Hyde, Jekyll, Me (2015)

slow start... but it gets better

this drama started off really.... boring!
I must admit that I was almost going to ditch it. the first 5,6 episode are sooooo boring but it gets better after.
the middle part was the most interesting. we get some adrenaline thanks to the whole kidnapping drama and we are able to follow the splitted life of Robin and go seo Jin.
I don't know how accurate the drama portraits the did sindrome but "drama wise" it was compelling and captivating. the main actor did a decent job at keeping the two characters separated from one another.

towards the end it gets pretty emotional. I cried during the last 2 episodes.
this drama is not extraordinary but if you don't have anything on your watch list, it is worth a watch.

downside: I didn't particularly like the main female protagonist. the actress was fine but nothing exceptional and the character didn't really have that much depth to it.
the main theme songs are pretty redundant.

if you like funny comedies that's definitely not one of them.

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To be honest I started watching this drama as soon as it started to air because I am a big Hyun Bin fan starting from My Lovely Sam Soon to Secret Garden I have probably watched both those dramas more times than I want admit. I was very excited about this drama and Hyun Bin's return to dramas. It started of great and then somewhere in the middle it slowed down a bit but oh my the ending...my emotions are so high right now. I kept the last four episodes so that I could marathon them which was the best idea. The ending in my opinion was perfect. The acting was great both leads did a fantastic job.

If it seems to get slow for a couple of episodes in the middle just hang in there it is well worth...

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I really don't know how I came across "Hyde, Jekyll, Me" but I decided to watch it after reading the summary. The first five episodes or so were kind of boring and didn't have any action to keep me motivated but since I don't like to drop things I continued with the series. The plot started to move and it was interesting for a while but then things started to get dragged. This whole series was like a big wave. It went up and down and up and down.

The cast wasn't bad, but not good either. One of the main characters (Seo Jin) didn't appeal to me at all in the beginning (looks, acting, character). I found him dull. It was the opposite for the other main character (Ha Na). I was looking forward to watching her more. As the episodes went on the roles were reversed. Ha Na became a character with no personality whatsoever. She just seemed to stand there in most parts with no emotions and no thoughts, while Seo Jin was full of... life.

I am one of those people who actually never liked Robin. Seo Jin should have had more moments with Ha Na. Robin and he, to me were the same person and I was looking forward to seeing the moment Seo Jin would get himself under complete control. That's why I have the opinion that the series should have ended right when the mystery of Dr. Kang's disappearance was resolved.

Still I enjoyed it and would watch more of Hyun Bin's dramas, hoping that they'll be better.

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I absolutely loved this drama. Hyun Bin did a tremendous job protraying two characters so convincingly different from eachother. I enjoyed how complex and yet so simply everything about split personality was handled. I liked the ending too. The love story was beautiful. The story gripped me from the get go. It was paced good till episode ten, then slows down a bit from there on, but at no point do we lose interest in it. Infact, it becomes more engrossing because by then our emotions are already involved. I wanted to know how this is going to affect the lives of the characters and what will they have in the end.
Great Work from everyone, especially Hyun Bin !

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Weak Writing, but Good Performances from ML and 2ML

As I began my journey into kdrama, I remember reading that I should never expect any of the medical aspects of the drama to make sense (I don't recall where I read that). If you go into this drama with that knowledge, you are more apt to enjoy it.

Here we have another solid performance (of weak material) from Hyun Bin. As always, I particularly enjoyed his transition from mean chaebol to caring man - one of my favorite moments was when he jumped onto the roof of the cart when a certain something happened to get loose at the amusement park. We all know how well he is able to play both sides of the chaebol coin.

Han Ji Min's performance was adequate, but it lacked any sort of spark. Part of that was due to the weak writing (the premise was interesting, but the script itself was lacking), and part of that was due to her choiceses an actor.

This drama was my first introduction to Bang Sung Joon (now a personal favorite of mine), and his performance of less than mediocre material was good. I appreciated that he played the antagonist in a way that wasn't quite heavy handed (his moments with his hostage could have been played in a very one-leveled way, but he chose to create a more realistic kind of gray area (granted, it was dark gray) villain. One thing that I love about Sung Joon, which was evident in this drama, is that he is able to portray darkness in a way that can be frightening without going overboard.

