What I enjoyed the most about it is that - FOR ONCE - even though one of the main characters starts overweight, the moral of the story is NOT that "skinny = happiness". The moral of the story is that your physical appearance alone doesn't define you.
Of course, your outward appearance matters, since it's the first feature people can see and judge, but who you are as a person is just as important. You're not any less worthy of living/being successful because your physical appearance doesn't match society's expectations. You shouldn't have to change your physical appearance for others.
It's really nice to see this kind of moral, especially in a Kdrama (even tho The Miracle is only a web drama per se).
Unfortunately, that point alone is not enough to disregard completely the flaws of this drama.
Mainly the main romance. It was too hasty, too shallow, too cliché. Even if it was cute, it fell flat. For a seemingly romance-focused drama, it's a bit unsatisfactory to say the least. Also the story had a lot of potential, but due to its short format, most of it was cut short.
The acting was also not outstanding, but I did nonetheless really much enjoy the performance of the two sisters, as well as the one Yang Hak Jin gave. Their acting had a kind of "rough authenticity" feel to it, which i personally liked.
As for the soundtrack, the songs are pleasing to the ear, but even so nothing memorable.
Overall, The Miracle is refreshing, sweet, full of positivity...and short; you can basically view those 12 episodes in about 3 hours. So if you're looking for an uplifter, and don't mind turning a blind eye on apparent flaws, look no further.
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There's nothing unique about this. Its story has been brought to life many times and it suffers from classic kdrama tropes. However, you'll barely notice at only 15 minutes per episode. The cast is ok, I didn't exactly come prepared with high expectations but they're not awful. They're on par with most idol-led dramas like Dream High or Monstar. The music of course shines and a couple of different tracks are featured.
Overall I'd say go ahead and watch The Miracle! You'll only lose a few hours of your day and it is a nice break from other longer and more serious dramas.
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the story was well plotted and acted for a plot that only had a few epiodes frankly to be honest the only thing that i didn't like about it was the fact that it had only 12 episodes which gave me dram fever as to it was very interesting.
the story was just the usual kwon shi yeon is an overweighted teen who is bullied because of her weight and envies her sister kwon si ah who is a member of girl group miracle girls and is known for her for her beauty and her, when shi yeon comes upon a mysterious tarot and gets a wish and she wish for shi ahs body
OK THAT ENOUGH SPIOLERS
kwon shi yeon played by hong yoon hwa was ell fit for the role as she was well not to offend her but she was fat enough for the role and had the charisma but kwon shi ah's (kim na hyun) atitude was best fit for shi yeons visual so if the really switched bodies forever there might be a benefit shi yeon can lose weigh because shi ah goes on diet's alot and shi ah can have a better vioce and not be tone deaf
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Sista Twista ❕Tween Alert❕ °7.7° °So Cute°
Shi-ah/☆ (Kim Na Hyun from I Started Following & Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938) and Shi-ah/☆ (Kim Na Hyun from I Started Following & Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938) and Shi-yeon/¥ (Hong Yoon Hwa from Wok of Love) are fraternal twins. ☆ is a mean girl, ¥ is a lost girl. ☆ is perfect, beautiful, in a dance group, and has 3-million-with-an-”M” followers on social media, while ¥ is obese and rarely leaves her room. During a “family” interview with ☆, ¥ is cloistered in her room. They won't reveal the embarrassing, ugly sister to the general public. When out of her room, ¥ tries to slip by at school without being noticed. She's counting the days till graduation. In HS, the sisters never see eachother; partly because ¥ is in self-imposed solitary confinement. When they do come across eachother, they're always 2 terse syllables away from triggering a fight.The Miracle is a short Kromcom consisting of 12 15-minute episodes (about the length of Avengers: Endgame). If you're used to watching Kdramas with eps that can be easily north of 90 minutes, this goes so quickly it's jolting. It is perfect for tweens and teens. It grabs the viewer right away, it has a positive message, and it's as cute & sweet as a kitten shaped lollipop. These kids can act. Kdramas spotlight one child actor after another who are just spectacular, and these girls are no exception. Everything's pretty in the show without being overdone. Not a high budget feature, it still flows seamlessly without ever calling too much attention to itself, its sets, or its costumes. It's all a clean canvas for the human story, which is the star of this feature.
