And so we have my recent addiction. I watched this series in three daysXD Really good^^
The drama is a love story, of course.
Kim Joo Won is an arrogant, childish and very rich CEO of a department store.
He meets Gil Ra Im, a poor but cool stuntwoman, and mistakes her for the actress she's doing stunts for. He tries stopping this actress from releasing a scandal, but doesn't know how she looks like. After this(the mistake is corrected) he starts falling in love with Gil Ra Im, even if she's not his type at all.
Kim Joo Won also has a cousin named Choi Woo Young, who is a famous pop star(Oska) and a total playboy. He has problems of his own, and Gil Ra Im is of course a huge fan.
Then, under mysterious circumstances, the two lovers switch bodies, and we get a whole new twist to the storyXD
I think I generally like dramas with arrogant childish guys like this(kinda like You're beautiful), and gender-benders are funXD So this is a kind of double jackpot I guess. But still, even though the ingredients are familiar, it wasn't all that easy to figure out what would happen next.
The plot is complex, as needed for long dramas to be entertaining. You have both the big stuff, the side stories, and the small witty incidents. All these blend together into the total story.
All the characters are also not total idiots, which is a plus for me.
Of course they don't do everything right, but you don't punch the screen screaming "No! you fucking idiot!" so much :D
..well maybe a couple of side actors have some brick-headedness, but not too annoyingly.
The actors are also good, the main actors are really good, and the way they play when having switched bodies is awesome! The personality change is so obvious you really notice it. The actor of Kim Joo Won(Hyun Bin) is maybe the most extreme of the two, it's such a totally different personXD
Of course hillareous scenes on both sides occur, as expected, but they are also able to play the serious scenes believably. (If you can use that word on a series with the gender bender element...)
I must say though, the music choice is really annoying-.- I know romance songs are to be expected, and I can tolerate not having my favorite music played all the time, but still... Is it necessary to play same chouruses through almost every big romance scene in all the 20 episodes? There are some of those songs I hope I never hear againXD
The only other negative part, other than some of the music, was how some of the dialoges didn't really make sense. I don't know if it was the translation, but a few of the quarrels had really bad arguments, and I couldn't really understand what they were fighting about at all. Sometimes they make a big deal of something they didn't seem to care about.. or something. I can't give actual examples without spoiling something, and if I try explaining something it sounds like normal drama-series stuff. It's just a few moments that raised some question marks and some "wat?", even upon seeing it again
That doesn't mean it's the case for every dialoge of the series though, and it doesn't ruin the series. The rest is still really good^^
I don't really have much more to say about this. Maybe I should practise some at finding points to write about... But it is a romance series, with its laughing parts, sweet parts, and sad parts. And I recommend it!
The drama can be watched on viki:
They also sub the text, and are sometimes better.
It can also be watched on youtube:
It may be easier to follow the subs here, because they don't dissappear as fast.
Here's a funny Big Bang parody of the series:
You can download it from here if you log in:
http://myasiancinema.com/k-drama-secret-garden-2010/
thnx so much :)
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