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I hated the ending SO MUCH
The last episode was completely nonsense. Why did she have to make everyone forget about her like that? She destroyed friendships and made people feel alone.I just can't buy that excuse that it was her only and last option. For me, it was really awful. Just vanishing like that for years, like sea bubbles???
Ok, in the end she came back to him, married him and had child. But it was..so nonsense? A happy ending built over a nonsense disaster.
Aside from that, I really loved the plot and all the story about their past lives. I enjoyed so much the OST also. But some stuff REALLY ANNOYED ME, such as the lack of characther development around the "villains" , they were ridiculous. Ughhhhh I wish his father had not died...
Well, I liked it, recommended it to my friends and also will probably watch it again someday. Every k-drama has it's mistakes and flaws. This one has way less than others out there.
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simple series
it's cute✨and simpler than other series, le min hoo handsome ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨Was this review helpful to you?
Love meets eye
Shim Cheong , a mermaid crosses path Joon Jae and an unfinished tale from last life starts.A mermaid comes to village and there is one boy who can hear his thought. They get killed and a new life begins.
The director delivers a classic job in knitting a fantasy romance story with a murderer in sleeve. In this fantasy tale, it is essential to keep the spark alive till the last . The narrator does a fantastic job in keeping audience glued and not skipping any part.
The unbeatable chemistry and the hooking plot makes it a rewatchable story.
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Really good!
I watched this three years ago and I barely remember anything, but I remember enjoying it so much, and definitely remember laughing so much my stomach started hurting. I would 100% recommend this, the main leads had good chemistry and were great actors, as expected from Lee Minho and Jihyun. I should definitely rewatch this when I finish the 1009393 K-dramas that are waiting to be finished.PS: I don't pay attention to OSTs and music in K-dramas unless I REALLY like it so my rating isn't completely valid.
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Way Better Than Expected
I pulled some names of some k-dramas I had been wanting to watch and gave them to my coworker to pick at random one day because I was struggling to choose a new drama. This was on the list ONLY because it had Lee Min Ho, as I really wasn't sure how I felt about a mermaid drama, as fantasy isn't really my jam.Anyways, I'm so glad I watched this drama. This was my first drama with Jun Ji Hyun and I absolutely LOVED her in this. Her character was just great and she did such a good job selling it. I recently wrote a review for Personal Taste (another Lee Min Ho drama) and complained about the female lead's "quirky" sort of "I'm not like other girls" thing and how mostly it was just her being kind of gross and unkempt for no reason.
Shim Cheong (Jun Ji Hyun) also has this sort of thing about her, but it makes sense more for the character as she's not from our world, and as she spends more time on land, she does learn to be less... unsophisticated maybe is the word? And yet she still stays true to herself in some aspects which actually is cute and endearing, unlike the character in Personal Taste.
I honestly loved the whole cast but especially Na Young Hee (who plays lead male's mom) because I adored her relationship with Shim Cheong. I also really loved Moon So Ri (who plays this gossipy but super fun character) and ESPECIALLY Shin Won Ho who plays Tae Oh because he was adorable and hilarious despite doing very little speaking.
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Smooth fantasy romcom serial
I always love fantasy romance comedies, like we were soo happy and enjoyed the comedy scenes but keep in mind that those two main leads are different 'creatures' that maybe aren't destined with. Very big applause and appreciation for Jun Jihyun for this.The scenes between Kim Dam Ryung (which reborn as Heo Joonjae) and Sehwa (which reborn as Shim Chung) in the beginning of episodes always make me curious about what happened. And slowly the actual stories are revealed and it becomes more interesting. Well, this drama has been my comfort ig? Yes, it is
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Even though she's kind of annoying I know some people would probably not mind, so I say try it out! Except for her fuckery, the rest of the drama is amazing! I don't really like Lee Min Ho but this was his best drama in my opinion, and the plot, music, editing, action, romance was great. If the lead female (sorry I forgot her name) acted more dignified then I would give this drama a solid 9.5/10.
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Gianna acting skills is as usual perfect and so lovely. Lee Min Ho has progress his skills and he is still very cute. Many situation is funny especially with Gianna.
You will spend good time with this light drama.
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I'm Sad : a chance to remake this classic tale with real characters and insight
Um. I seem to differ from many viewers. I could not watch past Ep2. so this will be no more than my gut reaction to what I saw. I really wanted to like this: many reviews were ecstatic with it, but I could not bear to watch more, despite being a fan of LMH, and looking for ages for a place I could watch this.The story treatment is cliched beyond anything I can say, despite a rather original start to the scenario and the characters. I liked the opening in Joseon history, with the suggestion of foreshadowing 20thC events, and possible connections between past and future : the depiction of humans v mermaid were 'realistic' and pretty much believable.
Once in 20thC, our hero is a conman with a group of colleagues, and scenes with them ensemble were very engaging indeed. I had good hopes at this point.
Those very quickly evaporated. The 'holiday' scenes with the mermaid caught in his wardrobe, with legs, hiding in a sweatshirt ... OK, almost - she's hungry, raided his kitchen, dropped a mess everywhere and hid. When he tries to grab her she punches him across the room. Twice. Good fr her - but then suddenly she's tied up with a tie round her wrists. From that point on ... not so much. Funny, in my experience a punch from two fists is even more effective than one fisted blows. She is suddenly almost completely docile.
She should be wild, fighting, dangerous, and terrified - she must know what humans can do to mermaids (won't say here - it's horrible, but there's a reason they are extinct in every other ocean but this one).
She is now nothing more than a little girl being led to shops and dressed up in pretty shoes and a glittery frock - this worked in Splash, but not here, 30 ears later. In Splash the mermaid has already fallen in love with the hero, and you can see her sense of fun and, frankly, lust. Not here. No - here, there is no such sense of connection, so her docility is vacuous He has designs on a bracelet she wears, but no sign of that greed in his actual performance. He doesn't show any connection with her - other than for the jewel. No - common sense would make him buy leggings, a sweatshirt with sneakers.
The music is pretty, but what I call "soupy", and at times the music or song replaces actual action, script, and, sadly, acting. My FF button was not enough to carry me through.
This was a chance to make a reimagined little mermaid, strong, wild, fascinated by the human, but full of fear, slowly engaged and tamed as what are in fact two incompatible cultures find points of contact through developing communication.
Jun Ji Hyung is very beautiful indeed, and Lee Min Ho handsome as ever, but this was not enough to carry me any further into this apparently weak retelling of an old tale.
Deeply disappointed. I could have given this less than three stars, but some of the acting is good, there are moments of insight, and the cinematography - easy given the locations' beauty - is very pretty.
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Una storia fantasiosa ma molto bene raccontata.
Racconta la storia di una sirena che si innamora di un umano e che per riunirsi a lui fa di tutto.Mille peripezie e tanti segreti si intrecciano per raccontare il passato e il presente che fanno la storia avvincente e a tratti anche divertente.Per me che amo il genere fantasy e romantico è stato un bel drama anche se forse avevo aspettative migliori.I protagonisti sono prefetti nei loro ruoli.Lei è buffa e fortissima oltre che più sveglia d quanto può sembrare e lui è un truccatore "bianco" relativamente un bravo ragazzo.Ci sono dei personaggi secondari molto interessanti e completano la storia magnificamente.I cattivi sono cattivi e poi di quelli che sembrano.
Nel complesso un drama da vedere se amate il genere fantasy,con una bella storia d'amore che supera tante difficoltà,un intreccio tra passato e presente e alla fine un lieto fine.
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