Although not a perfect drama, a 10 from me. Han Ye-seul is so pretty, radiant, glowing, and so cute in episode 8! It's entertaining, despite some clunky psychiatry cases and awkward narrative segways, all in all I had a marvellous time watching. Han Ye-seul's comedy timing (and timing in general) as always is spot on. Her performance was unique, she shows multiple unique aspects in every role she takes on, I found the way she handled the emotional scenes extremely relatable and fascinating to watch, and as mentioned, she never looks the same... This is probably my favourite style of them all, her hair, costume and disposition was breathtakingly sweet, gorgeous in every way, she comes across as a real person, albeit with an extraordinary beauty.
Epic and wonderful melodrama, they don't make them like this anymore. Top quality all the way through from narrative to performances, especially Han Ye-seul and Go Soo, both perfect in their roles. I used to underestimate Han Ye-seul, watching this makes me feel like an idiot, she's amazing.
this drama has been in works before moving even came out
Moving was in the works before Moving came out too. Shows how quick a superhero drama takes to write. 24 hours is enough. I saw the first 3 episodes of Moving and almost puked it was so shallow. Why would an actor pretend they can fly? They must be delighted more with their paycheck than their achievement.
Han Ye-seul hit the big time here, a lovely drama. So many highlights, I love the makeshift family stories, but to go with it are her impeccable timing, understanding of her character, the kindly martinet with the children (revived briefly and wonderfully in 20th Century Boy and Girl) and her "sarang-hae", a magical moment that's never been bettered in any drama I've seen so far.
I curse Disney and Moving. We now have a spate of super powered characters assaulting us left and right for the foreseeable future. Such is (not) life. Oh well, maybe this will be the one with a great script, well developed, fully formed characters and a narrative that doesn't depend on sensationalism. I depend on the Woo-Bin couple and Netflix.
Very strange direction in this drama made it almost impossible for it to gain momentum. The director seemed obsessed with forcing actors to stay on their marks, limit their movements, limit facial expressions (probably to make continuity easier during the edit), limit vocal expression, it's as if they had to perform in straight jackets.
As such I find it absurd that viewers singled out Han Ye-seul for underperforming - from my point of view she was the most fox-like in the entire cast, the best by far, it would have been awful without her.
HYS is the shining light in this drama, her acting and effervescence were fantastic. Writing wasn't great, very repetitive, totally dragged out. Eric's character comes off as a beta male for most if it, there's no coming back from such ML preposterous behaviour, yet the victim of his misdeeds seems to love him even more each time. He's not a bad actor but doesn't have the charm to get away with it, a bit too straight and serious to play it tongue-in-cheek. But Han Ye-seul keeps it on track, her acting from 2004 to 2011 got better and better. She must have shone just a little too brightly in that period, too pretty to be taken seriously, whatever happened it was a great pity that whoever tried to cancel her managed to slow her down, she was almost unstoppable. Not saying she wasn't great from 2014, a different actress emerged with new qualities.
Oh Netflix, that's deep. Truth and lies? Did an AI write your poster? Try some subtlety, instead of enigmatic buzzwords and vagueness. No words at all is what was required here. And no stupid way of writing Trunk either. In fact, Trunk is just a bad title.
As such I find it absurd that viewers singled out Han Ye-seul for underperforming - from my point of view she was the most fox-like in the entire cast, the best by far, it would have been awful without her.
Truth and lies? Did an AI write your poster?
Try some subtlety, instead of enigmatic buzzwords and vagueness. No words at all is what was required here. And no stupid way of writing Trunk either. In fact, Trunk is just a bad title.