“I wonder if the people watching will be happy with the drama” I was very miserable actually
Jfc where do I even start. First off I never watched Jane the virgin so you know this is from an unbiased viewer that doesn’t have the bias of having watched the original, with that out of the way:My first problem rose in around the 6th (give or take) episode, the kiss was horrendous holy sh.. do you know how evidently bad a kiss has to be for a person that hasn’t kissed someone to not only know it’s cringey but to legitimately think the show is better off without kissing? The focus on the kisses made it wayyy worse like if your actors are awful kissers then show it from afar or something but nooooo it had to be in plain view, every kiss took down 5 years from my life span.
Second problem: unnecessary plot. They put too much focus on the crime plot like sir I DO NAWT CARE they failed to make it interesting and dragged it for too long
Third: Lack in reasoning behind characters actions. So many characters did things out of character and then on top of that their reasoning was sh-t
Overall By episode 9 I was full on skipping scenes, having it as background noise the last episode I skipped the entire episode and watched the last thing and I audibly cringed like cmon now.
The female lead was awful she cannot act wtf this is my first time actually saying this about someone because I never notice but this one was actually so obvious it gave me physical pain
The baby was the best actor you did great sweetie
Conclusion save yourself don’t bother
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Either way, a waste!
Having watched the original show “Jane the Virgin”, I was, at first, a bit hesitant because I liked that. But then I thought I should check out how the Kdrama essence changes it. And I am sadly (not really) declaring that they did fail and this was entirely a horrible attempt. It was obvious to compare this with the previous but then I thought I should actually consider it as a separate show because things must have changed with given circumstances, which did happen. Either way, it did disappoint.Developed by ‘Studio S’ & ‘Lifetime’ and produced by ‘Group 8”, “Woori the Virgin” is a comedy melodrama plus partly romcom drama, adopted from the American satire telenovela “Jane the Virgin”. Written by Jang Ah Mi and directed by Jung Jung Hwa, the drama was broadcasted on SBS TV and internationally distributed by “Viu” in limited countries. Notably, this is not a remake of the original show, rather an adaptation since all the 5 seasons from have been summed into a single season. Also, the show reunites Sung Hoon and Im Soo Hyang after 6 years who, again, happen to have debuted together 11 years ago.
Oh Woo Ri (Im Soo Hyang), daughter to a single mother and raised alongside her grandmother, is a woman in early 30s who has been virgin due to her religious beliefs. During a regular checkup, she gets pregnant due to medical malpractice at her OB-GYN clinic. To her surprise, the sperm owner turns out to be a man Rafael (Sung Hoon) with whom she had a momentary fling five years back. As she decides to keep the baby and the story follows the consequences and unfamiliar events she faces.
Lee Kang Jae (Shin Dong Wook) is Woori’s boyfriend and a detective. Other familiar faces in the story in various major roles were: Hong Eun Hee, Yun Won Kyung, Kim Soo Ro, Lee Do Yeon, Nam Mi Jung, Hong Ji Yoon, Joo Jin Mo and Yun Woon Kyung.
Plot development was the entire problem with the drama. The remake was a bad idea; they could have made a story based on the concept but they went for an adaptation, making foolish decisions. The pilot episode did its job of creating an impression at the end but the episode, as its own, was not very pleasant. However, the furtherance following that and the set of events became interesting with plenty of comic elements and revelations done for the major characters. To my disappointment, it didn’t last long; it seemed smooth till 5th but what happened in 6th and the way the episode ended, I was skeptical about the rest of the show, because it hadn’t even reached its interval.
With only the crime scandal and the main culprit left to be unveiled, everything else became stupid and not worth of watching as soon as the 7th episode started. I can’t say that the mystery plot and the investigation process kept me engaged, it’s just I wanted to know the culprit’s face even when the show had already fallen through, that’s it. It kept getting stupider and logic-less towards the ending and for my habit of not being able to leave anything unfinished, I watched 7th-14th at 3x, ngl.
Emphasizing on my opinion, once again, adaptation isn’t an easy job as it seems. Even if the audience doesn’t expect you to justify the originality, as a writer, you must be careful not to mislay the essence of what’s been presented earlier, which the debutant Jang Ah Mi jakka-nim clearly failed to accomplish. First of all, the idea to adapt a 5 seasoned show was stupid to begin with; secondly, it could have simply referred to the story and created one of their own; finally, bringing all the 5 seasons into one was where they stooped to rock-bottom.
With not being able to create something noteworthy in his almost 15 year caarrer, Jung Jung Hwa PD-nim has again failed to bring another drama to justice. The flow of direction was inconsistent, very much. Things like screenplay management, sound editing and screen editing might have been handled to par but the erratic pacing and irregular development come as annoyances. While the first half was smooth and worth the patience, the latter half becomes too rushed in order to include everything within the predetermined quota. Imo, they could have made to more episodes, minimizing the damage.
