📺 Korean Tv Series Review: He Is Psychometric (사이코메트리 그녀석)

He Is Psychometric  Poster
Lee An has a particular ability named 'psychometry', meaning he can sense the history of an object (or the person to whom it belonged to) just by touching it.
After a fire burned the flat he lived in, killing both his parents, he's sent to an orphanage and is ostracized because of his visions...
Things get better when Kang Sung-Mo, the guy who saved him from the fire, takes him to live together. 
In high school Lee An is in the same class with Yoon Jae In, a girl he actually met when they were kids, but she's very reserved and doesn't allow anyone to become closer to her; just when they started to get along, she leaves school because of a leaked information about her father.

Coincidentally, the two meet again two years later and because of Sung-Mo requests to Jae In, who in the meantime became a police officer, they start investigating together on a case, but it will grow bigger than they could have ever imagined...


KDrama "He is Psychometric" ep.5
My Opinion👍👎
Light Side: Lee An remembers Yoon Jae-In as soon as episode three, something that NEVER happens in k-dramas since it usually takes at least 8 episodes for the protagonists to remember they knew each other. 
Why, to make look like years have passed and the character has grown, all they do is make him drive a fancy sports car and slightly change his hairstyle?
Usually, male leads are cool and flawless, that's why I found Lee An's stupidity and naivety refreshing...since it's such a dark drama, some light moments were very much needed!

Serious Side: the aspects I appreciated the most in this drama are the acting skills of every single actor and actress! They're all into their character and it really doesn't show that Jinyoung (member of the K-Pop group GOT7) and Shin Ye Eun are at their first leading roles experience.
This is a dark drama, filled with flashbacks and sudden revelations from the protagonists' pasts, which on one side are helpful to their investigations but, on the other hand, they also bring back painful memories. The topics range is wide and goes from emotional apathy to kidnapped and encaged victims, bribery and corruption to positive ones like righting the wrongs according to the law, friendships that last thru time and, of course, love.

Even if the script was very well developed and portrayed and the ending satisfactory, I found the overall pace of the first half a bit too slow, they struggled to get to the point and, because of that, I probably would suggest the view to people who have already watched a few dramas and fan of the noir genre but not to first-timers.




Ranking: 3½/5

Ph: goldposter.com & my own screenshots

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