An interesting find...

I was Hulu-ing around last night on the Roku box—now that's an introduction that would've raised eyebrows a few years ago, but I digress—when I ran across a number of Korean television shows, one of which was titled Ghost, the description of which starts off like this:

An elite division of law enforcement goes after criminals who can't always be seen or found.

I couldn't see the rest of the description (attempting to do so got me the episode list), but I figured this for a Korean version of The X Files meets The Night Stalker, and decided to check out the first episode.

Boy, was I ever wrong about what the series is about.

It turns out the story line follows a Korean cyber crimes unit that's trying to catch an uber-sophisticated hacker named "Hades."

On the one hand, while the production values of the show are pretty good, they aren't quite up to what you'd expect on an American crime series. On the other hand, the result is at times more believable. The show also gets a bit more into the nitty-gritty of the technology end of the business than I'm used to seeing on U.S. shows. (I'm not at all sure you'll ever hear the word "steganography" mentioned—or the concept explained—on a U.S. cop show.)

It is, hopefully, not too much of a spoiler to point out that what might otherwise be consigned to a secondary arc in a U.S. show (such as who was responsible for sending Charlie Crews up the river in Life, or what the deal might be with the mysterious forces that are trying to do away with Kate Beckett in Castle) is the main story thread in this series.

In other news, I've learned how to get access to Apple's Russian app store. It ain't easy, let me tell you.

Cheers...