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Gangnam Scandal korean drama review
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Gangnam Scandal
1 people found this review helpful
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Jan 13, 2020
123 of 123 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.5
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
This review may contain spoilers
This drama was one hell of a ride. I'd never watched a drama that was 60 hours in length - I thought I'd give this a go, since the synopsis was interesting. I admit though, the drama was far too long, and I found myself fast-forwarding a lot in the last 30 episodes of the drama.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching the first 60 episodes of this drama though - I really love the male lead Seo Jun. He's charming, funny, expressive and optimistic. I'd never really fell for a male lead's personality as much I had with Seo Jun. Followed by him, my other favourites were So Ju, So Kyung, Myung Shim and Baek Hee. Unfortunately, I couldn't really bring myself to like most of the characters in the drama. I absolutely hated the rest of the Choi family, Seo Jun's dad and sister are some of the most annoying and problematic k-drama characters I have ever witnessed that haven't been rightfully punished or confined to properly apologising for their mistakes. Then there's obviously the awful dad and his golddigger wife who got a happy ending, even though they ruined So Ju's mom's life, essentially.

A lot of sub-plot elements seem to have been abandoned as well, like the golf guy, Ji Yoon, etc. what happened? What happened with So Hyung's divorce? Ending was rushed considering how long they had to film this drama tbh.

I don't think I'll ever dedicate my time watching such a lengthy k-drama again, because there is so much damn filler its crazy, and *spoilers* it's really disappointing that they basically spent 50 episodes on the male lead's illness only for him to miraculously recover after so much false hope and build up to him dying - its like they needed an excuse to focus on So Hyun's character arc but it was handled poorly imo. I think that they also, in typical k-drama fashion, wanted to keep viewers watching till the very end because its just kind of ridiculous they revealed he was cured in the 2nd last episode of the drama with the last episode obviously being the wedding.
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