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This drama focuses on a woman named Kim Hye Jin who used to be beautiful when she was younger, but grew up to be ugly. I really loved the fact tht Hye Jin had a beautiful personality even when she was younger and more beautiful. She's just a good person, and remains tht way throughout the drama. When she was younger, she befriended this fat ugly kid named Seong Jun who was her neighbor, and he ended up becoming her first love. This is where my first issue/complaint comes into play. Well, it's not so much as an issue/complaint, I don't know wat to really call it, my distaste of the 'romance' between the younger versions of Hye Jin and Seong Jun. I just didn't buy it. Idk, I just thought the whole pretense for their initial friendship/romance was pretty lame. But w/e, Hye Jin was a sweetie pie throughout the whole thing. As time passes, Hye Jin and Seong Jun lose touch with each other. The last time Seong Jun saw Hye Jin was when she was pretty. So when Seong Jun finally gets in touch with Hye Jin and wants to meet up, Hye Jin is nervous about what he'll think of her because he doesn't know tht she's ugly now. So she gets her best friend, Min Ha Ri (who i love), to pretend to be her to meet him. Ands thts basically the premise. The story focuses on friendships, inner-struggles, and workplace drama. It's really fun!
But the romantic chemistry between the characters/actors is really lacking. Especially between Seong Jun and Ha Ri, uggghhh those scenes were the most boring of the whole drama. Hye Jin and Kim Shin Hyeok (the second male lead) had zero romantic chemistry, and I was annoyed tht the drama chose to make Shin Hyeok like Hye Jin in the first place. They had excellent friendship chemistry, but no to the romance. And lastly, the chemistry between adult versions of Hye Jin and Seong Jun was non-existent. I mean, their scenes didn't make me cringe or anything like tht, but i didn't really care about they're romance in the scheme of things. The friendships were the best in this drama, and everyone did have chemistry with each other, just not romantic chemistry.
All in all, this was a really fun drama to watch (and it's ttly marathon-worthy)! You'll have several laughs, and some of the moments throughout are genuinely sweet. Do I think it's a must-see? No. But its a good rom-com and it's not a bad watch. I liked it, maybe u will too!
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Shi Won. Enough said, he is amazing.
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First impressions:Good:
- I like the backstory between Sung-Joon and Hye-Jin. It's nice that they formed a neighborly friendship, despite how superficial school children can be, and that it deepened into a "first-love" type chemistry before they parted ways as children. The umbrella/earbud moment was really cute.
-Park Seo-Joon.
-Ep 6 - the whole dynamic between Sung-Joon and Shin Hyuk was comedy gold. I *loved* the subverted trope with Shin Hyuk nursing Sung-Joon back to health.
-Ep 7 and on - really love the chemistry that FINALLY has a chance to breathe between our main leads. I enjoyed watching them go on their business trip together and seeing the real layers of Sung-Joon come to the forefront, and Hye-Jin being a (little) less crazy than her usual self.
Bad:
- Kim Ra-Ra in her entirety. I could tell they were trying to pull off the "eccentric, out-of-touch, overly-artificial boss" archetype that I sometimes see in KDRAMAs, but it was so poorly executed, I couldn't help but grit my teeth every time she appeared on screen. Her lazy attempts at Spanish and Italian to sound cultured and her over-the-top body language antics never came across as funny for me. If you want to see this type of character type done *perfectly*, watch Kim Sun-Young as Eom So-Hye in Her Private Life. SO FUNNY. I'll give Kim Ra-Ra a little credit later on in the series when her antics toned down a bit, but I still didn't think she was nearly as funny or endearing as Kim Sun-Young.
- Hwang Jung-Eum as Hye-Jin during the first few episodes. Her overreactions and over-acting antics really really bother me. No normal person would react so ridiculously. She looked like a cracked-out lunatic in the elevator scene and it made no logical sense. Running away screaming, arms flailing to avoid a person. Falling over herself hiding under furniture. It's all just too much. She did the same craziness in the beginning of Lucky Romance and I nearly dropped the show because of it. Eventually, her character (and her over-acting) mellows out, so I'm hoping it does here too. I really loved her in Mystic Pop-Up Bar so I know she's fully capable in her acting and ability to play a well-developed, well-rounded none-Jim Carrey-esque character.
