I have decided to discuss all the episodes together instead of doing individual posts. At least now I can discuss the drama as a whole, especially since there are a couple different plots.
Story:
(in no particular order)
*Plot A - Tamami and her family:
Tamami is trying to juggle her family and work at the same time, but usually its her family that gets the backseat. It's not that she doesn't care about her family, she worries about them as well, but with her passion for forensic pathology, she wants to know the truth. In ep06 her son was kidnapped, and here she shows another side of herself to her colleagues. Ep07 and onwards, you see the marital problems she endures with her husband and how she overcomes them. Tamami needed to understand where her husband was coming from and not just rely on him for everything.
*Plot B - Chika and Nakura-sensei:
From ep05 and onwards, Chika has to choose whether or not her and Nakura-sensei are meant to be together or not. She finally tells him she loves him and he does so as well, but as the series progressed, he never showed his affection or even acknowledges their relationship. Ultimately they break up along the way, but in the end, they realize the love that they have for each other and end up together.
*Plot C - Takeda Family problems:
While the drama is about following Tamami and her, I guess shenanigans, the whole backbone of Bull Doctor is about the Takeda family and their past. The story about Nobuo's drinking problem unfolds as we learn who's been sending him the texts messages. Yashiro-sensei was paid to antagonize Takeda-sensei about his criminal past. Takeda-sensei had for years, forged death certificates under the advisory of the head of the hospital. It all started with the transplant surgery from his wife to Mia. A medical error had occurred and his wife had lost her life while on the operating table. If they were to investigate, Mia wouldn't have had her transplant and would have passed away as well. The doctors in the room had all agreed to cover it up and claim she had passed away after the surgery in order for Mia to get her kidney. The cover was blown and Takeda-sensei was being blackmailed in order to forge death certificates since then.
He was pushed down the stairs and endured severe head trauma. During recovery, he felt it was finally time to tell the public truth, with Mia's permission. When preparations were ready, the head of the hospital beat him to it and announced Takeda-sensei's leave from the hospital and that an investigation will have to go on at the hospital. Because of his leave, Nakura-sensei was now the head professor of the forensic department.
Chika and Tamami commit a crime by stealing the body of the assistant in the hospital department, and examining it, when a forged certificate was written for his death without a primary examination. In a confrontation, it turned out Nakura-sensei was actually helping the department by recording the conversations he had with the Head. Before something serious had happened, the Head was arrested. Takeda-sensei was also arrested for his part in this investigation, but Chika and Tamami were on probation for about a year before coming back to work.
Comments:
While the ratings fluctuated for the rest of the series, the finale gained more than 3% above it's first episode gaining the highest rating of the series ending with 16.4%.
I anticipated each week for episodes to get released and I really liked how the series turned out. While I don't think the drama name matches the series in its entirety, I think it done a great job following Tamami's life and the work that revolved around her. Adding in the sub plot with her family was kind of boring, but while I didn't care for it, it was necessary in order to give Tamami more than one-dimension.
I didn't like that not all the other forensic doctors got a chance to have a storyline. In fact, none of them had any relevance to the story but just to be fillers and make it more realistic in the department. The only other person that had a story that involved the main cast was Yashiro-sensei.
I do like how Mia had her relevance in the story, finally, as it revolved around her transplant surgery as a child. At the cliff hanger, we knew that Takeda-sensei had committed a crime, but I didn't think it would have evolved his family. It wasn't like it was a twist ending, but it was a shocker at how it started.
I think overall I can give this drama a 7, maybe a 7.5 out of 10. It was a great series to go through, but it's not one where I'm compelled to rewatch it over and over again.
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