Suspicious Partner
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Romance · Thriller · Comedy
Release year: 2017
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Not what I expected
I have mixed feelings about this series. I love the topic and actors, but I anticipated a different plot.
I love law series, so I thought “Suspicious Partner” would become one of my favorites. However, several episodes into the series, I realized the way the series was developing wasn’t what I expected.
About the actors, I had known Lee Chang-Wook from “The K2” (my favorite series), and I had high expectations of him. I’m not saying that I don’t like his acting (I mean, is there a series in which Lee Chang-Wook doesn’t act well?), but I wanted a character similar to what he had in “The K2”.
Overall, “Suspicious Partner” was a disappointing series. I expected something similar to “The K2”, but it was completely different. However, I want to be clear: I was disappointed not because the series was bad, but because it was unsatisfactory (because of my high expectations).
“Suspicious Partner” is not a series I would recommend, but neither will I stop you. If you are into law-related series and thrillers, go ahead, but don’t expect much more.
Synopsis
Bong-Hee is a judicial apprentice at the Judicial Research and Training Institute. One day, on the subway, she mistakes Ji-Wook for a molester. Ji-Wook is a prosecutor and denies being a molester, but Bong-Hee doesn’t believe him. Later, she catches her boyfriend Hee-Joon in a hotel lobby with another woman. Her boyfriend is also a judicial apprentice at the same institute. Bong-Hee is hurt by her boyfriend’s apparent infidelity and tells him that she will sleep with the next man she bumps into.
Bong-Hee indeeds propositions the next man she bumps into. When she looks at the man, Bong-Hee realizes the man is the same man she saw on the subway … Ji-Wook. They decide to have drinks and Bong-Hee later passes out. When she wakes up, Bong-Hee finds herself at Ji-Wook’s place.
3 months later, Bong-Hee is assigned to work in Ji-Wook’s office. She works hard there. During this time, she runs into Hee-Joon and tells him to take his things from her apartment. Later that night, Bong-Hee goes to a nearby convenience store and when she returns to her apartment, she finds Hee-Joon stabbed to death. Bong-Hee is arrested for his murder and Ji-Wook becomes the prosecutor in her murder case. Even through heavy pressure from Hee-Joon’s father (who is the chief of the district prosecutor’s office), Ji-Wook finds evidences to proves Bong-Hee’s innocence and sets her free. Due to this incident, Ji-Wook quits his job as a prosecutor and becomes a lawyer. Bong-Hee attempts to find the person who murdered her ex-boyfriend.
2 years later, Bong-Hee and Ji-Wook meet again, but on opposing sides. Bong-Hee is representing the plaintiff and Ji-Wook is representing the defendant in a court case. ~AsianWiki