She Knows Everything

Jo Han Sun plays a detective who investigates a murder in an apartment complex. A real estate agent lady who knows a lot is the main female character. It is fairly entertaining as you see the suspicions shift and hidden secrets revealed. It's hard to follow all the twists and characters. But even though I concentrated I think I only got about 75% of what happened. This 4 hour series maybe could have done with 5 to properly explain everything. The twists are quite unexpected if slightly improbable at times. The ending felt a bit incomplete.

I liked this k-drama very much. I think it should have had more episodes. It has excellent actors and an excellent argument/story-line, why does it have only 4 episodes??? How sad. Furthermore, there's a supporting character that was portrayed as inocent at the end, when actually wasn't...

" She knows Everything " was a pretty suspencefull drama.

The four episodes length did not limit the story that was presented in such a manner so that it fited in the length perfectly. The story itself was suspencefull, full of twists, thrilling action scenes and intrigues, as every character was not whom he seemed at the begining of the drama. The main case was also interesting and twisty. However, the two main characters were annoying at times.

Still, the family drama was intense, the performances pretty great and the atmosphere just perfect for this drama.

So, overall, eight out of ten.

If this mini-series were a Beatles song, it would be "Everybody's Got Something to Hide 'Cept for Me and My Monkey."

This reminds me of "Macbeth," in that everybody's guilty of something and/or cynical or too self-absorbed to realize their actions are criminal. One of the least blame-worthy characters even commits a crime to protect someone she thinks is innocent, and she does not think she's a good person.

This uses a lot of fragmentation of time to tell the story of two violent crimes in a non-linear way. If you don't know Korean*, some of the nuance may be lost in translation and result in confusion, but there's a great degree of intrinsic confusion to the narrative, I think it's worth watching several times just to see where I missed clues the time before, and also because it's a lovely bit of storytelling.

The lead character, tough, whip smart Miss Lee (the "She" in the Englist title, and "Miss Lee" in the Korean title), is played by Kang Sung-Yeon. The last thing i saw her in, she played an insufferably virtuous damsel in distress, and that character really got on my nerves, so it was refreshing to see her play a well fleshed out complicated human being. All the characters are that well written.

*I don't *know* Korean, but I've picked up enough to recognize words like "bro (hyung)" and "sis (unni)" which can indicate literal older sibling of yhe same sex or pal whom the speaker regards as an older sibling. Neither one is translated as bro or sis in the English subtitles, but as "you" or the person's name, thus depriving a non-Korean speaker of some clues.