Greed !! Betrayal !!! Law .
What is the right choice ?
Discarding Powerless Justice for power with out Justice or
Delivering Justice to Powerless and discard the power.
Whisper is show where Lee Dong-Joon makes a choice of the above , faces the consequences and then learns the lesson to get back to his path. There's a hell lot of a twist in the story and a lot of betrayals during his Journey of 17 Episodes.
Yet another saga of how power corrupts people who in turn corrupt others as well. An honest judge is forced to convict an innocent man. The convicted man's daughter who is a cop, decides to set things right. Things start off badly between the protagonists, but they gradually come to understand each other and work together. It starts off with a lot of promise, but it gradually turns out to be a tug-of-war. Expected things happen, but the audience are kept waiting in the tussle between (good and evil?).
A drama which generates mixed feelings. But the feeling of "so near, yet so far" dominates them all. It had a bit of various genres, but not enough of any. A story with the backdrop of a law firm, but the law is overshadowed by politics. There isn't enough intuitive crime detection to call it a crime/investigation drama. Just some sprinkle of romance here and there, so can't be called a romantic one either.
The actors have done a decent job, but the major expressions in the drama are poker face and smirk, and not all of them seem natural. A bit more of joy would've been nice.
There's no clear, progressic character development, only people being poked from different angles and reacting accordingly. In a sense, it's not about Dong Joon and Yeong Joo substantially changing at all, because those two (especially she) were badass from the start, only their means were limited. For them, it's about achieving their goals. They come to their original point, only stronger and calmer. What changes the most is everyone around them losing their comfort, realising that the rotten world they know so well affects them too, that they too could also fall prey of a betrayal, not just stage it for others, and that people they trust and love won't always put their good first. All the sense of comrade in crime falls apart.
Neverthless commendable acting by Lee Bo Young and Lee Sang Yoon ; also honorable mention Kwon Yul who get under you skin as usual (If you watched him in Bring it On ! Ghost ). Bo Young and Sang Yoon didn't have great romantic chemistry but they looked like a great team in fighting the great Taebaek law firm's all-reaching influences and money !!
I love the pitiful and righteous Park Se-young in Money Flower at-least i happy initially that she was getting her way even if it is a bad side. I wish she had a lighter sentencing as she didn't commit any major crime than obstruction of justice and blackmail
It's definitely worth a one time watch, start with no expectations and you might be in for a surprise! If you want a suspense ending in every episode, then this is for you. You can't miss this drama.
The only reason i watched was I was hung over Vincenzo waiting weekly and Netflix is outing the show on Mar 28th ; so watch it before it leaves as its really a good watch despite what the rating suggest.
Review by luckzBlockedParent2021-03-27T05:20:55Z
Whisper is a corruption-focused K-drama where a set of characters use various ruthless methods to reach their goals; the good guys want to uncover murder & corruption, while the bad guys individually seek to avoid trouble. There's occasional shifting alliances, but it's usually the two leads against everybody else.
The rapid pace of twists and turns keeps you on your toes, and the 'competent protagonist' is sure neat, though ultimately he's mostly the female lead's stooge throughout the majority of episodes. There's little he does that's not done to help her.
Sadly half of the time it looks like a cheap soap opera because of the way it was filmed - maybe it's mostly the framerate that has that effect. The camera work itself is occasionally obviously bad & even comical. I've watched some 25 Asian drama shows, and none had me laugh at the overdone zooms, silly angles, or poor cuts this often.
As many other viewers have noticed, you have to be able to stand "convenient" plot points, like how characters receive every phone call with millisecond precision to affect conversations they're having (and there's hundreds of these phone calls).
SPOILER:
Several hours of plot development or rather lack thereof from the middle could be cut out because the end of Ep 11 renders them void. I found that really cheap and underwhelming.