I'm not sure why the ratings on this are so low. It's a perfectly fine watch and I enjoyed it. It wasn't OTT comedy wise and contained enough heart to make it a relevant watch for many
Namgoong Min, Park Bo Gum and a great supporting cast. This was painful to watch. Great writing and terrific acting. Watching the slow progression as life painted him into a corner, he took the wrong turn in the end and trapped himself in a life he will hate to live. His future ....very grim and as a prisoner of it, he will pay for his sin every day of his life. You can't help but feel his agony. He had no real choices...but he never should have gone there with that decision at the end. AAAhhh...SMH. Really good. Definitely watch it.
watched on Viki, their romance collection of drama specials. Nice story, but the highlight is seeing Bae Soo Bin...who seems to have disappeared from the drama scene.
I loved it. Wonderfully done and sad. I'm not sure I agree with the ending, but oh well. These Specials seem to like the sad endings. Though it's snot all THAT sad...just a little sad. I can see why some might get confused with the jumps back and forth in time. But to help with that, they made her hair darker in the current time, and lighter for the time she was falling in love with him...if that helps. I didn't find the jumps confusing at all. Just know going in to be aware and you shouldn't have any problem. I will love it more because Ki Tae Young is in it. He is a very big favorite of mine and I really miss him as an actor. He hasn't had any good, meaty parts since his brilliant and heartbreaking performance in Scandal.
I'm not sure why the rating on this is so low. I would hope people aren't downgrading it because it's sad because that's not fair. It's actually quite well done. Her acting style in this may not suit a lot of people though as she is way too stiff and numb. I've seen her in several things and she's no ball of fire. But she has gotten better...or maybe this is just how the director wanted her to play that character? Anyway, my chest felt tight all through this. It's a heartbreaking lesson to never let anger rule your goodbyes. I don't know how she is going to forgive herself, but I'm not sure I could forgive myself if I had done the same thing. Very good story, I bumped it up to an 8 to help the overall score, but actually 7/10 for me.
Odd little story. On Viki in the Romance Collection. It was done well, just didn't like the characters all that much. That shouldn't be a reflection on the story telling though because as just a story it is a realistic slice of life show. I just didn't like her. Such a whiner and such a downer personality too.
What I LOVED about this drama is that it is so NOT like your typical kdrama! Yes the cliches are there...psycho girlfriend and parents against the match and chaebol jerk lead. But it throws all those cliches against the wall and then beats them to death! These two love and treasure one another. If they argue about something, they work it out...within a half hour and not over 8 episodes! Same with the parent thing. And man do they both unload on the psycho girlfriend! Both of them! Finally a lead female who fearlessly speaks her mind and fights for her place. There is so much about this drama that turns all the cliches on their heads and makes it so fresh and wonderful. And we all know the skinship in this was WAY above and beyond ....at least in any drama I've seen in the past 5 years and 460 dramas!!!
The biggest problem with this drama is that is apparently got chopped to death when MBC dropped it and it ended up without a broadcaster. This drama was passed up by major tv stations and picked up by DramaX, a Korean cable station that normally only broadcasts reruns or variety shows. DramaX is/was a company that was part of Cube Entertainment (iHQ Inc., doing business as SidusHQ). SidusHQ was Baek Seung-Heon's (Ji Soo) representative. Anyway. The show was originally broadcast on a mobile platform late last summer as 8 episodes, then simulcast on DramaX, again as 8 episodes. It was then picked up and subbed by Dramafever who apparently may be the ones who broke it up into 16 traditional episodes (ergo the odd breaks at the end of episodes). At the time DramaX got their hands on it (my opinion here) they did a bunch of editing to promote a couple of their upcomers and cut out scenes to add in the very odd and jarring scenes of the young man and the girl and the singing and random dancing scenes. To the great detriment of this show IMO!!! That's kind of a hodgepodge of info that I found out from searching various articles and blogs and research from online...for what it's worth!!! :) :)
It's too apparent that there were editing cuts made in this, especially if you watch it more than once. The final roll of the credits on ep 16 where you see all the kiss scenes there is one cut from the birthday party she gave him as an example. How I would love to have seen the original version! But, it is also obvious from the wardrobe (which was just awful), to the bad sound, that big budget cuts were made for this which is just too sad. I have tried and tried to find statistics somewhere on how popular this drama was...obviously very based on reviews here and the overall score. But it would be nice to see some actual viewing numbers.
absolutely the definition of heart warming and lovely. One of the best I've seen at showing the unconditional and beautiful love of a family built by 'non-traditional' members. Don't be afraid of the synopsis and her diagnosis. It is handled beautifully without unnecessary ratcheting up of melodrama. Honestly, you who have not seen it need to try it...I guarantee you will be hooked.
well.. I'm still struggling a bit with how I feel about this drama. There was a lot of good that definitely outweighed the bad. But the bad got on my nerves or bothered me enough to mark it down quite a bit. I wanted very badly to slap Kim Jee Soo's character several times. I found her behavior irritating or outright dumb many times. I don't know if it was her acting or the character itself, but her reactions every time she was 'caught' were SO frozen (for lack of a better word)! They pretty much consisted of her lifting her eyes to whomever walked in and bugging her eyes out. She was so wooden all the time it was impossible to 'feel' any emotion from her character. I was completely at a loss to figure out if she actually thought she was in love or not since she spent most of the drama being so completely unemotional. What a complete change from her acting in One Warm Word where she was a seething mass of hate and anger and hurt.
Also, there were numerous instances where the writing was very contradictory...e.g when her husband tells her to leave then basically attacks her later for doing so. There were several other things like this that left me talking to the screen about wth was going on when the characters had said things like "you are making a mistake, don't do it" and then 2 episodes later cheering them on to 'fight for the relationship'.
