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Bloodhounds has a solid cast, director, DP and was very cinematic for the first 6 episodes. In episodes 1-6 (inclusive), the writing occasionally made some jumping assumptions buy nothing that broke the continuity for me. Camera work, editor and colorist were really a step up from what I usually find in the K-Drama category. Then the last two episodes show standard fare.

Episodes 7 & 8 felt rushed and uninspired. The impression I was left with was a b-team was assembled to finish-up an alternate ending. (I have no basis for that comment other than opinion spawned from how these episodes came across) These episodes didn't work for me at all.

Warnings - mature audience material: violence, violence against children, suicide, open-mouth eating, drinking, more violence, pulsing lights, mature audiences.

Acting: enjoyable; double popcorn w/butter for the central character.

Script work: exceptional.

Production values: somewhere between good and very good.

Directing: the director is responsible for everything. Props for how everything came together; however, the director is also responsible for editing...

Editing: not without glitches and occasionally bothersome. There were jump-cuts that should not have occurred. Music segues and scene transitions were occasionally jarring. Maybe the series was artlessly recycled from the movie. The director should have made the editor fix these things.

Notes: The talented writers use of misdirection in Mouse kept me second-guessing until the 19th episode. Much was improbable; none of that was unexplained. And plenty of themes to discuss after viewing. A tangled skein that fully needed 16 of its 20 episodes so the writers could address all the times viewers hit the stone wall of improbable action.

My hat is off to the script coordinators, who kept all the threads in sight and without loose ends. They likely wondered why the writers hated them.

Highly recommended if you are not bothered by violence, psychopaths, and/or K-drama eating scenes.

My title says it all. I was hooked after Missing and Season 1, but the second was predictable with uneven production values. Directing and writing for the second was not my cup of tea, either.

What ever they were trying to do with the mixed camera looks and cliché ridden narration was lost on me.

My two cents: watch the first season skip the second.