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As a person who is also austistic, I find this show nothing but inspiring to me, even though mines not as bad as Si On's i still empasised with him alot and understood his hardships to its full extent.When I first found out that the ML is someone suffering from austism it sparked my intrest as I also have it. The story of a autistic boy who lost his older brother to then go on to become a doctor is nothing more than inspirational. The first episode was done very well as it got my intrest in the forst 5 mins and then showing off the skills of Si On at the train station put the drama in a very good place at the get go to become a great drama.
I want to talk about Si On's character first. The actor Joo Won did absolutely amazing dipicting and austistic man. I know for a fact he must of spent a lot of time being with and watching people who suffer from autism becasue for him to display it the way he did he must of cared deeply about the character and not of done a half assed job so I want to thank him on that end for being sincere with the character. When we first get introduced to Si On, we see him in a flashback getting bullied for being different which tore my heart but throughoutu the drama he matured into a fine doctor which is able to look after children to save to thier lives. One thing I loved about him was the enormous heart his had, he is literally the kindest Lead I have seen in a kdrama.
With Yoon Soo, I was very exited for her character because I just got off watching 'Innocent Man' which starred Chae Won as the FL in that drama. From the get go I loved how supportive he was of Si On and how she helped him throughout the drama. Normally in dramas, both leads might have a problem with thier lives but in this one Yoon Soo didn't, so all her time in the drama was either in the hospital or helping Si On with his life. One thing which quite annoyed me was when she rejected Si On in a very passive manner saying they are like brother and sister and then wanted to stay as friends which was a bit selfish but I understood her. She then got jelous of Si On's friend ship with Chae Gyeong which gave her the push she needed to realise her feelings.
With the romance between Si On and Yoon Soo, it was well done becasue in other dramas, they usually kiss alot and act all affectionate with eachother but in this the story had to consider Si On's disabilty and how he can't express his feelings well to other people which I fully understand. So having them only kiss once and hold hands a lot was the right choice in this. This was a very slow burner relationship which I had no problems watching becasue they needed to jumped a lot of hurdles to reach a relationship and it was displayed perfectly.
The two supporting leads in this show are probably my favourite i've seen in a drama. First off with Do Han, at first he was obnoxius due to him pushing Si On down all the time but when I founf out the reason why, it made me understand fully becasue he had a younger brother who was disabled who died after he believed he was okay to be independant and that led to his death, so Do Han was only worried about Si On. I loved how they ended having a brotherly relationship in the end which in some ways they are both taking the place of thier brothers. I really like Chae Gyeong as she was also supportive of Si On and didn't have a bias by listeing to his problems and helping him.
Another character I liked was In Hae, I like how she acted as a friend to Si On and a mediator to Si On's and Yoon Soo's relationship. She was also a very strong character who had to face a lot of problems but overcame them with the help of some characters.
The OST in this show was standard and not many really stood out but they did the job.
If your looking for a show which is very different than the normal kdrama, I really reccomend this. It has a very rewarding slow burner relationship and also has the medical aspect which is realy interesting to watch aswell.
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I don't even know where to start with this drama. My Mister is simply a masterpiece of a show. From the story, the characters to the OSTs, everything was done perfectly.First off the story is one of a kind, it's an obvious but this drama expresses love in a way i haven't seen before, it isn't the normal love as in a relationship that we normally see in kdramas but it's the kind of love for humans have and the respect that comes with it. I loved the dynamic between Ji An and Dong Hoon becasue they both had pitiful lives but they brought eachother up and essentially saved eachothers lives. If they didn't meet one another, I really think they wouldv'e died an early death and that breaks my heart. I loved the ending to this show as it showed that they are both living thier lives well and also they both said hi to eachother with a smile on thier faces showing they are keeping to thier promise they made to eachother as in when they bump into eachother on the street they will smile and say hi.
Literally all the characters in this show had a distinct purpose to fulfill in the story.
With Lee Ji An, I personnaly think the casting of IU was perfect and she did amazing expressing the character for Ji An. In the first few episodes I cant lie to you I wasn't fond of her character becasuse of the things she did but the more I saw her I could understand her actions and empthasise with her. I even said to myself that the more she listens in to Dong Hoon's life she will feel for him and see that there is another person like him in the small world she was living in. I really loved how she ended up adoring Dong Hoon and just wanted hom to be happy even though her life was far from perfect.
With Dong Hoon, his character was just perfect, it showed us a raw dipitction of man whos had enough of his life and feels worthless. After meeting Ji An he starts to see the good in life after talking to her more and more and helping her with her issues. The scene that impacted me the most with him was when he was talking to Jeong Hui saying that there is someone that gets him and his pain, also the scene where he went to the loan shark and fought with him. These 2 scenes really just shows how much Dong Hoon respects and treasures Ji An as a human being.
