Detective Lee Dong Sik works as a patrol police officer in the small town of Munju, following the rules by the book...literally. He has a weird and indecipherable personality, so everyone walks on eggs shells when it comes to him, but the main reason is that he was the prime suspect for the homicide of his twin sister 20 years ago. Even if all charges have been eventually dropped, the town's people are still suspicious.
One day, detective Han Joo Won gets transferred to the Manyang police substation and assigned to work with Dong Sik as partners. Joo Won has a stellar resume and an influential father, so all the members of the police station are surprised he got transferred there instead of getting a prestigious position within the Seoul police department.
Dong Sik and Joo Won seem to be unable to get along since they're both stubborn and evidently hiding something, but they'll have to set those feelings aside because of Kang Min-Jung. She's the only daughter of a supermarket owner and Dong Sik considers her almost as his daughter, so when he finds her cut fingers in front of the store (but not her body), he and Joo Won start investigating in order to find the murderer, who's also deemed responsible for the murders of 20 years ago...My Opinion👍
The above review summarizes the plot to the bone because the main story branches off into so many different other ones that I thought it would be better to keep it as simple as possible.
If you're into the kind of stories where the culprit is unknown until the very end (LITERALLY!) then you should watch 'Beyond Evil'.
The title is self-explanatory: the murders committed are atrociously cruel and when I was halfway through the series I suspected everyone could be the murderer.
The only sure thing is that no one is sinless: every single character hides quite a number of skeletons in their wardrobes and it's just a matter of which level of evil they are at.
To put it in a simple way, if someone who doesn't know a thing about South Korea watches this drama, they'll end up thinking the country is one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
This was actually one of the fewest k-dramas I've watched that is not set in Seoul and I like the change of setting.
Shin Ha-Kyun portrays Dong Sik in a marvelous way, switching from serious to seemingly crazy flawlessly and now I know what people mean when they say someone has a 'scary smile'.
It's a bit intricate at first as murders from the past mix with the present but when all lies start to get on the surface, everything gets clearer. This is a very nice thriller series, it's on the same page as 'Bad Guys'.
This was the kind of story where you want to understand to the core immediately, but the characters are so complex (and frankly, wicked) and it's filled with new twists and question marks that you'll have to way up until the very end to have all your questions answered.
Rating: 4/5
Ph: hancinema.net
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