Everyone comes for Ji Sung's neck in Connection

12 May 12, 2024May 18, 2024

Everyone comes for Ji Sung’s neck in Connection

by Jenzy

Wow. If there’s anything to say after watching the latest teaser for SBS’s crime thriller Connection, it’s just that I’m glad I’m not Ji Sung (Adamas). That was one of the more chaotic, stressful trailers I think I’ve ever seen.

The teaser opens on our detective Jang Jae-kyung (Ji Sung), an ace investigator until one day he became kidnapped and forcibly addicted to drugs. He’s now stuck in a catch-22 situation where his body craves drugs while he’s literally a drug-buster, but he hasn’t let that affect his sense of justice in solving crimes.

However, things take a turn for the messy when he learns of the death of an old friend, ruled as suicide. At the funeral doubling as a pseudo high school reunion, it’s announced that the friend had a 50 million won life insurance policy willed to one of his old classmates, and now it looks like it’ll be a flurry of suspects and murder accusations between him and other former friends to see who will get their hands on that pot of money.

One of Jae-kyung’s acquaintances, the dogged-reporter Oh Yoon-jin, played by Jeon Mi-do (Thirty-Nine), immediately catches on to the suspicious circumstances at play, asking Jae-kyung if it’s possible that their deceased friend has set up the situation so Jae-kyung can catch the killer. Jae-kyung and Yoon-jin waste no time diving into a full-fledged investigation, but things take a turn for the violent as people get killed, kidnapped, and chased as they starts to dig. Jae-kyung’s integrity also gets questioned by his fellow police colleagues, who assume he is blinded by a sense of greed for that insurance payout.

But Jae-kyung and Yoon-jin aren’t the only duo working overtime here. We also have Jae-kyung’s more shifty former friends, the manipulative chaebol Kim Kyung-nam (The One and Only) and prosecutor Kwon Yul (Longing for You), who immediately share a very suspicious conversation where Won Jong-soo (Kim Kyung-nam) angrily tells Park Tae-jin (Kwon Yul), “You should’ve told me if there’d be a will involved.” Combined with the following clips of them screaming their heads off and hunting down CCTV’s… I think we might already know who the killer is.

There’s some kind of twisted string of fate, a connection if you will (lol), keeping these four stuck in a cat and mouse chase with each other. So it’s fitting to end the teaser on Yoon-jin, giving a determined grin as she tells someone, “There’s no way I’m going way I’m letting this case slide.”

Written by Lee Hyun (Diary of a Prosecutor) and directed by Kim Moon-kyo (Trolley), Connection will premiere on May 24 at SBS.

Via GP Korea, OSEN

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1 Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain

May 12, 2024 at 11:32 AM

Every description of this show loses me at the absurdity of “forced addiction.” The only way the show can allow the ML’s drug use by making it involuntary, because no “decent” person would ever knowingly and willingly use drugs, right? What nonsense. Humans have sought intoxicants for as long as we’ve been human. It would be so much more interesting and realistic if he uses and becomes addicted to drugs for any of the huge range of real-life reasons people do - pleasure-seeking, escapism, isolation, nihilism, self-medication, impulsivity, genetic susceptibility, family background, peer pressure/desire to fit in, and many others. Drug dealers don’t have to foster or forcibly create a market of users; people do that all by themselves. I'd love to see what the hype about Ji Sung is all about, so I'd be very pleased to see that this show goes beyond simplistically demonizing drug use and pretending that the only drug user worth saving is one who became addicted against his will, but it hasn't shown a hint of that yet.

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Islander north

May 12, 2024 at 12:37 PM

Disagree...using drugs is a choice and we see drug users all the time, ad nauseum...when an honorable person who does not choose drugs gets addicted, it is much more interesting.

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2 Blue (@mayhemf)

May 12, 2024 at 11:43 AM

I am just going in Blind for Ji Sung.
I hope it’s a good entertaining thriller.

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Charlotte

May 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM

I'm with you. Ji Sung has smarts when it comes to chosing thrillers like Defendant and The Devil Judge. Hard to dismiss on just a trailer. The same with the write-ups you see on Viki describing a drama. They often hype one small aspect to sell a genre, but end up skewing the larger story. I'm in.

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Blue (@mayhemf)

May 12, 2024 at 3:18 PM

Absolutely! I trust his choice in scripts.

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3 Islander north

May 12, 2024 at 12:41 PM

Hoping it will be on Viki or Kocowa.

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Diana Hansen

May 12, 2024 at 5:56 PM

We shall hope together!

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4 sal

May 12, 2024 at 3:51 PM

I feel I am loosing my mind as I remember this drama aired last year...

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Blue (@mayhemf)

May 12, 2024 at 4:33 PM

What!! Watching too many time loop/time slip dramas???

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5 jillian

May 12, 2024 at 4:25 PM

This is much anticipated drama. Such a great cast! I am in a mood for this.

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6 Diana Hansen

May 12, 2024 at 5:55 PM

Oh man. This is my kind of show with my kind of actors in it. Gotta watch to see how Ji Sung is gonna get out of this one! I know, Jeon Mi-do is gonna help him while I sit and watch the action. Kwon Yul? Please don't be too bad of a baddie!