K-drama Military Prosecutor Doberman: a mishmash of comedy, action and drama, it’s off to an uneven start
- Ahn Bo-hyun stars in series that aims for a fun and frothy tone while seeking to vilify powerful figures at the very top of society
- The early episodes are bogged down by an abundance of fateful coincidences, endless posturing and some head-scratching logic
This article contains mild spoilers.
The show opens in a fancy restaurant on an upper floor of a skyscraper, the camera gliding through the happy patrons until it settles on a family celebrating a birthday by a window, a celebration that is rudely interrupted when Ahn’s dogged prosecutor Do Bae-man appears behind the same window, dangling upside down.
As Bae-man considers the precarious situation he finds himself in, we jump back to his teenage years, as he is expelled from yet another school and scolded by his policewoman aunt Do Soo-kyung (Kang Mal-geum). Bae-man’s parents were army officers but ever since their death in a car accident he has been bearing a grudge against the military.
Despite his lack of formal education, Bae-man perseveres and passes the bar exam, but when he presents himself at law firms during interviews, he’s laughed at for not having a high school diploma.
