Namib (2024)

Kids always pay for adults' mistakes

My review will be all over the place just like this drama.

Everyone is trapped in their own prison and they only freed themselves in the very last 30 minutes.

This drama started great. No sugar coating, just the reality of this industry(at least for a few episodes) then it was about revenge for 2-3 episodes and then the story-wrapping time came.

IN ORDER FOR SOMEONE TO FLY, SOMEONE ELSE MUST EMBRACE THEM. Kang Su Hyeon only said this but her actions said otherwise.

Yoo Jin Woo-
I think they mostly focused on Yoo Jin Woo’s past. I wanted to see more of his career. Character development and how he overcame from harming himself to loving himself. Starting was bang on and the plot was so good. This drama could’ve been on my top list but after episode 5 it lost its charm. The writing was all over the place. When he said CEO please don’t abandon me, my heart cried. It broke into a million pieces. It was like he barely came in episodes after entering TA Entertainment.

Kang Su Hyeon- I did understand this character a little bit in the beginning. She was doing everything because she felt guilty towards her son. Then she gave hope to Yoo Jin Woo and used him and sold him. She knew his past. She knew what he could do to himself. She was selfish till the end. Did she think her son would be proud of her after knowing that she sold his friend for that factory?

Chris- I wanted to see more of this character. Why did Kang Su Hyeon let him leave the company? At first, I thought he was only keeping Yoo Jin Woo by his side to remind himself that it is okay to give up on your dream but then it was all to protect him from this industry. But making an underage work in a nightclub was also wrong.

This drama is about the music industry but the OST was mediocre. It could’ve been so much better.
I still don’t know what message they wanted to give and what was the conclusion of this series. Revenge? Yoo Jin Woo’s singing? Shim Jin Woo’s dream? Where is it?
They started everything but they didn’t know how to wrap every character’s story.

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What A Cutthroat Industry!

Won't go into what this series is all about as it has been touched on already.

The actors are great, the story is fine, however, I would have preferred more of the behind the scenes so as to see what pressure young artists are really put under as well as all the going ons we have no idea about that can make or break them.

We do get a tiny glimpse of the unsavoury side (exploitation, bullying, mistreatment) of the Entertainment Industry, but I would have liked to have seen a lot more.

One significant let down for me with Namib so far has been the mediocre music in it as well as the main actors/singers themselves that don't have what I would call the IT factor - as in the IT factor vocally.

Nothing has made me say: "Wow!"

Still 3 episodes left out of 12 so there is still time yet.

Oh wait! Perhaps one singer made me listen attentively only that was short-lived and one background song made me gravitate towards it a bit, but for a drama that is all about young talent, auditions, contests, contracts and music as in songs. Ouch!

To be fair, there is more to it than just music as we also get to observe hidden insecurities, personal demons, competitiveness and the dynamics between certain individuals.

I actually like all of the characters in this whether good or bad, but my favourite in this one is actually the teenage boy who is deaf followed by his dad. None of the mains really although they act their parts really well.

Oh! Wait! I did like the main male lead and felt for him and his difficulties, but as for CEO Kang...

Anyhow...

It's fantastic having a music industry drama, but it would have been a match made in heaven had the music (melodies) and songs stood out more.

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