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Romcom with Generous Amount of Comendy... and Misunderstandings
My Roommate is A Gumiho is a typical classic romcom kdrama. The story was about a university student, who accidentally tangled with a 999 years old Gumiho after she swallowed his marble. It's a very lightweight romcom and easy to enjoy, with a lot of swooning moments. The amount of comedy is generous, and for a kdrama it's quite consistent throughout the show.
Jang Ki Yong played as Shin Woo Yeo, the male lead, while Hyeri became the female lead Lee Dam. Dam was a very simple thinking and straightforward person, very easy to like. While both casts played each character well, I somehow felt the chemistry was missing. Not only between the couple, but also between Dam and her two friends, Jae Jin and Su Gyeong, and even with her other college friends as well. The chemistry was very thin, especially in the earlier phase. The only exception is the love line between Yang Hye Sun and Do Jae Jin, their chemistry was my motivation to keep watching.
Pacing is a big problem in this show: For a romcom, this show is too slow. Instead of focusing on something like Woo Yeo and Dam's story or how to became human quickly, the story was going all over the place. The problems on this show were always appeared due to same reasons: zero communications. They piled up misunderstandings, looks like the writer tried to insert anything to keep the story 16 episodes long. Gye Seon U character was a total a**hole. Even before tied with the red thread, he kept hitting on Dam, though she had rejected him multiple times and said she had a boyfriend. The fact that he had once treated the relationship as a bet, and decided to continue pursuing it made it looks more disgusting. At the end, they tried to made us pity him? Hell nah!!
So I think this is good to watch once, maybe if you don't have anything to watch or looking for some lightweight romcom. But should you rewatch it? I don't think so.
Jang Ki Yong played as Shin Woo Yeo, the male lead, while Hyeri became the female lead Lee Dam. Dam was a very simple thinking and straightforward person, very easy to like. While both casts played each character well, I somehow felt the chemistry was missing. Not only between the couple, but also between Dam and her two friends, Jae Jin and Su Gyeong, and even with her other college friends as well. The chemistry was very thin, especially in the earlier phase. The only exception is the love line between Yang Hye Sun and Do Jae Jin, their chemistry was my motivation to keep watching.
Pacing is a big problem in this show: For a romcom, this show is too slow. Instead of focusing on something like Woo Yeo and Dam's story or how to became human quickly, the story was going all over the place. The problems on this show were always appeared due to same reasons: zero communications. They piled up misunderstandings, looks like the writer tried to insert anything to keep the story 16 episodes long. Gye Seon U character was a total a**hole. Even before tied with the red thread, he kept hitting on Dam, though she had rejected him multiple times and said she had a boyfriend. The fact that he had once treated the relationship as a bet, and decided to continue pursuing it made it looks more disgusting. At the end, they tried to made us pity him? Hell nah!!
So I think this is good to watch once, maybe if you don't have anything to watch or looking for some lightweight romcom. But should you rewatch it? I don't think so.
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