This show made me laugh and squeal in delight so much that the flaws didn’t detract from my enjoyment. This drama threw in ALL the tropes that the end was almost a parody of romcoms and I wasn’t mad about it. The comment amount ‘temporary insanity’ was so on point. LOL And the hilarious end credits was one of my favorite ever. It won’t rank as a high as some of my favorite romcoms, but I had a good time and it introduced me to Jang Ki Yong and Ahn Eun Jin, whom I now love.
I like the obstacles that Dynamite Kiss has put in front of the second lead’s potential romance.
As a chaebol heiress, Hayeong is used to getting her way in most areas. While this makes her bold and entitled, she is not arrogant. Instead, she is insecure about not being taken seriously by her parents or her long-time family friend and betrothed, Jihyeok. While pursing her own vision at work, she runs into Seonu, immediately falling in love with his good looks and way with children. Honestly, who can blame her. Her act-of-kindness to pick up his kid from school is motivated half by her crush and half by trying to snag an artist for work. Understandably, he only sees this as a reason to work with her, not fall for her. Her bold confession, leaves him unmoved. This is partially due to his feelings for Darim but Hayeong hasn’t shown her real self to him yet. She wants so much to really be seen and loved for who she is yet she’s only shown him her superficial exterior. Hayeong needs to truly reveal her heart to be loved.
Seonu has been through dark times through his divorce but is saved by Darim and her mom. After recovering from his heartbreak, he sees Darim in a new light but doesn’t want to disturb his and his son’s new equilibrium with their two families supporting each other by pursuing a romance with her. When he sees Darim with Jihyeok, his jealously and protectiveness emerges as he watches ripples of this disturbing new presence threaten their peaceful life. He’s also been a step behind in trying to take care of Darim’s problems since she’s reluctant to share certain things with him and he doesn’t have the luxury of time to be able to keep tabs on her, like Jjhyeok. Then his new client confesses to him out of the blue and his son wants him to date her. He’s fallen hard in love before and was left with scorch marks on his heart that have taken years to heal. The idea of a comfortable love with Darim is hard to let go of for a scary, uncertain love with a beautiful new stranger who could hurt him and his son.
Hayeong needs to cultivate a real relationship with Seonu built on mutual trust and responsibility to raise a family together. They also need to be united in standing up to her parents who want an advantageous business marriage instead of a loving one for her.
Seonu will either need to quietly let go of a potential relationship with Darim or go through a painful rejection of his feelings to be able to move on. With the comfortable option gone, maybe a new love won’t be as scary to consider as he truly gets to know Hayeong.
These trials will bring them together in a way that is grounded and heartfelt creating a hard-won, long-lasting love.
Grinning and giggling my way through the latest episodes of Dynamite Kiss (ep6). This week was slightly calmer and let the leads be ‘swayed’ into acknowledging their true feelings. Though Jihyeok is still about to lose it at any moment with his high concern for Darim when he’s not bending over backwards to help her or admiring her ideas and high-quality work. 😁 We also got a bit more on our second leads, who are intriguing but will not be sailing smoothly either with many obstacles in their way. I was discussing this show with my sister who noted that the reason the married mother lie is so important for the FL is to showcase the real life discrimination against married mother’s in the workplace whom society and corporations coerce into staying home, whether they want to or not. The FL is also continuing to endure this burden alongside her fellow co-workers when she could easily tell the truth to get out of it.
seeing how this drama has so many haters but still has a 9/10 rating makes me feel good. Giving it less than a…
Well, the writer did give a nod to the laser focus of the villain trying to kill the leads when she had them bring up The Terminator VHS tape at the video store. The psycho villain is this story's Terminator. It's intentional.
Jang Hyun is the writer. There was an article that she said won a writing competition with this script. Not sure…
Thanks for her name! It allowed me to search for an article to confirm she is the writer so I could request to add her here. Hopefully, the mods will approve it soon.
