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I don't want to give anything away in case you should decide to give this a try, so I won't spoil it with specifics. The show has a lot going for it. It is a fresh take on a police based story, involving corruption and some people who get framed or falsely accused, and those who work to exonerate them. This show features identical twin lead characters. One is a brilliant detective, former captain of the district police station, who is working to clear his brother, falsely accused of murdering a family. There are individual cases which must be solved over one or two episodes, as work is done over the course of the whole series to clear the falsely accused, framed, innocent man. I failed to give it higher marks partly because the writers failed to tie up loose ends, and answer questions raised throughout the show, and in particular because the last episode was not up to par with the rest of the show. I also felt that one of the lead characters in this show is ultimately shown to have behaved in ways which are very much out of character with all we know about him from the body of the show.

The story of an immature, irresponsible, and incompetent detective named Kang, and a girl with psychic abilities who team up to pursue a serial killer, who becomes possessed by the spirit of another serial killer. I've seen other Korean shows I enjoyed very much, Signal, and Tunnel, and A Man Named God. But this show is becoming difficult to watch. Det. Kang has his psychic abilities awakened through his love interest. He has some good instincts, but he makes awful errors in judgement, and has virtually no control of his emotions. This isn't the first show to glorify a detective who wants to arrest a bad guy without any evidence of his guilt, but Kang takes this stupidity to new heights, or lows. Do the writers think this appeals to viewers? This trope of a detective who is so sure of a person's guilt that he insists on arresting him without evidence is so banal. After fouling things up so spectacularly, Kang plays the victim and never acknowledges his errors or the predicament he puts his teamates in. I am seriously questioning whether I should finish this series.

The leading man, Yusuf, is a gentleman. He is compassionate, thoughtful, soft spoken, fair, and generally attractive. He is also the son of a very wealthy family. He winds up with a baby whose mother died in childbirth. He hires a young lady, Toprak, whose baby died in infancy as a wet nurse. She lives in his mansion to care for the baby, along with Yusuf's mother, father, and staff. Toprak's sister Havva stays there as well to care for the still emotionally fragile Toprak. The plot involves the machinations and schemes of women seeking to land the eligible bachelor. There is a lot of lying, and more lies to cover the previous lies, and so on. There are several story arcs related to the various characters. In Turkish culture it is normal for a young man to request permission to court a young lady, and to get engaged to her. The parents have a great deal of influence over their childrens' personal lives. ...NOTE: if you see this on Netflix, don't waste your time. Netflix doesn't have the complete series. The story has a beginning and an ending, but you won't know how it ends if you watch it on Netflix