Another Miss Oh

Refreshingly mature take on the romance K-drama.

I absolutely loved this drama, and thought the way the story progressed and eventually resolved was such a mature, refreshing change from what I have traditionally seen in the romance genre. Even the side/second-lead stories wrap up beautifully, and I love it when side characters and secondary love interests are given agency independent of the main characters and story arcs. You will come to love each of the characters in this drama for who they are as individuals, and I was honestly sad to say goodbye once I reached the end of the series.

Conflict is handled very maturely, and it feels like the writers favoured personal growth - however painful - over stereotypical, unearned resolutions. After following the characters' journeys it felt like everybody got the ending that was best for them, NOT the ending that made them happiest, and I will always treasure this series for that. I also really like that the main couple were given the opportunity to grow and learn about each other, as despite the extraordinary circumstances it felt like we were watching a far more realistic love story unfold.

My only real negative with Another Miss Oh is a particular side-couple we meet early on, who are a strange juxtaposition to the rest of the highly mature cast. They have a significant age gap, with the girl being a young teenager and the "boy" being close to thirty, and although I understand they were comic relief I just found the majority of their scenes both uncomfortable and pretty unnecessary.

Other then that, Another Miss Oh is a wonderful drama I'd be very happy to sit through again, due to its fantastic emotional maturity.

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I never considered watching Another Miss Oh because it seemed really complicated and just not my thing, but after being encouraged multiple times by my friend Kingsqueen whose watched it multiple times, I figured it was time to give it a chance. And I must say - it very cute! I very much enjoyed it. The ending was nicely done where everything was wrapped up neatly. I was told that there was a plot twist and you don't get to that twist until the ending :D. I can happily say that the twist and overall execution of the drama makes sense based on the rules set by the drama, so that was also a plus for me. I'm not sure if I'd watch the *whole* thing all over again, but I did love some very specific parts that I'll probably watch again on YouTube as clips.

I really loved certain characters, such as the lawyer friend, Ji Sang, and Oh Hae Young's parents. I personally enjoyed watching Ji Sang and the noona interact the most - their dynamics were pretty laugh out loud hilarious.
A lot of people said that Do Kyung's mother was pretty horrible, but I didn't find her to be that bad because the Chairman was WAYYY worse to me. And in the end, I still felt bad for the ex-fiance of Oh Hae Young. He got the short end of the stick soooo many different ways by so many people that I feel for him. He was douche-y at some moments, but I pity him, really - his life was pretty crappy all because of other people.

Overall, it was a very nice drama. I'm glad I watched it. Personally, I like a bit more comedy in my drama, but this was still good even though it had a bit more serious parts in it than I prefer. It actually reminds me a lot of Laughter in Waikiki. Laughter in Waikiki is very similar in set-up, just a much lighter version with no *real* bad guy other than life itself.

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This Was Alright...

This was alright. It needed a bit more depth for me and more happy scenes. I did really enjoy the ending and the other 2 couples in this show, but the main couple wasn't great. The ML takes waaay too long to understand, or act on his feelings. When he finally does, they get broken up and he does nothing to try and stop this or chase after the FL.

I do appreciate that the 2 exes are portrayed as being in the wrong, since they most definitely are. They had to grow as people in order to be better partners. It's good that they show some of that growth, but I absolutely hated the 2FL/2OHY. She was so terrible and selfish. They try to show her side of the story but, I'm sorry, she just comes off as entitled and self-centered. I don't really love her redemption arc as what she did and her constant gross behaviors towards the FL shouldn't have been brushed past. I just wanted to punch this girl all the time and the show really needed to be shorter so that I didn't have to feel that way all the time. Too much screen time for her with the FL. It could've been 12 episodes and cut out a lot of filler and wasted moments.

Anyways, I really did love the ending and many of the side characters. The leads had several cute parts towards the end too, but I wasn't as moved by them. I loved the FL's coworkers and parents so much. How often can you say that about a k-drama lol. Great cast though in many ways, I just with the ML was better as I felt he was very lacking in this story. I prefer a stronger, more secure ML, but I get they were going for something else. He also way too prideful for me and never wanted to really show affection or do anything that he didn't see as manly. There are a lot of men like this, but not my style and that's part of why I didn't like them much.

