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Muy emocionante
La historia se desarrolla con buen ritmo los dos protagonistas tienen sus momentos aunque siento que Suzy suele tener más protagonismo y la actuación impecable la verdad que te atrapa en la historia y sufres con ellos, el desarrollo del final muy bueno aunque me gustaría que tuviera un final más bonito o por lo menos que no hubiera quedado en que estaban en el mismo lugar y casi se encuentran, creo que la historia puede ampliarse mucho más que solo en quedarse en que ambos siguieron sus vidas.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
the last lyric of last song is tell "stay together"
i think the ending is happy ending . look at doona when she open album of picture while 2 of her friends are sleeping n the lyric tell " stay together".ML and FL are both at great performance.
Idol FL at the start of the drama was at lowest point of hopeless and ML made her spirit life come up again.
At ending, she and her boyfriend together again and kiss.
Her 2 friends also still together and her carrer are good.
so its a trully happy ending...........................
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Truly "being crazy for each other" takes center stage
This drama deserves a MUCH higher rating than 7.9; I feel like audience expectations are the issue. I've noticed most Kdramas with a romance tag feel very neutered, where the characters just really, really *like* and respect each other, but don't display much in the way of true physical interest. Basically, I think of "romance" Kdramas similar to Disney princess movies with a tiny bit more kissing. Not so with this one.First, know what you're getting into. This is an actual romance, where the main story is the romance, and it has romantic scenes between two people who are legitimately and unapologetically crazy for each other. I'm not talking about just warm affection, I'm talking about pining and yearning and *want*. But it also has warm affection, deep friendship, support, and (eventually) trust, but the "being crazy for each other" takes center stage.
Second, this felt more like a western TV show than a Kdrama, and their relationship progresses as such with more emphasis on the physical desire between two people as part of romantic relationship. This can be good or bad depending on your view of what a romantic relationship entails/should be. If watching two young, beautiful, complicated people be both physically and emotionally crazy for each other makes you uncomfortable, you should skip this one.
Third, the ending is confusing until you re-watch the last episode and notice all the things you missed when you watched it the first time. I will say that I found the ending extremely satisfying when I watched it a second time, but was confused the first time I watched it.
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Somber. Mature. Realistic.
"Be careful when you're alone in a crowd. It's obvious.""What do you mean? What's obvious?"
"Your loneliness."
Doona! Wasn't what I expected it to be, instead, it was much better. It was somber, mature, and it featured realistic dialogues.
"Your desperation to be loved, to try to compensate for never having it. You're afraid of losing people's interest."
I think Suzy did a good job portraying a female character as complex as Doona; a compulsive, miserable, and highly irresistible washed-up popstar desperate for love and attention driven by her abandonment issues.
"I wanna know what goes on in that mind of yours."
If you're looking for the usual fluffy Korean drama with feel good romance, skip this one. But if you want a more subtle and slow burn story with heartfelt confrontation scenes, go watch Doona.
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YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS DRAMA!!
I was actually 50/50 if I should watch it because I already saw spoilers about it. But watching it is one of the greatest thing I did this week, Imagine I finished it after 2 days when I'm super busy at school!! In the 1st part I don't pay much attention but as the story goes on I'm freaking hooked at it!!!The visual of the two lead is given, but their acting chefs kiss!!! Even the side characters, I really like the build-up of the characters interaction. Mixed emotion crying then getting excited for the next scene and crying again. But the ending is lacking for me, I know that those things really happen in their industry. And I think it's the real ending from the webtoon but I guess I'll just work with the next event from the last scene of the show with my imagination. But I'm very happy with their success in the show. So still a very good series in 2023 🤗Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
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An Open Ended Mess of a Story that Disappoints
I was looking forward to watching this drama from all the trailers and teasers I had seen plus it also staring Suzy who is one of my all time favorite idols so I was instantly drawn into it. The drama started off so strong with excellent character introductions and development, the characters felt real and relatable with each conversation and scene feeling natural. The development between the relationships felt perfectly timed and with roadblocks being resolved quickly. All of this was up until Episode 7, that was when the writing and the characters became a complete mess. Each decision the leads made felt like a slap to the face in everything that was established in the first six episodes. Everything the writers were building up to that point they just tossed into the garbage and forgot about it from there. In some instances, the characters felt completely different from the ones the drama started off with initially.Open Ended endings when done correctly are a fantastic however this one was not done correctly, it was done so poor that it requires the viewer to go back and watch the drama or look up on the internet about what actually happened. Having invested time into these characters and their story only for it to end on the most flat open ended endings I have ever seen out of any media I have ever watched or played. To put it plainly, it was like buying a scratch off lottery ticket and instead of it saying "You Win or You Lose" it instead told you "You maybe won or You maybe lost". This drama's story required a defined and resolute ending to its story, this was not a science fiction drama that could have questions left unanswered nor some cop drama which left an investigation's potential culprit a mystery. I could have overlooked all of the mistakes and mess that was made during Episodes 7, 8, and 9 if the ending was not some vague nonsensical mess that required a re-watch of previous scenes or a web search to have it be resolved.
