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Article'Two Cops' Hyeri comes under acting controversy in just the first episode... where did her 'Reply' skills go?

Source: Mydaily via NB

1. [+726, -37] She was always bad at acting but she landed a good character with 'Reply' that fit her well. All of her drama ever since have been controversial... Hyeri-ya, you need to learn some shame and stop taking lead roles, yeah??

2. [+649, -28] Hyeri's voice tone and speech pronunciation sound mumble-y and closed. I don't think it's possible to do well with restrictions like that.

3. [+580, -29] She needed to have stopped acting after 'Reply' ã…‹ã…‹

4. [+49, -5] Never seen an idol act worse than Suzy and Seolhyun...;;;;;

5. [+42, -1] This is why we're always saying we need to discover rookie actors who actually went through the process of studying the art. How can you expect quality dramas when you cast idols who earn some fame and immediately stick their names into dramas? Jo Jung Suk has a long year ahead of him, tsk tsk tsk.

6. [+42, -2] With 'Reply', most of Hyeri's co-stars were rookie level so she looked like she was doing well by comparison too. Now that she's paired with Jo Jung Suk, her true skills are being spotlighted.

7. [+39, -0] Ji Sung, Jo Jung Suk... both so well known for their acting and yet they have to suffer failing drama just because of these idols ã… ã… 

8. [+38, -5] All of her acting looks like she's still acting out Duksun

9. [+38, -1] Another drama ruined because of Hyeri. Poor Jo Jung Suk ã… ã… 

10. [+28, -0] Hyeri managed to avoid acting controversies with 'Reply' because her character was basically herself. Her acting itself was never good... she's going to suffer from these controversies for a while now.

11. [+24, -3] Well the scriptwriter for 'Reply' already said that she modeled the character off of Hyeri so it'd be weird if she couldn't pull that off

12. [+19, -2] It must be so frustrating to be her co-star. She was totally stumbling over her lines. If her intention was to get media attention for this drama with an acting controversy, she succeeded so now it's time to cut back on her screentime... It's such a waste of Jo Jung Suk's time ã… ã… 

 

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MBC’s got a new cop drama on the scene, and Two Cops moves at lightning speed when it comes to both action and information. This first episode is mostly backstory, but as setup episodes go, I found it riveting and exciting, and it left me wanting more. Jo Jung-seok is at the top of his game, but I have a feeling that we haven’t seen anything yet.

 

EPISODE 1 RECAP

On a dark night, two men face off with a biker gang, managing to hold their own despite being handcuffed together. During a lull in the fight, one man asks the other, “It’s really not you?†They turn back to the bikers and leap simultaneously into danger.

We go back a few days to see one of the men, CHA DONG-TAK (Jo Jung-seok), paying his respects at a funeral. He says to the son of the deceased that his mother looks kind in her photo, and the man fires back that he’s awfully rude for a detective, since he didn’t remove his shoes.

Detective Dong-tak says calmly that he doesn’t have time to take off his shoes, because he’s here to catch a gangster. Said gangster, YONG-PAL (Lee Shi-un), arrives right on time, and the moment he spots Dong-tak, he takes off like a shot.

 

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Dong-tak chases Yong-pal out of the building, leaping over the hood of a car without missing a step. The driver jumps out and follows, catching up to Dong-tak and introducing himself on the run as DOKKO SUNG-HYUK (Hoya), his new partner. Dong-tak: “Are you my new wife?â€

They pursue Yong-pal into an alleyway, where Sung-hyuk catches up to him first. Yong-pal pulls a knife and begins taking jabs at Sung-hyuk, who barely manages to dodge the weapon. But Dong-tak comes flying at Yong-pal and knocks him down with a kick.

Sung-hyuk pulls a gun, but Dong-tak pushes it away, saying that Yong-pal knows that the first shot out of a detective’s gun is a blank. He deadpans that his fists are better, informing Yong-pal that he knows taekwondo, hapkido, judo, and kendo. Damn.

