ramen2011
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Plus sized chick is actually a love interest for once.
It was alright. Not great but not bad either. I thought the first few episodes were done well. There was a good mix of dark humor, comedy, and the fact that the female lead, her 40's self was actually in the episodes!! The mother daughter scenes actually made me tear up.
But then the last couple of episodes, she has to conveniently transform and stay in her 20's Lindsay Lohan look-a-like self and the episodes tried shoehorning that dreaded love triangle, which wasn't even a love triangle!
It ended good, at least. But the journey was frankly a bumpy ride. At some point, in the middle there was just too much melodrama, hyung drama that came outta nowhere, the thoughts who were the fangirls, that horrid love triangle. And how many times must Kim Tae Joon, the villian in this story, keep doing the craziest things?! It ends up being rather predictable.
The drama tried doing a lot just to stretch out the plot but ends up flat. Like there were too many episodes. I ended up fast forwarding a lot just to get to the scenes with Min Jae Hee, who is hello the main character.
As someone who has struggled in the past with weight, I could relate. Min Jae Hee, your housewife, tries to end her existence but receives a second chance to relive her life: a magical perfume. Think of it like a Freaky Friday, with her self. With a whiff of her perfume, she can become her twenty year old self, where she honestly looked like Lindsay Lohan. Jae Hee used to be skinnier when she was training to be a model before quitting her dream, after she got pregnant and got married to Kim Tae Joon.
For those looking for some well grounded entertainment that's actually real and relatable, look no further.
The dude who plays Seo Do had dynamic. The actress who plays Min Jae Hee could make me laugh and cry; she's really good. Seo Do's lackey killed it in every scene.
As an average woman, yes it hits all the same kdrama cliches, like your youngish CEO; but this is the first kdrama I've seen where the lead is actually a plus-sized, healthy woman. What was disappointing in the last couple of episodes was that she was barely in it.
All and all, it wasn't your Sky Castle. It was above average. I just found myself fast forwarding. It was just too long. Would I recommend it?
Still yes because the scenes were Min Jae Hee confronts her trauma and low self esteem were honestly moving. I just wished that she, the actual main character, not her Freaky Friday self, had shown up more at the end. At least it ended well.
But then the last couple of episodes, she has to conveniently transform and stay in her 20's Lindsay Lohan look-a-like self and the episodes tried shoehorning that dreaded love triangle, which wasn't even a love triangle!
It ended good, at least. But the journey was frankly a bumpy ride. At some point, in the middle there was just too much melodrama, hyung drama that came outta nowhere, the thoughts who were the fangirls, that horrid love triangle. And how many times must Kim Tae Joon, the villian in this story, keep doing the craziest things?! It ends up being rather predictable.
The drama tried doing a lot just to stretch out the plot but ends up flat. Like there were too many episodes. I ended up fast forwarding a lot just to get to the scenes with Min Jae Hee, who is hello the main character.
As someone who has struggled in the past with weight, I could relate. Min Jae Hee, your housewife, tries to end her existence but receives a second chance to relive her life: a magical perfume. Think of it like a Freaky Friday, with her self. With a whiff of her perfume, she can become her twenty year old self, where she honestly looked like Lindsay Lohan. Jae Hee used to be skinnier when she was training to be a model before quitting her dream, after she got pregnant and got married to Kim Tae Joon.
For those looking for some well grounded entertainment that's actually real and relatable, look no further.
The dude who plays Seo Do had dynamic. The actress who plays Min Jae Hee could make me laugh and cry; she's really good. Seo Do's lackey killed it in every scene.
As an average woman, yes it hits all the same kdrama cliches, like your youngish CEO; but this is the first kdrama I've seen where the lead is actually a plus-sized, healthy woman. What was disappointing in the last couple of episodes was that she was barely in it.
All and all, it wasn't your Sky Castle. It was above average. I just found myself fast forwarding. It was just too long. Would I recommend it?
Still yes because the scenes were Min Jae Hee confronts her trauma and low self esteem were honestly moving. I just wished that she, the actual main character, not her Freaky Friday self, had shown up more at the end. At least it ended well.
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