Brain Works

Yep! Korean drama recommended by my friend and in the mystery and comedy genre. The drama written by Park Kyung Soon was released earlier this year totaling 16 episodes, with an average duration of each episode of 70 minutes. According to Nielsen Korea quoted from MyDramaList ("Brain Works" and "Trolley" Get Steady Ratings - MyDramaList) Brain Woeks received a rating of 4.4%. This drama can be watched on the official VIU platform.

Interpretation

Shin Ha Roo (Jung Yonng-Hwa) is a neurologist who is very famous in Korea as a very genius doctor. In addition, he also has a handsome and confident face. Since doing research at a company called Brain Lab, Shin Ha Roo wants to develop a big project called Rebuilding the Psychopath's Brain. Because of his confidence in the planned project, Ha Roo then faked a brain donor by a psychopath who was sentenced to death. Because of this fatal incident, Ha Roo was finally dismissed from the company and joined the police in the Neuroscience Investigation Team.

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Interestingly, in this Neuroscience Investigation Team, the high-hearted Ha Roo must be a team with Geum Myong-Se (Cha Tae Hyun) whose nature is 360 degrees opposite to him.

Evaluation

"just skip some of part if there are scenes that can be discarded or you feel bored," my friend said in an online chat. And strangely enough, there wasn't a single part or episode that I skipped. Everything was interesting. Not wordy and on point. Although there are not many Korean dramas with the mystery genre that I watch, I can say that Brain Works is a character building between characters that although slow but cool and successful. Another bonus for me, as the title suggests, all the stories of each episode are about brain performance, which then clearly refers to a person's mentality: the perpetrator's mentality or the victim's mentality, as well as witnesses. I got to know how detectives and legal experts work, processing a case before it is handed over to the prosecutor and goes to trial. I was also very interested in the details of how to explain cases of neurological diseases (although there were many medical terms that I didn't know, but I enjoyed it).

Summary

It is true that Brain Works is underatted, however, I still recommend this drama to watch. This drama is categorized as 15+, probably because there are many scenes about violence, so it is not recommended for children to watch.

I'm a sucker for Crime shows and I enjoy watching the use of Scientific procedures in investigations. When I saw that this Kdrama, Brain Works, has a storyline that points to the partnership of a Hypnotic Investigator, a Detective and a Neuroscientist, I immediately thought it will be a captivating story to watch.

The mere thought of the kinda criminal cases that will warrant the formation of this kinda Investigation team made me have high expectations for what this show will bring to the table. As it stands, I've seen everything there is to see about this show.

Take a guess... Was I satisfied with the quality of this show?

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Drama: Brain Works

Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Drama

Network: KBS2

Episodes: 16

Release Date: Jan 2 - Feb 28, 2023

Out of all the netizens I came across on AsianWiki, not even a single person said anything negative about this show. Now, I'm going to be the black sheep and I can't help it because I really can't recommend this show to anyone, except an enemy. Haha.

On a serious note, I believe the synopsis I read before adding this to my watchlist made me raise the bar so high. And, I was very patient with them. I watched each episode with the hope that the show will get really good, but that didn't happen. Watching till the end was something I had to do as a way to give the production crew the benefit of the doubt, yet I wasn't impressed.

Comedy happens to be one of the genre of this show and 'the Detective' was built as the comedic figure in the show.

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His character arc is flat and I couldn't care less about that, but every freaking time he says or does something close to 'being funny' he follows that up with a really weird and loud laughter. I dunno about others, but I prefer when characters say or do funny things and allow the viewers to do the laughing.

When a character breathes and follows that up with a laugh, the character is already stealing the laughter from viewers. It's as if he's forcing viewers to find things funny. That was such a sore sight to witness. Sadly, he is one of the major characters. That means loads of screen time. His screenplay was the most boring side of the show, as far as I'm concerned.

The best bit of the show that I enjoyed is the character arc of The Hypnotic Investigator.

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She was introduced in the first two episodes as a highly agreeable character with very low self-esteem and self-worth. She was highly ranked in the Police force, but she always got nitpicked unnecessarily by her superior. She had an accident in the third episode that messed up her frontal lobe. And that gave birth to a polar opposite behaviour from her.

She changed her dress code, her manner of speaking, and her level of disagreeableness skyrocketed. I enjoyed every bit of her for the rest of the show. Her character development is quite adorable.

If I'm to rate this Kdrama, 5.5/10 would be the most generous rating I can give them. It is too poor for a 2023 Kdrama.

I saw some fans who are already asking for a second season. Lolz. The 16 episodes we got in the first season are already too much. I can't even imagine myself looking for another season of this show. No way!

Thanks For Not Missing Any Full-stop Or Comma _{All images are taken from Dramaload}

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