 

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Yong-pal doesn’t look so confident anymore, but he lunges at Dong-tak, only to find himself on the receiving end of Dong-tak’s lightning-quick fist. He tries again but Dong-tak knocks him to the ground, and a third attempt has Yong-pal landing in a pile of garbage.

Dong-tak takes his knife and hands it to Sung-hyuk, then cuffs Yong-pal. He tells the impressed Sung-hyuk that he’ll take every knife that’s meant for him from here on out, and not to be afraid anymore. Dong-tak says that someone once said that detectives survive if they share the knives headed for them. Sung-hyuk asks who said that, but Dong-tak just mutters, “Someone cool.â€

Back at the station, Dong-tak changes shirts in front of his colleagues (ha, Sung-hyuk eyes his muscles enviously), who complain that he treats the station like his home. After he leaves, another detective, Detective Park, tells Sung-hyuk that Dong-tak has been strange since what happened to his previous partner, and sighs that he probably won’t go home until he catches the culprit.

 

 

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EPISODE 2 RECAP

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Dong-tak tells Ji-an that the hardest thing for a cop is to meet the families of the victims, because they can’t always keep their promises to catch the criminals. He sighs that there’s one criminal he wants to catch more than anyone, because he promised a child he’d catch his daddy’s killer.

He tells Ji-an that if she reveals what she knows, he’ll lose all his leads on his suspect. She seems moved, but remains reluctant to let go of her scoop.

As they walk back to the station, Ji-an is nearly mowed down by a scooter, and Dong-tak pulls her into his arms. She’s a bit stunned by the close contact, but Dong-tak doesn’t even seem to notice. She pushes him away and chides him for not asking if she’s okay, but he just deadpans that he was expecting a thank you.

 

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Ji-an thanks him and asks if her work is truly interfering with his. She promises not to interrupt him so long as he keeps his promise to the victim’s family.

As she’s waiting for her bus, a woman sits next to Ji-an and surreptitiously slices into her purse. Ji-an catches her stealing her wallet and attacks, screaming and wrestling until a man runs over to handcuff the pickpocket. He says she’s under arrest, but LOL, it’s just Su-chang and his female accomplice.

Su-chang looks over at Ji-an, and despite her disheveled state, he goes a little slack-jawed and loses his train of thought. He regains his wits and asks if she’s all right, saying that she should only get surprised three times a day, turning on the charm as he asks if Ji-an knows that she’s pretty when she’s surprised.

 

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He and his accomplice, BONG-SOOK (Im Se-mi), go to a restaurant for lunch. Bong-sook is clearly besotted, grinning at Su-chang as he eats, making him uncomfortable. She asks him to marry her, promising to support them with her sticky fingers, but Su-chang fusses at her for breaking their promise not to steal from the poor, the nice, or the sick.

He takes Ji-an’s wallet, going a little goofy again when he looks at her ID picture. Bong-sook pouts that Ji-an isn’t poor, nice, or sick, and when Su-chang moons that pretty girls are nice, Bong-sook brandishes a childhood photo and crows that Ji-an was an ugly kid.

 

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COMMENTS

Whew, that was a lot of information in just one episode! Just to clarify things, what I understand is that Dong-tak’s partner Hang-joon discovered some internal corruption while investigating the murder of a taxi driver, and was probably killed for it. Then the detectives were ordered not to look any further into Hang-joon’s murder, but Dong-tak feels guilty for not paying attention and letting his partner get killed, so he’s refusing to stop until he finds the killer. Meanwhile, the police superintendent hired a man to frame Su-chang for Hang-joon’s murder, which explains the witness who popped up out of nowhere. But I believe that Su-chang is innocent (of murder anyway), and it will be fun to watch him use his sudden influence as a cop to clear his own name.

 

I particularly like the casting in this drama. Police dramas aren’t my usual wheelhouse, but Jo Jung-seok definitely is, and I found myself really liking Dong-tak despite his grumpy attitude and general unpleasantness. I can’t wait to see him take on the persona of the happy-go-lucky con man Su-chang—just based on the twinkle in his eye in the last few seconds of this episode, I think we’re in for a fun adventure. I’m unfamiliar with Kim Sun-ho as an actor, but I found him engaging and devilishly charming as Su-chang, and I hope that he doesn’t spend the entire show in a coma (or whatever is happening).

