Boring.
I rarely saw so much effort spent on an extremely boring show, if we may name it show at all.There are nice actors acting decently, luxurious clothes and decorations, decent camera usage,
but an extremely boring and unnatural story. The episodes are short, yet about 20% of the time is
filled with recaps and a nothing saying interrogation repeated again and again. My feeling is that they tried to
imitate something and they poorly failed.
This drama is 0% worth its watching time. Stay away!
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Excellent
Watching thi movie is an occasion to see what the actors really can: acting. A bad written story can ruin a movie, but a good written story alone cannot make a good movie. Also the theme itselft will not make it a success. The way this movie is directed, the delicacy of each scene and the story itself gives the actors the chance to act. There is nothing of the standard boring romance drama that you can see it everywhere; here the actors can focus on expressing the feelings with they mimic and gestures, with their smile , face and body. The theme of the movie is also a good one and there is so much art and caution inside, that I forgive the few inherent inconsequences.This movie is 100% worth its watching time.
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extremely overrated
I don't quite get the hype on this series. I do agree that the leads are cute, but everything else is missing or very poor - comapred to the K-drama standards. The writing is blank: 16 times about 90 Minutes of one theme void of any contents; not even the romance part is convincing. The story and the production and the acting feel togehter like a late fall vegetable soup: it would warm you up, but your stomach will turn outside soon. I rarely give up during a series, yet this was too much for me.Watching more than one episode of this series will waste your time.
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worth watching
This drama is clearly above the average (high) quality of current Korean productions. Excellent actors, first class music, brilliant make up and camera work, highly professional production, even the advertisements are much better hidden than in the usual case. As expected, the story has a few pitfalls, e.g the thriller/crime part felt out of place and quite wrong, but I must congratulate the writing team, at least they went very fast and efficiently on it; it needs significant amount of maturity and courage to recognize the wrong paths and a lot of power to leave them in time.I liked this drama for the warm and high quality romance with beautiful and experienced actors at ALL levels.
Unlike most of the Korean dramas, there were a lot of moments with beautiful scenery and a lot of natural affection.
This drama is 150% worth its viewing time.
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Masterpiece
I rarely give such a high score, yet I am convinced: this masterpiece will be hard to surpass. This time, the high professionalism of the Korean cinematography met talents on their pics working harmoniously togehter towards thisexcellent result. The brilliant acting of Park Bo Young in the double role of the twins is doubled by excellent contributions of Won Mi Kyung (restaurant owner) and Cha Mi Kyung (grandmother) and of Kim Sun Young and Jang Young Nam (the two mothers) and all the others. The camera work is more than detailed and creative. many beautiful views of Seoul are carefully chosen, the production had a particular eye for details.
The writing supports all this: delicate, sarcastic, full of humor, deep, playfull at times, never exaggerated, always at the right place and peace. What it makes me appreciate even more: the idea of twins helping each other is not new, no smashing techniques are used (see for a contrast comparison "When life gives you tangerines"), the whole value comes from inside: from the feelings, ideas and human problems that are treated in the very right, aequilibrate yet decisive way. I am really impressed.
This series is 700% worth its viewing time, I fully recommend it.
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worth watching
Fast pace, unexpected turns, some humor, excellent actors at ALL levels, beautiful music, a whole bunch of tropes of current Korean dramas, highly professional team, not too many mistakes in the script, just a few blatant exaggerations - in short, this is a drama worth watching. The romance does not get much time, but probably this was not the focus anyway.Was this review helpful to you?
Surprisingly good
The writing is excellent, there is a lot of self-irony that is absolutely unexpcted in japanese drama.The synopsis is a bit misleading. The driving theme is jealousy, but there are several levels of the stories
(yes there are several stories!). I found the acting excellent and the actors were very carefully and well chosen.
The whole is accompanied by the appropriate music. The short time of each episode contributes to an alert
rhythm; all unnecessary fillings were deleted. I was almost deceived by the final - a typical japanese one
- but the very last minutes are great: it is not 100% the expected japanese final!
Even if it is not the big revolution, this drama is much better than its actual renomee.
It is 100% worth its watching time!
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Too much, but art
A first episode absolutely great. The disclaimers at start and end of the episode make it even more funny and inciting to think!Also the following few episodes are great. Though I think they overdo it and at some point the writer was clueless aht to do next.
Well, this confusion is typical for very good art, so I do not complain about it. Every little detail is well sought. The acting is also great. Yet thereis os much input that it becomes overwhelming, After the half of the episodes I found myself struggling to follow it. In my opinion there were too many allusions to TV shows and alike from the older time.
In a word, it is worth starting, but after seeing 50% of the episodes you can simply stop watching it, if you don't want to waste your time.
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Maybe watchable
The cinematography is excellent: well directed, great camera work, appropriate acting. The atmosphere is quite dark and the story is in general well written. Actual problems of Japanese society are discussed, yet, as expected, only at a very superficial level. Inevitable the story have several moments where it is very disappointing and too naive. Also finding enough good actors on the same age to fill up a class is impossible. Hence, the drama suffers from the usual diseases of a high school show.The language is very nice, in general easy to follow, hence I assume, it is a series that is ideal to watch and discuss in a Japanese class.Was this review helpful to you?
Terrible
Blinded by the MDL ratings I started watching this series. The female lead is beautiful and can really act, the camera work is very good and all views are very carefully chosen and beautiful, the music is excellent. Everything else is aboelutelly terrible: a male lead looking and behaving like a mid-schooler, fully absence of writing, zero perspecive in direction.The feeling is of a long MV, very long 32 times 45 minutes?! Please give me the invested time back!
Anyway, it's my fault to le tme guided by random ratings and fan reviews...
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