) is a South Korean thriller television series, which aired on SBS from December 9, 2015 to February 18, 2016 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
Jin-Woo (Yoo Seung-Ho) has the condition of Hyperthymesia which allows him to remember almost every day in perfect detail. To prove the innocence of his father, Jin-Woo becomes a lawyer. He struggles to prove his father’s innocence, but he begins to lose his memory due to Alzheimer’s.
I wasn’t really a big Yoo Seung Ho fan, so I skipped if not didn’t finish his dramas so I was kind of hesitant about
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. His role in the drama Missing You as Harry Borrison didn’t really leave a good lasting impression so it killed any affection that I could have grown to have for him when I was watching Operation Proposal. I seriously had regrets not finishing that drama in the past, but after seeing him as Harry I felt like I didn’t really miss anything so I really ignored him for a long time, until his name made some noise before he went to the army and I was like ‘
Anyway, regrets are for later, so when he came back from the army, I anticipated for The Emperor: Owner of the Mask, but then I couldn’t finish the drama due to work and stopped all the same for other dramas for a while.
I was finally back on my feet when I decided watching Remember. At that time, I was missing some court action after receiving a lack thereof from Suspicious Partner. I mean, Suspicious Partner is really good too, but it focused more on the love story so I felt a little bit dissatisfied it didn’t really answer to my obsession on legal dramas. Yes, I love the genre a lot! And gladly, as if sent down from heaven, Remember and Yoo Seung Ho whispered to my ear and I didn’t regret every moment of it.
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To break down everything, I’m going to place another section for review here just like in any other drama or movie reviews I did in the past.
. And in many ways, the drama was able to capture some of the real life happenings in and out of court related to jurisdiction, especially about lawyers, prosecutors, judges and police officers. How they aren’t always heroes after a court session. How sometimes people in power and who have the law to back them up uses it as a shield from unexpected blows that their wrongdoings may cause them.
The law, on one side, was like having impunity from everything that can bring them down. A safety net to catch them.
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This almost-immunity has caused harm to the real innocent people who are put behind bars instead to become the real criminals’ scapegoats. As sad and unfair as that sounds, I do think that this is applicable to the real world. You don’t really know who the good or bad guy is even if the evidence is already right in front of you. Because in this world, the truth is always overcome with facts. Facts are something that someone can come up with and pose as the truth. So I guess, anything can really happen. Someone can be someone else if another willed for it to come true. And if there are evidences to back up the false truth, who won’t buy the lie?
To which, the bad guys–including Nam Il Ho and Nam Gyu Man–pick on the poor and weak to cover up for their own crimes. Seo Jae Hyuk, who is Seo Jin Woo’s father and a simple everyday man from the average family, was the sacrificial lamb to the murder of college student Oh Jung Ah.
For the entirety of the series, boxing the story into Oh Jung Ah’s rape and murder case and Seo Jae Hyuk being pointed as the assailant to this crime made the plot more solid. Despite the different cases in between that they had, it didn’t really put the story to a different focus since the cases were related to the original case and to Nam Gyu Man who caused all this mess.
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That being said, I think that Nam Gyu Man is actually the strongest driving force in the story to move the plot. Since he was the instigator to the crime and his anger management issues, cruel but full of flaws character made everything more interesting, on
Problems kept arising because of him and the fun never stops. He’s like an unpredictable storm that you don’t know when will strike. Sometimes he’s at ease, but most times he’s angry and he can’t control who he hurts. And you know what’s worst? That he’s dangerous in a sense that he acts his words; they aren’t just empty threats unlike what so many villains do.
Add to the villain wagon Nam Il Ho and I’ll say that to be honest, although Nam Gyu Man is the one to finish a dirty job to one of his crimes and who we visibly saw as the true villain, I think that Il Ho is the biggest evil character to this story. You’ll probably realize this as the story goes on and as you realize he is the big guy to every escape that Nam Gyu Man failed to think of a way out from.
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Not to mention, he didn’t just offend Seo Jae Hyuk and Seo Jin Woo in the story. He also affected the lives of Park Dong Ho, who later found out Nam Il Ho actually has something to do why his own father died. Of Suk Joo Il, whom he bribed with a position by his side and used to convince Dong Ho to purposely lose the case he was defending and failed to save Seo Jae Hyuk from imprisonment. Joo Il died by his hands afterwards when he no longer has use for the gang leader. There was also his daughter, Nam Yeo Kyung, whom he never acknowledged to be of equal value as Gyu Man. Or Gyu Man, himself, whom Il Ho only raised to be like him to rule Il Ho Company and whom he never tried to understand. Il Ho has every connection you can think of to most of the characters introduced in the drama, to say the least, and it was always due to a bad note.
To wrap it up a little nicely, I must say that Nam Gyu Man and Nam Il Ho played the villain role for the most parts, causing me real frustration and absolute loathing about how awful their personalities are. In all honesty, the angry and vengeful character they have, caused so many dark feelings in this drama, that the beginning of the story drained me out so much that I had my own doubts. I must say that during those times I was starting to lose hope that Seo Jin Woo will ever fight the duo back, but then the little spoilers I purposely visited every once in a while fueled me to continue until the end.
Like seriously, if you can’t take heavy drama, the sort of hook they have on the tear-jerking and grueling first few episodes will probably exhaust your patience and tear ducts.
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Is one of the dramas I watched which have a really compelling and gradually paced story line that didn’t really go too slow or too fast. The build up in the beginning is quite frustrating, I must admit, because of how helpless Jin Woo’s situation is or perhaps how heavy the emotions were, but going past that stage brings you to the more interesting chapters of the story. Plus, there was never a time I got bored. I always looked forward to the next episodes as if there was no tomorrow.
It is also likable how they somehow balance the good with the evil. They started the first half with the enemies reigning the war and them celebrating their little victories–to the point I want to strangle Nam Gyu Man, but for the next half their protective net was destroyed and slowly penetrated by our heroes.
It is frustrating and I find it unfair Gyu Man and Il Ho always got their way out of a very tight situation because of money, power and connections, but it is nice to know that karma is a bitch and you definitely get the ending you deserve if you asked for it. It is disgusting that there are really people like them who love to see other people suffer and discard people after using them unfairly. However, I wouldn’t lie that most of the people they used to up their game deserved what they got. Well, except for Suk Joo Il, who at least proved his loyalty will always be with Dong Ho even until his last moment or Ahn Soo Bum who kissed up to Gyu Man and gladly didn’t end up dying.
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That aside, it’s good that Jin Woo’s character got more depth especially with what he went through and how he was blessed and cursed to bear ‘hyperthymesia’ as a
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