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A primer on how to be hot but boring.
Man...I had such high hopes for this drama because these two were so good together in Goblin. There's a major theme in Kdramas though where the lead actress has to be pretty but not tooooo pretty. This female lead plays a lot of supporting roles because she easily rules the "too pretty" category of Kdrama actresses. Most of the dramas I've seen her in she plays the ditzy not-to-bright but super pretty side characters. This drama took that exact same type-cast side character and made a drama around her. The problem is that it's basically still a side-character's story. It's like you're watching two supporting cast members in every scene and you never get to meet the actual main cast. I wasn't a fan.
The actors do very well playing their respective parts, but the story and the script are so bland what's even the point. There needed to be SOMETHING, some additional plot device, to make this more interesting than a side-story. It's disappointing because, let's be honest, it's fun to watch hot people do hot people things on your tv screen. But without any substance you might as well just turn the volume/subtitles off and watch the pretty moving pictures. I mean...come on...spoiled bratty actress and aloof dickish lawyer. It's like every trope got tossed into one drama and you've got a trope salad without dressing for your troubles.
I still liked it well enough to watch the whole thing...but mostly because Lee Dong Wook is hot....kind of like in a weird frozen faced too much botox way, but he's still super hot. I just wish they'd given him something to actually act instead of having to exclusively and constantly play off the counterpart bimbo character. I wish they'd given her some depth so she wouldn't have to just be a total bimbo with no personality the entire drama.
Definitely would not rewatch, once was difficult enough thanks.
The actors do very well playing their respective parts, but the story and the script are so bland what's even the point. There needed to be SOMETHING, some additional plot device, to make this more interesting than a side-story. It's disappointing because, let's be honest, it's fun to watch hot people do hot people things on your tv screen. But without any substance you might as well just turn the volume/subtitles off and watch the pretty moving pictures. I mean...come on...spoiled bratty actress and aloof dickish lawyer. It's like every trope got tossed into one drama and you've got a trope salad without dressing for your troubles.
I still liked it well enough to watch the whole thing...but mostly because Lee Dong Wook is hot....kind of like in a weird frozen faced too much botox way, but he's still super hot. I just wish they'd given him something to actually act instead of having to exclusively and constantly play off the counterpart bimbo character. I wish they'd given her some depth so she wouldn't have to just be a total bimbo with no personality the entire drama.
Definitely would not rewatch, once was difficult enough thanks.
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