Glass Mask (2012)

I had to think long and hard before writing this review. This was my first daily drama! And to add the element of revenge to it was gold! The child acting in the first few episodes was superb! When I first started the drama, I could only watch a few episodes at a time because it was a story line hard to watch because of the sheer meanness of some of the characters towards the lead Kang Yi Kyung played by Seo Woo. The things that her family did and allowed was amazing. I have to say that the writing did a wonderful job the first 100 episodes; however, the last 20 episodes were either unnecessary or just plain filler; leading us to an ending that was rushed beyond belief!.

Acting: I have to give high props to both Seo Woo (Kang Yi Kyung) and Kim Yeo Seo (Kang Seo Yeon). These two women did an excellent job in making you love and hate them. The things Seo Yeon did to her sister, wow! I cannot give anything else away on that.

The two male leads, Lee Ji Hoon (who I love) and Park Jin Woo were at best decent. It was my first experience with Park Jin Woo, such a handsome guy and I look forward to see more of him in the future.

Overall, unless you have hours and hours to invest, these short 30 minutes will sweep you into a story of family, revenge, and murder unlike any you have seen before (okay, Yellow Boots is next)!!

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At the first few episodes... It will seem like a good drama.. and you will be very angry at people and you'll want to keep watching more.. yes I did that. The only reason I finished this drama is that I was just hoping the drama would get better or curious on how many episodes it would be (didn't find out about the 122 episodes until near the end of the run). I give the story at 6 because the first part of the drama was pretty good and attracted my attention up until the middle and then it just kind of went all over the place.... There wasn't very much "revenge" going on.. 8 for the Acting because the acting is very good in my opinion attracted me and many others who watched ALL 122 episodes of this... :) 5 for the music because.. there wasn't much to the music except some thriller music here and there and EVERY single episode you would hear the same opera song from 1-122 and even in the endings the music doesn't change much, there isn't much celebrity collaboration on the OST. REWATCH um... maybe for certain parts of the show.. just to reminisce the good moments of the show but for the whole thing I recommend you not watch it again start to finish you'll know why :) and Overall I give it 6 for fairness and basically that's for you to decide hopefully you'll mention my name in your reviews

Annyeong!!

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I like the drama very much because the acting is very real. The child actress did very well and it really made me cry over the story.
The plot is very good and the drama is very well written n the story draw u in n keep it suspenseful n make u keep wanting more n knowing for what's gonna happen next. Though the beginning episode you might not really like because it just deal with the adults, the parent and you might not really like it for there is no eye candy but afterward from episode 5 is where the drama start. Though the drama actually start form the beginning but this is when the main actor and actress come in.
The acting cast is really great starting from the child actresses, to the main actress and actors, to the adult actor and actress. The main actors and actress are very good looking and their acting is very natural and there are eye candy because both male actors are very good looking and the same goes for the female actresses. The children actress are also very cute too and it's like u want them to appear more because they are that good at performing their roles.
The music was okay, not that exciting but decent and fit well with the drama. Especially all the tango song because tango fits best for dramatic drama with passion. Though the song that the other lead actor sing is not that very good and seems to be bad quality with the music and all so you cant really hear his voice.
I would not rewatch this drama unless i have lots of times because it's like 120 episode. Though it's really good. If it was shorter like 16 episode I would rewatch it over so many time because that's how good the drama is.
Overall the drama is really great and if your not watching it you don't know what you are missing out on, for more detail and summary of each episode of the drama click in the Episode Guide and you will see that I wrote down the summary of each episode to show how much I really love this drama.

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My first time to watch a daily drama from TvN

I watched this drama because of Seo Woo since then I have watched her in Cinderella's sister and The Housemaid and I have become curious of her dramas as a main lead character so I watched this! For the first until the fifth episodes hooked me a lot however it is too detail to narrate the childhood life of Kang Yi Kyung and Kang Seo Yeon. I have skipped a lot of episodes because it is filled with fillers about toxic people like Seo Yeon, a habitual liar and the step mother Shim Hae Soon who is a manipulative bitch and annoys me a lot that sometimes these two were the reasons I want to drop this drama. Kang Seo Yeon's character development is very low that she have changed her attitude nearing to the end of the story because she wants to have her liver donated by Kang Yi Kyung... like what the f*** she doesn't deserved it! I feel really sorry about the people whom Seo Yeon hurt the most - Yi Kyung... I wonder why Seo Yeon didn't go to jail but she should have gone to jail after all what she did to Yi Kyung, Ha Jun and Ha Jun's mother! She should have been punished to jail or she have died at least in the end. I really hated the plot twist that Seo Yeon is the twin sister of Yi Kyung... it's like Min Seol Ah and Seok Kyung in Penthouse..

My favorite scene is that the stepmother of Kang Yi Kyung have known that her former husband was killed by Kang In Chul... and finds out that Shin Gi Tae was framed and was felt unjust because of In Chul to get what he wants in order to achieve his selfish position as a police.. So far, In Chul have took care his victims but in the end it was really all his fault! Then Shim Hae Soon felt sorry to Kang Yi Kyung for what she have done to her for many years and felt guilty towards her!

So far I love the casts despite they're underrated but they surpassed my standards of their acting skills!
I have seen how Seo Woo improved her acting skills compared to her drama Cinderella's sister.. Seo Woo made me cry and brought me joy watching in this drama! I hope she comes back in drama

It's my first time to encounter Kim Yoon Seo in a drama that she really made me annoyed her rolling eyes and her toxicity. She deserves to play a good main lead role and she's a good actress really!

Park Jin woo is my first time to see in this drama also! I have seen how natural his beauty is and I love his acting skills that I really want to look forward for his dramas but he is so underrated and he deserves such recognition!

Lee Ji Hoon is also my first time to see in this drama and he reminds me of Kim Seung Dae in That Sun in the Sky! I love how he act as an antihero in this drama and how protective he was for Kang Yi Kyung!

So far bittersweet hate and love for this drama that gives me depression and makes me cry because of these characters but I really love the story... I hope TvN would create more daily drama as good as this! I love how powerful the use of element of revenge in this drama... it's really rare to see a daily drama with addictive revenge stories like this!

Glass Mask would have been better if the narration during the child hood of Yi Kyung and Seo Yeon would have appeared in the flashbacks instead of appearing in the first episodes and also they should have shorten it with only 20 episodes when most of the episodes are 75% fillers and unnecessary

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