Awaken - Netflix Series

Awaken (2020)ㅣK-Drama Trailerㅣ2
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A semi-goofball Korean show about a special team of cops investigating a series of apparent suicides. Problem is the deaths are predicted by cryptic letters delivered to a sensationalist TV news reporter. The team of young adults (they look like high school kids) are led by a seasoned veteran detective. The old cop has got some sort of mysterious back story which is somehow entwined with the FBI consultant that joins their team. Cute girls, plenty of mystery and plenty of the staples of your generic Korean cop shows, like they always sending four cops in a new car to investigate a crime scene, plenty of scenes of driving down modern super highways, lots of people slurping their noodles.

The deaths are kind of odd, but I suspect they are going to be blamed on some kind of high-tech brain washing program being run by some corrupt, high level dude.

P. S. The show is a little uneven. Some things they do very well, and sometimes they just drop the ball. Some of the characters don't make much sense. It's kind of like the writers were just making stuff up as they went along, and then a couple of episodes later they got new writers who completely changed the story.

P. P. S. This show deals with some very nasty villains, so there is some food for thought in there. The production values are uneven, plenty of foolish 'dramatic' scenes. I guess we don't really want to think too deeply about any of this, let's focus on the emotions of the moment.