[Rant/Review] - Scarlet Heart: Ryeo

Scarlet Heart - Ryeo

WARNING: Contains spoilers for ep 19 and 20 of the drama. If you haven't seen the full drama, this will spoil the ending for you! Read at own risk!

[REVIEW] Hyde, Jekyll and I

Hyde, Jekyll and I (2015, South Korea)

Title: 하이드 지킬, 나
Also known as: Hyde, Jekyll and Me
Genre: romance, Comedy, psychological

Episodes: 20

Broadcast network:  Jan 21, 2015 to Mar 26
Broadcast period: SBS

Gu Seo Jin is a third-generation chaebol who runs the theme park Wonder Land. He seemingly has everything — looks, brains, and fortune. But a traumatic incident in his childhood resulted in Seo Jin having a split personality — one is a cold, ruthless man,while the other is the polar opposite, someone kind and gentle. Because of this, he vows never to date or marry. Seo Jin wants to get rid of the circus show at Wonder Land due to low ticket sales and high overhead costs, but he butts heads with circus master Jang Ha Na. Ha Na insists on saving the failing circus and dreams of revamping it back to its former glory. She soon finds herself falling for both of Seo Jin's personalities. - MDL

Overall Score: 6.5/10
Character Development: 5/10
Plot Development: 5/10
Acting: 9/10
Soundtrack: 5/10 (pretty forgettable, to be honest)

[REVIEW] Madame Antoine

Madame Antoine (2016, South Korea)

Title: 마담 앙트완
Also known as: Madame Antoine
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Network: JTBC
Broadcast period: Jan 22th - March 12th

Go Hye Rim is a famous fortune-teller. She is known as "Madame Antoine" and insists that she is spiritually connected to Marie Antoinette, but that part is a lie. She can see through people and read their minds using "cold reading" as a technique (a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, mediums and illusionists to imply that the reader knows much more about the person than the reader actually does). She dreams of having love in a romantic film. Hye Rim then takes part in a psychological test project conducted by psychotherapist Choi Soo Hyun . His goal is to prove that true love does not exist. Coincidentally, the name for his psychological treatment center is Madame Antoine - MDL

Overall Score: 8/10
Character Development: 8/10
Plot Development: 8/10
Acting: 9.5/10
Soundtrack: 7/10

[REVIEW] Remember - War of the Son

Remember - War of the Son (2015, South Korea)

Title: 리멤버 – 아들의 전쟁

Also known as: Remember

Episodes: 20

Broadcast Network: SBS

Broadcast period: Dec 9th 2015 - Feb 18th 2016 

Seo Jin Woo has the condition of hyperthymesia, which allows him to remember almost every day in perfect detail. To prove the innocence of his father, Jin Woo becomes a lawyer. He struggles to prove his father's innocence, but he slowly begins to lose his memory due to Alzheimer’s. - MDL

Overall Score: 8/10
Character Development: 10/10
Plot Development:  8/10
Acting: 10/10
Soundtrack: 7/10

[REVIEW] Goong

Goong (2006, South Korea)

Title: 궁
Also known as: Palace; Princess Hours
Genre: romance, Comedy, manhwa

Episodes: 24

Broadcast network: MBC 
Broadcast period: Jan 11th - March 30th 2006

Chae Gyeong is an ordinary art high school student. One day, she hears totally unexpected news that, based on her grandfathers will, she must marry the unemotional Crown Prince Shin who attends the same high school as her. She resists the proposal, but reluctantly marries him to help her debt-ridden family. As she struggles to adapt herself to the proper manners and royal duties of palace life and to her disagreeable husband, Shins sentimental cousin and second-in-line to the throne Yul steps into her life. She feels like she can rely on Yul to help her, but can't help worrying about her haughty, cold-hearted husband. To help bridge this gap, the senior members of the royal family take some special measures to get them to spend the night together. - MDL

Overall Score: 5.5/10
Character Development: 6/10
Plot Development: 5/10
Acting: 6.5/10
Soundtrack: 4/10 (forgettable)

[REVIEW] Cheer Up!

