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Just Between Lovers korean drama review
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Just Between Lovers
2 people found this review helpful
by Pincolino
Mar 31, 2019
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.5
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 9.0
A beautiful, very realistic love story. For once the girl chases the guy which was very refreshing. She is the strong one in this relationship. I loved it, how those two met each other. She found him in an alley all beaten up and brought him to the house of her father. In so many dramas the first encounter is something special. The leads feel attracted to each other immediately (or are fighting with each other). In any case there is something going on. In this drama the girl didn't even look at him enough to recognize him when she met him later. The male lead was looking for the girl who saved him, but not in a desperate way. He just saw her around and got interested in her (not in a romantic way at first). THIS was great. Really. They then gradually fall in love. Everything feels so real, like how he brought her to his house to read comics. Everything was cute, lovable and beautiful. Like I said before: the girl took the initiative which I really liked.
About the acting I must say Jun Ho (I didn't know him before) was spectacular. The female lead, Won Jin Ah, was great too, but Jun Ho's role seemed more difficult. He somehow managed to play a character who was strong and vulnerable at the same time. I must say I'm not a fan of those overly dramatic series where PTSD plays a big role. It becomes cheesy and unrealistic pretty fast. But Jun Ho did a really good job.
Enough praise. I would rate this series with a solid 10 if I only had to rate the first 9-10 episodes. But later on it became so cheesy suddenly. I know, other people may like this, but I felt it became so slow. Even Jun Ho's acting couldn't save this anymore. Don't get me wrong, it was still a good series, but they just dragged it out and made the character too emotional for me. Still the end was great and the series overall was just very well told. It was one of those series where I didn't feel like skipping parts (at least until episode 9-10).
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