Production values were also a bit weak with this drama (the circus scenes were a bit bland and low-budget, in particular).

Overall, Hyun Bin and Sung Joon carry this drama.

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Absurd situations and characters

The beginning was very promising. I was delighted with the series until the appearance of the hypnotist. What started to happen at the beginning was comical, and later it was already unfunny and annoyed by situations that at times did not make sense, such as sending after the hypnotist police officers who had previously let him escape because he hypnotized them. I simply found myself at a loss for words in some such absurd and illogical situations. Well, and while such scenarios I am able to overlook, the behavior of the main character towards Seo Jin I am no longer able to either understand or tolerate. Well, people please. After all, the way she treated Robin as if he was a different person from Seo Jin, he wasn't really a different person just a different personality of the main character. The whole triangle that formed at one point gave me a headache. I barely managed to finish watching this drama.

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Intersting take on multiple personality disorder, too long and drages in key spots

6/10 is my rating. This is a 2015 South Korean Romantic comedy drama with 20, 60 minute episodes

Being a chaebol with a dissociative identify disorder (multiple personality disorder) Gu Seo-jin (Hyun Bin), leads a very complex day to day life where he focuses on his health to an obsessive degree. He tenaciously holds onto his inherited wealth and position by keeping careful control of his alternate personality, Robin, who is his polar opposite. Where Seo-jin is cold and ruthless, Robin is warm hearted and giving. Robin emerges whenver Seo-jin's heart rate exceeds 150 so this adds to Seo-jin's determination not to do anything that would accelerate his heart rate. He sees Robin as a weak character and an embarrassment to his family which would form an obstacle to his ambitions. Jang Ha-na (Han Ji-min), is the daughter of one of Wonderland's fomer employees who was the ring master of the park's circus. As the owner of the park, Seo-jin would like to get rid of that component as it has not earned sufficient ticket sales and interest to make it profitible. However, Ha-na just returned from many years in the United States where she worked with Cirque du Soleil to learn new ways to bring fresh esntertainment for a dying industry and want her chance to lead it to success. Her first challenge is to convince, or coerce if she must, Seo-jin to renew his contract with the circus. Interestingly, after years of keeping his alternate supressed, Ha-na has a way of spawning events that accelerate Seo-jins heart rate and bring Robin out. Ha-na has an immediate dislike for Seo-jin but develops romantic feelings for Robin.

Spoiler altert. What was most suprisiing to me about this one was that many people really liked it. There were those, like me, that did not like it but there were a surpising number of people that liked it enough to rate it a 9 or even a 10. I liked the basic premise. Having someone with dissosiative identity disorder that really only had 1 alternative personality is very unique. Especially when the alternate personality is good but the main personality is somewhat cold and heartless (evil). I thought Hyun Bin did an amazing job of acting like two totally different characters. It was amazing because they really did look and act so totally different it was easy to buy others thinking they were different people. I loved the secretary, he was so supportive of the male lead regardless of whether he was Seo-jin or Robin. He was just a really nice character. There was a cute secondary romance. I liked, early on, when Robin and Ha-na were almost super hero like in their acrobatics and I thought that would be a component of the story. But it was only a weird aside because it was only an episode or so where they were being very energetic and acrobatic. Later she would be trapped in places and I would wonder why she didn't just use her circus skills. They also set up about how she was going to change the show and it was going to be new and spectacular but we only saw a snippet. And Robin's character also underwent a dramatic change from this hero like savior to just the nice guy once he and the main girl started having their romance. In the beginning Ha Na thought that Robin was Seo-jin's brother but when she knew that he was an alternate personality she still treated him like he was completely separate. When Seo-jin started to get better she was adamant that she only liked Robin to the extent that Robin did not integrate and Seo-jin willingly remained mentally ill so that she would have Robin. It was obvious she also liked Seo-jin but she would be such teenage girl like fixation with Robin that she was actually cruel to Seo-jin in her insistence that she only loved Robin. I thought it became very annoying how she continued to treat Robin as a completely separate person and even did things to solidify that additional personality. I hoped she would accompany Seo-jin as he was developing that other side of himself and realize that he really was also Robin as well. In the end she did but it would have been better, in my opinion, if she had watched the movies with him and observed that evolution. There were parts where the plot seemed to drag, particularly after all the major conflicts had resolved and it was just about her relationship with the male lead. I found it hard to like her when I felt like she was almost Munchausen with him and his mental illness. It was very selfish for her to insist that Robin stay and that she was only in love with him. If you can imagine sometime when you had no recollection of an event, such as black out drunk, and how distressing it is to wonder what you did during that time. For DID patients that is a common occurance. So for her to encourage and insist on the alternate personality was cruel to Seo-jin who had to experience those blank time periods. I also felt it was stretched to 20 episodes, like there was only content for about 16 episodes but it was stretched to 20. It ended well with her together with Seo-in and he was cured. I recommend this series to those that like mental health shows. It has a different take on certain aspects of the disorder than "Kill Me, Heal Me." Very unique concept in there being only 2, essentially, personalities, and the main one is the "evil" personality.

