Good Introduction till Episode 6, but average in mid and later parts.
Meh, overall average drama. Mannerisms of Park Eun Bin seemed like she was trying to relive extraordinary attorney woo days with jelloa do accent. ML was totally absent from whole drama and his brother (SML) seemed more prominent to the story, maybe he was overshadowed by his own younger self. One-time watch.The whole struggle of FL seemed lacking with the addition of Kim Hyo Jin. Amidst the whole different storylines the writer should have given more time and emotions in each and every aspect of struggle from FL being above age, FL's struggle on Island(which should have been given a whole episode), Hyo Jin with her voice and ML with his family. Writer tried to tackle too much in too little detail and overall execution seemed bland and suffered from emotional disconnect. Finally the biggest weak point is in trying to lift up FL so much the casting of ML should have been better. He lacked so much screen presence in front of Eun Bin, guy should work in more dramas as Second lead or take more male centric parts to hone up his presence. I watched another of his drama Unlock my boss and it suffered from same problem.
Lastly, point of appreciation for high school parts played by teenage actors , they rocked their parts.
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A Breath of Fresh air in monotonous Kdrama land
This review will be in two parts.1st part - the actual drama &
2nd part - my views on the hateful comment section this and many other dramas are getting.
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I am forced to write this review as this drama is getting buried by the false hateful rating, reviews and comments it is getting.
This drama experiments with many new intresting elements new to Kdramas.
Good parts :-
1) 4th wall breaking scenes (like Deadpool) are new and it is done so that it doesn't feel jarring to usual narrative and continuation.
2) Humour is not rinse and repeat i.e. jokes are new and even made including 4th wall like Song hye kyo guest where she acknowledges her real life character. The jokes are actually funny.
3) Psychopath character are done in so many ways in kdramas that it gets increasingly difficult to portray it with new twist. But Bae Suzy does it so good by being a inherently good psychopath who doesn't feel emotions.
4) All the actors and side characters were good with their acting especially or ML the genie.
5)Side Character stories are good and their three wishes are what holds the whole plot of this drama for 13 episodes and doesn't make it monotonous.
Bad parts:
1) Side Character should have been given more time to flesh out their stories and doesn't make the some plot points repetitive.
2) Too many famous faces especially including Ahn Eun Jin was not justified by not giving her enough time to act out her scenes.
3) OST felt lacking. Some good songs were needed to emphasize plots.
4) Too many plots to cover lead to fast pacing which made it tough to immerse yourself in the drama.
Overall this is a good one time watch for its fantasy genre, Chemistry between both leads and enchanting visuals.
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PEOPLE WITH FRAGILE FEELINGS KEEP AWAY
With my watch history there should have been more reviews but I don't like writing. I was angry enough to write this review after seeing the bad rating and comments this and many other drama is getting.
First off to start,
STOP IMPOSING YOUR IDEA OF BLASPHEMY ON OTHERS.
Blasphemy doesn't always have to be religious it can also be cultural. Someone's cherished views of their culture can be different from other's view of cultures. That doesn't mean one can be racist but everyone is free to hold their views.
People were also hating on Tempest and Bon Appetit, Your Majesty.
WHY IS IT ALWAYS WITH CIVILIZATIONS WHERE THEIR IS LIMITED FREE SPEECH THAT THEY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CREATIVE WORKS OF FICTIONAL DRAMAS?
Islam has Blasphemy and Chinese have their party controlled walled garden. If you don't like something don't watch. Is it so hard to understand the concept of free speech.
This drama is based on Arab culture which is basically Persian. Genies are supposed to be from Arab mythology. People might have raged if their was korean genie with no arabic backstory.
Every ancient civilization had a dark past of Slavery. Even Historically this drama was not wrong in showing slavery and killings, if anything they were tame in their descriptionsof barbarity. On the scale of barbaric civilizations my rating would be
Genghis Khan > Assyrians > Islam > ...
Islamic history is rife with sending conquering hordes of fundamentalists to either convert and loot others. They left alive those who forcefully converted , looted wealth and took s*x slaves even i.e. harems. They burned libraries and were chief in destroying paganic persian civilizations from which they descended.
All this is historical fact and even now some(they are a minority) are more fundamentalists than others i.e. terrorists. But not everyone in that part of world is like that like Saudi, UAE, etc.
Finally stop downrating based on factors other than the actual drama. Let's not make other's experience bad and give death threats in comments.
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So much Sweetness that it will give you DIABETES!
"All the fan service and cringe of K-dramas rolled into one drama" would be the best description for this. What's the point that the writers wanted to convey would be one question few would have answers to. Another one of recent addition to K-dramaland which started strong but after 6 episodes became a chore with repeated sequences and cliched love scenarios. There is nothing in terms of screenplay and story building.Positives: If you are in the 'honeymoon' phase of a relationship with your partner this would feel like a good watch. The side characters had better development than the leads.
Negatives: Should have been a 8 to 10 episode drama. People who don't like stories dragged like a chewing gum should avoid it.
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