Saturday, September 24, 2016

Thoughts on The K2 (더 케이투) drama

One word to describe the latest cable channel tvN drama The K2 더 케이투 - awesome!
The drama opens with Anna (played by Im Yoona) sees something she was not meant to see and suddenly she was brought to live in a desolated church within Spain background. The nuns and guards were heavily guarding her until she grew into an adult that's where she started escaping from their grasp. She stumbles across Kim Je Ha (played by Ji Chang Wook) as the subway and begged him to rescue her out but he was too busy looking after his own life than to save a stranger. 

The first 2 episodes of K2 is rather suspense and thrilling. Je Ha travels to South Korea and worked as a banner hanger while on the run. One day he witnessed some innocent killing in a building where the Presidential candidate Jang Se Joon (played by Jo Sung Ha) was having an fling with a younger woman. Jang's so-called wife Choi Yoo Jin (played by Song Yun Ah) is ambitious, ruthless and vows to become the next First Lady of the country. Literally Yoo Jin hires the best guards to wipe out any of the rumors and news pertaining to her husband's way to become the next President. When the guards failed to get their hands on Je Ha, she gets restless and wants to get rid of him too.

Anna was dragged back to Seoul to live with them. Jang treasures Anna since she is his daughter but there is something that Yoo Jin holds threatening him. On the surface they may look like a happy supporting couple but deep down they were just pretending for business purpose. Chief Jo who guarded Jang warns them Je Ha is a very competent and best fighter in JSS Special Forces. Due to a misunderstanding he became a fugitive and had to hide. Yoo Jin thinks he is easy to handle and told her guards to finish him off. Instead Je Ha easily took the guards one by one down and came back into the house. 

The secretary was utterly shocked and Yoo Jin freaked out as Je Ha just strutted in straight aiming the pistol at her head. He tells Yoo Jin the 2nd encounter with her means he will kill her. Anna got out from her bedroom screaming at him to shoot Yoo Jin. He looked blankly and remembered she was girl who begged him in Spain while she was captured by the cops.

The drama is filled with action and fighting scenes by Ji Chang Wook who trained hard to film them. I am rather impressed. He has never failed us in his action scenes in the last drama Healer. Yoona has sort of improved in her acting skills. And for the first time I sort of despised Song Yun Ah's character. 

According to AGB Nielsen Ratings, the viewers ratings recorded at 3.8% within Seoul capital area while TNmS Ratings nationwide recorded 4.86%. 

The writer behind K2 drama is from SBS Yongpal drama and directed by PD Kwak Jung Hwan who was in charge of Slave Hunters and Neighborhood Hero

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