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MattPeddlesden

Kent, UK

MattPeddlesden

Kent, UK
My Holo Love korean drama review
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My Holo Love
2 people found this review helpful
by MattPeddlesden
Feb 16, 2020
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 6.5
Good bit of fun as the FL falls for a hologram and the hologram falls right back, and then the creator of the hologram falls too, and then, well, it's a funky triangle, and not actually the terrible annoying sort :) Enjoyed it a lot, some great visual effects and a story that moves along at a decent pace as it's shorter than the usual.

Good to see Go Sung Hee in another drama, i've been enjoying her in the Korean version of Suits as well and was one of the reasons I was keen to pick this up - besides the sci-fi / tech based storyline to this one.

Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, we humans are already very ready to become attached to things, we give our cars names and talk lovingly (or not...) to other tech around the house. We have a real emotional connection to some things - and while I think we're a fair way off it still, it's only a matter of time before the tech starts feeling back.

The idea of the Augmented Reality style "holo glasses" is great and clearly just around the corner (let's forget those google things that just freaked everyone out). Whether we'll be happy to waffle away to a holo-buddy that nobody can see, I think that we're not there yet - a lot of people are still having trouble talking to Alexa in a useful way, though perhaps with more natural language interaction that might improve.

In amongst the side of the story covering human-AI relationships, there's a corporation jealous of the progress that's been made and wants to take over and this presents more interesting dynamics for human-AI relationships and how they might change at the simple click of a button.

Great story, haven't sat and listened to the OST yet but definitely will, thought that the actors did a great job and really nothing stood out as wrong to me. Ending was satisfying, though with an unnecessary wrinkle at the ending which was just plain odd and in a very minor way it diminished some of what had gone before.

Another good one, particularly as it's only 12 episodes it's an easy weekend-watch if you're as obsessed as I am :)
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