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Thirty-Nine korean drama review
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Thirty-Nine
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by IamMrsMFer Flower Award1
Mar 25, 2022
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 3.5
Story 3.5
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 2.5
Rewatch Value 1.0

Another Son Ye-Jin Romance (Not a Friendship Trio Drama)

The friend scenes are quite fun and touching, but few and far between. All in all, the show is fairly disappointing. There was so much potential here to develop the main characters, their friendships, what it means to process loss, etc. but they didn't do any of that. Instead, the unnecessary "side quests" detract from both the fun aspects and the depth of the show.

This drama is all over the place, with heaps more screentime for Mijo (Son Ye-jin) and her romance and family issues-- and her boyfriend's family issues-- than about the three of them as friends. I have nothing against Son Ye-jin, but I wasn't expecting a watered down romance to be center stage when her best friend is dying. Someone described the boyfriend as a "support pillow," which is accurate because the character has no real personality beyond "the nice guy". (Nothing against the actor, there just wasn't much for him to do with the character.)

That being said, Chan-young (Jeon Mi-do) and Jinseok (Lee Moo-Saeng) are great actors and have believable chemistry together. Joo-hee (Kim Ji-hyun) is also adorable- it's too bad more time wasn't spent fleshing out her character.

If you want to watch it for Mi-do, it's more bearable, as many have mentioned, if you skip the dull Ye-jin romance scenes and plentiful Ye-jin crying scenes. All in all, I'd give this one a pass as there aren't enough good scenes to justify watching the whole thing.
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