The Fabulous (2022)

Over the top, exaggerated

Not sure if this story even touches the reality of the fashion world, but the whole thing was so clichéd and looked like parts were borrowed from many other fashion movies.
Not sure if it was meant to be a romcom or a slice of life - it didn't fit either genre.

It could have been classified as a light hearted sweet drama - but no!
I'm sorry it is not sweet. The over acting of all the characters makes you grit your teeth and bang your head for watching it.

Except for three , EVERY other character acts atrociously over the top. It could very well be the director or writer's imagination of the behavior of people who work in the fashion industry, but those poor fashion folks should validate this overbearing nonsense.

The only one who did a great job is the supermodel. Not only was she stunning, but she flowed through her role as a supermodel and kept her emotions beautifully underplayed. She was really a superb actor.
The other two actors who stood out were the ex- boyfriend and the editor of the magazine - who had really small roles.

The ML was so lost, the FL was all over the place trying to be the eternal goddess of goodness.
And everyone else - seriously- behaved like they were in some exaggerated street mime show.

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I binged!

It was a great watch and i did watch it in one seating, usually happens when you are watching something good. It has its dramatic moments but overall it was quite an uplifting show. As much as it was a romance story between Minho and Soobin's character it was also very much a story of the four friends. I love the from start to finish the friendship between these four never wavered. Even if they all were dealing with their own problems they never fail to show up when the others needed them. I also love how even the side characters in this show great, i find myself rooting for them as well. Over all a great watch. Give it a chance people!

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Fabulous Idea; Epic Fail

I placed spoilers at the end of this review.

The only positive thing about this series was the group dynamic between the four friends. This series had an interesting premise, but failed with the execution. The script started off great but completely fell apart by episode 5. The main problem is it has too many storylines that were not fully developed. You get bits and pieces of a story with no full details. Because it’s an 8-episode series, they should have scaled down on the storylines and supporting characters. I was bored by the romance storyline and wished they had focused more on the friendship aspect of the script. See spoiler alert at the end of this review for more information. The actors did a great job with what they were given. However, many of the characters had very little depth or substance to them which is probably due to the poor script. See spoiler alert at the end of this review for more information.




******Spoiler Alert******

The romance between Pyo Ji Eun and Ji Woo Min was lack luster. I’m not a fan of love triangles, but the one in this series was the most annoying.

It's interesting that Joseph (the designer) and Ye Seon Ho (the modal) had very little character development considering this was about the fashion industry. You see how their careers developed, but nothing really about their personal life.

What was the point of Shim Do Young’s storyline? This character was annoying and creepy at times. This storyline had no real purpose in the series.

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Cute & Quick

Perhaps it's because I love drama's centered around friend groups, but I really enjoyed this. It was a light, fun and quick watch of people navigating their stressful lives and turning to their friends for comfort. There was no set plot, but honestly I didn't mind because it's just a drama about navigating the day-to-day struggles of the working class in the fashion industry and dealing with problems as they arise. I do feel that the episodes got better as the drama went on and I greatly enjoyed the secondary and guest characters. If you're looking for something light and quick that'll take your mind off of things for a couple of hours I would definitely recommend this.

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I enjoyed it..!

If you are looking for something fresh and cool you will enjoy this drama. Every character is interesting and the main couple is so cute, you can see Choi Minho and Chae Soobin have a good chemestry. Also the friendship of the 4 friends is adorable, I will really miss Joseph, Seon-ho, Ji-eun and Woo-min. I really enjoyed the drama so much because of them.

Finally, it was really nice to see Minho in a lead role again, he did a good job as Woo-min. Hopefully there will be more oprtunities to see him in other projects.

My punctuation in general is 10/10. The acting, the plot, the soundtrack and cinematography was really nice and I'm planing to watch it again with my friends.

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There should be ways to make things more fabulous

The whole drama looks like a hot trendy fashion piece with all the sheen and glimmer, but its context is hardly effective and that's a major disappointment for a Netflix originals. It clearly had every substance it needed to dive deeper into the fashion design industry backgrounds, yet the direction of its narrative is quite uneventful, not to say the fillers are a lot for just an eight episode drama. Even though the ending romance is surely an expected one, there should be ways to make things more fabulous given that the character design actually had plenty of potential in it.

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plot sucked

I'm pretty sure some people started this cause of Minho, some cause of soo bin, or some fell in love with the trailer and had a lot of expectation. I'm actually one of those who came here because of Minho and also because the trailer was good. I didn't have much expectations for this though so I'm not disappointed

plot: I don't even know what the plot is lmao. the plot sucked honestly, I didn't know what was happening other than just fashion and two dudes being the exes of the fl wanting to date her again. the plot was actually so boring, let me tell you. I stayed up till 2 am (my time) for this show to come and I started episode 1. didn't even realize when I fell asleep but thankfully I woke up in 30 mins to continue watching. I gave up at ep 3 and just told myself to watch it once I wake up. I couldn't even get through the 4th episode in 2 hours but I didn't want to drop it so I just skipped and skipped and skipped.

acting: I got nothing much to say for this as I didn't pay so much attention to the acting really. as for the casts tho, I came to watch Minho and ended up loving Kim Min Kyu's cute face lol

music: I don't remember hearing any music but I'll still give it a 7.5

rewatch value: I give rewatch value a 5.5 although I'll probably never come across this drama again. the reason is, if I am really really bored and just want to watch it for Minho or min kyu then I might. but honestly I don't find myself ever rewatching this show.

overall: like what I put here for the overall score, I do rate it a 7.5 but in my profile, I added +0.5 again for min kyu and min ho. also this was my first drama of chae soo bin's and I liked her character but it was kinda.. I don't know, I didn't feel much about her character. I liked some of the side casts and the fashion concept though. romance was bland, felt no chemistry between the leads.

