Uma Odisseia Coreana (2017)

The first drama that Seung gi film after discharged from army. I'm always a fan of fantasy in general and since they are using the Chinese gods as character reference, it is a must watch for me.
The one character that truly stands out from the rest is not the main leads, but the supporting lead actress. Her role has so much development and she portrays it so well. Do check our Lee Se Young's parts.
Story line is really different from the "Journey to the west" dramas or movies even from textbook that we know of. Fresh.
The first few episodes are scary, I felt like there are more horror elements than thriller. The later part of the drama is more of brain-teasing and really how much the story is twisted somehow will loose me. Not exactly the best fantasy drama I've watched, but definitely worth the time.

Leia Mais

What a show, wow. I began the show thinking that it was so trashy, but was still more or less intrigued by it so I kept watching it. Then I slowly became totally hooked. If I had to compare it to a show I was already familiar with (for any anime fans out there) then I would compare it with Kamisama Hajimemashita. The whole idea of someone chosen / with special powers being protected by someone powerful (be it a familiar or sage) connected with the spiritual world. (Plus the whole idea of binding contract through a kiss). I love the idea of the female protagonist calling out her lover's name and he appears to protect her. What else is really intriguing about the show is the idea of this bracelet that makes you fall in love with the owner. The whole time you're wondering what his feelings would be if it was removed. I didn't ship the couple of first - because I felt like they had no build up. But then in the middle and second half of the show you can really feel their chemistry. And god damn Song O-Gong is smooth. You also see Ji Seon-Mi so at war with herself and her feelings because she knows his feelings are only caused by the bracelet and aren't real. But at the same time, although those feelings are from bracelet, they are still real feelings. He is in love with her and shows her affection. It makes you wonder what you would do, would you fall deeper in love with him knowing that his feelings were forced upon him? I still think this couple will be one of my favourites for a long time.

The plot is not bad, the first half of the show is mostly character introduction and... filler but not filler, it's hard to describe. Stuff if happening but not happening? If I had to write descriptions for the first few episodes, I would be struggling lol
Every episode they have to deal with a new evil spirit/ghost/demon - Supernatural style. Then in the second half of the show the plot gets thicker and more intense. Like so much is going on but it all ties in together? I definitely think Asanyeo spiced things up.

I really liked the dynamics between the characters and the occasional comedic elements. I'm still laughing from the group chat. Ji Seon-Mi just put Devil King, his dog Secretary Ma, the pop star pig PK, the zombie Richie, General Winter, Summer Fairy and Sa Oh-Jung The Bigshot Head of A Smartphone Company/Stay at Home Dad all together.
The #squad
That running gag was hilarious, especially the notification noises.

The series was a fun mess just like this review but still so good. I'll just finish by saying there is nothing quite like this show and it was a pleasure to go on the ride.

Leia Mais

Lee Seung Gi who plays Son Oh Gong, well, I just love this actor's acting abilities. Thank you for the makers of his clothes, they were off the chain. His jackets though! Again, he shows his emotions with compassion and is very believable. All the other main cast members did a superb job! I was glad to see a Korean American playing a support role. The supporting cast couldn't have done this without you... I applaud all of you! The children are so cute and did their part. Kudos! I loved the storyline thank you, writers, for making Lucifer not so evil. Thank you to the Kdrama team! The romantic chemistry was there and again those lips and kisses are all I need to say!

Leia Mais

Hwayugi.. I couldn't remember its title in English haha at firstI cannot give less or more so ten/ten. why?
Story: Is just beautiful... At first I thought it would end more dramatic haha but it gave me a really good feeling.
ACTING AND CAST: SeungGi and Cha haha my fav male actors of Hwayugi. I had watched You are all surrounded [which i recommend too] with these too and it was awesome! Here their friendship is haha even more awesome. The female leader plays a delicate i like it.
Music. Til now i cannot unhear the songs , so catchy
Rewatch Value: I had thought it had had 16 episodes hahah then i saw 16--->next hahaha 20 episodes so good!
overall: YES YES YES! thank you so much!

