The first few episodes were frustrating given the antics and just overall failure to speak up in spite of the FL being such a motormouth. But then I remembered the American teen movies they used to pump out decades ago: - nerdy FL, - handsome ML, - 4th wall breaks, - ridiculous school events that propel the narrative - prolonged poses with shocked faces as everything else happens around them.
The internal monologue serving as the narration is such an old device that seeing it here was jarring. My home country had its fair share of school-teenage movies that had all these ridiculous happenings. One thing I can say is that this is a nice break from the usual bullying and depression they often portray in Kdramas but bring no changes to Korean society.
I only watched this while waiting for newer episodes for other kdramas.
For people who only watch kdramas because the actors they are simping are in it, this "review" is NOT for you. So keep scrolling. --
Itaewon Class has been touted as a KDrama which "tackles" prejudice towards transgender, foreign parentage and ex-convict discrimination. But apart from several repetitive lines about the difficulty of getting employment as an ex-convict, a half episode about a transgender being outed in social media and a "redemption" arc for an American actor presented as someone with Guinean mother, the entire drama hardly focused on these touted topics. It's safe to say that kdramas have a long way to go before it can confidently incorporate these themes in Kdramas. I just hope we don't see the same bullying porn so rampant in Kdramas.
At its core, this is a revenge porn dressed as a pub KDrama but with less drinking.
The premise was promising and I loved the potentially "doomed" pairing trope. Then there's the music, the winter feel, contemplative narration - it was great and atmospheric.
I liked the investigation portion of the series and it reminded me a bit of "Another" and "Final Destination".
The ending seemed forced, though - like he guiltripped her into liking him. That's the part I hated. Sure they inserted how she was intrigued about him even when they were still at school, but there was no real sense of development. All we got is a scene at the last few minutes of the last episode that looked like "love me back or I die".
😂 People should stop this as a manwha reader BS. Manwha and TV are different media. How dare you react like it's the end of the world when even the author is not throwing a tantrum just because the adaptation did not match the manwha 😂
Filipino movie industry regressing to their old habit of imitating, parodying or remaking foreign titles. Reminds one of the old saying "Filipinos are great imitators".
Does this show have/tease infidelity or a love triangle?
First 2 episodes show a revenge plot so no. If anything, it shows a man desperate to ensure no one finds out who is actually married to him while he waits for his fiancée to show up.
The first 2 episodes makes you remember the old Mills&Boone and Barbara Cartland novels pocketbooks of the 90s. Stockholm Syndrome romance seems to be the latest bread and butter in kdramas and it works well because it is sought after with some media posts even positively giddy about how the husband treats his "things" because women with selective mutism are things now it seems.
Half of the tiktok have figured out the kidnapper already. I didn’t want the spoiler ugh
Why even care about the kidnapper 😂
This is the story of a woman who decided to break her husband knowing that he is desperate to ensure that no one figures out who his wife actually is. The kidnapping attempt is just the catalyst which made her realize she can pretty much do anything and her husband will jump as long as there is the possibility of his wife's identity from being exposed.
This is the second time a mdl comment section has motivated me to watch a drama (first was under the queens umbrella-…
"The hidden wife's revenge" would have been the more informative title based on the 2 episodes.
Trapped in a loveless marriage of convenience and bound by a contract to keep her identity as his wife a secret, a womancwith selective mutism (who was married off as a "stand-in" for any woman he eventually publicly declares as his wife) decided to break her husband knowing he is desperate to ensure the public doesn't figure out who his wife is.
"The hidden wife's revenge" would have been a more informative title but would also spoil it.
Because of an attempted kidnapping, she figured out that because no one knows her identity as his wife and he is desperate to keep it a secret, she can pretty much mess with him anonymously.
- Two people married for the sake of convenience. The husband determined to keep his marital status public, but the identity of his wife private and cares more about his career. His mother whose only concern is the upcoming election and wants to ensure the daughter-in law does not cause problems.
The wife, bound by a contract to keep her identity as his wife out of the public, despised by her "husband" and mother-in-law, pressured by her own mother to spread her legs and bear a kid. Her mother brown-nosing with the in-laws and making sure she (her own daughter) doesn't get in the way.
Typical drama about parents prostituting their daughters in order to achieve prestige through her son-in-laws family.
😂 Chinese style clothing? Well duh! They even paid tribute to the Chinese dynasty at the time 😂, adopted Confucianism and writing system. Surely fashion was just as easy to copy
Goryeo being the dynasty prior to Joseon was the dynasty that adopted Confucianism as the national philosophy. Everything that the titular character had to go through is because of that.
- nerdy FL,
- handsome ML,
- 4th wall breaks,
- ridiculous school events that propel the narrative
- prolonged poses with shocked faces as everything else happens around them.
The internal monologue serving as the narration is such an old device that seeing it here was jarring. My home country had its fair share of school-teenage movies that had all these ridiculous happenings. One thing I can say is that this is a nice break from the usual bullying and depression they often portray in Kdramas but bring no changes to Korean society.
For people who only watch kdramas because the actors they are simping are in it, this "review" is NOT for you. So keep scrolling.
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Itaewon Class has been touted as a KDrama which "tackles" prejudice towards transgender, foreign parentage and ex-convict discrimination. But apart from several repetitive lines about the difficulty of getting employment as an ex-convict, a half episode about a transgender being outed in social media and a "redemption" arc for an American actor presented as someone with Guinean mother, the entire drama hardly focused on these touted topics.
It's safe to say that kdramas have a long way to go before it can confidently incorporate these themes in Kdramas. I just hope we don't see the same bullying porn so rampant in Kdramas.
At its core, this is a revenge porn dressed as a pub KDrama but with less drinking.
I liked the investigation portion of the series and it reminded me a bit of "Another" and "Final Destination".
The ending seemed forced, though - like he guiltripped her into liking him. That's the part I hated. Sure they inserted how she was intrigued about him even when they were still at school, but there was no real sense of development. All we got is a scene at the last few minutes of the last episode that looked like "love me back or I die".
This is the story of a woman who decided to break her husband knowing that he is desperate to ensure that no one figures out who his wife actually is.
The kidnapping attempt is just the catalyst which made her realize she can pretty much do anything and her husband will jump as long as there is the possibility of his wife's identity from being exposed.
Trapped in a loveless marriage of convenience and bound by a contract to keep her identity as his wife a secret, a womancwith selective mutism (who was married off as a "stand-in" for any woman he eventually publicly declares as his wife) decided to break her husband knowing he is desperate to ensure the public doesn't figure out who his wife is.
Because of an attempted kidnapping, she figured out that because no one knows her identity as his wife and he is desperate to keep it a secret, she can pretty much mess with him anonymously.
-
Two people married for the sake of convenience.
The husband determined to keep his marital status public, but the identity of his wife private and cares more about his career. His mother whose only concern is the upcoming election and wants to ensure the daughter-in law does not cause problems.
The wife, bound by a contract to keep her identity as his wife out of the public, despised by her "husband" and mother-in-law, pressured by her own mother to spread her legs and bear a kid. Her mother brown-nosing with the in-laws and making sure she (her own daughter) doesn't get in the way.
Typical drama about parents prostituting their daughters in order to achieve prestige through her son-in-laws family.
If you have watched Big Bang Theory, she has the same problem as Raj who can't talk to women unless he is drunk.
If you have seen Big Bang Theory, she has the same problem as Raj who can't talk to women unless drunk.