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Shadow Beauty korean drama review
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Shadow Beauty
12 people found this review helpful
by Cap Lucy
Dec 29, 2021
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed 2
Overall 1.0
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

Probably the worst drama (and webdrama ) i ever watched

1)Story:

When they announced this drama i was excited because it kind of looked like a mix of True beauty (the fact she is a "fake beauty" ) and Live on ( the fact that there was a mysterious person who know the truth behind her secret and "plays with her") , wich are dramas i really appreciated.

But the drama is a total joke.
The only good thing in this drama is the fact the female lead ends with the second lead wich is kind of refreshing.
The rest is just...
There are moments where you are like "what?!why?"

First :
There is a moment in the beginning of the drama where she is afraid of posting image on her wingstagram because of the mysterious person . She finally does it because of the pression of the brands she works with and risk of breaking terms with them if she doesnt post photos ! But like 2 episodes later , she decide to stop her account for like a few days but the brands doesnt ask refund? (In the head of the scenarist at that moment be like : " let's just forget that for the sake of the plot"). And at the end too , she decide to stop faking her image and show her true self but still nothing from the brands!!!

Second:
There is a moment where Aejin(Shim Dalgi) get blackmailed by Minji ( Nagyung) with a video of Jinsung (Hongseok) wich no one ever saw because Aejin was affraid it maybe that Jinsung send her some "Raunchy"/"Inapropriate stuff" . She is affraid for him?! There is nothing to get blackmailed at all for one simple reason: there are 2 posibility :
- The contents of the video isn't something raunchy and then Jimin has nothing to blackmail our female lead for.
- and if it contains hot stuff then Jinsung is a total pervert and deserves tottally to be exposed!

Third :
The story about her mother who is solved by itself at the end and is totally forgetable.

Fourth:
The fact that the short hair girl totally lose her mind and use the estinguisher on her classmates but there are no consequences for her because she is still there in class and at the party a few days after( normally incident like that doesn't stay unpunished!).


About the characters (not yet the acting):
-Jinsung:
Not much to tell about him since the only thing he is is "i secretly like the female lead" . His story is basic for the simple fact : he appears in like only 6/13 episodes.
-Female lead/Aejin :
I think i'll have more to tell in the acting section about her?
- The female lead best friend on sns but bully in real life:
I think she is okay. Her character isn't that bad.
- Bomin's character :
He is a total stalker , psycho (and he is the mysterious person who knows her secret)!
He literally take pleasure to play with the female lead by sending messages to her and making her stressed out like crazy, he treats his GF like sh*t (and it has nothing to do with the fact his GF is Aejin Bully!). There is a moment when him and Aejin wants to know where the bully is and he says " I just tracked her downed" with his phone in his hand showing a tracing app, wich means he tracks his GF?What the f*ck??! In the end , they try to explain why he acts like this but this still unaceptable but all they forgive him like ????
Also to illustrate some incoherent scene : a moment where Bomin is dressed like a clown and wears tone of makeup but still manage to appear 2 minutes later with no makeup and normal clothes ( damn if i knew he was that fast , they should have casted him as the next enemy of the season in the flash)

Five:
At the end, the scenarist be like " oh my god we have so much plots to solve in one episode , what do we do?!?? Let's solve every side problems that are not the main plot in 1 minute". Everything is solved so fast , like Bomin explaination on why he is like this( I really think he should be audition for The flash next season).


2) Acting/Cast :
Bomin , Hongseok , and the Best friends/ Bully: They are pretty decent actor .( Even Hongseok having a fake accent for this role was very good)

Nagyung: some scene was just bad: like the scene when she discovers Aejin's secret , it feels like a bad Thriller/Horror movie scene.

Finally, Shim Dal Gi:
Her acting for this role is just the worst acting i have ever seen in my life( and i can say i've watched like more than 300 series and much more films). Every scene with her is just awfull. She exagerate every emotion so that it becomes totally absurd .
I know some may say : " Yes but it is how most Kdramas are , they are more exagerating scenes to be funny because this is their humour " and i find this type of scenes funny , but even for kdramas this is exagerated and totally weird .
This is one of the biggest problem of the drama : Her acting in this role!

3)Music:

This a shame that there are no OST or no song in this drama when the cast literraly includes 60% idols . What does it costs to make an OST with Bomin, Hongseok or Nagyung.

4) Rewatched Value :

When i first saw the first episodes , i decided to rewatch it and continue watching it with my sister to be sure that this wasn't just me who tought this drama was complete garbage! And no she thinks the same. Actually we laughed at how bad was the scenes in this drama were!??

I consider if you have other dramas on your watchlist , wacth them! But if you don't , i highly recommend watching this drama cauz you may find funny how bad is it!

Thank you for reading my opinion on this drama❤️
Hoping to a season 2 for more explaination and more fun???!
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