My Only Love Song

It's a mess

What should have taken me a day or two to finish made me take even longer because I almost gave up watching the whole thing. To make a long review short, I highly recommend you don't watch it.

I was really intrigued by the premise of the story. A modern actress gets sent back in time to the era she is portraying, and tries to navigate that world while looking for a way back to her time. Meanwhile, getting caught up in a love she had no intention of having, and having to choose between going back or staying. It sounds great right? However, while whats on paper is sort of what we get, it gets hidden behind a terrible production.

I'll start with the good:
-The episodes are short, just a half hour, so if you are really dedicated, you can finish it in a day.
-Once I understood the point, I was ok with the weird edits in the middle of the episodes. They stop them about 2/3 of the way into the episodes, though.
-General Ko Il-yong. I can't really explain why, but I just liked his character. I think he was the only one that didn't take his role so seriously, and was good enough to have fun with it. He was over the top at times, but he was enjoyable.
-Gong Seongyeon has an amazing singing voice.

And now the bad:
-It looks so low budget. The wigs and props look incredibly fake, almost cartoonishly. The wigs especially were really distracting with how bad they were styled on some of the actors. The style is all over the place, and while I am not a Korean historical expert, it looked to me like there wasn't much regard for accuracy at all. That could be due to the budget, but some of the styles seemed really modern compared to how they probably should have been portrayed.
-Most of the acting is really cringy. I talked about General Ko already, and there were a couple others that were ok, but in general, it was hard to watch. I feel bad for Gong Seongyeon, because I have seen her in WAY better productions, and I'm sure she was giving her best, but I really didn't like her character. She was really annoying and didn't really redeem herself all the much to me.
-The plot is a mess. I would have given it a higher rating if it was a straight parody, but it tries to be serious half way through and looses whatever edge it had. In one of the earlier episodes, there was even a 4th wall break, so I almost saw it in a better light. Like "Oh, ok, so I shouldn't care about the plot because it's not important" and then they make it important in the end.
-The second lead couple has a better love story. Not that either was portrayed really well, but I believed that they loved each other more than the main couple. I know people have mentioned that they were one of the top couples in WGM, but I didn't see that here. On Dal looked more like he was going to eat her (and not in a sexy way) most of the time.
-The ending doesn't make sense. I was hoping she would have a similar situation to what happened with Samyong, in which we would see a modern incarnation of On Dal, but nope, the real deal just time jumps out of no where with no explanation.
-With all the behind the scenes shots in the earlier episodes (which I loved by the way, it was one of the good things), they stopped them half way through the series. It's like they changed editors at some point in the show.
-This is a personal gripe of mine, but the camerawork that was done is not my personal style. It's the type that looks like they are shooting a soap opera, with hyper defined pan shots and bad lighting. It highlights even more the fake props and makes everything distracting.

There's probably more I can say, but they are smaller things that don't really matter to me that much.

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Watched in March 2019.

review from 2019:
Fun and easy ride with great chemistry between the two leads. Highlights include a magical time-traveling car, refreshingly rude heroine (yes, I loved her!), some sympathetic side characters and several very hot kisses.
Crazy comedy in the first half of the show was awesome, the second half with melodrama and some extremely illogical or straight down stupid twists was more on an annoying side (e.g. how information travels unnaturally fast in medieval Korea, but the main characters are failing at some basic communication).

Made me happy, will rewatch favorite scenes in the future! 8 well-deserved stars!

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This is for laughs, with a little love, sadness & distraction to mix it up a little

The ladies are beautiful, the guys are hot & they are all around humorous! I didn't come to this series expecting it to stick to the history, especially with the way it started out. This is a fun reprieve with lots of laughs & heart warming, if not almost scandalous haha moments with a dash sadness sprinkled throughout. And my goodness, the laugh of that spoiled brat Go Il Yong (Park Joo Hyung) oh so annoyingly funny! This is definitely a series that's fun to watch after we get past the female lead's obnoxious behavior with true growth on her part. Mu-Myung (Ahn Bo Hyun) is the cutest!!! So are On Dal (Lee Jong Hyun) & Sam-yong ( Lee Jae Jin)!
... I guess you can tell who I came to see :D

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I started this drama seven months ago, but only just got around to finishing it. I think it is probably better overall if you watch it in one go instead of giving yourself too much time to think about it. Alas, sometimes life just gets in the way.
That said, I still enjoyed the story immensely. It was basically just a quirky idol drama. For a saguek, it wasn't too terribly violent or full of politics. The "bad guy" was absurd. I actually started to feel a bit of piy for him at one point.
The guys were cute, there was some hilarious meta, and the girls were hilarious in their own right. I would be very happy to see any of these idol actors again. :)

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Great historical period drama

I love historic period dramas, and I was pleasantly surprised with this drama - and time travelling was amazing add to it. Sure, the plot has its issues and plot holes, but once you ignore them, you can really enjoy this drama. I also really loved that the main woman Soo Jung wasn't a shy or clumsy girl, but a witty, confident and even rude! We don't really see that in many dramas, and it was a positive thing to see that made me wanna watch more.
The characters are well written and fun, and even the annoying ones (I'm looking at you Go Il Yong) I found really likeable and grow fond of. And all the couples are so shipable and have great chemistry together, espeically Soo Jung and On Dal. Also the kisses between them were actually steamy and realistic than most Kdramas, another plus!
There were some plot holes, as I mentioned, but mostly I wish we knew more of Boong Boong (also one of my favorite characters, the car lol) - has it always been a time travelling car? Where did it get its powers, and why did it choose Soo Jung to travel her back in time, and travel her around? But well. I guess they wanted to leave that to a mystery.

