Me Derretendo Pouco a Pouco (2019)

This drama had a great potential. It started quite interestingly. The idea is nice, but the execution was sadly poor, in my opinion.

What I liked:
- comedy
- youtube
- crazy first boyfriend
- kiss scene
- professor + brother Nam Tae

What I didn't like:
- second half of the drama
- not much focus on the frozen people
- plot holes
- crazy first boyfriend

I hated crazy first boyfriend at first but then I was enjoying his scenes thinking like "omg not him again hahahhahahahaa...." lol that was so stupid.
I liked how the lil' girl was telling about youtube all the time LOL
The drama starts off interestingly but the focus of it is the romance so it doesn't explore the frozen people concept which is quite sad.
The end was too predictable.
But overall it's a nice pass-time drama. Not bad and not good

P.S. this is just my opinion, you may really like this drama if you watch or you may hate it. So you can just try it out and see :)

Leia Mais

I'll be honest, I was expecting something better, especially because it was the first drama of my beloved Ji Chang Wook after his returning from the enlistments. Turns out, even with all the eye-candy, swoon moments with our main lead and great acting from Chang Wook, I can't bypass the fact that this drama is just... failure, tbh.
I started watching it as soon s it came out. I dragged myself through it to the 12 ep and than, I dropped it. Just recently, I've finished it (thanks to my on-going exams and desperate need to procrastinate) and maybe it's because of long break, but I've enjoy the end much more than the past ten episode.
The thing that turned me off the most at the beginning was very VERY poor editing work. The passes from one scene to another in most cases were too rush, not smooth enough, they were lacking stages that could show for example how the heros came from one place to another, how they react to some situation. Instead it was like: one scene with phone call, clap, another scene in some dfferent place with two people talking. Not much consistance, a lot of whiplash.
Second, the plot - after first episode I was simply bored, the race to catch a bad guy didn't particlary excited me and when whole premise was solved by 13 or 14 episode, the rest plot was being unnecessary drag out to maintain the typical 16 ep duration. And than the end was so rushed and didn't give much needed glimpse of a new life of our main leads that I was just dissapointed, and not really satisfied with the end result.
The acting wasn't really good either. I really like both of the main actors, I thing they skills are really great, but with this drama, I think they couldn't really showcase much of their acting abilities. Plus, the chemeitry was lacking that special spark and thus their relationship on screen wasn't really convincing to me.

Leia Mais

Watch Only If You Are a Fan of Ji Chang Wook

I only watched this drama to see Ji Chang Wook. As always he does a good job to portray the character who was frozen for 20 years and woke up just as handsome together with a female volunteer of experiment played by Won Jin-A. The chemistry between the two fairly good but but fail to hold it's passion consistently throughout especially during the last 3 episodes as Won Jin-A was frozen again and poor JCW had to wait another 3 years for her to awake.
After being frozen for 20 years and additional 3 years, surprisingly the heroine still not in a hurry to marry and want to experience more on developing her own self. Luckily JCW character is understanding, compromises and supports her dreams. Somehow, towards the end the mutual love and passion did not seem quite balanced. Happy ending, overall a drama one can watch if there is no other interesting dramas to watch. Strictly for fans of JCW advisable.

Leia Mais

I was just like..I could feel evry moment in it...

This drama just melt my Heart...Dong chans care for Mi Ran I liked the most..

This drama caught my attention only becsuse the role called dong chan...chang wook really a great actor I have to admit that...

Though I Don't know such a guy like dong chan does exist or not...but trust me..I don't thik theres any good example of a perfect guy other than dong chan..

From the very start...when he was convincing Mi Ran for the experiment...When he saw that she is crying..he changed his mind..and stoped forcing her...

After woking up after 20 years....He took all the responsbillites for her...He always took care of her...just evry single moment...And they fell in love..

A girl doesn't want much from a guy...His sincere Love snd Care Respect for her...And thats enough fot win over a girl...I think dong chan does more than this...

I admit that this story lacking so many things..
but still this dong chan charecter is the only reason I watched it....

Leia Mais

I was looking forward to this drama as it was Ji Changwook's first since he got discharged from the military service, but I was pretty disappointed. This show lacked substance, wit and failed to engage with me. As much as I have enjoyed other of his shows, here he just looked handsome and nothing more.

The first episodes were really promising, I liked how the show was shot and enjoyed the part about 1999 (Hongki's role was really cute) and how they dealt with waking up 20 years later. This part, which should have been the hardest to pull of the show, got me emotionally engaged. I liked a lot the relationship Miran had with her little brother, and it was refreshing to see a character with special needs portrayed so tenderly. I also felt for Ma Dongchan's family as I learned about how they suffered for years looking for him and never giving up (and losing their fortune). Also, how he tries to reconnect with his girlfriend from 20 years ago is really sweet, not caring about her aged appearance.