Even though this show wasn't a romance, the bond that the two leads shared will probably be the most precious one they share in life even though they will both have different lovers and this shows that every relationship you have in life is precious and you are meant to treasure them no matter the age becasue there was a 20 age gap but they related and conversed even with that gap.
The side characters did thier jobs perfectly as they all had thier own little story to tell in the big picture which only expanded the story. Dong Hoon's 2 brothers are literally amazing, thier relationship shows what a brotherly relationship can be and how precious they are. One thing I dont understand in this story is the Wife that had an affair, she was so addamant on getting Dong Hoon to quit his job and marry the CEO but when everything got found out she began to pity Dong Hoon and helped him in the end in which i'm telling you if I was in Dong Hoons place I wouldv'e got a divorce straight away becasue it went on for a month and if Ji An didn't expose it then they would of gotten a divorce in the end and she wouldv'e betrayed her son and husband.
The OST in this drama was just simply amazing, every song had meaning to the story and just added to the feels and made me enjoy the story that much more.
Before I watched kdramas and when I started watching kdramas I rarely cried at TV shows that I watched becasue I didn't feel a connection with the shows I watched. But in the past half year, I have cried more than I have in my life from my memory, theres something about kdramas that just bring the soft side out of me and teaches me so many life lessons. In My Mister, I learnt that I should treasure all my relationships and be kind to anyone that needs a helping hand.
Overall, If your looking for a romance this is not the show for you. If your looking for a raw dipiction of life and the hardships that life comes with and to see the bond 2 people can share without it being romantic then i reccoment this show to you 1000% because this show will not disspoint.
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I'm pretty new when it comes to writing reviews, this is my third one and I decided to write one for every drama that leaves an impression on me because I would love to look back at theses reviews and see what I wrote. When I decided to watch this drama, I had very high expectations because this is the highest rated drama on this site and after reading the synopsis, it sucked me in right away. The drama I watched before this made me crave a drama which is based around friendships and to be honest, this drama did amazing portraying the relationships between the characters.
First off I would like to comment on the overall story of Prison Playbook. The overall concept of a proffesional baseball player assaulting a person for attempting sexual assault on his little sister ans wrongly going to prison for 1 year in which made him recconect with a childhood friends really hooked me from the start as i wanted to see thier bromace on screen. At first I didn't even think about how Je Hyeok would interact with the other inmates, in the frist center he was at he met Jailbird in which he paid for his moms surgery and when that happened I saw thier relationship it only made me want to see more of the inmates relationship with Je Hyeok and how he would fair in prison for one year.
With Je Hyeok, his character at first may seem a little dumb and carefree but when you see his character develop throughout the show, you get to see that he is just a normal person who has emotions and isn't always the famous baseball player Kim Je Hyeok. The first time we see him develop was when he finnaly reached his breaking point and went ona rant on how bad his life is and how unlucky he is, this scene made me love his character even more and it showed his development. In the drama, it really emphasises how loyal of a person Je Hyeok is to his friends as he gets aquanted with his second set of cell mates and have a brotherly relationship with them all and would always support eachother.
With Joon Ho, I really loved how much he admired Je Hyeok and how much he wanted to help him get back on his feet when ever something bad would happen to him. I like how they both reconciled amd became best friends again and with every scene they were in together, thier chemestry just shone through the screen. At first when he started to date Je Hyeoks sister, I'll admit I was a little adamant because i thought it was quite wierd but when Je Hyeok said he's glad that it's him dating his sister and not anyone else just shows how much they trust eachother and made me realise that Joon Ho dating his sister wasn't all that bad.
I will quickly go through some of the side characters I liked. Firstly Ji Ho who is Je Hyeoks girlfriend, I like her character and how she was so understanding of him and they used her charactert just right to make Je Hyeok develop as a person. Jailbird was probably one of my favourite side characters as he was generally grateful that Je Hyeok paid for the surgery and i realised that he would owe his life to him and at the end he became his agent which i really like. Kim Min Chul was another character that shone for me, When we see him he has been to prison for 22 years and had 3 years left, at first I thought he was just a thug but in actuality he was a real softie who cared wbout his cell mates. The cellmate that called him dad and also teh introduction of his daughter really gave his life meaning and he has people outside waiting for him which he didn't think could happen. Finnaly the last character i will mention is Yoo Jung Woo who was falsely acused for killing someone in his squad, he went from a character that was imbearable to the Je Hyeoks cellmates but really he's ones of the kindest people in the cell and because friends with the cells mates after he warmed up to them.
