Are You Human?

I don't even know where to begin... This drama was stunning from start to finish, It's the kind of drama where you don't ever want it to end.

Seo Kang Joon's acting was absolutely phenomenal. He played both parts so well that it actually felt like two different people. His entire body language changed between both characters. I was also very impressed with Park Hwan Hee who I've never seen before. I hope she gets a leading role soon because she really deserves it.

Although the storyline is nothing new, this drama really made it fresh. There were also quite a few twists that I did not see coming.

The music was good, but could have been better in my opinion. There was nothing really memorable about any of the songs, but I guess that's also a good thing because they didn't stand out too much and take away from the story.

Rewatch value 10/10 for sure. I would watch it again right now... If my plan to watch list wasn't so long.

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Are You Human Too? is a sci-fi rom com. It reminded me a little bit of I'm Not a Robot but it's sort of the reverse. What I thought was great about this was Seo Kang Joon - his acting playing the cold human and the sweet robot in the same show was just great because this role really gave him the opportunity to show a wide range of acting skills and emotions all in one show. You will just fall in love with his robot side in this show, and what is funny of course is the robot is more human than the human. Throughout watching this I couldn't wait to see it on the nights it was out as I was watching it while it aired each episode here. I loved the way his character developed and was able to get emotions and love. At times he reminded me of Data from Star Trek. I also loved the female character Gong Seong Yeon how she loved the robot for who he was so it was not just the outer shell which both guys had the same but their real inner selves. The chemistry between the leads was great. I really loved this show and not just for the romance but I really thought the whole drama and plot were done well and it always kept me wanting to see it. I don't want to give any spoilers but I highly recommend this. A truly great show.

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STORY: The story itself is very interesting as it raises your interest to watch until the end. Personally, I had doubts at the beginning as I only decided to add this drama on my watchlist because of Seo Kang Joon who plays the male lead role. Fortunately, the drama surprised me in many ways so that I can only be happy that I convinced myself to give it a try.

ACTING/CAST: As I said before, Seo Kang Joon was the main reason for me choosing this drama and I've not been disappointed at all. He is a very good actor and he pretty much proves it by portraying two characters that are totally different from each other at the same time.

*To be honest, I liked the cast in general. I think all the actors played their part very well and the distribution was very carefully done. Also the Seo Kang Joon and Gong Seung Yeon ship had a lot of chemistry and looked amazing on screen.

MUSIC: I genuinly liked the OSTs of this drama. I think they were perfectly selected according to the storyline and the scenes they were played on. And the fact that Seo Kang Joon sings himself one of the OSTs is a bonus.

REWATCH VALUE: Totally worth rewatching it. If I had the chance to watch it again, I would really love to.

OVERALL: "Are you human too?" is a 100% worth watching drama. It just gives good vibes. It's the kind of drama you would enjoy watching on a spring day at noon when the sun throws its rays through the window and the atmosphere requires a hot tea and a good drama.

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cut the non sens already!

everybody say "if you cannot accept a relationship between a robot and a human, don't watch this". but I do accept it, I loved the drama "zettai kareshi (my absolute boyfriend)", and my heart broke at the end. so, no, the robot isn't the problem! the problem is the incredible amount of non sens you come across when watching this! I just watched 4 episodes, so my spoilers won't ruin your drama, let's talk about it.

at the airport when real Shin discovered that she was filming him, he took the camera and smashed it. this is how rich people deal with everything touching their intimacy and safety. it's not like his secretary doesn't know how to deal with threatening people. and yet:

she was a traitor once, and yet they let her come back as a body guard. they could have lied in front of the cameras and just give her an envelope and a fair good bye! but here she is, a traitor inside their home!
she put a camera inside his bedroom, and he didn't notice anything even when as a robot he connected himself to all the connected toys in his room. like really?
they caught her several times in awkward situations and she got away with it by pretending she was on the phone: which rich (and paranoid) guy would accept it without tearing the phone out of her hands to check the truth with his own eyes? as I said, they are rich people and they do that all the time, so why not here?
Shin is in the OR, and the bad guy enters the OR like it's his home. and what did he got? "listen, next time you behave like a bad guy, I will tell papa!" WHAT? you tell papa now! you get the man fired! you get the chairman to know that this man is threatening his grand-child!
how is it believable that rich people behave like coward puppies?

