Number of episodes: 11
Some info:
1) D-Addicts Wiki
2) Official Site (Japanese)
The actual title for this drama should be SP, but I thought it’s better to put the full title as SP is usually used to denote “SPecial” episodes. This drama is also the 3rd series in its timeslot, with Liar Game (already reviewed here) and Life (I might review this someday) being the first two.
Apparently, the show is well-received and there’ll be a special episode airing sometime in April to let more viewers get to see the show. After all, Saturday late night isn’t exactly very ideal to air popular shows since you can expect many people (especially the youngsters) to be out having fun or something.
Well, as you could somewhat guess from the title of the show, this show is about a section in the police force that focuses on security, more specifically the security of VIPs by being their mobile meat shield (to put it bluntly). It also somewhat shows how in today’s age of terrorism (or it’s supposed to be like that), the roles each officer plays are no longer the same, but also shows the difficulty in executing a change to the system faced by the section’s chief (or is it leader? haha).
Initially, I thought it’ll be somewhat a “case” every 1 or 2 episodes, but luckily, most of the cases require around 3 episodes to conclude nicely, which means it gives the case some time to develop and stuff. Then again, each episode is somewhat shorter than your usual drama fare on other time slots. Ah well, at least it’s usually not over-rushed just so that viewers can watch it as a standalone. Hehe.
The show sometimes tries to build up tension and the atmosphere, thinking that something might happen when it’s just nothing special. Heh, quite irritating at times though. Oh well, good effort there though. With that said, it can only mean the editing and post-production were quite decently done at various parts of the show. Good job to those involved in the work.
Well of course, one of the SP agents (the one on the left in the picture above) have very keen senses, possibly due to stress/shock/trauma after his parents’ death many years back. Initially, I thought it was quite ok having that keen senses, but sometimes he seem to be able to foresee things, which is like getting a little out of hand liaoz. Haha. Ah well, his powers are needed to prevent certain bad things from happening at times =P
Now for some stuff I spotted: in episode 1, in the opening scenes when the guy receives a new email, a popup “A new massage” appears. Bad spelling mistake. I wonder if it’s really an actual email program available commercially, or it’s just a “dummy” created for this show.
Overall, the show’s pretty nice, putting some emphasis on terrorists and stuff. Some things in the show seem quite “real”, though some look quite made up anyway. Haha, I suppose you can’t make the show too realistic as people might get some weird ideas from there, you never know.
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