The OST in this drama was amazing as there were a couple of songs that stood out to me and that was the intro song in which I instantly realised it was sung by BeWhy and and GRAY and it served as am amazing OST which I will listen to evern after the show. Another song i like was The Door which has Zico in and that was another good OST. The last song i wil mention is Bravo, My Life! which is sung by Eric Nam, this song was another of mr favourites and I really liked how they made that song Kim Je Hyeok entry music for when he plays for Nexus.
Overall, I would urge anyone to watch this drama if they are looking for a drama that emphasises relationships; be it with friends, family, lovers or even past lovers. This show has everything I want in a drama and met my expectations with ease.
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After watching dramas for nearly a year now, I finnaly got myself onto a medical drama and it did not dissapoint. As a person who is into science this show was very interesting. When watching the show i really felt connected to the leads becasue they didn't make them over the top to where thier lives are unbelievable. With Cha Yo Han, who was a person living with CIPA it made me realise that there are unfortanate people in the world at at the age of 18 i am very lucky to have what i have which is mild asthma. It almost makes me appreciate life a lot more because there are people who are more unfortunate than me but they are fighting thier hardest.
I really enjoyed watching Kang Shi Young's character develop I reallyt think that Lee Se Young did a really good job player that character. I loved teh chemisty between the two leads as i realised that a romance drama doesn't need to have the usual loads of kissing and things like that. This taught me that love between two people is about understanding one another and respecting eachother.
I really loved the Prosecuter's character because he was dealing with his own personal problems but was also dealing with corrupt medical practises. I like how the relationship between Cha Yo Han and the Prosocuter turns from kinda enemies to a friends and when i saw them in a last episode I wished it happened earlier so we could see thier bromance.
Overall for my first every medical drama I loved what i saw and would reccomend this to anyone looking for something new that isnt the whole mushy love that a lot of dramas do and it shows a sense of reality.
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Made me intouch with my emotions
When I finished watching this show I’ve never thought that I could feel what I felt when I finished this show. I’ve watched many dramas but I have never been so in touch of my emotions after watching SKY Castle. When something happy happened I felt happy, when something was funny I laughed and when something was sad I cried my eyes out. No other show has made me think these feelings.When I finished, I couldn’t just help just reflect on society and just realised how much in my life I’ve taken for granted. It sounds sad but after seeing what happened to Kim Hye-Na I’m just so grateful that I have parents who look after me and love me.
There were characters in which truthfully pissed me off but at the same time I couldn’t hate them because they were doing their actions out of greed or love, in the end they all were eaten away by guilt and eventually mellowed out and because decent human beings and lived their lives without lying to themselves. The OST “We All Lie” holds so much meaning to me after finishing SKY Castle because it showed me what lies can do to a person and how it can eat someone inside.
I highly recommend this show for your own enjoyment and also you could learn a life lesson while watching this show like I have and I’m most definitely going to live my life to the fullest and try to change myself.
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Everything about this show was perfect
'Hi, Bye Mama' to me was perfect in everyway, I found no faults with the drama. The whole premise of a mother dying for her baby then coming back to life 5 years later for 49 is very intresting but sad. This is the first show to where I can fully say I did not dislike a single character in the whole show. Normally I would dislike one of the leads in dramas due to the way they are put in the story but with this, instead of disliking them I loved them instead. I would normally not like Min Jeong because she'd be a threat to Yu Ri for getting back with Gang Hwa but instead she was the most graceful person here.First off with Yu Ri, I couldn't feel anything but sorry for her. She died protecting Seo Woo and then lived as a ghost for 5 years watching over Gang Hwa and Seo Woo to make sure they were okay and what was heartbreaking was when anything bad was happening to them she couldn't do anything but watch because she cant talk nor touch them so she would just suffer while watching them. The whole 49 judgement days were quite cruel because halfway through I realised that it was judging her on wether she would be selfless or selfish and she was probably the most selfless person In the show, every action she did was for someone else and she wasn't greedy in the slightest. Her relationship with Seo Woo was really fun to watch but also heartbreaking aswell, in the 49 days she had Seo Woo didn't know she was her Mom and never called her Mom once so that mustv'e broke her heart everytime. When Yu Ri was saying goodbye to Seo Woo and Seo Woo said 'Goodbye Mom' that was the most saddest moment in the show because that was the first and last time she would hear the words 'Mom' from Seo Woo and it breaks my heart. Yu Ri literally makes us queation ourselves because in the fact that If we left now and came back for 49 days, would we do what she did and be selfless because I know for a fact 75% would be greedy and live thier life like they want to.
