Top Knife (2020)

Not as good as Code Blue

I had high expectations for this series. It was from the writer for (the first 2 much better seasons of) Code Blue, and it had Amami Yuki. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm not sure what happened. The whole thing was surprisingly bland. Code Blue was fantastic because of the distinctive characters who played off against each other and developed throughout the series. Even after finishing I'm not sure where they were trying to go with the characters. I think the script was also being a bit experimental by trying to group different cases together by themes of the week, but it just didn't seem to work. The supporting cast also just didn't gel. I appreciate Hirose Alice's gutsiness but she just wasn't as endearing as Gakki's or Toda Erika's characters in Code Blue.

That said, the quality of the medical materials in this is as good as Code Blue's, so if you're interested in neurology there's plenty of interesting cases here. I've seen people say that the cases are so fantastical that they're unbelievable and must be exceptionally rare, but actually most of the conditions are not that uncommon.

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