I'm giving a 6/10 for the great ending and the awesome side characters, but I need my ML to be better since he's half of the focus of the show. On that note, the FL was great, if a bit overly eager. I loved much of her honesty and vulnerability. If it didn't drag so much and focus on constant separation and desperation, I would have given this a higher rating. I recommend skipping a lot if you want to just get to the good stuff and the other couples. Still worth watching for them, I think <3

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●The story was nice with all the chaos caused due to the same name. But I wasn’t expecting the 180degree change of story centering the ML. Park do kyung deja Vu was making the story pretty interesting and I enjoyed it. When the story is fully untangled its really satisfying to see the bad people get punished.
I don’t like the soo kyung and jin sang story. The characters were interesting but they were like screen filler to whole story.
●Acting wise everyone one was very good. I enjoyed it. My favourite character was mother of oh hae young that is hwang deok yi.
Seo hyun jin was playing the role of heartbroken oh hae young very nicely but I didn’t like her hairstyle. If she tied her hair she would be more beautiful.
Eric Mun was handsome and good at the role but felt more cold in the entire series. When there was romance also he felt cold.
The dance sequence at the end was amazing I just loved it.

●And am extreamly disappointed with this bully culture and judging people around based on looks. Calling someone pretty and ugly is so not right.
Based on colour,money,parents,looks, judging has been a plotline of so many dramas so i feel its necessary to be stopped.
●Overall this show is a good watch. But definitely not a rewatch for me

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This drama has a nice mix of the serious with the fun, a nice broad mix of characters and nobody really feels like a "bit part" - everyone brought their elements to the story.

The ML and FL were great but for me the secondary characters were just as good, whether it was Kim Mi Kyung's portrayal of the slightly insane mother of Hae-Young - she's definitely one of my favourite older female actresses and it was good to see her role given much more of a presence than I've seen her with in some other "mother" roles previously. Heo Young Ji as the girlfriend of one of the family's brothers was another real wildcard too, I didn't know what to expect from her character when she first appears but she turns out to be a really good character in the story and really fun to watch.

The other secondary character that was actually the main reason for picking this show was Ye Ji Won - having enjoyed her work in Thirty But Seventeen where she played a monotone, black and white, mary-poppins type character I was curious to see her in another role. In the first couple of scenes it looks like it's going to be a similar type of character but it doesn't take long to get a bigger picture and wow what a difference :) Wild and wacky and yet another great comedic element to the story.

All the comedic side characters are great as they provide an emotional break to some of the heavier elements of the story.

Main story was great, and has a nice under pinning message of living for today. Give everything your all, don't risk looking back later and wishing if only you'd done more, loved more etc. Don't let pettiness get in the way, don't let your pride stop you from doing what you wish you had.

My main issues were that some times it just got a bit confusing what was going on, in one instance one of the secondary couples has a major blowout and end their relationship and then a few scenes later all is back to normal without any scene to reconnect them - not the end of the world but just seemed odd as they made a big deal of ending it. Some times there are flashback scenes to the past where you learn more about Hae-young's history in school, but it wasn't always clear until a bit of a way into the scene that this is what was happening. There were numerous times where it just felt like something had been skipped along the way, or a scene missed.

The ML's business is adding the sound layer to movies, and this had the odd side effect of making me hyper-sensitive to the audio layer on the drama, suddenly every walking sound or any other sounds sounded layered on, I don't know whether they amped the sounds up to contribute to this or if it was just psychological on my part but it was amusing and actually added to the sounds somewhat. For those that don't know how this side of movie and tv production works it provides an interesting insight I think.

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this one, a good mix with a decent main story and some interesting side characters with their own stories. OST - nothing outstanding but nothing bad either.

Would probably re-watch this at some point.

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This drama has once again proved that 2016 & 2017 were really the golden years for the best Korean dramas. This was no exception and I'm a bit puzzled why I don't see more people giving this drama the praise that it deserves. First the plot - yes while the writers decided to dump a bunch of cliches and over-the-top drama plot lines, this seemed to have worked wonders in a way where the cliches HAD to be there to make the drama well-written. All characters were absolutely crazy - also a common theme I've been seeing on other user reviews. I've always been a big fan of Seo Hyun Jin and always amazed to see her play a plethora of different characters and how well they can suit her. Chemistry between the FL and ML shouldn't have made sense but oh boy it really did - their kiss scenes were some of the best in Kdrama world. Was a really refreshing watch for after work and I'll definitely miss this, maybe even rewatch in a couple of years.

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Lesson learned: never judge a drama from it's title.

