The girl who sees scents
If I had to speak the truth, I gotta say that I was actually beyond shocked to see all of the low ratings. Although I was late to watch this show, I am still totally in love with it. I believe that this is truly such an amazing drama, but it is just underrated. I really wished that there would be a season two to this drama, but sadly there isnt. I also really loved the two leading roles, and really hope that they end up togther in real life. Other than, this is such an amzing drama, and you should totally watch it in the future!Was this review helpful to you?
You don't know the outcome
Enjoyable to watch in my opinion. Congratulations on the crew who were involved in making the series. The interaction between Park You-Chem and Shin Se Kyung was superb. The support actors were great. The comical scenes had me in stitches laughing. It was suspenseful, but at times a little far fetched in places, e'g stakeouts. A light hearted murder mystery. The title through me, but once I got into the series I warmed to it. It was a series of a different nature, unbelievable it may be, but it was different. It was nice to see a happy ending, as most endings end in tragedy. Good entertainment for me. Left me thinking at the end that there maybe a sequel up and coming. Looking forward to it if there is.Was this review helpful to you?
I don't even know how to describe this drama...
Okay, first of all, I am amazed at how they managed to make the power of the female lead (Oh Cho-Rim) look interesting and cool. Because who thought that seeing scents could help you solve a crime?Now let's start on my real review. The story is so lame and corny; it is so 2015 (if that makes sense), like if I watched this drama around that year, maybe I'd find it good, but truthfully speaking, the plot is so awful. Half the time, I was cringing. Like, what do you mean that people think you're a monster just because your one eye is blue? It is not that deep, bruh. And the relationship between Choi Moo Gak (the male lead) and his sister is weird; they give me a "sibling or dating?" vibe. And let's be real: the character of Jung In Gi, which is Oh Jae Pyo, is really not necessary in this drama.
You might be wondering why I gave it a 6 out of 10 if I find this drama awful. Well, the plot is horrible, yes, but I did find the acting bearable. I always find some people criticizing the acting skills of Shin Sekyung, but honestly, I don't think she's a bad actress; it's just her character. And like I said, I find the female lead's power intriguing; that's why I still managed to finish this to see the end of this drama and how they will use her powers. And also, Namkoong Min did a good job being the villain, and Yoo Jin-seo slayed her character as an Ice Princess cop.
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Not as good as I expected
To be honest I wanted to watch this for a long time because I heard a lot of people saying that it's one of their favorite drama of all times. The story started off great and it will spark curiosity and excitement because you'll wonder how the connections of the characters will turned out given that you'd be able to figure out right away how the main characters are entangled due to the incident right from the very beginning. It took advantage of the curiosity of the viewers to the point that it's being dragged on for a long time. I just want to finish it off because what I really wanted to know is how things will turn out in the end. Usually the process should be something enjoyable to watch but for me it's very painful and frustrating to watch, I just can't wait to end it and just get over it. The plot twist became a stupid way to prolong the story instead of giving excitement I just wished it ended earlier, it just made my agony watching it longer. I really love mystery genre and also the new idea for fiction of being able to see smell so I'm putting that as a consideration but this doesn't really justify my expectations.The casts are pretty good except that I hate that the main lead is a bit exaggerating in every way possible. The emotions that I expected for the plot are not conveyed the way I expected it to be. I didn't even cry a bit all throughout the drama even though the story of it should be something a bit tragic. I didn't even get the point of making the female male lead a comedian and the male lead as an aquarist. It just doesn't match well with the whole story.
The songs used are not notable that I haven't even remember any songs from the drama although the sound effects inserted is very effective in setting the correct mood. Like for the comedic scenes, it somehow made me laugh.
I am not expecting to watch this again in the future. My curiosity about the turn out of events has been fed so that's enough for me. I don't even remember getting any lesson from it but at least it made my mind work by wondering what will be the ending.
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Korean is not really my cup of tea, so I didn’t watch it much. But, thriller is my cup of tea genre, so when one of my friend recommend this k-drama to me, I’m willing to watch it. I watched this on 2016, BTW :D
The plot is beyond my imagination, which I like it because it’s anti-mainstream. I love when the movie / drama contains any psychological issues and this drama provides a lot of it. Not only that, this drama have a twist plot which makes it even more better for my taste ^_~
Now for the casts. I enjoyed the interaction between the hero and the heroine. At the first I didn’t feel so much chemistry between them, but as time goes by their chemistry built and I feel pleased with that ^_^
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Shin Se-kyung (Oh Choi-rim/Choi Eun-seol) puts in an enjoyable performances in this show about a woman who can see smells. Unfortunately she's paired up with rapist, Yoo-chun and so you should probably avoid it for that alone. His character has some kind of traumatic narcolepsy.
