Mirae13
I will give a few points only because I like Seo Hyun Jin.
However, Beauty Inside is a complete waste of time. It looks like the writer and producers just vaguely thought they could make money out of the movie's good plot idea. They turned it into a "healing drama" to follow the 2018 trend, and stuffed it with as many clichés as possible.
We have to bear once again the boring chaebol settings. So the male lead is of course a CEO, who has much more power than our actress heroine. He's a jerk but he hides a terrible disease (he doesn't recognize faces), so we are bound to soon pity him and find him "cute". The heroine has a weird condition of changing appearance once a month during one week (!). She is supposed to be strong but she is just as cliché as most drama heroines. It's hard to believe that it's a JTBC drama.
This main couple is unbelievably boring, not only because the characters are empty shells, but also because the 2 lead actors have no chemistry. Lee Min Ki has zero expression on his face during the whole drama, to the point that he looks ice cold even when he reunites with his lost love after 1 year. I like this actor usually, but here he is just lazy, acting the same as he did in his previous drama (except that it was justified, then). Seo Hyun Jin was much better in Temperature of Love, but she takes her job seriously in Beauty Inside, and puts efforts into her character although Se Gye is very poorly written.
The second couple is not interesting either, even if Lee Da Hee stands out among the cast.
There wasn't enough substance in the script to make a whole drama, moreover a 16-episode drama. Hence they tried to add unnecessary drama to keep the viewers interested, like this absurd melodramatic plot device in episodes 9 and 10, that made me lose the last tiny bit of interest I could have in this drama.
They also accessorized the drama as much as possible to fill time, adding some supposedly cute elements to bring the rom-com feel. They added a little dog like in Thirty But Seventeen, a drama that was broadcasted on SBS just before this one. But contrary to Thirty But Seventeen, they never treated this dog as an animal, rather as a prop, a toy. They put it on the sofa or on the dining table like a decorative object. They customized it with clothes to fit the actors' clothes in each scene. They even made it wear dresses and hats that covered its ears! Poor dog. it's my first time being shocked by this kind of thing in a drama.
Beauty Inside is one of those dramas that should never have been made in the first place. I hope Seo Hyun Jin finds a better work to showcase her acting skills next time.
However, Beauty Inside is a complete waste of time. It looks like the writer and producers just vaguely thought they could make money out of the movie's good plot idea. They turned it into a "healing drama" to follow the 2018 trend, and stuffed it with as many clichés as possible.
We have to bear once again the boring chaebol settings. So the male lead is of course a CEO, who has much more power than our actress heroine. He's a jerk but he hides a terrible disease (he doesn't recognize faces), so we are bound to soon pity him and find him "cute". The heroine has a weird condition of changing appearance once a month during one week (!). She is supposed to be strong but she is just as cliché as most drama heroines. It's hard to believe that it's a JTBC drama.
This main couple is unbelievably boring, not only because the characters are empty shells, but also because the 2 lead actors have no chemistry. Lee Min Ki has zero expression on his face during the whole drama, to the point that he looks ice cold even when he reunites with his lost love after 1 year. I like this actor usually, but here he is just lazy, acting the same as he did in his previous drama (except that it was justified, then). Seo Hyun Jin was much better in Temperature of Love, but she takes her job seriously in Beauty Inside, and puts efforts into her character although Se Gye is very poorly written.
The second couple is not interesting either, even if Lee Da Hee stands out among the cast.
There wasn't enough substance in the script to make a whole drama, moreover a 16-episode drama. Hence they tried to add unnecessary drama to keep the viewers interested, like this absurd melodramatic plot device in episodes 9 and 10, that made me lose the last tiny bit of interest I could have in this drama.
They also accessorized the drama as much as possible to fill time, adding some supposedly cute elements to bring the rom-com feel. They added a little dog like in Thirty But Seventeen, a drama that was broadcasted on SBS just before this one. But contrary to Thirty But Seventeen, they never treated this dog as an animal, rather as a prop, a toy. They put it on the sofa or on the dining table like a decorative object. They customized it with clothes to fit the actors' clothes in each scene. They even made it wear dresses and hats that covered its ears! Poor dog. it's my first time being shocked by this kind of thing in a drama.
Beauty Inside is one of those dramas that should never have been made in the first place. I hope Seo Hyun Jin finds a better work to showcase her acting skills next time.
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