However, other than our lead female, virtually everyone else's characters and acting in this were wonderful. The story was very interesting, especially since it dealt objectively with the subject of adultery....apparently a capital offense in Korea...despite the fact their divorce rate is over 50%! Oddly, though this drama deals with 3 couples who end up leaving their spouses, there is not one single kiss and only a couple very tepid and awkward looking hugs...so extremely far from reality...especially given that we are dealing with people in their 40's. Overall, I really enjoyed the story and the time I spent with these people. I thought I had seen Ryu Jung Han in minor parts in several dramas, but I guess not as there is nothing listed for him! Too bad! I'm now a fan. But, again, everyone really did a good job with their parts in this. It's just the writing was a bit wonky here and there. would have been 8.5, but only a 7.5 from me.
So netflix picked this up from MBC because the ratings were "so good" for the first episode or 2? Under…
sorry...just checked the most recent episode and it looks like someone picked it up and is subbing it. Thanks for the note so I could find this out and re-add it to my watch list!
Stark and depressing as any film you will ever see, this movie is one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen, and I've seen many. All of the characters in this are irredeemable as human beings and, while the reasons for what they have become are understandable, the resulting horror is mind numbingly violent and amoral. This movie left me with a dark hole in my mind and a clench of fright in my chest at the very real knowledge that evil like this exists in our world and day by day more of it seems to come unhinged from the constraints that bind it. I fear for our children that they will have to deal with these kind of monsters.
This movie is certainly worthy of all the awards and high reviews it has received. It won Japan's Academy Award for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, and Editing and made the short list for the US' Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and was the last film to win for Best Asian Film in the Hong Kong equivalent of Academy awards.
So netflix picked this up from MBC because the ratings were "so good" for the first episode or 2? Under 7% is "so good"? What are they going to do now that the ratings can't even crack 5%. I wonder if we will ever see subs for this now. Maybe if dark smurf subs ever decides to finish it?
I wish for the highest score ever on MDL ( I wonder who has that anyway?) Nothing else I can add to what everyone else is saying. But...this drama has the most evocative music I've ever experienced in a drama or movie in my life! And I am OLD! :)
/I hope it doesn't go against MDL rules, but/ do you guys know an english website similar in concept to asianwiki…
MDL has a suggestion page in their forums and one of those suggestions is that MDL add pages for Directors, Writers/scriptwriters, etc. Then we could build a curriculum vitae for them as well as for actors. Many of us would like to follow certain writers or directors works. So maybe you can add a suggestion for cinematographers, etc? For now, many PD's work with the same crews, so that may be our only way of following those people. And of course, watch anything that shows up on tvN! They consistently have excellent cinematography...they are CJ Entertainment after all!!! :)
The biggest problem with this drama is that is apparently got chopped to death when MBC dropped it and it ended up without a broadcaster. This drama was passed up by major tv stations and picked up by DramaX, a Korean cable station that normally only broadcasts reruns or variety shows. DramaX is/was a company that was part of Cube Entertainment (iHQ Inc., doing business as SidusHQ). SidusHQ was Baek Seung-Heon's (Ji Soo) representative. Anyway. The show was originally broadcast on a mobile platform late last summer as 8 episodes, then simulcast on DramaX, again as 8 episodes. It was then picked up and subbed by Dramafever who apparently may be the ones who broke it up into 16 traditional episodes (ergo the odd breaks at the end of episodes). At the time DramaX got their hands on it (my opinion here) they did a bunch of editing to promote a couple of their upcomers and cut out scenes to add in the very odd and jarring scenes of the young man and the girl and the singing and random dancing scenes. To the great detriment of this show IMO!!! That's kind of a hodgepodge of info that I found out from searching various articles and blogs and research from online...for what it's worth!!! :) :)
It's too apparent that there were editing cuts made in this, especially if you watch it more than once. The final roll of the credits on ep 16 where you see all the kiss scenes there is one cut from the birthday party she gave him as an example. How I would love to have seen the original version! But, it is also obvious from the wardrobe (which was just awful), to the bad sound, that big budget cuts were made for this which is just too sad. I have tried and tried to find statistics somewhere on how popular this drama was...obviously very based on reviews here and the overall score. But it would be nice to see some actual viewing numbers.
Also, there were numerous instances where the writing was very contradictory...e.g when her husband tells her to leave then basically attacks her later for doing so. There were several other things like this that left me talking to the screen about wth was going on when the characters had said things like "you are making a mistake, don't do it" and then 2 episodes later cheering them on to 'fight for the relationship'.
However, other than our lead female, virtually everyone else's characters and acting in this were wonderful. The story was very interesting, especially since it dealt objectively with the subject of adultery....apparently a capital offense in Korea...despite the fact their divorce rate is over 50%! Oddly, though this drama deals with 3 couples who end up leaving their spouses, there is not one single kiss and only a couple very tepid and awkward looking hugs...so extremely far from reality...especially given that we are dealing with people in their 40's. Overall, I really enjoyed the story and the time I spent with these people. I thought I had seen Ryu Jung Han in minor parts in several dramas, but I guess not as there is nothing listed for him! Too bad! I'm now a fan. But, again, everyone really did a good job with their parts in this. It's just the writing was a bit wonky here and there. would have been 8.5, but only a 7.5 from me.
This movie is certainly worthy of all the awards and high reviews it has received. It won Japan's Academy Award for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, and Editing and made the short list for the US' Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and was the last film to win for Best Asian Film in the Hong Kong equivalent of Academy awards.