Leia Mais

Found this drama to be highly enjoyable as Goblin which shares similar storyline, ie. lead actor / actress fate will be ended with either one of them taking the other party life which makes it somewhat a tragic love story that would leave a lasting memory on the audiences.....

each episode progresses with very interesting events where i found its side plots / characters are meaningful in developing the storyline unlike other typical dramas which are meant to only lengthen the drama screening period to 1 hour...

moreover, i did not realise the lead actress was the same one that had appeared in Come Back Mister opposite Rain which shows her acting ability was not fully revealed in that drama...two thumbs up for Oh Yeon Seo performance...

finally, the jokes & humours thrown by Lee Seung Gi and Cha Seung Won really made this drama a worthwhile watch.. :-)?

Leia Mais

Honestly I would not recommend this drama to anyone. This drama was a real let down for me as I expected much from the cast especially Seungi, but ultimately I was wrong. His acting along with Hongi’s were horrible and honestly a distracting, it felt like both were just reading off the script and their acting felt forced. I only stayed because of Yeonseo who didn’t disappoint me and it felt like she was hard carrying the drama as mostly everyone’s acting was horrible and the plot and story was really predictable and it seemed like it was a bit repetitive in some scenes

Leia Mais

This is the first Drama that has made me go through the whole range of emotions form sadness to happiness to anger to excitement to fear and so on. I actually cried on in some scenes and on others I had a lump on my throat. I have to say personally I have Not read the novel on which this is a modern take so I can only base my review on what I have seen. But in general a film version tends to fall short because of missing details etc
Going off of that I really enjoyed it and it was worth the long episodes since they are a little over an hour. I have to say that the greatest character development would be for Song O-gong the great sage equal to heaven. He turned from a selfish jerk and a nut job to a jerk and nut job who would do anything for the one he loves. I have to admit in the very first episode as soon as they showed the evil spirit i turned the whole thing off because I got scared I'm a big chicken but it was totally worth it. Especially for the kisses!
I've seen quite a few c-dramas and the kisses are always luke wam at best but here Lee Seung Gi turned up the heat and Oh Yeah Seo was Responsive!! can you believe it?! this is the most responsive female lead that I have seen and maybe this is rated MA which for me its like what ok??... it could be because Western movies that are MA you can bet you will see everything and I mean butts and boobs will be the norm but all I saw for O-gong was a shoulder hump
Since I'm not familiar with what actors are a thing now in Korea or anything I got a feeling that they had a small cast I mean there was a character that was super important and it was basically the same person that being said I really wished Richie could have had more time with PK and Jade Dragon thats love. Basically everything that happened or didn't was because of love. I'm hoping there will be a season two and if there isn't I am also good with the ending since "Whenever you are scared, distressed or in danger call me and I will come"

Leia Mais

Brilliant

This series was.... BRILLIANT. It had action, comedy, romance. It out you in your feelings, EVERYTHING. The actors did such a great job here. They all brought their own personality to the characters and gave them life. Hell even the bad guys you will love. Lee Seung Gi did such a great in his role. I don't know how a man can deliver such mean lines and still make you swoon. The Devil King was amazing too and just hilarious.
The soundtrack was amazing. If you didn't play When I Saw You hoping to see that sexy monkey standing behind you, you didn't watch this series right!!!! Rewatch value? Hell to the yes.

Overall this was such a cool show that kept you entertained and engrossed in the story. You didn't get bored once. Episode 20 was such a great closure to this series. It made me feel better after what they did to me in 19.

Leia Mais

Honestly, seeing the reviews and overall rating I expected it to be goofy. But I like goofy stuff from time to time and I was looking for something to spend an hour on, so I played the first episode, ready to laugh at the silliness. It was around 1 pm.
Then I just played the second one, because I was curious how will this one play out.
Then I convinced myself that it’ll probably have like six episodes (somehow I forgot and didn’t check later), so oookay, I can binge watch it till evening.
... and then it was 3pm in the next day and I felt like my heart was ripped out of my chest and I just need to see the first episode again, because I don’t want to leave the world and characters just yet.
A few days later I showed the drama to my mom and we ended up watching it all in just three days.
And now I enjoy my flashbacks whenever I listen to “If you were me” in instrumental version. Music in the drama is very good!

In the beginning I enjoyed the humor and really could feel the main character. I laughed at small silinesses (ultimate kabedon to name one), but I couldn’t help being dragged more and more into the characters.

I get it, it’s my flaw - I crazily enjoy urban fantasy / adventure plots with bits of romance spreader here and there, like Noragami. I just enjoy watching characters slowly getting to know and like each other better.

