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I like the actor Park Shin-hye, and her character Yoo Hye-jung did give me a little bit of Cinderella vibes, but like a proper badass one! - Like just wasn't afraid of anything but yet didn't have the best of family backgrounds! I do think Park Shin-hye is super pretty actor though! -I mean I did enjoy it, but I feel like I don't really like the character, Hong Ji-hong, I think they didn't really look that good together. I think the story is okay, but I don't like the falling in love with your professor kind of thing! I think it's not really my type of story and it did feel a little weird!
But it was a good like badass women kinda show though! Especially the fight bit at the start!
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Wonderful show to watch.
I really liked this show. I'm not one to tear up but this one got me a few times. Very good actors that bounded well and they made their characters believable. I had a really hard time pulling myself away from my computer because I just had to watch the next episode. That is rare that a drama can do that to me. I love dramas like this to where the script and story are done so well that they did not have to use gimmicks or filler stories to take up time. What I mean by that is that the drama had a good story line throughout the whole show that they had to skimp with lousy side stories that would not make sense and was there just to take up time. The show flowed from one episode to the next episode flawlessly. The characters were well defined from the beginning to the ending. If you do not have a lot of time to watch dramas this is one that your time would be well spent on. I'm wondering if they have any thoughts on doing more episodes for this drama. If they did I would definitely watch it.Was this review helpful to you?
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Promising series but it fizzled out and left you wanted more in an unfulfilling way
Doctors is a decent drama with an interesting premise, character ideas and a surprisingly interesting back cast. However, all are either left unfulfilled or under used. The show is really good and delivers on the overall plot until ep 12/13. The drama starts off showing our characters during their last months at school where our main lead, Hye Jung, was a delinquent and how she met Prof Hong and it changed her life. That was a really strong first main arc of the show with all the characters having strong aims and goals. But I can't help but feel that all of that work came off very weak once we were in the present day where everyone in at the hospital. That's disapointing. Hye Jung wasn't as mentally strong as she was as a child as she just seemed normal and, honestly, generic albeit likeable nonetheless. But her plotlines just totally fizzled out at the end and I just lost my investement in the whole plot. Hong was a cool character, was determined and smart - perfectly fine except the second lead was much more interesting. I'm not saying that I have second lead syndrome because I don't really thing Hye Jung and Yoon Do was a better pair (the main leads are right for each other, for sure) but Yoon Do was much more interesting in his motivations, actions, etc. He is on the losing end of a love triangle that he was never going to win but he's not angry or bitter. He takes it in his stride and contiues to function. That's what I feel the story should've focused on more. His scenes were the highlight of the show. In fact, Yoon Do's scenes with his Dr Jo In Joo and Prof Pa Ran were a joy to watch. Their chemistry together would've made for a better series on its own, imo. The side characters had interesting arcs and they were too something that make the series worthwhile but it's all limited as well and just squandered potential. I've seen other reviews that say that Doctors would be best as a long running sitcom and I throughlly agree with that statement. You'd get more chance to flesh out some of these interesting ideas and characters such as Dr Choi's brain tumor, Dr Kang's relationship with his subordinates.It's acting perfecty fine but the lack of compelling overall plot, the not fully fleshed out side plots and focus on the lesser compelling characters means this is just an good series. It could've been great and it was for large parts but I was left underwhelmed towards the end.
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Was it worth it: I’d say yes.
What I liked the most: The bad guys weren’t overly evil and all characters were reasonable to a fault.
What I disliked the most: The trait that made the main character cool was gone by the middle of the drama.
Moment Meter: 4/10 – I seem to recall a few heart pumpers.
Other thoughts: For the first quarter of the show I was in denial about who the male lead was, probably due to the huge age gap. I liked that the main female was a scrapper (tough), and that the female antagonist wasn’t overly evil. I’m always pleased to spot Kim Min Suk in a drama and hope to see him in more. Park Shin Hye looked sickly in the beginning, but rounded out later on. The individual medical cases were interesting. The story was told well enough to get you to invest feels in the characters. It’s not an instant classic, but it was pretty entertaining nonetheless.
Conclusion: It was consistently entertaining, but shows with “cases” (like medical or detective shows) are naturally more engaging because of the micro stories that are built in.
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Cons: Poor story line (even though it was not intended to have a strong story line, if you want good ratings, it gotta have a really good story line), not enough complexity or intensity, and not enough legit legit romance, too casual.
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Don't get me wrong everything is great about the drama- the cast, its characters and the introduction. The only thing it did not have was a plot. Actually it did. The sad thing was that the writer tried to fit an excellent 10-episode plot into 20 episodes. That ends up making it 10 episodes of absolute filler and no sense of purpose or direction. It's a shame because it could have been a great drama but resulted in being boring and skippable.
