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Gaet-na-eul cha-cha-cha (2021)
What happened to the baby
Sadly I wasn't that impressed with the lead male. The lead female came to the small town on vacation and fell in love with it. Since she was a dentist she opened her clinic and wasn't taken with the townies, but Hong Du Sik being the town everything helped her get accepted.
The problem I had with Du Sik, was he had an answer for everything and came across as a rude know it all.
The series was cute and had some strong moments, except the one that really bugged me. A tropical storm that closed the roads leading to the hospital came at the time the neighborhood grocer, who already had a little girl, was having her baby, so the dentist delivered the baby and everyone rejoiced on the great job she did. We then come to a scene where one of the neighborhood kids was missing so his parents and the parents of the new born search for him, but neither were carrying a baby. WHO was watching the baby? From that point on whenever you saw the parents the only one you'd see was the 1st daughter. It was almost like since the kid couldn't read any lines we'd write it out.
Lastly, the last two episodes really dragged on and seemed to be filler or even an ad for Domino pizza.
I know everyone cared for it, I really couldn't get into it.
Baegabondeu (2019)
What happened to a great start?
I'm at episode 11 and not sure if I can continue. The plot started off as the best Kdrama action series I've seen to date. The leads make a great couple when he isn't screaming at someone. Two companies are fighting for the rights to make fighter jets for South Korea. The one company seems to be losing to the second and for some reason by making their rival's commercial plane crash, they will get the contract. Now comes the horrible twist (I think a new writer was hired). Everyone one except 4 people in South Korea work for this rival company. Not sure how they can afford to pay all these people, as that company needed to contract to survive.
The male lead (Uncle to one of the passenger) is a Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan. James (Daniel Craig) Bond rolled up in one. He can drive, he can run, he can fight, he can do everything and more. The male female of course is falling for him, as every other scene, he's saving her.
I'm really disappointed that it's drifting from the main plot and seems to be how can we kill the main leads and how can the main leads get out of each problem unharmed.
Remarriage & Desires (2022)
Super beginning
The first couple episodes were well written, but then either the writer quit or wanted more money as it was confusing. The idea that someone could find a spouse for someone who's wealthy is a good premise, but having a "Halloween party" seems ridiculous. Then the villain could do whatever she wanted with the "heroine" knowing what's she's doing but not telling anyone, seems odd.
Other than the plot being confusing, I also thought some of the actors were miscast. There was not the chemistry that I'd expected in a kdrama.
I would recommend the first 3 episodes and if you want to know how it ends, then watch the last episode.
Yeonmo (2021)
Miscast
The story line could work if they had cast the correct actors. Park Eun Bin looks like a female cross dressing. Her hair is too long, she's too petite to be considered a male. Making it even worse is she/he cast with actors that seem to be over a foot taller that her. Therefore the entire series seems like the male characters are taking care of a 12 year old female acting like a 25 male. There is a point that it seems ever K-drama has to have extremely long pause and female characters falling with the male character quickly running to catch them, then having a long pause when the female looks into the male character's eyes. This drama had it more than others. In addition, it seems the characters in Kdramas have tunnel vision, as the characters in the scene can't see people standing to the side watching them (or) hearing them.
I love kdramas, especially period pieces, but sadly this one missed the boat starting at casting call.
The Wish List (2010)
Don't bother
Sarah (Jennifer) is a girl that is anal retentive in that everything must be just so. All the guys she dates have faults that at first the hide from her, but eventually come out.
Every morning she gets a "latte" at her certain coffee house from the same guy until the one day she walks in and "Fred" is on the counter. This is the character that ruined the movie for me. Fred is a control freak and he determines what the person should get instead of the customer making an order. Sarah orders her usual, but Fred determines that isn't right for her and won't make it. She then turns to leave and bumps into Erik. Erik is the perfect guy for her, but you know that there is no way they'll end up together since the heroine (Sarah) must change at the end and be with the hero (Fred) and dump the sap (Erik).
It would have been a much better movie if Fred wasn't so controlling and some of the scenes were more realistic. Fred stalks her, finds out her phone number and some how found out when it was her birthday, as the day of her BD there is a sign that lattes are free on your birthday. This is the only day I saw the sign. He then discovers that Erik is outta town and calls her after work and has her come down to the coffee house. When she gets there he has it all decorated for a BD party with a full house of party goers. Not sure why she stayed since she didn't know any of them!! and one of her list items was family. Why wasn't she at her mother's (or) sister's for her birthday since she over at one of their houses every other scene.
Overall I think it was poorly written, poorly directed and some of the characters unbelievable. Feel badly for Jennifer as I like her acting a lot.