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While I liked the entire show in general, the way the show handles Do Bong Soon's superhuman strength is a huge problem.If hurting someone innocent would cause Do Bong Soon to lose her powers, I'm sure she would have lost it in the earlier episodes for breaking Mr Gong's tail bone. The way her abilities work are nothing more than a convenient plot device without much thought put behind it.
It is stated early on in the show that once the superhuman strength is lost, she will never ever get it back. Unfortunately, this drama played into the cliche of only giving the main character back her ability.
Another issue with the story is the mixture of genres that makes it a little hard to watch. One moment you are watching a thriller and the next you are watching a couple flirting. The transition between scenes could see improvement.
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I love the chemistry the chemistry of the lead couple - on cam and off cam (based on BTS).
However, I find the story messy with a lot of fillers. I was disappointed with the writer of the drama. The cast, the chemistry and the soundtrack are very commendable.
I just wish that the writer tried harder in providing better content for the actors to work on. I know a lot of the fillers are meant to be fun but they became tiring because of their redundancy.
Nonetheless, I will finish watching the drama instead of dropping it. The cast and their chemistry are too good to give them up.
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disappointing and uncomfortable to watch
i think someone else left a much better worded review that describes all the awful faults with this, but one thing i just can't get over is how many GOOD reviews there are of a show that has literally been so awful to watch after the first three episodes. the plot is subpar, the anti-feminist messages are vomit inducing, the portrayal of the lgbtq community is even worse, and the chemistry is never there between the bongsoon and minhyuk. the humor is not funny and i'm being so for real when i say the only reason why i watched past episode 6 was for gukdoo.Was this review helpful to you?
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Perfect romance/chemistry, but overall drama just doesn't work
I try to balance out my ratings with a combination of objectivity/subjectivity. Hence, the highest rating I can give this drama is a 6/10. And that's only because the lead pairings' buildup/chemistry was one of my favorites (my bias is heavily at work here, lol). Even then, the overall drama just doesn't work due to the other three plotlines: Company threat, gangsters, and serial killer. Our leads had to share their plotline with the other three and the result was disastrous. Lol, the gangster/serial killer plots were such a mismatch to the romance that it felt like three different dramas (slapstick, horror, and romance).I couldn't finish this drama the first time around and on my second, I fast-forwarded everything that didn't involve the OTP's romance. The production team had a goldmine OTP and really should have written the overall plot around their romance: Maybe explore the lore behind Bo Soon's powers and focus more on Min Hyuk's relationship with his family or the leads' passion for developing games while building up their relationship during this process. You'll have a much more cohesive drama this way. The gangsters/serial killer plots don't connect well with the romance and should never have made it in the script.
Oh well, at least the creators knew enough to give us plenty of sweet scenes between our swoon-worthy leads. Aside from their story, this drama really is a trainwreck.
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Oooooh Strong Woman Do Bong Soon. The promise you held, the promise you made, the promise you did not keep.This drama is crazy popular, and I admit it. I understand why. It's filled with fun and interesting characters, an infinitely fascinating premise, superb acting, and some Very attractive male leads. I fully accept that I am in the minority with my opinion, and that's ok. I'm glad everyone else was able to enjoy this drama. But as interesting and fun and superbly acted as it is...
A terrible script it was. Great acting and interesting characters and story premises often lift many a terrible script, and I unashamedly admit to loving stories that are terrible simply because everything else was so well done. I think that has a lot to do with why so many people love this drama so much.
But those things just didn't do enough to compensate for this dramas writing for me.
First things first:
The rules of her superpowers were never clear. The first episode portrays her mother losing her powers because she was abusing them to make money off of people. I expected that to serve as a clear indicator of what was acceptable and what was not. That was apparently not so. I spent the rest of the drama (as far as I watched) trying to figure out just what the rules were. What exactly counted as using her abilities for ill and using them for good? Surely beating up bad guys and defending the weak would be considered using your powers for good, right? Wrong. Or maybe not wrong? Bong Soon frequently held herself back in situations where she Clearly would have been in the right to act and intervene, but then at other times, she just let herself go, wailed on bad guys left and right...and still didn't end up losing her powers. So what was the barometer? Helping this defenseless person is ok but helping that defenseless person is not?
As for the romance, Park Hyung Shik is endlessly charming and witty and charismatic and has looks that go on for daaaaaays. He's almost immediately smitten with Park Bo Young's character, and you're always gonna get a happy viewer out of me when a male lead falls first. But damn it if he wasn't super manipulative and uncomfortably controlling! It didn't help that Bong Soon gave him into his demands Far more often than I liked. I wasn't against her having maybe a more mild, and maybe even shy, personality in comparison to her abilities, but she gave in in situations where there was no reasonable justification for her doing so, and it INFURIATED MEEEEEEE. She didn't have to fight back with her powers. I was fully on board with that being considered using them for ill. But she sure as heck could have used her words sometimes and said NO.
I dropped this before the last two eps, so I cannot comment on them, but I heard a few things went a little off the rails at that point, and I'm glad I bowed out when I did. This drama did not follow through on the things it promised me in the beginning, and I just want my trust back.
