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Park Min
Lands Between
Big ships init!
Unnecessarily long for such a casual story, the ships weren't interesting enough to fill the gaps. There wasn't much chemistry between the leads. Both male lead sucked. All the relationships sucked, romantic and non-romantic ones. By the end, I couldn't care less who would end up with who. The first half was purely about the love square. The second half was about business and ships. The drama trick you to think that Kim Hyun Min is the main lead but you'll quickly realize that Se Ra become the lead and occupying more than 80% of screen time. Despite all she did, the drama painted her in a favorable light. While Hyun Min remained insignificant. This is the biggest problem the drama had.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
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It had a good set up to work with but unfortunately it went the full fat cliche melo route which dulled it down and took away from its merits. The extreme over-dramatization stripped away what little emotional impact the characters had built up. It took it down a notch even further for how many chunks in the middle parts that were useless. Dong Won had potential to be a better written character but he ended up being a poorly written one. Joon Soo & Sung Goo dynamic were cartoonish and lacked depth, we were only given a glimpse, they could've done a lot more with their 24 episodes in that regard. In fact, I see the whole thing as a big wasted potential.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
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Decent comedy for the first half then jokes become repetitive and boring. They should've added a time-skip in the second half for when the kid is older and able to talk, this would create a better dynamic and more jokes. The cast was fine but unfortunately there was a lot of overacting for the sake of comedy.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Worth watching for that slap scene...
Goddamn that was a top tier slap. The biggest highlight in the drama! Anyway, both ML and FL had a great chemistry. However, the story was barely serviceable and full of plot holes, especially the first half while being in Harvard. Might be worth watching for the chemistry and brief romance but I wouldn't stick for the story at all.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
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You know how it goes...
I feel sorry for Ha Ji Won to be involved in this fuming hot garbage. As always, Zo In Sung playing a mentally deranged character. What needed to be said have been already said by everyone, there isn't much to add. If you want to watch it for whatever reason, I highly suggest you read any spoiler before watching it. This is the type of show you need to know the spoilers before watching.The ending:
Jae Min become possessed by an old midget goblin demon soul and goes to buy a gun like an emo kid who wants to take revenge on the world. Then enters the room inconspicuously and empty the gun magazine into both Soo Jung and In Wook while laughing and giggling. Both were laying on the bed drenched in their blood. Then he smirks and says "we live in a society". Then goes to the beach at dawn to watch the final sunset while playing "Ohio Is for Lovers" by Hawthorne Heights on his Walkman. Then he shouts "the world is so cruel!!" and shoots himself in the head. Big sadge!
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No....
Absolutely unsatisfactory conclusion after this much anguish. It seems all the events in the drama took place in a short period of time. This made story too static which means not much development. The entire drama was the couple shouting at each other and yanking the baby back and forth. The last episode was straight up shit. Not a single likeable character, not even the support ones.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Had slight potentials....
Not really a sports drama, that's like less than 15% sporty scenes. I didn't like how it started, it was set up for failure from the beginning. The relationship between the 4 leads was boring and dry. Both ML and FL were stupid and their love wasn't even justified, always felt like a fling. The melodrama that was going on outside of that was underdeveloped (birth secret/the abuser) and only brought up around the ending while all the earlier parts the love square was chasing one another.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
No...
The comedy, romance and drama sucked in this one. Most of the characters were unlikable especially both male leads. Once the marriage contract was made the story turned for the worst and never recovered.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
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Rest in piece Jang Jin Young. She's an absolute star, no wonder she was one of the highest paid actresses at the time. I've only seen her in movies, this is the first drama I've seen of her. One glaring issue is how much stuff they were throwing at you. It's like taking 20 action/thriller/politics K-movies and smash them together. It made a very sloppy writing. It was entertaining enough but that one time skip in the middle and everything followed it was very weak and kinda boring. It only managed to pick itself back up around the last few episodes.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Okay
I grew tired very quickly of the FL and her ex harassing each other non stop. If that were to take a big chunk then they should've reduced its length or added better elements.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Interesting
This is what happens when you turn up the infidelity to 11. Although it's close but I wouldn't call it realistic. It's definitely a more gritty and unapologetic look into infidelity. We got to see a lot of the character Hwa Yeong but I wish we a deeper look into her character. Her erratic behavior felt misplaced at times. The 24 episodes runtime wasn't fully utilized, there were definitely slow parts in the middle and didn't pick itself up until the last few episodes. Hwa Yeong decision at the end was a bit rushed, I was expecting a better build up for it and a deeper and extended dialogue for a final send off. Overall, it's still a unique overlook on infidelity that's worth exploring.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
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Unfortunately, it's as generic as these unknown makjangs as they come. Extremely low budget, mostly E-tier cast (other than the elders), washed up plot and story and copy-pasted/auto-generated writing. It's almost unwatchable with zero potentials from the beginning.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Okay...
Casual family drama, might be too tame. Not a lot happen, the story is short with minimum sub-plots. It needed more interesting elements. Maybe having more characters would help.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Not really...
I can't say this was a successful collaboration. A lot of mismatching going on here. This is the type of story that would fit perfectly in a 120-150 minutes J-movie instead of 11 scattered episodes. Some soundtracks were really good while the others were generic free licensed tracks. I don't why the inconsistency.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Not good...
Just highschoolers fooling around, it failed to keep me interested or make me care about any student. All the problems were only surface level and didn't go any deeper than that. Which is unfortunate because the drama doesn't have another theme to lean on. School/youth drama seems impossible to nail on a larger scoop and eventually they end up being made for teens.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
