Kdrama Review

kdrama review

weightlifting fairy kim bok joo

if you're looking for a light hearted drama with its fair share of entertainment, kim bok joo is for you.

i. strong female lead - personally, i liked how bok joo is so strong, physically and mentally, but that never stopped her from needing or wanting joon hyung.

ii. unnecessary love triangle - honestly speaking, the drama was absolute perfection if it had not been for the idiotic love triangle. this love triangle between joon hyung, bok joo and jae yi was so ridiculous it made me cringe. but i liked how it was important for bok joo's realisation that she was a 'lady' too.

iii. the cutest friendships EVER - the trio of the three friends and joon hyung's cute bestfriend was the best part of the show. they managed to show friendship struggles perfectly balanced with the romancey parts.

iv. i loved how they showed that weightlifting being a taxing sport on one's feminity took a toll on bok joo and that she did recover from it, with her own time and struggles.

v. they could've done without the ex girlfriend and childhood crush trope, but the mother and adopted family plotline was pretty cute and well executed.

all in all, if u like cute boys, wholesome friendships, clueless girls and cute families, kim bok joo is for you!

(special mention for kang ki young for being his amazing adorable self as always. he's like the pankaj tripathi or raju srivastava of korean dramas - always there somehow)

7/10

weightlifting fairy kim bok joo

Guardian - The Lonely and Great God

i think i found my best feel drama in

strong girl do bong soon

seriously, nothing beats park (bo young + hyung sik)

i. we! love! a! strong! woman! - kim bok joo opened my eyes to how attractive strong women can be. strong, BUT emotionally vulnerable as well. bong soon wasn't unnecessarily macho, but the dynamics of ml saving fl when in danger were so beautifully reversed (sorry, that scene where ahn min hyuk is in bong soon's arms bridal style???? and he pretends to faint again so she keeps carrying him???? height of cinema).

ii. ahn min hyuk. seriously. how can someone be so adorable. talk about a wife guy who took a knife guy. and that scene at the end where he gets up from the ground??? it made me weak in the knees. WHEN he got hard just THINKING about bong soon staying over??? simp. WHEN he found out bong soon removed his socks the FIRST thing he goes to check is whether she's removed gook du's socks as well??? my man delivered jealousy well.

iii. a moment of silence for gook du and bong soon and what they could have been. i would have screamed of i found out YEARS later that the girl i had been simping on LIKED ME all these years but when i finally got the guts to confess she ALREADY LIKED SOMEONE ELSE!!!!! but they delivered us the min hyuk and gook du bromance well. proud.

iv. again, rom com cringe cliche with a serial killer subplot?? why?? i mean, i loved the friendship bw gyeong shim and bong soon and how bong soon literally took a bullet for her, BUT there's other ways to show friendship you guys wth. plus the serial kidnapper creeped me out frfr

v. i need to know what happened with the secretary and that office bully.

vi. the MONK????? i need an additional storyline. THEY DISCOVERED HE WAS KOREAN BY THE TATTOO ON HIS BACK? i- what?

ps - an additional point for that office scene where min hyuk LITERALLY GETS WEAK IN THE KNEES when bong soon calls him min min

max cliche, max humour, max cringey, max cuteness. it's my comfort show, next to guardian.

(they could've done the ending better fight me)

8/10

I’m so mad TikTok the app shares its name with Ke$ha’s 2009 hit TiK ToK. Undeserving. Nauseating

people willfully misunderstanding the whole point of cho yeong’s arc was not to return to who she was but to grow and find a purpose in life that she chose for herself