Cheer Up! (2015, South Korea)

Title: 발칙하게 고고
Also known as: Sassy Go Go 
Genre: romance, comedy, sports, youth, (mature)

Episodes: 12

Broadcast network:  Oct 5, 2015 to Nov 10, 2015
Broadcast period: KBS2

Set in a highly competitive school that emphasizes achievement and scores above all else, the drama will lay bare the absurdities and hypocrisies of the education system while also featuring the growth stories of the students who struggle to move forward, one step at a time. - MDL

Overall Score: 10/10
Character Development: 10/10
Plot Development: 10/10
Acting: 10/10
Soundtrack: 9.5/10 (because nothing in the world is perfect right? Unless it actually is xD haha)

[REVIEW] Northern Limit Line

Northern Limit Line (South Korea, 2015)

Title: 연평해전
Also known as: NLL-Battle of Yeonpyeong
Genre: Action, Military, War
Release Date: Jun 24, 2015

Battle of Yeonpyeong is about the battle between South Korean and North Korean patrol frigates that took place in 2002. It is a story of young soldiers who demonstrates courage and responsibility for the Republic of Korea. - Mydramalist

Overall Score: 10/10
Character Development: 9/10
Plot Development: 10/10
Acting: 10/10
Soundtrack: 9/10

[REVIEW] Yong Pal

Yong Pal (South Korea, 2015)

"There isn't anyone I can't save, trust me. I'm Yong Pal"
 

Title: 용팔이
Also known as: Yong Pal: The Gang Doctor
Genre: Action, drama, medical, (melodrama), romance

Episodes: 18

Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: Aug 5, 2015 to Oct 1, 2015

 

Kim Tae Hyun is a talented surgeon. Desperate for money to pay his sister's medical bills, he adopts the code name Yong Pal and offers his medical skills to those in need of medical attention but who cannot do so publicly, dealing with gangsters and corrupt plutocrats. It is while making such a house call that Tae Hyeu rescues "sleeping beauty" Han Yeo Jin, a chaebol heiress, from a medically induced coma, leading to unintended consequences. - MDL

Overall Score: 8.5/10
Character Development: 9/10
Plot Development: 8/10
Acting: 9.5/10
Soundtrack: 10/10

[REVIEW] Seven Days

Seven Days (South Korea, 2007)

Title: 세븐 데이즈
Also known as: 7 Days
Genre: Crime, thriller
Release Date: November 14th, 2007

Ji Yeon is a sucessful lawyer and single mother to a seven-year-old girl. On her daughter's field day, she competes with other parents in a running race and almost comes in the first place. However, nowhere could she find the girl who's been watching and rooting for her mother to win. Later that day, she receives a phone call from an anonymous man, who tells her he has her daughter in custody and proposes a deal. To see her daughter alive, Ji Yeon needs to prove a convicted murderer not guilty on his second trial, only within a week. Source: MDL

Overall Score: 4/10
Character Development: 3/10
Plot Development: 3/10
Acting: 6/10
Soundtrack: 6/10

[REVIEWS] Oh My Ghost!

Oh My Ghost (South Korea, 2015)

 

 

Title: 오 나의 귀신님/Oh My Ghost!

Also known as: Oh My Ghostess
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Supernatural

Episodes: 16

Broadcast network: tvN
Broadcast period: Jul 3, 2015 to Aug 22, 2015

 

The story is about the clumsy, insecure and shy girl Bong Soon who works at an all male-resturant as a chief-in-training but she is not particularly good at anything and feels like she's mostly just in the way. She also has a secret, she can see ghosts, which causes a lot of trouble for her in her everyday life, but it isn't until she, through a twist of events gets possessed by the ghost of a young girl named Shin Soon Ae that her life makes a 360 degree change. Shin Soon Ae is a ghost with a grudge because she died a virgin and therefore is unable to move on to the "afterlife" until she has fullfilled all of her desires. Thinking that the posession is a good temporary cover, Soon Ae posesses Bong Soon to escape the wrath of a shaman who is trying to lock her up so she doesn't create havoc in the human world, Soon Ae soon realises that escaping Bong Soon's body is easier said than done. As legends say, if a ghost posesses the body of a person who is "100% her match" the ghost will be stuck and to Soon Ae's greatest fear that is preciecely what happens. Trying to accept the new body and situation she's in, Soon Ae takes on the role of Bong Soon and starts working at the restaurant and also ends up falling for the head chief and owner, Sun Woo, also known as "chief". Claiming Sun Woo as the love of her life, Soon Ae decides to use Bong Soon's body to get close to him and get rid of her grudge.

