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Expecting Something Spectacular, Got Something Spectacularly Awful
I haven't saw the original movie, but so much went wrong in this show. The original premise wasn't something extraordinary, so I was expecting a spectacular execution. This show is about Cheon Yeo Ri, who could see ghosts by accident. She was able to transmit her curse to other people just by touching them, that she had to mostly isolate herself. Yeo Ri helped a lot of ghosts by finding their remains and secretly reporting their cases to the officials. Ma Gang Uk was a prosecutor who occasionally received her reports and resolved the cases.
Park Eun Bin really shined in this show, she really never disappoints. Yang Se Jong also did a good job as Ma Gang Uk the prosecutor, he had a great chemistry with Eun Bin. Even the villains and supporting casts did well. Unfortunately, all these elite casts and performance were all wasted since the script was practically horrible. I felt bad for Ma Gang Uk. He seemed too good to be trapped in all these stupid conspiracies.
This show doesn't seem to have a stance. I think they didn't want to be catagorized as a mystery or law show and would like to put more focus on the romance, but at the end of the day it just fell between two stools. The ghosts cases disappeared at all after a while, and the main story about ML and FL, even with quite good chemistry between them, somehow felt half-baked. These all happened since the writer put so much focus on overly-entagled company succession problem and a 12 years ago murder case. The romance itself felt sidelined, they even added the most ridiculous plot for the noble-idiocy breakup I've ever seen: superstition. After all of the things they got through, the reason why Yeo Ri got cursed was only explained in a brief time and not even clear. I also didn't get it why Kang Min Hwan really wanted to destroy Reina Hotel. When he realized he dropped something at the murder scene, it was astonishing that instead of returning to the crime scene he hired a truck and tried to crash into Ma Gang Uk!! I mean he didn't even know Gang Uk had picked it up??? The product placements in this show were ridiculous.
I would recommend this show to... no one. Yes the first half was quite watchable, but at the end it drained to the toilet. This could be a stain to Park Eun Bin filmography.
Park Eun Bin really shined in this show, she really never disappoints. Yang Se Jong also did a good job as Ma Gang Uk the prosecutor, he had a great chemistry with Eun Bin. Even the villains and supporting casts did well. Unfortunately, all these elite casts and performance were all wasted since the script was practically horrible. I felt bad for Ma Gang Uk. He seemed too good to be trapped in all these stupid conspiracies.
This show doesn't seem to have a stance. I think they didn't want to be catagorized as a mystery or law show and would like to put more focus on the romance, but at the end of the day it just fell between two stools. The ghosts cases disappeared at all after a while, and the main story about ML and FL, even with quite good chemistry between them, somehow felt half-baked. These all happened since the writer put so much focus on overly-entagled company succession problem and a 12 years ago murder case. The romance itself felt sidelined, they even added the most ridiculous plot for the noble-idiocy breakup I've ever seen: superstition. After all of the things they got through, the reason why Yeo Ri got cursed was only explained in a brief time and not even clear. I also didn't get it why Kang Min Hwan really wanted to destroy Reina Hotel. When he realized he dropped something at the murder scene, it was astonishing that instead of returning to the crime scene he hired a truck and tried to crash into Ma Gang Uk!! I mean he didn't even know Gang Uk had picked it up??? The product placements in this show were ridiculous.
I would recommend this show to... no one. Yes the first half was quite watchable, but at the end it drained to the toilet. This could be a stain to Park Eun Bin filmography.
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