And I wasn’t just impressed by the two leads—Hoya’s character seems to be as adorably squishy as I’ve come to expect from him, and surprisingly, I actually like Hyeri as Ji-an. She seems to shine when she plays odd, quirky characters, so Ji-an’s personality appears to fit her perfectly. And I saw enough of a spark of chemistry between her and Jo Jung-seok to have me excited to watch her go head-to-head with him while he’s channeling the irreverent Su-chang. All of the characters feel well-realized and lived-in, and I feel confident that they’ll give us a great show.

I was pleasantly surprised at how much heart there was in the premiere, and I really hope that the tone and feel of this first episode continues. There were these small, beautiful moments among all the chases and fighting, like the scene where Dong-tak promised Hang-joon’s son that he would catch the bad man. I was particularly touched when Su-chang was talking to Hang-joon’s picture and momentarily struggled to keep up his unaffected act, and again when Dong-tak hallucinated his old partner and begged him not to leave him again. Clearly, Hang-joon was a man who touched many lives, and I have a feeling that even though he’s gone, he’ll continue to influence these two men to be better people.

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So, what are we all watching this week?


What kept you reaching for more (or agonizing when there was no more), and what made you want to throw your remote through the screen? Time to weigh in…


 


 


 


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  • Two Cops: Jo Jung-seok is unsurprisingly carrying this, but I think Kim Sun-ho’s con man character has enough to him that the two-souls-one-body trope is going to be fun in a bickering buddy cop sort of way. The romance feels shoehorned in compared to the rest of the story so far, so hopefully they’ll ease off a little and let it develop organically, because there’s no need to force it so early in the show.

 


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With the setup out of the way, it’s time to dive into the meat of our story as our heroes learn to deal with their new situation. It’s quite a shock to find yourself in someone else’s body and living their life, but our charming con man figures out a way to make it work in his favor. But as he sets out to clear his name, he forgets to ask something very important—what happened to the original owner of his new body?

 

 

 

EPISODE 3 RECAP

 

 

 

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In a hospital bed, Dong-tak’s eyes open, and he sits up grumbling, “I almost died because of that damn detective, Cha Dong-tak.†A nurse enters the room (cameo by Park Jin-ju), and he wonders to himself why she’s calling him Cha Dong-tak, when he’s Gong Su-chang.

 

He gets up to look for his clothes, but when he catches a glimpse of himself in a mirror, he lets out a bloodcurdling screech. After bouncing off the wall several times, Su-chang stares at his reflection in horror and asks the nurse why he’s in that bastard’s body (I’ll be referring to the character by the soul’s name, so when Su-chang is in Dong-tak’s body, I’ll call him Su-chang).

 

She says condescendingly that he’ll be fine soon, and when she calls him by Dong-tak’s name again, he stammers that this is not his body. He figures out that his soul must have been transferred to Dong-tak’s body somehow, but when he suggests this to the nurse, she calls him crazy.

 

 

 

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He gets upset, and his voice goes shrill as he protests that he’s not crazy, and he really is in the wrong body. He closes his eyes, then starts to fling his upper body around, trying to throw his soul out of Dong-tak’s body. LOL!

 

When it doesn’t work, Su-chang jumps back into the hospital bed, but he remains unsuccessful at evicting his own soul. It suddenly occurs to him to wonder where his own body is, and it takes him a few tries to make the nurse understand that he’s asking about Su-chang’s body.

 

She tells Su-chang that the man who came here with him is still unconscious and in intensive care. He works himself into a frenzy as he goes to see his body, and he doesn’t hear reporter Ji-an calling to him, since she’s calling to Detective Cha.

 

 

 

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She catches up to him and gapes when he bites her head off for talking to him. She follows him into the elevator and says he looks better than she expected, making him wonder why this total stranger is saying he looks fine when he’s far from fine.

 

Su-chang takes a second look at Ji-an and asks if they’ve met before, thinking that she looks familiar. Since she believes she’s talking to Dong-tak, she guesses that he must have hit his head. Su-chang suddenly seems to remember her, but he only asks if she’s a doctor.

