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I usually prefer the Korean version of anything, but in this case the Japanese version was much better. The female leads, Ueto Aya and Kichise Michiko, were much more attractive and charismatic. The writing was tighter as well. This was a big disappointment to me. The casting of Ye Ji Won was a major mistake. JMHO

This is just a male- chauvinist-pig point of view, but Ueto Aya and Kichise Mishiko both have fabulous lips. I enjoyed every moment watching them.

What you wrote sent me to Youtube to play some of the SLA music there. I was caught by surprise by the comments. The praise there is even greater than here at MDL.

I realize that it has been five years since you wrote your review of SLA, but I just have to say that YOU NAILED IT, especially your second and third paragraphs. If more of the people who have dragged down the average rating understood the plot as you do, the rating would be in the 9's.

You agree with me, so you must have good taste. :-))
I found it on Ebay for $45.

I am dropping this. I found that I was watching most of it a 1.5 because there is so much 'dead air.' Perhaps each episode should have been 40 minutes long.

Some coaches lose their minds and think that physical punishment makes the athletes try harder. In real life, he would not have been able to work with children again.

It was very brave of you to give a 1.0 to a drama that has so many 10s. Some of the people who comment on MDL are 14-year-old girls who get very emotional. I once wrote something critical about Park Shin-hye and drew nasty comments for weeks. All I wrote was that I agreed with others who went into more detail about her acting.

Navillera was poorly written. At times, the music was annoying. With the exceptions of Park In Hwan and Na Moon Hee, the acting was barely adequate. So, why all the 10s? I have theories, but fear that the 14-year-olds will get angry again if I list them. Different strokes for different folks.

I agree with what you wrote, but there were a couple of touching moments near the end of episodes 7 and 8. That is as far as I have gotten so far. I am bewildered by all the 10s and the high average-score. I am often baffled by my fellow MDL members. Secret Love Affair has an average score of 7.7, yet I feel that it is the best drama I have ever seen. Go figure.

I agree with most of what you wrote. Park In Hwan and Na Moon Hee did what they could with their rolls, but Song Kang and others were barely adequate. I did like the relationship of Mr. Shim and Chae Rok, but all the other plot-lines were just time-fillers. A few times, I found the music to be annoying. So, why all the 10s? Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I would be willing to bet that, in a year, the average rating will have drifted down to 8.3, or somewhere in that area.

With all the 10s that this has gotten, it was brave of you to give a lower score. Actually, I am torn. I have no interest in the stories of any of the children, or the granddaughter. However, the central story of Mr. Shim and Chae Rok did suck me in. There were 'loud' clues early on about the medical issue, so the 'big reveal' in episode 7 fell flat for me. And yet...I found myself crying. I still have a few episodes to go, but I am leaning toward giving it an 8 for a strong central plot, but very weak, barely tolerable, peripheral plots.

You may find this essay interesting. https://chom2.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/either-im-reading-too-much-into-this-or-jung-sung-joo-is-scary-genius/#more-5780

You may be right. My daughter didn't like it, yet I think that it is wonderful. "Different strokes for different folks."

I just ordered the DVD of this. It is the first time that I purchased a video of a drama, though I have purchased several movies. I am just afraid that, one day, I will want to watch this again, and it will not be available for streaming anywhere.

With the exceptions of the movie version of The Beauty Inside and the Bollywood movie Barfi, I cannot think of another production in which the music is such an essential part of the personality of the story. There are long scenes that would have had me fast-forwarding in other dramas, but the on-point music had me too mesmerized to want to do that, feeling the emotion of the characters.

The fact that its average rating is not much higher almost makes me want to weep.

I second that!

I was afraid that you would say that you don't like it. :(. But all is good :). That plot line and the Mi Young and Jung Hee one were my favorites. Even more than the father's. The in-laws downstairs I did not care much about. Ra Young's story was spotty, but parts were clever.

Just curious, did you try it? Due to our conversation, I just finished watching it for a second time, zipping through certain scenes that I remembered not enjoying very much. Still love Lee Yoo Ri.

I really enjoyed the performances of Moon Ga Young and Im Se Mi. Everything else was rather meh. This wasn't the first time that I saw Moon Ga Young in anything, but it was the first time that I NOTICED her. The story was rather thin, so I might have dropped it if not for her. Good job.

I consider the performance of Lee Yoo Ri in this to be one of the greatest that I have ever seen, and she is in this more of this than anyone else. These long dramas have many plot-lines to fill the time. Usually, some of those plot-lines will be great, while others are irritating. While a couple of the minor ones here are less thrilling than the others, they are not awful. Most are superior. The story involving the characters of Jung So Min and Lee Joon is very popular. The ratings in Korea were very high. This is one that I did not want to end.

I had discovered Korean movies before trying any of their dramas. I still feel that the very best movies are much better than the best of the dramas. Anyway, when I decided to try a drama, I picked You're Too Much because Uhm Jung Hwa was the star, and I assumed that she would only partake of something of quality. I was wrong. I watched all 50 episodes of that garbage, thinking that there would have to be a big payoff -- nope. I had not yet discovered MDL, so I went to other bulletin boards and asked if all K-dramas were so bad. Well, lots of nice people assured me that they were not and gave recommendations. I took a chance on My Father Is Strange -- 52 hours. I loved it. I suffered through a mourning period when it was over. I could not believe how sensational Lee Yoo Ri was. She is a great actress, but I have since found that I generally do not like the material she chooses to associate with and that "Father" was a one-off. She only got the role because Kim So Yeon dropped out at the last moment. I also found that "Father" was the only long drama that could hold my interest past two episodes. The long dramas have too many plot-lines that get stretched too thin, so I tend to favor the 16-episode norm.

As far as Hospital Playlist goes, I love the writing of Lee Woo Jung, and the acting of all three of the male leads, Slice-of-life dramas often fail to hold viewer interest due to the lack of a plot that makes you wonder "what will happen next." For me, in the hands of Lee Woo Jung, the answer is 'something interesting.'