let's talk about this so wonderful FL now! she lies, like all the time. she has no integrity: Shin saved her life and she was still planning to betray him. on one hand she is like "oh! my heart is pounding so much!" and on the other hand she tails him, put cameras in his room and lie to him right before his eyes... I don't even know what to think about her behavior. there is no coherence.

nothing is understandable in this drama. I really cannot put up with more non sens than that, so I just dropped. I agree that robot-human story is something hard to get, but the problem is, that's not the hardest thing to get here.

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This drama started off extremely great. I waited for the episodes each week with excitement. However, towards the end It just went towards a unexpected path that I didnt like. The chemistry between the two main leads were just amazing, everything was going great until the real shin woke up. The writer could have gone in so many more directions, rather than turning the real shin into a annoying, shitty brat. Like I wouldve loved to see some development between the robot and the real namsin, like idk them slowly viewing each other as brothers-rather than enemies. I feel like the writer took the simple approach of making the human nam shin as the bad one and last episode changing his character after his mums death. I felt like the real namshin had so much potential, and after all the people he lost, I just wish he found true love or even forgave his mum before she died. Like come one, why? Also, don't get me wrong I loved the robot nam shin. He was absolutely beautiful, but with all this fight for the company and the position of the it- I felt like the relationship between the namshin 3 and so bong was just shadowed by the cycle of fighting for the power and money. This show could've potentially been one of my favourite k dramas, but I'm giving it a 8.5 only because of my love for the first half of the series. I have so much more issues, that i wished they could've solved, unfortunately, it didnt work that way. I can say that I enjoyed the show overall and that I would still recommend it.

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Disappointed

Very disappointed about ending.
There is no future with robot.
This drama story line isn’t like how viewers want.
How a robot can pretend to be human being?
And how a human can kiss a robot?
I think she didn’t feel any silicon in her lips.
There should be twist in between human namshin and robot one, as audience wish to end it like human namshin will have so bong. But the ending had with robot namshin. I feel bery disappointed. This show make me bored. I think, i've wasted my Precious time. I'll never gonna recommend this show.
It'll kill your precious time. :)

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Are You Human Too Review

I am not sure what happened but a year ago or maybe a bit longer I had started watching the show and then stopped. I didn't get past the 1st Episode at the time.

Fast forward to 3 days ago, I was bored and was searching for something to watch but wasn't feeling anything. I went back to my home page on Viki, and this show came up in a section titled "Throw Back For You." I kept looking past it and then decided to give a try and boy was I surprised.
At the end of the 1st Episode became curious, and then my curiosity turned into amazement. This show is superb. Once you start watching the 1st episode you can't get enough so you continue to next one, and then the next until you are hooked.

This show is a must watch! I won't give away any spoilers but it has all the elements, suspense, drama, a little romance, and action. The cast is superb, and the acting top notch.

Each episode is approximately 30 minutes; enough to keep you engaged.

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This was pretty cool. I love the storyline. I confess, I did skip from Episodes 15 to 18 but I will go back and watch it. It had me focused but my patience ran out on this one (lol). Another South Korean who has them dang sparkling beautiful eyes. Seo Kang Joon had to play two characters and HE Did that! I really believed that he was a robot and the original Nam Shin. Joon was successful in playing a robot. It reminded me of Cain and Abel in the Bible. I have to do more SKJ to put him on my Fav actors list. I thank the rest of the cast for doing their part in this KDrama or it wouldn't have worked. The Visuals, the scenery, and the action are very well done.

