Perfect balance of fantasy and romance
My Demon surprised me with how well they managed to do a romance drama while still keeping the fantasy elements all the way through, and keeping an entertaining storyline. I will say that most of the twists were fairly predictable, but even still the story itself was very enjoyable to watch.Jung Gu-won (Song Kang) plays a demon who makes deals with people in exchange for their soul. Additionally, he has powers that essentially make him invincible. Do Do-hee (Kim Yoo-jung) is the CEO's favorite potential successor of Mirae group, though she's the only non-blood related candidate. This naturally creates tension within the family of this corporation, and the lengths to which the other family members are willing to go to in order to destroy Do-hee become clear as the story progresses. When a twist of fate bring Gu-won and Do-hee together, they both reluctantly become reliant on each other, which leads to unexpected romance between them.
Overall, a great fantasy romance. They somehow managed to hit every romance trope and still pull off each one. The actors have great chemistry together, and the development of the relationship is well-paced and fun to watch.
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Goethe’s Faust as a Fantasy Romance Drama?
Ok, not entirely but “My Demon” definitely contains many elements of Goethe’s famous classic drama “Faust”. “My Demon”, however, is awesome and sweet. A very enjoyable fantasy romance drama.The acting is very good, and I really mean every actor. There is not a single weak performance and every actor matches the character that they play perfectly. The good cast elevates a story that is probably not that new and innovative. But the story is also well paced. After every comedic passage the tragic twists hit me in the guts.
“My Demon” throws quite a lot of things in the mix that can or cannot be believed and/or can or cannot be criticized - rebirths, God/universe, heaven, hell, various religions … Sometimes humans are eviler than the devil himself. Human greed and moral corruptness are infinite and the few pure souls are being crushed.
However, the final episode ultimately proves that we aren’t watching a classic tragedy but a romance drama where good wins over evil - those that are able to love and make sacrifices find salvation. Although, we as the audience have to swallow some sad moments along the way. The ending is VERY sweet - for some maybe too sweet - and entirely glosses over the past deeds of the demon and the perspectives of a relationship between an immortal and a mortal person.
But even if you don’t like the story at all, you can still enjoy “My Demon” simply by marveling over the handsomeness of its two leads, Kim Yoo Jeong and Song Kang, (and their outfits - kudos to the costume designers). These two people are incredibly gorgeous individually but together they are UNREAL - and their unrealness is probably one of the points this drama wants to make…
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About making choices, greed and doing the right thing
I like this drama based on fantasy and supernatural. As human we tend to make decisions irrationally, then get you into trouble feeling regrets. The demon or angel in the story just gives you the feeling that there is no other way out but to take the deal from him. Dunno if I will do that. In my opinion this drama had presented a lot of whys and how the hell questions for me with those situations feeling helpless and desperate. We argue, hate and destroy each other, and we also love, help and save each other in the end. Happiness comes from misfortunes? and other trivial things. Feeling happy IMO is all different experience. It's an okay drama for me. I cried a little over the FL feeling sad and alone in some scenes with flashbacks of losing parents and having to love your savior and be abandoned again. Will I rewatch this? maybe or maybe not.Was this review helpful to you?
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Not the Biggest Fan.
I was watching this with a friend and while it made it better, it still felt like ten nuclear bombs came at me an episode. It was overwhelming and yet the plot kept lulling in certain areas and it felt like it dragged itself out. Some plot points, such as the final arc, were incredibly out of left field.I enjoyed every character in the cast except the male lead, and all of the side characters and side stories were great.
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Makers should've stuck to the central themes properly
This show started out pretty strong, the introduction to everything was great, around episode 12 or so, the makers got confused because they tried to do a lot at once, and it all got tangled and didn't make a lot of sense. The show tried to be a good blend of emotional connection, intrigue, mystery, romance, family, comedy, etc. But it felt like the makers lost the plot halfway through and added random elements without any explanation. Overall it felt quite rushed and senseless.It is not a perfect drama by any means, I just think the makers should have focused a little bit more on the story so that there could have been some structure and at times the leads' relationship felt a little fake, the relationship felt a little rushed to me but their chemistry made up for it. Had there been more focus on the characters and less on the all sorts of useless things in the story this could've been a 10/10 for me.
I rate a drama based on the entertainment it gives me, while being so senseless at times, it managed to keep me hooked and this is the first drama I have watched in a while after a slump so it does hold a bit of an emotional value to me. The only time when I felt like wtf is going on was in episode 15. The filmography was beautiful, the acting was pretty good, chemistry was there, despite it feeling a little rushed, the romance was good.
Go in with no expectations and you'll likely enjoy it!
