"DOCTORS: prescription for DISAPPOINTMENT"
This show sets high expectations with its title, hinting at a medical-heavy plot, but the reality is far from that. Despite its dramatic title, medicine barely makes up 15% of the storyline. For anyone hoping for genuine medical insight, this show may feel like a letdown, especially compared to others like Dr. Romantic, which focuses a solid 80% on medical content and offers far more authentic hospital drama.The love story in Doctors feels forced, and the chemistry between the leads lacks depth—particularly on the male lead's side. While I admire Park Shin Hye, even her charm couldn't salvage the awkward dynamic between the couple. There’s a certain stiffness in their romantic moments that feels off, and it's disappointing because both actors are incredibly talented.
Lee Sung Kyung is versatile, but her character in Doctors is frustratingly flat and indecisive, leaving her little to work with. It’s far from her best role, and her potential seems wasted. Yoon Kyun Sang, too, is underwhelming, playing a character that merely fills the gaps in the story without adding much to the overall plot.
Sadly, Doctors fails to impress across the board. Neither the story nor the cast stand out, and the music is forgettable. This is the kind of show you start, intending to finish, but ultimately abandon halfway through, never to return. 😔
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Review:Doctors (2016)I like Park Shin Hye/Dr. Yoo Hye Jung in here she is so good at fighting and its just the first episode. I have never even seen her in a role like this before. So exciting and fun. Lots of actors in here that I have seen before so it must be good.
She has a lovely Nana Kim Young Ae/Kang Mal Soon [Hye Jung's grandmother] (ep.1-3)who loves her.
Park Shin Hye/Dr. Yoo Hye Jung has got the street smarts and her friend Lee Sung Kyung/Dr. Jin Seo Woo has got the brain who going to help her study. Their other friend is fun and friendly Moon Ji In/Chun Soon Hee [Hye Jung's best friend] but not as brainy as the other two. Chun Soon Hee becomes her friend for life.
Isn’t it sad when sometimes its only our grandma that loves us. All my growing up years my grandma was already old but she loved me the most. She carried me for miles on her back. She taught me how to ride a horse. I slept with her all the time and she just loved me. I miss her. She wasn’t beautiful but for me she had a heart of gold. Everything she did was for me. When she was 70 she was still riding her horse then she got bone cancer and died when she was 80.
She saved the first Lee Sung Kyung/Dr. Jin Seo Woo girls life but she caused her problems because of her jealousy. This would continue in their adulthood but Dr. Yoo Hye Jung had only gratefulness in her heart for Dr. Jin Seo Woo because she taught her how to study.
Park Shin Hye/Dr. Yoo Hye Jung a most remarkable, tallented and intelligent woman that started as a street fighting hooligan into an extraordinary neuro surgeon. Without help from others she worked her way up the hierarchy of doctors through sheer determination and guts. It was her experiences as a teenagers that transformed her from that hot tempered child to the caring, compassionate doctor. First her learning experiences with Kim Rae Won/Prof. Hong Ji Hong a clever, warm hearted and sympathetic teacher and the death of her kind and indulgent grandmother, Kim Young Ae/Kang Mal Soon [Hye Jung's grandmother] (ep.1-3, they were the ones that impelled her to change her life.
She was never close to her dad Jung Hae Kyun/Yoo Min Ho [Hye Jung's father] whom she blamed for the death of her mother. As a teenager he was cold and uncaring towards her so he reaped her anger, aloofness and indifference when she was an adult. She never wanted to be or tried to be close to him. This hurt him as he didn’t understand want he had done to her as a child. Reminds me of me and my youngest daughter. We are not close. She believes that I hurt her emotions as a child.
My recommendation for this drama, I enjoyed her lifestory and her growing love for the man who fell in love with her when she was so young. She was in his heart the moment she came into his life. He tried to run away from it but fate brought them back together 13 years later.
The filming and cinematology are outstanding, beautiful night shots of the city. The kissing scenes are delightful and the filming of them clear and well positioned. I love the scenes of them dancing in the rain, walking in the park and bike riding.
