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heartaem
England
Falling for Challenge, or, Falling for Dojeon, is a Korean web drama starring EXO's Xiumin (Kim Minseok) and Kim Soeun about two college students that meet due to a club. Dojeon [Xiumin] practices being a Pierrot clown in his time outside of college, and Hana [Soeun] has a dream to run a food truck. Meeting in the One More club, a club where members take on a new challenge every week, Dojeon and Hana face club drama and potential romance together.
Truth be told, I only watched this as I bias Xiumin, and I finally wanted to watch his web drama after watching his movie [Seondal: The Man who Sold the River] and falling in love with his acting. The two roles are very different and far apart from each other, and I wanted to see how well he managed to take that on. Being his first drama, and both his movie and this series being filmed whilst he was a rookie, I have to say, I was blown away. To be a rookie actor and to turn around what he did with Dojeon's character was absolutely wonderful. Dojeon is a character you can really relate to, or I can personally as someone shy and similar to his characteristics.
The acting overall in Falling for Dojeon is brilliant. I felt like all the characters were real people, not just people being played by actors, and they all felt like you could just walk outside and bump into them on the street. The storyline was really sweet, and to see how everyone matured and developed over time was lovely to see.
The only qualm about this I have is that it definitely could have been much longer. Although it was well paced out for how long it was, there was a lot more that could have been done with this show. For the most watched web drama of 2015, it would have been nice to see a follow-up episode/series after the final episode just to close up a few plot holes and such. However, for what they had with the show, the actors really all did wonderfully, the storyline felt pretty solid, and the ending was sweet enough, with a tiny little cliffhanger (with an obvious enough answer) to keep you guessing a little while after finishing the drama. Although a little cringy at times, Falling for Dojeon really grips the viewer enough to entertain throughout the whole six episodes. A shame there wasn't more to this.
I'm definitely going to be watching this much more in the future, and hopefully will be able to get this on DVD. For my first ever K-Drama, I'm definitely impressed and it's made me want to go on to watch plenty more.
Truth be told, I only watched this as I bias Xiumin, and I finally wanted to watch his web drama after watching his movie [Seondal: The Man who Sold the River] and falling in love with his acting. The two roles are very different and far apart from each other, and I wanted to see how well he managed to take that on. Being his first drama, and both his movie and this series being filmed whilst he was a rookie, I have to say, I was blown away. To be a rookie actor and to turn around what he did with Dojeon's character was absolutely wonderful. Dojeon is a character you can really relate to, or I can personally as someone shy and similar to his characteristics.
The acting overall in Falling for Dojeon is brilliant. I felt like all the characters were real people, not just people being played by actors, and they all felt like you could just walk outside and bump into them on the street. The storyline was really sweet, and to see how everyone matured and developed over time was lovely to see.
The only qualm about this I have is that it definitely could have been much longer. Although it was well paced out for how long it was, there was a lot more that could have been done with this show. For the most watched web drama of 2015, it would have been nice to see a follow-up episode/series after the final episode just to close up a few plot holes and such. However, for what they had with the show, the actors really all did wonderfully, the storyline felt pretty solid, and the ending was sweet enough, with a tiny little cliffhanger (with an obvious enough answer) to keep you guessing a little while after finishing the drama. Although a little cringy at times, Falling for Dojeon really grips the viewer enough to entertain throughout the whole six episodes. A shame there wasn't more to this.
I'm definitely going to be watching this much more in the future, and hopefully will be able to get this on DVD. For my first ever K-Drama, I'm definitely impressed and it's made me want to go on to watch plenty more.
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