 

He runs off when the elevator door opens, and he finds his body lying in a coma in intensive care. The sight hammers home the reality of his situation, and he fights to breathe, then tries again to shake his soul out of Dong-tak’s body.

 

 

 

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HAHA, he looks like he’s angry-bowing, and when the nurse comes in, she tells him sweetly that he needs to leave because too much stimuli could kill the patient. Su-chang asks if his body could be in this condition permanently, and the nurse’s hesitation confirms his worst fears.

 

The nurse, whose name is DA-JUNG, just happens to know Ji-an. Ji-an tells her that Dong-tak was in an accident and doesn’t seem to know her now. She thinks it’s all an act, an elaborate plan to avoid her.

 

Da-jung sighs that at least he’s doing better than the guy who came in with him. She tells Ji-an that they say that patients in a coma have “gone on a picnic,†as if their souls are roaming around without their bodies.

 

 

 

 

 

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At this point I’m pretty convinced that Jo Jung-seok is an acting (not to mention action, because how awesome are these fight scenes?) genius. How does he manage to mimic Su-chang’s expressions, mannerisms, and even vocal inflections so perfectly? I was worried that it would be difficult at first to figure out which soul is in Dong-tak’s body, but it only took a minute before I could almost literally see Su-chang in Dong-tak’s face. I’m also glad to see that Su-chang’s comatose state doesn’t mean that we’ll never see him as himself, since it appears as though his possession of Dong-tak’s body won’t be a permanent condition.

 

I was actually happy that when Dong-tak hit his head and Su-chang was evicted, his soul still hung around, and that Dong-tak can apparently hear him (I’m hopeful that he can see him, too). It would be great if they can still interact with each other when Su-chang isn’t in control. Maybe they can come to some body-sharing agreement, because I really liked the foreshadowing of their bromance when Hang-joon said that he wanted to introduce them.

 

 

 

Watching Su-chang trying to integrate into Dong-tak’s life cracked me right up, because he’s so awkward and clumsy whenever he attempts to behave like a cop. I live for the moments when he forgets himself and starts ranting about how stupid the whole situation is, and it’s just lucky he can blame the accident for “Dong-tak’s†odd behavior. I think he’ll eventually learn how to better pass as a detective, but I do hope he doesn’t lose his quirky sense of justice, because it’s my favorite thing about him.

 

 

 

 

 

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I appreciate that the first hour was all about Dong-tak, then in this second hour, we got to learn more about Su-chang. He’s charming and glib, but it seems to cover up a pretty sad past, from what I can tell. He’s mentioned growing up in an orphanage, probably orphaned by the accident he saw in his flashback, and I have a feeling that he uses his brilliant mind to scam people not because he wants to, but because he doesn’t have any other choice. He does have a code of honor, of a sort, and although he’s a total flirt, we haven’t seen him be truly disrespectful to a woman. In fact, I was more bothered by Ji-an threatening to file a fake sexual harassment complaint to get a good story than anything Su-chang has done. I found it disingenuous of her to vilify swindlers, then pretty much swindle “Dong-tak†into giving her information.

 

I’m actually looking forward to getting to know Su-chang even more than Dong-tak at this point, because Dong-tak seems very straightforward, personality-wise. But something Hang-joon said in the premiere keeps popping up in my brain: that he wanted Su-chang to meet Dong-tak because they’re very alike. They don’t seem so at this point, not even taking into account how Dong-tak was before Hang-joon’s death. I’m wondering if they come from similar backgrounds but took different paths in life, making them similar not in personality, but in circumstances. Regardless, I’m anxious to see them interact more, and I’m happy that the story seems to be providing a way for that to happen. They had great chemistry in the little time we saw them together, and it would be a damn shame if we didn’t get to see a lot more of it.

 

 

 

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I haven’t had this much fun watching a police drama in… well, ever. The action is tight, the characters are engaging, and I actually care about the mystery they’re trying to solve. I love the reluctant partnership forming between our grumpy detective and his soul-bound sidekick—with Dong-tak as the brawn and Su-chang as the brain, I have confidence they can take on anything.