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Mi aspettavo tanto da questo drama, forse troppo, infatti ho dovuto ridimensionare il mio entusiasmo episodio dopo episodio.
L'idea di base è quella molto amata dagli asiatici (vanno proprio in fissa con sti robot) di un androide dotato di una AI così avanzata da replicare perfettamente il comportamento umano, al punto da essere indistinguibile.
L'attore protagonista Seo Kang Joon è bonissimo e (per quanto mi riguarda) pure bravo. L'avevo già notato in Cheese in the trap e in questo drama mi ha dato solo conferme. Interpreta il doppio ruolo del robot con il sorriso di plastica e dell'umano arrabbiato con il mondo intero e le sopracciglia sempre corrugate. Ho trovato incredibile il modo in cui riusciva a modificare la propria espressione facciale e la postura del corpo in modo così evidente da farti capire al volo quale personaggio stava interpretando in quella scena.
Mi è piaciuta anche la protagonista femminile, Gong Seung-yeon, già vista in My Only Love Song.
Anche la fotografia e la regia sono notevoli, così come gli effetti speciali "robotici" li ho trovati all'altezza.
Quello che non mi ha entusiasmato particolarmente è la sceneggiatura. A parte un paio di colpi di scena (che però sono telefonatissimi), la storia scorre piuttosto piatta. Non ci sono scene particolarmente divertenti (il confronto con quelle esilaranti di I'm not a robot è inevitabile) e non ce ne sono nemmeno di particolarmente commoventi (a parte l'ultimissimo episodio). E volendo ci sarebbe stato il materiale per entrambe le cose.
Evito poi di entrare nei dettagli per quanto riguarda la coerenza di certi passaggi, perché ormai sono abituata a vedere i coreani perdersi in un bicchiere d'acqua, quando si parla di logica e coerenza.
Insomma, un bel drama che si lascia guardare volentieri, ma che per quanto mi riguarda è un'occasione sprecata per fare qualcosa di eccellente.

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Magnifique drama.

Je ne regarde que très peu de dramas d’anticipation en général, mais là, au vu des critiques et du trailer, je me suis dit, je tente.

Un robot créé par un médecin, à qui le fils manque énormément car il lui a été retiré enfant, doit remplacer un humain dans le coma pour des raisons de pouvoir et de sous. Mais c’est aussi et surtout l’histoire de l’intelligence artificielle, et d’un robot qui tente de trouver sa place tout en respectant les humains, qui eux, pour la plupart, ne le respectent pas.

Dès le départ, je me suis demandée s’ils allaient réussir à faire passer un joli message dans ce drama par rapport aux robots et à l’intelligence artificielle, souvent décriée, ou dépeinte comme dangereuse.

Eh bien, pour moi, challenge réussi.

Ce drama amène tout ce qu’il faut pour réussir à s’attacher à ce robot, tout en sachant pertinemment qu’il en est un. C’est subtil mais magnifiquement réalisé. J’ai passé mon temps à me mettre à la place de chacun des humains qui l’entourent, et même à sa place à lui pour tenter de comprendre son évolution.

Aucun temps mort durant les 18 épisodes A partir de la moitié du drama, je finissais même les épisodes la frustration à son maximum à ne pas pouvoir attendre la suite.

La romance semble utopique, et pourtant, elle m’a emmené avec elle sans question, et je dirais même qu’on a juste envie que le monde marche aussi simplement aujourd’hui que leur histoire. Gong Seung Yeon est honnête avec elle-même, avec un caractère trempé mais une vraie droiture, et elle sait qu’elle mène un combat juste. Bref, j’adore.

Très bien orchestré, l’histoire est aussi bien ficelée. Tous ces personnages qui aiment ou détestent ce robot, le font magnifiquement. On finit forcément ce drama avec 3 000 questions en tête afin de savoir, ce que NOUS on ferait si un jour… ?

Quant aux acteurs, ouahouh. Seo Kang Joon est juste hallucinant dans ce double rôle humain/robot. On arrive de suite à savoir qui il joue, il a développé un caractère et une personnalité diamétralement opposée à chacun et il a su adapté son jeu à chaque fois. Je découvre cet acteur ici, et j’avoue il m’a scotché.

Tous les rôles secondaires sont extras, et très bien joués, mais j’ai particulièrement adoré Lee Joon Hyuk. Son rôle est impeccable du début à la fin, magnifiquement porté, je dois saluer sa prestation.

L’image finale de ce drama, et surtout tout le message et l’émotion qu’elle porte a sublimé les 18 épisodes.

Bref, pour moi un magnifique drama à ascenseur émotionnel, et surtout à questionnement, à découvrir absolument.

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