I've never written a review this fast after finishing a drama but...
I've never written a review this fast after finishing a drama but I've been reading the comments, articles and reviews and HOW can this drama be raved by so many as the "best revenge drama I've ever seen»?
Sure it was entertaining, but to me this was 14 episodes on Seo Yea Ji's character conflicted love for Kang Yoon Gyeom, while gathering evidence for her revenge, and then the two last episodes where indeed full of drama and with some plot twists that made me gasp.
Seo Yea Ji and Park Byung Eun are GREAT actors but I don't know what kind of direction they got for this drama because the stiffness and endless blank stares in silence with no emotion whatsoever in 90% of the scenes, made me consider dropping this drama so many times.
[START of minor spoiler that does not really spoil the drama but I just want to be safe] Also, can we speak about the kids? Lee Ra El / Kim Sun Bin took care of Bo Ram, and as soon she got divorced, her character - that was described at the end by the love of her life as «you're too good for this world» or something along these lines - LITERALLY turned to the father of the kid and said she didn't want to see them again? Sure she used the dude to get her revenge, but there's no sympathy for the innocent child that she took care for years?
Not to mention the other kid, Da Bi, that not only had a narcissistic, cruel and manipulative mother, but then her father was mostly too busy working, hating his wife or running after Kim Sun Bin. [END of minor spoiler that does not really spoil the drama but I just want to be safe]
Speaking of mother: THANK YOU Yoo Sun for the AMAZING performance. She not only stole the show from Seo Yea Ji and Park Byung Eun, but Han So Ra was on point! What a performance. She was basically the reason why I didn't gave up on this drama.
And major kudos for Jeon Gook Hwan, Lee Il Hwa, Jung Hae Kyun, Son So Mang, Kim Ye Eun and Cha Ji Hyuk, and the actors that portrait the staff at then Han So Ra and Kang Yoon Gyeom's house.
Overall, the story had so much potential, the cast is amazing but the acting of the 2 main ones ruined it or me.
Considering all of this:
if you are looking for a makjang, this is not it (and it is not what I was looking for, so don't come after me if you enjoyed this drama and hated my review), but it does have something starting with the over the top (and can we consider these already...) classic scenes that an ordinary person could NEVER pull off (not even the filthy rich - it's just sometimes so over the top that you question if sci-fi is one of the genres).
And if you came here with the promise to watch the best revenge drama ever, hold your horses and go watch Flower of Evil or Married Life instead. Thank me later.
Sure it was entertaining, but to me this was 14 episodes on Seo Yea Ji's character conflicted love for Kang Yoon Gyeom, while gathering evidence for her revenge, and then the two last episodes where indeed full of drama and with some plot twists that made me gasp.
Seo Yea Ji and Park Byung Eun are GREAT actors but I don't know what kind of direction they got for this drama because the stiffness and endless blank stares in silence with no emotion whatsoever in 90% of the scenes, made me consider dropping this drama so many times.
[START of minor spoiler that does not really spoil the drama but I just want to be safe] Also, can we speak about the kids? Lee Ra El / Kim Sun Bin took care of Bo Ram, and as soon she got divorced, her character - that was described at the end by the love of her life as «you're too good for this world» or something along these lines - LITERALLY turned to the father of the kid and said she didn't want to see them again? Sure she used the dude to get her revenge, but there's no sympathy for the innocent child that she took care for years?
Not to mention the other kid, Da Bi, that not only had a narcissistic, cruel and manipulative mother, but then her father was mostly too busy working, hating his wife or running after Kim Sun Bin. [END of minor spoiler that does not really spoil the drama but I just want to be safe]
Speaking of mother: THANK YOU Yoo Sun for the AMAZING performance. She not only stole the show from Seo Yea Ji and Park Byung Eun, but Han So Ra was on point! What a performance. She was basically the reason why I didn't gave up on this drama.
And major kudos for Jeon Gook Hwan, Lee Il Hwa, Jung Hae Kyun, Son So Mang, Kim Ye Eun and Cha Ji Hyuk, and the actors that portrait the staff at then Han So Ra and Kang Yoon Gyeom's house.
Overall, the story had so much potential, the cast is amazing but the acting of the 2 main ones ruined it or me.
Considering all of this:
if you are looking for a makjang, this is not it (and it is not what I was looking for, so don't come after me if you enjoyed this drama and hated my review), but it does have something starting with the over the top (and can we consider these already...) classic scenes that an ordinary person could NEVER pull off (not even the filthy rich - it's just sometimes so over the top that you question if sci-fi is one of the genres).
And if you came here with the promise to watch the best revenge drama ever, hold your horses and go watch Flower of Evil or Married Life instead. Thank me later.
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