Even in the romance scenes, this drama is paint-by-numbers. It consists of a succession of kdrama cliches, jarring tonal shifts and the obligatory serial killer. All of this could be forgiven if the plot wasn't almost entirely driven by people being excruciatingly stupid.
Even the male lead - who starts the show as the Best Detective Ever by virtue of not being a blistering idiot - gets quickly infected with Stupid once he's finally accepted by the crack team of morons in the Investigative Unit. These detectives are played almost entirely for comic relief by a number of quality Korean actors who really deserve better.
The central conceit of the show - the female lead's synesthesia - is treated more as a supernatural power than a medical condition and her emotional journey is regularly jettisoned in favour of the male lead's. This is a common problem with kdramas and this show is one of the worst examples of it.
Show gives us a generic and poorly-drawn antagonist whose genius is regularly achieved by the other characters being exceptionally dumb. We're supposed to think this antagonist is playing Chess with the police, but really it's more like a drunken game of snakes and ladders.
In the end, show is dumb and everyone is stupid. Oh and Yoo-chun is a rapist so you probably don't want to watch this anyway.
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Un début de série assez chaud... pour poser l'intrigue qui est assez intéressante. Ce drama que l'on peu classer dans la section Policier, l'est aussi en parallèle dans la section Romance compliquée ...Les acteurs jouent vraiment bien et le "méchant" (je vais pas spoiler pour ceux qui ont pas encore regardés) est vraiment effrayant jusqu'au bout ... sa personnalité fait meme un peu pitié je dirais sur la fin mais bon c'est l'histoire; lol.
En même temps c'est quand meme un tueur en série hein ... L'actrice joue tres bien, et le concepte des odeurs transformées en micro objets colorés est vraiment intéressant et novateur.
Pour l'histoire d'amour, les deux protagoniste forment un joli couple... un peu décallé. Elle avec son odorat hors du commun et lui avec sa perte des sens. Après avoir terminé cette série je passe d'une note initiale de 8 (en cours de visionnage) à un 9. Une série qui m'a au final beaucoup plu avec une fin comme je les aime ....
Une série en somme assez simple mais bien dévellopé. Si vous aimez les énigmes à résoudre foncez, ce drama est écrit pour vous.
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I liked the history, but the female protagonista is just so anoying" And all thouse anoying noises she makes... I cant continue!
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Right blend of RomCom, suspense/crime/mystery to make a very entertaining story
Right blend of RomCom, suspense/crime/mystery to make a very entertaining story.Being connected by a tragic past is nothing new with this type of genre but it's still very refreshing, not having a jilted best friend turned evil. It has a straight forward love story, from their tragic past to meeting again by accident, to being friends then turned to lovers.
What was weird was the mystery part. For televiewers, knows who's the main villain for most part of the story while the so called detectives goes round and round on finding the culprit.
I like the actors, I think they gave theirs characters justice. Even the ML and FL had a good on screen chemistry.
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As a side note, I'll mention the other actors as well in case you're curious. An honorable mention should go out to Park Jin Joo for being an amazing side actress. Although I was never really bothered by it, many people have commented on Shin Se Kyung's emotionless face when she acts. Compared to her roles in HIgh Kick Through the Roof and Fashion King, Shin Se Kyung has improved quite a bit on this, and somewhat on her laugh. I've seen Yoo Chun in Sungkyunkwan and Rooftop Prince as a lead role but neither really like or detest him. He seems to always just be there but never gives a memorable performance, though I liked him some in variety shows. Unfortunately his comedy in this one sort of annoyed me and both the writing for his character and his acting when carrying the script out made me side with Kwon Jae Hee and dislike him even more. The romance in this drama was something like that of a side-couple in another drama. It's there, you watch it, but you're really waiting for the main character to get back on screen (Kwon Jae Hee). Another reason many seem to side with Kwon Jae Hee is that the writers made the detectives seem stupid. Many times they would just stand around and wait for someone who wasn't even a detective to do all the work while someone was dying. Yeom Mi was the only semi-intelligible one.
That being said, since I gave this drama a high rating, you can see how much Nam Gung Min carried the drama. I didn't plan to watch the whole thing in a couple of days because I thought it would be a weird drama from the title but this is one of the few dramas that you end up marathoning. Yes, some parts with Oh Cho Rim and Choi Moo Guk like the theatrical parts are odd, but the villain makes this drama well worth the watch.
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Good balance between romance and suspense
I really enjoyed this drama. The story is a big unique in terms of the special abilities/conditions. It has enough romance to satisfy romance-addict like myself while also keeping the non-romance crime suspense storyline. The pace was good, not too slow but not rushed either. It also has a couple of great reveal moments.SPOILER:
My only complaint (and this is totally personally petty me) is that although Namkoong Min did a good job, I don't like seeing him as a bad guy just because I like him and tends to want to root for him.
Oh and this drama has one of the most unique, creative, and sweetest proposal ever.
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