 

 

EPISODE 5 RECAP

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Detective Dong-tak hides when he realizes the killer has crept inside the police station, and makes the first move. He tries to fight off his attacker, but they’re pretty evenly matched. Con man Su-chang’s soul is also there, and he desperately tries to pick up something to throw at the killer, but his hands go right through everything.

The killer manages to get Dong-tak on his back, and aims his knife at Dong-tak’s heart. Su-chang tries to grab a nearby bookcase and push it over, but again, he can’t even touch it.

As Su-chang grows more frantic, suddenly his hands are able to grip the bookcase. He screams at Dong-tak to move, and miraculously, Dong-tak hears him. He rolls out from under the killer just as Su-chang pushes the bookcase over.

 

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The fight resumes, and this time, Dong-tak pins the killer to the floor. Reporter Ji-an walks into the office just then, distracting Dong-tak for only a second, but it’s enough for the killer to push him off.

The killer runs out, bumping into Ji-an on the way and dropping something on the floor before getting on his motorcycle and speeding away. Dong-tak jumps into his car, joined by Ji-an, and they peel out after the killer.

Dong-tak hits the gas, weaving through traffic to keep up with the motorcycle. But suddenly the car is surrounded by a motorcycle gang, the same one that Dong-tak and Su-chang fought on the night of their accident. The gang starts smashing the windows just as Dong-tak realizes that his brakes don’t work.

 

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Dong-tak swerves past a street barrier and into an alley, losing the gang, only to find himself careening towards a construction vehicle. At the last second, Dong-tak yanks the wheel and pulls the parking brake, slamming the car into a pile of dirt and stopping just inches before being impaled by steel pipes.

The gang drives away, and Dong-tak and Ji-an sit stunned for a moment. Then Ji-an realizes that Dong-tak has an arm thrown across her chest, with his hand right on her breast, ha. He yanks his hand back, and Ji-an launches into a fear-driven tirade.

She stops when she sees the cut on Dong-tak’s forehead, and she finds a bandage to put on it. He deadpans that he’ll arrest her if she doesn’t have a license to practice medicine, earning a retaliatory poke on his cut.

 

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Ji-an asks if the helmeted attacker really killed his old partner Hang-joon. Dong-tak says he’s not sure, since detectives earn a lot of enemies. He adds that he thinks the motorcycle gang is more dangerous, and that he’s become their target for some reason. Ji-an wonders if the gang is sending him a warning, but Dong-tak has fallen fast asleep.

Left behind, Su-chang wonders who attacked Dong-tak. He thinks about how he was able to push the bookcase over, and hilariously concludes that he must have superpowers. He tries to kick over a can on the ground with flair, but just ends up falling on his butt.

On the drive back, Dong-tak looks at the now-sleeping Ji-an, marveling at how brave she is, though he chides her for being brave without a plan. He reaches up to push her bangs off her face, pulling back when she rouses a bit. He sighs and closes his eyes, and HA, we belatedly see that they’re being towed.

 

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Well, I’m confused. But I mean that in a good way! I wasn’t expecting to discover the identity of Hang-joon’s killer so quickly, but I wonder if Su-chang knows something, because it certainly looks like Doo-shik is Hang-joon’s murderer. Either way, I like how this seems to point to the story going somewhere other than simply “catch the killer,†and that makes me excited to see what else the show has in store. I have a feeling that Hang-joon’s murder and the reasons for it go very deep, and that Dong-tak and Su-chang will unearth something very dark and dangerous before they’re done. It obviously all started when Hang-joon kept digging into the case of the taxi driver’s supposed suicide after being told to drop it, and he probably got too close to whatever caused the driver to be disposed of. I’m very curious to learn who is killing anyone who knows anything about this secret, and why.

