A serial killer who supposedly died five years ago may be back, and there’s only one man who can stop him. He has ugly hair, but he’s also super smart.
Tell Me What You Saw consists of 16 episodes. This is a serial killer series with lots of serial killers. Welcome to South Korea!
We follow a policewoman who isn’t the brightest person in the world, but her memory is out of this world. She can remember everything she sees, which comes in handy. She gets transferred to the big city, where she meets a mysterious man who sits in a wheelchair and has long hair. He’s a former profiler who lost his fiancée to a serial killer five years ago, and he’s been hiding from the world ever since.
But then it seems like the serial killer who supposedly died five years ago might still be alive. That theory isn’t popular in the police force, especially among the higher-ups. Are they hiding something?
I enjoyed Tell Me What You Saw. It’s a series with a lot of suspense and guessing. But it also gave me a headache because it’s pretty stupid at times. What you see and experience is sometimes beyond belief. If it weren’t for the stupid, corrupt higher-ups in the police force, I’d really recommend it—especially if you’re looking for a dark, entertaining, and twisted serial killer series from South Korea.
Tell Me What You Saw is a series that never should’ve included those corrupt higher-ups. I’m pretty tired of all the corruption we constantly see in long Korean TV series. And don’t tell me about real-life corruption in South Korea—I know all about it. But sometimes, it’s better just to let the story focus on the characters and the investigation instead of all the corruption dragging things down. It’s ridiculous when the higher-ups are sabotaging the investigation just to protect themselves. They don’t care about the victims. It’s stupid and disgusting, and I couldn’t take it seriously. If you remove that crap, I’d give the show a 9/10—even though the killer’s motive is weak as hell. But he’s a serial killer you’ll like because of his craziness, and you’ll hate him as a kid. The child actor playing him is creepy as hell! That laughter and that face… Jesus Christ, someone should’ve shot him!
It’s also another Korean series that should’ve been four episodes shorter. I wasn’t a huge fan of the first five episodes or so because it felt like an episodic crime show, with the police hunting down different serial killers one after another. There are a lot of serial killers here, but don’t be fooled—there’s a connection between them that makes things more interesting once the truth is revealed.
In the end, it almost feels like Death Note—you know, with characters like L and Light. It’s all about these two and their mind games, trying to outsmart each other.
In the final episodes, the crazy scale hits a 10. What we see and what happens shouldn’t have happened, and you can’t take it seriously—but it still fits the wild energy and the crazy serial killer, who’s like an evil superhero from hell. He’s always nearby and can do whatever he wants without getting caught because of how crazy and terrifying he is. That also leads to some truly stupid scenes that are beyond belief, and there are quite a few of them. It’s stupid, but entertaining.
Tell Me What You Saw had so much potential. It’s well acted, the pace is fast, and the pacing is mostly excellent—except it should’ve been four episodes shorter. But the beyond-belief plotlines and the stupid corruption subplot drag this TV series down from a 9 to a 7/10.