Want something never seen before? Keep moving. This isn't it. But it's a nice little light romance.
Producer: “Hey everyone, thanks for coming to today’s meeting. It’s good to have all our hair, makeup & wardrobe people together. We’ve got a big item to address today. As you know, tomorrow, we’re filming the high school flashback scene, right? You’ve all read the breakdown I trust. So the deal is, our main character, Yi Seo is supposed to be a loser and a nobody that Seon Woo would never even look at twice. We’ve got to make our star, Im Na Young, look terrible! I want your ideas on how we’re going to do that. Fire ‘em at me!”Wardrobe: “We’ll put glasses on her.”
Hair: “We’ll put her hair in pigtails.”
Makeup: “Acne?”
[producer stays silent glaring for a minute]
Producer: “Guys. Seriously? We’re not trying to make her look even more cute than usual. She's supposed to be a LOSER. DORK. NERD. Not adorable!”
Wardrobe, Hair & Makeup: [blank stares]
Producer: “What’s our CGI budget?”
Production Assistant: “Zero”
Producer: [rubs face with both hands] “Ok fine, so she’ll be an unbelievably adorably cute loser.”
“Heartbeat Broadcasting Accident” is a web drama that, outside the context of faceplanting on their attempt to make Im Na Young not look stunning, isn’t going to break any new ground as far as novel plotlines and the character roster is nothing but stock, generic types. So its success rides entirely on how well its cast can charm the audience. Although it’s a mixed bag there, it has more positives than negatives.
Lee Hyun Joo is the antagonist, Yu Ra, a successful live commerce host with a thing for Director Cha Seun Woo. She’s the typical selfish, shallow popular girl. Lee Hyun Joo is fine here although deviating a bit from the all-unfriendly all-the-time might have livened things up. Had she been a backstabber on top of everything else, points for that. But with a web drama, there just may not have been enough run time to fit that in.
Points for Yang Hak Jin as the very creepy and terrible ex boyfriend.
The weakest of the cast is undoubtedly Jung Min Gyu as Kwon Hyuk, the friend who hooks up Yi Seo with a job at the live commerce company. The character seems written like he should be somewhat sympathetic, but he’s played so erratically and disdainfully by Jung Min Gyu that he is almost as much the bad guy as Yu Ra.
This show though, not all that unexpectedly, is about the two leads and the romance between them. Zuho plays Cha Seon Woo, the cool former high school heartthrob that’s now a director at a live commerce company and rival of Kwon Hyuk. It’s not the most arduous or novel character to play, but Zuho checks all the physical attributes for a male lead and he’s got credible skills as an actor. He’s given some bad dialogue and that he still is a mostly charming and charismatic character shows he’s not just a pretty face and singer.
Im Na Young is getting regular work but it’s mostly been as an ensemble piece where here she’s the one with unquestioned claim in the spotlight. Yi Seo is not a huge departure from previous characters and there’s certainly questions about whether there’s a lot of range in Im Na Young’s toolbox as an actor. Despite that, she has no problems playing the sweet and bubbly type and that’s what she’s asked to do in this vehicle. Is she leading material in a big production? Can’t tell based on this show but she is capable as an actor playing this type of character. So she gets to play to her strengths and the chemistry with Zuho is ok. And that makes “Heartbeat Broadcasting Accident” a better than average web drama.
Is it groundbreaking? No.
Amazing? No.
Memorable? No.
But it takes a simple concept and competently executes it and, for a bite-size show, is one of the 2021 better productions.
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--- One of the best lines, and, I might say: it is worth repeating as and Idioms(?)
--- One of the best lines, and, I might say: it is worth repeating as an Idioms -- ? examples: Break a Leg, it’s not over until the fat lady sings or Ring my Bell, etc. etc. etc.).It is cute to have these lines say out loud:
"Should we meet as LOVERS from tomorrow?"
NICE touch and heartwarming idiom. Lovely words.
As for the story plot. Very simple, slow moving but worth watching if you got time to spare.
Story was all about cosmetic advertisements. A newbie influencer (per dialogue) as the Promoter\Representor\Advertiser.
The story about love\romance was simple but the memories of high school's crushes\first love\heartbreak and all the FIRST experiences were Worth remembering. High School where your First experienced occurred, exited, felled etc.
The acting was well done but the story pretty slow and not so exciting.
Overall, it is worth watching if you have the time or watch it later.
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This is really good!!!
Ive watched ep5 already and I love it!!! Hoping that the next episodes will be a lot more "kilig". Im soooooo excited for the next last episodes.. I hope these three leads will have their big break on small screen soon.. I really love to see them in a 16episode drama with a office romcom genre. I will definitely root for them!! The girl is pretty and she can act. I love her smile and her character.. the storyline excites me and cant wait for the other episodes!' I really love the leads they are all sooo goodlooking specially the boys!! OMG! Zu Ho is fire!!!!! Hyuk is also goodlooking but my fave is Director Cha. He have similarities with oppa Lee joon gi, I believe that he will shine in drama industry soon. Im gonna read his profile now on wiki , bye for now! :-)
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Zuho was the hero of this one!
Great story idea with actors who played their roles well.I was a bit hesitant to watch this one because I am not a fan of influencers. That whole business is way too fake and insincere. It's been overdone but I guess the world needs to catch on, which may never happen at this point. This drama surprised me in how it used influencing though, so it won a lot of points for that.
I really enjoyed this one, except for the bad hair on Zuho. He's a great looking guy and seems to have a great stylist when it comes to his looks, in general, but for this movie, it didn't work. Can I add that glass skin on man who tries to look good, just doesn't work? Save the glass skin for girls or boys who don't want to look like men.
Not all pop stars should be actors, but Zuho gets a thumbs up from me. I really wish he'd get a better agent, so that he can do well in his acting career. He's got real potential to be an A-lister.
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Could've been better
Wow, the acting is bad in this one. Every now and again I'm willing to suffer some bad acting for a good storyline, however, this was not one of those. For how fast it was moving, it was surprisingly bland and boring. What killed it for me, though, was that I just could not get make myself to care about any of the characters. Instead, I spent most of the episodes thinking "Am I supposed to root for any of these people?"It's probably not as bad as I'm making it out to be, it was just so amateurish. If you're into those high quality SBS/KBS/JTBC/etc dramas like I am, this probably won't be the right one for you.
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