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To the Beautiful You korean drama review
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To the Beautiful You
7 people found this review helpful
by TheJ
Oct 5, 2012
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 3.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
Story: It gets a pretty low score here simply because it's nothing original. It's something most of us watching have already read and/or seen. To add on to that, it's already a story that seems to be used over and over again in Korean dramas, so it just gets really old. Girl dresses up as a guy and nobody around her knows even though she lacks any form of masculinity. Acting/Cast: I started this score off as a ten, and then docked two points for the leads. When I started watching the show, I was already expecting it to be pretty bad (because Korea's past adaptations so far have been horrible), so I didn't let that cloud my judgement when it came to their acting. As the show went on though, I actually found myself skipping over almost all parts that had Sulli and/or Minho in them because it was starting to feel like watching them was a chore instead of feeling like I was enjoying myself. Minho seemed to have three emotions at his disposal at all times: happiness, sadness, and anger. I understand that the original character is like that, but the actor, in my opinion, should at least be able to display something else if it's needed. And he just really fell short. Sulli was pretty much the same way when it came to her acting. In most of her scenes, she just stood there. Just stood, while everybody else acted. It was incredibly boring to watch. The rest of the cast is literally the only reason I made it through to the end of this drama. Music: This OST was just a total killjoy for me. It seemed like every second of this show was nothing but an SM concert. I'm a big fan of SM and their music, but even I was on the verge of watching the show on mute just to avoid listening to all of it. Rewatch Value: Every now and then I'll find a drama I would want to rewatch. This was definitely not one of them. Overall: Overall, the only reason this drama scored higher than a 5 from me was because of the rest of the cast. It felt like the whole drama was nothing but SM everywhere: The leads were SM artists; the OST was only SM artists; even the school was named Genie (a name all of us know from those horrid ads on SM music videos). If they had focused more on finding actual actors to lead the show, and less on promoting SM (I realize I bring that up a lot, but seriously, it was just everywhere), I feel like it really would've helped this drama.
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