eldianbri

I would watch anything with Song Kang in it, so it's no wonder that I found this drama fascinating. I also love classical music, especially piano, so this was a secondary satisfaction for me. Both lead actors explored emotional depths more subtly than usual, especially SK. Lee Jeon Young is always a natural to my mind.
On the relatively insignificant downside, a number of elements were absolutely not realistic (eg. the way classical music competitions are organized) but hey this is fiction so why worry! Maybe also certain characters were a bit superfluous (the music agency mother and daughter). And, yes, perhaps characters and plot points were pushing the melodrama (Pi O's mother; the sugary ending) but somehow it felt like a drama that was deliberately forcing that aspect – maybe to play down that it really wanted to be a bromance, even entertain a gay relationship? Now that would have been fun. KDrama is edging there very slowly, I think, and these two actors could be ones that might make that happen in the future.