It is one of those dramas where the actor does too good a job, you wonder if he's ever going to be able to find another drama where he will be able to give the same if not better performance and worry that he won't but i will hope.
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Wow- what an exciting ride
Where do I start- this drama is an absolute gem, great story well executed by Ji Sung’s wonderful acting.The positives:
- Jin Sung
- Ji Sungs’s brilliant acting ( he portrayed all his identities superbly, such a versatile actor)
- Great story & direction
- able to hold viewers attention all through 20 episodes
- dealt with a sensitive issue like Multiple Personality Disorder in an interesting way creating awareness on it
- Park Seo Joon
- O.S.T , Auditory Hallucination is such a beautiful song
- Happy ending
The negatives:
- the female lead keeps shouting all her dialogues at times it’s irritating in the earlier episodes..(it maybe a script requirement )
I would highly recommend to watch this drama- happy watching!
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A warm and beautiful story
"Kill Me, Heal Me" it's a drama about Cha Do Hyun, a man who has suffered a trauma in his childhood, leaving him with a memory lost and 6 personalities: Shin Se Gi, Ahn Yo Na, Ahn Yo Sub, Perry Park, Nana and Mr X. In a twist of fate, he meets Ri Jin, a psychiatric resident who becomes his new doctor, to help him in his daily life, as a way to stop the personalities from doing too much trouble.With time, the two realize there's a connection between them in the past, since Ri Jin starts having the same flashes of images as Do Hyun and they seem to knew each other.
The truth is that Do Hyun and Ri Jin lived for one year together, as half-siblings, but that wasn't true, since Ri Jin's birth mother made up a lie with Do Hyun's grandfather. When Ri Jin's mother dies, Do Hyun's father locks her up in the basement and abuses the girl, her only comfort is when Do Hyun comes down to play with her. One day, Do Hyun can't take the abuse anymore and that is the day Shin Se Gi is born, his first personality, the one who burns down the house and allows Ri Jin to be set free. She's taken by Sun Yeong, who raises Ri Jin was her daughter alongside with her son, Ri On.
Ri On grows up and learns the truth about his sister past, he starts digging in the story to understands what happened. What he didn't expect is that Do Hyun and Ri Jin would met coincidentally, like fate wanted them to met each other.
Ri Jin and Do Hyun are a really cute couple, the romance is light but sweet at the same time. There's not much space to see them together as a couple, since the main focus of the drama is to see Ri Jin learning more and dealing with Do Hyun's personalities, trying to find ways to help him get better. I have to say the best scenes are when the personalities are involved, specially Se Gi and Yo Na. The humor is a great selling point of this drama!
The drama is really good, it's one of the best stories I have ever seen. The characters are amazing. I loved the way the drama developed the story with Do Hyun's mental problems, showing there's nothing wrong with that, it was his way to cope with everything that happened, even his own guilt and that we all need someone on our side, someone to help, to lean, to understand. It's a beautiful story <3
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Oppa!
There is a whole lot to like and a whole lot to dislike about this show. If you are looking for a medical drama about curing mental illness and showcasing good medical ethics, look elsewhere. The show rather focuses on over-the top characterization of mental disorders and a love-conquers-all plot.Watching Ji Sung act is pure delight. He effortlessly switches from comedy to tragedy and skillfully changes tone and characterization between personalities. One moment, he is a cunning, eyeliner-wearing bad boy, the next, he is a teenage girl screaming "OPPAAAAA!". His acting truly shines where the plot fails, making the drama very performance driven and flat on storytelling.
The worst thing about the show is Oh Ri Jin. I know that a dorky and messy female was a popular stereotype at the time the drama was filmed, but, Ri Jin is frustrating and mostly annoying. She is loud, sloppy, and unintelligent. And, she screams all the damn time. The writers build her up as an empathetic doctor, but they make no attempt to show her medical skills or have her treat patients. Instead, she is always between jobs while being praised for the skills she does not seem to have. Her character lacks depth and goes through very little development. While childhood abuse is the source of Do Hyun's torment, Ri Jin happily bee-bops through life with amnesia. When she finally regains her memories, it does not seem to sway her or have any impact on her at all.
