Do you love cop dramas? Do you love cars? Do you wish your aforementioned cop dramas had more cars? If so, do I have the show for you. ENA’s new drama Crash starring Lee Min-ki (Behind Your Touch) and Kwak Sun-young (Moving) dropped its first teaser, and it’s wasting no time highlighting its moneymaker: the high speed chase sequences.
Crash follows the lives of officers in the Traffic Crime Investigations (TCI) unit. While the average person (me) might hear that and go “oh, so they write parking tickets all day,” the reality of their job is much more high stakes. From insurance fraudsters, to retaliatory drivers, to the hot mess that is self-driving cars, TCI officers investigate vehicular crime to keep the streets safe.
Cars are so embedded into their DNA, in fact, that it’s ironic when they welcome their newest member Cha Yeon-ho (Lee Min-ki), because while he’s a genius KAIST graduate who checks all the boxes… he can’t drive.
But thankfully TCI has other officers to keep things afloat, like their ace detective Min So-hee (Kwak Sun-young), a master case-solver who’s sought after by other departments, but refuses to leave their unit. Or their fearless leader Heo Sung-tae (Bait), who hand-picked all the members of the TCI team. Or their remaining fellow officers like the anxious car expert Lee Ho-chul (Like Flowers in Sand) and skilled fighter Moon-hee (Duty After School). With all these talents, what’s a little non-driving, right?
The teaser gives us a quick behind the scenes look at production before showing us several car stunt scenes to sell the Fast and Furious vibe, and I have to admit, while I’m not really a cop drama fan, Kwak Sun-young leaping over cars and popping high speed u-eys is so innately cool I have no words (check out the last screenshot for a perfect re-creation of my reaction).
Written by Oh Soo-jin and directed by Park Joon-woo (Doctor Detective, Taxi Driver), ENA’s Crash will premiere on May 13.