One of the best thing about the drama is the cast it had. Suzy knocked it out of the park with her performance as the titular character Doona. she played the role of the fallen out of grace idol that was a complete mess perfectly. Yang Se Jong as Won Jun was great as well, his problems of having to help Doona put the pieces of herself back together throughout their relationship and having to bare the burden of giving up everything for her felt very relatable. Ha Young as Jin Ju was a great secondary love interest that in my honest opinion, was the much better choice for Won Jun in all honestly. The rest of the supporting cast was great as well, they really did a great job in contributing to the story. One minor disappointing thing was that the drama never revealed the relationship of Doona and Won Jun to Won Jun's bestfriend Su Jin who was Doona's biggest fan. It was a missed opportunity, which the drama had several of those unfortunately.
The soundtrack itself was solid with it being an all around great OST, there isn't really any stand out tracks other than Ordinary Days which itself was performed by Suzy and Daylight by BIG Naughty. The cinematography was perfect, everything about the drama's production was high quality. Also excellent job in being able to show the emotions of the characters through camera shot styles, its rare seeing a drama being able to do that.
All around, I wish this drama didn't throw away all the great work in started with in the first six episodes. Had they continued with that pace, this drama had the potentials to be one of the greatest drama's of all time but unfortunately the drama self sabotaged itself leaving myself and many more viewers disappointed and unfulfilled.
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With this one you will need to towel off.
Doona is an exquisitely paced romance rich drama, which will leave you needing to towel off after viewing. It is one of those Korean dramas which you do have to sit through to the very end, however. The Koreans always show you how to make a romance rich and sensually alluring drama without even showing much skin at all. The romance scenes never get above PG 14. However, with the great natural acting talents of Suzy Bae and Yang Se Jong and the fire hot chemistry of this physically attractive couple in this unique drama, you might feel that a rating of PG 14 is too low. (Scenes do contain smoking and some slight cursing).The story centers around a college kid named Won Joon (Yang Se Jong) who becomes a tenant in this share-house near his College campus. One of the long term tenants in the share-house is a burnt out former big name K Pop Idol named Lee Doona (Suzy Bae), who is from a popular girl group. Won Joon is a 21 year old green kid, a young man who is more versed in books than life. Won Joon is not impressed at first by the credentials of this older woman named Doona, and he just finds her to be someone who seems always to be in his way. The slow evolution of this romance may leave some impatient, but this pace is meant to leave you irritatingly anxious and fully invested in the lives of this couple. Both actors give stellar and sensual performances, befitting of their characters as defined. Doona and Won Joon have close to 80% of the screen time in ‘Doona’. This is physically and emotionally challenging for actors.
Doona is actually a female Korean name. For me, the title is a play on words for the word noona (older sister). The drama is based on the Webtoon titled ‘The Girl Downstairs’.
Suzy Bae (While You Were Sleeping, Start-up) and Yang Se-jong (Still 17, My Country: The New Age)
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Um pouco desapontada...
Antes que queiram me jogar pedras por me sentir desapontada, ou falarem que minha opinião "não tem profundidade", coisa que já li por aqui em outros comentários, queria dizer porquê e o quê me desapontou em Doona.1. Muita coisa do Webtoon simplesmente foi ignorada na adaptação em mini-drama. Talvez, se tivessem mais episódios, o lado "comédia" da categoria poderia ter sido melhor desenvolvido.
2. Dizem que 'final aberto não é um final triste' e eu discordo... uma porque não achei nada 'aberto' o final. Da mesma forma como várias analogias de saúde mental foram relacionadas ao sentimento de Lee Doona, andarem em lados opostos num corredor, é uma analogia bastante clara de que ambos seguiram cada um o seu caminho. O final é agridoce somente para quem acredita que ser feliz profissionalmente equilibra o fato de não se ser feliz emocionalmente. No entanto, como ambos são jovens, não seria esse o fim do mundo para eles e eu entendo este argumento. Porém, para um mini-drama, cujo foco era o romance, um final realista neste nível, não é caloroso o suficiente para quem sofre de doenças de saúde mental. A verdade é que esse final e o final de "O Guarda Costas", com Whitney Houston e Kevin Costner são os mesmos, com a diferença de que no filme, a história foi melhor trabalhada. Só lamento!
