✂ ⛓ Bottoms UP! °7.5° °VG°
Miss Oh Hae-young opens the show. (That's Miss-Ordinary-Oh-Hae-young, not the Pretty-Girl-Oh-Hae-young). The ordinary one is getting married tomorrow. She unexpectedly announces that it's OFF👎🏻. She refuses to marry THAT man. Her mother (played by the "every" mother, Kim Mi-kyung) may actually kill her. Her father warns her more than once: "Get out. She's coming."
We'll learn that all her life she's had to live in the shadow of a beautiful girl (Pretty-Girl-Oh-Hae-young) who has the same exact name as hers. When her name was being cheered in high school, it was never for her. Mix-ups caused embarrassment for her because the good things and the nice things were always for the pretty Miss Oh, not the /other/ Miss Oh. She has learned to eat pain. And OH boy, can she chow it down, now.
Now she's out of high school. NOW she's a fun girl with a great sense of humor. The joke continues to be on /her/ though, as her wedding, her job, and her home life are still going to get turned upside down by Goddess Oh. If the /other/ Miss Oh knew what was coming, she would have moved overseas.
Park Do-kyung Is the Autocrat of Sound at the studio where he works:
¤ "That's not a simple fracture, that's a compound fracture. They don't sound the same…!”
¤ “How dare you use sound from daytime for a nighttime scene? The temperature and humidity or different, day and nights sound nothing alike….❕”
¤ “It's obvious this film will be a flop but my name is going on the credit so the sound has to be right❗"
He's always tuned in. He's always 👂👂👂(except when his underlings cry out in agony for some relief: "Isn't that good enough? …What is good enough for you❔") Even the director wonders the same while he's in the middle of a dust-up ~ I mean, an /actual /skirmish. Do-kyung's Family are all a bunch of looney characters: A narcissistic gold digging actress of a mother, a juvenile, under achieving younger brother, and an alcoholic sister who is as overbearing a boss as he is. His fiance, Oh Hae-young, left him alone at the altar a few years ago. He hasn't forgotten her. He WILL get revenge. She disappeared for years but he's found out where she's working. He's going to destroy that business. Right around this time, he starts getting auditory… hallucinations? They precede visions of the future with a strange woman. He doesn’t know what to do about that.
Do-kyung's closed up within himself. Ironically, he hardly makes a sound. "Just as if I was about to die of old age, I'm thinking about the things I wish I would have done. It feels lonely. It feels like my life will end very pitifully," he says when he recounts how he feels over his bouts of déjà vu. Ouch. Old or not, people that hit bottom feel the same way. There's also the more isolating sensation that one can't help others from making the same mistakes.
That's the setup. Some people watch Charlie Brown and laugh, others watch Charlie Brown and feel a sting of pain between chuckles. The humiliation they subject our FL to is very thorough. I felt for her. “Every moment of life is embarrassing,” says a character. Our Miss Oh has learned how to get humiliated, stop, put on a smile, and keep going. (“You lose if you hate. You lose if you get jealous. Keep going forward.”) That's a role model.
Before long, we see that the Oh Hae-young that Do-kyung heard about is the /other/ Miss Oh. The company that he sets out to destroy is where the /other/ Miss Oh works. As soon as Do-kyung makes a move, he'll see that the /other/ Miss Oh is the woman of his dreams… eh, visions.
Do-kyung is, overall, more attractive than his mere looks. The ML does a great job acting as well, though he could have brightened a little move towards the end. He doesn't quite stand up fully straightened, which does take away from his appearance. Hmmm… This is his 11th feature…. No doubt he's hunching slightly from having to bend down to kiss these tiny female leads. Not everybody can do that without it taking a toll on their body😅.
The hurdle they have in their relationship does seem insurmountable. When it comes to feelings, she has no distortion. He's a clogged tuba. It's difficult to imagine it in the first few episodes, but they get slightly steamy on screen ~ well above the average Kromcom. One of the up close shots of them kissing is awkward. At other times (love on an elevator) it's above average, in case you're interested.
There's nice connections, segues, and little ironies cast around. It's far from slovenly. We get to see another wonderful performance by a child actor. Oh, I was just loving the show, but they did stutter at the end. Their attempt at a dramatic climax never got off the ground. The final clash with her mom was flat as well, which rendered the last couple or so episodes discordant with manufactured drama that falls flat. It's filler. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this. Our FL is irrepressible. She's nothing short of inspiring when she stops, sets her smile, and keeps going forward.
It's a silly rom-com, so at times they overdo the physical comedy with pulling hair, screeching, and general overacting. It's uncomfortable silliness, but comedies out of Hollywood have been far more dumbed-down than this. I appreciate the extended wrap up instead of a 30 second one as we see sometimes. It didn't finish strong but it is really good right up until the last vignettes.
Every Kromcom features eating and drinking. (Why does Hollywood starve us?) About alcohol: Alcohol actually seems to be a character in the show. Drinking isn't just a pastime in AMO. For some it's a way of life. For Ordinary Miss Oh, it's the painkiller of choice. She's dependent on it. We'll learn that somebody else in her office is even worse than she. "My life is too embarrassing for me to stay sober," says one of the characters. Do-kyung won't drink in the beginning of the show because he's afraid of making a mistake. We'll get to see some mistakes after we see him twist a couple caps off.
