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I'm out of tissues thanks to this show. Unique and imaginative the show manages to tell multiple stories all tied together beautifully.

The emotional moments tug at your heart string, the happy moments always have this little hint of sadness to them that make them hit a bit harder.

I do like that it doesn't push piety or a specific beliefs down the viewer's throat. Instead the only thing that matters is, in the words of bill & ted, to be excellent to each other.

I am removing a few stars however because of the Som-i's subplot. Not only was it unnecessary and made it look like Nak-joon, the devoted husband, was cheating. But there was no set-up for it. She was literally the only one in heaven like that so... why? Just to have a "twist" or mystery in the show? It honestly would have done so much better without her.

Overall though a beautiful show with a unique take on things. Well worth the watch.

I'm going against the grain here. The show is based on the series by the same name, season one is an adaptation of the first book (The keeper of lost causes) by the Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen.

I'm going to be fair and say as an adaptation they were pretty faithful but updated the source material. You have no idea how racist, sexist, all the -ist that book was.

On the other hand just like in the book the detective is an ass just to be an ass. Not a loveable ass, not a smartass, just an ass. In both the book and the show it's everyone around him handing him the evidence on a silver plate... why do we need him again?

My biggest issue however is that the whole plot centers around torture porn. The show toned it down considerably but that's at the very center of this so... yeah, not a fan. I'm glad Netflix decided not to go into the details of the torture like the book did... for chapters and chapters on end... but it's still there and they keep highlighting the detectives internal trauma as well. Because torture porn can be internal torture as well as external.

Think twilight zone only sci-fi. Each episode is a self contained short story last 15 minutes.

Like all short story collections quality varies widely depending on the author, the concept, how it was executed on screen.

Art and animation is varied so it keeps things fresh. More often than not the episodes are winners. Season 4 not withstanding because that... that was sad to see.

The one negative I noted was the heavy reliance on the "sexy" factor, it had a tendency to cheapen some of the better episodes. More so compared to their source material. I get that this is a product and netflix was to make sure it sells but....