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Purple Heart to Anyone Who Makes It Through This Drama...
Woah...I was very excited to come across this drama as I am a big fan of Jang Ki Yong since I'd seen him in the amazing drama The Atypical Family...and I wish I could have individual rated the actors instead of rating just the overall acting as he ABSOLUTELY carried this drama...
I was also interested to see Song Hye Kyo again. I really liked her in Encounter but just finished Descendants Of The Sun and did not like her portrayal of her character in that drama, so I was interested to see what my take was on her in this drama...and watching Now We Are Breaking Up my first thought was she played exactly the same cold fish character as she did in Descendants just in a change of costume...she had one expression throughout and was basically an emotional wasteland....There were so many times in this drama I wanted to slap her upside the head to get any kind of reaction out of her! I believe it was in Episode 13 when she finally, without prompting actually initiated a hug with a character...woah! Before Episode 13 she usually stood to the side and observed during all sorts of highly emotional moments...definitely came off as a bystander in the story as opposed to a participant. Plus, I thought I was gonna die every time she entered a scene as they dressed her like a 50 year old matron, and she was supposed to be a sought after high fashion designer? I would pray at every costume change or next day that she'd show up in something actually fashionable...but to no avail.
I was also disappointed with the somewhat muddled ending...as it leaves you hanging, but in actuality I really didn't give a FF about the end...I really just wanted to scream at the screen for him to RUN AWAY when they approached each other years later. I would so have preferred he'd have found someone with some emotional depth who could at least meet him on an equal playing field as he was such a green light, wide open great guy...(really loved his character).
Truth be told, I was actually more engrossed in the second and third couples in this drama both of which elicited more emotional connection and interest for me than couple #1. And these four characters were beautifully portrayed by the casted actors too.
Jang Ki Yong has a great presence onscreen so I was totally on his team...and with another costar this could have been a great little drama but sadly it fell flat for me because of the FL.
I was also interested to see Song Hye Kyo again. I really liked her in Encounter but just finished Descendants Of The Sun and did not like her portrayal of her character in that drama, so I was interested to see what my take was on her in this drama...and watching Now We Are Breaking Up my first thought was she played exactly the same cold fish character as she did in Descendants just in a change of costume...she had one expression throughout and was basically an emotional wasteland....There were so many times in this drama I wanted to slap her upside the head to get any kind of reaction out of her! I believe it was in Episode 13 when she finally, without prompting actually initiated a hug with a character...woah! Before Episode 13 she usually stood to the side and observed during all sorts of highly emotional moments...definitely came off as a bystander in the story as opposed to a participant. Plus, I thought I was gonna die every time she entered a scene as they dressed her like a 50 year old matron, and she was supposed to be a sought after high fashion designer? I would pray at every costume change or next day that she'd show up in something actually fashionable...but to no avail.
I was also disappointed with the somewhat muddled ending...as it leaves you hanging, but in actuality I really didn't give a FF about the end...I really just wanted to scream at the screen for him to RUN AWAY when they approached each other years later. I would so have preferred he'd have found someone with some emotional depth who could at least meet him on an equal playing field as he was such a green light, wide open great guy...(really loved his character).
Truth be told, I was actually more engrossed in the second and third couples in this drama both of which elicited more emotional connection and interest for me than couple #1. And these four characters were beautifully portrayed by the casted actors too.
Jang Ki Yong has a great presence onscreen so I was totally on his team...and with another costar this could have been a great little drama but sadly it fell flat for me because of the FL.
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