3. Apesar de eu ser brasileira e, de certa forma, ter gostado de saber que pensaram no Brasil, como ponto turístico, não gostei dos aspectos estereotipados com que trataram os homens, como aproveitadores e exploradores de mulheres. Tampouco de se meterem a ele pelo sobrenome "Dos Santos". Aqui não chamamos as pessoas pelo sobrenome, mas pelo primeiro nome. Achei pouco caso não terem sequer pesquisado isso antes. E que me desculpem os brasileiros com síndrome de vira-lata, mas verdades precisam ser ditas. Se não gostamos quando fazem isso com a Coreia do Sul, não devemos passar pano para o que fazem conosco.
4. Alguns personagens, pelo menos no mini-krama, não tiveram profundidade alguma! Estavam ali, apenas por existirem, com exceção da Jin-Joo.
5. Mas, sim, visivelmente falando a fotografia de Doona é maravilhosa, a escrita é impecável e as lições tiradas de lá são satisfatórias. De maneira geral, eu só esperava mais...
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Love vs. Lust
I'm somewhat of a newbie to the K-drama scene and this drama made join this platform to write a review.First things first, the acting was superb. Despite how I feel about the characters and the plots, each actor committed to their roles and executed them quite well in my opinion. Now, as for the storyline itself...holes on holes on holes. Yes, we all know that relationships aren't perfect and people aren't perfect and relationships take work. Sure. But, WJ and Doona's relationship was giving toxicity - poor communication, neglect, feelings of unworthiness, co-dependency, jealousy, selfishness, and just levels of dysfunction. It's one thing to be young and in love, but these two had some personal issues that when combined just would did produce a healthy relationship. When they did spend time apart and supposedly grew, I didn't think they had anything left to stand on besides chemistry (basically lust) because they still barely knew each other. For what it's worth the chemistry between them made for some good TV, but when you really analyze the relationship for what it is, it just doesn't work. The other cast members were awesome and their side stories diversified the plot and kept the series interesting. There were some good comedic elements that made me lol. Overall, I did not regret watching it, but I also thought leaving the ending open was a bit of a cop out after taking the audience along on such a polarized ride.
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Realistic fanfic
Doona! is like a fanfic I would have read when I was 17 that I would obsessed over, rereading multiple time to relive it's beautiful written moments.The drama does seems like an ode to Suzy; written by an obsessed fan daydreaming of an outlook from his mundane life. Despite the extreme implausibility of this scenario, all the relationships depicted in the drama are written very realistically. That's the charm of Doona!, you deeply empathise with all the characters, their deeply flawed personalities and their struggles to navigate through love and life. A beautiful story, wrapped in stunning visual cinematography.
Sidenote: While watching the show I kept wondering if this was a manhwa which it actually was, I am so glad for the rise of webtoon and manhwa. The best sprouting grounds for aspiring Korean story tellers these days!
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Muy recomendable
Este drama nos ha abierto un poco la mente respecto a los idols en Corea. Me ha gustado mucho esa visión de todo lo que tienen que soportar las personas dentro de la industria y como todo lo que vemos, nos muestran, no es realmente la realidad. Los problemas que tiene Doona y como los va afrontando y sobreviviendo a ello es muy duro.
Respecto a la cinematográfica, la estética de la serie son espectaculares, crea que tengan un estilo propio y se nota el cuidado que se le ha tenido.
Sin embargo, siento que es de esas series que en mi opinión se me van a olvidar en un tiempo, de hecho, ahora después de haber pasado un par de meses desde que la vi, casi que no la recuerdo al completo, pero sí que puedo decir que ha sido muy entretenida, interesante y también la relación amorosa entre los dos protagonistas.
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"Se não fosse por você, eu não estaria viva."
Um melodrama sobre a vida de uma artista que perdeu a vontade de cantar e de viver, até que ela conhece o Won Joon. Dá implicância se tornou uma amizade e disso cresceu para um romance. Eu queria que tivessem se aprofundado mais na vida de Doona, sinto que faltou nos mostrar coisas importantes sobre ela. Doona é um tanto irritante, queria que ela se abrisse mais pro Won Joon, mas pra ela não é tão simples se abrir. Apesar do sofrimento de ver eles tendo que se distanciar, foi lindo ver que ela conseguiu voltar pros palcos, e como ela mesmo disse pro Won Joon "Se não fosse por você, eu não estaria viva". Se eles ficam juntos no fim eu não sei, mas sei que eles continuaram se amando!A fotografia linda. Suzy entregando tudo na personagem e sendo deslumbrante como sempre (eu só assisti esse drama por conta da rainha). OST perfeita, amei todas as músicas.
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