Composed by Choi Seung Kwon, the show has a total of 5 OSTs and my ‘Kdrama OST Sucker’ heart couldn’t bring itself to love any single of them. I would say ‘”I’m In Love” by Sin Ye Young was the only likable track which also fits to the drama. While “Gosh” by Jessi is a fabulous track individually, this has no particular essence to be contributed to the show. Other 3 tracks are: “Sunday to Monday” by Woody and “I’m goin’ crazy” which has both male & female versions, sung by Kim Bum Soo & Lee Young Hyun, respectively.
What I liked…
Nothing really
What I didn’t like…
# Sung Hoon’s acting doesn’t improve remarkably even though he has been acting for a while and his irregular casting should be the reason, but it’s obvious he isn’t getting many offers bcs there seems no will power to improve. He could utilize his time in taking classes. (Some of y’all will come at me foe this but fact never changes.)
# Character arcs for many were shoddy; not even the 3 leads had anything significance. Flaws make characters realistic but for a 14 episode fictional drama there were way too many flaws, provided they didn’t have a single fraction of development. In the second half, it wasn’t even funny rather ridiculous.
# Kang Jae’s character was horribly written with no particular sense. As a cop, he didn’t show any trait that would make him a good detective. The number of times he and his wit failed, implied his incompetency and also showed how incapable the police is. In short, this was so very unrealistic and had no logic.
# Chemistry between the 2 possible pairs were zero. While Im Soo Hyang did click with one showing little compatibility, pairing her up with the other was so useless and was presented with cliché elements as fillers only. The original show was convincing, but as the culture and essence have changed with the remake, the same felt extremely stupid here.
# The illogical plot devices were irritating in the sense that they did repeat few just to stall time and match the timelines of different subplots. Then, they used some just to fill the gaps created due to the removal of major events from the original show. Finally, the way of representation was choppy.
Final remarks... Overally, “Woori the Virgin” is not only a bad remake but also a poor quality show if you don’t take the original show into consoider. I came here knowing I might get bored but the stupidity and failures have made me mad. I understand the low budget is where the problems stem from but we have seen enough such cases, where makers have aced the race despite every hurdles. Since the show has way too many cons and almost no pro, I decline to acknowledge it as an average show, even. Don’t watch.
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Sit down let me tell you why this is dog shit
Have you ever been cheated on? That how disappointed you will feel after watching this drama.Let’s get this straight: I’ve never seen the OG version of this drama, so I’m purely going off the mess I’ve tortured myself with.
What I know is that this drama is seriously SERIOUSLY lacking in the writing department and people have waited a year for what could’ve been the romcom of summer 2022 but turned out to be a booing festival.
The biggest irony of this drama is how the FL is a scriptwriter but the actual script is of the drama is ass. FL and ML chemistry is nonexistent, they wasted 70% of screen time on a crime plot that doesn't matter and no one cares about, the love story with her ex has so much more substance and screen time that it gave all the viewers second male lead syndrome, the father-daughter relationship is barely explored, heck the FL character is also barely explored. From the scriptwriter's profile it seems like this is her first work, and it shows. I’m so sorry but this is truly wasted ressources and potential.
To sum it up this is the drama:
19% romance with sml
70% crime plot
1% baby
5% romance with the ml
2% found my long lost father
This could’ve been great, some people may even like it but the execution is too bad not to be frustrated and disappointed. Come ooon. You just had to write it better ( and cast another FL) , the budget was there
UPDATE:
*Ending Spoiler*
In what world is this series of event not asinine:
-Breaks up with SML because: baby
-Falls out of love with SML
-Falls in love with ML
-Dates ML
-Talk about future as family with ML
-ML proposes, she gets angry
-She breaks up with ML
-Her brain, literally, I kid you not, resets to factory setting and suddenly she doesn’t know who to get back with. Girl weren’t in a committed relationship 2.5 seconds ago??
-Goes back to SML
-The end
huh???? HUHHHH?
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Ads lied, the series disappointed me more than anything I have ever watched
The way it is advertised lies about the content of the show. I thought I finally got lucky finding a series about a woman with two husbands but I found another boring, misogynistic series about a man who has slept with every woman he has met and I absolutely HATE the writers did not let Woori the virgin confront him about it. Instead, they made it so she would get embarrassed and humiliated when pointing out what an absolute whore this rich man is. I dropped the show the moment that happened. Biggest waste of my time. Would recommend nobody wastes their time with it.Not only did they not deliver as promised but also gave me a misogynistic disappointing show. If you want more women to watch it don't just advertise it as a female fantasy then fill every single part of the series with male fantasy.