Secondary characters don't do anything relevant, but hijack a lot of screen time. I like Park Seo Joon, but Oh Ri On is an eyesore. He has no purpose and the writers constantly insert him between Do Hyun and Ri Jin with no push-back from her, making the show often a frustrating watch. He is meddling and manipulative, but the writers never address it and portray him as an overprotective brother with one-sided incestual love for a woman raised as his sister. Instead of creating a deep brother/sister bond, the writers follow a cliche formula where multiple males must fall in love with a weak heroine without her actually deserving it.
The storytelling is very inconsistent with too many tonal switches. In one episode, Do Hyun's teen girl alter ego is chasing after Ri On. In another, Do Hyun is tearing up for multiple scenes trying to deal with his never-ending trauma. While I enjoy good comedy, it is out-of-place here because the show's focus is on past abuse and mental illness, which are anything but funny. Some of Do Hyun's personalities have no depth and only serve as comic relief. But, the personalities that are the most impactful disappear for episodes at a time. The writers try to do too many things at once by sporadically flip flopping between hilarity and tragedy and thus creating a very choppy story.
Overall, the drama has consistently good pacing and Ji Sung's versatile performance makes it entertaining. But, it would've been much better with 16, instead of 20, episodes. Too much time is spent on the secondary characters and flashbacks. Editing needs work as episodes haphazardly jump between scenes before finishing them. The final showdown between Do Hyun and his relatives for the control of the company is very anticlimactic. And, the writers drag Han Chae Yun's obsession with Do Hyun for way longer than necessary.
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I think that what more impressed me was the performance of the actors. I have to make a big mention here to Ji Sung (Cha Do Hyun)! Interpretate a character with multiply personalities isn't an easy job and this man just crush it! Even his way to look change with the personalities and this was absurd, he was amazing doing this! For me, he was the star of this drama. About Hwang Jung Eum (Oh Ri Jin) I maintain what I said before in the "FIRST IMPRESSIONS": I thought her expressions and attitude a little (to not say a lot) exaggerated. Sometimes I got scared with her expressions, for real. But In the moments when she needs to show tension, I just loved her performance. About Park Seo Joon (Oh Ri On), another great surprise here! The way how he changes between the no sense brother to the mysterious one was very good and real for me.
Continue about the plot, I thought that in the middle of the process the story was losing the high. I had to force myself in episodes 8 until 13 for keeping watch, and when we get in the final episodes everything happens in once. I think that the script could be made more careful to keep the audience's attention during all the drama. This really was a crazy plot, but I thought very differently and fun. Besides the script error, I think that worth my time. The ending was simply beautiful. I cried like a baby seeing all the "goodbyes" (no more spoilers) and seeing how Cha Do Hyun and Oh Ri Jin healed themself together. The message behind this drama is touching and made me reflect on many things.
I finish with a sentence from the last episode:
"Your fears are the size of your imagination. Don't waste time imagining what already happened, reserve the imagination to your future."
Don't kill, heal.
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It's Not Horrible but ...
The first time I saw Ji Sung was in Devil Judge, which I ended up dropping about halfway through my watch of it. His performance wasn't the issue, but the story was .. lacking TO ME. I found myself rather bored while watching that one, and that's why I stay away from revenge/revenge adjacent dramas because I know I'm gonna be bored to tears and will not finish it.Now, I feel the same way about that show that I do about this one and that's why I mentioned it. The premise and story of this show is amazing and I've never seen any dramas about DID prior to watching this one, so I'll give the writing department kudos for their originality and creativity. However, this show is missing something. I'm not saying it's not a fun time because it is. But there is something about this show that I can't quite put my finger on. Again, Ji Sung did very well. His acting was superb; you could immediately pick up on the differences between each personality so I'll give him props for that. However, his co-star was ... interesting. Oh Ri Jin was not boring or dull; she wasn't either of those things but I found that I didn't care about her all that much by the end of the show.
