Oh.. Bo Ra! Deborah! I wished you would have been a better coach, especially to yourself.

Bora! Deborah is an ok romance drama that had its moments, but still unfortunately managed to disappoint me.
The drama managed to be uplifting and comforting sometimes and as a person who has pretty recently broken up from a 3-year-old relationship, it made me think about my own experiences.
It had the potential to be a really good breakup/romance drama, but having many bad couples and bad advices (Let's not even get started on how insensitive it was to bring up the holocaust) it was quite the miss.


STORY:
Bora is a love coach, "Deborah". She gives out love advices while waiting for her proposal desperately. She is not really being herself, she is only doing stuff to please her boyfriend. Bora is a radio host who gives out love advice, so her co-host Yuri asks advice for from Bora about her relationship, she soon decides to break up with her boyfriend. This boyfriend happens to be Lee Suhyeok from a publishing company, whom Bora had met while looking and dreaming about an engagement ring of her own. Lee Suhyeok bought a ring and was about to propose when Yuri breaks up with him. Bora on the other hand soon gets cheated on by her boyfriend and this is witnessed by Lee Suhyeok. These two starts as mutually disliking each other to comforting each other.
Bora causes huge scenes by drinking too much alcohol. On an event, she gets drunk and ends up ruining her career as a love coach by insulting men and love and by falling down and accidentally flashing her underwear. She also pees on the street and goes crying on his ex's doorstep.
Time goes by, and she comes back as a breakup icon and starts falling for Lee Suhyeok.

MY OPINION, SPOILERS OF THE STORY:
The relationship of Lee Suhyeok and Bora is lackluster. They kiss and call it a mistake, work together and sloooowly fall in love and get together at the very last episode in the last 15 minutes or so.
When Bora gets cheated on, and she proceeds to make a fool out of herself by drinking too much, I cringe. Sometimes I had to even pause the scene to collect myself. Every breakup is different, and every emotion is allowed, but when you are making trouble for other people, that's when u should stop and really think about it. I totally get the feelings of sadness, desperation and depression after a breakup, but I would never go out to drink with someone whom I barely know and give this person trouble and on top of that.. peeing on a street. I really wish this drama would have let some of her breakup moments out, since I think we shouldn't encourage anyone to drink till you are THAT drunk with a person you don't trust or know enough.

Then we have Bora's best friend and her marriage.. Lee Yujeong and Yang Jinwoo. I really wanted them to break up, since Jinwoo had gotten used to Yujeong. He felt like she was overbearing and needy and wanted time for himself to the point he made a secret man cave in the basement without telling Yujeong. Yujeong time and time again tried to bring back the spice in their relationship. When Yujeong asks Jiwoo "Why don't we do IT anymore?", Jinwoo answers "Maybe because we can do it anytime?" And when caught, Jinwoo tell Yujeong that he wanted time for himself and Yujeong answers him, "What about us? Do we ever spend time together? In the morning, we are in a rush and busy all day at work. In the evening, after dinner and cleaning up, we just pass out. But you complain you don't have alone time for yourself.. You are not bothered about having no time with me?" And in the end he never changed, but they still decided to be together.

There were other unimportant couples, but I really couldn't stand Bomi, Bora's little sister. At the end of the drama, she gets pregnant. Her boyfriend, who sleeps on a couch in Jinwoo's and Yujeong's house, promises to marry her. Naturally Bora is concerned about her sister, even a little angry, since Bomi and Jinho both don't have enough money, haven't been together for long and are still so young. Bomi lashes out on Bora and says, "Why are you acting like I did something wrong?" I WAS SPEECHLESS. Bomi has always had a bad attitude, and she is used to getting money from her sister, and now she is pregnant in those conditions and her sister naturally is worried about her and her future. Bora reminds Bomi that she doesn't have to marry Jinho even though she is pregnant and to think about it carefully, and she just lashes out, "What's there to think about? We were going to get married anyway, We can just go ahead with it"

After all, I'm giving this drama a 6,5, which is a little higher only because sometimes it did have its moments and I felt comforted by certain scenes.

ACTING:

Yoo Inna as Bora,
She was an ok pick, I love Yoo Inna, but I just disliked her character her so.. She is beautiful as always and isn't afraid to look "ugly" in her crying scenes.

Yoon Hyunmin as Lee Suhyeok,
Honestly, pretty forgettable role for a main lead. His acting was good, but the personality of the character, as a color, would be gray.

Hwang Chansung as Noh Juhwan,
He acts pretty often these types of roles that I'm pretty used to it, but ey, he does it well!

Ju-Ne as Yang Jinho,
His acting debut! I want to give him slack, but this character wasn't for him at all. I love June, but his acting in this seemed so unnatural.

Other actors and roles were just fine. Nothing too special or bad.

6,5 stars!