A happy family is on the brink of crumbling after the head of the family’s past job came back haunting him.
Emotionally stirring, the brewing conflict to be tackled in JTBC’s Undercover leaves any viewer into a worrying state. Following its initial story sketch, the series introduces a loving married couple relatively blessed in life. But their lives are about to change.
Opening Week Rating: 
abbyinhallyuland watches Undercover via K-PLUS Asia
Episode Recaps: 01 & 02 | 03 & 04 | Mid-Series | Finale + Review
Undercover Opening Week Story
Taking a new identity, Lee Suk-kyu (Ji Jin Hee) assumes the identity of Han Jung-hyun when he becomes an agent of the National Intelligence Service. He tells his father that he will be sent overseas for work. In one of his assignments, he meets the young and brilliant lawyer Choi Yeon-soo (Kim Hyun Joo). She is believed to be a key for him to the elusive student movement leader, the NIS eyes on.
Wanting to build a family with Yeon-soo, Jung-hyun leaves the organization and settles down building his family. However, when a new government position was announced, he was tracked by Do Young-gul. He is a ruthless former teammate who has a strong grudge against him. Jung-hyun learns of his wife’s appointment as Chief Investigative Officer (CIO), and his forced assignment is to make her turn down the position.
Yeon-soo, who has been working on a 29-year case involving a terminally ill accused murderer, already decides not to accept the position. She wants to take the case up to its real closure. But the person whom she has been fighting justice for pushes her to take the position.
Undercover Opening Week Musings
Disclosing in detail the emotions and beliefs of the lead pairing left me worried about the fate to befall on Yeon-soo and Jung-hyun. I’m already scared to witness their beautiful family face uncertainty. The opening scene pretty much suggests the direction of the story. Even in a regular married couple situation of discovering inadvertent lies, it’s something hard to reconcile.
Picturing the situation of Yeon-soo and Jung-hyun, who are both upright in their own ways, the emotions surely will run high once the secret is out in the open.
There are things I am baffled on how the NIS was presented in the story, but I will check out more episodes in case I’m just rushing. The back story was also beautifully captured thanks to Yeon Woo Jin and Han Sun Hwa who played the younger versions of the main leads.
The brewing storm
With the main players in the story effectively introduced, Jung-hyun’s plight would mostly take the first part of Undercover. I especially felt the pain he had to bear in leaving and lying to his father. Albeit taking care of him in his last days, it does not suffice what he had to let go in accepting a new life.
Fortunately for him, his family life compensates for the guilt he felt leaving his father. However, it seems to head to an uncompromising situation that will test his mettle.
On Yeon-soo’s side, her conviction will be challenged as well. Considering her impervious nature, she is set to withstand a problem that will involve her family.
Scoring a gravitating pitch, Undercover vaunted a solid narrative right off the bat. Coupled with a solid cast, it invites us to brace ourselves for the parade of confrontations, betrayals, and conspiracies spicing up its initial displayed story.
Undercover is broadcast every Friday and Saturday on JTBC.
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