I also enjoyed how they start falling in love, how they actually need to keep away from each other not to raise their heartbeat and body temperature and... omg, the shower scene!

But after that the show became predictable and boring, leaning too much on the plot of the evil twin which was not very well carried out. Also, the scientist, even after regaining his memory didn't know how to raise their body temperatures to 36 degrees?! That part puzzled me... It means he froze them 20 years ago without already having the injection ready, meaning he was reckless to carry out the experiment and basically lied to Ma Dongchan saying everything was fine. That didn't make sense and I think it was the only way the writers had to make the story longer and make viewers more interested, but they lost me.

Now, I am all in for female empowerment, but when the female lead postpones taking the life saving injection to shoot a stupid teaser for a reality tv show? (which they didn't need her at all to shoot) They lost me again. When she finally wakes up after all the ordeals and tells him she wants to study abroad? They lost me yet again. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to see women prioritising their careers, but not actively disregarding the feelings of people around her!

By the end of the show Miran was acting like a spoiled princess that knew she had the guy wrapped around her finger, but to be honest, I never quite understood what he saw in her to be so madly in love. She stole his dream of becoming a PD, she stole the motivation he had to be a PD, her personality turned annoying, and she became completely self-absorbed.

It was a promising show but just when I thought it began to melt, someone turned on the A/C

Leia Mais

I don't think making fun of the #metoo movement and having men saying they're now afraid to interact with women was a smart move in 2019.
This was just the last drop. Ageism, story holes, unfunny jokes or the old fashioned body comedy. I also don't think they know how amnesia is supposed to work. Also how come can they walk after 20 years of not using their muscles? Even if they're frozen, there has to be some sort of adaptation period.

I really have to talk about ageism.
The actresses playing the leads' mothers are supposed to be in their late 60's from what I can understand, one of the actresses (the girl's mother) is 55 years old in real life and is playing someone who is 60 something but talking as if she's in her late 80's. The woman doesn't even have wrinkles. How are we supposed to know how we'll age if the media doesn't depict ageing accurately? I know it will vary from person to person but we need more realism in the media. They also depict most of the 40-year-olds (his sister, the girl's friends) as if they're walking xmas trees with aboslutely no taste and the need to be flashy to avoid aging. Just stop. Put real women in your dramas already!

Another thing that really got to me was when the leads' brother is praying at the temple. He wishes for his daughter to grow beautiful. Not successful, not happy, not intelligent but beautiful. The girl is sassy, smart and doesn't go by stereotypes. That character should have been treated with more respect.

I really wanted to check out Ji Chang Wook's return but I just can't with this drama. I'm hoping he gets a good one next.

Leia Mais

The 5 out of 10 I am giving are just for the few laughs that I had here and there and for the effort put by the good actors.
Greatly disappointed. No interesting plot and a wasted cast. Cringe worthy sometimes. Don't watch this if you have other choices. Even for me who's a JCW fan, I didn't enjoy watching him, his character ended up being dull.
The plot could have a great potential and I was expecting to see a lot of the adaptation to a world 20 years later but we ended having a weird mix between a research lab, a mob (mafia) and office romance. All of those were of no interest as I would surely have preferred watching more of the family links and more of what it is to be back 20 years later, how to adapt to an internet driven world, how to understand the evolution of world events, world music, world drama, all the scientific achievements, the new danger the humanity is facing...

Leia Mais

It now seems premature to have called Abyss the worst drama of 2019. Who knew dramaland had this televisual equivalent of listeria-laden warm ice cream waiting in the wings.

Ma Dong-chan (Ji Chang-wook, in the world's most inexplicable choice for a comeback drama) is a smoking hot GENIUS film maker who wins awards and grasps complex scientific theories in mere days. He agrees to get frozen for 24 hours but ends up being frozen for 20 years instead. There is a female version of him but she is mostly just pink. No, really, this excruciating Candy gets literally dressed as candy. I feel quite bad for Won Jin-ah who has a thankless role as Go Mi-ran - forced to be nothing more than a bright, happy, naive love interest for a man who's kind of a jerk.

Both Dong-chan and Mi-ran find themselves 20 years in the future and forced to keep a hypothermic body temperature to survive. While Dong-chan's fiance is now 20 years older, Mi-ran's narcisstic Freud-quoting ex is now a lecturer at her university. There's a lot of potential conflict to work with here but the show ignores almost all of it; steaming full speed for a somewhat-icky romance between a man who doesn't like his fiancé now she's old and the comparatively-uncomplicated Candy he starts making googly eyes at ten seconds after his break up.

It's not difficult to find negative things to say about this shallow puddle of a show: rather it's difficult to know where to begin in outlining them. Nobody involved in this has done anything right - not the writer, director, producer, actors or anyone responsible for anything. Even the music is wrong.

