My Lovely Sam-Soon: Quick Takes

"My Lovely Sam-Soon" is awesome, not as good as some people say, but it is awfully good. The daydreaming sequences do go away after the first few episodes, they're missed but the series is more than that. I'm almost assured that some jokes are really lost without having lived in Korea, i.e. why Sam Soon is such a bad name. But there are also lessons about Korea learned, such as for blind dates, it's ok to meet in a hotel lobby for drinks. Actresses are very pretty, actors are so good looking you want to punch them, low life threatening diseases count, comedy that doesn't rely on being wacky for sake of being weird, people being thrust into unknown situations with unknown consequences. You'll constantly see a character face something and wonder how you'll act if that was you, because there's a connection to the audience. Other shows I wouldn't even care. There are some lulls because you can't believe how some people behave or some turns are too convenient or unbelievable, but it does cause you stick with it because you know it'll right itself later on.