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The Devil Wears Preteen Fanfic

"The Fabulous" is such an irredeemable mess that it approaches a point that makes it almost impossible to review. An end-to-end mishmash of poorly conceived characters brought to screen through addled direction that is stretched across an excruciating eight episodes of barely plotted and rapidly increasing unrealistic action. There are scant positives to point at, but the fact that it somehow is relatively less awful than the other recent fashion-themed drama "Now We Are Breaking Up" is probably its greatest selling point.

As for background, it's four friends - Chae Soo Bin's PR exec Ji Eun, Choi Min Ho's photographer Woo Min, Lee Sang Woon's designer Joseph and Park Hee Jung's runway model Seon Ho - working in the fashion industry. Here's the spoiler - they all succeed with only Ji Eun encountering momentary resistance and difficulty. And they party and dance and drink and literally nothing remotely bad happens that isn't easily and quickly solved. The solution? No idea. But whatever the problem was, it magically goes away. At the end, it's like every character showed up the day Oprah gave out "Happily Ever After" lives to everyone in her studio audience. The flying car at the end of "Grease" was a monument to realism compared to this fashion fantasy land.

Chae Soo Bin plays the latest in a string of near identical characters - sweet and cute and clumsy but inwardly determined. It's a character that she plays well, but there's no side of Ji Eun that hasn't been portrayed multiple times before by this actor.

Choi Min Ho has barely a cardboard cutout of a character. He's had previous roles where he's demonstrated enough competence to earn a leading role, but he shows nothing here to indicate he can take a character beyond what is explicitly written for it.

Park Hee Jung has, by far, the most presence on screen and character with some shred of depth to convey. She's in many respects playing herself but she is modestly convincing when she seem to have the closest thing to an actual crisis - whether she should continue modeling or not. Of course, it's barely set in place before she's told how fabulous she is and her grand conquest is [checks notes] pretty much doing the same modeling thing she had been doing before. It falls a bit short of the transcendent metamorphosis in to someone who contributes more to the world than being tall and walking in a straight line on stage.

But it is Joseph that is a cringefest from start to end. The industry should be commended for making a flamboyantly gay character a lead in a major drama. This particular character, however, is an incredible misstep. A flamboyantly gay man is not a toddler. He can be professional and strong and an adult and not need to be constantly emotionally supported by every other person in their presence. That his sexuality and the stereotype associated with it is so obviously being lampooned for cheap laughs is insulting and everyone who is associated with this character should regret their part in bringing such a travesty to screen.

As for the supporting characters, Shin Dong Mi deserves better than this neurotically clueless CEO, Shim Do Young tries very, very hard but has no gravitas, there's a couple of one dimensional boyfriend types that appear and say things and then move offscreen and are immediately forgotten and Seo Soo Hee plays the most ridiculous stereotype of a self-important idol type of recent memory.

Lee Si Woo has a nice turn as Joseph's assistant Esther. Im Ki Hong is brilliant in a guest role. And Seo Hye Won makes a brief cameo. That's the positives.

Strike a pose? No. Not recommended.

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a personal and professional growth story

I liked so much the plot of this drama. it was like a fashion sitcom. little cores going through their issues and a romance that had me hooked from start to finish. Right at the beginning it seems that all characters are presented the way Jieun sees them, so it was easy to want to hate some and love others, but as the chapters went by, the essence of each one can be known. It has become one of my favorites of the year for sure.
this is a mini drama that could easily be longer as it brought up some important issues in the fashion world that had to be quickly portrayed in order for there to be an outcome. Everything ends very well so it was very light. it was easy to watch it all at once. I wish some issues could have been more widely explored

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I dont regret to watch this drama

i really love this drama ( tbh i left dramas long time ago bcoz they always have the same line of story the tipycal principal roles where need to pass difficult and pain scenes to be together i was sick of that kind of dramas) but the fabulous is so DIFFERENT and that make the drama so amazing and over everything make this drama REAL bcoz i feel like many scenes can happen and hvae been happened to me and my friends and i love this drama more for that, i cried and smile too, and the actors were so good make me feel their feeling, nothing to say!! they did a good job!! and im so glad that this isnt the tipycal drama!!!! so happy that i decided to watch the fabulous.
note: if u have a group of friends in ur university time u wil see many scenes in this drama that will remember you good time or even sad times or feelings , will be like remember that feeling again.

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Not Good Enough

Korean Drama " The Fabulous " has pretty colours and bright lights, but no story.

The drama focuses too much on the love story, which was boring and had no pace, while the love triangle was cheesy and cliche. And, unfortunately, it stole too much screentime that could had been used for the story between the four friends, which was more interesting and refreshing compared to the love story.

Also, the fashion industry was portrayed with too many stereotypes and never broke through them to make a more youthful, up to date, version of it.

On the other hand, the clothes were pretty and the performances enjoyable, though the leads had annoying characters.

So, overall, three out of ten.

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