![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieBoth have first eps subbed by viikii already so I had decided to check them out.
What is the verdict? I liked Prosecutor Princess but I completely LOVED Cinderella Unni. Yes, I am shocked too.
Prosecutor Princess - I really enjoyed the first episode. It's nothing ground-breaking but it's snappy, light-hearted and moves fast. The best part of the drama so far is Kim So Yeon, playing a smart but shallow prosecutor so energetically and with such fun that I couldn't help but love her. The role is 180 degrees from her role in IRIS but she nails it. She takes a character who easily could have been dislikeable or cliche or boring and makes her awesome. Park Shi Hoo is mysterious and very very sexy and I already love the vibe between them. This will be one HOT couple when they do hook up - the chemistry is thick in the air already. I liked what little we've seen of Han Jung Soo, as well. The cast truly is the reason to watch this.
Cinderella Unni - well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. I really really liked it. It's not at all as mopey and emo and OTT as the ridiculous previews make it look - it actually has a light deft touch and finds a surprising amount of humor even in some grim situations. Neither is Moon Geun Young's protagonist a sullen ball of misery - she is tough and hardened by life and not particularly cheery but she's actually an active, engaging character. In their one brief scene together, the chemistry between her and Chun Jung Myung absolutely crackles. So far the most interesting characters are her and her mother - a woman who is so desperate to have a man, any man, to live with, that she puts up with a string of alcoholics, abusers, users, and other losers, not seeing how it warps her daughter in the process. It also has one of the best, most enaging drama openings I've seen in a while - as MGY and the son of her mother's boyfriend prepare their dinner, the older couple is fighting in the background. They are yelling, even physically fighting, but the teens ignore it and methodically shovel food into their mouths - clearly such an occurrence is an every day event. It is only when the boyfriend grabs an aluminum bat that they go in to interfere. None of it is particularly overworught and some of it is even grimly funny. That brief, 2-minute sequence sums up everything about these characters better than a lengthy introduction ever could.
Man, they really should have fired their promotions team.
What is the verdict? I liked Prosecutor Princess but I completely LOVED Cinderella Unni. Yes, I am shocked too.
Prosecutor Princess - I really enjoyed the first episode. It's nothing ground-breaking but it's snappy, light-hearted and moves fast. The best part of the drama so far is Kim So Yeon, playing a smart but shallow prosecutor so energetically and with such fun that I couldn't help but love her. The role is 180 degrees from her role in IRIS but she nails it. She takes a character who easily could have been dislikeable or cliche or boring and makes her awesome. Park Shi Hoo is mysterious and very very sexy and I already love the vibe between them. This will be one HOT couple when they do hook up - the chemistry is thick in the air already. I liked what little we've seen of Han Jung Soo, as well. The cast truly is the reason to watch this.
Cinderella Unni - well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. I really really liked it. It's not at all as mopey and emo and OTT as the ridiculous previews make it look - it actually has a light deft touch and finds a surprising amount of humor even in some grim situations. Neither is Moon Geun Young's protagonist a sullen ball of misery - she is tough and hardened by life and not particularly cheery but she's actually an active, engaging character. In their one brief scene together, the chemistry between her and Chun Jung Myung absolutely crackles. So far the most interesting characters are her and her mother - a woman who is so desperate to have a man, any man, to live with, that she puts up with a string of alcoholics, abusers, users, and other losers, not seeing how it warps her daughter in the process. It also has one of the best, most enaging drama openings I've seen in a while - as MGY and the son of her mother's boyfriend prepare their dinner, the older couple is fighting in the background. They are yelling, even physically fighting, but the teens ignore it and methodically shovel food into their mouths - clearly such an occurrence is an every day event. It is only when the boyfriend grabs an aluminum bat that they go in to interfere. None of it is particularly overworught and some of it is even grimly funny. That brief, 2-minute sequence sums up everything about these characters better than a lengthy introduction ever could.
Man, they really should have fired their promotions team.
