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I see this drama is described as heart-warming so sorry not sorry that my cold heart made me drop this boring tripe.
The premise is something that could be wrapped up in a 2 hrs long movie yet somehow they decided to stretch it into 12 episode drama and they already ran out of gas in episode 3. This is basically a drama that builds to only 2 things: whether the hot pouty ballerino is going to win the National competition (the sensible story), and whether the 70 years old man with no prior dance experience is somehow going to perform ballet on the stage (the nonsense story). The rest is no1curr filler about the grandpa's good-4-nothing children, romance between the hot ballerino and grandpa's granddaughter plus her employment woes, ballerino's part time job woes, ballerino's convoluted rivalry with some blond soccer punk, ballerino's strained relationship with his jailbird father who has something to do with blond punk's grudge. None of this has anything to do with ballet.
Grandpa actor is the highlight but his character quickly goes from endearing to delulu and annoying for he apparently really think that he could and should perform on the stage like a pro. Song Kang aka the hot pouty ballerino pouts a lot and it's really ridiculous how obvious it is that he isn't performing even the most basic ballet. The switch between his sweaty head-to-shoulders closeup and "headless" dancing by the real ballet dancer was hilarious at first but irritating the longer the drama went. It really takes you out of the experience. I liked Song Kang in Sweet Home where his catatonic pouty acting style worked perfectly. Not so much here or in the boring Love Alarm. No one else registers cause they are all in the skippable filler described above and responsible why it's so skippable.
I watched first 3 episodes in full and the next 3 with a lot of skipping. Now I have dropped it for good which sucks because I like ballet, Black Swan is one of my all time favorite movies, and I greatly enjoyed even the trashy Tiny Pretty Things series. But this is a dumb premise that doesn't have much to do with ballet and the level of boredom makes it recommendable only to insomniacs.
The premise is something that could be wrapped up in a 2 hrs long movie yet somehow they decided to stretch it into 12 episode drama and they already ran out of gas in episode 3. This is basically a drama that builds to only 2 things: whether the hot pouty ballerino is going to win the National competition (the sensible story), and whether the 70 years old man with no prior dance experience is somehow going to perform ballet on the stage (the nonsense story). The rest is no1curr filler about the grandpa's good-4-nothing children, romance between the hot ballerino and grandpa's granddaughter plus her employment woes, ballerino's part time job woes, ballerino's convoluted rivalry with some blond soccer punk, ballerino's strained relationship with his jailbird father who has something to do with blond punk's grudge. None of this has anything to do with ballet.
Grandpa actor is the highlight but his character quickly goes from endearing to delulu and annoying for he apparently really think that he could and should perform on the stage like a pro. Song Kang aka the hot pouty ballerino pouts a lot and it's really ridiculous how obvious it is that he isn't performing even the most basic ballet. The switch between his sweaty head-to-shoulders closeup and "headless" dancing by the real ballet dancer was hilarious at first but irritating the longer the drama went. It really takes you out of the experience. I liked Song Kang in Sweet Home where his catatonic pouty acting style worked perfectly. Not so much here or in the boring Love Alarm. No one else registers cause they are all in the skippable filler described above and responsible why it's so skippable.
I watched first 3 episodes in full and the next 3 with a lot of skipping. Now I have dropped it for good which sucks because I like ballet, Black Swan is one of my all time favorite movies, and I greatly enjoyed even the trashy Tiny Pretty Things series. But this is a dumb premise that doesn't have much to do with ballet and the level of boredom makes it recommendable only to insomniacs.
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