Conflicted:
- The very premise of this show is pretty problematic, but it does do a pretty decent job at digging more than skin deep. I wasn't a huge fan of the office atmosphere changing as soon as Hye-Jin had her makeover. Like being prettier suddenly means she deserves respect. At the same time, I know it's also because she gained her confidence and probably exuded a different aura that allowed her to seem more approachable to her colleagues. I don't know, it's a little wishy-washy to me. It's also laughable that Hwang Jung-Eum is conveyed as "ugly" with just a bit of rosacea and frizz.
- Intentionally misleading Sung-Joon with her friend, Ha-Ri, was upsetting. He hasn't seen you in 15 years, give the guy a break! He looks completely different as well. I was upset his reaction didn't fit the crime. The reaction should have been bigger, and more drawn out. It was morally grey, at best, to lie to him and play with his emotions like that.
- I do think the romantic tension fizzled out a little too quickly by having their issues resolved and their romance in full bloom by the end of Ep 12/13.
*** I ended up dropping the drama by Ep 13 because I lost interest in the "will it or won't it" close-down issue with The Most magazine. I skipped through the last few episodes just to watch the cutesy moments between our leads, and because I love Park Seo-Joon so much, but I literally had zero interest in the plot after his collapse/they solidified their relationship. All of the tension I felt with the series was with the truth behind their relationship, and his health issues. I also wish they expanded on his health issue a lot more- I thought it was very interesting that they were alluding to Sung-Joon having an eating disorder, especially considering how taboo of a subject it is in Korea (and even in western countries) for men to have eating disorders even though it's definitely a thing. I wish they'd expanded on that a bit more and confronted it.
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Boring
That's my first time ditching a drama 2 episodes from the very end.The plot revolves around two childhood friends that reconnect in their adulthood.
The female lead is ashamed of how she became and when the male lead tries to meet her after years she asks a friend of hers to meet him instead lying about her true identity.
Our protagonist "undercover" starts working at the childhood friend office and tries to hide her true identity.
The "fake girl ends up catching feeling for the guy she is misleading and that creates some misunderstandings.
That's pretty much it.
Nothing new or innovative.
I don't get why Koreans are so obsessed by their childhood first love of when they were teenagers.
The main lead is an asshole towards our protagonist but she is madly in love with him. He ignores her colleague that loves her and is a much better fit for her.
He is the only highlight of the show.
The side stories are frankly boring.
Nothing particularly intriguing or romantic about this drama.
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Funniest Drama Ever!
Ok-kaaaay! I really don’t know how to start to write a review about the drama! Okay, first of all I REALLY LOVE CHOI SI-WON and also his acting skills! I laughed at every line made by him. He was so cute, his Jackson jokes and more. But i want to say that i am little bir suprised that he is the famous writer “TEN”. I expected that he was son of the CEO. But it is completely fine. There is also the person who i didn’t excepted the CEO’s real son: Kim Poong-ho! I gagged. I really did. Anyway, the other subject we have to talk about it is Ha-ri. She was suberb cute at first sight but to be honest i enraged when she was dating with Sung joon. But she was also have rights, I don’t blame her anymore. By the way, i started this drama at my very young age and i put the drama on-hold for a long time but finally, i finished with success. And please don’t blame yourself, you are the main role of your life. Live your best life and don’t regret it, ever. This drama taught so many thing to us. Be brave and don’t be ashamed what you’ve did. Thanks for the OST, i listened the songs everyday!Was this review helpful to you?
It's so worth watching this!
This series is so awesome that you don't even know when it ends. The storyline flows so smoothly that you will be like....okay wow. The cast is also just incredible and they potray their characters so well.This drama is ridiculously funny and you literally can't stop when you start this drama and it's not intresting, just in the beginning but as the episode increases the interesting level also increases. The drama is a true comedy series. And make us laugh throughout the ending.
