I would say that for a show that's not for children (I heard it's really rated 17+) - I'm glad we don't have torture scenes. Personally, I can handle the gore in movies like Naked Weapon (which for me was sub-par) or Dragon Squad (which thankfully didn't put the ear mutilation part on close) but I just don't like extremely focused torture scenes such as mutilation and flaying. Why do you think I haven't reviewed Killers here? The amount of blood here is tolerable like in the Darkman movie. We know organ harvesting is going on. Thankfully, we don't see the children opened up. Instead, we see criminals getting shot and most torture they do happens off-screen. That's what I call moderated violence. The show knows how to balance violence and plot. More plot, less violence.
Kim So Hyun (the main character) is a veterinarian who turns out to be a vigilante. Meanwhile, Do Hyun Jin (whose real name is actually Lee Young-Eun) is a tenacious police officer. Hyun Jin is out there trying to avenge her late lover but doesn't become as vengeance-crazed as So Hyun. There are some family issues going on here as So Hyun is the illegitimate child of Do Dae Hwan (who adopted Young-Eun as his legal daughter). Dae Hwan is a cold-blooded person who could care less about his illegitimate children - they're born to die! Why he decided to adopt Young-Eun was done to appease his wife who he would later beat up later. Did he decide to sacrifice his own illegitimate children in the organ trafficking to profit from it and hide his numerous infidelities?
The very mystery of the Hansol Orphanage is something. The whole organ trafficking was anything but surprising. A lot of crime thrillers are based on real-life events. Organ trafficking involving children is a very real thing. The literal skeletons in the closet, dead bodies, and a lot of criminal conspiracies are there. Some of the orphans who grew up at the Hansol Orphanage are later killed to hide a creepy secret. Hyun Jin is one of these children. Later, So Hyun would later take care of Jung Eui who saw her father and grandfather killed by Pavel (who's acted by half-bred David Lee McInnis). It's the clash between a detective and a vigilante killer. Much of the story links itself to the sleazy orphanage where children die the day they're "adopted". Dae Hwan proves that it's all about him especially when he finally dies at the hands of his own illegitimate son. I just love how Dae Hwan begs for his life and his own son shoots him.
What really brings the show in is also consequences. The "hero" So Hyun takes the law into his own hands. In the end, he ends up dying at the hands of the law when special enforcers finally come in. Yet, So Hyun was right when he mentions that he must kill his own birth father or more children will eventually suffer in the organ trafficking trade. I just hate it though how Dae Hwan starts begging for mercy, unlike other villains who'd taunt their opponents into killing them or begging to be killed rather than arrested. It's almost like in Darkman when Strack mocks Darkman rather than beg for his life, trying to mask whatever fear he may have had.
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