I saw all the glowing reviews of this series and thought "cool... I'll give this a watch". The first episode was great: well-shot, stylish, and engaging. After that, however, it pretty much immediately fell apart.The characters started doing things that they have no obvious motivation for. Implausible things started happening regularly (people running into each other at just the right time, etc.). For example the Japanese cop protagonist, who becomes friends (for no obvious reason) with an unstable gay drug addict prostitute, has no issue letting his underage daughter hang out with said prostitute. When his underage daughter, while hanging out with the prostitute, ends up becoming romantically involved with the prostitute's drug dealer the cop 1) doesn't have a problem with the relationship and 2) allows his underage daughter to spend the night with this adult that he's never met. Additionally this show seems to portray this relationship of an underage girl with an adult drug dealer as normal, even positive. Would a show portray a relationship between an underage girl and an adult drug dealer positively if the relationship was heterosexual? Seems unlikely. Beyond the implausibility in the writing there's also a lot of cheesiness and tropes. Given the promise of the first episode it's a shame how bad the rest turned out.