Gang Hwa character really hurts to watch at times because he went through 13 years of being with Yu Ri thinking he would grow old with her watching Seo Woo get married and live her life but instead in the blink of an eye his world gets torn down by the sudden death of his Wife. When he met Min Jeong and his time started to start again, he finally picked himself back up but in the back of his head when he was happy with her and every positive emotion he felt, he would be hit with a pang of guilt reminding himself of Yu Ri and he would feel terrible. His relationship with both Yu Ri and Min Jeong are both beautiful in thier own way and are both the lights in which make him feel better again. At the end of the show when he had to accept that Yu Ri is going to die again, you can clearly see that the time in which stopped 5 years ago has actually started again and whenever he thought of Yu Ri he would have a smile on his face.
Min Jeong in my opinion is such an amazing character, evrn though she didn't know Yu Ri was Seo Woo's mom she treated her like a best friend and was glad to have met her. When she found out that Seo Woo's mom has been her friend for a while and it was Yu Ri I have no possible idea how she must of felt when she cried. She loved Seo Woo even though that she didn't give birth to her but despite that she did. She was consistantly very caring and kind throughout the whole show and we never saw a bad side of her. Min Jeong was a main character but was a secondary main and normally I don't like them at first and they get redeemed later on but not once did I not like her, her relationship with Yu Ri was beautiful and after she Yu Ri died again she probably cherished those moments and loved Seo Woo and Gang Hwa even more so Yu Ri didn't have to worry about them.
Just quickly with Seo Woo, I'm going to guess that she got told that the pretty aunt that she was with when she was five was her birth mother as at the end we see that she kept the picture of her and her dad inside the book so that she wouldn't forget her. She probably considers both Yu Ri and Min Jeong as her moms and will cherish them both,
I want to quickly talk about the ghosts. Even though they were not main characters, whenever they had a story to tell I cried for them which is unlike me because I normally only care about the main but the way they told the story of the ghosts and treated them as indivuals with thier own story was amazing. Especially that kid at the start who was the cause of Seo Woo going into the freezer, that kids story had me crying more than any main lead I have cried to which showed just how much thish show cared for its casts.
The OST was just perfect for this show, I liked how they didn't overuse them and used just the right ones for the right moment so the scene would feel more special and that was probably one of the reasons why I cried so much during my time watching this drama.
Overall this drama was just amazing, If your looking for a Romantic Comedy then this is not teh show for you, This show is more a show of healing and shows us what someone would do if they died unfairly and had 49 days to live left. If your looking for a show where you want to like whole cast and love the story without feeling empty at the ending I whole heartedly wish you would watch this show and give it a try.
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What a Ride!
This will be kind of a double review; Age of Youth and Age of Youth 2. I didn't write one for Age of Youth because I feel like I had to watch the second season and gather all my thoughts in one go to see how I really feel about the show as a whole.When I started the show I wasn't sure because recently I've had a bad streak with slice-of-life dramas but I stuck with this one and I'm very glad I did because there was not a single character I didn't like and I genuinely loved the whole main casts line and also the supporting cast.
I don't really do well with drama with 5 main characters because sometimes it could get too full and cramped but the script wrote each and every character well and spread them throughout the story while intertwining them all.
First off Yoo Eun Jae, In season 1 she was played by Park Hye Soo and I loved her whole vibe since she played the shy introverted pure-hearted very well. Even though I'm a male I emphasised with Eun Jae the most as we have similar personalities. That was why in season 1 she was my favourite character. Her whole storyline in season 1 was very interesting as she had a love life and a childhood trauma that haunted her to her young adult days. In season 2 they replaced her with a new actor to Ji Woo, I'll be 100% I didn't like Ji Woo as much as Hye Soo. I felt like Ji Woo looked unnatural playing the shy character and I felt like the script tried to show that she grew and developed as a character but at times it was quite jarring to watch. Her storyline in season 2 was quite boring as it was basically her trying to win back her boyfriend from season 1 which she eventually gives up in the latter half of season 2.
With Jung Ye Eun, in season 1 she was the classic college girl in the share house, she had a boyfriend wore all bright colours and had a cheery personality which I personally really liked. Ye Eun by the end of season 1 went through quite a lot as she became a victim of relationship violence and ultimately had to undergo therapy and was scared to go outside from the fear of something might happen to her. In season 2 she became a timid character when she went outside but when she was with people she trusted she became herself again. In season 2 Ye Eun became my favourite character as she goes through a really tough storyline and her character develops as she gains her confidence back. The actress Han Seung Yeon who played Ye Eun just seemed to play her perfectly and was very natural. Her relationship with Kwon Ho Chang was very cute as they were opposites but they were attracted with each other as they have similar experiences and Ye Eun needed to meet a sweet person and she got that out of him.
