I Hear Your Voice

This was addictively entertaining, but I was groaning at the plot, especially during the last couple of episodes.

Even though the Min Jun Gook storyline is central to the whole show and ties the main characters together, this plot was so ridiculous that I wish it could be somehow removed. His motivations and actions, as well as the way the other characters react to him, are so hard to believe that it drags down the whole show.

Lee Bo Young was so charming and fun to watch, that she made up for all the flaws. I would be happy to have a nuna like her. Also, Lee Jong Suk's acting was much better than usual for these typical skinny K-pop pretty boy type roles. He showed a lot of range and sensitivity.

But beyond the deeply flawed Min Jun Gook plot, I wish they had taken more care to portray the workings of the law a little more realistically. So I guess in Korea they don't recuse prosecutors, attorneys, and judges from cases even though they're closely related to the accused or the victims?

Also, I kind of feel sorry for Do Yeon’s birth mom, since she was basically just thrown away like a piece of garbage by the show. Sure, what she did to her husband was terrible, but she did it to give her daughter a better life. It seems like Do Yeon has no interest in her whatsoever even though she’s her real mom. Oh well, maybe she’ll end up hooking up with Do Yeon’s dad, who was also treated poorly by the show at the end, since his marriage seems to be over. Admittedly, both these characters were bad people, but a psycho murderer like Min is treated more sympathetically at the end than these side characters.

Cha Kwan Hoo is a good guy, so hopefully he ends up with Seo Do Yeon or that happy assistant guy in the public defender's office if he decides to swing that way.

If a career in law enforcement doesn’t work out for Soo Ha, he can always become a professional poker player and make billions of won.

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Totally overrated!!!! The only thing that really l liked in this was the "ability to hear other people thoughts" and the plot of the story, but what killed it for me was acting and character matching. Watching this drama was just ok for me. By episode 4 i did not know if I should continue, but I hate to drop out from any thing to watch so before I ended this torture I decided to continue. It was ok, but this drama did not move me as other dramas such as YOU WHO CAME FROM THE STARS or SECRET GARDEN did ... not even close, and rating here was much higher - how can this be is my only question here...

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I watched this drama due to the popularity of this drama in search engine. Early episodes were quite OK, but as soon as it got into the mid of the journey, it got really boring that I had to force myself to see the end. There were just way too many flashback scenes, that if those were omitted, maybe the show as half shorter and maybe better.

I think the popularity is mainly due to the cute male lead who I truly agree was a candy eye to female audiences. The supposed to be funny scenes were not laughter inviting and the romantic scenes were not romantic enough. Somehow I think the main casts were better as sister and brother. They even looked a bit alike.

Anyway, if you are into cute flower boy and noona love type scenes without real plot, this is your movie. But, unfortunately, not mine.

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Do not watch this, you will regret.

This drama is one of most popular dramas here. I've checked first 5 pages of review, all were positive with 10 and 9. So I thought I should watch this. I was naive... I know I'm not a target audience. I know Korean dramas is different from western dramas and they often overdo with dramatic moments. I know it's more romantic melodrama than mystery/detective. But I steel can't understand, why this shit so popular and so highly rated. Characters are stupid and inconsistent, they driven not by logic or their character, they do mostly stupid, illogical thing, cause author need more drama. Same with events, author doesn't care about logic or realism, he want drama so drama will happen even if it's impossible in real life. Plot is filled with big holes. Every episode i watched, i was asking myself, why characters doing this shit, or isn't answer is obvious, so why they can't find answer, or such events can't take place in real life, how i can believe.

Usually I'm not writing reviews for several reasons, but this time i think i should. I'm writing this review, to warn naive people like me, who was lured here by tons of positive reviews. If you can't turn of your brain so you would not be able to cry on unbelievable drama, do not watch this, or you will end up with wasted time and disappointment.

P.S. Sorry for bad English, I'm not native speaker.

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I have nothing against this drama and I even like the actors - but it doesn’t interest me enough to enjoy and keep on watching - i might stick to watching a few episodes and jump to the final episode just for the sake of knowing how the story ended.

What makes it un interesting?

The story is stiff

Why did I even start watching the drama?
Good reviews and often on favorite drama list of some viewers

What is intersting about it?
The thrill when the bad guy was threatening them

Why wont I like it?
I dont have that much time to waste watching all episodes fully - i dont find it worthy of my time.

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I'm very dissapointed

I was VERY excited to watch this for several reasons. Lee Jong Suk was in it, it was about law and this kdrama is the only one that had so many good reviews on this app, I pretty much only saw 9 or 10. And when I started it, it was pretty good however with every episode my motivation to finish it kept disappearing so I dropped it.

For the story - it was nothing special, I've watched a few shoes involving law and that aspect was definitely very weak in I hear your Voice. The antagonist was importing for the plot but he was in every damn episode so it got so damn boring. I'm not sure what the creators were going for it had thriller, fantasy, law, romance, comedy? it tried to have everything but kinda didn't have anything at all. Now for the romance....I hated it. I didn't want the female lead to end up with neither of them. I mean one of them was a high schooler and the other was a very annoying and childish attorney.

Acting/Casting was pretty good I always love seeing familiar faces in older kdramas but I wouldn't say that the acting was something spectacular. Also I loved the side characters way more than the main ones however it wasn't really worth it to keep watching just for some characters that appear rarely.

For music - it was pretty good but like nothing special that stands out.

For rewatching - If i could give it a 0 I would but I cant so i'll give it a 1. I'm definitely not rewatching this ever again however there's a low chance that I will finish it someday but I doubt it.

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I don't really understand why I've watched it full. In most of korean dramas the abnormal abilities are shown awkwardly amateur. So I wish they better didn't include them into the story at all. The story seems good but the acting lacks and the characters are not interesting.

What I liked is how they've shown the court cases, how lawyers deal with them.

Just I didn't like Jang Hye Sung behavior even on the court. She irritated me with her arrogance and dullness. And I don't like her look and acting.

Lee Jong Suk's character is okay and is a good smart guy. I don't understand his love to the heroine as I don't like her. And he is crazily handsome.

Well, Jeong Wung In acted great.

I can't remember any other characters, nobody else caught my attention.

Well, may be mostly only the fans of JungSuk will enjoy watching this drama to the end. I don't know, just guess.

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Sometimes Romance Kills the mood

THIS SERIES IS REAL PIECE OF SHIT....
Plot was well written but not always Romance is good in dramas. Romance between two main lead in this series killed the mood for me. Even though I finished watching it, this particular element was let down for me. Age gap between couple is never the problem but I felt there was no real chemistry between two leads. This seemed forced down rather than natural.
Main actress was shown to be so immature despite being lawyer. Side characters were strong than main characters for me.
Beside this, story was good and ending in every episodes made me curious for next one.

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I wanted to love this, I really did. It got off to a great start but just couldn't click together. It was difficult to root for the romantic couple, there was just no chemistry between them. If this had been one of the first K-Dramas on my list the score might have been higher, but the bar has been set by others that were far better.

There was some great acting in the series. Choi Sung Joon was adorable and stole every scene he was in.

The music was decent but not memorable. It felt like it was there to convince you of a scene's emotion rather than complement it.

Now that I've watched it there's very little chance of me watching it again. Most of the buildup fell flat on execution, so knowing what happens will not put me in that same mindset the second time around.

That said it was still a decent series so I feel it deserves the score based on the suspense factor and some great side characters/story lines.

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