goldenskies
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My Lovely Girl tries to tell an emotional story about loss and love but completely fails.
The only thing that caught my attention first was the cast. Mostly idols-turned-actors filled the cast list when this was announced. I gave it a try, and I absolutely regret it.
I gave the plot a four. A very generous score, but I really liked where the drama was supposed to go from the start. I liked the plot of overcoming a loss and helplessly falling in love after the trauma. What goes wrong with the performance? Pretty much everything. From the age gap to the lack of chemistry, this drama was really a failure from the first episode. The "thing" with the two main couples constantly comes and goes, and comes and goes, and comes and goes, and at a certain point, you ask yourself why are you wasting your time watching the same thing. To be honest, I don't even remember how the drama ends, the only thing I can remember is Se Na being forced into a terribly violent situation that constantly made her choose one man. Let's also keep in mind the fact that this drama doesn't go deeper into the idol world when there could've been some very interesting side plots about it; when it comes to music and the idol world the drama tends to focus on Shi Woo only which really disappointed me, what a waste of potential.
The characters seem pretty flat and don't really change until the last episodes, Shi Woo is most likely the only exception I'd say. I personally think they didn't "exploited" Shin Hae Yoon as a character as well as her plots when she was one of the good things about this drama. At the same time, there was no chemistry. No matter how hard you try to find it, you will never find it, neither between Rain and Krystal, or between Myungsoo and Krystal.
Is the cast what made this drama that bad? I'd say that maybe it is. I don't know if the story was originally about a grown (grown) man constantly chasing a girl in her 20s or if the girl was supposed to be a different actress. I heard about the rumors of SM giving this role to Krystal to make up how they shattered her being in the second season of Jessica & Krystal as well as the release and promotions of the unit mini album with her sister, which were Krystal's original plans for the last quarter of 2014 before they kicked Jessica out of SNSD. Whatever the case is, I liked Krystal even though the character was boring and Krystal's acting skills were not at her prime in this project. The chemistry with the other characters was utterly bad, very awkward to see, and the only fault here was the cast. Whether the problem is the girl or one of the boys, this triangle just didn't work leading the drama to a complete failure.
The OST was great, though. This drama is about music producers and idols so thank God I can say one positive thing about this drama. I really liked (and still like) the two versions of "Pray" just like N-Sonic's "I Miss You" and Krystal's "All of Sudden". However, I wish there was a connection between the great songs and the drama. I know there was an attempt but I would've liked it if they tried to kind of "force it".
To sum up, a very awkward drama with terrible chemistry and forced situations for the main character that will never leave her alone. To be with a man whose age gap is huge and is also your boss, or to be with a rude boy that harrassed you from the moment you met him (and never changed)? I didn't like how you can predict each character's moves and how frustrating is it when everything that goes on was very violent to me, I almost (miss)understood Se Na's psychology, but she's constantly being played with mind games situations and forced to choose between one thing or another. Extremely boring, My Lovely Girls gets a 4 out of 10, being the OST the strongest point of this drama.
The only thing that caught my attention first was the cast. Mostly idols-turned-actors filled the cast list when this was announced. I gave it a try, and I absolutely regret it.
I gave the plot a four. A very generous score, but I really liked where the drama was supposed to go from the start. I liked the plot of overcoming a loss and helplessly falling in love after the trauma. What goes wrong with the performance? Pretty much everything. From the age gap to the lack of chemistry, this drama was really a failure from the first episode. The "thing" with the two main couples constantly comes and goes, and comes and goes, and comes and goes, and at a certain point, you ask yourself why are you wasting your time watching the same thing. To be honest, I don't even remember how the drama ends, the only thing I can remember is Se Na being forced into a terribly violent situation that constantly made her choose one man. Let's also keep in mind the fact that this drama doesn't go deeper into the idol world when there could've been some very interesting side plots about it; when it comes to music and the idol world the drama tends to focus on Shi Woo only which really disappointed me, what a waste of potential.
The characters seem pretty flat and don't really change until the last episodes, Shi Woo is most likely the only exception I'd say. I personally think they didn't "exploited" Shin Hae Yoon as a character as well as her plots when she was one of the good things about this drama. At the same time, there was no chemistry. No matter how hard you try to find it, you will never find it, neither between Rain and Krystal, or between Myungsoo and Krystal.
Is the cast what made this drama that bad? I'd say that maybe it is. I don't know if the story was originally about a grown (grown) man constantly chasing a girl in her 20s or if the girl was supposed to be a different actress. I heard about the rumors of SM giving this role to Krystal to make up how they shattered her being in the second season of Jessica & Krystal as well as the release and promotions of the unit mini album with her sister, which were Krystal's original plans for the last quarter of 2014 before they kicked Jessica out of SNSD. Whatever the case is, I liked Krystal even though the character was boring and Krystal's acting skills were not at her prime in this project. The chemistry with the other characters was utterly bad, very awkward to see, and the only fault here was the cast. Whether the problem is the girl or one of the boys, this triangle just didn't work leading the drama to a complete failure.
The OST was great, though. This drama is about music producers and idols so thank God I can say one positive thing about this drama. I really liked (and still like) the two versions of "Pray" just like N-Sonic's "I Miss You" and Krystal's "All of Sudden". However, I wish there was a connection between the great songs and the drama. I know there was an attempt but I would've liked it if they tried to kind of "force it".
To sum up, a very awkward drama with terrible chemistry and forced situations for the main character that will never leave her alone. To be with a man whose age gap is huge and is also your boss, or to be with a rude boy that harrassed you from the moment you met him (and never changed)? I didn't like how you can predict each character's moves and how frustrating is it when everything that goes on was very violent to me, I almost (miss)understood Se Na's psychology, but she's constantly being played with mind games situations and forced to choose between one thing or another. Extremely boring, My Lovely Girls gets a 4 out of 10, being the OST the strongest point of this drama.
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