The Girl Who Sees Scents

Found on Netflix watched in two days. Shame no s2. But as a lot of korean shows u get only 1 season it seems

Easygoing, almost childish, romantic, drama, character lost memory, character lost family member, protect family, murder, serial killer nearby, family, sister, police, special investigation team, marriage, return of the villain.

Actors **** Action **** Intrigue ***** Villains ***** Romance ****

Cho Rim (Shin SeKyung) wakes up from a six month coma after getting hit by a car, but whehen she wakes up she doesn't remember what happened nor what her name is. She somehow gains a supernatural power... she can see smells.

Moo Gak (Park YooChun) is a yung detective with not much talent. Unfortunately he looses his younger sister named Eun Seol, to a murderer.

Without knowing their sad and painful family history meet and Cho Rim becomes a big help to Moo Gak and become inseprable.

As time passes she finds out the truth about her past (the death of her parents, the reason of her car accident)

Will their strong bond help them both find the muderrers ?

A character who can feel no pain, a character who can see smells and a character with face blindness are all part of this comedy thriller. A detective trying to track down a serial killer teams up with a girl also linked with the same killer. It has its amusing moments and a fair share of drama as the serial killer leaves barcodes on his victims bodies. Well acted by the cast but would have been better if episodes were reduced as it drags out at the end too much.

As this Korean series opens a teenage girl returns home and finds herself face to face with a serial killer known as 'The Bar Code Killer' due to the fact that he carves a barcode into his victims' arms. She flees but is hit by a car. In hospital the killer, intending to eliminate the only witness, murders a girl of the same name by mistake. Her brother, Choi Mu-gak, is so traumatised that he loses his senses of taste and smell and the ability to feel pain; later on he becomes a police officer so he can bring the killer to justice. Meanwhile the witness eventually wakes from a coma but has no memory of her life before the accident; she has also gained a strange ability; she can see scents. The retiring officer in charge of the case at the time takes her in as his own daughter and gives her the name Oh Cho-rim. Events a few years later bring them together and she uses her ability to help him solve cases; however neither realises that she is the witness he is seeking. Meanwhile the killer is continuing to kill, unaware that the girl he killed wasn't the witness because he has a condition that means he can't remember faces.

If you want something gritty then this probably won't be for you. However if you want a light hearted crime drama with elements of comedy and romance it is a lot of fun. The identity of the killer is not kept secret. He is shown to the viewer early on and it isn't much longer before the police regard him as the prime suspect... the problem is proving it. Tensions rise nicely as the killer learns the witness is still alive and starts searching for her. The characters are a lot of fun and the cast does an impressive job. Shin Se-kyung and Park Yoo-chun, particularly impress as Oh Cho-rim and Choi Mu-gak; they have a fine chemistry. The special effects used to depict Oh Cho-rim's ability are rather fun aren't over used. Overall I found this to be a lot of fun and would certainly recommend this to fans of light-hearted K-drama.

These comments are based on watching the series in Korean with English subtitles.