Yoon Jin Myung was very much the mother of the house, everyone looked up to her as an older sister and respected her. Her story in season 1 was interesting as we see that she is not well off and has multiple part-time jobs to support herself financially as she had to pay college debts and also her mom's debts. Han Ye Ri played Jin Myung very well and just fit the role really well. I felt like she had the hardest time out of everyone else as she was the oldest so getting a job and becoming settled in life was her goal as she didn't go to college. In season 2 she gets a job at an entertainment company in which in my opinion was a weird job for her personality but she did meet a great person who is like a little brother to her because of it.
Song Ji Won is what every share-house needs. She was eccentric, loud and positive which at times kept the overall mood on the house positive. Her story wasn't really delved deep in season one which was a good thing because her story kicked off in season 2 and was very interesting and I felt like it would've made season 1 too jam-packed. Song Ji Won is played by Park Eun Bin and I've seen her other works and I must say this was perfect casting as she was just pure entertainment in every scene she was in. In season 2 we see she still her same chipper self but with the addition of the mystery of what happened in her childhood, It was actually quite fucked up once we find out what happened to Moon Hyo Jin and I'm glad it came to light in the end.
Kang Yi Na was a very intriguing character as she was a very bold and confident person. In season 1 her story was sometimes heavy because she had the backstory of that event in which she was the sole survivor and then met the father of a child she knew without realising who it was. She also had the term "prostitute" thrown at her as Ye Na called her that because she had multiple boyfriends and got money from them. Ryu Hwa Young has the perfect image for Yi Na as I couldn't see any of the other housemates have her role. I liked how she didn't take any shit from no one and even though she had arguments with her friends she always defended them and had their backs which I really liked. She wasn't present for the majority of Season 2 as she only had cameos. But every time she was on screen the scene she was in was never boring for a second, episode 1 was probably one of my favourite episodes with her in.
In season 2 we got the addition of a new housemate Cho Eun. She first came off as a standoff-ish tomboy who didn't want to associate herself with the group but the more she mingled with they she saw the good in them and started to warm up to them and show that inside she is a cute and sometimes timid girl. Choi A Ra plays Cho Eun in which this was her acting debut and shes not been in anything since but I really wish we could see more of her. Her friendship with Ye Ji was complicated as people thought they were lesbians as they were too close but in the end, they brushed over this topic and the two friends eventually drifted apart so if we get a season 3 they will make that a plotline.
The OST was surprisingly good as I never skipped the opening to the show as it was just such a catchy song. The other OST throughout the seasons were also good, with Age of Youth OST being slightly better than Age of Youth 2.
Overall this show was a nice breath of fresh air as recently I've been watching quite serious shows so I needed a light-hearted slice-of-life coming of age drama. If you're looking for a drama in which is a female main cast in which explores the different stages of life with each of them then I recommend this show as it also has some good laughs that come with it.
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This is my first Japanese drama review I will be writing. Koizora you could say is my breakthrough drama for jdramas and my god I’m glad had this drama. I’ve read lots of manga for romance and I was addicted to them so having a drama which can give me the same feelings were amazing.The two main characters in “Koizora” were both in their own ways inspiring.
First off Hiro, he may seem rough around the edges on the outside but on the inside he is one of the sweetest characters in this show. I liked how upbeat and caring he was and once he met Mika, his life was basically all about her. Hiro wasn’t Hiro without Mika you could say. When it came to the point of the story where he got diagnosed with cancer, he decided to make Mika hate him and break up with her so she doesn’t get upset over his illness and didn’t want her to be in pain. This says a lot about Hiro’s character as he just wants Mika to be happy, Mika even got a new boyfriend but Hiro was fine as long as Mika was happy. When Hiro was facing his last seconds the last thing he wanted to see was Mika smiling at him in which was so saddening to see. Even though they so earnestly wanted to be with each other, fate had something else in mind and took Hiro away.
Mika is the prime definition of character development. At first she was a sheltered child who thought she didn’t want anything else in life but when she met Hiro her life changed and she started wishing for happiness with another person. When Mika conceived a child with Hiro she was so mature with it and wanted to keep it with Hiro but unfortunately she had a miscarriage due to being pushed down on the floor by Saki which is very sad. In the last episode we see Saki at the end of the show pregnant and Mika asked if she could touch it and said I hope you grow up well which says so much about her and shows how mature she is.
One of the things I love in this drama was how supportive the parents were in this, even when Maki was pregnant they supported her even if it took them a while to accept it. They wholeheartedly supported Maki and Hiro’s relationship which is very rare for some dramas based in Asia. I’m used to watching kdramas and for some reason there is this stupid trope to where parents are just so unreasonable so that’s what I like about jdramas over kdramas.
