tried the first couple of episodes and it looks and feels like it was made in 2009, not 2019 T-T
I'm not sure if I just forced face blindness, I mean production blindness on myself after a few hours, but a while into the show I got that thought out of my mind. Initially it was all I could see as well, especially with how god-awful the intro is shot (from aspect ratio to 'special effects').
I watched it and liked it , as the boss/sec chemistry. Quirkiness is good also. One of those dramas where I don't…
I would argue she did a terrible(!) job staying in character every time she was disguised, meaning she was being herself and not really being Veronica Park at all.
The charade just gave ML a chance to see FL "as a woman".
Netflix is ATROCIOUSLY cut as so often. At the start of episode 1 children sing – but not on Netflix. Random things are blurred. 45-46 minutes into the first episode (or second if you count that way), so very much music is missing and replaced by utter trash on Netflix there are no words to describe it.
Amazon/Kocowa is hopefully almost identical to the proper SBS version.
In episode 8 aka 16 (and a very short scene in episode 9 aka 17) there is a movie theater scene. SBS has movie video and audio, and a song during the credits. Amazon/Kocowa has video, but no English movie audio, and no credits song. Netflix has blurred video, audio removed with some generic garbage, and of course no song either.
You are totally spot on in that this is not the kind of storytelling that moves you to have any sort of empathy…
You're also unfortunately very much correct in that the whole headache angle disappears entirely (without a trace). She never gets her headaches sorted out or treated or anything, the plot device just isn't needed at some point and then never appears again.
Major Spoiler™: she doesn't commit fraud by impersonatin'.
Wondering if I should continue this or not half way through ep 6...(Shin A is getting on my nerves and so far…
You are totally spot on in that this is not the kind of storytelling that moves you to have any sort of empathy for the FL, nor are they particularly well-created characters. It's a super casual rom com, so you should not expect convincing writing or story cohesion. This show if anything consists of scenes completely randomly glued onto each other with very very little connecting them. The whole 'crazy' angle is essentially exclusive to the Ep 1 cliffhanger as well, so it's in the realm of false advertising.
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She did not "try to potentially kill him", did she? Threaten, but certainly not try. Nor is she responsible or should feel guilty for him being run over while angrily shouting on the phone.
EDIT/ some people are massively upset that I don't "understand" this show because i "only" watched and been dissapointed…
The 'crazy' FL of the end of the first episode / start of the second indeed never appears again. Or at least not properly. In that sense, the marketing materials advertise this show as something it very much isn't.
I last called the Her Private Life product placement more "stupidly obvious" than the average, but here it's really towards full-on adverts.
Yoo In Young's impossibly rich character holds a fancy face lawnmower. Insert smile after mowing her face with it. Insert praise for the product. Show brand-name close up. End scene. Later on, Park Han Sol's (by comparison) impossibly poor character peruses an identical fancy face lawnmower. Insert smile. Insert praise for the product. Show brand-name close-up. End scene.
Speaking of Yoo In Young, I lost count how many scenes are shot with the motivation of making her look imposingly tall. If the camera's on the floor, you know she's the reason. Maybe she too is a product to be advertised? I can't tell anymore.
Wanted to watch it on Netflix. Episode 2 has a karaoke scene that's obviously cut to bits (including BTS).
Thanks to a thread here, I also saw mention of missing music in Ep1.
The special episode ('0' on the usual streaming places) is a preview of the show and only has spoilers regarding some side character stuff. Nothing THAT major, so you could watch it before ep 1, or after a few episodes.
Imagine you're watching Reply 19xx, but long-ago nostalgia is replaced by a prison and occasional blood. Instead of goat noises, initially there is some dumb music to tell you when you're supposed to find things funny. Unfortunately later they just use a noise as annoying as Reply's goat, if not worse.
On the other hand at least it doesn't seem like there's lots of music and other licensed content missing on Netflix. (Whereas watching Reply on Netflix or most other streaming services is pointless since it's so incomplete and cut down.)
I think this and Reply are similar, which is why I'm definitely not going to start watching Friends.
The charade just gave ML a chance to see FL "as a woman".
Amazon/Kocowa is hopefully almost identical to the proper SBS version.
In episode 8 aka 16 (and a very short scene in episode 9 aka 17) there is a movie theater scene.
SBS has movie video and audio, and a song during the credits.
Amazon/Kocowa has video, but no English movie audio, and no credits song.
Netflix has blurred video, audio removed with some generic garbage, and of course no song either.
Major Spoiler™:
she doesn't commit fraud by impersonatin'.
It's a super casual rom com, so you should not expect convincing writing or story cohesion. This show if anything consists of scenes completely randomly glued onto each other with very very little connecting them. The whole 'crazy' angle is essentially exclusive to the Ep 1 cliffhanger as well, so it's in the realm of false advertising.
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She did not "try to potentially kill him", did she? Threaten, but certainly not try.
Nor is she responsible or should feel guilty for him being run over while angrily shouting on the phone.
In that sense, the marketing materials advertise this show as something it very much isn't.
Yoo In Young's impossibly rich character holds a fancy face lawnmower. Insert smile after mowing her face with it. Insert praise for the product. Show brand-name close up. End scene.
Later on, Park Han Sol's (by comparison) impossibly poor character peruses an identical fancy face lawnmower. Insert smile. Insert praise for the product. Show brand-name close-up. End scene.
Speaking of Yoo In Young, I lost count how many scenes are shot with the motivation of making her look imposingly tall. If the camera's on the floor, you know she's the reason. Maybe she too is a product to be advertised? I can't tell anymore.
Fortunately that didn't happen.
There extra character inserted in the start of ep 15 wasn't necessary at all, but also did not bother me.
Thanks to a thread here, I also saw mention of missing music in Ep1.
The special episode ('0' on the usual streaming places) is a preview of the show and only has spoilers regarding some side character stuff. Nothing THAT major, so you could watch it before ep 1, or after a few episodes.
Instead of goat noises, initially there is some dumb music to tell you when you're supposed to find things funny. Unfortunately later they just use a noise as annoying as Reply's goat, if not worse.
On the other hand at least it doesn't seem like there's lots of music and other licensed content missing on Netflix. (Whereas watching Reply on Netflix or most other streaming services is pointless since it's so incomplete and cut down.)