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A delightful show
STORY:- In the main plot, two idiot friends try to take revenge on a girl who dumped one of them on the wedding day and it leads into a total unexpected situation for a lot of characters. The main story takes some unexpected turns until the end and it is very fun. But the most interesting here are the charaters because around this main story they evolve and we finally are able to really understand them as persons and how they accepts reality, and how they take decisions for their life.
CHARACTERS/CAST:
- I loved the main FL lead. Many people said she was annoying and childish. But I found she was a cute imperfect person often victim of this name she shares with a "perfect person". Her character evolves but she does not become perfect. She learns to accept herself, find solution to the confusion, find a man who undestand her and really loves her... So many scenes I love with her: when she leaves her house to "marry", when she jumps into his arms in the street, when they kiss on the sofa... She was very human and fun to watch when interracting with her parents.
- Do Kyung was also a great character. I liked his job like I liked of they explained it in this drama. Very interesting and useful to the story at the same time. I liked how his life filled by his job is changed by our main girl. He looked lost, sick, vengeful, waiting for someone to save him. I liked when he talked to his best friend that he needed to man up regarding Hae Young and take responsibility.
- I liked the second Ho Hae young too. As the story evolves we understand her better and what she did. She was reallly not perfect like she looked.
- Isadora and Jin Sang were great. Two very weird people who are drawn together. Their dialogue are among the funniest of the drama especially the ones in French.
- Tae Jin: the bf. At first I thought he was just some idiot muscle man in the end I even had sympathy for him as he was the target of many people unknowingly but he still was able to stand up and take proper decisions.
- I loved Oh Hae Young parents.
All these characters and their evolution and interconnections make the richness and cuteness of this drama.
MUSIC:
The music was cute but nothing really to remmeber.
REWATCH: Totally even if I have not rewatched for a while. Too many drama to discover. Anyway I have my favourites scenes I enjoy watching just to have a good laugh.
OVERALL: One of my fav korean drama. Highly reommended.
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- Very fun rom-com to watch. If you're ready to laugh a lot, then go ahead. :)
Acting/Cast:
- The actors were well-casted, so they played their roles very well. I have watched many of them in previous dramas, therefore; I truly anticipated watching this drama. In the end, I was not disappointed.
Music:
- I swear, during the drama, the music went so well with the scenes, that I often found myself dying laughing. The music was chosen very very well.
Rewatch Value:
- This would be a good rewatch, to be honest. Often, when I have finished a series, I often don't know what to watch next. But this series, I often watch over and over just for laughs.
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best support character ever
Of course with any show, the leads are the primary focus. I'll get to them in a minute, but what made it for me in this drama was one of the support characters.After watching tons of dramas, i think this is the first one in which one of the supporting characters was my favorite.
I just loved, loved, loved Park Soo Kyung, one of my favorite characters ever, by far my favorite support character. I thought she lit up the screen with every scene, showing lots of versatility and just awesome reactions and amazing flexibility. Her storyline started off with her as 'Isadora'- the typical cold hard woman in charge and she played that well, but then things got serious and she shined showing vulnerability and tenderness. I smiled and laughed in almost all of her scenes and also got a little teary eyed during the more serious moments. Can't give her enough praise, such a great character and wonderful performance. Some might think it was over the top, but I thought it was outstanding.
Also liked #1's mother. I like a good character who is not afraid to say what is on his/her mind. As an American, i don't totally understand the Korean/Asian culture of controlling the kids well into adulthood, but i was happy to see mom 'give in' when she saw how deeply the couple loved each other. It was really quite good. Some other dramas play this out with the family torn apart. I hope that is not the norm in real life. As for the dad, nothing there- I guess it was to show parents being on both ends of the spectrum, but I thought he did not add any support at all for his daughter, just looked dumbfounded through his scenes.
Lastly, for support stories, also like An Na and Hoon's story. Loved when they would run and jump in each others arms. She was so bubbly and supportive. Just thought it was cute.
As for the meat of the story- 1st, the female leads, I liked Oh Hae Young #1. In the looks department, #2 was the obvious beauty, but I thought #1 looked good too, but it was easy to see why she felt insecure (and not just in looks department either). As far as being a good person, i thought she was sweet, and really held out for a long time even though she was essentially being rejected in the beginning. Although she was not the superstar like #2, I thought she measured up pretty good. Both of them were scarred on the inside, even #2 who you would think had it all. I guess it teaches you that looks and popularity are not everything? I did like how their relationship developed. I admired how #2 never was nasty and just seemed to be a good person, but she did make the one serious mistake when young which hurt her and him a lot.
