Dahlia
Had Great Ambitions, but Failed Them
This drama was a beautiful one in spite of all its glaring flaws.
Pros:
- It’s a bittersweet, heartwarming drama about healing, about outcasts coming together and finding a family in each other
- STUNNING aesthetics, beautiful costume design for Yeji, gorgeous animations, and overwhelmingly fabulous set.
- incredible acting. As expected of Seo Yeji and Kim Soohyun, but wonderful acting from all the supporting characters as well. Kwak-Dongyeon is forever memorable for his emotional speech in EP4-5, I think.
- interesting storyline and wonderful concept
- unique characters, depth, and nice character development with a side of psychology
Cons:
- bad writing. Bad writing. Bad writing. Sure, many scenes are amazing, but many others were really strange, cheesy, and awkward. Their meeting scene at the publishers? What even? It’s like they attempted to make it sound deep and romantic, but it fell flat and just sounded weird. Not the actor’s fault though, they did amazing work with what crap they occasionally got.
- can’t get over the fact that Moonyoung chased Gangtae so ruthlessly and he was so cruel to her. These little bits of their relationship are just kinda disturbing.
- plot holes abound! The hospital staff are conveniently incompetent, people just conveniently appear out of nowhere somehow, and things just happened to bend the laws of reality to make the plot work.
- weird, descend into shit towards the last 4-6 episodes. What?? What?? It was totally unnecessary and horribly thought out. Not only was this entire event completely avoidable if they just,,, called the police,,, it was weird as hell and didn’t make sense. Too jarring and not a proper twist, either. And it abandoned the themes of psychological healing for weird drama.
All in all, not a bad drama. I loved many parts of it. Other parts made me want to beat up a pillow. Watch for Seo Yeji’s beautiful makeup looks and a fun ride and you should be fine, though. But don’t expect too much depth or cohesive plot— they tried, but sadly, it didn’t work out.
Pros:
- It’s a bittersweet, heartwarming drama about healing, about outcasts coming together and finding a family in each other
- STUNNING aesthetics, beautiful costume design for Yeji, gorgeous animations, and overwhelmingly fabulous set.
- incredible acting. As expected of Seo Yeji and Kim Soohyun, but wonderful acting from all the supporting characters as well. Kwak-Dongyeon is forever memorable for his emotional speech in EP4-5, I think.
- interesting storyline and wonderful concept
- unique characters, depth, and nice character development with a side of psychology
Cons:
- bad writing. Bad writing. Bad writing. Sure, many scenes are amazing, but many others were really strange, cheesy, and awkward. Their meeting scene at the publishers? What even? It’s like they attempted to make it sound deep and romantic, but it fell flat and just sounded weird. Not the actor’s fault though, they did amazing work with what crap they occasionally got.
- can’t get over the fact that Moonyoung chased Gangtae so ruthlessly and he was so cruel to her. These little bits of their relationship are just kinda disturbing.
- plot holes abound! The hospital staff are conveniently incompetent, people just conveniently appear out of nowhere somehow, and things just happened to bend the laws of reality to make the plot work.
- weird, descend into shit towards the last 4-6 episodes. What?? What?? It was totally unnecessary and horribly thought out. Not only was this entire event completely avoidable if they just,,, called the police,,, it was weird as hell and didn’t make sense. Too jarring and not a proper twist, either. And it abandoned the themes of psychological healing for weird drama.
All in all, not a bad drama. I loved many parts of it. Other parts made me want to beat up a pillow. Watch for Seo Yeji’s beautiful makeup looks and a fun ride and you should be fine, though. But don’t expect too much depth or cohesive plot— they tried, but sadly, it didn’t work out.
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