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The Smile Has Left Your Eyes korean drama review
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The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
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by catwitch
Jun 12, 2024
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.5
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
This review may contain spoilers

Heartbreaking

In the beginning, I enjoyed this drama because of how unusual it is. For me, the unsettling nature of how events unfolded left me constantly reassessing how I felt about characters. Nearly every interaction could easily change a dynamic, so I found it impossible to predict would happen next a few times. I had a couple of early guesses that were correct but they were not actually providing the impetus for the behavior as i thought - watching the story progress means feelings about nearly everyone and everything changes at some point.The end result is that as a viewer I felt the same uncertainty that Jin Kang had to be feeling the entire time as events happened to and around while well-meaning but misguided people hid the truth from her to protect her.

There were a few things to the plot that didn’t make sense, for example, Jin Gook’s visceral reaction to Moo Young from the very beginning. At a couple of points the plot’s misdirection provided a plausible reason, but those were continually shot down.There were a couple of other points I hit on, but that was the biggest.

Acting was exceptional. Seo In Guk’s phenomenal agonized reaction to the misinformation he was given about Jin Kang will be seared in my memory forever. Jung So Min’s frustration and confusion by everyone around her acting irrationally was masterful. And Go Min Si completely nailed the part of a troubled young person. The rest of the cast also gave stellar performances.

The ending broke my heart. Long after the closing credits I was still sobbing uncontrollably.
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