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Story not really that memorable
So, what makes me remember this drama isn't really the story, but the music/OST and the casts' visuals.I thought I had reviewed this when I watched it earlier this year, but now when I discovered I hadn't, I found I don't actually remember that much from the story, just the main essence.
I do remember the rather extravagant wardrobes, and the "too perfect" visual appearances.
It wasn't a waste of time watching this, but I won't re-watch it unless I am desperate either.
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Amazing performances yet messy writing
It's an interesting premise that tripped and rolled down the stairs at the last steps. This drama is good overall and the acting is amazing but the messy script in the last third brings the whole thing down.What I liked:
***The performances. I think all of the actors gave really good performances for their characters. The main leads were great, and I especially liked Kang Seung-Ho who portrayed the grandson of the late Madam Joo.
***The soundtrack. It's nice, not overly noticeable though. I loved the intro song.
***The basic premise. If I overlook the messy details of the drama the fundamental plot is pretty interesting.
***The characters. Except for the villain and both second leads because of the flawed writing.
What I didn't like:
***Messy script/characterization in the last third of the drama.
(1.) It was an interesting decision to reveal Noh Suk Min as the main villain in the 9th episode just like that. We get to see a nice compilation of him doing his villainous deeds, and then a face reveal. Just like that, on a pretty silver platter and everything. Do the writers consider the viewers to be so dumb to not figure out who was responsible for everything? Why can't we piece everything together with the main leads? It would have been so much more interesting if we got to 'investigate' with them together. Also, Suk Min has the audacity to cry when his son and eventual victim tragically passes away due to how Suk Min was treating him? As of episode 12, we didn't get to see a close bond between the two of them to believe Suk Min's tears if they were genuine. If the tears are fake, he is not portrayed as a good actor/two-faced manipulator who has a curated persona shown to the public; he is shown as a cold and cruel person so it would be uncharacteristic to fake the tears. Whichever option doesn't make sense of the tears anyway. To me, it translates as bad writing.
(2.) The technical decision to make a whole separate episode for Gu-Won's past life instead of delivering the same information in a more elegant way. Maybe giving him wisps of dreams of how in his past life he fell in love and was made into a demon. He could have had a separate arc of finding out/trying to forget his past life with echo-y lines and foggy visuals from his dreams (you know, how people usually remember their dreams when they wake up). Mans had a whole movie play out in his mind one night instead and became conflicted about how he could be the cause of Do-Hee's downfall. This conflict could have been delivered with better writing quality and no changes to the amount of material filmed. Also, we get to see almost the same dream sequence backstory when Do-Hee remembers her past life. I can get past the first huge dream/past life backstory exposition but repeating it again and almost shot for shot? Exhausting and boring.
(3.) We are shown that after Gu-Won loses his powers his contracts are terminated, they literally burn to ashes, it's as if the wishes were never made (the little girl gets sick again). Since he got back his powers were his contracts magically restored? Why? Is this how it works? Shouldn't he make the contracts anew, the old ones burned away? I know it's nitpicky but hey, the drama should stick to its own rules.
***Stereotypical 'evil' second leads. Why do writers still rely on the drama created by second leads to drive the main romance forward? Can people truly not write good multidimensional characters that have their own story regardless of their feelings for the unattainable main leads? Both Jin Ga-Young (the dancer) and Joo Seok-Hoon (the not-really-cousin of Do-Hee) are one-dimensional 'pathetic' characters with unrequited love for their corresponding main lead. Nearing the end of the drama they come to realize that they have no chance to win over their main lead and move on, as ALWAYS with these types of characters. Uhhh. I'm just disappointed that the writers made these unsubstantial characters to drive the main leads away from each other when the main thing that is holding the second leads together is their unrequited love, warnings of how the other main lead is bad news, longing looks with eyes full of tears taped together with a few pieces of office tape.
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Just an average drama
This drama is just okay, nothing too special. The two main leads give good performances, but the story feels kind of been-there-done-that. It's like they took bits and pieces from other Korean dramas and mashed them together. I mean, we've seen the whole "rich mom adopts an orphan" thing a million times before. And of course, her greedy biological kids only care about her money and pretend to be nice after she dies, but they're just trying to grab everything for themselves.However, the adopted child, armed with determination and resilience, stands up against their nefarious actions, striving to protect what is rightfully theirs.
The problem is, even though it's only been five episodes, the drama is already getting repetitive. It's like they're just going in circles without adding anything new. The initial excitement has fizzled out, and it feels like a chore to keep watching.
I don't know about you, but I like dramas that bring something fresh to the table. Yeah, the performances are good, but that's not enough to save a drama that's stuck in the same old clichés. They need to take some risks and surprise us with something unexpected.
In short, this drama is just average. The performances are decent, but the story is lacking in originality. It's like a mixtape of overused plots and tropes. Hopefully, things pick up in the upcoming episodes and give us something to really get hooked on.