Outstanding acting from the actors and those two little sick boys(Go Woo Rim/Nam Hae [Ba Ram's son](Ep.13-14)and Jeon Jin Seo/Nam Dal [Ba Ram's son](Ep.13-14) stole my heart, so cute and talented.
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I like the actor Park Shin-hye, and her character Yoo Hye-jung did give me a little bit of Cinderella vibes, but like a proper badass one! - Like just wasn't afraid of anything but yet didn't have the best of family backgrounds! I do think Park Shin-hye is super pretty actor though! -I mean I did enjoy it, but I feel like I don't really like the character, Hong Ji-hong, I think they didn't really look that good together. I think the story is okay, but I don't like the falling in love with your professor kind of thing! I think it's not really my type of story and it did feel a little weird!
But it was a good like badass women kinda show though! Especially the fight bit at the start!
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Wonderful show to watch.
I really liked this show. I'm not one to tear up but this one got me a few times. Very good actors that bounded well and they made their characters believable. I had a really hard time pulling myself away from my computer because I just had to watch the next episode. That is rare that a drama can do that to me. I love dramas like this to where the script and story are done so well that they did not have to use gimmicks or filler stories to take up time. What I mean by that is that the drama had a good story line throughout the whole show that they had to skimp with lousy side stories that would not make sense and was there just to take up time. The show flowed from one episode to the next episode flawlessly. The characters were well defined from the beginning to the ending. If you do not have a lot of time to watch dramas this is one that your time would be well spent on. I'm wondering if they have any thoughts on doing more episodes for this drama. If they did I would definitely watch it.Was this review helpful to you?
I Don't Regret it but was it worth watching ?
The trailer of the show is the main reason why I'm watching the show. When I started watching the show I didn't not know who actually was the main lead actor and the fact that the ML Actor was the teacher of the ML actress show how just makes me a little uncomfortable. But I surprisingly don't hate the show on an overall even though there is really no process of them falling in love etc. The show doesn't have a strong story plot. In the end I don't hate it but also think its a show to watch only if you reallllyyyy don't have anything to watch.Was this review helpful to you?
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Promising series but it fizzled out and left you wanted more in an unfulfilling way
Doctors is a decent drama with an interesting premise, character ideas and a surprisingly interesting back cast. However, all are either left unfulfilled or under used. The show is really good and delivers on the overall plot until ep 12/13. The drama starts off showing our characters during their last months at school where our main lead, Hye Jung, was a delinquent and how she met Prof Hong and it changed her life. That was a really strong first main arc of the show with all the characters having strong aims and goals. But I can't help but feel that all of that work came off very weak once we were in the present day where everyone in at the hospital. That's disapointing. Hye Jung wasn't as mentally strong as she was as a child as she just seemed normal and, honestly, generic albeit likeable nonetheless. But her plotlines just totally fizzled out at the end and I just lost my investement in the whole plot. Hong was a cool character, was determined and smart - perfectly fine except the second lead was much more interesting. I'm not saying that I have second lead syndrome because I don't really thing Hye Jung and Yoon Do was a better pair (the main leads are right for each other, for sure) but Yoon Do was much more interesting in his motivations, actions, etc. He is on the losing end of a love triangle that he was never going to win but he's not angry or bitter. He takes it in his stride and contiues to function. That's what I feel the story should've focused on more. His scenes were the highlight of the show. In fact, Yoon Do's scenes with his Dr Jo In Joo and Prof Pa Ran were a joy to watch. Their chemistry together would've made for a better series on its own, imo. The side characters had interesting arcs and they were too something that make the series worthwhile but it's all limited as well and just squandered potential. I've seen other reviews that say that Doctors would be best as a long running sitcom and I throughlly agree with that statement. You'd get more chance to flesh out some of these interesting ideas and characters such as Dr Choi's brain tumor, Dr Kang's relationship with his subordinates.It's acting perfecty fine but the lack of compelling overall plot, the not fully fleshed out side plots and focus on the lesser compelling characters means this is just an good series. It could've been great and it was for large parts but I was left underwhelmed towards the end.
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Was it worth it: I’d say yes.