As for male leads, i really did not care for either #1 or #2. Prevalent in a lot of these dramas is the way a person just does not respond, does not react or talk about things. Do Kyung was the ultimate say nothing and do nothing guy. There were so many times i kept saying 'say something, do anything'. So i thought this made the first few episodes kind of slow. It always amazes me how such pretty and seemingly with-it girls will wait around so long for someone who seems to not want them and treats them bad. For #2, just a bad guy. Did not like him at all.
Overall, this was a good drama, worth the watch. Lots of good story lines and acting, particularly from the one female support character. Probably won't watch the whole series again, but I will definitely re- watch Soo Kyung's scenes.
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Another Oh Hae Yong is charming, endearing, and heart-tugging. I remember watching the first episode of this drama and I immediately felt the same way as I was watching Coffee Prince (there is some kind of a special place for the first drama that hooked you).
The tragic premise of falling in love with the person who indirectly ruined your life because of a mistake makes you always think when the New Oh Hae Young will find out the truth. Another Oh Hae Young immediately had me invested and as the show is doing really well, extensions were announced for the drama. And as all other extensions, some scenes were a bit dragging but I don't mind the extra scenes for Soo-kyung noona and Ji-sang.
The Cast
I like that the other characters are not written as purely evil and that how all characters are funny and amazing in their own right except, maybe, you know - the mom.
Our Oh Hae-young is just as crazy as she could be. Sometimes she makes me cringe with all the crazy and cheesy things she did. But hey, what is wrong with wearing her love on her sleeves - or her whole outfit? Hahaha. Everything she does screams that she is in love but that just makes her someone I want to root for.
Do-kyung does frustrate me more than he should but I still like him for being caring and all but chooses hide or deny it. And oh, I wanna thank Eric for giving us super duper awesome kisses! :* :* :*
The Music
i love AOHY's OSTs. I always have the Last Song Syndrome on days I watch it. our lead guy is a sound director so I think it's a given that the music should be the best? Honestly, after this, I appreciate the sound directors more and how much they give life to the dramas. I love even the white noises and the sound of nature.
Rewatch Value
Will totally watch it for the crazy antics, warm relationship, and steamy kisses. Definitely for the kisses.
Overall
Beautifully shot, wonderfully directed. Another Oh Hae Young is poignant. Made my heart lonely, happy, sometimes flutter. But it definitely left me warm and hoping for the best for our characters.
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it's smooth & easy to watch you can't resist pressing the button to watch next one
& Eric the main actor was so innocent in this drama & the main actress was so cute
& as i love in dramas it had happy ending
i could rate it 10 but i couldn't figure out the relation between the singer & the main actor
till the end i couldn't get it why their lives connected to each other & the drama didn't explain much about that
but simply you have to watch it do not hesitate ;)
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All the actors did a fabulous job. I honestly had not seen most of them before and was very impressed. From the main characters to the supporting, all portrayed their characters very well.
The music is pretty good. I especially enjoyed the song by The Black Skirts. The soundtrack fit the drama well and stays with you, but it's not anything exceptional.
Overall, for me, this drama captured so much of the ups and downs of love, from the feelings of betrayal, to the embarrassment and pain of not having your feelings return, to the crazy things one does to get over it, to the bliss of being together with nothing and no one else to care about. It made me laugh, it made my heart hurt, it made me want to shake the characters at times. It definitely caught me by surprise and I am really glad I decided to give it a chance. I will probably watch it again in the future.
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pushing myself to watch this nonsense
I came to watch this following the excellent reviews i read, BUT honestly i wonder if i was watching the same drama?? The pace is sooo totally boring and nonsensical, and i'm also not a fan of the supernatural element - like having glimpses of the future - and not even done right! The quality of the video sucks, i've seen better movies from the 90's... the image is washed out for memories and also for present times duhh. The plot also gives an outdated vibe.If you can survive past the fourth episode, it might get better... not perfect, but better. Still you have to put up with a lot of nonsense just to be able to realize the power of love - its always abt love, isnt it?
Support cast does a great job, even better than the main flow sometimes.