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Sorry but nope.
I watched this drama purely for Sung Hoon (ML) but unfortunately this made it to the “dramas that I do not recommend list”.While I understand this drama was a remake from “Jane the Virgin” (which I didn’t watch), I am not sure I understand the plot at all.
I lost focus on the drama (and had been fast forwarding parts) because I felt that the drama tried to cover too much. There wasn’t much emphasise on the lead characters. Even if there were focus on the lead characters, there wasn’t enough depth.
Frankly, the drama was quite tiring to watch after a while, so I fast-forwarded to the last episode and yet it was disappointing.
I don’t recommend this drama at all.
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Very Disappointed
I really had high hopes for this drama but its more about the crime scene plot than about the FL being pregnant. I also think the Fl needs to stay single and not choose either of the guys. I wasted time watching this train wreck of a drama. Then you have both ex's from the leads who are just as bad as the leads are. I like the actors themselves but their characters are what I dont like. The only two episodes that Iiked where the first two and thats it. Woori's mo was also a big problem for me and needed to mind her business half the time.Was this review helpful to you?
Not sure about all the hate...
Not sure about all the hate but this is not an awful show as others may have perceived it. I agree that it's not a superb show. There are even lots of comedy scenes that didn't hit the mark. But I like that it showcased the importance of family, and that family is not about blood but about quality time you shared.I also like that the female lead is not feeble-minded on deciding who she wants to spend her life. Even though she has 2 men vying for her attention, she didn't take it for granted and didn't play with their emotions. She didn't go back and forth on both men. She was decisive and I think it's a good trait.
I also like that they added a mix of suspense/detective scenes, as well as a bit of a bromance.
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Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh
So this was a very difficult drama to rate, because on one hand the storytelling was pretty decent, and on the other hand the romance was absolutely horrendous for a drama whose first and foremost genre is romance. There was just no romantic development for Woori with either bachelor (I’m just going to brush over the fact that they dragged on the love triangle for 14 episodes and I absolutely despise love triangles). I genuinely don’t really understand any of the Rafael shippers (of course most of them were shipping them because of the original) because, objectively speaking as someone who has never seen the OG version, Rafael was just not a very good option…? His romance with Woori made zero sense (she moved on so QUICK as well???!!!) and the actors just had no chemistry at all. Kang Jae was a much more believable option because supposedly they’ve been dating for 2 years prior. Which is why I’m even more confused about how a random dude who you met a few months ago and a boyfriend of 2 years could even be evaluated at the same level. The whole show was just soooo in Kang Jae’s favor that I’m surprised she liked Rafael at all by the end of the drama. Anyhow, I didn’t hate this drama as much as other people I don’t think, but I still would not recommend it. I watched it for Im Soo Hyang first and foremost, and I would’ve probably not bothered otherwise. To end it on a high note, I absolutely loved the storyline about the mom and the actor father of Woori. I don’t know if this was also in the original story but their romance was hands down the best one in the entire drama, although I would also go as far as to say their romance made the drama bearable for me.Was this review helpful to you?
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Waste of time
Everytime i think about how i managed to finish this drama i feel immense shame. Character development was non existent as nothing the character did made any sense and they just did not have personalities of their own. On top of that, its like they took everything interesting out and we were left with this abomination thats as fun as getting my wisdom teeth getting taken out.The worst part of it is, other than being boring and nonsensical, the last episode might just be the WORST episode of EVERY single show that has ever aired, somehow this disappointed me more than the game of thrones finale did.
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how to make things complicated
the story is about woori, a girl who gets pregnant by accident through artificial insemination. this would have have less impact if she wasn't a catholic who made a purity oath. and on top of that she had a fiance for 5 years. at this moment all the complications begin. the baby's dad is her one and only ex-crush. the son of the CEO of a big hospital. so you've got intertwined stories with all the characters, you've got murders, plot, multiple plots, proud working girl stories, proud single moms stories, murder investigation, love temptations, so many break-ups and make out! after watching it, while thinking about the story, it just remind me of a plate of spaghetti: so many intertwined stories that look like a mess. it's a bit too much complicated for no reason.it's a good show to watch while chilling with friends or family, the story is nice, you don't need to think into it too deeply, it has a lot of ridiculous and funny situations. just switch off your brain and have fun!
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"TRASH"..............
just a waste of time ......................
story: the writer doesn't know what she wants—a total mess.
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Acting: No Chemistry between leads. Emotionless. total waste
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Music: so so
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rewatch: Definitely No
In conclusion, don't waste your time in this GARBAGE................
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