This drama is my personal comfort series, and i rewatched it so many times, that i lost count. This is the series i watch when i genuinely wants to laugh and watch a great love story.
This drama is just not comedy but also have a very romantic line. You will feel love at every point of this drama.
I have recommended this drama to every one in my friend circle and they all loved it! I recommend this drama wherever i go and finds they also watch K - dramas and yet haven't watched this series.
Some of the scenes are just so funny that you just can't stop yours to rewatch it. The drama overall is just so fine that you have watch it at least once.
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Hwang Jung-eum is of course known for her comedic roles, and her character "Kim Hye Jin" is no exception. Her character is contrasted by her boss
Ji Seong Jun (Park Seo Joon) who honestly is kinda flat, but the actor makes it work. To off-set Seong Jun's character is Kim Shin Hyeok (Choi Shi-Won) who is the comedic relief when things get too "serious". Plus he helps all the characters break out of their insecurities one by one through jokes and funny antics.
The drama is great for flights, road trips, or killing time before your next awaited drama comes due to its funny nature and "rewachability". It has even been dubbed into Spanish and has aired in some Latin American channels.
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STORY: The story was pretty good, had some cute, nice, funny, and serious moments. Everyone just fit in the drama, even the side stories are good and not draggy or boring.
ACTING/CAST: I have to admit, Hwang Jung Eum did a good job, she was like the perfect one for this drama, some people might hate on her, maybe because of her overreacting or laugh but she is funny, also in Kill Me, Heal Me. I saw Park Seo Joon first in Kill Me, Heal Me, once i saw him acted in this drama, he seemed different which was a good thing because his acting has really improved, He plays a very funny serious guy, which really fits him well. Choi Shi Won and Go Joon Hee are pretty good side characters, somehow, i didn't hate them, because side characters in a lot of romance drama can be annoying and bad. The only major flaw in this show was Hwang Seok Jeong, her character Kim Ra Ra, and her acting, and everything about her character was just bad, horrible, and annoying, also, weird.
MUSIC: The music in this drama was nice, but also fun because it a lot of random famous songs from movies and other, there was a lot of songs that I've recognize which was really funny, the music was good but not amazing great.
RE WATCH VALUE: I'm definitely going to rewatch this drama like in 3-5 months, that would be average for a value score 9, if it was like a 7, maybe 8-10 months, 5, maybe 1 year - 1 year and a half, and If it was was a value score 10, every 1-3 months :D
OVERALL: A nice really good funny drama, it's score on MDL should be hire, this show is good, you won't regret it, i should've finish this drama months ago, it was there but just never looked into it, but i'm glad i saw this drama, i like it a little more than Kill Me, Heal Me but if i rewatch Kill Me, Heal Me, it might change... !
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I like the story although I didn't like the male lead at first because he was being so so so rude to Kim Hye Jin. Later on his character got better but damn, I hated him at first.
I like the female lead because she is funny and quirky and really weird sometimes and that kind of stood out through the whole drama. Kim Shin Hyeok as a character was a total weirdo but I enjoyed the scenes with him because they would cerainly make you laugh or almost cringe (sometimes at the same time as Kim Hye Ji, because we felt what she felt).
I had problems with her best friend keeping this huge secret for so long. I mean falling in love or love in general makes people do stupid things sometimes. But living under the same roof and being best friends and seeing the man her best friend's in love with...that was a little bit too much for my taste, but i get that it's possible...but still....aaaah...cringe.
Music didn't stand out for me that much so nothing to report there, no negativ, no positiv.
I probably wouldn't rewatch this drama because for me it's too...maybe a bit too shallow. There were no surprises and not twists one couldn't get some episodes ahead. That was a bit sad for me as the other aspects of this drama - which were good - couldn't balance it out.
don't get me wrong, it's still a good drama but nothing special for me.
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