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I was really excited about this drama and was really enjoying it... But I just couldn't get past the male lead's anger issues. Most of the time he was a very gentle lead, very thoughtful and caring to the female lead. He would get overly aggressive with his younger brother and some of the younger guys on his team, with slapstick hitting and what-not, things that I have come to overlook in dramas. But over all I liked him, he seemed to care a lot about the other characters welfare. BUT then out of nowhere he would have outbursts of anger that were so over the top I just couldn't overlook them... I mean I tried... I really did, but they just got too extreme. At one point he hits a car window (with the female lead inside the car) so hard that he busts the window and cuts up his hand. He gets angry at the second male lead for something SML had said to the female lead and he purposefully crashes his car into SML's car. Then is shown not as the INSANITY that it would be in other dramas ( let alone real life) but as somehow heroic or romantic. Then in one scene (because male lead can see the future) he sees himself and female lead having a physical fight with each other, and then making out, and this seems to turn him on... He later threatens to hit female lead if she doesn't comply with something he is asking of her... and she replies with "Does hitting me get you excited?" as if this idea is a turn on for her as well... This only makes his think about the fight they will have and the makeout... as if yes, indeed hitting her would get him excited.... FINALLY, I had to drop this drama, when we actually see the scene he had scene in his vision, she the female lead gets angry at Male lead for toying with he so much, (which he has been doing) and she starts being pretty violent to him... Hitting him repeatedly, male lead becomes violent back in order to get her to stop hitting him, she ends up with a bloodily lip because of it, he DOES get excited, slams her on the wall and makes out with her. Guys, this is not romantic. This is NOT okay. If this was real life, he would FOR SURE be an abusive partner. I can normally overlook some of the aggressiveness in male leads, especially in older dramas... I know that this is a stylistic and cultural view of masculinity, BUT this is just abuse. If this were any other genre, even in a kdrama, this would be the character that we think might be unhinged or the serial killer... but because it's a rom-com, we are supposed to just see him as passionate. THIS IS NOT PASSION. This is a mane with dangerous anger issues, who needs A LOT of counseling and who doe not need to be dating anyone! Sorry that was a lot, but I had a lot of feelings, thanks! Was this review helpful to you?
Seriously. The mood swings, the drinking, the yelling, the crying. It's somewhat exaggerated, yet relatable.
This drama captivated me since the first episode. I loved the chemistry between the main characters, and the side characters really make the story more fun and loveable. Sometimes, the scenes feel a little draggy, and repetitive- but that's the only downside to the drama.
The supernatural component of the drama is what made the drama more interesting for me.
I recommend this drama to anyone who like romance dramas.
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I get why people liked it
I understand why this show has such a high rating and I understand why people liked it so much, but I just don't think it’s for me.As multiple people have said, our FL is so weak and pathetic that it's, honestly, so painful to watch. Constantly humiliating and embarrassing herself when she's drunk, begging the ML to love her even though he told her – looking her dead in the eye –that he didn't want her(yes, I understand he thought he was doing the right thing for her, but the point still stands), and then we have her missing her friggin' spine. People, including the ML, constantly walking all over her. Like, honestly, she was just so unlikable. She doesn't need a man, she needs therapy.
I found the supporting cast pretty entertaining but, to be honest, they were pretty unlikable too (except for her parents – they were so unhinged, I loved it). The excessive drinking and drunken shenanigans really put me off.
Other than the characters themselves, I actually found everything about this show pretty great. The OST is amazing, all the actors did such an incredible job (Eric and Hyunjin are the loml), and the plot itself is actually quite interesting (although, it is a bit strange to date the person who ruined your relationship and is the reason your ex-fiancé went to jail, but it’s neither here nor there, I guess). But considering the characters make up literally 99.9% of the plot, it’s hard to move past my dislike for them. And this is why I’ll be dropping this drama 3 episodes away from finishing because I just can’t do this anymore.
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The Good
I enjoyed the story- it was hilarious and heartbreaking as many of you probably had that situation where there is always a person better than you in every way. I loved Isadora (soo Kyung) and her hilarious drunken antics- honestly she is a great actress! I loved all of the actors and actresses since all of them were hilarious in their own right. They portrayed their characters so well that it made me fall in love with them even more.
The plot-line will pull at your heartstrings- the pain of wanting to be with someone but you can't will make you tear up. The two main leads have a great chemistry with one another and it will just make you fall in love with their relationship.
The Bad
In all honesty- i feel that the normal Oh Hae Young's acting was quite unrealistic. She fell in love with Do Kyung- but she seriously got onto my nerves when she demanded unrealistic expectations of Do Kyung. I find it irritating whenever she over-exaggerated her emotions. In my opinion, I think it wouldv'e been better if her character wasn't that demanding.
Not to mention the romance was sometimes overly unrealistic- especially when the two main leads get back together after a fight. Honestly- how does a couple go from nearly ripping each other apart back to a love-induced fantasy without any regard to why they broke up in the first place. I felt that Do Kyung's character was faking it a bit too much whenever he got back together with Hae Young after the break up- like his character had a complete 180 degree turn around. Since when did Do Kyung smile and grin so wide that it makes the viewers just think he's a totally different character!? (although i don't mind since he's such a cutie)
Despite my comments, I know that this drama wasn't intended to be realistic, however I thought it would be nice if there was consistency in their emotions but that's just my little excerpt.
Music
Although the music was fantastic and was quite fitting- they kept using the same 5 tracks over and over again as it gets quite repetitive.... on the bright side, at least it sounded great!
Overall I enjoyed this drama quite a lot and perhaps will be visiting this drama once again in the future!
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