Maou

Great suspense, love to see how's a person being manipulated by 'the devil' to became a murderer.

There is a good drama hiding in this series and in abler hands this could have been quite good. The basic story line is good and keeps you interested but it felt like the producers didn't have enough confidence in the material and added distracting elements that just made things annoying.
The main detective is full of passion but a little low on brains. He runs around yelling at people , over-emoting at every turn and missing obvious connections. Impossible to believe this man could have worked his way to detective level.

The acting by Ohno Satoshi was fine and nuanced and Kobayashi Ryoko was well cast as the innocent, kind young woman. While Ikuta Toma's performance as the detective was very irritating, you can't fault the actor as that was most likely how he was directed to perform.
But the element that was most annoying/distracting was the soundtrack. Apparently the producers didn't think we would realize when something dramatic was occurring and added
constantly loud and overwrought music.
With just a little work this would have been terrific and, as is, there are pleasures to be found here if you ignore some of the annoying distractions.

Currently I am watching the ninth episode, I am a bit dissapointed of how stupid Serizawa is, he knew who Naruse really is & call him out for him to confess for who he really is. Yet Serizawa does set a bug to record, or worst to worst using his own handphone (most phone now days able to do it).
Since Serizawa is soo slow in the head,
in the end, I think I can guess that his fate will be in the hand of Naruse.

Got to continue watching now...