Judge vs. Judge (2017)

What I liked

- The drama was about Judges wich I believe, aren’t often portrayed on dramas.
- I thought Eui Hyun was going to be a jerk falling for a crazy girl, but i was wrong. He was the nicest guy. I loved him a lot. It was refreshing watching another kind of male lead.
- Han Joon was amazing too. I got to see a different side of him in this and i enjoyed every second of it.
- Also it was quite unique that this story was not one of corruption and betrayal. For once, even if it cost them, the judges kept things going as they should.



What I disliked

- I had two major issues with this drama. The first one is that it is a story about judges but it could have been one about prosecutors, police officers or whatever you want. There is no distinction between the job of these people. And this is something that I witness in almost every legal drama. One moment they were judging and the other they were paying visits to the defendant’s family. While the case was still on trial. Other times they investigated what was a job of the prosecution.
- The second issue that i had with this one is that Is a drama so average. The screenwriter had the upper hand in this drama because, as I mentioned before, legal dramas involving judges aren’t that common. But instead of coming with a plot related to the tribulations and issues of the judges, we got a drama with a major case in hand and that is.
- I didn’t believed for a second the actual murderer, it was so out of nowhere.-
- And there’s the thing with the judge with lenses coming out as gay as it seems. How? It looked like a way to address a real issue but man if you want to get deep do it properly. If you want to make a drama that will make people reflect on their lives then you had 31 episodes to make it work.



What could have been better

- The romance. Gosh yes, they had their good moments but it was so not smooth the way they make them a couple.
- What about Han Joon? In the end he never got back to his job.
- The plot was so slow i got easily distracted but my phone. They took a long time to get things done. And the las 2 episodes cut have been cut down.
- Messy details of the drama. The judges going back and forth between jurisdictions.


Anyways the drama is watchable but no more than that.

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Drawn out, weak love line, sometimes boring

I finished watching the drama and decided to write briefly what it is.

If I were to write in general, it's not a bad series, but it could have been much better.

Let's start with the acting, it's just okay. There's nothing outstanding in terms of role-playing, everyone just did their job, nothing to complain about.

As for the plot, in my opinion it's a bit drawn out. The events themselves take a bit too long, there's no turn of events here either, even the plot twists (if you can call them that) don't cause any surprise.

To be honest, in my opinion, it would have been better to remove the whole plot with the pedophile liar, his arc seems more forced than necessary in the main plot.

The love triangle here is also inappropriate in my opinion, because it doesn't lead to anything. There is a declaration of love from the two main male characters, and there is not a single response from the main female heroine. And the relationship itself is not shown here, only a slowly emerging relationship. Therefore, I don't quite understand why it was necessary to show the love thread in the series, it could easily do without it.

The drama is not very interesting, but if you want to watch something with the theme of courts and punishment, then it is quite suitable.

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PLEASE u shouldn't mention romance in this drama at all

this is literally a misshapen romance nor friend-ship
i can't express my feelings really

it's name nothing to lose but i already lost time watching this shapeless drama

first of all there were huge disconnection in the events
till the last ep i was questioning what makes Kyung Ho involved with Myung Hee & her husband and they don't even knew each other
and why and how myung hee chose him specifically

and they make us saw that the dead student cell-phone was thrown in the street while she was running
then suddenly the phone was beside her in the car when she got raped and myung hee killed her

then they show us pix for the dead student with myung hee husband they didn't explain the relation at all between them

towards the end they show us that her husband loves her so much and she was forced to marry him
but he was caring loyal husband

i would prefer if the writer cut the romance parts and made it only lawful drama

coming to han joon he was the real person who needs support and sympathy he was really oppressed
but i saw they focus only on jung joo feelings and supporting her
they made her total victim even she was a B**** and believed that her brother can do this
and avoided him for yrs she even changed her family name

and eui hyun i saw him very selfish friend ,emotionless and cold towards han joon
many time his attitude pissed me off
he only thinks about jung joo and her feelings
they left han joon totally where is the friend-ship in that ???????

and what's this shapeless romance between her and eui hyun very cold and lukewarm
suddenly 2yrs passed without knowing anything about all the characters specially the main ones

then suddenly again they met each other when she made transfer request to join eui hyun
and they act as if it was the first time they met when they reunite to work together again

and the drama finished without any details about what happend in these 2 yrs and what's going to happen to all of the main leads
open in a very silly way but giving u a hint that it's happy

they spoil it totally beginning from the friendship passing by criminal events and the crime happened ending with romance
and what's the hell the wrong with the names
i got confused many times for the first time cause i felt all the names were similar to me >_<

4 stars is just for the times i loved eui hyun romance attitude towards that jung joo

hate it hate it hate it -_-

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I dropped the show within the first episode. Not because it's bad, that I can't judge. I definitely can see that it has an appeal, but it's nothing for me I suppose.

Even tho I usually don't have a problem with violence and crime and also watch western crime shows a lot, the focus on sexual assault (also towards children) within the lawsuits affected me deeply. It just seemed too cruel and gritty to me, but that definitely depends on personal preferences. If you can deal with such rather mentally disturbing stories, then you should give it a try since it really seemed well done to me, even tho I only watched one episode.

I don't know how the other stories are going, but since the main case is a rape case I expected it to be a big topic for the drama. Maybe I'll restart it one day, when I feel mentally prepared for it.

(Regarding the rating I can't say much, I can neither give a good rating nor a bad one, since I only watched one episode)

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