sighilovekdramas August 27, 2022

July and August 2022 Korean Drama Reviews

The first drama that I finished was Dear M. This drama has been delayed for a long time because of bullying rumors regarding Park Hye-Soo. Unfortunately this drama won’t be airing in Korea but is being aired for international viewers on Viki. It is a college drama about a group of students that take a photography class and someone confesses secretly and no one knows who it is about. It stars Cha Min-Ho (Jaehyun) who is good at developing apps and has been best friends with Ma Joo-A (Park Hye-Soo) who is a 2^nd year in Business Administration and develops a crush on a guy but has never been in a relationship. It has stars Park Ha-Neul (Bae Hyun-Sung) who just switched majors to computer science and is in a relationship with Seo Ji-Min (Roh Jeong-Eui) who is a student in the Economics Department and is star member the cheering squad and they are considered the perfect campus couple that everyone is envious of. This is a pretty cute drama and is based off of a webdrama Love’s Playlist that I previously watched so I didn’t expect too much but it was better than the webdrama.

It was really likeable drama with cute characters and was focused on the beginnings of love which seemed a little immature but it fit the vibes of the youth drama so I thought it fit. I really enjoyed watching them and it was interesting and cute at the same time. They really sucked you into the story with dealing of the first crush moments, jealousy and being rejected. You could really feel the emotions and frustrations with each character. I think the drama did well in playing on the emotions. The anonymous crush aspect of the drama gets really pushed aside I think and they don’t use that aspect to its full potential and you kinda forget about it. I still liked the twist at the end and I was starting to think it was something like that but I won’t give it away. I liked that it was a easy going and just heart warming.

I don’t think I think I can complain about too much with this drama, it was a bit cheesy at times but I still found it very lovable and relatable and engaging. Sometimes they seemed really childish and silly but it still gave me all the feelings of love.

If you love college and young love dramas I would recommend Dear M.

The second drama that I finished was Yumi’s Cells 2. It is a sequel to the first drama so I would recommend you watch the first one before you would watch the second season. It keeps the same cast as the first one, it stars Kim Yu-Mi (Kim Go-Eun) who is the female lead. It also stars Yoo Ba-Bi (Jin Young) who is the same as the first one and is the one that recognizes Yumi’s talent and has her transfer to the advertising department at work. Obviously Ba-Bi becomes the male lead in this second season and does an amazing job of sweeping Yumi off her feet. This drama is following the webtoon very closely and unfortunately it ends on a cliffhanger and I think would be very disappointing for the fans that have watched the second season to not complete it with a third season just like the webtoon.

I honestly thought they should have speed it up a bit through the story especially if they aren’t planning to make a third season because it sounds like they have no immediate plans to do a third season which I find is disappointing to hear as it feels incomplete especially if you have read the webtoon. So I found it somewhat lagging and then kinda speeds up at the end which seems weird to skip over pivotal moments but waste so much time in less important moments. I wished they would have spent more time with Ba-Bi’s cells or other people’s cells. I feel like first season had more interesting cell moments then the second season. I also started to get annoyed with the character of Yu-Mi, she doesn’t say enough of what is on her mind to her significant other. I feel like if she would have addressed her issues more straightforwardly she would have saved herself a lot of grief and hardship. It seemed like she hardly talked about anything important when she is dating it seemed like it was shallow relationship at least through the second season. I think that is why it badly needs a third season so we can see Yumi as her true self with a loved one and become the best version of herself when she is in a relationship.

I really liked getting to know the inner workings of the mind and even deciding on what words to say can be a process and isn’t always straightforward. It has all the charms of the first season and all the cells personalities which of course keeps it interesting. It was a bit lackluster compared to the first season but it is decent and didn’t get boring it still had me curious about what was going to happen.

I would recommend this drama if you have watched the first season!

The third drama I finished was Why Her? It stars Oh Soo-Jae (Seo Hyun-Jin) who is a talented lawyer in one of the most prestigious law firms, she gets caught up in a scandal and is forced to work at law school to get out of the limelight with all the fingers pointing at her. She meets Gong Chan (Hwang In-Yeop) who is her student but he remembers her from his past when she was his lawyer and believed in him. It also stars Choi Tae-Guk (Heo Jun-Ho) who is the chairman at Soo-Jae’s law firm and is morally ambiguous and always needs Soo-Jae to clean up his messes. I usually don’t want to watch lawyer dramas but I thought since it stars Hyun-Jin and Hwang In-Yeop who was just in True Beauty and stood out that it would be a good drama, unfortunately I struggled to watch this drama.

I didn’t care for all the politics and constantly old men talking about trying to get ahead and doing bad things and getting away with whatever they want, it got pretty tiring. It felt too long with all these issues and the story could have finished much quicker, it felt draggy. I really hated the love story, it was one of the worst ones that I have seen in a long time. I thought I would like Hwang In-Yeop since I liked him in True Beauty but his character was just terrible. They made him soo boyish with his looks and the way he acted. It was bad enough it was a Noona drama but they made him so childish and unappealing I was shocked. They wrote his character in a terrible way and even when he had been betrayed he was like that doesn’t bother me, I’m not even mad and it was just so unrealistic and unreasonable. I would cringe every time they would do the romance line I started skipping over lots in this drama, old people hanging out and the romance line. I think it was the writing because I literally found myself feeling dead inside while watching this, I don’t think I even teared up once while watching this which is strange because there was plenty of sad scenes.

I have to say it did pick up in the last two episodes when they start revealing truth and the revenge starts happening and it did have interesting mysteries that needed to be solved which kept me continuing on to watch it but there was a lot of elements that just need unnecessary.

If you are wanting a lawyer drama that has a noona loveline you might like this drama, but I personally feel like you can find a better one than Why Her?

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