's really predictable.. it's not really spoiler to say, the 1st people you'll doubt are the "bad" people, so I don't get how it took them 16eps to finally "uncover" the truth...
honestly, the first 4 eps and the final 2 eps are everything you need...


there are also "good vs bad" dramas and those who don't want to be that simple so they make their "heroes" the bad guys, and here they walked a fine line right in the middle... it way literally walking on the edge that it seemed as if their characters had "dark" qualities just so they are not completely good, but they also didn't want them to be bad...


my rewatch values are a 1 or a 10 so ;)