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SKITC

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Private Lives korean drama review
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Private Lives
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by SKITC
Jul 12, 2021
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 4.5
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

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Got sucked in through the first two episodes although now I feel more like I was a sucker. First, some positives...

Go Kyung Po is terrific as a lead. Kim Hyo Jin is tremendous as a secondary character and deserved to have better writing to support her performance. Tae Won Seok is asked to do little especially as the series progresses but is fantastic every time he has an opportunity. Same with Song Sun Mi.

The set up over the first few episodes is wonderful. The dynamics between the lead family and the chemistry between those actors is great.

There's some very slick scenes, camera work and editing. In moments, usually early on, it's a captivating package.

But things just go south. Kim Young Min is miscast although at times it's hard to judge him severely because the production veers back & forth with what direction the character should go. Supporting characters appear and seem to be important and then vanish for long stretches to inexplicably reappear and then exit just when their storyline seemed to be taking shape.

Hopefully whoever was running wardrobe on this show sobered up afterward and deeply regretted some of their choices. It is a wonder that Seo Hyun didn't simply walk off set with some of the clownish getups she had to endure.

By leaps and bounds, however, the culprit in this show is the plot which quickly squanders a promising opening act. This character is good. No, now they're bad. Maybe? Good again, but only for a moment. Eh, nope, definitely sympathetic. Here's a random betrayal from a secondary character that makes no sense. Coherence? Comprehensible? Character development? Strike one, strike two and strike three looking.

This show desperately needed someone to stop the writers and directors after the first act, tell them "this is your story, forget about the rest" and resume work only after things made any sense at all.
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