| This series has an amazing cast! Uhm Jung-hwa is delicious! She creates a complex character who has a lot of moods, a lot of motivations, and a lot of roles, and you follow her every step of the way through her highs and lows, her roles as working woman, friend, daughter, sister, lover, gold-digger, and victim. She gives her character a unique beauty, energy, and charm, and you can understand why the people in the drama are drawn to her. I'm now a solid fan. She's wonderful throughout, but one of my favorite scenes was her drunk scene with Oh Ji-ho where she takes on the role of Mother Korea. The girlfriend chat scenes are very nice also. Oh Ji-ho is very good in a role that matches him with a strong, willful, and unconventional woman (as he was with Han Ye-seul, in "Couple or Trouble". He's strong, yet vulnerable; forceful, yet sensitive; incredibly handsome, yet lacking in total confidence. Park Da-an is great as the astonishingly beautiful forlorn and wrong-headed bad girl. The hilarious, feisty, and wonderful Ahn Seon-yeong with her great face and talk is there, playing a character called Lee Young-ae. The equally wonderful energetic and charming Hwang Hyo-eun shows off her moves as a jewelry store. Seong Dong-il is great as the golf manager who speaks Korean slowly with a strange American accent. Yoo Jin-in, as the heroine's mother, is also wonderful with her quirky behavior and distinct speech pattern. Kim Kap-soo, as the heroine's father, also adds a nice touch. I loved every minute of watching these imaginative, energetic, charming, and pitch-perfect actors do their thing.
The storyline itself is very engaging. The obese and bland Ko Man-soo is left at the altar by the beautiful, energetic, and popular Oh Soo-jung after he fails to pass the final stage of his law boards. He leaves Korea, and comes back eight years later as a famous, handsome heart-throb, world-class golfer. Soo-jung still has charm and beauty, but she's 34, carries more weight than she'd like, and on the dating service evaluation, she scores only 67 points out of a possible 100. There's the revenge motive and there's the love motive. Those conflicting motives get beautifully worked out in the series, with, since it's television after all, a good dose of fantasy situations.
The writing is very good. The work situations are very nicely drawn. The locations (as usual in K-drama) are very well-chosen, and used to good effect. The camera loves the remarkably and uniquely beautiful Uhm Jung-hwa, even when it reveals the make-up smudge marks covering up bits of not altogether successful plastic surgery work. That woman has a charm that will make you accept anything. I know that she wasn't born with those beautiful, luscious, and sassy lips, but I like them just the same. She's got a spirit and talent that makes everything work, makes everything truly hers! |
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