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Maybe I'm just easy to please or my intrigue with K-dramas and C-dramas is so new that I love them all but I personally enjoyed the story line. It wasn't typical. It took Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and flipped it and I completely loved it. The love story was awesome. Even the story line surrounding the trauma. I don't know enough about DID other than what I studied as a psychology major to be annoyed with whether the portrayal was correct but I believe the writers did enough research to know what it looks like to have two completely personalities dwelling within one person. The male lead is gorgeous and Sung Joon's portrayal of his character is amazing. His voice is soothing as it should be as a doctor in his profession. He lulls you into a sense of security with him and then. There are things to complain about but I found more to love than complain. It was a love story through and through but not the typical one. Watch it!

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THE MOST UNDERRATED DRAMA

For an unkown reason this drama received a lot of criticism. The story line was really good it comfortably took care of every aspect of falling in love with personalities of the same person. Hyun Bin was amazing in portraying both roles. Agreed they dragged it a bit but even then this was a well planned out drama and definitely needs to be watched. It's unfortunate it released along with kill me heal me. While i like that too i think it took on too many personalities and had too less time to deal with them properly. While that feels nice but leaves you confused by the end of it. This leaves a good feeling while making us sad. It leaves behind a satisfied feeling. On the whole this deserves a watch.

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I never wanted to watch this when it first came out simply because i foolishly didn't like the glasses image of Hyun Bin. Just recently I became curious and turned out their ratings flopped so bad for a drama with such casts. Probably because of the bad reviews and low ratings, I was intrigued, started watching with very low expectation and ended up finding myself hooked to the drama. There are some parts which were a bit draggy, but it was actually a well-written drama. The way the writer actually put emphasis on both Hyde and Jekyll characters, and managed to slowly integrate them was indeed applaudable. It was psychologically interesting. I have seen people commenting that some scenes are illogical but if you look closer, those scenes depicted real life situations for a fact that human mind is complex and each one of us manifests pain differently

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Before you see this KDrama research D.I.D. disorder so you will understand and rate this movie correctly because I don't understand the low ratings that I'm seeing on this website or others. The comments about the screenwriting being *shitty* are absurd.

I am so glad that this KDrama is not similar to what the U.S. profiles Jekyll and Hyde. The U.S. version is scary and gruesome. I believe that the writers took D.I.D. to another level and didn't twist this mental illness. I thank the writers for bringing a very important but sad mental illness to the Korean Screen. I noticed that some Korean Screenwriters bring a lot to the screen when it comes to mental illness with importance and bring about awareness.

Hyun Bin with his character playing two different types of personalities must have been difficult and he did that with excellence. I applaud Hyun Bin! He did so great that I even thought they were two different people but in the same body. How difficult is that! Han Ji Min who played her character had to deal with a personality whom she deeply loved and the other personality she had to tolerate was perfection and believable. To see their personalities merge was very emotional.

*Standing Ovation* for the whole Hyde, Jekyll, and Me team, cast, writers, producers, visual, costume, and sound.

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