Enjoyable, if very quiet drama. Nothing over-done, everything quite low key, but an intelligent treatment of a number of issues, sometimes with great sensitivity.
This is a quiet, undramatic drama, following mainly LSW of Prosecution Team 2, but involves all the other team members.
It's a close-knit team until CMJ joins them – she is highly competent, but cold and a bit distant. It is clear that she feels superior to all the others, and she and LSW clash quite a bit. She starts off by immediately asking to have half of all new cases assigned to her and states she will clear the large backlog of unresolved cases for which the other team members are regularly berated. At the same time she makes sure that the rookie prosecutor and one of the investigators is assigned to her and that the support worker will work half time for her and half time for the others, but she will be stationed in her office. Empire-building, and aiming to get back to Seoul.
The drama covers mostly professional life, with a varying amount of office politics – when it's an issue it's usually pretty toxic. There are moments of personal life as well. Between all these areas, a number of sensitive issues are touched on.. They dealt with issues of working mothers very deftly in one of the most sensitive treatments I have seen. Another issue that stood out was a matter of school violence and verbal bullying : two different cases were included, and both were handled very well.
There are a number of deeply frustrating things about this drama : the most significant is probably the level of poor management, toadying and in-house bullying which vary throughout the drama, but when it occurs, staff are helpless.
Collusion with influential offenders was shown as deeply entrenched in the prosecution system, with no will on the part of the executive to address it and bring charges against corrupt prosecutors. I think this more or less seems to reflect what most people in Korea feel about the system, which they have good reasons to think is rigged.