Wonder how the rating is in S.Korea but I just thought 12 episodes seem pretty short when its usually 16+ for…
Since each episode was an hour and 20 minutes long times 12 episodes, the series is 16 hours long. They made the individual episodes longer so they could it be done sooner. But it's the same length as 16 episode series.
Loved this! 9/10 though the leads' chemistry is 10/10! What in the hell are y'all taking about no romance?! This show lived and breathed romance when there weren't immediate battles. (And it had way more romance than say The Double.) Their love confessions and last minute obstacles had me sitting on the edge of my seat. Great comeuppance for our villains. I was afraid this would go south towards the end and instead it got better. I will be rewatching!
It's actually "Gyeonuwa Seonnyeo," translating to Gyeon u's fairy or Gyeon woo with fairy. However, Google…
So the 견우와 직녀 (Gyeonuwa jingnyeo) "Gyeonu and Jiknyeo" story is the The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl story. And in this version of the story, they only can meet once per year per the magical magpie bridge.
The Fairy and the Woodcutter is sadder. They are separated, reunited in the heavenly realms for a long time, and then are separated permanently when the man returns to earth.
With a bright and cheery title sequence, I don't think this show is going to do the sad or bittersweet endings.
The Korean title is 'The Cowherd and the Fairy'. It looks like this really is loosely based off of the Asian folktales The 'Cowherd' and the Weaver Girl & The 'Fairy' and the Woodcutter. In both of those stories, the lovers are star-crossed and end up being separated by the heavens. Then the man desperately tries to find her again and they are eventually reunited.
As a chaebol heiress, Hayeong is used to getting her way in most areas. While this makes her bold and entitled, she is not arrogant. Instead, she is insecure about not being taken seriously by her parents or her long-time family friend and betrothed, Jihyeok. While pursing her own vision at work, she runs into Seonu, immediately falling in love with his good looks and way with children. Honestly, who can blame her. Her act-of-kindness to pick up his kid from school is motivated half by her crush and half by trying to snag an artist for work. Understandably, he only sees this as a reason to work with her, not fall for her. Her bold confession, leaves him unmoved. This is partially due to his feelings for Darim but Hayeong hasn’t shown her real self to him yet. She wants so much to really be seen and loved for who she is yet she’s only shown him her superficial exterior. Hayeong needs to truly reveal her heart to be loved.
Seonu has been through dark times through his divorce but is saved by Darim and her mom. After recovering from his heartbreak, he sees Darim in a new light but doesn’t want to disturb his and his son’s new equilibrium with their two families supporting each other by pursuing a romance with her. When he sees Darim with Jihyeok, his jealously and protectiveness emerges as he watches ripples of this disturbing new presence threaten their peaceful life. He’s also been a step behind in trying to take care of Darim’s problems since she’s reluctant to share certain things with him and he doesn’t have the luxury of time to be able to keep tabs on her, like Jjhyeok. Then his new client confesses to him out of the blue and his son wants him to date her. He’s fallen hard in love before and was left with scorch marks on his heart that have taken years to heal. The idea of a comfortable love with Darim is hard to let go of for a scary, uncertain love with a beautiful new stranger who could hurt him and his son.
Hayeong needs to cultivate a real relationship with Seonu built on mutual trust and responsibility to raise a family together. They also need to be united in standing up to her parents who want an advantageous business marriage instead of a loving one for her.
Seonu will either need to quietly let go of a potential relationship with Darim or go through a painful rejection of his feelings to be able to move on. With the comfortable option gone, maybe a new love won’t be as scary to consider as he truly gets to know Hayeong.
These trials will bring them together in a way that is grounded and heartfelt creating a hard-won, long-lasting love.
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The Fairy and the Woodcutter is sadder. They are separated, reunited in the heavenly realms for a long time, and then are separated permanently when the man returns to earth.
With a bright and cheery title sequence, I don't think this show is going to do the sad or bittersweet endings.