While ☆, the beautiful sister, is out leading a glamorous life, ¥ walks through the neighborhood looking for her lost dog. There's a lady flat on her face in the grass! She pulls her up, dusts her off, and takes her back home. This beldam does a card-reading as a “thank you”. One thing leads to another… ¥ leaves the shop with a wish granted and a magic talisman necklace. Then tomorrow comes. Each sister collapses simultaneously. When they wake up, they've switched bodies. They did NOT switch personalities.
Switching bodies means switching lives. School, career… each has alot on the line. Now each has to be the heroine in her sister's life, Girl group? Dancing? How can ¥ do that? Fortunately, she's been dancing in her room. She knows all the moves. What ¥ doesn't know is that everybody hates her sister. ¥ isn't the least bit hateable. At the dance gig, ¥ lays eyes on the male teen idol. She would never have a chance with him. But maybe she does in ☆’s body… ☆ isn't the kindest. But ¥ is a sweetie. ☆ has to go to school as the shy, fat girl. She steps into an environment where everybody mocks her sister. Well~~> ☆ doesn't take much to mocking. She is going to shake everything up. What will people think?
That's what the show is about.TM reinforces the value of inner beauty and shows how cruelly people (still!) treat those they consider unattractive, or beneath them. No matter how much we all preach against it, this is a common human failing. Think of it like taking your vitamins, the work is never done. When the sister swap occurs, ☆ is able to experience ¥'s miserable life. They have to switch rooms, so ☆ ends up reading ¥'s diary. She imbibes the excruciating humiliation and the utter hopelessness that her sister’s been feeling.
The show reinforces that inner beauty with confidence and courage are what harmonizes a life best. ☆ had the looks but, over time, became an ugly person. ¥ is regularly called ugly in the show, but she's kind, sensitive, thoughtful, and has the voice of an angel. {Per Hong Yoon Hwa’s bio, she's an actress and comedian but not a singer. That cute girl with the extra throaty voice shouldn't have the clear soprano that she showcases. She's convincing with the lip syncing, though} ¥'s first interaction with an outsider in TM is when she's helping a woman who's in need. Sadly, she's relegated her best qualities to the emotional prison of low self-esteem. Low self-esteem is a form of self-absorption. It's not healthy, and it's not okay. Any person too wrapped up in h/herself will become miserable. Finally, while confidence is the key, too much confidence leads to arrogance. It should always be tempered with humility because there's always somebody out there smarter, better looking, and more talented than you are, then I am. Overconfidence is living a lie, and is toxic not only to oneself, but also to everyone else.
Confidence is always the sexiest thing, but ¥ would never be able to find it on her own. Parents of unattractive children need to love and emotionally nourish them more, yet studies show that /even parents/ love and respect unattractive kids /less/! Children in danger of being ostracized over looks (or anything else) need to be handled tools by which to survive. We had a kind-hearted kid in our life who experienced some bullying at school. It's nothing unusual. When we talked about what one boy was saying to hurt his feelings, we worked on some comebacks. Fortunately, it worked like a wonder. Not everybody's a natural humorist but humor is the best diffuser, and humor can be learned. We told him to not defend himself, just make a joke out of it. He was able to do that. (I'm still working on this. Watching your charges surpass you is certainly a thrill).
Sibling relationships are also examined. Now that the girls must interact once again, they start to recall the fun they had when they were kids. In the run of these 12 episodes, ¥ does NOT lose any weight, even though the looks-oriented ☆ is in her body. In fact, ☆ can't stop eating when she's in ¥'s body. At first, like on a holiday, she enjoys eating everything in sight, to our amusement. She tries to go out and exercise. When she passes an open restaurant with the food displayed out front, exercise is over. “I can't stop these cravings!,” she moans. The experience broadens their perspectives and gives them a new view on life. They each come out better for it. ¥, who has a beautiful voice, is able to gather the pluck to show at a music audition. ☆ gave her the info and told her: "You had better go, I pulled a lot of strings for this." They end up improving eachother's lives. ¥, the sweetheart, makes friends out of ☆’s enemies. Chubby or not, ☆ still has that confidence and she puts ¥'s enemies in their place - DOWN.
The show is amusing. While there weren't laugh-out-loud lines, I grinned through the whole thing. One of the cutest scenes is day 1 of the switcheroo. ☆ hands a shirt to ¥ and says “Wear this”. ¥ looks at it and comments on how it looks like children's clothes.
