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dangermousieI believe in working my way up, so let's start with the bad. WTF, eps 11-12 of TTBY? How is it possible for my cute fluffy drama to go so boring? The fact that these eps focused mainly on the secondaries is a big big problem. I just don't find Eun Gyul either cute or compelling (I know, I know, minority of one) and why they thought spending a lot of time on Hana or Tae Joon/Hana would be of interest to anyone is one of the world's big mysteries. On the plus side, all that fast-forwarding saved me a lot of time so yay?
Worth checking out solely for this:
Now, on to the mediocre, namely May Queen. I am in with this for the long haul (once again, with plentiful strategic fastforwarding) because I love the actors of the main trio and their chemistry and interactions are compelling, but my impression that this drama is written by brain-dead hamsters on a tight deadline has not lessened (why is this getting better ratings than the vastly superior Five Fingers again?) The way the whole 'is she my daughter? nope, probably not' thing is handled in this ep would have made my eyes fall out of my sockets if I felt invested enough in the ludicrous birthplot to care. I am beginning to believe pretty much every character in this except for the trio, In Hwa, and the uncle and aunt have cement for brains. This said, HJH is a darling, Jae Hee is doing his best in a role that is not making me ship him with HJH (grow a spine, dude! Go Oedipal on Daddy!) and the whole thing is worth watching for the marvelous faces Kim Jae Won makes. Why so darling, KJW! The drama gets about 50x better any time he is on-screen and he and HHJ have lovely chemistry. Can we ditch the rest of the waterlogged plot and just concentrate on them shipbuilding and enacting the most adorable revenge on everyone? Or something. I mean, who could say no to this face:
Adorableness galore:
I wish I could say I care, but I utterly lost interest in this pairing. Maybe because I am sick and cranky, but they are not cutting it any more. I can't wait for him to go off and marry In Hwa and wallow sexily, while she gets comforted by Kang San.
Ooooooh. Bring it on! A threesome, I mean!
And now on to the good - episode 4 of Nice Guy. Even cranky and sick me was not immune to how good this was. One of the things I love about this drama is that scenes are given room to breathe, characters (incredibly complex and fascinating) are given room to develop and process...
I love every bristly scene between Eun Gi and Jae Hee. With every ep we see more and more under EG's facade (she is so close to snapping - she is making all these wrong decisions because she is fighting heartless people with her heart). And we see more and more how empty Jae Hee is - she tries to fill that enormous emptiness with material things but it will never be enough because her emotional void can never be satisfied by simulacrums she is seeking. I love how rattled JH gets by every mention of Maru. I just want JH ground down, by now.
This scene and all the undercurrents - I love. I don't think Maru is in love with Eun Gi (yet?) but they click on some indefinable level. And if he can use it to get under Jae Hee's skin, all the better. While it's interesting to me how prickly Eun Gi opens up to him and even introduces him to his father and thus follows a brunch from hell. I love the scene where Maru systematically proves his utter ineligibility (while not caring a damn) and Jae Hee freaks out and Eun Gi sits in stony silence and than tells her father she doesn't care about his past, she cares about his present or future. What a contrast to Jae Hee. (And abusive daddy of course throws water at her).
My favorite scene in the episode wasn't one of the excellent EG/MR scenes but this one. The declaration of war by Maru - telling her he will pull JH down because she shouldn't be where she is, even the gutter is too good for her. Jae Hee's mistake is she keeps judging everyone by herself - if she appealed to his pity, understanding, better nature. But she treats him as a thing, as scum. What she tells him amounts to "you are a hooker who sells your body anyway, so just take the money and go away." Umm, lady, are you TRYING to have him go after you? But to me JH is like a badly programmed robot - she has only vague second-hand notion about how normal people interact.
I don't really have any comments on this lovely scene except how the honesty of it contrasts with the poisonous scene with JH. And that he dries her face, wiping the damage her father has wrought.
Contrast of our main characters. This drama seems fond of that maneuver. Luckily, so am I.
This was the first episode in which I liked Choco. She and Maru were kinda adorable. (But his faaace when she said to move on from Jae Hee. Move on, dammit. If you don't know by now she is a monster, you are hopeless. But of course he knows, but he can't stop his feeling, which maintained him for so long, in a matter of days).
More cuteness - and he offers her a place to live if she is kicked out (and I loled like a maniac when she asked him to name ten people who gave up the throne for love and one of the ones he named was Gu Jun Pyo from Boys Over Flowers. Heeeee!) But then the tenor changes when EG forgets to hang up and JH shows and Maru overhears yet again, for himself, how monstrous JH is.