I started this drama knowing about the age gap but I ended up wanting an awesome sunbae-hoobae relationship instead. To me the lead pair weren't very shippable and most of their romantic scenes were cringe. I also found them unbelievable because their back story isn't as strong as it is usually in Kdramas.
To me the second leads were a complete waste. Yoon Gyun Sang and Lee Sung Kyung are both devastatingly attractive people and decent actors who deserved more than they got. Park Shin Hye was at her best in this role. I do not think she is capable of acting better than she did here. Kim Rae Won always leaves something to desire and I am yet to see him in something that impresses me.
There is a chance this drama may end up appealing to some people- fans of the cast, fans of medical dramas or fans of dramas that have lesser makjang than usual. The first four episodes were a lot of makjang but later on it was more of an everyday hospital setup than a revenge drama, which it set out to be initially.
This drama has one of the most forgettable soundtracks I have seen listened to. There is not a single memorable track from this.
To me this is one of the tens of other forgettable dramas I've watched. However give it a chance if you are looking for something where things are not too serious and characters are kidding around. Get through the first few tearjerking episodes and you are in for a mostly light ride with a number of likable characters. Not to mention attractive people. :D
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Main Characters- The main characters seemed to be more of flat characters, which means they do not really change through out the story, instead of a round character, a person who does change through out the story; and what I mean by all this, after a certain point in the story the main characters stopped growing, learning new things about themselves and others.
Some of the actors/actresses suited their roles well and others did not, but they all did a fantastic job.
Supporting Roles- The supporting roles showed more of a change than the main leads. I enjoyed their back story more.
It seemed all of the actors/actress suited their role they were giving.
Overall- I would give this category a 9.0 I did get really emotionally attached to each character.
Story line:
The story line became rather boring and predictable after a while. The romance was almost non-existent, but the overall comedy filled in for that.
Overall- I would give this section a 6.5, the story became predictable. I did enjoy watching the medical aspect of the story
Music:
The music fit perfectly for each scene, it gave the scenes more of an intense feeling.
Overall- I would give this section 8.5, there is nothing much to complain about this section.
Would I re-watch this? Probably not, because it seemed more like a one time watch. Would I recommend this to other people? Yes, because it did keep me binging it for three days.
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Watch for the Cute Leads
I’m not a fan of medical dramas but I gave this a shot because I like both the male and female leads. PSH is such a beauty. She’s lovely to watch on screen. KRW is really manly and handsome. He’s lovely to watch on screen too.Watch because:
- beautiful leads
- overall, good-looking cast
- plot is generally interesting throughout
- plot is generally well-linked
- plot is generally fast-paced
- chemistry between the two leads is sizzling - I love watching them being lovey-dovey on screen
- kissing scenes on fire between the two leads
- love triangles that aren’t full of angst
Worth watching for sure.
Rewatch value is pretty high!
Enjoy!
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Chemistry was awesome
Loved this drama. Would love to see a season 2.Maybe Kim Rae Won and Park Shyn Hi could guest star. Would love to see Yeon Woo Jin and Kim Sejong casted and reunited again as the new main leads. Maybe instead of their first meeting would be on a college campus instead of high school. Maybe YWJ is a medical professor. KS is a medical student. They meet again at a hospital where he is a doctor and she is an intern. They have conflicting opinions about the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but work through it and in the process fall in love. Just a thought.
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One very empathetic main characters - surrounded by a cast of shallow, cardboard bores
This is a show that was ruined by what it thought it ought to do rather than just being what it should have - which was a story of two very different women who compete against each other, come from radically different lives, yet are shaped and scarred by the misfortunes of their family upbringing.Instead this show gave us romantic plots that weren't necessary or interesting. Characters were shallow and never fleshed out beyond Hye-Jeong's character - who was a figure you could easily empathise with, portrayed very well by Park Shin-hye. She was a typical character of rough, hardened exterior barely concealing a broken and lonely soul too afraid of hope and happiness. Where the scenes centred on her and her trauma, the show was good. The problem was when it gave her a love triangle that was shallow and forced. At no point did I enjoy this. I despised Kim Rae-won's character, for how unethically he behaved as a teacher when he couldn't see the problems of his closeness to Hye-Jeong. I didn't like how he pursued her and I wasn't at all interested in his backstory.
The most interesting character besides Hye-Jeong was Jin Seo-Woo, portrayed by Lee Sung-Kyung. Her story arc of rich girl tormented by the burden of expectation and fear of failure was interesting and the show would have benefitted from dedicating more scenes to showing that there was more to her than just this resentful energy - the problem was that in not doing this, in making her jealousy towards Hye-Jeong seem so petty, vindictive and cruel, it made her fundamentally a very unlikeable character who you couldn't sympathise for even during her more distressed, human moments.
The show did not deliver, something i could tell would be the case just halfway into it. That says everything.
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