[k-drama review] you're beautiful

after the disaster that was boys over flowers (korean version), i thought i was so over idol dramas (i am too old to be giggling over teen romance), but then comes you're beautiful..and i love it! this is wayyy better than the boring BOF (only lee minho carried the show). this show was written by the Hong Sisters, who also made my kdrama faves such as Fantasy Couple and My Girl.

Title: You're Beautiful 미남이시네요
TV Station: SBS
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Period: Oct 27 to Nov 26, 2009
Story: A story about the behind-the-scenes life of an idol group. Jang Geun Suk and Lee Hong Ki are in search of a new member for their idol group. However at the last minute, the member suffers an injury and his twin sister has to step in disguised as him.


Characters:
Park Shin-hye as Go Mi-nam and Go Mi-nyu: she's so adorable as Go Mi-nam! she looks so much like a young Yun Eun Hye in Coffee Prince.

Jang Geun Suk as Hwang Tae Kyung: i've never seen him in his older dramas and i've never bothered to watch him. I've always thought he looked too girly and thin.. but he was so good in this drama that i became an instant fan! i hate his arrogant smirks but i melted at how much he loves Mi-nam.

Jung Yong Hwa as Kang Shin Woo: i was sooo disappointed with this character! he was no match at all for Tae Kyung and he's such a torpe that it was his fault Minam couldnt even see him as a man. i think it would have been better if the Hong Sisters made Shin Woo more aggressive and competitive, it would have made the story fun and his character less pathetic and boring.

Lee Hongki as Jeremy: his character was so childish and stupid with a immature crush on Minam, i thought they just added him in the cast as comic relief. But i did love that bus scene with Minam where he heartbreakingly cries - first sign of his maturity.

Uee as Yoo He Yi: for some reason, i dont find her pretty. her eyes are so big and her face and expressions are so ugly.. but i loved her character. though she's a bit bitchy and mean, she played it so well and i can't help but look forward to her downfall everytime she's on screen.

FAvorite Scenes:
anything with Minam and TaeKyung. their chemistry is just so good! and Minam's clumsiness and TaeKyung's awesomeness is so much fun to watch!

 there's always the drunk-accidental kiss scene

minam ridiculously gets zapped by the pepper spray and falls onto the sleeping taekyung

and the kisses

and all those times minam would turn her nose up like a pig's to suppress her feelings for taekyung

and taekyung creating the pig rabbit

the reunion and the end

ANJELL together

comments:

the story mainly focused on the relationship between tae kyung and minam, with a little sideplots on minam not getting discovered, heyi's obsessive crush on taekyung, shinwoo's one-sided love and taekyung's mom. i think the story about taekyung's mom was required to build up the angsty character or taekyung but it was a bit dragging that i was fast forwarding their scenes. the songs were a bit repetitive but nice, esp the summery song, lovely day sung by shin-hye. i love their house!! it looks so much fun! the comic scenese are ridiculously corny but funny. the love, anger and heartbreak between taekyung and minam felt so real that i couldnt help but cry with them. i think i will give this series a 7.5 out of 10. too bad i lost my copy of this show. maybe when i have some free time i will redownload and rewatch this again!