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Secret Garden korean drama review
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Secret Garden
1 people found this review helpful
by mell
May 26, 2021
20 of 20 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 6.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 4.5
Rewatch Value 3.0
This review may contain spoilers

Lack of Development

FL & ML: At times I found myself in a predicament, the male lead as a character was rude, arrogant, and selfish. I was not really sure how he even fell in love. Of course, throughout the show, they made it seem like he fell in love with her solely because he thought about her all the time. It did not seem he fell in love with her personality or who she was as a person, he just liked her because he thought about her a lot. I did not really see how he could fall in love with the female lead. It lacked chemistry. As well as from the FL’s perspective, I am unsure what he saw in him. He said some pretty rude and demining things to her over and over again, yet she accepted him anyways. No apologies given. The moments that the ML acted in a bad way, there was never any follow up. It was like it happened but then you just move on to the next thing, it was never addressed.

SFL & SML: I did not like their relationship at all, the characters were just poorly depicted. The SFL was annoying, and she was causing her own suffering, a lot. Everyone knew that she was still in love with the SML and that she wanted them to be together again. But every time the SML was trying to do better and win her over, she would continue to push him away. I understand that this type of thing adds more drama and entertainment to the story, but there was just too much, and it got old, fast. I found myself not wanting to watch the show because I did not care about their relationship. At times when they would come up on the screen, arguing yet again, I found myself disassociating from the whole thing.

Character Development: There was, but there wasn’t. The ML at the beginning vs the ML at the end, seemed like he had grown a lot as a character. He started to get along more with others and was being nicer. But this development, I am unsure where it even came from. I just…ugh…

Overall Thoughts: Honestly, I feel like I did not start to really enjoy this drama until about episode 16. That is more than halfway through, more like about to finished. I went into the show thinking that it was going to focus on the switching bodies, but it didn’t. I was ready to see more of them being in each other’s bodies as well as them trying to actually figure out why this happened. They somewhat just ignored the whole matter and they accepted it way too early on. And then magic it was gone. There was not an actual explanation as to how it happened or why it happened or even why the father was involved in this weird magic scenario. Don’t even get me started on the end! It was just too much and too far out there, that I felt it did not make sense at all. They should have just ended it with the mother giving in or them just being together. Adding in all this extra stuff made it seem unbelievable.
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