We could argue that all the men in the show are drunk on Goddess Oh vibes. Each of our leads made it to the altar with nothing to show for it in their past, so both seem to have been involved in love affairs that were wine spritzers: Fun and somewhat satisfying, but not intoxicating. They both had sobering experiences. They both shuttered themselves from the outside world: He in work, and she in the bottle. Perhaps it's time to party-on once more.
QUOTES🗣
If you want to be unhappy, hold on to your past. It's up to you.
People mature as they feel pain.
A woman doesn't curse a man for leaving her, but for being a coward.
“We live only once. Let's not live like this.” (Our ML says to his mother who's been chasing pride and money most of her life.)
Once we admit that things disappear someday, we no longer get obsessed with useless things.
IMHO〰🖍
RATINGS 🎬7.8 🖊7.6 🎭8 💓7 🦋7.6 🎨6.3 🎶8.2 🔚7 🤗6 ▪ LEVELS 🌞6⚡3 😅5.5 😭3.5 🤔6 💤2.5
Age + Scattered R-rated language, f💣 included. Less usual for a Kdrama: There's prenuptial cohabitation, and an unexpected / unwanted pregnancy from a one-night stand
Re-📺? Nonopposed
Fateful Magic Brought Us Together
My Only Love Song 8.7 ~ excellent comedy,
Love Between Fairy and Devil 8.9,
Mad For Each Other-7.7 ~ silly fun,
The Romance of Tiger and Rose 9.8
My Secret Romance-7 (if you ff thru overdone flashbacks),
Playful kiss-7.3,
Rooftop Prince-7,
Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo 7.8,
The Beauty Inside-6,
Hotel del Luna 8.4,
The Legend of the Blue Sea-7.2 (But for eps 20 &21 it's an 8+)
Boys Over Flowers-8 ~ melodrama to the max,
Another Miss Oh-7.5,
My Roommate Is a Gumiho-7.9,
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha-8.2,
Live Up To Your Name-7.6;
Crash Landing On You 9.1,
Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion-8.4,
Link: Eat, Love, Kill-6.7,
Love Struck in the City 7.3,
Because This Is My First Life-7.7,
7th Time Loop-7.9,
Kiss Sixth Sense-6.8,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
While you were sleeping-7.3,
Marry My Husband-7.5,
Hotel del Luna-8.4,
A Korean Odyssey-7.2,
Tomorrow with you-7,
My Liberation Diary-8.9,
The Bride of Habaek-7,
The King: Eternal Monarch-8.3
Love and Redemption 10
We'll learn that all her life she's had to live in the shadow of a beautiful girl (Pretty-Girl-Oh-Hae-young) who has the same exact name as hers. When her name was being cheered in high school, it was never for her. Mix-ups caused embarrassment for her because the good things and the nice things were always for the pretty Miss Oh, not the /other/ Miss Oh. She has learned to eat pain. And OH boy, can she chow it down, now.
Now she's out of high school. NOW she's a fun girl with a great sense of humor. The joke continues to be on /her/ though, as her wedding, her job, and her home life are still going to get turned upside down by Goddess Oh. If the /other/ Miss Oh knew what was coming, she would have moved overseas.
Park Do-kyung Is the Autocrat of Sound at the studio where he works:
¤ "That's not a simple fracture, that's a compound fracture. They don't sound the same…!”
¤ “How dare you use sound from daytime for a nighttime scene? The temperature and humidity or different, day and nights sound nothing alike….❕”
¤ “It's obvious this film will be a flop but my name is going on the credit so the sound has to be right❗"
He's always tuned in. He's always 👂👂👂(except when his underlings cry out in agony for some relief: "Isn't that good enough? …What is good enough for you❔") Even the director wonders the same while he's in the middle of a dust-up ~ I mean, an /actual /skirmish. Do-kyung's Family are all a bunch of looney characters: A narcissistic gold digging actress of a mother, a juvenile, under achieving younger brother, and an alcoholic sister who is as overbearing a boss as he is. His fiance, Oh Hae-young, left him alone at the altar a few years ago. He hasn't forgotten her. He WILL get revenge. She disappeared for years but he's found out where she's working. He's going to destroy that business. Right around this time, he starts getting auditory… hallucinations? They precede visions of the future with a strange woman. He doesn’t know what to do about that.
Do-kyung's closed up within himself. Ironically, he hardly makes a sound. "Just as if I was about to die of old age, I'm thinking about the things I wish I would have done. It feels lonely. It feels like my life will end very pitifully," he says when he recounts how he feels over his bouts of déjà vu. Ouch. Old or not, people that hit bottom feel the same way. There's also the more isolating sensation that one can't help others from making the same mistakes.
