The 12-episode 2020 OCN drama Team Bulldog: Off-Duty Investigation (Team Bulldog) is an enjoyable crime drama lightened up by the comic personalities and interactions among the main characters. I'm looking forward to a season 2, not only for the easy chemistry among the main characters, but also for uncompleted story arcs like the story of Detective Jin's father - why was there always mention about Detective Jin atoning for his late father's mistake, more fleshing out and profiling for the last serial murder case and obviously one of the serial killer escaped - so there looks like more work for Team Bulldog.
As compared to other OCN crime dramas, Team Bulldog is considerably more light-hearted, although the crimes committed were admittedly mind-boggling. I've come to a little realisation that while korean crime dramas may definitely be dramatized, the real crimes on which the dramatizations were based on were no less horrifying and unbelievable. Such as a seemingly kind-hearted man who goes around fixing heaters for poor elderly for free, gains their trust and murders them with the twisted belief that poor old people are useless and do not deserve to live. Or even a psychotic nurse in a welfare home who gets away with murder simply because society found it easier to cope with poor or disabled people hidden away from sight in so-called welfare homes that deaths in them just didn't raise any alarm bells.
It was interesting to see a different side of the actor cast as the profiler in Team Bulldog. I remember him as an insipid and constipated editor in JTBC's 2020 The Good Detective, so his comic turnout in Team Bulldog was a relief to see that the actor could actually take on a role with more facial expressions.
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