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A drama that is divided into two halves with fun chemistry between the ML and FL
Beautiful Gong Shim is a fun rom com with fun chemistry between our ML and FL. But the drama was a a tale of two halves. It falls into my lists of dramas where I loved the couple more than the plot.
Plot: The first half of this drama up until episode 10 mainly focus on the life of Gong Shim and Dan Tae. How they became involved in each other's life and developing their relationship later becoming romance. These first 10 episodes include some of the funniest scenes I've seen in Kdramas. Their chemistry was clicking with me. Gong Shim is a person who doesn't have a stable career bouncing from various part time jobs. She isn't treated as equal as her older sister in her family. She is stressed out that she has hair loss in a small part of her hair where she wears a wig. Her wig makes her character lovable for who she is and others might just hate it. I didn't mind it. But she is not all that weak and hopeless. She has a attitude where she stands up and speaks truths to rich arrogant folks. Nothing is going right for her until Ahn Dan Tae moves into the roof above the building her family lives in.
Dan Tae is more of a eccentric ML. He's not the typical ML you find in Kdramas(perfect and flawless). He wears flip flops around in his free time, he tends to eat food that were dropped on the ground for 3 seconds, he loves to eat food at a convenience store, he is a lawyer, has a law firm, has buddies that look up to/help him with things, and is a fun wacky character. He's weird but kind and not a jerk. He is the person that comes into the life of Gong Shim and slowly helps her back onto her feet to improve her life. Sometimes the drama felt like one of those long daily soap opera kdramas. They had the awful older sister character trope but at least they didn't feature her a lot. That was surprising since in the description the drama said it was a love story involving her sister too. Lots of funny moments between them like the dreaming sequence or the hair pulling. This is what made Beautiful Gong Shim fun.
The second half from episode 10 to the end changed the drama into a different style. There was a other main plot you can say throughout the drama which was solving the case of a little boy named "Joon Pyo". Joon Pyo was kidnapped at a young age and his mother died from a car crash when she chased after the kidnapper. To note, Joon Pyo was from a chaebol family. The grandmother of the family is the only one still searching and having hopes to find him as that is his only blood related family member left. Gong Shim who had no connections at all to the case was left out and pretty much a side character in the second half. Sometimes they throw a plot twist where the FL is funny enough apart of the ML's past that she is now involved with the mystery but not here. So the FL who the drama is named after is shoved in the background for some mystery melodrama. Also note it was mostly filled with the cliche chaebol family drama. The second half lost the charm of the drama and probably lost the viewers who liked it. It dragged and fit in cliches along with some dumb writing.
Acting/Cast: Namkoong Min was a great choice to play Dan Tae. The weird wacky personality he put into Dan Tae was very fun. First drama I've seen of Bang Min Ah and she was good. I think their chemistry together matched very well. It can be difficult to act with a wig to their character but she nailed it. I only wished they made her drop the wig at the halfway point to show she as grown as a character waiting to be together with Dan Tae. Because by the end, she has grown out of the wig which felt kind of weird to me. I got used to her character with it that there wasn't enough time for me to get used to her character with her normal hair.
Music: Nothing special that stand out. It's alright.
Rewatch: The first half of the drama is worth rewatching for the enjoyment. Second half is pretty skippable.
Overall: The drama to me was a 2 person show that carried it. Chemistry is amazing for rom com lovers. Not alot of lovey dovey romance moments tho. It was more of a he fell first trope. Watch for the first half and just skip to the end if you don't like the second half of the drama.
Plot: The first half of this drama up until episode 10 mainly focus on the life of Gong Shim and Dan Tae. How they became involved in each other's life and developing their relationship later becoming romance. These first 10 episodes include some of the funniest scenes I've seen in Kdramas. Their chemistry was clicking with me. Gong Shim is a person who doesn't have a stable career bouncing from various part time jobs. She isn't treated as equal as her older sister in her family. She is stressed out that she has hair loss in a small part of her hair where she wears a wig. Her wig makes her character lovable for who she is and others might just hate it. I didn't mind it. But she is not all that weak and hopeless. She has a attitude where she stands up and speaks truths to rich arrogant folks. Nothing is going right for her until Ahn Dan Tae moves into the roof above the building her family lives in.
Dan Tae is more of a eccentric ML. He's not the typical ML you find in Kdramas(perfect and flawless). He wears flip flops around in his free time, he tends to eat food that were dropped on the ground for 3 seconds, he loves to eat food at a convenience store, he is a lawyer, has a law firm, has buddies that look up to/help him with things, and is a fun wacky character. He's weird but kind and not a jerk. He is the person that comes into the life of Gong Shim and slowly helps her back onto her feet to improve her life. Sometimes the drama felt like one of those long daily soap opera kdramas. They had the awful older sister character trope but at least they didn't feature her a lot. That was surprising since in the description the drama said it was a love story involving her sister too. Lots of funny moments between them like the dreaming sequence or the hair pulling. This is what made Beautiful Gong Shim fun.
The second half from episode 10 to the end changed the drama into a different style. There was a other main plot you can say throughout the drama which was solving the case of a little boy named "Joon Pyo". Joon Pyo was kidnapped at a young age and his mother died from a car crash when she chased after the kidnapper. To note, Joon Pyo was from a chaebol family. The grandmother of the family is the only one still searching and having hopes to find him as that is his only blood related family member left. Gong Shim who had no connections at all to the case was left out and pretty much a side character in the second half. Sometimes they throw a plot twist where the FL is funny enough apart of the ML's past that she is now involved with the mystery but not here. So the FL who the drama is named after is shoved in the background for some mystery melodrama. Also note it was mostly filled with the cliche chaebol family drama. The second half lost the charm of the drama and probably lost the viewers who liked it. It dragged and fit in cliches along with some dumb writing.
Acting/Cast: Namkoong Min was a great choice to play Dan Tae. The weird wacky personality he put into Dan Tae was very fun. First drama I've seen of Bang Min Ah and she was good. I think their chemistry together matched very well. It can be difficult to act with a wig to their character but she nailed it. I only wished they made her drop the wig at the halfway point to show she as grown as a character waiting to be together with Dan Tae. Because by the end, she has grown out of the wig which felt kind of weird to me. I got used to her character with it that there wasn't enough time for me to get used to her character with her normal hair.
Music: Nothing special that stand out. It's alright.
Rewatch: The first half of the drama is worth rewatching for the enjoyment. Second half is pretty skippable.
Overall: The drama to me was a 2 person show that carried it. Chemistry is amazing for rom com lovers. Not alot of lovey dovey romance moments tho. It was more of a he fell first trope. Watch for the first half and just skip to the end if you don't like the second half of the drama.
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