I watched most of this show on mute so the constant screaming that some people have mentioned didn't bother me. However, the character of Oh Ri Jin is forgettable. There's nothing about her that endeared me to her. By the end of the show, I can't even say that I shipped Oh Ri Jin and Cha Do Hyun. The pairing had semi-decent chemistry but the characterization of Oh Ri Jin affected my enjoyment of the relationship/show. I think some people truly underestimate how much the lead character/lead love interest can make or break a show. Or maybe I'm in the minority of not minding a crappy plot as long as the characterization and interpersonal relationships are solid and enjoyable. Either way, I didn't care for Oh Ri Jin. I didn't hate her, but I also didn't love her. She was just kind of .. there. If you're the type of person who doesn't care for the romance aspect of a drama, then I'd probably recommend this show to you. While the romance is there, it's not groundbreaking enough to overshadow anything else and it won't interfere with your enjoyment of the rest of the plot.
Also, how could I forget about her brother? Oh Ri On. I couldn't stand him and I feel like the writers were too sympathetic to him and his plight. Oh Ri Jin didn't hold him accountable for everything he did as much as she should have, and that's unfortunate. Then again, there were many issues with the characterization of Oh Ri Jin to begin with and her relationship with her brother was definitely one of them.
I got to the last three or four episodes before I started fast forwarding through literally everything. I was just so ready to finish watching this show. I'd grown weary of watching this show and I just wanted it to be over! Also, I feel like those last 3 episodes were incredibly rushed. I feel like the show would have benefitted from gradually convincing the alters to reintegrate with Cha Do Hyun. Some of the alters were clearly ready to go, like Perry Park for instance. He should have been reintegrated 10 or so episodes before the ending, if you ask me. It was unrealistic to assume that all of his alters were willing to disappear all at the same time like that. Some of his alters clearly had the temperament of never wanting to leave - Shin Se Gi, for example. He should have been the only one they kept until the end, because it was clear that he never wanted to leave and wanted to experience life for himself. Things were just wrapped up too nicely at the end; it was almost TOO convenient and TOO clean, in my opinion. It's almost like the writers lost their way and didn't quite know how to end this show, so that's how they ended it.
It was an okay show but I feel extremely strange about this one. Hence my writing a review for it. For the most part, I don't like to review most of the media I consume unless I felt an extreme urge to do so like with this one. I highly doubt I'd revisit and rewatch this one.
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First of all, Ji Sung was great at portraying 7 characters. The chemistry between the main roles were also amazing. The acting was absolutely phenomenal in general and every single character was interesting on its own.
It was so different from the other dramas I watched, and now after KMHM I cant find anything good to watch because of high expectations. I am planning to rewatch it a year or two later, so that I can forget the details a bit and enjoy it as much as the first time.
Highly recommended, just watch the first episode and you will understand how good it is.
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Only came here to say one thing lol
All that screaming that the female lead is doing was not needed 😭 I had to keep turning my tv up and down cause it would be at a good volume then she’d be screaming again like okkkkk girl calm down lmaoo. But other than that I really like this show I’ve definitely rewatched it a couple times.Was this review helpful to you?
The relationships - family, romantic, and friendship - really blossom in this show. The only problem I have with it is I was ready for it to end at about episode 15 or 16 - I feel like they dragged it out to episode 20. I would recommend this show to people that like romantic and medical kdramas - I felt like it was a good balance of both.
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A masterpiece
The acting the ost everything was a complete masterpiece jis sung was just incredible thw wya he played the garter showed his talent as an actor the support characters were amazing and aswell and ji sung chemistry hwang Jung rum was amazing aswell her character was very well written definitely....... One of the ebts drams I have ever watched park seo jeon played na amazing support role aswell an dthe music was Great aswell...... Story was very well written though they were a bit too many flashback but plot buoy up very well and shin se gi was so good his personality was so thoughtfully created by it was amazing to watch how he change through out the story how he learned to trust his other selfWas this review helpful to you?
