1- Apparently there was this real incident where serial murderer killed many women and was never caught. That’s why Gap Dong, Tunnel, Signal go in that time when there was a mysterious murderer! But how many Korean dramas need to go to that timeline with exact same story: A mysterious man who kills woman! Can they be more creative?!
2- Why crime time-travel k-dramas often have the worst male actor! It was so hard to endure Lee Je-Hoon constipated acting in Signal! But I thought Jung kyoung Ho is at least a better actor!!
3- LOM rating: 3/10

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    Agree, his acting is glaringly bad, specially because he’s performing beside a really good veteran actor!!

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    Korean dramas are at a point where they’re no longer original. Someone needs to regulate these dramas, so they don’t overdo time slip!!

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    I’m not as frustrated, because I haven’t watched either Gap Dong, Tunnel, or Signal. But I agree that JKH acting is medicored!

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    Most novels I read always states the serial killer kils females.. So far I have read novels with muderers name like: the female suitcase killer, the cleric muderer and many more. But it is always the females that gets killed. It is very rare to find for males but there is an indian film 7 khoon maaf, the lead female character killed all her 7 husbands..

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      Two of my favorite female serial killer ‘characters’ are:
      1- Hannah McKay portrayed by Yvonne Strahovski in Dexter
      2- Martha Jule Beck portrayed by Salma Hayek in Lonely Heart (2006 movie)
      They can easily write different serial killers if they are not too lazy, but 99% of K-drama serial killers are copycat of the others.

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    Well, this is a remake of a British show…which had a serial killer…so…

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      At least the original was set in 1973 which is more than a decade time-difference with Korean time slip crime dramas… I understand that ’20’ yr time slip and ‘1988’ is the Golden Time all the k-writers are going for, but I found too much similarity between this and the previous ones give this show almost no originality…

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        The show has to be set in the 80s due to the lead actors age. He wasn’t born in 1973. So in order to make the family angle work it needs to be set relatively when it is. ’88 is just a very popular time as many things happened historically that year. The original was also set within the lifetime of the lead.

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        I understand what you mean @persianrose there is always same late/early 80s/90s elements: plenty of smoke and booze and paperwork and many characters wearing leather jackets and riding several old cars and mini-vans, + a foul-mouthed cop, etc… Imagine if they picked older actors and set the story in 70s, it could have offered unique opportunities with a large dose of culture shock… but they set everything in 88 which has been used quite a lot in recent years…

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        I’m really enjoying it but I haven’t seen another version.

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