Drama Recs #9
2021-06-27 02:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rodo1. Extraordinary You: One day, Eun Dan-oh finds out that she’s a character in a comic book – only not the main character, but a side character with a stupid backstory and an even worse love interest that she’s forced to fawn over by the omnipotent author. Her life is only hers between the scenes, where she meets a nameless extra who might change her life… I really loved this series because of how it played with its tropes. One of Dan-oh’s friends, Do-hwa, is the unlucky second lead of the comic book, and I loved what the series did with him. I also loved how it played with the rules of storytelling and created a world full of unique rules for the characters to live in and struggle against.
2. Hwarang: A young peasant called Moo-myung loses his best friend, and in order to take revenge and survive he takes on said best friend’s identity and ends up joining a new group of knights – the Hwarang – along with some other noble sons and the king in hiding… I liked this series mostly because of the rivalry-turned-friendship-turned-enmity-turned-sort-of-allies-turned-friendship between Moo-myung and the king, as well as the relationship between the other young men.
3. Sisyphus: The Myth: Kang Seo-hae has a mission: travel back in time and prevent the apocalypse by saving genius inventor and playboy Han Tae-sul. But things aren’t quite as straight forward as that when everyone from a shady government organisation to Tae-sul’s brother has their own stake in the future… This is a really well done sci-fi series with interesting characters and good action. The ending may be a little bit predictable, but that didn’t make me enjoy Seo-hae’s and Tae-sul’s struggles to save the world (or at least Korea) any less.
4.Undercover: Han Jeong-hyeon is a loving husband and father who has dedicated his life to his wife ever since they met almost thirty years ago. The problem: he is not actually Han Jeong-hyeon, but a former undercover agent. Now, his wife gets offered a government job, and suddenly his former employers remember that he exists… I loved this series. I loved just how in love Jeong-hyun is with his wife, and how much his family means to him. I also loved Choi Yeon-soo and her dedication to changing the world, as well as many of the minor characters, like the other ex-spies and the people around Yeon-soo. The action scenes are great as well, the ending is satisfying and the build-up well done, in my opinion.
5. Vincenzo: Vincenzo Cassano was born in Korea, but as a child, he was adopted by a family in Italy, where he later joined the mafia. Now, he’s come back to Korea to get his hands on a fortune of gold hidden beneath a run-down building that only he knows about. Unfortunately, a rich conglomerate has chosen the building’s site as the place where they want to build their new headquarters, the residents don’t want to leave and even the pigeons seem to hate him… What I loved most about the series is that a lot of characters, including Vincenzo, got to be terrible people in many different ways, and not everyone gets their comeuppance, which is rare for a Korean series. I also adored some of the minor characters, like the one good lawyer and the evil CEO’s little brother who tries his best to be evil but kind of sucks at it.
2. Hwarang: A young peasant called Moo-myung loses his best friend, and in order to take revenge and survive he takes on said best friend’s identity and ends up joining a new group of knights – the Hwarang – along with some other noble sons and the king in hiding… I liked this series mostly because of the rivalry-turned-friendship-turned-enmity-turned-sort-of-allies-turned-friendship between Moo-myung and the king, as well as the relationship between the other young men.
3. Sisyphus: The Myth: Kang Seo-hae has a mission: travel back in time and prevent the apocalypse by saving genius inventor and playboy Han Tae-sul. But things aren’t quite as straight forward as that when everyone from a shady government organisation to Tae-sul’s brother has their own stake in the future… This is a really well done sci-fi series with interesting characters and good action. The ending may be a little bit predictable, but that didn’t make me enjoy Seo-hae’s and Tae-sul’s struggles to save the world (or at least Korea) any less.
4.Undercover: Han Jeong-hyeon is a loving husband and father who has dedicated his life to his wife ever since they met almost thirty years ago. The problem: he is not actually Han Jeong-hyeon, but a former undercover agent. Now, his wife gets offered a government job, and suddenly his former employers remember that he exists… I loved this series. I loved just how in love Jeong-hyun is with his wife, and how much his family means to him. I also loved Choi Yeon-soo and her dedication to changing the world, as well as many of the minor characters, like the other ex-spies and the people around Yeon-soo. The action scenes are great as well, the ending is satisfying and the build-up well done, in my opinion.
5. Vincenzo: Vincenzo Cassano was born in Korea, but as a child, he was adopted by a family in Italy, where he later joined the mafia. Now, he’s come back to Korea to get his hands on a fortune of gold hidden beneath a run-down building that only he knows about. Unfortunately, a rich conglomerate has chosen the building’s site as the place where they want to build their new headquarters, the residents don’t want to leave and even the pigeons seem to hate him… What I loved most about the series is that a lot of characters, including Vincenzo, got to be terrible people in many different ways, and not everyone gets their comeuppance, which is rare for a Korean series. I also adored some of the minor characters, like the one good lawyer and the evil CEO’s little brother who tries his best to be evil but kind of sucks at it.