The humour of the show is similar to the worst of Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (this writer's previous work) and the show insists on undercutting any moment that could be powerful and emotional with bland, tasteless slapstick. Between the shrieking and the flailing and the forced romance, the show fails to make you care about either of these people. More importantly, neither of the leads have a character arc. Compared to a show with a similar premise - Thirty But Seventeen - it's shallow and trite with the 20 year time jump treated like a mild inconvenience and the hypothermia a mere romance roadblock.

The show seems to exist for the purpose of getting Wookie in a make-out shower scene to "cool down"; something that will only justify 16 episodes of television for the most ardent Wookie fan.

In a more succinct version of this review: this show sucks worse than Abyss. Don't watch it.

Leia Mais

With such a lineup of actors who are masters at portraying intense emotions, you would think that shallowness and lack of chemistry would never be a potential issue here. Yet it was, but I don't blame the actors.
I think the story itself, the writing and the directing were just not on point.
It felt too slow at times, totally rushed at others. I can see where the story is supposed to go and what emotions I'm supposed to feel as a viewer but the drama didn't manage to catch my attention at all.
The romance was very mechanic, and it felt like they were in love just because they had to for the purpose of the drama but nothing felt organic.
The comedic aspect was overdone and therefore not funny in my opinion. The plot was ... just very superficial, forced and uninteresting.
I couldn't go past the 10th episode so my review is based on only half of the drama but I dont think it's worth watching it further. I still put a 6 for the actors who seemed to try very hard with the material they had.

Leia Mais

Interesting Concept, but did it work?

After seeing Chang-Wook in Healer, I started looking for more of his dramas to watch. One of the titles that caught my attention was this one...but the thing that made me hesitant was all the negative reviews for the drama. Of course, I dropped my expectations very low, but that probably helped me enjoy what I could from it. By no means is it a bad drama, I thoroughly enjoyed what was presented. The two leads did the best that they could, given the flawed storylines and the plot holes that are as clear as day. The side characters were more of an interesting note for me, the villain didn't have much in terms of plot development, only to contribute as filler to help push the characters closer together. The second female lead's actions, well they were questionable to watch. Where does her true allegiance lay? It was hard watching her development, but at least the drama ended on a positive note and gave everyone what they deserved. I'd watch it if you're a Won Jin-ah/Ji Chang-Wook fan, but don't expect it to top your drama list.

Leia Mais

Many people had great expectations towards Melting Me Softly because:
- at the beginning teaser, it really seemed fresh and new
- Ji Chang Wook comeback

However, in general opinion it has become a disappointment. The storyline is really good and has so much potential. It's new, it's fresh and there are many other ways that the drama could have gone to be so much better.

In watching the drama I saw two problems why this drama is generally disliked:
- people had great expectations because we're used to getting quality content drama when we hear the name Ji Chang Wook but sadly the writers didn't do this drama justice
- people started to have prejudice towards this drama because there have been a lot of negative reviews *that being said, although it had been a disappointment but in my opinion, it is not worth all the hate it's getting... it's bad but there there are worse out there* But if you think about JCW and all the other actors here it is indeed quite below them all. The writers couldn't showcase the great cast's potential for sure.

But I would like to point out the things I love about this drama (since I see very few ppl think that there's even something good about it):
- I like how consistent both Ma Dong Chan and Ko Mi Ran with their role being "old-school". Especially at the beginning. It did get better when they started to "keep up" and the things they used started to get modernized but even so they're still consistent in acting like an old person (behind their times).
- The messed up hierarchy. I so so love this about this drama especially when it comes to Ma Dong Chan. He is mostly older than everbody else in the drama following his real age and it's funny how they all act around him. His younger brother and sister, his former assistant director all call him with honorifics even when he looks wayyy younger. I find it funny and interesting when they call him oppa, hyung and sunbae. (I especially loved the scene when his younger sister and brother came to him for a hug.) I also love it when he shows other people his ID card showing his date of birth and they're just stunned.
- The great effort the actors has put into it. And I can imagine how much fun they must have on set.
- The comedy. Yeah yeah call me weird for liking the comedy. But the thing is, I knew from first ep how the comedy in this drama is going to go. At first it will put you off cuz they happen at moments that they shouldn't have but I decided to just let it go and then along the way I started to like it and laugh with it.
- Ji Chang Wook doing these skit-like comedies. LOL. When we hear JCW we automatically think about Empress Ki (an emperor for goodness sake), Healer (a really skillful fighter), K2 (a very dangerous ex-military man), Suspicious Partner (prosecutor/lawyer). All of these drama did have their own funny moments and JCW did well in all of them. But, this is the first time that he obviously went all out. I like that I found this new side of him. And that proves what a great actor he is. I'm glad that he took the risk.

I admit that I watched it because of JCW and not because of a great story (cuz it's not haha). But, I still find things that I love about it so I don't think it's all that bad.

P.S. Rereading the review, I seem like a die hard fan of JCW and it looks so biased LOL. Just FYI I am not hahahaha. I just happened to watch all of his drama and liked them all.

Leia Mais