Hometown

Hometown impresses with its atmosphere, character depth, and suspenseful pacing. But the similarities to the Japanese film Cure (1997) are hard to ignore: hypnotic suggestion, memory lapses, senseless murders, and a mysterious man behind bars pulling the strings. Even the overall mood and slow-burn storytelling feel very much alike. Watching Cure after Hometown is like realizing you've seen this story before-just told in a different country, in a different style. It's surprising that this connection hasn't been widely acknowledged. Still, for fans of dark, psychological thrillers, both are absolutely worth watching-maybe even more so together.

At first liked it... Then became very slow and very stale.. the producers tried their best to make it a suspense thriller but ended becoming slow and a bit sleep inducing boring.

Also, y r u creating a problem that never existed?

I mean India and South Korea always had an amazing relationship. We respect each other a lot and find a lot of similarities in each other's culture and so feel very related to each other (most probably cz of the spread of Buddhism in Korea long time ago and also being an Easter race just like Indian-dravidians).

The series tries it's best to target and insult India/Hindu ideologies even tho it doesn't touch any of them at all.. pretty weird.

It's like when America was discovered but mistaken as India which is why we have the racial term "red/native Indians" This series does the very same by antagonizing hindi that too by totaly mispronouncing and misinterpreting every syllable of Hindi. Showing as sanskrit mantra and yoga as marker of the ongoing "evil force".. My question is WHY???

This is my first review . After watching so many great shows like leftovers , dark and ... with complex storyline and good drama finally I see a great show with superb acting and well-developed characters . I usually avoid korean dramas because of so much romance but in the recent dramas I watch I never expected this show to be so smart and having satisfying ending. I realy enjoy the detective personality and Yoo jae myung acting too . He portrays the detective excatly nothing less or more . It is slow paced but worth the paitience until the end.

I'm giving Hometown two stars because the talent onscreen is not terrible and because it's competently shot. Everything else is an exercise in what NOT to do when approaching a police procedural thriller. I'm starting to think that the flavor of this show is irrelevant because you have a female lead who has uncovered critical evidence that could greatly impact the investigation of her missing niece, yet she says NOTHING when the lead detective comes over for tea. Instead, she reflects on her life struggles while he literally tells her the case is stumping him. Not to mention the police fail multiple times to follow up on the most obvious of leads.

When you watch the main characters literally do the opposite of what normal people would do in their situation over and over again just to prolong the "drama", it becomes abundantly clear that the writers are not suited for TV of this caliber. The plot progression couldn't be written worse. Solving the case is not the point here, it's obviously all about getting to know the selfish characters who care so little for the victims of the crimes that brought us here to begin with.

At first I just chalked it up to poor editing combined with localization issues, but after approaching episode four, I know this is not the case. Hometown is an exercise that wallows in pitiful and mind-numbingly drawn out rubbish. If that's your cup of tea, more power to you.

Anyone leaving a high rating for this show is either not paying attention, getting inebriated when watching, or has little to no comprehension of how a clock works let alone a competent storyline about solving crimes.

Can't keep track of the characters and timelines!

Korean series are a challenge for a lot of Anglos because of the characters' names being hard to recognize and remember. This series adds flash forwards and flash backs and having different actors play the same characters in the different timelines and that all adds to the problem of keeping track of who is whom.

I had to just stop watching in the middle of episode 2-I just could not figure out who was missing, who was murdered, when did things happen and how were these people related?

I was up for putting in effort and paying close attention and still I just couldn't figure out what was going on!

Im basically a fan of Korean detective series, but couldn't watch this one.

Bummers.