Okay I mostly went into this drama because I am a huge fan of Cha Hakyeon , and his choice of thriller dramas have been proven good before (Tunnel for example), but also because this is a dark drama from the get go about child abuse. With a lot of thriller dramas or when it is about finding a murderer etc, the plot gets dragged out and has a lot of underdeveloped characters. This really caught me by surprise of how well-written it was. Apparently it is cowritten by one of the writers of Achiara Village, that was a good mystery but fell flat for me so I stopped watching it. But Children of Nobody, really is worth watching it all. The characters, especially female and main characters are so well-acted and well-written, and yes you feel like it goes a bit back and forth in the middle but to be honest I just feel like it is more realistic for the cases shown in this drama.

Especially on topics like child abuse and domestic violence, things can get really dramatized and only shown as a form of miseryporn. Children of nobody does not do that, and really uses their actors (especially child actors who where phenomenal) in a way that still feels respective to the dark stories that come up as the plot goes on.

The only real criticism I have is that even though the writing is really good and holds up, some of the characters (like the police) gets sadly underdeveloped and it feels like they scrapped some extra plot lines for them (especially the female detective) in the end to focus more on the whole. Also, how it ends feels a bit dragged out, but still not at all because how it really shows the characters reactions of the big resolution, but still opens a lot more questions just about how the characters will move on.