Whether the clothes fit or not, TM will definitely fit into your family viewing time.
〰️QUOTE〰️ I guess not everyone can fit in children's clothes
✏〰 IMHO
Directing 6.7
Writing 6
Acting 7.8
Romance 7.6
Flutters 7.8
Art 7.5
Action 5
Sound & music 9
Ending 6.5
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Tears 7
Thought provocation 5
Snores 0
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Age 11+ this is perfect for tweens and young teens and adults will like it too.
Re-watch? I'm looking forward to showing this to some of the young girls in my life.
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How could twin sisters be such polar opposites? Kwon Shi Ah is the beautiful sister, gorgeous in every way and a member of the popular girl group known as Miracle Girls. Since she was in preschool, Shia has worked as a model and then a teen actress before becoming an idol. Her fraternal twin sister, Shi Yeon, is almost double the body size of Shi Ah and has always been ridiculed and bullied in school for her large frame. Because of this, Shi Yeon has become a recluse, who prefers staying home and producing an Internet broadcast within the safety of her room.
The only time Shi Yeon ventures out is to visit a mysterious tarot card reader who gives Shi Yeon a magical tarot card every day. But the twin sisters’ lives are turned upside down when they wake up one day and realize that their souls have switched bodies! What will an idol musician and Shi Yeon’s high school crush think of the women they thought they knew?
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Don't expect too much from it and you'll enjoy it.
This is a short web drama and as such you really shouldn't expect a lot from it. The plot is simple; twin sisters with polar opposite personalities magically switch their bodies.The acting is okay, I personally found that the girls acted better pretending to be each other's character than they did being their own character haha. There's no solid ending though, to be honest, we don't really know what happens with the main couple but you can assume, I suppose.
The songs are nice, but also that could be because Donghyun sings most of it. Haha, I loved Boyfriend back in the day so I got a bit of a bias for his voice.
However, I like that this drama also has a message to it. You have to love yourself for who you are.
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Looks matter when being an idol not singing
This drama was so so so good I swear to god even if it was only 11 minutes long it was worth watching it. I don’t really watch idol dramas, but this one was actually pretty good and I’m not lying. The actress that play Kwon Shi Ah and Kwon Shi Yeon were actually pretty good at making it seem like they hate each other as siblings because I have an older sister and the way they acted with the screaming and pulling each other’s hair is actually relatable expect we don’t pull each other’s hair, but it seems like a boxing match. The whole plot of this show was literally the definition of being an idol you need to have the looks and the body size and it doesn’t matter how you sing because they could add auto tune unless if it was for a live performance. Kwon Shi Ah is originally the idol in the family, but isn’t the best singer while Kwon Shi Yeon is a way better singer, but doesn’t want people to know that she’s fat because she will get a whole lot of hate so she uses a live stream with a photo of good looking girls and sings behind it. One day Shi Yeon goes to a magic person and ask to swap lives with her sister and it happened, but her life isn’t actually that good because everyone hates her in the group because she’s a rude person to all of the members while sucks at singing, but once they saw her being nice and a good singer one of the members knew something was up. Ban Hae Sung is a singer that thinks he’s better than everyone else and doesn’t even look at others when Shi Ah sang he didn’t look at her, but once Shi Yeon sang and was in her body he liked her so they dated, but then one day they transformed back and she was back to being the girl no one likes because she’s fat, but Ban Hae Sung was looking for her voice once he heard Shi Yeon sing he fell in love again. It was nice seeing a kpop group also the songs were so good and the love story between them all was nice. Anyways I hope you enjoy this drama as much as I do and I definitely recommend this drama.Was this review helpful to you?
Honestly it would have made a better movie. The short run-time definitely impacts the story overall. There are hints of 3 dimensional characters, but in the end they just aren't explored enough for you to fully connect with them. There's also hints of lessons learned (as you'd expect with any body swap drama), but it's never quite stated in a satisfactory way.
All this said, the acting was decent, but not outstanding (though seeing a 28-year-old play a high school senior is a bit distracting); the story was interesting enough to keep me hooked; and the music whilst generic was also fine.
Overall: I do recommend this if you enjoy light and fun dramas, just treat like a chick-flick movie (like Princess Diaries or She's the Man) and don't expect too much.
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