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Between Steps korean drama review
Dropped 4/12
Between Steps
2 people found this review helpful
by ReallyScary
2 days ago
4 of 12 episodes seen
Dropped 4
Overall 1.5
Story 3.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 5.5
Rewatch Value 1.5
This review may contain spoilers

Not a Mature Romance

Can't imagine why everyone is rating this so so highly. Couldn't get through it. I will state for what I watched the actors did their part as per script. What a horrible story had potential but fell flat. Park Min Jae and Im Yu Jin are the most frustrating couple to watch. Park Min Jae is wooden to the point that I thought I was watching paint dry. He is insensitive and apathetic. Great looking actor but looks don't carry the story. Im Yu Jin though she would be grounded and mature but quite the opposite, childish and headstrong. Being headstrong and sticking to your ideals and standing up for what is right is great but used the wrong way just comes off as being selfish.

Now for the supporting characters useless master grad students working towards their PHD and the social reject they got to play the villain Kim Se Jin (KSJ) seriously they could have written this character better and not made him so unyielding in his behaviour. It did not look like he changed no growth at all. The sad part is I actually knew someone like him in when in engineering! (Yes, peeps guys or even the odd engineering gal like him do exist in their straightforwardness but not so much drama).

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Park Min Jae (PMJ) has a disability and is reserved and has some trauma that his cancer will return - understandable every cancer survivor has to deal with reoccurrence. He is upset that his mother made the decision to amputate his leg instead of asking him - valid point and I see why he has trauma from it when his mother was never there for him otherwise but made the biggest decision for him instead of consulting him. Given all of that his animosity to his mother is understandable but really if he cannot forgive her don’t meet up with her ever keep going on with your life. Don’t accpect her expensive gifts.

He just lost the lower part of his leg - why does everyone treat him differently you would think people in the drama don’t see people with a missing part of a leg ever!? Why treat him like he is a leper or different just because he wears a prosthetic leg ( it is not like you can tell)? I don’t get it! He is not mentally disable. His girlfriend would be the only one who needs to know about his leg and his future in law family but no one else unless he chooses to reveal it himself to friends.

Now for the grad students - what a bunch of useless knobs! How did you guys even become grad students and not want to complete the project you are working on. PMJ cannot even keep them in line and what is the use of having a hands off professor who does nothing but then PMJ does not bring it to the professor's attention.


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Im Yu Jin (IMJ) first off how do you go from a major in textile and fashion with a minor in mathamethics to applying for grad school in robotics Grad school and get accepted into a program where there are 4 other people who know robotics. If this happens in real life sign me up! Suspend your brain if you are going to watch this drama. I am a huge fan of Kim So Hyun but hated her character in this drama. The actress did a good job with the script and how the character was written. Plus her clothing in the drama is awful! You are majoring in fashion why are you dressed so badly. I hate how the drama does not show IMJ going higher that her scheming horrible professor and report her professor's conduct to higher up's to get investigated. She got threathen by her professor she should have reoprted it. Everything she worked hard for gone down the drain. He character is headstrong and childish when it comes to her bf. I get in you and head over heal in love but seriuosly after only 1 or 2 episodes...!? Really I dont see why IMJ fell for PMJ just not believable.

Im Yu Seong - Yu Jin's brother ... what an awful character. You need to have some sense slappled into you and your parents. I will not respect my sister privacy even though she is in her late 20's and will interfer in her love life and tell his sister bf that he should leave Yu Jin if he love her. Plus Yu Jin's parents control your son.

I tried watching past episode 4 even skipping through the the boring parts and in episode 8 it was still the same the main couple was broken up and at odds with each other. Downwright boring. They could have shown us what happens when two people get together fall in love and deal with each others trauma and help each other heal and grow. But nope we are to be denied. I think I spent more time writing this review than watching the drama. There is so much more that I want ot say but I will stop. Go watch one of those AI drama's where you know the predictable plot and there is yelling and some shouting but eventually the good guys come out on top in the end better than watching this drama unless you are a big fan of the actor and actress.
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