 

Overall Score: 8.5/10

Character Development: 8/10
Plot Development: 9/10
Acting: 10/10
Soundtrack: 6/10

[First Impression] Mom ep 1 & 2

Mom (2015, South Korea)

Title: 엄마/Mom
Genre: family, drama, romance, comedy
Episodes: 50
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period:  Sep 5, 2015 to Feb 21, 2016

After sacrificing her everything to raise her children on her own, a mother takes revenge on the children who will do anything to get their hands on her inheritance. Source: MDL

• Cha Hwa Yun: Yoon Jeong Ae (the mother)
• Jang Seo Hee: Kim Yoon Hee (daughter)
• Kim Suk Hoon: Kim Yeong Jae (son)
• Lee Tae Sung: Kim Kang Jae (son)
• Choi Ye Seul: Kim Min Ji (daughter?)
• Hong Soo Hyun: Lee Se Ryung
• Lee Moon Shik: Heo Sang Soon (Yoon Hee's husband)
• Park Young Kyu: Chairman Eom
• Lee Se Chang: Eom Dong Jun (chairman Eom's son)
• Jin Hee Kyung: Na Mi (Dong Jun's wife)
• Doo Hee: Kong Soon
• Kang Han Na: Kang Yoo Ra
• Na Jong Chan: Park Dae Ryong

[MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR EPISODES 1 AND 2!] This is a first impression and not the full review of the drama

[REVIEW] That Winter The Wind Blows

That Winter The Wind Blows (2013, South Korea)

Are you looking for a drama what will completely blow your mind and make your brain spin like the cold winter wind? A drama that will toss around your emotions as if you were sitting in a 90 degree angled roller coaster? A drama that will portrait the very complex love story between a con artist and a blind heiress? The this is the drama for you!



Title: 그 겨울, 바람이 분다/ That Winter The Wind Blows
Also known as: Wind Blows In Winter
Genre: Romance, Melodrama, Psychological
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: Feb 13, 2013 to Apr 4, 2013

The Winter, The Wind Blows is a story about a man who is known to be the best gambler in Cheongdam neighborhood. He lives a meaningless life after being abandoned by his parents and failing at his first love relationship. In order to pay his debt, he starts living with a rich girl who is the heir to a large corporation. However, he falls in love with the girl, who is also as lonely as him. She has also lived a difficult life. She has lost her eyesight and her father has passed away. She will have to protect herself from those around her. Source: MDL

 

Overall Score: 10/10
Character Development: 10/10
Plot Development: 9/10
Acting: 10/10
Soundtrack: 9/10

[First Impression] My Best Ex-Boyfriend

My Best Ex-Boyfriend (2015, China)

 

Title: 最佳前男友

Also known as: Best Lovers
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 42
Broadcast network: Shenzhen TV
Broadcast period: 2015-Aug-15 to 2015-?

Fu Fang Si and Li Tang, Cheng Xiang Nan and Yin Hao Ran, had beautiful and romantic memories, personality conflicts, and eventually lost due to real differences. After many years on a gorgeous fashion show, fate let them meet again. When Fang Si is already very close to reaching her dreams in the fashion industry, Li Tang has once again entered her life; The problem became even more complicated when her current boyfriend's famous supermodel ex-girlfriend entered the scene. Fang Si's studio suffered more misfortune with her ex-boyfriend Li Tang coming to the rescue. Will they have a better future this time? Source: MDL 

• Yan Jerry: Li Tang
• Jiang Maggie: Fu Fang Si
• Ng Ron: Yin Hao Ran
• Mi Viola: Cheng Xiang Nan

[MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 1!] This is a first impression not the full review of the drama.