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Because This Is My First Life korean drama review
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Because This Is My First Life
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by Adramamama
17 days ago
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 5.5
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Had potential, but ultimately untenable

I was excited to watch this because Lee Min Ki is generally great and the 8.4 rating was impressive. Sadly, it didn't live up to the hype. This is one of those dramas with an identity crisis. It wants to be too many things and only succeeds at a couple of them and bombs the rest. The main thing that it bombed was having a mature lead couple with an honest relationship. It had potential at first, but in the last 4 episodes the FL became soooo unlikeable; just a mopey insecure girl playing games with the ML's head. My eyes were rolling so hard my head hurt. I hate it when dramas purport to go against the status quo or champion feminism but then so quickly undermine that. The thing is, if you write a tsundere character, you have to live with the consequences. If she really loved him as he was, then it was totally ridiculous for her to BREAK him like that. It was sad to see him become such a mess. In fact, he had already done all of the things that she would qualify as evidence of his affection for her. They should have just written it so that someone told her about the things he'd done (e.g. the book he got, or how he beat up the assistant director, since that is apparently the kind of gesture that would please her.)
Anyway, just as others have said, the supporting cast was exceptional! Love CEO Ma; it was always a relief when he was in a scene. And Bo Mi was a real treat too. Since the subplots were pretty engaging, I can muster a 6.5 for this otherwise disappointing drama.
Also, LMK has a fantastic full-toothed grin, so it was a real bummer that his character only smiled like twice.
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