The OST in Koizora was very fitting for this type of drama. I loved the main theme that played at the end of each episode which added emotion to the episode. Also the instrumentals were all also very good.
Overall I loved this drama and it was a very good gateway drama to get into Japanese dramas and I will get definitely watch more in the future.
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Remember: War of the Son
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When I first watched this show last year I didn't get to write a review for it since I wasn't writing reviews back then to put down my thoughts, so all my thoughts of the drama back then can't be replicad but the feelings I felt watching the drama a second go round are just as good if not better since I know the actors alot more this time round. My main reason of watching "Remember" the first time round was the actor Yoo Seung Ho who is one of my favourite actors to date and I loved his stellar performance in this. I came back to this show to re-experience the emotions I felt the first time but in my opinion it was better because I overlooked some of the acting of other actors due to my tunnel vission on Yoo Seung Ho which isn't a entirely a bad thing in my opionion.Throughout the drama the theme of revenge drives the plot to the end as the ML who has limited time is trying to put Nam Gyu Man in prison because he caused his father to recieve the death sentence and be treated poorly which lead to his death. There are other genres in the drama such as Romance which wasn't teh main focus but certainly gave us eye candy since Yoo Seung Ho and Park Min Young look amazing together, the main genre was law as this drama was a court room drama at it's essence with the drive of revenge pushing the story.
Seo Jin Woo as a character is one of the most admirable characters I have seen , his life just can't catch a break. What people wouldv'e thought as a blessing to where he has hyperthemisia which is where you can remember any event in vivid detail but infact it's a curse to him because he also get alzheimer's. His ability to remember only just speeds up the symptoms to the point they show at the age of 23 which is very young. Overally he was a very smart and brave character who kept his convictions throughout the entire story and never betreayed himself. Revenge was the thing which drove him throughout teh show but through the journey he went through, he met some people and formed some amazing bonds, but his biggest bond that he formed was with Lee In Ah, in which was the only person in which belived him even at the very start of the story where no one would believe him. His relationship with her is quite sad because they love eachother but it would inevitably end due to Jin Woo forgetting about her which is a sad thought because he was only 23. The decision to let go of all the people around him and In Ah was very mature and selfless of him because he knows firsthand how sad and lonely it can be when someone you love doesn't remember you and can be saddening so for the sake of the people around him he left without a trace.
Lee In Ah was a character who doesn't have any special ability to remember anything or any wealth which gives her power so that in it self emphasises all her actions in the drama because if Gyu Man was determined he could ruin her life and the people around her. When she first met Jin Woo as a college student, she was very naive in a way as she only saw the things in front of her and never thought about the things she doesn't see but after meeting Jin Woo her whole midnset changed and she started to take things more seriously and ultimatly became a prosecuter because of Jin Woo but also because an attourney because of Jin Woo. You could say that In Ah wouldv'e done anything for Jin Woo if he allowed it but he knew she would only hurt so he let her go.
Nam Gyu Man's actor Nam Goong Min did an amazing job depicting a whiney chabeol who belives he is the law and nothing wrong will happen to him. Everytime he had an outbreak of anger his acting was just perfect .
The OST in this show was just perfect for the show and I mean that. The instrumentals especially shone in this show as it made the scenes alot more dramatic. Also the OST played when Jin Woo got the not-guilty verdict for his dad made me feel so emotional since it just highlights how much he has put in and he can finally rest easy with his life,
Overall this show is just one of my favourite shows as it stars many actors I addore watching on the screen and also my favourite actor of all time Yoo Seung Ho and that will not change for a long time and you would need someone better than perfect to take that top spot. If your looking for a law drama driven be revenge with a hint of romance, this show is just for you.
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Wow. This show was amazing, it's right up my alley for a shows I'd like to watch in the future. Firstoff when I read the synopsis about a killer turned vet and a detective who is trying to capture a serial killer to where their relationship builds from having known eachother in the past and then meeting again, I was very intriqued to watch it and my god am I glad I watched it. I've put this drama off for about 2-3 weeks now and I thought I would watch it.With the male lead Soo Hyun I loved his character, the actor Jang Ki Yong who played did an amazing job doing the role. Jang Ki Yong is probably one of the actors to depict characters who have a dark side to them, his facial expressions work magic on the on screen and his psycotic smile he gives off makes him perfect for these kind of roles. Soo Hyun's character was quite pitiful in this show though, he was only born to donate his bone marrow and didn't even get named and got thrown away to some russian killer to be taken care of. To be honest, killing people is always bad but I couldn't help but support him throughout the show and be exited to see what he's going to do next. His relationship with Seul Gi is quite ill fated in the fact that Pavel killed her grandfather and then Soo Hyun ends up looking after her in which she realises who he is and forgives him because she knows he's a good person at heart. I can understand why he only confided in animals and that was because they can't really betray you and hurt you compared to humans who follow human nature. His whole goal to finding out his past and then saving the children was quite pitiful to watch at times because he couldv'e just lived a normal life but they mattered more to him than anything else untill he got attached to Hyun Jin and Seul Gi.
