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Bravo, bravo my life! A drama that radiates comfort ♥️
I’m definitely going to write a pretty long review about this drama since it was super beautiful, so bear with me please.
I was honestly hesitant to start watching this drama. This drama has been in my plan to watch list for so long, and I never had the urge to start watching it. If I had known it was this amazing, I would’ve watched it a long time ago. I was actually in search for a funny drama, ones that made you laugh, and ones that would make you instantly forget about your worries, ones that don’t require you to think much. I knew somehow that this drama would make me cry, since it was a stereotype for prison movies/dramas. I always have a special spot for prison dramas and films, I loved Miracle in Cell No. 7, Harmony, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, etc, and I knew that prison movies are one of the genre that would never fail in making me cry like a baby. That’s probably the biggest reason why I would avoid watching this drama for so long. But I picked it up anyways during quarantine.
And boy, how I was wrong! This drama is the perfect package! You get all those super hilarious moments, you get tons of “UGH I HATE THIS GUY I NEED TO HAVE SOME REVENGE SCENES” moments, you get tearjerking moments, and you also get tons of happiness and comfort watching this drama. I can’t actually explain why this drama became really special to me, but this drama comforted me and made me laugh during one of my darkest times: when I got tested positive of Covid for the very first time in my life. I needed a drama where I could forget all the stress and worries I’ve been feeling this past few days, and I finally got an answer.
Prison Playbook teaches you a lot of important things in life, despite having murderers, con-artists, drug dealers, and many other criminals as main characters. Although some of the characters here seem unforgivable, you’ll watch them here thinking the same thing I did: all of them deserves a second chance. The main characters here are super lovable. What I really love about this drama is their ability to make me cry and then laugh in the other second, just like it did with Hi Bye Mama. The writers succeeded in playing with my emotions and I really love dramas that could do just that. The characters were written in such a way that could make you hate and then really love them. No one is perfect in this drama, but who is though? Being realistic is important.
This drama shows you a realistic point of view of life and law. How it seems unfair sometimes, you don’t always get what you want, but don’t give up, because good will always win. Like Je Hyeok who looks like he’s the unluckiest man on Earth—a successful baseball player who got sentenced for murder after saving his sister from a rapist, then got a lot of haters in prison who was trying to kill him, was then unable to do baseball because of the injuries he had—if you are good, and if you do good whenever, wherever and to whoever, even those who did evil things to you, you will always find a way. Kill those evil people with kindness, just like Je Hyeok, this is one of the biggest lessons I learned from watching this drama. Instead of giving you a scene where the bad guys die or gets punished for what they did until the very end of the drama, this drama shows you about forgiveness. Sometimes it’s good to forgive eventhough it’s hard to do.
Asides from all the lovable and super hilarious and entertaining characters in this drama such as Liutenant Paeng, Officer Song, the warden, Looney, Mr Kaist, Dr Ko, Captain Yoo, Kim Min Chul, Crony, Lee Joon Ho and Lee Joon Dol, Jailbird, and everyone else, I really love every night broadcast that was shown in every episode. Lee Min Joo from Borami Broadcast gave this drama a touch of comfort and meaningful quotes that I really really love.
The music really stands out for me. As a fan of one of the OSTs here even before I started watching—“Bravo, My Life!” by Eric Nam—I would give the music score a 10 right from the beginning, but a lot of songs that I know was played as well, like “I Choose to Love You” and “Time to Say Goodbye”, and that certainly made the scene more memorable for me. The instrumentals was perfect in every scene. Although I’m not a big fan of the rap songs, the other OSTs made up for it.
Lastly, I would like to thank everyone involved in this drama, from all the casts, the directors and the screenwriters and all the staff for creating this beautiful masterpiece. If I could write something that bothered me is that I would really love it if I could see Mr Kaist, Jean Valjean, Dr Ko, Looney again, and probably a little reunion in the end of everyone, but like my father always told me everytime I wanted more from a happy ending, “It’s up to the viewers to imagine the ending, you don’t really need to see everything and they don’t really need to explain everything to make it a great happy ending.” It is enough for me to watch those happy smiles at the end. And I’m thrilled. I’m sad that it’s over now, but goodbye, let’s meet again someday. Overall, a definite 10/10. Bravo!
