5hakes
UK
This review may contain spoilers
Hit and a sort of miss - play the long game and you'll be rewarded.
SPOILER WARNING:
OK - here we go. Having jumped into this having just finished the wondered Welcome to Waikiki, expectations were high,
Maybe too high...
A few things really irritated me.
1. Lee Yi-Kyung's character, Lee Joon-ki had become overly slapstick compared to S1 and dare I say it, quite annoying. Which is a shame as we know him to be a joker with a heart of gold.
2. In fact, there seemed to be too much slapstick comedy/mayhem in the first few episodes - something seemed to go wrong in each scene, let alone each episode.
3. Shin Hyun-soo's character, Gook Ki-bong wast written as a lovable idiot - with too much on the idiot. For example, there is an episode where after a lot of failures for the character, he tries to assemble an Ikea desk for his girlfriend, Yuri. This could have been a great example to show that he's not just a one-trick pony but had this hidden talent. Sadly that was not the case.
4. This was the most important irritation though - the story took five episodes to really get going. Ordinarily not an issue as it;s supposed to be a goofy comedy - however, the second half of the story had so much heart that it needed a couple of extra episodes to do it justice.
OK, that's the negatives out of the way - if you've got this far then thanks.
Waikiki 2 is a hilarious comedy though - not as good as the first one and some of the jokes are rehashed from the first series as well as separate episodes from Friends!! But if you want a good laugh (and I mean belly laughs) then this is an easy watch.
The main love story is nice between Moon Ga-young (Su-yeon) 💜 and Kim Seon-ho (Woo-sik) is nice but for me it the one with Woo-sik's older sister Yoo-ri (played by Kim Ye-won) - she had a great character arc, starting out as this manipulative annoying person to someone who was really caring and quite lovely and a story arc that I wanted to know more about.
Similarly, we see a side of Joon-ki's character that shows real class in his behaviour that deserved more screen time.
All in all, it's a great watch. Like I said in my review of the first one, it really is K.F.R.I.E.N.D.S. but it didn't bother me at al. Go watch it.
OK - here we go. Having jumped into this having just finished the wondered Welcome to Waikiki, expectations were high,
Maybe too high...
A few things really irritated me.
1. Lee Yi-Kyung's character, Lee Joon-ki had become overly slapstick compared to S1 and dare I say it, quite annoying. Which is a shame as we know him to be a joker with a heart of gold.
2. In fact, there seemed to be too much slapstick comedy/mayhem in the first few episodes - something seemed to go wrong in each scene, let alone each episode.
3. Shin Hyun-soo's character, Gook Ki-bong wast written as a lovable idiot - with too much on the idiot. For example, there is an episode where after a lot of failures for the character, he tries to assemble an Ikea desk for his girlfriend, Yuri. This could have been a great example to show that he's not just a one-trick pony but had this hidden talent. Sadly that was not the case.
4. This was the most important irritation though - the story took five episodes to really get going. Ordinarily not an issue as it;s supposed to be a goofy comedy - however, the second half of the story had so much heart that it needed a couple of extra episodes to do it justice.
OK, that's the negatives out of the way - if you've got this far then thanks.
Waikiki 2 is a hilarious comedy though - not as good as the first one and some of the jokes are rehashed from the first series as well as separate episodes from Friends!! But if you want a good laugh (and I mean belly laughs) then this is an easy watch.
The main love story is nice between Moon Ga-young (Su-yeon) 💜 and Kim Seon-ho (Woo-sik) is nice but for me it the one with Woo-sik's older sister Yoo-ri (played by Kim Ye-won) - she had a great character arc, starting out as this manipulative annoying person to someone who was really caring and quite lovely and a story arc that I wanted to know more about.
Similarly, we see a side of Joon-ki's character that shows real class in his behaviour that deserved more screen time.
All in all, it's a great watch. Like I said in my review of the first one, it really is K.F.R.I.E.N.D.S. but it didn't bother me at al. Go watch it.
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