Hyun Jin's character was also a pretty good character. She didn't really do much for me compared to Soo Hyun but I liked how she wished it wasn't Soo Hyun who was the serial killer because she had hope that he was the same kid who she knew as a child. Her relationship with Soo Hyun was ill fated because she was the person trying to capture the serial killer and it just turned out to be Soo Hyun, I did like thier interactions but I'm glad there was no romantic actions involved because it would of been a lot more messier than it allready was for them. I could tell that they both had some sort of feelings for eachother due to thier actions throughout the show.
The OST was standard but what stood out was the instrumentals that added a felling of tension and axienty to some scenes. Out of all the shows I've watched this show might be out 3 shows in which gave me a churning feeling in my stomach and a fast heartbeat and I don't know fully why but some of teh reason would go the atmosphere that this show created.
If your looking for an action, thriller show that has an emphasis on the relationship on 2 sides of the same coin, Soo Hyun on one and Hyun Jin on the other and how see how thier story pits them against eachother pyschologically even though they like eachother I highly reccomend this show.
I will most definetly rewatch this show one day as it's a short show in which was a great watch and I loved the main leads especially Jang Ki Yong and NaNa.
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I came into this drama wanting to watch a drama which tackles mental issues and from reading the synopsis, I had high expecteations and they for sure got met. They way they depict to struggles and issues that both the leads go through and how they tackle them is truly amazing. As a person who suffers from a disorder I could relate to some of the characters and especially Soo Kwang, I don't have tourettes but I could emphasise with him the most and how he finds it hard to socialise with people and his internal struggles.This drama was more about the struggles and edurance in a relationship rather than the journey to get to the relationship like other kdramas. It tackled things like sex and other sensitive issues that a couple might have to tackle to be able to have a good relationship.
I want to first talk about Ji Hae Soo's character, the actor Gong Hyo Jin did an amazing job expressings Hae Soo's character. This is my second drama for her after watching "When the Camellia Blooms" in which i liked her character but i wasn't completly sold on her. This drama gave me a 180 and made me appreciate her acting and made me realise how good she is expressing more mature femal roles. Hae Soo had an emotional scar as a child becasue she saw her mom cheat oh her disabled husband and that gave her a scar to where she was no longer able to anything sexual with a male becasue she saw that as a bad thing. After meeting Jang Jae Yeol did she start to change and began to appreciate love that she was given.
With Jang Jae Yeol character, it really deeply affected me becasue on the outside he looks like a strong willed person but on the inside he was hurting. He hid hish real thoughts by playing with a bunch of girls and acting happy all the time. It was only after moving into the house with Hae Soo was when he started to change bit by bit. When we find out that Kang Woo was his imagination, it realy did shock me because just before it was revealed I said that Jae Yeol acts childish around him and seems happy. Once that was revealed we start to actually see Jae Yeol in a new light and as teh story progressed we could see that Jae Yeol was changing due to his illness getting worse. Every scene Kang Woo was in a scene, I just felt so sorry for Jae Yeol. I loved how it was Hae Soo that helped him realise that Kang Woo is not real and allowed him to move on and start to change.
Park Soo Kwang character was really intresting becasue he was very mature throughout the whole show and I believe if he wasn't there to comfort people, something might've gone wrong. His romance with So Nyeo was quite refreshing as I know both actors from previous dramas I've wacthed and loved.
The OST was aight, it fit the scenes that they were in but they didn't affect me as some other drama OST's have.
If your looking for a drama which tackles Mental Issues and want to see a adult romance between two people deeply scarred in which they heal each other then I whole heartedly reccomend this show to you.
