A Half Baked Hallmark Story
Perfect Crown is the type of KDrama that has come to define modern kDramas. big budget, big casts, but a script with zero impact, written by chatgpt.
Both of our leads, HJ and Prince Yi An, are two privileged adults who are mentally stuck in high school. The world only exists to hurt them. Our two second leads, PM and QM, are caricatures made to prop both the leads up. We are told Prince Yian is the best prince ever and not once is this supported by any on screen evidence. The drama is advertised as a marriage contract about a 21st century wife, and we do not see any of this play out.
The drama is like if someone took 50 top moments from the cringy romance webtoon you read as a teen and made it a drama, but forgot to add any details and proper plot. Every character has piss poor writing and arcs are nonexistent.
Now, to the general audience who are fine with consuming brain rot, they could enjoy this. But to anyone who wishes for 1% substance in their romance, two characters who actually are likable, this is not it for you .
Performances: Gong Seung Yeon stole the show. Utterly beautiful acting and the only believable character. Devious but stone cold in her resilience.
- IU: probably some of her worst acting but she was good on emotional scenes. I don't think she ever fully merged with HJ and I get it because HJ is very unlikable in general. That romcomy ditzy acting is hard and IU did not show this well
- BWS: not familiar with his past works but his performance was nothing good. The character of Prince Yian is just a Y/N level male lead ........the stone faced expressions and the constant shots to make him appear cool were beyond cringe.
-Noh Sang Hyun: a wonderful actor but a ridiculous character turn for him. His performance was great however.
Overall, this drama was just bad. You could watch a montage of their romantic scenes instead but the chemistry wasn't even that great for me to rewatch any of it. You're better off going and rewatching Goong.
3/10
Both of our leads, HJ and Prince Yi An, are two privileged adults who are mentally stuck in high school. The world only exists to hurt them. Our two second leads, PM and QM, are caricatures made to prop both the leads up. We are told Prince Yian is the best prince ever and not once is this supported by any on screen evidence. The drama is advertised as a marriage contract about a 21st century wife, and we do not see any of this play out.
The drama is like if someone took 50 top moments from the cringy romance webtoon you read as a teen and made it a drama, but forgot to add any details and proper plot. Every character has piss poor writing and arcs are nonexistent.
Now, to the general audience who are fine with consuming brain rot, they could enjoy this. But to anyone who wishes for 1% substance in their romance, two characters who actually are likable, this is not it for you .
Performances: Gong Seung Yeon stole the show. Utterly beautiful acting and the only believable character. Devious but stone cold in her resilience.
- IU: probably some of her worst acting but she was good on emotional scenes. I don't think she ever fully merged with HJ and I get it because HJ is very unlikable in general. That romcomy ditzy acting is hard and IU did not show this well
- BWS: not familiar with his past works but his performance was nothing good. The character of Prince Yian is just a Y/N level male lead ........the stone faced expressions and the constant shots to make him appear cool were beyond cringe.
-Noh Sang Hyun: a wonderful actor but a ridiculous character turn for him. His performance was great however.
Overall, this drama was just bad. You could watch a montage of their romantic scenes instead but the chemistry wasn't even that great for me to rewatch any of it. You're better off going and rewatching Goong.
3/10
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