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It seems that whenever I question the acting ability of an actress, I get a bunch of hateful comments, but I really have to ask what Kwon Nara brings to any drama she has been in. Back in the 1930's, Katharine Hepburn was in a play, and writer Dorthy Parker quipped, "Miss Hepburn ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B." When I watch Kwon Nara in anything, I think of that quote. Whether she is supposed to be happy or sad, angry or elated, she looks the same. Compare her work in Itaewon Class to that of Kim Da Mi.
For those who do not understand the quote -- it is sometimes said of a superior actor that he/she "ran the gamut of emotions from A to Z."

Not the only one. If something better had come along, Hospital Playlist 2 for instance, I would have dropped it.

Kind of a convoluted, improbable plot. A bunch of fine actors doing what they could with it, but I wonder why they all signed on to do this.

I loved this movie so much that I bought a copy of the dvd. It is a remake of a Hollywood film from the 1940's. I had to buy a copy of that on vhs. The Hollywood version is mediocre, so this Chinese version is a vast improvement. I quickly located other films of Xu Jing Lei and was terribly disappointed. Letter From An Unknown Woman was, as far as I am concerned, her crowning achievement.

Love Han Hyo Joo. Hated the movie. Kim Jae Joong was terrible.

I understand Jun Ji Hyun's charisma, but consistently find her over-acting to be tiresome. It is always "look at me, look at me. Ignore the other actors. Ignore the story."
The story would have been very good, if not for Jun Ji Hyun's glaring light.

One of the slowest-moving Kdramas I have ever tried to watch. It should have been ten episodes, instead of 32. If you plan to watch, be sure to use a server that offers fast-forwarding.

Ha-ha, it's funny you should mention Itaiwon Class because I felt that Park Seo Joon was miscast, I kept wishing that someone like Yoo Ah In had gotten the part. The real magic of that drama was Kim Da Mi. I guess that this is the sort of thing that makes Kdrama fun.

Thank you. I checked into A Witch's Romance and was surprised to find Park Seo Joon and Ra Mi Ran were part of it. I will be more likely to try watching it because of them that Uhm Jung Hwa.
The last movie of hers that I really liked was Venus Talk, but that was more due to Moon So Ri and Jo Min Soo. I guess that she is no longer one of my favorites.

I completed all the episodes, but it was touch-and-go the whole way. Many of the characters were superfluous. The plot lurched, clumsily, from one crisis to another. The average rating of 8.7 mystifies me. It was not one of those dramas that kept me up too late at night because I wanted to see what would happen next. To anyone who loved this -- I'm happy for you. Different strokes for different folks.

The only other time that I saw Namgoong Min was in Chief Kim. I can't believe that this is the same actor. I look forward to checking more of his work.
Edit: Following this drama, I began watching Doctor Prisoner. Namgoong Min plays his part in that exactly as he played his part in Hot Stove League. Was Chief Kim a one-off?

You are not alone. I usually feel that the MDL community over-rates dramas and movies. However, sometimes there is a drama like Secret Love Affair, which has a fairly low rating, but I loved. The rating almost prevented me from sampling it. I only tried it because of Kim Hee-ae. Different strokes for different folks.

I will never know. I dropped it. There are better dramas out there. I don't understand its fairly high average rating.

You really should not stop taking your meds.

Not really.

You may enjoy just jumping ahead to the final episode. You will have saved yourself three hours, yet feel a bit better about the hours wasted.

Did he? Detective Baek knew. The dead detective knew. I didn't enjoy this enough to re-watch it to see if I missed something.

I can understand that Kim Wook would be worried that people would think that he was nuts by stating that he was talking to dead people, but I always felt that he was worried about breaking some rule. This was one of many problems I had with the script. I did not write down each one as they presented themselves. After all, we are here for enjoyment, not scholarship. I will just say that I have enjoyed other dramas more.

Our feelings about dramas are quite subjective. I almost feel guilty for not enjoying this as much as many others. I was on the brink of dropping it most of the way, feeling that the writing and acting were mediocre. I did enjoy the way that all the loose ends came together in the final episode, but it would have been better if it was even shorter than twelve episodes. In the end, I gave it a 7.0. If not for the final episode, it would have been quite a bit less.

I agree with everything OneAjhussi said, except I gave it a 6..0.