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You just can't help comparing this to the other adaptions and feel that it comes up short.
Korean public network dramas just don't have the balls to there in terms of sexuality or darkness. It was all just some pure puppy love bullshit like any other high school/college drama.
It would have been better suited for a cable TV station, but even then the story line would have been stretched dangerously thin. It was never enough material in the original to make a whole TV drama out of it, but I honestly even doubt that the writer even read the original source material, and just watched the 1999 movie and sanitized the whole thing until it was unrecognizable. It just didn't capture the feel of the original story at all.
The source material is about some rich bored people playing dangerous games and messing up people lives and in the end their very own. I got none of that in this drama.
Which was a thousand times better. The drama just lacks characters like Sarah Michelle Gellar's Kathryn Merteuil an promiscuous coke snorting teenager bathing in privilege hell bent on fucking up people's life over nothing with her equally messed up step brother who is trying to fuck.
Soo Jin is none of that. Not even a tenth of that character. Neither is Shi Hyun. Reese Witherspoon's character was the weak point of that movie, but even Tae hee doesn't compare.
This drama lacks such characters that made the 1999 movie a cult classic. All of them are equally anemic and flat caught up in endless cycles of teenage angst and the attached dumb break ups. I can't even come up with anything to say about the characters, after the first few episodes where they are kinda give some personality traits it just stops and blends together into some kind of mush.
And even if that teenage dry humping is your thing you're still forced to sit through the parents storyline. The only good aspect that could have been expanded upon was the friendship of the three in the beginning. More focus on those and much needed character development would have done wonders. A plot would have been nice too, I guess.
Not even Woo Do Hwan could make this watchable. And looking back on it, while he's a decent actor, he can't deliver without a strong character.
I can't even blame Joy for the acting with the character she was given.
If anyone is interested in a Koreanfied version of that story they should watch the 2000 movie "Untold Scandal" with Bae Yong Joon.
Korean public network dramas just don't have the balls to there in terms of sexuality or darkness. It was all just some pure puppy love bullshit like any other high school/college drama.
It would have been better suited for a cable TV station, but even then the story line would have been stretched dangerously thin. It was never enough material in the original to make a whole TV drama out of it, but I honestly even doubt that the writer even read the original source material, and just watched the 1999 movie and sanitized the whole thing until it was unrecognizable. It just didn't capture the feel of the original story at all.
The source material is about some rich bored people playing dangerous games and messing up people lives and in the end their very own. I got none of that in this drama.
Which was a thousand times better. The drama just lacks characters like Sarah Michelle Gellar's Kathryn Merteuil an promiscuous coke snorting teenager bathing in privilege hell bent on fucking up people's life over nothing with her equally messed up step brother who is trying to fuck.
Soo Jin is none of that. Not even a tenth of that character. Neither is Shi Hyun. Reese Witherspoon's character was the weak point of that movie, but even Tae hee doesn't compare.
This drama lacks such characters that made the 1999 movie a cult classic. All of them are equally anemic and flat caught up in endless cycles of teenage angst and the attached dumb break ups. I can't even come up with anything to say about the characters, after the first few episodes where they are kinda give some personality traits it just stops and blends together into some kind of mush.
And even if that teenage dry humping is your thing you're still forced to sit through the parents storyline. The only good aspect that could have been expanded upon was the friendship of the three in the beginning. More focus on those and much needed character development would have done wonders. A plot would have been nice too, I guess.
Not even Woo Do Hwan could make this watchable. And looking back on it, while he's a decent actor, he can't deliver without a strong character.
I can't even blame Joy for the acting with the character she was given.
If anyone is interested in a Koreanfied version of that story they should watch the 2000 movie "Untold Scandal" with Bae Yong Joon.
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