Oh My Grace (2017)

It's a Dramafever original! My expectations weren't high to begin with, but I was cautiously optimistic since a) It's Dramafever's first drama and b) It' only seven 7-minute episodes.

After the first episode I knew it wasn't really good, but hey, it's important to try and it might improve.
After watching the whole drama, I can safely say it's been a while since I saw such a humongous dumpster fire.

Story: rushed and unconnected. They tried to squeeze in the whole 20 hour drama storyline in 49 minutes. It didn't work. Even the cliches seemed rushed. Still, we glimpsed the following: getting drunk, piggyback ride, eating food from street stalls, rich heir and poor girl trope, rebellious heir, love triangle, second lead syndrome, tsundere male lead and the poor girl getting a makeover trope. Ugh. Add in the open ending, terrible "inspirational" one-liners and a general sense of hopelessness as to where this plot is going and what you get is a whole new level of unwatchable. Honestly, if it wasn't this short, I wouldn't have made it.

Filming: do you like a shaky camera with lots of refocusing and jump cut scenes? If so, you're up for a real treat. My personal favorite was the scene in which they walk down the road - it lasts 5 seconds and has 3 jump cut scenes. We're on one end of the road. And now in the middle. And now at the other end! Wasn't this exciting? Yay.

Acting: I dislike insulting actors for their work so I'l just say the nicest things I can. They didn't stutter and the second lead's dancing was better than expected.

Music: boring but passable

Rewatch value: it has one? Honestly, if you want to watch a romantic short drama you're better off with pretty much anything. May I suggest Another Parting, Between Friendship and Love, The Boy Next Door, She is 200 Years Old? They're all under 2 hours long.

Good points: imagine all the money you'd save on plane tickets if all it took to travel across the ocean was to get drunk and pass out near the sea.

Bad points: everything else

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I try to be fairly open minded when approaching dramas, but the trailer made me really nervous to watch this. Something about female lead is instantly not likeable, maybe it's a lack of feeling of genuine personality or an overworked trope she has to portray. Her movement exaggerations seem very over performed rather than a natural action carried out. Her Korean lines sounded better than her lines delivered in English which fell very flat and sound very 'read'. The fact that a woman her age cannot figure out how to fold clothes into a bag was a final straw for me...I mean it's not rocket science. The only thing she seems good at is getting drunk. They should have cast a sassy girl who is excellent at improv like Megan Bowen (youtube). Somehow the story didn't really pull together overall so it might leave you annoyed and unsatisfied. Poor male actors did what they could with what they were given to work with, they tried  but they just couldn't sell it!
For drama with non-Asian lead, I suggest Tamra the Island.

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I didn't expect much to start with but though the concept could have had potential. Essentially it's a poorly executed web-drama (7 parts all 7-8 min long) making fun of all of the typical troupes a western viewer will notice after watching a few kdramas....cliches like... hand pulling, love triangle, stress drinking, drunken piggyback rides, generational heir who wants to make his own way, time/locations travel,  sequences of being in the Joseon period, phone calls interrupting kissing, K-pop hopeful...
Overall acting in English felt as natural as plastic compared to the scenes done in Korean. The editing was choppy but I suspect that is because of the time frame allotted for the drama.  I could have been "better" if they added extra time to the story development and made it a mini-movie.

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Mercifully short

This is a reject from the "I watched it so you don't have to department." It's "This is so bad you gotta see it" material.

The script lurches forward randomly trying to condense a bad 16-episode rom-com into 40 minutes of airtime. I could not figure out if there was a love triangle that tripped my gaydar or if it was straight up BL with some random chick thrown in to confuse things. Based on the last episode I think it's trying to be heterosexual.

The acting is only charitably described as such. "David Shin" has one acting credit. It should remain that way for all eternity. The other two were far from that bad but they won't be passing my auditions any time soon.

The music was taken from a tape of insurance company hold music that one of the producers probably stole from their day job.

Bottom line: I gave it one point for being mercifully short. You should absolutely watch it and prank your friends into watching it, too.

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honestly, I was anxious to see this, it would be very interesting to look at a drama with a foreigner. The story had the capacity to be something incredible, but thought I found things without any sense. I wish someday to find a foreigner protagonist story with a cool story. This dorama had all the points to be something unique, but unfortunately did not make any sense to me.
are few episodes, I know, but the story could have been great, lacked more involvement and explanations in the story, everything seemed "vague" and "shallow"
I believe that if in the future, someone decides to make a drama with a foreign leading actress, will make a great success! (If the story is well elaborated).
On the other hand, I realize that the actors struggled to do their best, unfortunately this drama did not show the potential of the actors. Grace learned Korean just watching dramas and this really is spectacular! I would love to see her perform more often, in dramas with more elaborate stories so she has a chance to show off all her potentials and talent

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