Too many cooks spoil the soup! Well, here we can say, too many plotlines, spoil the drama.

The original idea is good: a kind of black comedy crime drama. It had a nice british feel to it. And I love all things Agatha Christie. But here you have Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy & Tuppence all in one drama. And that turned out to be too much for me. Everything started with the unlikable main couple! And went downhill from there.

She is a cold famous borderline psycho crime writer. Her husband is a sleazy lawyer, simpering around her and at the same time cheating on her. Do not misunderstand me, I do not mind the cheating plot lines since they give a bit of a drama to a drama.

So there is adultery, murders, corruption, chaebol heir and heiress, quirky policemen, NIS agents, politicians, secret room mystery, drug trafficking, domestic abuse...too many not to lose interest! It was really all over the place which is a disappointment because on the paper it looked promising.

The writer goes from being an interesting character with her cold and uncaring attitude to a scary and freaky (literally EVERYONE shakes in fear in front of her!) one to a normal human with her history shaping her. But in spite of all her intelligence and perspicacity, she does not see what is right in front of her. Her husband had developed a sophisticated system in order to erase all trace of his adulterous behaviour.
The music is there, loud screeching strings underlying the "dramatic but not too serious though maybe yes!" plot. I have a feeling it is going to give me nightmares.

It had taken me a long time to complete it but I gave it a chance and by the time I decided to drop it, I realized I had two episodes left. So I finished it. They managed to wrap everything up nicely with a bow on top but it felt really rushed! Well they did introduce too many plotlines involving too many characters we never really cared about!