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Perfect for GONGLEE couple fans

If youre looking for a short series, this is perfect for you.
Cinematography: well, it's pretty good and simple. The color is soothing to the eyes. The editing is quite awesome as well!
Cast: The cast is perfect. Of course Jong Hyun and Seung Yeon make a perfect pair. Their acting is impressive. They can pull off romance, drama, and comedy. I was surprised to be honest.
Musical scoring: I am very satisfied with its OST.
The sound fx is 100! It brought color and humor to scenes that needed them. It hit the punch lines and it targeted the perfect scenes that needed those kinds of sound/music.
All songs are perfect and heartwarming.

**believe me, it beat some long dramas in terms of musical scoring and sound editing.**

This, I believe, was made actually for the gonglee couple since a lot of details about them are in this drama 😅

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This drama kept popping up on my "N" recommended list and after ignoring it many many times I finally decided to give it a try. And I was pleasantly surprised. It is a cute, fun, and sometimes quirky drama to watch. Even though some of the actors are not well known or well established yet, they did a really good job with the help of some veteran supporting actors. I was really impressed with Seungyeon whom I had only ever seen in one other drama. She was able to express a good range of emotions in this and made me look forward to other dramas from her. The writer and director also do a good job of keeping the drama fairly light hearted. Sure there are some plot holes but I was enjoying the show so much, especially towards the end, that I didn't really care about them. If you need a break from the more intense dramas, then this one is a good pallet cleanser.

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I personally loved it at such short time it became my second favourite K-Drama as my first is Moon Lovers but I'm not here to discuss moon lovers,

I loved the acting and how the story line progressed well I found myself crying many times on this but then laughing. There are going to be characters you hate like in all Drama's You feel yourself understanding the protagonist more and more I also loved the way they brought people from the protagonists life into the past and made it seem like there life before like you know reincarnation and stuff.

I loved it even though it didn't make sense at the start very much it was a very interesting drama to watch cause they changed history in away *winks* not telling how tho cause that will ruin the story for those that haven't seen it yet.

Overall the characters the story everything was amazing the romance in this was also top notch I loved it! I'm pretty sure you will like it to and find yourself laughing at how the people act, Even if you don't particularly like historical drama's I'm pretty sure you will like this one! have fun watching <3

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the acting in this was superb but the script was horrendous. this entire drama was filled with over the top cringeworthy humour and awful relationship development. i could barely get through an episode without gagging lol.

like everyone says, the main couple had great chemistry but that wasnt enough to get past their annoying relationship development. i actually liked them better before they got together.

and i’ll be honest while the acting was good, the only natural character in this drama was sam yong. everyone else seemed so awkward and out of place.

this story had potential but the story just wasnt executed well :/

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if your in for a short RomCom series then try this.

the series is not that long so you can watch it within a day if your really interested on the series. well I really like how they manage to make this series very amusing on that part I will give 10/10 score, it will really makes you laugh but what I really don't like is how they made the action part of this series ( I mean how can a general goes for war with only few men and the acting scene was mediocre. ) they should have stick with the Romance and comedy hehehe. about the romance no question the acting is perfect and the chemistry between the leads is awesome! they really fight for their love in spite the odds and prevails in the end woah!!! nice!!

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Not a dull moment. Very funny. Couldn't really take it seriously, everything was just so goofy. When I tried to take it seriously.......well i couldn't. I couldn't really feel for the characters or put myself in their shoes. You know a good drama if you can go alongside the characters and i couldn't. But hell comedy 10!!!.
Definitely lots of plot inconsistencies(What's up with the end?).
A lot of scene changes that could not really carry the audience along( I found myself crying for 3 seconds and then I started laughing as the scene changed)
Music always fitted the scene but not memorable.
You're good to go if you can overlook it and just watch it for fun!!

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I just finished watching this drama and I LOVEd IT. The story may be a bit confusing bcuz like how can a van transport you to the era/history. But still... the plot is unique. Ep 19-20 is the hardest part bcuz of the ENDING. But, im happy that i t was a happy ending. I just wish there was more to it when they met again. Ykow more than kissing and...but omgod LEE jong HYUN is soo hotttt in this drama. His smirky face, jealousy and THE HOTTNESS. Im planning on watching EVERGREEN/the man OH song (ithnk) DAmn i just cant get over him????????????????♥️❤️♥️❤️????????????????:/9/15/19 2:02pn

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