September and October 2024 Drama Reviews

September and October 2024 Drama Reviews

Good Partner

This drama is about Cha Eun-Kyung who is star divorce lawyer at Daejung Law Firm. She is a genius at solving her cases but has trouble keeping other lawyers to work with her. Han Yu-Ri (Nam Ji-Hyun) gets hired and she wants to work in corporate law not divorce law. She is determined to stick it out until she can transfer. She isn’t very comfortable working in divorce because her parents had a messy divorce. She starts to take on cases and starts to understand more how important her job actually is and is able to better understand Cha Eun-Kyung.

I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this drama because lawyer dramas aren’t always interesting but this one was actually interesting. They take on interesting and heart-breaking cases that changes their perspectives and teaches them how to be a better person. I love how this drama highlights different situations and you should never judge a book by its cover and sometimes what seems wrong isn’t always what is wrong.

All the new cases with the different clients always kept it fresh and interesting. I love how there is so much growth with the characters in this drama and how we all need improve and get better even if it isn’t the way that we think we do. I love how they built up each character and how there personal lives interweave into the cases. So many times you get frustrated with the different characters but you really can feel how each of them are feeling. It really makes you think about what a divorce is and I found it really interesting in how a divorce happens in South Korea. I feel like I learned something new while watching this drama.

I like how real and honest they get with each of these characters. I was happy to finally see Jang Na-Ra get a great role to show off her acting skills as her last dramas have just felt like they have fell flat. The only thing that I felt was lacking was a good ending for the character Jung Woo-Jin, I was really rooting for him to take a step into showing his feelings but unfortunately they didn’t go there for him even at the end.

I really enjoyed this drama more than I thought it would and was sad when it was all over. I would highly recommend if you love law dramas!

Serendipity’s Embrace

This drama is about Hong-Ju (Kim So-Hyun) who meets her high school friend Kang Hu-Young (Chae Jong-Hyeop) after ten years. Hong-Ju works as a PD for animation company and her high school friend had a huge crush on Hu-Young in highschool and she would always bring him notes from her friend. He works now as financial planner and has come back from America to South Korea after ten years and he starts to feel his high school emotions again after meeting with Hong-Ju and doesn’t want to leave again.

This was a decent drama but it reminded me of Lovely Runner to some degree and it doesn’t quite measure up in comparison. I think the whole high school and first love story lines are so tiring already. I wish we could get a break from that drama trope for a while. The funny thing is that times makes all feeling fade and I feel like in a reality the older the love the further away you are from having those feelings. I just might be feeling pretty cynical about life already but I don’t need anymore childhood sweetheart story lines ever again.

I found the whole love story between the main characters somewhat boring and childish. I was more interested in her friends side story romance and it peaked my interest more than the main love lines. I think because everything was just set on the table in an obvious way and there wasn’t much buildup or love triangles. I like to the feeling of keeping me guessing who they are going to end up with and when it is far to blatant with little else to keep my interest I get bored. They should have at least brought in her old love interest in a stronger way and maybe made her have stronger feelings for him or something to keep it interesting.

Again this was based off of a webtoon and these production companies seem to think as long as they use a popular webtoon it will be a success but not every webtoon translates well into a drama. Maybe if you read the webtoon maybe you found it to be enjoyable. It is also a shorter drama and yet I was still getting bored in this one. There is nothing really wrong with these drama but it just didn’t have the intrigue and didn’t keep my interest. Even the flashbacks weren’t that terribly interesting to me and I didn’t really need that many. It was pretty forgettable.

I wanted to like this drama but I struggled to find it interesting but it wasn’t terrible. Easy watching rom-com.

Bad Memory Eraser

This drama is about Lee Kun (Kim Jae-Joong) who was a tennis star when he was a child but one bad accident took away his chances of continuing his tennis career. His younger brother took his chance to get trained and his brother as an adult is a huge tennis star. Lee Kun is struggling as an adult to get past these bad memories but his memories get erased after an incident and he believes that his psychiatrist who is involved in erasing his memories is his first love that had saved him from drowning.

This drama started off strong with some interesting ideas and concepts with the idea of whether erasing our memories would actually change who we are as a person. It makes you think whether memories are what makes us who we are or does it not really change who are at all. I think this drama had a lot of potential but it kinda lost steam as it went on and it is a full 16 episodes which feels like a long drama these days. Again they had to go to the whole childhood first love nonsense so that already feels like an overdone trope and for some reason I didn’t really care at all about the main leads falling in love.

It has some interesting side characters and dealing with some interesting concepts within the family unit and explores some of these things. I also enjoyed Sae-Yan’s story line and how she is searching for the person she is missing in her life. I think I enjoyed her character and also Lee Shin’s characters more than the main leads. I started to find the main leads characters start to get on my nerves and really lost any empathy for them and their problems. Of course also the lack of reality of actually being able to do this experimental surgery on a person and then just try and make sure they don’t have anything trigger their memories was pretty ridiculous.