I was honestly hesitant to start watching this drama. This drama has been in my plan to watch list for so long, and I never had the urge to start watching it. If I had known it was this amazing, I would’ve watched it a long time ago. I was actually in search for a funny drama, ones that made you laugh, and ones that would make you instantly forget about your worries, ones that don’t require you to think much. I knew somehow that this drama would make me cry, since it was a stereotype for prison movies/dramas. I always have a special spot for prison dramas and films, I loved Miracle in Cell No. 7, Harmony, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, etc, and I knew that prison movies are one of the genre that would never fail in making me cry like a baby. That’s probably the biggest reason why I would avoid watching this drama for so long. But I picked it up anyways during quarantine.
And boy, how I was wrong! This drama is the perfect package! You get all those super hilarious moments, you get tons of “UGH I HATE THIS GUY I NEED TO HAVE SOME REVENGE SCENES” moments, you get tearjerking moments, and you also get tons of happiness and comfort watching this drama. I can’t actually explain why this drama became really special to me, but this drama comforted me and made me laugh during one of my darkest times: when I got tested positive of Covid for the very first time in my life. I needed a drama where I could forget all the stress and worries I’ve been feeling this past few days, and I finally got an answer.
Prison Playbook teaches you a lot of important things in life, despite having murderers, con-artists, drug dealers, and many other criminals as main characters. Although some of the characters here seem unforgivable, you’ll watch them here thinking the same thing I did: all of them deserves a second chance. The main characters here are super lovable. What I really love about this drama is their ability to make me cry and then laugh in the other second, just like it did with Hi Bye Mama. The writers succeeded in playing with my emotions and I really love dramas that could do just that. The characters were written in such a way that could make you hate and then really love them. No one is perfect in this drama, but who is though? Being realistic is important.
This drama shows you a realistic point of view of life and law. How it seems unfair sometimes, you don’t always get what you want, but don’t give up, because good will always win. Like Je Hyeok who looks like he’s the unluckiest man on Earth—a successful baseball player who got sentenced for murder after saving his sister from a rapist, then got a lot of haters in prison who was trying to kill him, was then unable to do baseball because of the injuries he had—if you are good, and if you do good whenever, wherever and to whoever, even those who did evil things to you, you will always find a way. Kill those evil people with kindness, just like Je Hyeok, this is one of the biggest lessons I learned from watching this drama. Instead of giving you a scene where the bad guys die or gets punished for what they did until the very end of the drama, this drama shows you about forgiveness. Sometimes it’s good to forgive eventhough it’s hard to do.
Asides from all the lovable and super hilarious and entertaining characters in this drama such as Liutenant Paeng, Officer Song, the warden, Looney, Mr Kaist, Dr Ko, Captain Yoo, Kim Min Chul, Crony, Lee Joon Ho and Lee Joon Dol, Jailbird, and everyone else, I really love every night broadcast that was shown in every episode. Lee Min Joo from Borami Broadcast gave this drama a touch of comfort and meaningful quotes that I really really love.
The music really stands out for me. As a fan of one of the OSTs here even before I started watching—“Bravo, My Life!” by Eric Nam—I would give the music score a 10 right from the beginning, but a lot of songs that I know was played as well, like “I Choose to Love You” and “Time to Say Goodbye”, and that certainly made the scene more memorable for me. The instrumentals was perfect in every scene. Although I’m not a big fan of the rap songs, the other OSTs made up for it.
Lastly, I would like to thank everyone involved in this drama, from all the casts, the directors and the screenwriters and all the staff for creating this beautiful masterpiece. If I could write something that bothered me is that I would really love it if I could see Mr Kaist, Jean Valjean, Dr Ko, Looney again, and probably a little reunion in the end of everyone, but like my father always told me everytime I wanted more from a happy ending, “It’s up to the viewers to imagine the ending, you don’t really need to see everything and they don’t really need to explain everything to make it a great happy ending.” It is enough for me to watch those happy smiles at the end. And I’m thrilled. I’m sad that it’s over now, but goodbye, let’s meet again someday. Overall, a definite 10/10. Bravo!
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