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Behind Cut korean drama review
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Behind Cut
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by Faeriedust95
Nov 19, 2023
8 of 8 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 4.0
Story 3.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 2.0
This review may contain spoilers

Confused

Did I watch a shortened version wherein the rest of the story is told but I somehow missed all the details and just saw a highlight reel? I am so confused. MLs are good looking and have chemisty, but the story of how they fell in love and how they stayed together or fell apart just isn't there. Nothing is there. In what appears to be a momentary flashback we see the ML Yeong-Woo (YW) crying and 2nd ML Yi Bin (YB) consoling him a little. I think they were dating but broke up because YB wasn't in love. Back to the time of the story and YW falls in love (within a few days) of meeting Ki Jin (KJ -- who is the man YB is currently in love with, but remains friend zoned). KJ appears to be an aspiring fashion designer. YB is a famous model. YW is a deliveryman who fits KJ's ideal of the model for his brand. They meet in a bad way, somehow fall in love (no story, just bam, mission accomplished) and YW becomes KJ's model while YB feels left out. Then somehow it seems that KJ is offered an opportunity to go to New York to make his name in fashion, but only if he goes with YB. He says no, but somehow YW hears that he is going to go with YB, believes he is being dumped, and they separate (without story, no talking about it, just bam again, mission accomplished). YB goes to NY by himself. KJ continues his dream by opening his own studio. YW goes back to being a deliveryman and part time model. Now we are going to fast forward to the end... a year later, deliveryman YW delivers food to his past lover KJ. KJ apologizing but they never really talk and somehow get back together or maybe just kiss. Ends with YB and YW modeling together and sitting down to share drinks in which YB says he went to NY by himself and YW and KJ are running back to each other. That appears to be the end. But I still don't know what happened. Did KJ go to NY but just by himself? If not, why apologize? Why didn't they talk it out? Why don't they even speak to each other for a year? Just ghost each other over a misunderstanding and get back together out of nowhere? The music was whatever, but honestly with such a confusing story, even a great OST could only have taken it so far. Since it makes no sense, I can't see there would be any value in watching it more than once. I would just end up confused and wonder why I bothered again. The actors were fine, they did well pretending emotions out of thin air and no plot, but still, nothing can save a story that doesn't actually have any story. If there is another version of this story where you actually have the whole story with reasonable English subtitles, please let me know. Otherwise I will persist in believing that this halfway attempt was somehow meant to be the entirety of this ridiculous series.
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