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Hidden gem
This is a 2016 South Korean romantic comedy series with 16, 60 minute, episodes.
Like all good fortune tellers, Go Hye-rim (Han Ye-seul) is good at reading body language, picking up on subtle verbal clues and asking insightful questions. To add an air of mystique to her sessions, she speaks French and pretends to consult with French Queen Mary Antoinette. She even goes by the name Madame Antoine when telling fortunes out of her coffee cafe. Hye-rim is a beautiful divorcee who is putting her daughter through school abroad. Although burned by love before, she is ready to give love another chance.
A serious and handsome research psychologist moves in to the space above Hye-rim and annoyingly sets up a practice he calls Madame Antoine. Choi Soo-hyun (Sung Joon) thinks the woman in the cafe below is a con artist and is determined to teach her a lesson. He has never been in love and believes that women choose men for material reasons and what people consider love is all in the brain not the heart. He performed an experiment on a woman once where he had three desirable bachelors approach her: all handsome but one wealthy, one athletic and a young flower boy to prove she would pick wealth. It worked that time so he plans to repeat it and show the same outcome. Only this time his female participant will be Hye-rim and he plans to play the role of the wealthy bachelor to observe her closely. Things get complicated when the three men start to genuinely have feelings for the beautiful and intuitive Hye-rim and the Doctor struggles to maintain his objectivity.
spoiler 🚨. I was really surprised by how much I like this. I thought from the title in several of the descriptions I read that she would be some kind of silly fortuneteller. She was actually a very intuitive person and even without training a great counselor. Everyone around her realized she had that natural ability. At first I did not like how cold he was until I later understood the reason for it. I had a hard time believing he would’ve so steadfastly stuck to the experiment and I thought he should’ve realized he loved her sooner than he did. There was a point where she turns things on him a bit and what she did was pretty cold although he deserved it. I also did not like how people around her when she broke it off with him were kind of blaming her for how sad he was. He had used her and lied to her so I thought if anything he was the one that should’ve come around. I also thought it was out of character for him to sink to a suicidal level of depression. As a psychiatrist or psychologist I think he would’ve realize the signs of that level of depression and reached out to someone. I also thought he was more narcissistic than to take his own life. So that seemed a bit out of character for him.I did like the way it ended very well but I just wish we had seen him moving toward an understanding of what she meant to him a little earlier rather than just a few minutes at the end. Overall I thought it was a great drama with lots of surprises with the characters and the plot in the side stories were also very cute. Second guy was beyond cute but I understood why the main were a better fit as both had a certain level of emotional damage that helped them understand each other. I recommend this highly as a hidden gem.
Like all good fortune tellers, Go Hye-rim (Han Ye-seul) is good at reading body language, picking up on subtle verbal clues and asking insightful questions. To add an air of mystique to her sessions, she speaks French and pretends to consult with French Queen Mary Antoinette. She even goes by the name Madame Antoine when telling fortunes out of her coffee cafe. Hye-rim is a beautiful divorcee who is putting her daughter through school abroad. Although burned by love before, she is ready to give love another chance.
A serious and handsome research psychologist moves in to the space above Hye-rim and annoyingly sets up a practice he calls Madame Antoine. Choi Soo-hyun (Sung Joon) thinks the woman in the cafe below is a con artist and is determined to teach her a lesson. He has never been in love and believes that women choose men for material reasons and what people consider love is all in the brain not the heart. He performed an experiment on a woman once where he had three desirable bachelors approach her: all handsome but one wealthy, one athletic and a young flower boy to prove she would pick wealth. It worked that time so he plans to repeat it and show the same outcome. Only this time his female participant will be Hye-rim and he plans to play the role of the wealthy bachelor to observe her closely. Things get complicated when the three men start to genuinely have feelings for the beautiful and intuitive Hye-rim and the Doctor struggles to maintain his objectivity.
spoiler 🚨. I was really surprised by how much I like this. I thought from the title in several of the descriptions I read that she would be some kind of silly fortuneteller. She was actually a very intuitive person and even without training a great counselor. Everyone around her realized she had that natural ability. At first I did not like how cold he was until I later understood the reason for it. I had a hard time believing he would’ve so steadfastly stuck to the experiment and I thought he should’ve realized he loved her sooner than he did. There was a point where she turns things on him a bit and what she did was pretty cold although he deserved it. I also did not like how people around her when she broke it off with him were kind of blaming her for how sad he was. He had used her and lied to her so I thought if anything he was the one that should’ve come around. I also thought it was out of character for him to sink to a suicidal level of depression. As a psychiatrist or psychologist I think he would’ve realize the signs of that level of depression and reached out to someone. I also thought he was more narcissistic than to take his own life. So that seemed a bit out of character for him.I did like the way it ended very well but I just wish we had seen him moving toward an understanding of what she meant to him a little earlier rather than just a few minutes at the end. Overall I thought it was a great drama with lots of surprises with the characters and the plot in the side stories were also very cute. Second guy was beyond cute but I understood why the main were a better fit as both had a certain level of emotional damage that helped them understand each other. I recommend this highly as a hidden gem.
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