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Bogged down with hospital politics & repetitive plot devices
I keep saying that Doctor/Hospital dramas aren't "my thing" yet here I am again writing a review for a drama that I intended to watch only as a "filler" & I ended up finishing it.
I barely got through the first episode & dropped it for a month until I thought to watch it with the assumption that it would sufficiently bore me so I'd be inclined to sleep. That didn't happen.
While the first episode starts with the characters in the present, it quickly switches to 13 years earlier (Ep 3) & stays there for a good long time, which was weird.
By the middle of episode 4 I felt as if we were 3/4 of the way through what seemed like a decent plot. It also felt like all the main characters had circled back to where they had been 13 years earlier .
This drama is just good enough to give it a 'decent but falls short' rating. [ Anything I'd consider worth rewatching has to be 8* or higher]
This would have been much better at 16 episodes.
Around episode 16 it started to really feel draggy, with plot devices repeating themselves.
As it is it's just bogged down with the Hospital politics , intrusive people & the female lead's singular focus on revenge. For most the drama she chooses to nurture her grudge rather than let it go (& pursue happiness, love & focus on the future instead of on the past .)
Instead of those plot points ,we could have been given better resolution on some of the side characters like the female lead's BFF, the male friend ( Kim Su Cheol) from the past & the second male lead-who don't get the storyline attention or story conclusions that they deserve.
Still:
With all the focus on revenge it was nice to see that in the end it was Forgiveness & letting go of grievances that really gave freedom, as it proved more powerful that hate
This is the ONLY drama I have ever approved of a time skip . Still, it would have been nice to have some short flash backs to clear up what happened to Cheon Sun Hui & Kim Su Cheol in relation to thier relation ship to Yoo Hye Jeong in that 13 year time gap.
**************Spoilers************
dumb things:
Long manicured nails on a surgeon !!!
yet another Time skip (3 week time skip in episode 19) & this one I didn't think was necessary
I barely got through the first episode & dropped it for a month until I thought to watch it with the assumption that it would sufficiently bore me so I'd be inclined to sleep. That didn't happen.
While the first episode starts with the characters in the present, it quickly switches to 13 years earlier (Ep 3) & stays there for a good long time, which was weird.
By the middle of episode 4 I felt as if we were 3/4 of the way through what seemed like a decent plot. It also felt like all the main characters had circled back to where they had been 13 years earlier .
This drama is just good enough to give it a 'decent but falls short' rating. [ Anything I'd consider worth rewatching has to be 8* or higher]
This would have been much better at 16 episodes.
Around episode 16 it started to really feel draggy, with plot devices repeating themselves.
As it is it's just bogged down with the Hospital politics , intrusive people & the female lead's singular focus on revenge. For most the drama she chooses to nurture her grudge rather than let it go (& pursue happiness, love & focus on the future instead of on the past .)
Instead of those plot points ,we could have been given better resolution on some of the side characters like the female lead's BFF, the male friend ( Kim Su Cheol) from the past & the second male lead-who don't get the storyline attention or story conclusions that they deserve.
Still:
With all the focus on revenge it was nice to see that in the end it was Forgiveness & letting go of grievances that really gave freedom, as it proved more powerful that hate
This is the ONLY drama I have ever approved of a time skip . Still, it would have been nice to have some short flash backs to clear up what happened to Cheon Sun Hui & Kim Su Cheol in relation to thier relation ship to Yoo Hye Jeong in that 13 year time gap.
**************Spoilers************
dumb things:
Long manicured nails on a surgeon !!!
yet another Time skip (3 week time skip in episode 19) & this one I didn't think was necessary
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