Thursday, 23 April 2020

[K-Drama Review] You're All Surrounded

You're All Surrounded (2014)






Eun Dae Gu, Uh Soo Sun, Park Tae Il and Ji Gook - otherwise known as the P4 - are the new recruits in the violent crime unit at Gangnam Police Station. These rookies are neither enthusiastic, nor passionate about their new jobs and have joined the crime squad for varying but unbefitting reasons. They are lead by an erratic and hot headed Seo Pan Suk who wants nothing more than to wash his hands of the incompetent new recruits.






Intro
Well I like watching Crime TV shows so I wanted to try a K-Drama that and the cast convinced me to watch this.

Story
This drama started off very well it had great momentum and I really liked the story
and the cast were all great
But sadly after ep 13 it went off the pace terribly, earlier episodes had more distractions from the main plot like them learning being cops, other cases etc...
Main plot felt like it was stretched out from 16 episodes to 20.

Acting / Cast
Very good cast like Lee Seung Gi who I saw previously in My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho, I think he is fantastic. Also Go Ah Ra was great also and the two leads had good chemistry together which definitely helped this drama when it did struggle slightly.

Music

I did like the soundtrack in this one, with some good stand out instrumentals.

Overall
It is a bit sad that this drama had things to make it a legendary drama:
Great cast, good story concept, backstory and soundtrack it had the makings.
For the most part it worked, but this drama got delayed then extended to 20 episodes which in my opinion did not help but it still was decent enough.

My Score : 8/10