First look at tvN's "Criminal Minds"

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

We’ve finally got a premiere date for tvN’s upcoming remake of Criminal Minds, and not a moment too soon since it’ll start its run at the end of this month. The show has also released a short first teaser featuring our main characters, and it’s just as tense and dramatic as you’d expect of a crime thriller.

The teaser starts with Sohn Hyun-joo (Three Days) narrating offscreen: “We promise you, that we will catch them.” We get flashes of our profiler team and crime scenes as a male survivor says in a terrified voice, “When I close my eyes, I can picture his gaze so vividly, I can’t keep them closed.” Another victim, this time a woman, begs for her life, while a man yells at someone to stop. We get brief scenes of our team in action; racing in a police car, subduing a suspect in a hospital, and Lee Jun-ki (Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo) looking bloody and battered. “We can stop them, if we can think like them.”

After reading the character descriptions, it sounds like the Korean remake is going to transplant a lot of the same characters from the original American show into this adaptation, with a few minor tweaks. Sohn Hyun-joo will play team leader Kang Ki-hyung, who is described as highly intellectual and level-headed, and widely considered the best profiler in Korea. He sounds like a mix of Jason Gideon and Aaron Hotchner’s characters, and I could see Sohn Hyun-joo acting the heck out of it.

Lee Jun-ki’s agent Kim Hyun-joon sounds like he’ll be taking Derek Morgan’s role in the profiler team: He’s tasked with the more physical aspects of being an NCI agent, such as taking down suspects or chasing them on foot. Usually lighthearted and easygoing, he does a 180 turn at crime scenes and is the most assertive team member. Just as passionate about her job is Moon Chae-won’s (Goodbye Mr. Black) Ha Seon-woo, whose main role in the team is analyzing the crime scene. Like Emily Prentiss, Ha Seon-woo is exceptionally good at her job and doesn’t let threats to her safety stand in the way of her responsibilities.

JJ’s Communications Liaison role goes to Yoo Min-young, played by Lee Sun-bin (Missing 9), and Go Yoon (Monster) will play the youngest-ever agent Lee Han, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology. Oh, I’m so glad Reid’s character will have a part in the Korean adaptation, and I can’t wait to see how Lee Han and Kim Hyun-joon get along. I’m also super happy to see that Penelope Garcia will have a Korean counterpart in Yoo Sun’s (Our Gap-soon) Nana Hwang, complete with badass hacking skills and unique sense of style.

It looks like there’ll be some internal conflict in addition to the various episodic crimes our profiler team will struggle to solve: Kim Young-chul (Father Is Strange) will play Baek San, who founded the profiling branch NCI and acts as its director. Baek San is described as a charismatic figure skilled in politics, who can’t be squared away into being a “good” or “bad” character. I just hope there isn’t too much intra-agency politicking involved in this adaptation, because I prefer our profilers taking down our baddies in the field and not getting too caught up in bureaucratic maneuvering.

Criminal Minds is set to premiere on July 26 in tvn’s new Wednesday-Thursday slot.



But will there be a private jet?

sources: tvN YouTube & Dramabeans

Comments

[keytfelt.livejournal.com]

I'm glad we finally got a teaser, after the initial casting news there's been like zero promo and it's premiering in a few weeks. I haven't watched the American version, but I like the actors in this one so I'll check it out.

[anconeous.livejournal.com]

Seeing Lee Junki not wearing a hanbok is strange to me. Lol

[annayism.livejournal.com]

i just started watching the american version a few months ago and it's now my favorite show so i'm super excited to check this out too!!

it irks me that the korean title is "criminal mind" tho :\

[lycorisc.livejournal.com]

ngl i love criminal minds it was my pastime during HS, and i usually still marathon random seasons because each episode can be watched as a standalone if you don't mind the undercurrent of internal issues within the team/bureau. the seasons when the team was complete and comprised of hotch, morgan, prentiss, jj, reid, rossi, and penelope were the best. i hope this adaptation lives up to the original!

[ssehun.livejournal.com]

yesss ia! that lineup of characters was the best for me.

[lycorisc.livejournal.com]

ikr like i wasn't as excited once shemar left, then they booted thomas gibson off. it's hard to replicate the team's natural rapport. just lowkey supporting the show still because paget brewster returned and the others are still mostly there

[ssehun.livejournal.com]

moon chaewon! ok giving this a shot, hopefully it'll be good!

(no spencer reid-ish character? haha)

[kristinl356.livejournal.com]

I never watched the American version but I'd like to try this. I wonder how much of a procedural it will be though since it's harder for me to keep my interest with those. I even had trouble with the remake of The Good Wife for that reason despite being madly in love with Jeon Do Yeon. Well that and I knew how every case would turn out since I've watched most the original TGW about 3 times through.

[honeebs.livejournal.com]

My baby has lost a bit more weight. The cast is hefty.

----
US vrs is too dark for me. Henney joining the original show, still won't get me to watch.

[citypolaroids.livejournal.com]

the original version has been my favorite show since it was released 12 years ago (yikes), so i'm hoping this one lives up to the awesome format of the original while bringing in something different with the characters, since that was also a major reason why i love it so much.

[squeakybanana.livejournal.com]

I'm curious to see how they'll adapt this; the original Criminal Minds focused on serial crime and there's always an element of "this person is a loner, very isolated etc." in their profiles, which can be hard to apply to an Asian context since we tend to be very family-oriented? Not saying that there are zero Asian serial criminals though; I think this has a lot of potential! Looking forward to checking this out.

[donutism.livejournal.com]

Not sure how they are going to live up to the original cast though

[tsuyoi-hikari.livejournal.com]

Kinda disappointed since I want to see Moon Chae Won in another sageuk! Its been 84 years... :(

[tinzedesu.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of the american version for a long time so I'm looking forward to this!

[mc1a.livejournal.com]

Will they wheel up in 30? How do you say babygirl in Korean?

[premonitioner.livejournal.com]

I'll give this a shot but if the Derek Morgan character doesn't flirt with everyone what's the point

[she-devil666.livejournal.com]

agreed

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

This!

[jaeslurpy.livejournal.com]

i'll have to check this out. i love the american version. i'm not sure what my expectations for this will be but i look forward to it.

[integrawh.livejournal.com]

I LOVE CRIMINAL MINDS. And I love Junki so...this will be the best thing in kdramaland for me this year.

[juhli.livejournal.com]

pls pls pls let this be good.

[xxmannequin.livejournal.com]

I love that everyone has high hopes for this, because I sure don't. Yes, it's Lee Jun Ki, yes, I love him, but like... kdrama's trying to be sErIoUs....

[she-devil666.livejournal.com]

"But will there be a private jet?"

no private jet- show is a no for me