I liked this case way better (I watched episodes 4-6 together).

The emotional elements are the same stuff you find anywhere else, but they make me appreciate the jokes even more. Also, those moments help me see our team members as actual people.

Last week I felt like the show was trying to make us laugh every two minutes, and with very over the top stuff. So the characters didn't feel like real people and many jokes felt very unnatural.

I really appreciate the team isn't as disastrous as it seemed last week. Maybe it's because I'm watching Tell Me What Your Saw too, but our daycare detectives seemed OK this week.

Moments I liked:
-The group chat of suspects.
-Dong go's bathroom argument with our cute father of four (dude is raising that birth rate all on his own #respect).
-The gangster helping with the arrest of the ex-boyfriend.
-Kim Dong Wook.

Oh! "King Se Jeong invented hangul not the Korean language" reminded me of NGNL. ☺️ That made me smile.

Hum... 3 episodes to tell this investigation was way too much. I understand that investigating is a slow process and takes time but in this case, they didn't really show the cops doing calls, door to door, etc. They questionned the same characters, had some meetings. If it's quite interesting to see Yu-Bin imagining the scene in his head and the actors playing it, it was too long.

I will go with my rom-com turning into a melodrama since I can either hate watch it or drop it. But ending on a cliffhanger with no sequel is so annoying especially to people who can't handle their curiosity like me.

Really? I thought he was manipulating Ji-Wook by using his love for Hae-Young. He failed to convince him the first time and the CEO wasn't really happy, so he found another way.

Better to have frittered away 75 minutes on a movie that ended abruptly than 16 hours on a series that left me stranded on the Cliffhanger of Doom.

@lovepark I completely agree with you: too sentimental, forced emotional beats. Its almost as if these episodes had a totally different writer. No, absolutely none, zany moments, which means very few laughs. Of course, the benefit is a drastic reduction in the toilet humor and no vomit jokes, but the costs are considerable--very few laughs this week, and a considerable reduction in its liveliness. Sure, add a sentimental storyline behind every character, extract an occasional tear, and I guess you have a more mass palatable kdrama. But couldn't they have maintained some of the humor level while adding a more conventional detective narrative?

My time is precious. Why shouldn't I be angry at story that wastes it, leaving me with nothing but a disappointment, no matter how small, in the end?

Alas, I have given up waiting for a second season of Life on Mars. 😞

Echoing @gikata (above), there's a difference between a cliffhanger and an open ending. For me, Signal falls into the latter category.

I recently watched Intern Detective Oh Kyeon-Sik, a so-called "tv movie" that was clearly intended to be a multi-episode series. It ended just as the main plot was getting started. The abrupt (non) ending didn't exactly leave me angry or heartbroken, just a little disappointed. I thought it had the potential to be a really fun show.