The Game : Towards Zero

 Assalamualaikum, good day everyone ! How was your Ramadan so far ? I am working towards my goal quite... sluggish, so... I am hoping for a better me ! Here in my place had been raining ever since the first Ramadan so it is a little cloudy and the day had been on slow-motion for me. Enough of that, this entry is another of many k-drama reviews. And finally, I watched a drama from this year ! Yeay for me !

Title  : The Game:Towards Zero / The Game:Towards Midnight 

Episodes : 32, 30minutes per eps

Genre : Crime

Writer : Lee Ji Hyo

Network : MBC

Cast : Ok Taecyeon, Lee Yeon Hee, Im Joo Hwan

Plot :

Kim Tae Pyung had the ability to see the exact moment of someone's death when he looked into the person's eyes. He lives with Teacher Baek, who used to have the same ability as him. They were known to the financial and political world. A case of kidnapping brought him to Detective Seo Joon Young and for the first time, he couldn't see her death. They begun to solve the case together.

This is the first appearance of Ok Taecyeon after discharge from the military service.

SPOILER ALERT

I have been so excited for this drama because of the trailer that I watched and also because of the plot. It seems like it had a great story line and plot. And, I don't regret watching this drama. It is great on its own. I don't understand how can this drama had a low rating.

Unlike other crime drama, this drama had disclosed the suspect right from the first episode, if you could read between the lines, it was easy to point him out. And that fact alone, had me hooked. And also the ability that Kim Tae Pyung posses definitely got me wondering would his prediction be right or not. And unlike all other crime dramas that I had watched, this drama focus solely on one case which was the case of Killer of Midnight Copycat, a case from 20 years ago. So, there was a lot of things were revealed while investigating this copycat case.

There wasn't much major plot twist that had me blown but all the twist here and there keep the plot interesting and going strong. The thing of this drama was the criminal had me sided with him for quite number of times. Is that a good thing ?  My point was I keep on switching side between the detectives team and the criminal which had never ever happened.

The chemistry between Lee Yeon Hee and Taecyeon was great. Maybe it is because this is the second time they worked together. Their romance aren't a lot of cheesy scenes which is a good thing for me (cheesy is good but don't take too much, yea) However, their chemistry was overshadowed by Im Joo Hwan's acting. Personally, I think he is the lead male. I love his emotion, his firmness, his coldness, basically everything of him in this drama. I don't think I have watched his work (I have a very rusty memory so pardon me if I'm wrong) before but he is definitely one of the excellent actors out there !

Even though this drama was labelled as crime-related drama, there was nothing heavy. Or maybe it was just me. Anyway, the mood of this drama were just mild tense, a little humor and there and a little romance here and there. The ending of this drama was a bit disappointment for me because I wanted Tae Pyung's prediction to come truth but it would be a sad sad sad ending for everyone, whoops, I hope I'm not spoiling too much.  However, my level of disappointment and satisfaction was almost equal because I kind of  expect the ending. So, it was not much disappointment either.

Life is about worrying over things that didn't happen and trying your hardest to not let such things happen. Everyone else lives like that too. - Mr. Baek

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-thes