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Overrated.
I started watching My Demon without expectation when I found it on new released in netflix. I'm quite okay with yoojung and songkang so I gave it a go eventho I'm not a fantasy-this-genre fans. The first few episodes was okay but still fun. Here was some of my impressions while watching it:- Their 0 chemistry. I expect more from yoojung tbh, they are beautiful but I couldn't feel the connection
- the staring contest is too much. Why slow mo and paused everytime they look at each other. This was very annoying for me.
- the obsessive dancer. I skipped her part
- The assistant.. he's so one dimensional. Well.. almost all characters are one dimensional.
- The villain was more like demon than the demon itself. He knew everything, be at the right place, powerful. And the demon was so useless and stupid.
- They killed the grandma too soon. She's one of the few interesting character
At least I still stay to watch because I want to know what's next until ep 9 when they start to be lovey dovey out of nowhere (it is for me, the have no chemistry) and the story was going nowhere I had enough and dropped this.
The ongoing drama along with my demon like Samdalri, Park's Marriage Contract, Marry My Husband eventually grabbed my attention more and I dropped this one.
Have a lot of potential, but really too shallow and childish for my taste. The chemistry between the leads was bad. The story was bad. The side characters were not interesting. What a waste of such a big budget. The cinematography was good tho, it shows it's expensive budget.
My demon reminded me to not watch this genre anymore because the logic wont fit however I want to understand it.
No, i wont recommended this to anyone if you are not a teenager. Maybe if you are a teen you will love this so much because you haven't watch much Kdrama enough to be fed up with this one 😂
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Chemistry between leads is the only thing working for this drama.
If I'd watched this drama in my kdrama beginning fanboy years 14 years ago, I'd have been head over heels. But after coming down that lane this far, this is no longer enough for me. It's too superficial, concentrating on visuals and not an actual story (personal opinion please)There's nothing that makes me wait for that next episode, and the visuals are getting less tempting by day as a result, please if you read books, this story is not really all that fresh, the trope is saturated. I wish them a good run anyway, and an even better success in their next drama.
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My Demon
*AMAZING OUTFITS ALSO*It's an amazing show in -MY OPINION- the acting was good I love the storyline and the plot it was a mystery, a mix of emotions, and a lot more.
this show will have you with mixed emotions and it is sad too. the last episode was amazing it wrapped it all up. but I wanted also to see what happened to Jin Ga Young and that little girl.
their may be some slow parts and like obvious parts but in the end it was good.
some people may not agree with my but like I said its my OPINION.
Oh and the intro song is amazing like I got that song down for each episode and its stuck in my head.
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A Worthwhile Watch
My demon is a fantasy kdrama centered around a demon, Jeong Gu Won who looses his power to a young heiress, Do Do Hee (transfer of tattoo). In his quest to get back his tattoo, Gu Won becomes Do Hee's bodyguard and eventually marries her. The marriage is contract based and mutually beneficial. As he safeguards and protects Do Hee from life threatening attacks, Gu Won could monitor her and keep an eye on his tattoo which was on her wrist. Gradually, they develop romantic feelings for each other.The storyline is thorough and interesting. The drama captures the reality of being adopted into a powerful family. It is not all lovely and rosy especially when it has to do with properties. Also, the drama gives insight into the fact that Gu Won's encounter with Do Hee was fated. They actually had a past life together as YiSun and Wolshim and were lovers. Additionally, I liked how the drama provided a back story on the series of events that led into Gu Won becoming a demon. It was impressive.
The drama has powerful and engaging scenes that would keep you hooked. The highlight and centerpiece of the drama is the tango scene. That iconic dance scene will surely go down in kdrama history. Everything about the scene was just pleasant to watch.
One of the distinct features of this drama is its wonderful cast, whose performances keep viewers on the edge of their seats. Each actor nailed their respective roles.
The chemistry between the leads, Jeong Gu Won (Song Kang) and Do Do Hee (Kim Yoo Jung) was sizzling. They showcased a convincing act of young love that is passionate and beautiful. This makes viewers' hearts flutter.
The OSTs were great and I loved all of them especially the introduction song; True by Yoari.
A point of criticism for me has to do with the love triangle. For a couple who were already doomed due to their piteous fate, the love triangle wasn't necessary. It was great that it ended quickly giving DoHee and GuWon the chance to love themselves as much as time would allow.
Another point of criticism has to do with the scene where Gu Won disappeared. That scene looked so much like a scene in Goblin. There are a lot of creative and artistic choices she could have made use of but she chose to do the exact same thing to the extent that it was the same clothing color. It looked as though she copied the scene vividly from the other drama. That was really disappointing.
Nonetheless, I found the drama interesting and worthwhile.
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