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Graceful Family korean drama review
Dropped 12/16
Graceful Family
5 people found this review helpful
by mopalia
Oct 6, 2019
12 of 16 episodes seen
Dropped
Overall 5.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 5.5
Music should set the mood and enhance a drama. An worst, it should be unobtrusive and at best it should weave into the story like a palette of auditory colors. In this drama, the composer and music editors seemed to think they wer Carl Orff practicing the Carmina Burana or scoring Götterdämmerung. When all the music is at fever pitch there is no subtlety and nowhere for the drama of the score to grow, If you care about music, you may find, as I did, that the scenes are ruined by the omnipresent insistent score that allows no dynamic range.
The story in interesting, although marred by Korean insensitivity to LGBQT issues, but at least they try to include this verboten subject. The subtitles are reasonably offensive but understandable. The acting is excellent and the writing is well paced, But IU am exhausted by the music and if I finish it at all it will be in small doses. Sad to see a decent drama ruined by what should have enhanced it.
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