I feel slightly disappointed in this drama.
What I thought I was getting: a look into a manager with a mysterious and secretive past of being an ex-child actor doing her best to lift up these no-name/D-list actors with a powerful message and look into how celebrities are unfairly treated by an arbitrary standard of morals.
What I got instead: a very watered down version of what's above with random spurts of violence and not at all fleshed out side characters who are barely featured. (There's a part of the drama at the start when the FL says these D-list celebrities are all either old and/or unattractive and the camera pans to Suzuki Jin - THE DISRESPECT!)
To be honest, the main characters don't even feel fleshed out. We're thrown into the FL's first day working as a manager but we're never shown how she's been living her life for the past 15 years and how her "scandal" which caused her to leave the industry affected her real life. Her love interest (played by amazing and talented Yamada Ryosuke), whilst very charming, was barely in it, and once again, had no fleshing outside of being a famous actor who once had a conversation with the FL when they were children.
The episodes were honestly a bit meh. I expected each of the talents she helped manage to get their own episode, but only some of them did, and even then, they would frequently just disappear and would appear just for times when the scene would end in everyone talking over each other.
And don't get me started on the violence...I know it was supposed to be comedic, but the FL would hit everyone she encountered, including COMPLETE STRANGERS. I was beyond confused by that. At first, I thought she would just take her anger out on inanimate things such as a cardboard cut-out, but she only does that once, and the rest of the times, it was directed at her co-workers.
Of course there were plenty of things I enjoyed (aka Yamada Ryosuke). There relationship was not the main focus at all and I really enjoyed that. When we saw them together, they were often just chilling together after work and I really liked seeing their progression from strangers to friends and then lovers. Also, for any fans of The Killer Inside, you got to see them together in a much lighter context. My personal favourite detail (if you can even call it that) is that whenever Yama Ryo would sit by her, he sat thigh to thigh, knee to knee and I loved it every time.
We also get to see the FL come into her own throughout the drama and become more and more confident in herself and her abilities rather than relying on her boss to give her literal lines to use when dealing with her co-worker's problems. From a more bird's eye view, I really enjoyed this drama and for whatever reason was feeling rather nit picky when I started the review.
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What I thought I was getting: a look into a manager with a mysterious and secretive past of being an ex-child actor doing her best to lift up these no-name/D-list actors with a powerful message and look into how celebrities are unfairly treated by an arbitrary standard of morals.
What I got instead: a very watered down version of what's above with random spurts of violence and not at all fleshed out side characters who are barely featured. (There's a part of the drama at the start when the FL says these D-list celebrities are all either old and/or unattractive and the camera pans to Suzuki Jin - THE DISRESPECT!)
To be honest, the main characters don't even feel fleshed out. We're thrown into the FL's first day working as a manager but we're never shown how she's been living her life for the past 15 years and how her "scandal" which caused her to leave the industry affected her real life. Her love interest (played by amazing and talented Yamada Ryosuke), whilst very charming, was barely in it, and once again, had no fleshing outside of being a famous actor who once had a conversation with the FL when they were children.
The episodes were honestly a bit meh. I expected each of the talents she helped manage to get their own episode, but only some of them did, and even then, they would frequently just disappear and would appear just for times when the scene would end in everyone talking over each other.
And don't get me started on the violence...I know it was supposed to be comedic, but the FL would hit everyone she encountered, including COMPLETE STRANGERS. I was beyond confused by that. At first, I thought she would just take her anger out on inanimate things such as a cardboard cut-out, but she only does that once, and the rest of the times, it was directed at her co-workers.
Of course there were plenty of things I enjoyed (aka Yamada Ryosuke). There relationship was not the main focus at all and I really enjoyed that. When we saw them together, they were often just chilling together after work and I really liked seeing their progression from strangers to friends and then lovers. Also, for any fans of The Killer Inside, you got to see them together in a much lighter context. My personal favourite detail (if you can even call it that) is that whenever Yama Ryo would sit by her, he sat thigh to thigh, knee to knee and I loved it every time.
We also get to see the FL come into her own throughout the drama and become more and more confident in herself and her abilities rather than relying on her boss to give her literal lines to use when dealing with her co-worker's problems. From a more bird's eye view, I really enjoyed this drama and for whatever reason was feeling rather nit picky when I started the review.
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