And that is what Hwayugi is for me. It doesn’t revolve (too much at least) around oh so complicated feelings of the main characters, and when it does, it works it naturally into the plot. I really liked the fact that I never thought “WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID, JUST TELL X TO Y AND EVERYTHING WILL BE RESOLVED” (since this trope always makes me gesticulate angrily towards the monitor). If a character was hiding something important, it was always understandable and I couldn’t just overlook their feelings or point of view.

And I think that this “groundness” of the show is what really made me watch it all in one sitting, spending friggin 25-26 hours looking at the screen. I never once felt that characters are irrational, that they are doing stuff not because this is something they believe in, but because plot needs it. I feel that their actions always had a logical explanation.

I also feel obliged to mention that I don’t cry on any dramas, animes or whatever. Even when characters face awful endings, lovers get separated and this cute character sacrifices so someone else can live (I’m not talking about any particular show, don’t worry) I watch it with poker face. I can sometimes get a bit emotional, but crying? Meh, they are actors anyway.
Not with Hwayugi, though. I was really surprised when I realized I’m crying over piece of fiction, and believe me, I cried a river there. What it worse, when I was rewatching it, I would start tearing up whenever I saw something leading to what I knew was a sad ending. Even my mom was surprised that I actually can feel so sad because of a drama.

I really loved the characters. As I mentioned twice, I could really understand their reasoning and didn’t feel like anything was “for the sake of the plot”.
Lie Seung Gi’s character was a perfect “bad boyfriend”, switching between caring for Sun Mi (main lead) and trying to kill her.
Oh Yeon So’s character, on the other side, was a perfect mix of care, independence and low(ish) self esteem. I felt like her fatal flaw was dreaming of true love, what greatly impacted her relation with Oh Gong.

I know though that my opinion is separated. This show is very similar to Goblin in many aspects and when I talked about both dramas with my friends who have seen both, everyone agreed that Goblin was better and made them feel more. In my case it is the opposite. Nevertheless, I do not know what I missed in either of these shows to have this opinion.

Anyway, if you like watching an adventurous drama that fiddles with quite a few genres, if you enjoy kind of a “push and pull” romance and you appreciate when fantasy is a bit more grounded in reality, I couldn’t recommend “A Korean Odyssey” more. Just prepare to deal with bits of cringy CGI.
I know that this show will stay with me for a while.

Leia Mais

what did we have ??

So what did we have in this fantasy drama, there was a promising fantasy plot in the first ten episodes, funny with hints of a developing romance. A promising casting of talented actors, but at the same time, as the episodes continued, there was also an expectation of the development of the characters. Jin Sun Mi, remained melancholic throughout the drama, all she seemed to care about was whether Son Oh Kong would continue to love her after he took off the bracelet.
In my opinion, the drama could have been shortened, there was no justification for making 20 episodes. (It gives the impression that the writer wanted to emphasize the characters of the women, as weak women who depend on men
I agree on one thing and it is also sad, and that is that humans bring about the destruction of the world because of a desire for power and control.
**** The effects were at a very moderate level.
A drama worth watching mainly because of the casting of the actors, the potential, and the funny parts

Leia Mais

It is you have to fix my problems. To become friends

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Leia Mais

I've seen some other reviewers have negative opinions on how long this drama is and my biggest pet peeve is a long, boring, drawn-out drama, so those reviews made me even more hesitant to watch this. But I remember feeling so excited when news of this drama being produced first aired so I decided to take the plunge and watch it, and I'm really glad I did. This isn't the best drama I've ever watched, it's not legendary or perfect or probably even one of my favorites but, it's super interesting, and every episode left me wanting more (yes all 20 episodes) even to the point where I desperately wanted another season, and I'm the type of person that likes their dramas short and sweet (8/10 episodes). The supernatural adventures and ghost hunting aspects + the side relationships where really what drove this story forward and made it so interesting. The main relationship between Lee Seunggi and Oh Yeonseo wasn't bad perse and I literally love both actors so much and think they can have insane chemistry with others (i.e. Seunggi and Suzy in Vagabond and Yeonseo & Lee Hanui in Comeback Ahjussi), it's a shame they just didn't seem to have that spark with each other. Their relationship was cute but I found the side relationships much, much more fascinating.

Leia Mais