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Secret Garden korean drama review
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Secret Garden
3 people found this review helpful
by scenophile
Mar 21, 2020
20 of 20 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 1.5
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 1.5
Music 2.5
Rewatch Value 1.0
I highly wonder if I would have enjoyed this better if I had watched it as one of my first dramas, because now all it seems like is a mash-up of tropes with none of them done well.

The thing I had heard most about this drama is that the male lead was the rudest they've ever met, but it actually didn't seem so bad to me, mainly because the main female lead could hold her own and fight back. This definitely tapered off as the drama went on, and I wish she had stayed that cold instead of crying so much.

I had also been warned that the body switch plot was really minor, but it turned out to be even less than I had expected, which was kind of disappointing because it would've been a plot I was really interested in. Despite this, I still really appreciated the acting of the two main leads when they were body switched. I do think that it was a little confusing the way the visual effects kept switching them back and forth, but I get that they're trying to make it clear who's in whose body in the scenes.

The second ship's plot also dragged out for soooo long, and I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of Yoon Sang Hyun. He just yells a lot and I always have to adjust my volume ? Honestly the same could be said for the main lead's mother as well, and overall there was just so much overdramatic crying that's pretty typical of older dramas.
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