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Record of Youth korean drama review
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Record of Youth
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by Pearl Harbor
Oct 27, 2020
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 7.5
Music 9.5
Rewatch Value 5.0

Until the last episode, no CHEMISTRY between the leads, whats so ever

I can safely say that this drama is a Biopic of Sa hye Joon....The template was well established about Sa Hye Joon from the beginning. A struggling Model, who also loves to act but has no contacts in the industry also comes from a middle class background, very adamant about his principles, dreams...basically what a hero's characteristics should look like.

Let's talk about other characters surrounding our Main lead. Caring but helpless mom, very strict dad, ideal older brother, lovely grandpa, his 2 other friends and then there is our Female Main Lead. Her Character was super duper strong initially. I was rooting for her. But later on it just fizzled out. The character became too confusing to understand.

What I liked most about this drama was Main Leads we were practical, very relatable. I mean in most of the dramas Female leads just act cute and basically do nothing. Here both of them very practical couple. Very straightforward forward and honest with each other. Like I said in the HEADLINE this might have resulted in lack of chemistry between the leads. Wow!!! From the beginning they both looked more like friends than couple.

Sa Hye Joon and his family's graph was amazing, characters were well developed only Sa family. His friends like Hye Ho, Jin u were Ok. In the end it was really unclear to what happened to Hye Ho's career, did he make it or no.
Jong Ah is the character who hated instability, unpredictability a lot. But she left a secured job to open a studio of her own which contradicted her believes. Later on she blamed it on Hye Joon for her being unstable and broke up with him....Like i said her character got super confusing towards the end.

It is not very bad but the potential was not fully utilized. Beginning few episodes were good but again it fizzed out soon. You can watch it once as it is there on Netflix. Also, Sa Hye Joon's story is worth watchable atleast once.

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