Strawberry Night eps 1-3

WHAT I LIKED

Pissed off Takeuchi Yuko.

Yabe Kenzo without the wig.

WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE

Superior who acts like a spoiled child; angry overacting for no reason all the time at our protagonist for the misguided purpose of creating more obstacles for our heroine. ZZZzzzzzzz. Someone needs to tell non Wowow and NHK writers that police shows are about procedures.

The Japanese definition of cool: whole bunch of cops surrounding one lone suspect armed with a knife. Words cannot describe how lame this scene was.

Strawberry Night does ok police procedure but it is nowhere near the holy trinity of Rinjo/Gonzo/Gaiji Keisatsu because it tries to do too much and feels too superficial. If its supposed to be a show about heads of sections backstabbing each other for glory then make it so instead of leaving the job up to Kinpachi sensei and not making him interesting. Have everyone spying on each other and leaving false information instead of spending more time on Takeuchi Yuko's personal story, team Himekawa and the old forensic dude. Its sort of watchable and easily better than your usual crap like Boss but not good enough. I'm dropping this and may take a peak later for Takeuchi Yuko.