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Until I read one of the reviews on imdb.com: "I thought series 1 of The Chelsea Detective was the best new program I've seen in ages. Then along comes season 2 and it's totally changed. The characters are no longer intriguing - the pace of the series is now very dull. Why in the world would they take such an excellent series and ruin it like this? The new DS, Vanessa Emma, has no personality whatsoever. After the dynamic role that Sonita Henry played, it's like they were trying to find the most incredible invisible character they could possiblly find. Even Adrian Scarborough's character has been drained of any interest. I am thoroughly disappointed!"

This is exactly what I have been thinking and nagging so far. I think the role of the DS played by Sonita Henry is a great cast. There is a strong working relationship between her and the leading DI character. A very strong partnership. But of course, filled in with the personal life of her family, her husband, and the newborn baby is a bit over the top unnecessary. Maybe it's the reason why such inserted filler was omitted completely and only maintained the personal life and relationship of the DI character. That's fine with me. But regretfully, the production team replaced Sonita Henry with Vanessa Emma, who completely missed the original goodness of what we have seen in the First Season. The new DS character played by her is such a boring and disconnected mistake. The DS played by Venessa Emma seemed to be a rigid and uninteresting person, albeit a bit of pretentious. Every time she spoke, she just like delivered her dialogue as a robot, and when other characters spoke, she was just awaiting her turns to speak and, she wore weird costumes and looked very clumsy.

Adrian Scarborough who played DI Max Arnold is such a wonderful cast. Fantastic and natural like a realistic seasoned smart cop. He's the soul who made this series watchable; but of course, if they didn't replace Sonita Henry, it would be a PLUS.

I have also noted that a Volvo compact SUV was used in Season One and Season Three, but a more expensive BMW SUV was replaced in Season Two. Is it because of the limited budget that forced them to lease back the cheaper Volvo?

This new 2025 Korean drama series is a great product. It is also very moving.

Unfortunately, the arrangement of the screenwriter and other supporting roles has a huge failure. The whole script is full of ugly supporting roles: in the headhunting company she runs, except for her, it seems that no employee is really working, fooling around all day long, both male and female employees, all fooling around, and even among them there is a young clown who is late for work every day and does nothing. Even the female supporting role who is the company's human resources director does not look like a competent person.

The whole scene about this headhunting company is obviously made up by a screenwriter who does not understand the operation of the company at all. From the first and second episodes at the beginning, all the scenes with these large numbers of employees can be skipped, because these implants are not only completely unnecessary, but also affect the rationality of this TV series and cause great harm to it.

In addition, in terms of casting, finding an actress who failed in beauty treatment as the boss of another headhunting company that she is hostile to also caused great harm to the show, because this woman looks very scary, and it is almost hard to imagine who would be willing to cooperate with her.

Furthermore, I wish that all of these characters would not talk to himself or herself like what we've often seen in most Korean dramas or movies. Korean dramas usually would make characters talk to him/herself to show their thought. But talking or murmuring to oneself is the thing that usually happens to old and aging people only. We viewers are not that stupid as the Korean screenplay writers or directors; if the actors are good enough to show what their thoughts at the moments, we could easily get them. We don't need to see these roles become such morons keep talking to themselves.

The guy led the expedition to somewhere and built a town. When they struggled along, they didn't have anything but poorly prepared carry-on. Yet when the leader decided to settle down, they miraculously built a village that had smooth walled houses. They didn't have any fabric woven factory, yet they have all kinds modern day draperies and clothes. They didn't have leather factory, yet they wore leather boots. They didn't have any metal, any factories, yet they could have iron to make knives, tillers. They didn't have mills, yet they had flat-cut smooth wood plates to built tables, chairs, beautiful doors, even beds with mosquito net, blankets, spreads, or, Germany made imported Simmons mattress(?). They didn't have any factory to make lens, yet the guy had made magnify lens that he thought could use them to make weapons without explosive. They didn't have factory to make tiles, bricks, yet they had paved roads paved with square tiles...on and on, these miraculous products ridiculously appeared one after another. And I have to put my reasoning logic aside to accept them all. With so many unbelievable crap, the whole story-line simply became unlikely possible, unless...unless I'm brain dead.