Review of Bad & Crazy / 배드 앤 크레이지

You know, as someone who watches a lot of television, movies, and reads a lot, hence why I started a blog on everything I was watching, you’d think that because I am picky, I would have some legitimate reasons for watching some things sometimes.

There are moments where I do like to mindlessly watch television, which people are shocked by because of the level of analysis I tend to go into, and I’m there for just vibes.

I watched Bad & Crazy for no reason at all except I had seen something with Wi Ha-jun in it—it was Little Women, which I’ve also reviewed on this blog!—and decided that I liked him as an actor.

So I was scrolling through Netflix in search of a new Korean drama to watch when I saw him and Lee Dong-wook on the cover of this show.

I’d never heard of it, but it seemed entertaining enough from its premise, and I pressed play. It was all about vibes when picking out this movie, and sometimes that’s totally fine. We don’t have to have a grand reason to do everything in our lives.

Let’s get into the review then, shall we?

A cop with some questionable tactics finds himself haunted by his more moral-based counterpart.

Our main character in this drama, Su-yeol, is portrayed by Lee Dong-wook. He works for the police as a detective, but from what we see in the first episode, he’s willing to play dirty if he needs to solve a case.

Some of his methods are definitely not allowed as a police officer, but he still runs with it because he can be discreet as needed. This plays very much into his favor, as his success rate allows him to quickly move up in the ranks in the police world.

But when he runs into a man who calls himself K, wearing motorcycle gear, K forces Su-yeol to question these same tactics. K goes by by a very strong sense of justice, and while he can help out on the cases, he also does things by the book. While Su-yeol does get the job done, he could be better at his job. K constantly keeps showing up to the scene, and, as we learn later, K doesn’t actually exist.

Su-yeol just has a split personality and K is the more righteous side of him.

While K beats people up and helps him out (a weird part of the show, as no way Su-yeol actually is getting this many guys down at once throughout certain moments), he just isn’t real. At the same time, we get the story of Lee Hui-gyeom, another police workers in the drug squad that Su-yeol is familiar with.

A subplot that dives deeper into the main one is the fact that Lee is set up, putting her—and Su-yeol—in a precarious situation later on in the episodes.

While Su-yeol is played as a bit unhinged by Lee, making it one of his more finer roles for showing how good he is as an actor, Lee is more calm and focused, playing by the book as well.

This is a show that really teeters between serious drama and a comedy, and I think it strikes that balance quite well if I’m being frank.

I did start losing focus towards the end of the series, as I thought it was being dragged out a bit more in the later episodes, but the actors did a really good job with this script.

We spice it up with some betrayals and big moments, but I found myself just getting tired of what I was watching, as the main plot wasn’t enough for me to stay interested.

Overall Thoughts

I think this is a decent show, and was funny at times, but as I mentioned before, I was kind of tired of it by the end. That said, if you enjoyed it all the way through (if you watched it), kudos to you, nothing wrong with that.

Taste is extremely subjective, and you shouldn’t completely base your opinions off of reviews. I probably won’t be rewatching the show in the near future, but I am glad I watched it in the end!

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