What I liked the most: The bad guys weren’t overly evil and all characters were reasonable to a fault.
What I disliked the most: The trait that made the main character cool was gone by the middle of the drama.
Moment Meter: 4/10 – I seem to recall a few heart pumpers.
Other thoughts: For the first quarter of the show I was in denial about who the male lead was, probably due to the huge age gap. I liked that the main female was a scrapper (tough), and that the female antagonist wasn’t overly evil. I’m always pleased to spot Kim Min Suk in a drama and hope to see him in more. Park Shin Hye looked sickly in the beginning, but rounded out later on. The individual medical cases were interesting. The story was told well enough to get you to invest feels in the characters. It’s not an instant classic, but it was pretty entertaining nonetheless.
Conclusion: It was consistently entertaining, but shows with “cases” (like medical or detective shows) are naturally more engaging because of the micro stories that are built in.
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Cons: Poor story line (even though it was not intended to have a strong story line, if you want good ratings, it gotta have a really good story line), not enough complexity or intensity, and not enough legit legit romance, too casual.
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Don't get me wrong everything is great about the drama- the cast, its characters and the introduction. The only thing it did not have was a plot. Actually it did. The sad thing was that the writer tried to fit an excellent 10-episode plot into 20 episodes. That ends up making it 10 episodes of absolute filler and no sense of purpose or direction. It's a shame because it could have been a great drama but resulted in being boring and skippable.
I started this drama knowing about the age gap but I ended up wanting an awesome sunbae-hoobae relationship instead. To me the lead pair weren't very shippable and most of their romantic scenes were cringe. I also found them unbelievable because their back story isn't as strong as it is usually in Kdramas.
To me the second leads were a complete waste. Yoon Gyun Sang and Lee Sung Kyung are both devastatingly attractive people and decent actors who deserved more than they got. Park Shin Hye was at her best in this role. I do not think she is capable of acting better than she did here. Kim Rae Won always leaves something to desire and I am yet to see him in something that impresses me.
There is a chance this drama may end up appealing to some people- fans of the cast, fans of medical dramas or fans of dramas that have lesser makjang than usual. The first four episodes were a lot of makjang but later on it was more of an everyday hospital setup than a revenge drama, which it set out to be initially.
This drama has one of the most forgettable soundtracks I have seen listened to. There is not a single memorable track from this.
To me this is one of the tens of other forgettable dramas I've watched. However give it a chance if you are looking for something where things are not too serious and characters are kidding around. Get through the first few tearjerking episodes and you are in for a mostly light ride with a number of likable characters. Not to mention attractive people. :D
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Main Characters- The main characters seemed to be more of flat characters, which means they do not really change through out the story, instead of a round character, a person who does change through out the story; and what I mean by all this, after a certain point in the story the main characters stopped growing, learning new things about themselves and others.
Some of the actors/actresses suited their roles well and others did not, but they all did a fantastic job.
Supporting Roles- The supporting roles showed more of a change than the main leads. I enjoyed their back story more.
It seemed all of the actors/actress suited their role they were giving.
Overall- I would give this category a 9.0 I did get really emotionally attached to each character.
Story line:
The story line became rather boring and predictable after a while. The romance was almost non-existent, but the overall comedy filled in for that.
Overall- I would give this section a 6.5, the story became predictable. I did enjoy watching the medical aspect of the story
Music:
The music fit perfectly for each scene, it gave the scenes more of an intense feeling.
Overall- I would give this section 8.5, there is nothing much to complain about this section.
Would I re-watch this? Probably not, because it seemed more like a one time watch. Would I recommend this to other people? Yes, because it did keep me binging it for three days.
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Chemistry was awesome
Loved this drama. Would love to see a season 2.Maybe Kim Rae Won and Park Shyn Hi could guest star. Would love to see Yeon Woo Jin and Kim Sejong casted and reunited again as the new main leads. Maybe instead of their first meeting would be on a college campus instead of high school. Maybe YWJ is a medical professor. KS is a medical student. They meet again at a hospital where he is a doctor and she is an intern. They have conflicting opinions about the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but work through it and in the process fall in love. Just a thought.
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