It’s possible Dr. Brain escaped your attention when it was released. It came out during Covid, on Apple TV and received little to no publicity. Directed by Kim Jee-woon (The Good, The Bad and The Weird/I Saw The Devil) Dr. Brain is adapted from a web comic of the same name. I watched Dr. Brain when it first released and had a mixed reaction to it. This past week I rewatched the show and found…

Title: Dr. Brain Language: Korean Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Medical Synopsis (from MyDramaList): An emotional journey that follows a brain scientist who is obsessive about figuring out new technologies to access the consciousness and memories of the brain. His life goes sideways when his family falls victim to a mysterious accident, and he uses his skills to access memories from his…

Dr. Brain - Watched December 2021

What brought me to it: Director Kim Jee-Woon

What I liked: There are some really gorgeous and impactful sequences, plus the tone is truly batshit in a way that can be really enjoyable at times. 

What I didn’t like: The tone is truly batshit in a way that sometimes did not work for me. Plus the main conflict in the show was not that compelling to me.

The standouts: Park Hee-Soon all the way

Who I would recommend it to: Kim Jee-Woon completionists, people that want to see somethin weird.

Final Review: Dr Brain

I’d actually give this Sci-fic Kdrama a passing score, in fact, I’d score it a good B grade at the least. Seems like short 6eps is the magic formula for a Kdrama centered on futuristic theories. In summary, Brain is all about this villainous Prof Myung — the same guy who “adopted” Se-won when he lost his mum. Cos his goal was to attain a form of immortality by transferring his consciousness (or…

First Impression: Dr. Brain

Apple TV+’s first venture into Kdrama is a Sci-fic thriller, 6eps in all. So far, ep1 is promising… Main cast: Lee Sun-kyun (from My Mister) as Koh Se-won. Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a child, he is the proverbial autistic-savant. Se-won grows up to be a neural-researcher, specialising in the transference of brain waves between people.Lee Yoo-young (from My Fellow Citizens)…

How can this drama have only six episodes and become crazier every time I tune it?

After his child dies and wife goes into coma, brain scientist Se Won tries everything to sync in with the dead person’s brain.

As one of his tries were a success he wants to do it more but what kind of information he will get to know about his family...

A few first episodes were quite slow and boring, for me, though I know that some would like to disagree with that.

However, I was still very curious about his wife and what happened to their kid as according to her their child was still alive.

That curiosity and knowledge that it’s only six episodes kept me going and though it got interesting in the end I still think that this drama is absolutely insane. 

Let’s be honest who would think of trying to get cat’s memories if not an insane scientist.

The characters were great, I really liked to see the growth in Se Won as he got more people in him and seeing him going from emotionless to someone who feels everything is very interesting.

Personally, I wish we could get more of Park Hee Soon, he was in the first half but I needed more of him in the second. 

But differently from him, I don’t think we needed police involved in all of this, they felt a bit useless most of the time but I won’t complain more as Seo Ji Hye looked great as always.

As you see I cared more for who is playing the characters than characters themselves but it’s not my fault you got a great cast with a bit boring drama.

I wouldn’t really recommend watching it, not the worst drama I have watched it’s just a little bit weird and boring but if you pass the first three episodes you might get more interested after that.

Or as vice versa, you will be invested in those three episodes and later boring, there is no in-between.