He is there to help her fight! How is it that the perpetual gloom this show is mired in lifts the moment these two are together?
And that's it for today, folks!
Worth checking out solely for this:
Now, on to the mediocre, namely May Queen. I am in with this for the long haul (once again, with plentiful strategic fastforwarding) because I love the actors of the main trio and their chemistry and interactions are compelling, but my impression that this drama is written by brain-dead hamsters on a tight deadline has not lessened (why is this getting better ratings than the vastly superior Five Fingers again?) The way the whole 'is she my daughter? nope, probably not' thing is handled in this ep would have made my eyes fall out of my sockets if I felt invested enough in the ludicrous birthplot to care. I am beginning to believe pretty much every character in this except for the trio, In Hwa, and the uncle and aunt have cement for brains. This said, HJH is a darling, Jae Hee is doing his best in a role that is not making me ship him with HJH (grow a spine, dude! Go Oedipal on Daddy!) and the whole thing is worth watching for the marvelous faces Kim Jae Won makes. Why so darling, KJW! The drama gets about 50x better any time he is on-screen and he and HHJ have lovely chemistry. Can we ditch the rest of the waterlogged plot and just concentrate on them shipbuilding and enacting the most adorable revenge on everyone? Or something. I mean, who could say no to this face:
Adorableness galore:
I wish I could say I care, but I utterly lost interest in this pairing. Maybe because I am sick and cranky, but they are not cutting it any more. I can't wait for him to go off and marry In Hwa and wallow sexily, while she gets comforted by Kang San.
Ooooooh. Bring it on! A threesome, I mean!
And now on to the good - episode 4 of Nice Guy. Even cranky and sick me was not immune to how good this was. One of the things I love about this drama is that scenes are given room to breathe, characters (incredibly complex and fascinating) are given room to develop and process...
I love every bristly scene between Eun Gi and Jae Hee. With every ep we see more and more under EG's facade (she is so close to snapping - she is making all these wrong decisions because she is fighting heartless people with her heart). And we see more and more how empty Jae Hee is - she tries to fill that enormous emptiness with material things but it will never be enough because her emotional void can never be satisfied by simulacrums she is seeking. I love how rattled JH gets by every mention of Maru. I just want JH ground down, by now.
This scene and all the undercurrents - I love. I don't think Maru is in love with Eun Gi (yet?) but they click on some indefinable level. And if he can use it to get under Jae Hee's skin, all the better. While it's interesting to me how prickly Eun Gi opens up to him and even introduces him to his father and thus follows a brunch from hell. I love the scene where Maru systematically proves his utter ineligibility (while not caring a damn) and Jae Hee freaks out and Eun Gi sits in stony silence and than tells her father she doesn't care about his past, she cares about his present or future. What a contrast to Jae Hee. (And abusive daddy of course throws water at her).
My favorite scene in the episode wasn't one of the excellent EG/MR scenes but this one. The declaration of war by Maru - telling her he will pull JH down because she shouldn't be where she is, even the gutter is too good for her. Jae Hee's mistake is she keeps judging everyone by herself - if she appealed to his pity, understanding, better nature. But she treats him as a thing, as scum. What she tells him amounts to "you are a hooker who sells your body anyway, so just take the money and go away." Umm, lady, are you TRYING to have him go after you? But to me JH is like a badly programmed robot - she has only vague second-hand notion about how normal people interact.
I don't really have any comments on this lovely scene except how the honesty of it contrasts with the poisonous scene with JH. And that he dries her face, wiping the damage her father has wrought.
Contrast of our main characters. This drama seems fond of that maneuver. Luckily, so am I.
This was the first episode in which I liked Choco. She and Maru were kinda adorable. (But his faaace when she said to move on from Jae Hee. Move on, dammit. If you don't know by now she is a monster, you are hopeless. But of course he knows, but he can't stop his feeling, which maintained him for so long, in a matter of days).
More cuteness - and he offers her a place to live if she is kicked out (and I loled like a maniac when she asked him to name ten people who gave up the throne for love and one of the ones he named was Gu Jun Pyo from Boys Over Flowers. Heeeee!) But then the tenor changes when EG forgets to hang up and JH shows and Maru overhears yet again, for himself, how monstrous JH is.
He is there to help her fight! How is it that the perpetual gloom this show is mired in lifts the moment these two are together?
And that's it for today, folks!