That's the setup. Some people watch Charlie Brown and laugh, others watch Charlie Brown and feel a sting of pain between chuckles. The humiliation they subject our FL to is very thorough. I felt for her. “Every moment of life is embarrassing,” says a character. Our Miss Oh has learned how to get humiliated, stop, put on a smile, and keep going. (“You lose if you hate. You lose if you get jealous. Keep going forward.”) That's a role model.
Before long, we see that the Oh Hae-young that Do-kyung heard about is the /other/ Miss Oh. The company that he sets out to destroy is where the /other/ Miss Oh works. As soon as Do-kyung makes a move, he'll see that the /other/ Miss Oh is the woman of his dreams… eh, visions.
Do-kyung is, overall, more attractive than his mere looks. The ML does a great job acting as well, though he could have brightened a little move towards the end. He doesn't quite stand up fully straightened, which does take away from his appearance. Hmmm… This is his 11th feature…. No doubt he's hunching slightly from having to bend down to kiss these tiny female leads. Not everybody can do that without it taking a toll on their body😅.
The hurdle they have in their relationship does seem insurmountable. When it comes to feelings, she has no distortion. He's a clogged tuba. It's difficult to imagine it in the first few episodes, but they get slightly steamy on screen ~ well above the average Kromcom. One of the up close shots of them kissing is awkward. At other times (love on an elevator) it's above average, in case you're interested.
There's nice connections, segues, and little ironies cast around. It's far from slovenly. We get to see another wonderful performance by a child actor. Oh, I was just loving the show, but they did stutter at the end. Their attempt at a dramatic climax never got off the ground. The final clash with her mom was flat as well, which rendered the last couple or so episodes discordant with manufactured drama that falls flat. It's filler. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this. Our FL is irrepressible. She's nothing short of inspiring when she stops, sets her smile, and keeps going forward.
It's a silly rom-com, so at times they overdo the physical comedy with pulling hair, screeching, and general overacting. It's uncomfortable silliness, but comedies out of Hollywood have been far more dumbed-down than this. I appreciate the extended wrap up instead of a 30 second one as we see sometimes. It didn't finish strong but it is really good right up until the last vignettes.
Every Kromcom features eating and drinking. (Why does Hollywood starve us?) About alcohol: Alcohol actually seems to be a character in the show. Drinking isn't just a pastime in AMO. For some it's a way of life. For Ordinary Miss Oh, it's the painkiller of choice. She's dependent on it. We'll learn that somebody else in her office is even worse than she. "My life is too embarrassing for me to stay sober," says one of the characters. Do-kyung won't drink in the beginning of the show because he's afraid of making a mistake. We'll get to see some mistakes after we see him twist a couple caps off.
We could argue that all the men in the show are drunk on Goddess Oh vibes. Each of our leads made it to the altar with nothing to show for it in their past, so both seem to have been involved in love affairs that were wine spritzers: Fun and somewhat satisfying, but not intoxicating. They both had sobering experiences. They both shuttered themselves from the outside world: He in work, and she in the bottle. Perhaps it's time to party-on once more.
QUOTES🗣
If you want to be unhappy, hold on to your past. It's up to you.
People mature as they feel pain.
A woman doesn't curse a man for leaving her, but for being a coward.
“We live only once. Let's not live like this.” (Our ML says to his mother who's been chasing pride and money most of her life.)
Once we admit that things disappear someday, we no longer get obsessed with useless things.
IMHO〰🖍
RATINGS 🎬7.8 🖊7.6 🎭8 💓7 🦋7.6 🎨6.3 🎶8.2 🔚7 🤗6 ▪ LEVELS 🌞6⚡3 😅5.5 😭3.5 🤔6 💤2.5
Age + Scattered R-rated language, f💣 included. Less usual for a Kdrama: There's prenuptial cohabitation, and an unexpected / unwanted pregnancy from a one-night stand
Re-📺? Nonopposed
Fateful Magic Brought Us Together
My Only Love Song 8.7 ~ excellent comedy,
Love Between Fairy and Devil 8.9,
Mad For Each Other-7.7 ~ silly fun,
The Romance of Tiger and Rose 9.8
My Secret Romance-7 (if you ff thru overdone flashbacks),
Playful kiss-7.3,
Rooftop Prince-7,
Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo 7.8,
The Beauty Inside-6,
Hotel del Luna 8.4,
The Legend of the Blue Sea-7.2 (But for eps 20 &21 it's an 8+)
Boys Over Flowers-8 ~ melodrama to the max,
Another Miss Oh-7.5,
My Roommate Is a Gumiho-7.9,
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha-8.2,
Live Up To Your Name-7.6;
Crash Landing On You 9.1,
Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion-8.4,
Link: Eat, Love, Kill-6.7,
Love Struck in the City 7.3,
Because This Is My First Life-7.7,
7th Time Loop-7.9,
Kiss Sixth Sense-6.8,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
While you were sleeping-7.3,
Marry My Husband-7.5,
Hotel del Luna-8.4,
A Korean Odyssey-7.2,
Tomorrow with you-7,
My Liberation Diary-8.9,
The Bride of Habaek-7,
The King: Eternal Monarch-8.3
Love and Redemption 10
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