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Suffocates under the weight of a hyperfocus on the leads
There's some real interesting characters here.
[Long dramatic pause - Narrator takes a long drag on a cigarette. Slowly exhales. Flicks cigarette toward the dumpster in the dimly lit alley. Watches as the cigarette smolders and the smoke dissipates. The narrator finally turns and ambles towards the main street. As he approaches the street light, he looks to his left. Then to his right. The seconds tick by waiting for him to speak. The sound of idling taxi engines hum in the background. And finally, the narrator raises his gaze to the camera}
None of the real interesting characters are named Tae Seo or Eun A.
Someone in the pre-production meetings should have asked "Do people really want to see a borderline depressive subway driver that can't move on from his ex?" Or maybe they did and some dummy said "Hell yes. Sounds great." If that actually happened, the dummy should be tracked down and summarily fired from ever having input in a drama production ever again.
Or perhaps someone could have asked "Does this female lead character make a lick of sense?" Because Pablo Picasso being asked to illustrate a medical anatomy textbook would be a smarter move than putting this sack of "Wtf is she doing now? What did she just say?" on screen.
It's not just that there are some occasional bright spots from supporting characters that outshine the leads. It's every moment from every supporting character in every episode. Not all of them are likable. Seong Chan is grating and toxic but at least it's a watchable grating-ness and toxicity.
In this made up "Still Shining" world, if there was any justice, A Sol would land a hot doctor boy and every time she looked at that table or a picture frame that Tae Seo made for her, she'd think "That idiot could have had me but he'd rather never STFU about oil drying on wood. What a hopeless bore."
[sigh]
Not recommended. Except for those that might be inspired to write some dope A Sol fanfic.
[Long dramatic pause - Narrator takes a long drag on a cigarette. Slowly exhales. Flicks cigarette toward the dumpster in the dimly lit alley. Watches as the cigarette smolders and the smoke dissipates. The narrator finally turns and ambles towards the main street. As he approaches the street light, he looks to his left. Then to his right. The seconds tick by waiting for him to speak. The sound of idling taxi engines hum in the background. And finally, the narrator raises his gaze to the camera}
None of the real interesting characters are named Tae Seo or Eun A.
Someone in the pre-production meetings should have asked "Do people really want to see a borderline depressive subway driver that can't move on from his ex?" Or maybe they did and some dummy said "Hell yes. Sounds great." If that actually happened, the dummy should be tracked down and summarily fired from ever having input in a drama production ever again.
Or perhaps someone could have asked "Does this female lead character make a lick of sense?" Because Pablo Picasso being asked to illustrate a medical anatomy textbook would be a smarter move than putting this sack of "Wtf is she doing now? What did she just say?" on screen.
It's not just that there are some occasional bright spots from supporting characters that outshine the leads. It's every moment from every supporting character in every episode. Not all of them are likable. Seong Chan is grating and toxic but at least it's a watchable grating-ness and toxicity.
In this made up "Still Shining" world, if there was any justice, A Sol would land a hot doctor boy and every time she looked at that table or a picture frame that Tae Seo made for her, she'd think "That idiot could have had me but he'd rather never STFU about oil drying on wood. What a hopeless bore."
[sigh]
Not recommended. Except for those that might be inspired to write some dope A Sol fanfic.
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