Galileo ガリレオ

This time, I want to introduce another Japanese television drama, which is named Galileo. This drama is based on a novel, Detective Galileo, which is written by a famous mystery writer,東野圭吾. There are two seasons of this drama and there were also two movies related to the story released in 2008 and 2013. I think this drama is a little bit different from the common detective dramas that we usually think. In this drama, there is no detective in it; in contrast, the two main characters are a rookie police, 岸谷美砂 and an associate professor in Physics Department, 湯川学.

Some interesting parts in season two of this drama.

The main character, 湯川学, is a handsome professor who teaches Physics in 帝都大学. He is a brilliant but eccentric person who is not interested in anything but Physics. He helps the police, 岸谷美砂, to solve the cases only when he thinks that there are somethings interesting. He has some pet phrases such as "さっぱり分からない", which means that it doesn't ring any bells; also "実におもしろい", which means that he thinks it is very interesting; the most important one is "現象には必ず理由がある", which means that everything comes for a reason. He doesn't believe there are supernatural phenomenon 
and impossible things in the world and he thinks that he can use his knowledge from Physics to solve all of them.








The heroine in this drama in season two is 岸谷美砂. She is a rookie police who is very confident in herself and she is sometimes very rude to seniors, such as the assistant of Professor 湯川, who is older than her. When she encounter some difficult and mysterious cases, she will come to Professor 湯川's laboratory to ask for help. However, Professor 湯川 is only interested in what the criminal tactic is, therefore 岸谷 always has to find who is the murderer by herself.









In this drama, there is one funny scene appearing in every episode. When Professor 湯川 thinks of the physical methods that can solve the case, he will gesture his left hand like Fleming's left-handed material in front of his face, and use anything he can get to write Physics formula somewhere around him.

His funny pose

The Physics formula

The reasons why I think this drama worth watching are that each episode talks about different and interesting topics; using Physical method to solve the cases which seem like supernatural
phenomenon at first is quite an innovative idea. In addition, because Professor 湯川 is an odd and rational person and 美砂 is quite perceptual and a little bit noisy, when they get along with each other, their conversations are always very interesting. It is really a great drama that you will totally fall in love with it.