J-Drama: Zettai Reido

Counting down to my second last week at work! Yiiiipppppeeee!

Lacking better romantic drama to watch, and still waiting for the latest episode of Coffee House, I started on J-drama :Zettai Reido, which is a Japanese version of CSI & Cold Case combined as one.

There is no major anchor star but having finished the first two episodes, I have to say this investigative drama is much better than Moon Lover. Crime suspense thriller isnt everyone's cup of tea and quite frankly, this isnt the best detective Japanese drama I have seen. However, at least it is not trying to fob its audience using big stars to cover the loust script as Moon Lovers did.

In Zettai Reido, Sakuragi Izumi (Ueto Aya) is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.

Being newbie, Sakura still lacks the necessary experience in profiling and questioning, and appear to at times be clouded by her passions and feelings. However, that doesnt mean she is a clueless cop. So far the epi tries to balance her character with some level of intellect as required for a cop.

The only flaw I would find is that in the whole department of experience cops, how is it that she is the only one who ever thought of retracing/ rewalking the steps of the victims, and as such find clues to solve the cases. It's a little far stretch since you would expect some seniors with vast experience to have thought of that...

However all in all, still an entertaining seriers to kill time and a little less annoying than Moon Lovers, which incidentally is seemingly seeing a premature "death" this coming week.