3 days ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Amazon Prime K-drama Good Boy: Park Bo-gum plays a former boxer in police action-comedy
Lead cast: Park Bo-gum, Kim So-hyun, Lee Sang-yi
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Latest Nielsen rating: 5.3 per cent
As any athlete will tell you, warming up before exercise is essential to avoid injury. Stories need to warm up as well, for a similar reason – let's call it narrative whiplash.
Good Boy, a new action series featuring
Park Bo-gum (Record of Youth),
Kim So-hyun
Love Alarm ) and Lee Sang-yi (
Bloodhounds ) as a group of sporting medallists who join the police force, is very careful to limber up before getting into the meat of the action.
But when the action only kicks in 80 minutes into a meandering 90-minute premiere episode, we have to wonder: what happens when warming up takes precedence over exercise?