I just stopped caring about the main leads and by the end I didn’t even care if they got together in the end. I struggled to have any empathy for the characters especially when Lee Kun is moping around for a good chunk of the time, I don’t know why but I found him irritating all the time. Also I don’t know why but they poorly explained who Sae-Yan in the beginning of the drama, I thought she was just a random person that was visiting her mother. It was never really conveyed that they were childhood friends because she treated her like a stranger? It was just odd that they set up the story like that. Also what was with her nephew staying with his grandma with no mention of his mother until the last episode? I don’t really get why they never explained where his parents were? Also the whole Sae-Yan’s Mom not explaining why she can’t find the person she wants to find was just bizarre and dangerous. I know they were setting the story in certain ways but I just found it annoying.

It was an okay drama that had some interesting concepts but it just didn’t keep my interest.

DNA Lover

It is about Han So-Jin (Jung In-Sun) who is a gene researcher and is obsessed with finding her genetic lover. She studies the genes of every boyfriend that she has had and tries to figure out who is the right genetic match for her. She scares of most men in her life with all this gene talk but she has a best friend Seo Kang-Hoon (Lee Tae-Hwan) who is a firefighter and has been her friend since they were children. They depend on each other quite a bit and is always there to comfort her when she breaks up with her ex-boyfriends. It also stars Sim Yeon-Woo (Choi Si-Won) who is an ob/gyn doctor that is good at meeting woman but doesn’t want to be changed by them. He is very good at starting and ending relationships with women. He meets So-Jin and becomes intrigued by her.

There seemed to be a lot of controversy with this drama because So-Jin is supposed to be a scientist and she is so unscientific with her research. Her character is pretty ridiculous at times and the conclusions that she comes to are not very scientific at all. Also all the science in this drama is fictitious and completely made up. Yes I can agree with all of that but I didn’t care because the drama still held my attention and I was still very entertained.

I found myself really enjoying the drama because of the love triangle. It was a true love triangle where it seemed like she could end up with any of the men. I love not being able to guess who she is going to choose but either of them could be the right choice for her. It has an interesting mystery story line underneath that keeps you intrigued and interested. I really enjoyed this drama and I kept wanting to come back for more. I think I also find Si-Won such an interesting actor and find myself really enjoying watching him as an actor. The drama had the best push and pull going on in the drama that keeps me interested and not completely bored when they get together and nothing really happens. I like how they presented this idea about love and how it leaves a permanence on you and how even if you are in an unrequited love that it doesn’t mean it isn’t worth anything.

At times I would get frustrated with the characters but it still made me interested in what was going to happen next. I have to say that the ending seemed rushed and wasn’t exactly what was I was expecting. I had higher hopes for the ending with more of an emotional response in the acting and found it not matching the energy with the rest of the drama. Honestly So-Jin should have done more in the end because she was the one that was the rude one in the relationship. I think they could have easily improved on this drama but it still was pretty intriguing and held my attention which means a lot these days. If I would recommend any drama to watch this time around I would choose this one!

Cinderella at 2am

This drama is about Ha Yun-Seo (Shin Hyun-Bin) who is a successful team leader at a large company. She works hard and is known by her colleagues as a tough, hardworking employee. She is secretly dating Seo Ju-Won (Moon Sang-Min) who is younger member of her team. She learns that her boyfriend is a son of the family that runs the company. She is offered money by his mother to break up and she takes the money and decides to break up with Ju-Won. He doesn’t care and decides that he won’t let her break up with him.

This drama seemed to have controversy as well because of the age differences between the two main leads. It did seem strange that they would choose such a young male lead, Moon Sang-Min looks way too young for this role. I think what bothered me the most was the actor they chose as Yun-Seo’s brother in high school because the guy looks way older than Ju-Won. I would just laugh to myself every time they would bring him on the screen with Ju-Won because it was too much of them to ask us to believe that that grown man was still in high school. The age groups were just all over the map with this drama and honestly there was not that much chemistry between any of the actors in this drama.

It was kinda of a strange drama and yet it still had an interesting story line that kept me interested. Honestly I am a fan of Yoon Park and may have just watched the drama to see him act again. I feel he would have made a way better lead in this drama and could have just scrapped the whole he needs to be younger than the female lead. Again I am just not fond of a Nuna drama and this again it felt really off in this drama. This also has a pitiful love triangle that seemed utterly pointless and boring and again no chemistry. I at times would even forget about it and it seemed out of place and weird and him texting her all the time and bothering her anonymously was just creepy.

I don’t really know what they were thinking with the story at times. I felt like there was going to be some big reveal or something important with this random guy but nothing really came of it. I guess they just needed him to make the main leads jealous and to give their relationship a push.

It was a somewhat interesting drama but it felt really strange at the same time. It was just an okay drama that was enjoyable at times.

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