 

Okay, so Dong-tak can hear Su-chang, but he can’t see him. That’s pretty interesting, and should make for some fun hijinks as well as some creative solutions when it’s time for them to work together. Aside from being highly amusing, I thought it felt very realistic the way Dong-tak resisted the idea that he’s basically being haunted by Su-chang’s soul, because sometimes I think that the characters in supernatural dramas accept their strange situations a bit too easily. It makes more sense for Dong-tak to assume he’s sick or injured, than that he’s really been possessed by the spirit of a comatose swindler. And it’s very in-character for him to resist the supernatural explanation as long as possible, but also to accept it when he realizes that he needs Su-chang’s help.

What I’m really interested in is what happens to Dong-tak when Su-chang is in control of his body? And what did Miss Bong mean when she said they came back to the starting point of their fate? I’m guessing that one of them is the boy from Su-chang’s memories, the one in the accident, and the other is the boy who rescued him (logic says that Su-chang is the younger boy, but I’m assuming nothing). And clearly, Dong-tak’s pendant means something, because he got evasive when Su-chang mentioned it. I’m not generally a huge fan of the “fated because they met as children†trope, but in this case it’s interesting because it’s not a love fate, but seems to be a situation where one owes the other, and Fate is trying to balance the scale. So what happened to them as children that linked them somehow, and what do they need to do to close their circle?

So far I’m really feeling confident that Two Cops will remain excellent throughout its run—the acting is fantastic, the cinematography is interesting without being a distraction, and the story is compelling and unpredictable. I particularly appreciate the balance of seriousness and humor, and the way they’re interwoven so that we get both in the same scene without the humor feeling jarring or shoehorned in. The scene where Dong-tak touched Ji-an’s hair is a perfect example—just as I got worried about how he was driving while staring at her, the camera pulled back to show us that in fact, the car was being towed. There are lots of little touches like that that add a bit of humor without going over the top, like Yong-pal giving Dong-tak a coffee before he left. These moments are funny enough to give me a chuckle, while still feeling subtle and natural to the show.

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Our grumpy detective finds himself chasing a mystery that grows deeper every time he thinks he’s getting close to the answer. The last thing he wants right now is more entanglements, but he can’t avoid them as he’s forced to turn to unexpected sources for help. Meanwhile a certain spirit tries to figure out why he’s in this strange situation in the first place, which leads him to an upsetting revelation.

 

 

 

EPISODE 7 RECAP

 

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Detective Dong-tak drives back to the station after arresting suspected murderer Doo-shik, muttering that now he’s seeing things, having thought he actually saw Su-chang for just an instant. Su-chang won’t stay quiet, and Dong-tak threatens to call an exorcist.

 

Su-chang repeats that Doo-shik isn’t the real killer, insisting he saw the real killer’s face. Although he’s reluctantly thankful for Su-chang’s help, Dong-tak says that Doo-shik is the real culprit because he confessed.

 

Su-chang argues that Dong-tak just doesn’t know what a massive idiot Doo-shik is, which he learned when they lived in the same orphanage—but he stops himself. He accuses Dong-tak of trusting Doo-shik more than him.

 

 

 

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Ji-an heads to the police station armed with bags of snacks. Her plan is to get more information about Hang-joon’s murder case, but she’s not very confident that buttering up Dong-tak with food will work.

 

While Su-chang sulks, Dong-tak asks why he wants to possess his body so badly. Su-chang grumbles that there’s something he needs to do, recalling the memory of the young boy tearfully begging the older boy to keep his promise to prove his father’s innocence.

 

He tells Dong-tak again that he can help him catch the real culprit. He adds that they might be destined to be partners, which reminds Dong-tak of Miss Bong saying that he’ll find an amazing partner soon.

 

 

 

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She’d said that the only way for them to live is to stick together like one body, and Dong-tak wonders if a con man’s spirit in a detective’s body makes any sense. Su-chang says that it does when they both gain something from it.

 

The cops pull up to the station just as Ji-an arrives, and she asks Sung-hyuk what’s going on. He tells her they caught the killer, making her eyes light up.

 

Su-chang continues to badger Dong-tak as they near the station, and has to tell Dong-tak which way to face to talk to him, again. Dong-tak tells Su-chang to bring him proof that Doo-shik isn’t the killer, and by Su-chang’s silence, he can tell that he doesn’t have anything.

