The show gives us thrills and chills but it also succeeds excellently in bringing tears to our eyes. There are supporting players like Ahn Chi Soo who is an enigmatic character as he remains in that grey region without being completely black or white and Kim Bum Joo as pure evil. We see how much she has grown as a detective and person and what all qualities still remain. Then we have our female detective Cha Soo Hyun ( Kim Hye Soo) - the only main character who is present in both worlds. Lee Jae Han ( Jo Jin Woong)is the past detective who is absolutely righteous, dogged, earnest and the common characteristics that both have is the big heart and their determination to achieve justice. He is young and gets very emotional at times, which then starts driving his actions. Park Hae Young ( Lee Je Hoon) is our present day detective. The past and present timelines are clearly defined using a different filter/screen frame for each. It also helps that the cases bind our protagonists and introduces us to something new about them. Each and every case is given depth and time to flourish and hence, there is never that episodic feel anywhere.
The show has a true nail-biting tension with many thrilling and chilling moments, and an intelligent brain instead of something half-baked that we usually see in typical kdrama thrillers. It’s amazing how the writer has tied everything together, with clearly thinking out the complete story - where it starts and how it ends. The story is excellently written for Signal, and there are no loose ends anywhere. All the while we see how all three of them are connected and witness their lives as they go through different phases of it. We also meet a female detective who is present in both periods. Signal has a time twister plot at its core - two detectives, present in two time lines, communicate with each other via a walkie talkie and solve various cases together. Enriched with great acting and characters, it is easily one of the best dramas I’ve seen. The drama “Signal” focuses on the pain of the rape victims and sheds light on how the offenders received light sentences despite their crime.Signalis that rare gem in kdrama landscape which combines difficult elements of thrills and heart together. However, the parents of the offenders said that the victims’ behavior had caused the crime. However, the case is based on what happened in Miryang in 2004, known as the “Miryang Gang Rape Case.” Several middle-school and high-school girls were gang raped by at least 41 male students and the victims were blamed instead. In another episode of “Signal,” a rape case occurs in Inju, a fictional city in the drama. Due to the lack of technology in crime investigation in South Korea at the time, this has become a cold case and the killer remains uncaught. The killer - who remains unidentified - raped and murdered at least 10 different victims.
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The South Gyeonggi province case featured in the second episode of the series is based on one of the most famous serial killings in Korean history, the “Hwaseong Serial Murders.” The incident was shocking enough to spawn several fictional works based on the actual case such the famous 2003 flick, “Memories of Murder”-featuring actor Song Kang-ho.Ī series of rape and murder cases occurred sporadically over a period of five years starting from 1986. The crime left the nation in shock and mourning for Park’s death. The shocking aspect of the crime was that the kidnapper turned out to be a woman who was 8 months pregnant. Park’s kidnapped had requested ransom for the child’s life, then proceeded to murder Park in cold blood. The methods and motives of the kidnappers in the episode are based on an incident that happened in 1997 called the “Park Chorong Bitnari Kidnapping-Murder Case.” It gained national attention back then for the child’s long and unique name, after whom the case was named. They are actually based on real crimes that have taken place in the past.įor instance, the first episode of “Signal,” opened with an episode that centered on child kidnapping. The bone-chilling episodes of tvN’s crime drama “Signal,” makes viewers wonder whether the crimes depicted in the episodes are real.
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