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Sugar Crown
not a damsel - only in distress
This review may contain spoilers
Good Enough to be better than most
A story about three career women in their 30s-40s, who’s life goes through various changes in terms of work, family, friendship and love.
There are plenty of cdramas with the same set up released in the past few years but I find that "Be Your Own Light" outshines them by having a more mature, relaxed and realistic approach.
It stays true to it’s title and the main characters all grow to become their own light.
The three female leads are not perfect people and only grow (together) over the course of the drama.
All of them are completely different in terms of character, how they work and also their personal life and romantic line are not alike.
I did not find everyone likeable at first however in retrospect it was refreshing to not have picture-perfect people but also some that would do anything for the job. Especially if you are soliciting funds for marketing, you might have to put on a smile when you don’t want to and I liked how the other 2 women came to respect that, when they were judging her for it at first too.
The men in this drama are more like supporting roles and if you purely came for the romance, this might let you down. Whenever you see the ML it always has something to with the FL and we don’t get to know him all too well apart from that. I was fine with that since I really loved watching the women grow in their work and go through ups and downs.
Yes, all 3 have love interests and one of the women has more focus on romance than the other two, but overall it’s a female centered business (reporter, news station, marketing) drama and with that comes some romance.
The story of the FL and ML starts with her owing debt since her husband ran away (luckily he doesn’t pose as a problem the entire drama cuz I would have hated that) and how he wants to get the money back is quite funny, unrealistic but it adds to the comedic relief of the drama. Although overall the drama is not blood pressure rising or aggravating a lot anyway.
The negative:
At some point the drama felt too long but in the end it wasn’t long enough, I wanted more.
The ending is like so many cdramas - rushed - I just felt like this drama really took it’s time so I would have loved for that to carry through until the end.
Potentially this could go on for several seasons since it had a never ending business sitcom vibe :)
While I liked that the "villains" were not that dangerous and quite civil, I‘m also wondering if I had enjoyed it more had they been more evil. But they, like so much in this drama, were quite realistic. They know how to put some pressure on you, but if that doesn’t work they aren’t gonna kill you if you know what I mean… they’re more concerned about saving their own behind.
As mentioned above it’s good enough to be better than most dramas of it’s type but it’s nothing too special, rather something to watch in between or during dinner. It definitely has flaws but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Having completed this drama I can safely say this was a comfortable watch. There were enough unique moments, to not make me compare it to every similar-set-up drama I know
Random thing I loved: non of the FL were childish + I liked that YY bought HH used car and drove it for the rest of the drama.
There are plenty of cdramas with the same set up released in the past few years but I find that "Be Your Own Light" outshines them by having a more mature, relaxed and realistic approach.
It stays true to it’s title and the main characters all grow to become their own light.
The three female leads are not perfect people and only grow (together) over the course of the drama.
All of them are completely different in terms of character, how they work and also their personal life and romantic line are not alike.
I did not find everyone likeable at first however in retrospect it was refreshing to not have picture-perfect people but also some that would do anything for the job. Especially if you are soliciting funds for marketing, you might have to put on a smile when you don’t want to and I liked how the other 2 women came to respect that, when they were judging her for it at first too.
The men in this drama are more like supporting roles and if you purely came for the romance, this might let you down. Whenever you see the ML it always has something to with the FL and we don’t get to know him all too well apart from that. I was fine with that since I really loved watching the women grow in their work and go through ups and downs.
Yes, all 3 have love interests and one of the women has more focus on romance than the other two, but overall it’s a female centered business (reporter, news station, marketing) drama and with that comes some romance.
The story of the FL and ML starts with her owing debt since her husband ran away (luckily he doesn’t pose as a problem the entire drama cuz I would have hated that) and how he wants to get the money back is quite funny, unrealistic but it adds to the comedic relief of the drama. Although overall the drama is not blood pressure rising or aggravating a lot anyway.
The negative:
At some point the drama felt too long but in the end it wasn’t long enough, I wanted more.
The ending is like so many cdramas - rushed - I just felt like this drama really took it’s time so I would have loved for that to carry through until the end.
Potentially this could go on for several seasons since it had a never ending business sitcom vibe :)
While I liked that the "villains" were not that dangerous and quite civil, I‘m also wondering if I had enjoyed it more had they been more evil. But they, like so much in this drama, were quite realistic. They know how to put some pressure on you, but if that doesn’t work they aren’t gonna kill you if you know what I mean… they’re more concerned about saving their own behind.
As mentioned above it’s good enough to be better than most dramas of it’s type but it’s nothing too special, rather something to watch in between or during dinner. It definitely has flaws but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Having completed this drama I can safely say this was a comfortable watch. There were enough unique moments, to not make me compare it to every similar-set-up drama I know
Random thing I loved: non of the FL were childish + I liked that YY bought HH used car and drove it for the rest of the drama.
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