 

 

 

===Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/12/two-cops-episodes-7-8/

 

 

 

 

 

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He’s back! As much as I love the potential bromance brewing between Su-chang and Dong-tak, seeing Jo Jung-seok as Su-chang in Dong-tak’s body is hilarious, and I missed that this week. It’s good timing as well, because Su-chang is going to need some time to cool down after learning that Dong-tak is the person he blames for ruining his life. I really appreciate the smooth way that Su-chang’s background has been revealed to us, both through little offhand comments he’s made and his flashbacks. It’s difficult for a show to deal out information slowly without being confusing, but in this case, we get exactly what we need to know, exactly when we need to know it. There are so many tiny clues and details that lead to some interesting theories, like, why did Dong-tak’s scar hurt when he thought of little Su-chang? Is this whole situation orchestrated by Hang-joon, who didn’t get to introduce Dong-tak and Su-chang in life, so he’s making sure they meet now?

 

The love triangle is really bizarre in this show, but I’m finding it a fun kind of bizarre. Watching Su-chang flirt with Ji-an (both in Dong-tak’s body and in spirit form) is adorable, because he’s so unabashedly besotted, and it’s fun to see someone just put their feelings right out there.

 

 

 

On the other hand, Dong-tak’s quiet, seething jealousy is also entertaining, because he knows it’s ridiculous to be jealous of a spirit, especially when Ji-an thinks that spirit is him anyway, but he can’t help himself. I have a feeling that half of Dong-tak’s reluctance to let Su-chang use his body again is because he doesn’t want him romancing Ji-an.

 

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I really like that we’re getting to see the other sides of both Su-chang and Dong-tak’s personalities. Su-chang isn’t all jokes and fun—he also has a darker side, one nurtured by his traumatic past and what he’s always considered a huge betrayal. It’s already getting in his way, because he’s in the habit of doing everything alone, so he’s not being honest with Dong-tak about why he needs to use his body. He’s forgetting that Miss Bong specifically said that he and Dong-tak need to work together, and until they can learn to trust and rely on each other, they’re not going to get anywhere.

 

Meanwhile, Dong-tak turns out to have a mischievous streak and a rather wicked sense of humor, which he’s starting to rediscover around Ji-an. The way he made her swoon by tying her shoelaces, only for her to find out he tied them together, had me whooping with laughter, because even though he seems so straightlaced and serious, it somehow feels very in-character for him to play evil practical jokes on people he likes. I can’t wait to see more of that side of him, and I can see now why Hang-joon thought that Dong-tak and Su-chang would like each other. I find it very interesting that Su-chang dreamed of being a detective but feels his life was ruined by Dong-tak, while Dong-tak was a delinquent until he met someone who changed his life for the better.

 

If it’s not Hang-joon pulling the strings, then I think that the reason Su-chang and Dong-tak are linked by Fate is that everything is connected, from Hang-joon’s murder all the way back to Su-chang’s accident. At least I really hope so, because I like the idea of using the old “met as children†trope to explain why things are happening the way it is now. I wonder if Ji-an is also connected to the two guys somehow, since all three of them appear to have lost their families at young ages, or if that’s just something that makes them kindred souls. Either way, I’m really enjoying the backstory of the two guys, and I can’t wait to learn why little Su-chang asked Dong-tak for help, and why he feels betrayed.

 

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Team Dramabeans: What we’re watching??

 

 

So, what are we all watching this week? What kept you reaching for more (or agonizing when there was no more), and what made you want to throw your remote through the screen? Time to weigh in…

 

 

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  • Two Cops: Sometimes this drama feels manic, like it’s trying to tell too many storylines at the same time. It’s still worth watching for Jo Jung-seok, because he’s hilarious, and I do like that the big fated pairing in the drama is between the two boys. I just wish the romance had some logical development that I could see with my own two eyes, because I feel like they skipped the part where they explain why they like Hyeri, other than that she’s pretty and around them all the time.

 

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  • love changed the title to MBC Drama "TWO COPS" Jo Jung Suk & Hyeri. *~The END~*

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