All through this drama I kept thinking, "This is the perfect K-drama for my childhood friend Alison. No one smiles, no one cracks a joke, no one is amused by anything, it"s all back-stabbing, revenge melodrama". That"s just the way she likes them. ;)
Whisper Photo Shoot
I"m different though; I need at least a few characters who seem warm, friendly, funny, và admirable. I need someone to lớn root for. There are none here, not even the two leads whom I am crazy about, Lee Bo Young (I Hear Your Voice, God"s Gift: 14 Days) and Lee sang Yoon (Angel Eyes, Liar Game, Twenty Again). In fact, if this show didn"t have these two leads (who had worked together in an older 2012 drama I haven"t seen called My Daughter Seo Young) I would have cleared out after episode one. Heck, episode one even had a sultry bed scene at the end, almost unheard of in K-dramas! I knew I was in for it but I thought I"d keep going out of curiosity, to lớn see if their characters would mellow out và improve. Maybe the Korean people felt the same way because the ratings were very respectable to high for this show, especially in the Seoul area. Are there that many corrupt attorneys and judges in Korea that the Korean populace are that intrigued by them? ;)
FULL OST
This is something different, I justified lớn myself, và I have lớn watch something that dares lớn be different, even if I kết thúc up not liking it all that much. Some episodes were intriguing and interesting, some were over the top, others kind of dragged, but I kept going lớn the end just for Lee Bo Young & Lee sang Yoon. I guess the sophistication of the program kept me coming back for more. This is no bittersweet, thắm thiết I Hear Your Voice, or Angel Eyes, it often felt more like the old movie Dial M For Murder. LOL!
The Story: We begin khổng lồ follow the life of no-nonsense policewoman Shin Young Joo (Lee Bo Young) who is a hard-working section chief police officer passionate about her career. Her father Shin Chang Ho (Kang Shin Il) is also a policeman but he had gotten himself in debt recently và a long time male friend who was a reporter working with him on a secret case had helped him out by temporarily loaning him $30,000. One night while Chang Ho is driving his reporter friend calls him in a panic, saying someone is trying to kill him, & Chang Ho rushes lớn the waterside where his friend had told him he"d been chased, only lớn find his reporter friend dead already in the water with a broken fishing pole plunged into his chest. He cries và screams and tries to hotline the cops but his cell phone slips & falls into the water, just like the victim"s cell phone had done; presumably precious evidence is lost with both cells submerged in water.
Police arrive anyway and quickly arrest Chang Ho for the murder! When Young Joo finds out her father has been arrested for murder she asks what was his motive and the police show her evidence of the money the victim had loaned her father và they suggest her father didn"t want to lớn pay it back và that"s why he killed the man. With apparently no other witnesses to lớn the murder (which we later find out is a bunch of hooey), and her husband in jail, Young Joo"s mother (Hae Sook Kim, who played Lee Bo Young"s mother in I Hear Your Voice, too) is devastated, blaming herself for depositing the money to pay off debts và in the hope Young Joo could use some of it to lớn pay for a wedding someday with a cop she works with who likes her, named Park Hyun Soo (Lee Hyun Jin).
With her family facing terrible legal and financial difficulties, Young Joo has to lớn find the best assistance for her Dad at the lowest cost; he remains locked away in jail on no bond. She is told the judge assigned to lớn her father"s case, Lee Dong Joon (Lee lịch sự Yoon) is the most fair judge available, và that she is lucky lớn have him. "Rest easy", she is told, "He won"t find your father guilty if there is any doubt." Young Joo is reassured.
Although Lee Dong Joon is known lớn be a virtuous judge, và has a willingness khổng lồ help weak, poor people who need legal assistance, he has been receiving pressure from his higher-ups who are disturbed he has ruled against the son-in-law of a Supreme Court Justice, giving him the harshest sentence for embezzlement possible under the law. The Supreme Court Judge vows revenge against Dong Joon and arranges behind the scenes for his removal as a judge because of that verdict.
Dong Joon is told by the head attorney at the highly influential và powerful Taebaek Law Firm, Choi Il Hwan (Kap Soo Kim), that if he rules against Young Joo"s father during trial that he won"t lose his job as a judge, but if he finds the man innocent he will be removed as judge. This once fair judge begins lớn vacillate for the first time. He"s worked really hard his whole life to lớn become a judge. Should he give it up just to save one man? Ah, the moral decision of a lifetime.
What Dong Joon doesn"t know is that Taebaek Law Firm has been majorly corrupted by defense và state department money used to swerve verdicts in many cases so that it would help certain politicians succeed professionally as well as cover up their dirty deeds. Young Joo"s father & the dead reporter had been investigating all this corruption và that"s why they really wanted to lớn get rid of him with a false verdict of murder, lớn put him behind bars permanently so that he could no longer investigate anything. Il Hwan also wants lớn marry Dong Joon off to lớn his flirty daughter Choi Soo Yeon (Park Se Young, Faith, Beautiful Mind) who has an interest in him. He won"t be able khổng lồ placate his daughter if Dong Joon remains virtuous, only if he sells out. What a Dad!
With his job on the line, instead of doing the right thing, this once "fair" judge Dong Joon succumbs lớn corruption himself và brings in a verdict of guilty against Chang Ho, Young Joo"s father, with manufactured "evidence"! Young Joo is devastated and she vows revenge. She comes on khổng lồ Dong Joon, gets him drunk till he"s practically unconscious, and then takes đoạn clip of them in bed together. Now she has something really potent lớn blackmail this once fair judge with.
