Korean title: 나쁜 남자
Other title: Bad boy
17 episodes
Aired on SBS
From 2010 May to August
Main cast:
Notes:
- Hello Paper fan teacher from Nodame cantabile! It's funny because Shim Eun Kyung who plays Girl's sister in this drama is playing the Nodame role in the Korean adaptation.
- Hello cute little girl also seen in Rooftop Prince!
- Hey guy from Coffee Prince in a major role!
- Strong feelings about that one. I'm going to have a spoiler space about it. It could have been a Fav but nope. It's been a few days so I'm not mad anymore, just bitter.
- Finally, I decided to start putting the production credits from Drama Wiki because these people are even more responsible for the end product than the cast.
Production credits :
Review: +
Title: I get it but it's hard to be more generic. Just "Guy" maybe?
Boy: I don't think you can go more mysterious-loner-dude-y than that. This drama lives or dies on his Boy. And he is SO good. He can do the single tear, the goofy smile, the smirk, anything. I read that actor Kim Nam Gil stole the show in another drama and I'm not surprised since I found him very charismatic. He had to, since the drama relies a lot on his character being that way. To sum up, all the pluses in the world for him.
Girl: All the pluses for her too. She is a art consultant (I had to get past the fact that it's a rom-com job despite not being on that list) from a poor background. She wants to be a social climber. Like Boy, she has an agenda, she drives the narrative. She is smart and level-headed but not boring. She's someome you'd like as a friend and it's the first time I wrote that about a drama's character.
Boy: The black sheep of his family. I'm not in love with him but he is touching. I feel for him.
Girl: A young spoiled girl but not the annoying brat type. She is cute and lively, passionnate and open-hearted.
Girl: She's an unsatisfied married woman who always puts her duty to her family first. She could have been a cliché but she's a strong character and her story was well-handled.
Plot/relationships: The plot was so good. It was hard to see where it was going. It's driven by the characters' motivations, it makes you care about the characters, the pacing is great, revelations are dished out progressively. Fab! Triple Fab... But, triple but, at one point, characters act in stupid ways just to allow a plot point that makes no sense. And the end is completely botched. I was so mad. I've never been so mad... it doesn't ruin everything, I'd still recommend it but no to the end.
I'm just going to paraphrase one of my favourite reviews ever: "For about nine-tenths of the drama, this is perfect. The drama is tense, there’s a palpable sense of mystery, of trying to figure out along with the characters what the next move is, what the next layer is, how the disparate pieces that don’t make sense fit into a cohesive picture.
And then the bottom falls out catastrophically.
The last two episodes in which we get "resolutions" are just so terribly written that I think the screenwriter should get an MRI, because I think he had a stroke on page 85 and then ignored the smell of burnt toast to keep typing."
I'm just going to paraphrase one of my favourite reviews ever: "For about nine-tenths of the drama, this is perfect. The drama is tense, there’s a palpable sense of mystery, of trying to figure out along with the characters what the next move is, what the next layer is, how the disparate pieces that don’t make sense fit into a cohesive picture.
And then the bottom falls out catastrophically.
The last two episodes in which we get "resolutions" are just so terribly written that I think the screenwriter should get an MRI, because I think he had a stroke on page 85 and then ignored the smell of burnt toast to keep typing."
Funny factor? Nope.
Bottom line: It should have been a Fav! I'm mad it's not a Fav because of [spoiler].
But watch it! Just don't watch *first degree spoiler* the last two episodes and imagine it's the end.
However, I still need to dish on what I hated, so full blown spoilers coming after the jump. You should really watch the show before reading this because, for one thing, you won't understand what I'm talking about and second, it will colour your experience of the show and you don't want that. Anyway, you will probably binge-watch it in days like I did so you're coming back soon.
I'm going to tell the ending, the real ending, the one you do not want to know.
I hated it. Seriously, it is awful, terrible, I want to smash something, what happened, is it the same person who wrote up till that point and those dreadful two last episodes ???
I read somewhere that actor Kim Nam Gil had to go for his military service before he properly finished shooting the drama. It made me feel me a bit better. I'm going to pretend believe that they had to write him fewer scenes in these episodes because he was not available.
However, I also believe that nothing justifies this end, not even the last shot with Jae In at the bus stop with the paper flying away, a beautiful, tragic shot.
That still doesn't justify the randomness of it all.
First of all, I'm not mad that Gun Wook dies. I was kind of ready for it. That's why I can say "just stop watching at the 15th episode". I would have accepted his death then. It made sense. He played with fire and he was burned, Mrs Shin was too evil for him.
I'm not mad because of the reveal he's actually the real son because it makes sense. And I like that it was established early that Tae Ra was from a previous marriage so it wasn't incest, and that nothing happened physically with her at least.
I'm mad because the way he dies makes no sense. First, how is it possible that Mo Ne didn't come back for the trial of her mother? Conveniently, she was only aware of half the truth. Let's say her family wanted to protect her. Why did he let himself die like this? He could have pretended to have shot himself. Why doesn't he explain anything? Mo Ne deserved to know. And of course, Jae In had to conveniently leave. No, no, no.
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