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Just Perfect
I went into this drama with average expectations but was I got in return was a drama that totally demolished all those expectations and allowed me to watch just maybe one of my top 5 favourite dramas. 'Graceful Family' had just about everything, the story was amzing, the characters and actors playing them was one of the bests I've seen and the OST worked perfectly to add flavour and mood to each scene.I want to first talk about the story, this isn't your simple revenge story to where we know the culprit and we are fighting against whatever it may be. This drama shows the fight in which our 2 main leads fight against injustice in whice the knot which is tightly tied in the first episode gets slowly unravelled as the episodes went by. One thing I loved about this show was the structure and the way they went about showing the story, at the start of each episode it gives us a snippet of the past and allows us to obtain a puzzle piece in which we were able put together to complete the bigger picture and tell us the true events of what happened. In my opinion, the best thing that came of this drama was the characters and the actors who depicted them and did them justice perfectly and couldn't of done better. The ending for this show was perfect for me because we got all the endings we want and it shows the antogonists feel some kind of guilt to thier actions. We also got a romanced ending with Seok Hee and Yoon Do ending up together by the end of the drama.
I want to talk about the MVP of this show in my opinion and that was Mo Seok Hee, she literally bacame my favourite kdrama characters in the matter of days, I first watched Im Soo Hyang in 'My ID Gangnam' and I really enjoyed her role and that was when I first started watching kdramas so I didn't really get to look for other works she did but I most definitely will. Now with the character, Mo Seok Hee was everything you could want for a badass strong will female protaganist. I love how in every scene was in, my eyes were glued to her due to her personality that shone through the screen for me. I loved the dynamic of her character becasue on the outside she didn't show any weakness but on the inside she was hurting a tremendous amount after being sent away to the US being ditched by her family and her mum being murdered by someone she didn't know yet. The screen writer utilised Soo Hyangs character to its highest potential becasue not even for a second did I feel like she was being wasted in the plot. I actually felt really sorry for her becasue she literally lost her mom and then loses her grandfather which turns out to ve her father in which brought out more emotions from Seok Hee becasue she remebered the past and how much her 'grandfather' helped her.
Now the male lead in this show whihc was Hoe Yoon Do, I generally really like his character, he was what I expected from a male lead who is out to get the truth to release her mother. I like his how his personality was a calm and caution one because it meant that he hardly lost his head to his surroundings. He was a neither a bad nor amazing character to me but he fit his role well being the partner of Seok Hee and also finding the truth about the murder. I want to breifly mention the romance between the two of them, this show is by no means a romance but the scenes they had togther, you could just see thier chemisty so when we finally see them together by episode 13 I was very happy.
Now onto the main antogonist, Han Je Gook. She was the emodiment of a person who didn't care who she trampelled on so she could procted the MC group and wouldn't hesistate to non-remorsly betray the late chairman. No matter how loyal she was to the MC group and how much she projected her ideals, I just couldn't get on board with them. As shes not really one of my favourite characters I don't have a whole lot to say about her.
One thinsg this show did was utilise its support characters, and oh my was there some gems in the support cast.
First I want to talk about the eldest son Mo Wang Soo, his life was literally pitiful from the get go and even if he did kill Seok Hee's mother, you can't not feel sorry for him. Even Seok Hee did at the end because she knew he was a good person and was the only person there for her when she lost her mother. All Wang Soo wanted was the attention from his family and especially his mother in which made him derail and ultimatly become the failure of the family in which the whole Mo family emphasise but whats ironic if they just gave him the love he wanted and wasn't in such a dysfunctional family, I'm sure he wouldv'e achieved great things. Wang Soo's brother-sister relationship with Seok Hee was amazing just perfect, even after Seok Hee came back 15 years later, Wang Soo still acted as a brother to her. You could say that Wang Soo's ending is the most pitiful in the whole story. In the end he became a good brother and unfortunately killed himself in which ended his life achieving nothing. It was only until after he died was when his mother and older brother realised they lost a great son and brother. The mother realised all he wanted was motherly love and the brother realised that he acepted him being a transgender by giving her a brooch in which was feminine.
I will quickly talk about the mother and older brother. With the mother, I really couldn't get behind her greed and her love for Wang Joon which was clouded with greed. The only thing ill support her with was that she was being a good mother to Wang Joon when it was revealed he was a transgender and still supported him. She did say that she suspected it and left it due to not wanting it to be true. If she confronted that fear then maybe the family dynamics would be different. With Wang Joon, I believe he was overly cocky for his own good. He didn't really do anything with merrited his cockiness because he his behing Director Hans shield and got everything given to him. You can't help feeling a bit sorry for him because he was forced to do things he didn't wanted to do because of his old fasioned father but then kind of embraced the role of being a dick head to everyone.
The OST in this drama was amazing, the two main ones which were 'Black Diamond' and 'Liar' worked like a charm. Especially 'Black Diamond' whenver Seok Hee did somethign badass, this song would accompany it and just emphasised her actions.
Overally this show will be going of the favourites list. If your'e looking for revenge drama with an amazing duo which consists of a badass female lead and a calm and collected male lead, also if you want a complext story and characters then this show will be perfect for you.
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