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The biggest reason I was disappointed by this drama was because there was so much potential here to say something meaningful about the perception of strong vs weak women. Instead strong here is personified by whoever can physically beat the crap out of someone else (see also her mom and how she treats her husband!!). Lately I’ve been watching dramas with strong female leads that are empowered, independent, quick-witted, true to themselves, and these traits are the thing that attracts the leads to them. While strong is the premise of this series, I felt that
the protagonist, despite her superhuman strength, was very much never really in control of anything. It felt like she only used her strength impulsively based on her emotions (which made her come off more like a passive-aggressive bully teaching people lessons than a hero).
Another thing that really bothered me was that the lead was almost like being passed back and forth between the two male leads, never really standing on her own and relying on them throughout the series. They both empathized the desire to want to have someone to protect (eye roll) and they were both constantly chasing after her as if she were a child running with a pair of scissors who couldn’t do anything properly on her own — and she goes with it quietly!!! Obliges, even when they yell at her. Come on!!
So many other dramas that are more riveting and do what this tried to do so much better.
The main guy is cute. That is the only redeeming thing here. +1 star for as he got me all the way to episode 12.
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Sorry. I'm not against dramas poking fun at serious issues and if this one had done it with more cleverness and less ham-handed cheap laughs, it might have worked. I truly felt like IQ points were screaming and dying in my brain as I watched this.For example, I can’t stand the mother pimping out her daughter, even though it’s clearly being played for laughs, and the whole gay-not gay thing seems tonally off to me. (I’ve never been a big fan of the Coffee Prince/You’re Beautiful approach to homosexuality where the writer uses it as a device to advance conventional, heterosexual love. The underlying message seems to be that True Love can override sexual preference, as if homosexuality is a choice and all you need is to meet that one special person. And I disliked Personal Taste because of the male lead coyly pretending to be gay in order to advance his agenda.) Except for Do Bong-Soon and her grandmother, the women are weak and Do Bong-Soon herself isn’t very bright. Those things, added to the sadistic kidnap/murder theme, make me feel that there is a misogynistic streak running through this drama.
ETA: Another thing that bothered me is that stock value in the male lead’s company dives after news reports surface that he is gay. It’s played as if that’s funny. It’s not.
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THE SHOW DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IT WANTS TO BE
THE PLOT was good. It's definitely original cause I've seen nothing like it. I feel like the show kept going back and forth on what genre it wanted to be. The crime aspect seemed like a second thought, which is disappointing because it was the most interesting thing about this. Sometimes dramas go out of the way to portray a strong independent woman and this was one of those dramas. I don't know if this will make sense but I think Bong Soon was too "strong." I kinda got tired of seeing her beat up people. What kept me watching was the serial kidnapper and Park Hyung Shik(that man is stupid gorgeous). The love triangle between Bong Soon and the two leads was funny to watch but I think the romance aspect could have been a bit stronger. I did feel second lead syndrome and thought In Gook Doo should’ve ended up with the female lead. Min Hyuk was very cute, but I felt like the SML was more sincere. On another note, Bong Soon's nosy ass mother managed to get some laughs out of me.THE ACTING was ok. The best actor imo was Ji Soo. At times things got too cheesy for me, and I couldn't stand that group of guys that got beat up by Bong Soon. They got WAY too much screentime and they only existed for some cheap laughs, and not ONCE did I ever find them funny. I just ended up skipping any scenes with them. Park Hyung Shik is literally so handsome I found it hard to pay attention judge his acting in any scene he was in, but he gave a pretty solid performance. He was such eye candy that I had to finish this.
REWATCH VALUE is non existent for me. I won't ever come back to this drama. This was cute and light-hearted but you can never take this too seriously when watching. Wish they had focused on the serial kidnapper more. 7/10
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Why just why?
I completely get different dramas appeal to different people, but I can’t quite wrap my head around why this one is so popular. Story dragged out and was chock full of obnoxious characters and over the top humor that didn’t quite deliver. I get this was a comedy not to be taken too seriously but the humor fell flat and was jarring with the rest of the genres they tried to smash together to create this train wreck.I suffered through the entire series with my finger heavy on fast forward just so I could watch the main couple. Not because I enjoyed Bong Soon as a character or an actress. She was flat, tried way to hard to be cute, never grew on me, and completely undeserving of our male lead. But because watching Min Min totally head over heals besotted like an adorable puppy with hearts in his eyes was the best part of this whole drama.
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Adorable
I really enjoyed it. Very sweet, funny, romantic, wild, and so much more. Even had bad stuff (kidnapping, murder, etc.) so kind of all over the place with lots of variety. Sure it was unrealistic, but sometimes you need those dramas. Cast was awesome.I really enjoyed it. Didn't think I would like it just from the goofy title it had. HAHA.
I always rate low on rewatch since I don't rewatch series (have too many to watch to rewatch any). HAHA
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Just easy fun. And that's exactly why it's good.
This was my first ever k drama and it really made me want to watch more of them.It is fun, not hard to watch series with some cringy moment. It is not the bad cring, that make you physicly hurt, but it is fun cringy, but cute(if that makes sense).
It has some cheap laughs, but i don't think thats bad or annoing, because that helps it to be really easy to watch. Also while watching it you don't really have to think about it too much.
The main couple is really sweet and the characters overall are quite likeable.
It is not the best k drama i've ever watched but it surely is entertaining and it is nice to watch it again(which i did recently and it is just as fun as when i wached it for the fist time). It is not very serious but it is cute and fun.
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