I was late to this drama via Netflix. I was attracted to Emergency: Interrogation Room because it's short with only 9 episodes and has what I hoped would be a strong female lead. I was even willing to put up the stereotypical misogynistic clashes and the two horrible shouty detectives Motsu and Nabe, but the crimes in the early episodes, specifically Ep.3 are poor written.

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The key issue in Ep.3 isn't who hit the victim but whether the action was premeditated and whether the victim then accidentally fell to his death or was pushed. Since the victim slipped and fell after being hit in the head, in every other detective drama this point would have been decoupled from the initial event, and the police would have taken this into consideration. Very poor writing!!

For now, I don't know if I'll continue watching this.

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I thought I'd give this another go but the writing gets worse as the series progresses and the acting or should I say over-acting, is shocking. Ep.6 Detective Nakata shouts and cries at the perpetrator because Nakata had a brief history with him when he was a child. Come on!!! Then in Ep.7, Makabe who suspects the criminal is admitting to a killing he didn't commit to protect someone he loves tells him the real criminal would not be able to live peacefully because she would be wracked with guilt. REALLY??!! If this is the case, she could turn herself in to the police. This is SOOOO BAD!!.... And the editing and additional casting for Ep.8 are questionable: It's the 8th anniversary of Makabe's husband's death and the camera lingers on a photo of the deceased; this immediately cuts to a chef who looks like Makabe's dead husband and where Makabe's colleague Koishikawa is eating.

I ended up watching the entire series in the hope the writer and directors would redeem themselves but I regret it...I will never get back these nine hours!!!