Soo Yeon Keeps An Eye On Kang Jung Il Another Corrupt Partner In The Taebaek Law Firm Who Wants lớn Destroy Dong Joon .. I Wonder Why?
The next morning when she reveals this evidence to him he is under the gun & has khổng lồ accept her terms: she wants to work for him as his legal secretary so she can keep an eye on him & try lớn get evidence on why he came in with a false verdict against her innocent father. Maybe her Dad"s future appeal can go a different way eventually if she can get necessary dirt on Dong Joon!
Under pressure, figuring he"s already sold his conscience to the devil so what difference does it make anymore, Dong Joon agrees to lớn let Young Joo work for him under a different name (also thinking it"s better khổng lồ keep your enemies close to lớn keep an eye on them, too), & he also goes through with a loveless marriage lớn Soo Yeon, Taebaek Law Firm"s head attorney"s coquettish daughter. She proves to be a wild card since she"s not in love with him & can see him more clearly than he sees himself. Dong Joon also agrees to lớn remain silent about the identity of his new legal secretary; every time he is about to bởi vì something underhanded, or lớn increase his own nguồn as a judge, she threatens him again with the đoạn clip of them in bed together.
Will both Young Joo và Dong Joon ever change for the better and combine forces honorably to lớn uncover corruption at Taebaek, the nation"s largest & most influential law firm? Will they ever discover who actually killed the reporter? Will Dong Joon ever have lớn pay for his false verdict against Young Joo"s father? What happens if that one night stand between them produces a pregnancy? Will they start falling in love with one another whereas once they mistrusted one another và desired revenge against each other? Will this drama ever change from Peyton Place khổng lồ Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm? (If I were you I wouldn"t count on it!). ;) Oh well, enjoy the Eye Candy, if nothing else. I look forward to watching these actors play better characters next time!
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PROPER MINDSETWhat to expect: a festival of backstabbing. Don"t watch it if you despise convenient plot points, because almost every single twist and turn here is exactly this.Imagine a storyboard, an intricate & tensed network of possible outcomes. As the story flows, it forces some lines khổng lồ close down. Some chess pieces are bound on their positions, limiting the movement of others. Some are taken down (destroying evidence is a recurring theme of the first half or so - which, realistically speaking isn"t a wisest move on a characters" part, but it"s necessary for the plot khổng lồ move forward; once a giảm giá is finished, it"s impossible to restore the former status (but hey, there"s a twist on this too!)). The first episode is a gateway of sorts, filtering out the viewers who aren"t for this kind of story (the controversial part is even in the official trailer). A journalist gets killed, his friend framed for it, and a judge known for his integrity blackmailed to lớn announce him guilty. Framed man"s daughter seeks the judge"s help, but feels betrayed in the end và sets him up, trying lớn create a pressure point on him. He ends ups tangled between Taebaek law firm"s all-reaching influences & her blackmail, facing an impossible choice. Sprinkle with hints of latest political scandals from real life and you have a Taebaekgate of your own.WORLDBUILDINGThere are no right choices here. It"s a bleak and ruthless world in which power nguồn overcomes truth and justice can be bought. Everyone important knows each other and sits in Taebaek pocket. The law firm serves as a symbol here: it recruits its employees from the elite lawyers, prosecutors và judges by orchestrating their downfall from behind và generously offering them a place to lớn stay. Then it feeds on their former reputation và abilities. Many people complained that a nhân vật introducted as just & incorruptible breaks so easily và turns shattered & "spineless" during first few eps, but that"s the point. "Whisper" suceeds in creating a sense of encirlement, hopelessness và inevitability.CHESS PIECESCharacters" cunnery manifests in being in right places at right time with right people and smirking knowingly. They"re smart enough lớn forsee one or more moves of the opponent ahead, but it doesn"t mean they don"t lower their guard from time to time. & yes, deadpan and smirk (and furrowed brows…) are dominant expressions, but first, I don"t think it was actors choice, two, there"s much more to lớn it (a honourable mention for Hyung Mook, let"s hope khổng lồ see more of him in the dramas).There"s no clear, progressic character development, only people being poked from different angles và reacting accordingly. In a sense, it"s not about Dong Joon & Yeong Joo substantially changing at all, because those two (especially she) were badass from the start, only their means were limited. For them, it"s about achieving their goals. They come khổng lồ their original point, only stronger and calmer. What changes the most is everyone around them losing their comfort, realising that the rotten world they know so well affects them too, that they too could also fall prey of a betrayal, not just stage it for others, & that people they trust và love won"t always put their good first. All the sense of comradery in crime falls apart.ROMANCE TAGThere"s a love line và it stopped me for some time from even starting this. (Two, actually, but I don"t want khổng lồ completely rob you out of feeling smart & perceptive in a first few eps.) Its existence may or may not feel a little forced. It develops gradually và for the better part of the show consists mainly of male lead spacing out watching female lead being awesome, his gaze tinted with guilt. If you don"t feel like watching a drama with a romance tag, you can safely ignore that for the first 12 episodes or so và pretend they"re just partners with a hostile start, reaching an adorable intimacy later
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