I appreciate for once a kdrama addressing directly one of my biggest pet peeves in all media land- the pulling out of sharp objects one has been stabbed with!!!!! And also secondary to that, the seriousness of bleeding out from a wound. Bravo!

At least this drama MENTIONED things like not pulling out the knife, the gravity of a thigh wound because there’s a main artery there, not moving before stabilizing because that will make the injury worse, the symptoms of high blood loss, gushing vs seeping wounds, and what happens when a fire sucks all the oxygen out of a room.

Like yay! You mentioned all that!

However, at the same time, I don’t feel like that the show/ the characters within the show QUITE responded appropriately to the situation and information they had.

I feel like one of the FIRST things you ask someone who has been kidnapped is if they’re hurt or injured, and then respond to that IMMEDIATEly, even helping the victim over the phone perform emergency first aid on themselves- which means, and I might be wrong here, but I’m still fairly sure, they should’ve told her to strap or bind the injury in some way, thus stabilizing the knife, and slowing down the blood loss by putting pressure on it.

Instead, they only find out she’s been stabbed later, and after asking if she can see where she is (?!), and only then tell her to push down on it and not move (good!), which lasts a grand total of like 3 seconds (bad!) because they then proceed to ask her more questions and she moves all around the room again (!!!).

I don’t really know what the actual protocol here would be- they need information to find her to save her, but she also needs to not move to live long enough to be saved, but then at the end they need her to move to the bathroom out of the fire anyway, which is overdramatized which is why it’s there, but I suppose in theory makes sense as an (extremely high risk) way to find her?
I don’t know exactly what the answer would be, but I feel the sequence of events is wrong, even if the survival information is not.

Also, the Paramedic wouldn’t ask to come – that would be a given at that point, probably even multiple paramedics, after the firemen, and whoever else (also plural though), have neutralized both the fire and the kidnapper, which ofc had to be super dramatic because this is still a kdrama.

Oh well.
At least they didn’t pull out the knife!
And I weirdly had fun despite the inaccuracies, so I will keep watching because it’s better than the last survival-based action show (ahem).

The *my father is secretly controlled by corruption within the prosecution and police force and I am estranged from him because of that* is so old hat though- early days but my gut instinct tells me that a solely procedural approach and more isolated individual character growth would’ve been better than yet another iteration of something I’ve seen just slightly too many times this year. And the year before that. And...

@quirkycase thanks for the intro weecap. I will skip serial killer at work episode and jump in at episode 2 hopefully that brings the type of crisis I can handle, because this sounds like they could all become begrudging friends that have a great camaraderie by the end of the series, Prison Playbook style. In that no one signed up to be with a bunch of misfits but they somehow make a great team who trust and rely on each other.

Yes, this show has its share of flaws, but for now I'm happy to overlook them because the first episode was engaging. I like the whole set of different teams and oddly enough there is already so much camradeship between them.

I loved it. I loved the team . The drama has everything what I need right now :) Hopefully it will be a fun ride and they would not take themselves so seriously and go to unnecasary depressive episodes :) Please don't disappoint. This my second time watching Kim Rae Won L.U.C.A was pretty bad .

Truthfully, this episode gave me more creeps than the usual thrill, and kinda sent me back to Through the Darkness's tone. The way the kidnapper pulled the victim on the street gave me vampire vibes and gave rise to a fast forward so I didn't have to deal with a lot of creepiness.

I'm not settled into all the characters yet, but Ho-gae has piqued my interest and I'm not talking about his privileged bone. He's stubborn and a trouble making rebel. I hope Do-jin has more to do in subsequent episodes unlike the premiere.

So we have another Evil Gang of Men here. We've had enough of them this year already, it's nauseating. But this one's flavor is that the son and father are in opposite sides, and not what we had in the half a dozen I've noticed this year.

My funniest part? The storytelling towards the end of the episode. Ho-gae had my undivided attention. Mirroring Police Chief Baek Cham's words exactly 'Will you get on with it already 🤨😏😅'

sadly i think the timing of this drama is ill-advised. the itaewon tragedy is still under investigation, 2 low level officers suicides (one because of being ordered to destroy messages and evidence of alerts to the crowd surge by his superior)... the families of those injured and dead will be tortured that this drama will feature such immediate and successful attention that was not paid to their loved ones....

I am getting sick of seeing young women terrorized/killed/tortured by some sicko in dramas, usually in gory detail, but I stuck around and finished the episode, and find myself looking forward to the next episode.
Kim Rae-won's character is not unfamiliar based on his past dramas, but I enjoy seeing him playing this kind of role since he does it so well.

And I think Kim Rae-won's voice is so sexy and made me going through LUCA that was a torture.

Watched the show while FF ing through the serial killer bits as I want to sleep tonight. I like the characters, and am hoping for less creepy episodes this weekend.