I put off watching this drama because the plot didn't sound very promising and I especially hate the annoying third party arc in a lot of dramas but after reading reviews, I finally took the plunge and happy that I did.

The story line was interesting in that they have some supernatural elements that seemed plausible. There was a good moral to the story, the side/supporting characters were all interesting, the friendship deep, a filial son, very supportive parents (Oh Hae Young's) and a great love that went through a lot of challenges.

Pros: different types of love were shown - parent's love for their daughter, brother/sister relationship, noona romance, May-December romance, love and loyalty between friends and co-workers, et al. 
Cons: there was not much difference between the 2 Oh Hae Youngs, beauty-wise. I really wanted to give the main Oh Hae Young a good hairdo but she was equally pretty as the other Oh Hae Young.

I'll stop here as I do not want to spoil anything by giving too much info.

Bottom line: Watch it! 

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no words..... PLEASE WATCH HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

I can't even put into words on how beautiful this drama is....
I'm not the type to binge dramas. I don't really know why, but if I watch the same thing on my computer screen for a along time I GET BORED, so I usually watch 1-2 episode and go to any other website like youtube and watch something else.

But this drama... I BINGED THE WHOLE DRAMA IN 3 DAYS, which i know may not be a big thing for the expert kdrama binge-ers *idk if that's even a word* out there, but seriously though this drama got me hooked from the very first episode till the last. I couldn't stop myself craving just more of this drama.
This drama made me laugh until my lungs started to hurt, this drama made me cry my eyes out, the cute scenes between the main leads made me feel butterflies in my stomach, and the side characters i loved every single one of them except taejin, Dokyoung's mother and Chairmun Jung...
The ost Till the end of time by The Black skirts made me emotional every time it started playing.
Eric Mun's did such an amazing job portraying Dokyoung.
Seo Hyun Jin's acting is just out of this world, she's amazing.
I would've watched the whole thing in a day, but I couldn't because my exams were going on..
I'm sad now that I have finished watching the drama, I really want to watch more...

When I first found out about this drama tbh I wasn't really interested in watching it because of the following reasons
1. It came out in 2016 which was 5 years ago
2. The name and the poster of this drama isn't really appealing to me.
3. I wasn't really a fan of the main leads *BEFORE*

I started watching it because of Seo Hyun Jin, I recently watched her recent drama YOU ARE MY SPRING and I am telling you her acting is just WOW.. Then I watched her previous dramas Dr Romantic p1 and Beauty Inside and then this drama...
You can say that I'm in love with her I WANT MORE OF HER WHY IS SHE SO UNDERRATED WTH..
Anyways, Next on my list are her dramas Temperature of Love and Black dog ^^

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A drama that doesn't shy away from showing crazy and wrecking emotions!

This drama perfectly portrayed human emotions -- those depressing, messy, wrecking, joyous, foolish and hopeful emotions. I never expected a romantic comedy to sensitively portrayed those heartaches. The writer fearlessly tackled every serious issues in the drama, she never tried to put a band-aid on every pain that the characters were going through. Everyone healed in the drama or at least in the process of healing and that is the most important part for me.

Everyone, you will not see an ideal and the most healthy relationship here, instead this a story of two people who fearlessly fought and cherish their love and finally attained happiness in the end.

Also, I think something is being pointed out by the writer through its 'peculiar' plot that you cannot blame others for your own decisions. You have your own will and you have to take responsibility for it. Love fully and do not let your pride, shame and embarrassment hold you back. It's better to hurt together than alone, do not let your pride hurt the people you love the most. Fight together with them and be happy together with them.

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Starts slow. Picks up in the middle. Ends amazingly

I really really wanted to drop this drama at around the sixth episode. Usually I drop them pretty fast if the start is slow. But somehow I persisted and I am glad that I did. Even though the start was slow, something kept me going. The start was slow but it had it's charms. The male lead's unique profession, the female lead's hopeless situation and the things that connected them, all of these kept me interested. After the drama passed the half-way mark it was smooth sailing. Things started to come together and created a good and enjoyable experience with satisfying ending.
The best part of the drama for me was the acting. Every single cast did an amazing job in this drama. It was very easy to get immersed into the scenes because of the great acting.
The OST was quite good and I enjoyed the creative way they used it in some places.
Considering everything the drama was a steady watch with a very stable pacing. Ultimately it was an enjoyable experience.

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