Heartbeat

It will make your Heart BREAK and not BEAT!

Warning: For those thinking to watch Heartbeat now - Do it At Your Own Risk.

This is me as the drama was announced: ❤️_❤️
This is me as the drama progressed and now ended: (T_T)

For the first time in my K-Drama watching history, I have not been so disappointed as today. Cause I honestly had high hopes for this drama, given the cast and premise. Even recommended to few friends and MDL-ers as I completed the initial 2-3 episodes (please forgive me). But the magnitude of disappointment is making me rant here so please bear with me 😭

I chose to watch an airing drama (big feat in itself) that continued to dip low as the series progressed. But I still thought - No, I have dropped too many dramas and I judge dramas too early - so let's keep watching and hope that it will get better. But it doesn't, week on week it got worse and I was watching this on 2x speed and then just fast-forwarding all together.

But man, that ending - worse than Bella Swan's character and acting in Twilight (and that's saying something).

> Story: 0 (wish I could mark the same in MDL)
> Acting: 7 - cannot blame the actors, they all did a good job - just that the script was terrible, hence the result was terrible.
But no fault of the skills of actor, I would still look forward to their other projects so that I can erase this terrible memory.
> Music/OST: didn't make any difference, cause with such bad writing even when it was good, it all lost meaning.
> Overall: 4/10 - and this 4 is just for the sake of actors.
> Verdict for Heartbeat: Skip it or you'll be filled with regrets like me.

The premise was so good which made me have great expectations as they could have done so much with the romance, comedy, fantasy and mystery elements. They had a decent cast and music as well - but nothing could save it because the writing/script is one of the worst ones I have come across. Like what were the writers eating/drinking that made them act like this??

I feel bad for Taec Yeon as I like him as an idol from 2PM days, and this was my first proper drama of his that I wanted to see. Also, Kim In Kwon - cause he is an exemplary actor! He is one of my favorite support actors, I means see that guy in Mr Queen (what a fine senior actor).

Personally, this drama is making me rethink that I need to continue staying away from airing dramas, and watch them only when it finishes. Binge-watching is better for my sanity and drama viewing. I am just so angry/sad/disappointed. Dramas are after all supposed to bring joy and not make me pull-my hair. Hence, anyone reading this - hope you have a fair idea what could be expected, please tread carefully in case you are planning to watch this drama. Better, don't and watch something else.

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A >BIG< disappointment

Changing my review here since the Kdrama just finished this week and my opinion changed with its ending. So... I was in love from the very first moment I started watching it, I absolutely loved the beginning of the whole story and I got very high expectations to the story, BUT... Somewhere in the story it starts to get way too boring, the FL that I loved started to piss me of. And there's a lot of "white spaces", I mean, things they didn't mind to explain to us. Like... Why does that vampire (the villain) hates Seon Woo? What are their past? Why does Do Sik have that illness? And why the FL is Hye from the past with different face? And why is there someone who has exactly the face of his past love but she's not the Hye won he loved? I mean, did I lost something? ahhaah idk, I got confused. And the ending... A totally disappointed. Is he dead? Is he alive? We simply DON'T KNOW hahaha. I think they needed more episodes to explain the past to allow us to understand the present. Anyway, I'm 100% disappointed and I don't recommend anyone to watch it. I think they rushed everything and messed up with the whole story.
All this thing about the past reminded me of "Bulgasal" But the difference is that in Bulgasal they explained everything to us so we could understand the story, but in Heartbeat they ignored the past of the characters and they didn't explain important stuff to us, so we were left with an empty feeling, like... "Did I miss something?" Basically, it was a generic story with a main villain without a depth background, a girl who's supposed to have some importance to the story but in the end she was just a useless character (Hye Won) A random character that, for some reason they don't explain to us with more depth, helps the ML (The cat man) I mean... I think the story had more potencial, but they just transformed it in a weak, generic and boring romance. I mean, even "Twilight" is a better vampire story than this. And one last thing, the ML friends are always showed in the story with highly importance, but... How did they meet? Why do they have this strong friendship? ... *Sigh* anyway... I'm disappointed, I was hoping for more than we got.

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