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Ghost Doctor (2022)
HUGE GRIN ON MY FACE
I loved loved and ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS SHOW.
And as I mentioned just now, throughout the show I had this HUGE grin on my face.
The show is such a treat to watch. It's funny, it's witty, it's melodramatic, it's fun, and it's just amazing.
I was getting very disappointed in k drama story lines but altho the antagonism side of the story is a very repetitive one, the protagonists and the main story line of Koh Seung tak and Cha Young min was just beautiful.
I usually watch tv shows at 1.5x speed, but I always had to slow down on Young min and Seung tak scenes. They were just... ahhhh chef's kiss. Their bonding and the journey they both went through, Perfect.
A few things that needed working on:
1) The senior doctors acting so reluctant at the thought of surgeries felt very...weird. I mean even if you don't participate in many surgeries, at that age you've still gathered enough experience to get the work done. The amount of incompetence they showed, it's a surprise a hospital would even keep them. That was a plot deficiency because I can't expect doctors to be so repugnant to surgeries and still be employed.
2) After a couple of episodes, Seung tak really stops caring when talking to Dr Cha. It's like he's forgotten that living people exist. He'll be talking to Dr Cha in corridors, in the ER, in literally every place, even with people around. He would've been labelled a freak anywhere else and not wrongly so considering ghosts aren't supposed to be existing that way.
3) Dr Jang (or was it Kang?) was in America for a good 12/13 years and you can't possibly expect me to believe that she speaks English just like an any other Korean. When you live in a native country, you pick their accents and their dialect but she didn't. And that's a really big plot hole. The directors and producers should work on accent coaching too considering how globalized k dramas have become now.
4) 20 years ago, people had mobile phones? I mean even if they did, weren't pagers used to call doctors to depts and not phones? So far as I remember phone calls were really expensive when phones came out.
Gisangcheong Saramdeul: Sanaeyeonae Janhoksa Pyeon (2022)
Boring. Basic.
The plot is dry. The lovestory is average.
Everything is too...okay.
I was hoping a lot more with Song Kang and the female lead. But sadly this time they didn't end up with a better write-up.
Kimbiseoga wae geureolkka (2018)
How does this series even have an 8.2 rating?
I don't know if anything is wrong with Secretary Kim or not; but there's definitely tens of thousands of wrongs with the show.
1. 8.2 RATING!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Better shows have less than 7 rating.
2. AGAIN, my problem with 90% of K dramas, 16 (1+ hr long) episodes. I actually thought the drama was well paced till episode 9 but after that, it went dooooownhillllllll. We did not need the last 6 episodes. All the issues could've been solved in one way or the other in the first 10 episodes.
3. So you're telling me that Vice Chairman knew who Secretary Kim actually was and did not harbour ANY feelings for her for 9 Y E A R S. I don't know about the world you live in, but in the one that I live, it's not easy to not even 'feel' or show anything for 9 years especially when at the back of your mind you're emotionally invested.
And on top of that, suddenly have EVERYTHING develop in days. Like?????
The good?
1. If you don't want to use your brain, it's a pretty enjoyable show that gives you laughs and teary eyed moments.
2. The chemistry between the MCs is nice.
3. Well, that's about it.
Itaewon Keullasseu (2020)
Very Very Enjoyable
The start was good-ish: the usual; a bad guy messes up with the lead and the revenge plot begins.
But what carried the story was its execution. I had expected it to be dragged like most of the other 16 episodes (1+ hour) kdramas. But it did very well in the pace department.
The characters were lovable. We weren't shown a crew having exceptionally nice and caring and understanding characters. They developed into that, and still retained the part of their personality. Each of them was different and had so much to contribute to the story.
The annoying thing about the show? HOW COME EVERYBODY MEET THE REQUIRED PERSON WHEN THEY'RE IN TROUBLE? I'm sure Seoul is a big city with not just one or two streets and a building. I live in a relatively smaller city and have been living for TEN years. I've been to school, college AND university here. I know tonnes of people! How come I never see anyone I need?
These co-incidental meetings and male lead dropping everywhere he's needed is one of the tropes Kdramas now need to give up now.
The MOST redeeming thing about the show? MY DESIRED SHIP SAILED. YAS PEOPLE! IT SAILED! Though I wish they'd shown more moments between the two, especially flashbacks from the 4 years that were skipped. Something, just anything to make us cheer for them more. But no matter, I'M JUST SO HAPPY THEY GOT TOGETHER!
Parizaad (2021)
A Piece of Art
I hardly ever rate a show 10/10. And never a Pakistani drama.
But parizaad...Lord! What a masterpiece.
Nothing short of an art.
The way it took to a promising start to the way it gave every character life. How after so long a Pakistani drama focused on multiple aspects of a person's life and didn't cast them in only one light. May it be the protagonist or the side characaters- each and every one had nuances to themselves.
The poetry that was run along the show. Beautiful. Simply beautiful. I won't claim to have understood it all but that what I did, it touched the deepest parts of me.
Ahmad Ali Akbar has always been an amazing actor but here, he outdid himself!
What an art, what a piece of literature Pakistani media has produced.
Lastly, just parizaad himself. Who could've thought that a 'not-beautiful' person could be the star of a show. Could be the markari kirdaar and not the sanawi. The struggles of his life, his perseverance, his decisions, his loyalty. We learnt with him. We learnt from him. We cried with him. And we will remember him.
W - Du gaeui segye (2016)
Intitially strong; A disaster later. And Han Hyo Joo needs to learn to act
Yes. She does.
Every KDrama has these rollercoaster last 2 episodes. And there's always this stellar performance by the actors. And Han Hyo Joo ruined that by the sheer force of her lack of skills.
And it wasn't just the ending.
She just could NOT cry throughout the show! And everytime she did, with only the power and might of that 'acting', I'd forget all about being sad on the preceding heartrending scene.
It's like putting a nobody like me on set on first day and asking me to cry. Maybe I'd do it better!
God! The woman tested my patience.
The story overall was okay. A very basic kdrama template. Enjoyable at times. Though I believe more romantic scenes were needed. The second falling in love of Kang Chul felt forced because there was nothing that could've led him to love oh Yeong Joo as much as he did with those little interactions they had.
Also Kdramas need to be less than 16 episodes. Every drama with these many episodes always strays from the main plot - they just keep adding more and more tangents and twists and that what could initially have been a nice warm story becomes a headache.
This story was no exception: what was a strong start plot ended up being so...weird, I lost them by the 10th episode. Only God and the author knows how Kang Cheol came up with his hypothesis CUZ they were so bad and random and thoughtless!
Mubeop Byeonhosa (2018)
BOOORING, TYPICAL
Contradictory through and through
No strong protagonists, no strong antagonist
Acting is okay at best.
The reactions are stupid, unrealistic and made me want to puke.
The dialogues are so boring and redundant, feels like children playing good vs bad.
The summary?
Person 1: I know you'd do this, so I did this.
Person 2: I knew you'd know I'd do that, so I did that.
Just on repeat a hundred times. With third class execution.
Also Sang Pil's clothes are too tight and too short and too illpressed and too... average!!!!! He's supposed to exude a rich charismatic vibe; all it does is question if he's using his uncle's old suits!
Hilleo (2014)
Good enough.
I probably would have loved it had I watched it before some other k dramas.
It's my 6/7th I guess.
It's sad to find out now that almost all kdramas work on basically one trope and that's that. Nothing new.
But in itself, the story was carried well. The romance was good. The humor was on point. The characters were lovable.