Good Boy Review 2025 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
What’s apparent in Good Boy is that from Insung Metro PD leadership on down, petty personal grievances and the constant specter of corruption are bigger factors than stopping any kind of crime wave. Which is crazy because the gangster known as Golden Bunny (Kang Gil-woo) is running rampant in the streets with his gang of customs smugglers and baseball bat-wielding thugs. And it’s even more crazy, because a lot of cops on the job would rather heap ridicule on the National Athlete Special Recruit Program than notice the eagerness and preparedness of junior officers Yoon Dong-ju (Park), Ji Han-na (Kim), Shin Jae-hong (Tae), and Kim Jong-hyeon (Lee).
Dong-ju was a boxer. Han-na was a champion trap and skeet shooter. Jae-hong competed in the discus. And Jong-hyeon won silver in fencing. Even Ko Man-sik (Heo), Dong-ju’s senior officer, still fondly recalls his days as an Olympic wrestler. But as they’re passed over for participation in a sting to nab Golden Bunny, these jocks-turned-cops are left to wonder how they’ll ever get out of debt, get a promotion, or even be recognized as full-fledged members of the police department. None of these setbacks seem to bother Dong-ju, though. He remains thoughtful and smiling, even though he’s out here pawning his gold medal for food money.
Good Boy sprinkles in a few wacky music cues alongside its pop music soundtrack, and even a bit of slapstick as the bumbling cops can’t keep up with their pursuit of the Golden Bunny gang. But the series might have a bit of romance on its mind, too – Dong-ju has had moon eyes for Han-na since they trained together on the national Olympic team. (Even so, she rejects his flirting, and Han-na is also navigating a more recent breakup with Kim Jong-hyeon.) While the police establishment likes to dismiss the sportos as cops who “came in through the back door,” trouble finds them anyway, and in such a way that conveniently showcases their athletic prowess as it’s applied to crime fighting. As Dong-ju and his fellow Olympians-turned-LEOs fight for professional respect, they’ll also have to fight a bunch of bad guys who think they’re above the law.
Good Boy has 16 (!) episodes to figure it out, so we’re not super worried, but there is a definite sense of tone-sorting happening in the early going of the series. We weren’t entirely sure if the action was going to stay in Keystone Cops hysterical mode, were thrown a little by the sudden left-turn into one-sided flirty banter between Dong-ju and Han-na, and didn’t know how to align its occasional touches of lighthearted music with other stretches where Good Boy suddenly gets really serious. But we also feel like these issues will be sorted as the jock cops show what they can do and start to coalesce as a unit. And it’s significant how good Park Bo-gum is at balancing Dong-ju’s natural goofiness with that sudden seriousness. When the kid encounters Oh Jong-gu (Jung Man-sik), his former Olympic boxing coach, his grin is replaced by a frown and accusations that Oh might have something to do with the disappearance of Dong-ju’s former boxer buddy.
As we look for the tone of this series to settle in, we’re intrigued with how it will further apply its former athletes’ respective disciplines to their new jobs. Like, Ji Han-na won’t always be close enough to her competition shotgun to use it for scaring away goons. And even though Dong-ju eagerly takes on like 10 members of the Golden Bunny gang, his punches pushing like pistons into their midsections, those criminals might be better prepared for Officer Boxer next time they see him. Ultimately, we might be most interested in watching these former athletes pin to the mat or score fifteen foil touches on all of the Insung City officers who are on the take.
