Segredo (2013)

I just finished watching this show here's my opinion.

The story got me hooked from the start to the end, it was heartbreaking and I cried almost all episodes.

The characters were all so well acted. I've never hated a character in a drama more than I hated dohun and I felt yujong's pain so deeply, that only means the actors did their job perfectly.

I loved the ending it was satisfying, the only thing I could complain about is that I kinda wish yujong could have her son with her although I understood her decision. Hopefully in the future when the kid grows up he will understand and consider her his mother.

As for the romance between minhyuk and yujong in the beginning I couldn't imagine how they would go from deep hate (in minhyuk's case) to love but then the show made it work and it was worth it, I just wish there were more scenes of their love, I felt like with a few more episodes it could have been better on that part.

As for the osts I loved them and I added all the songs except the instrumentals to my playlist.

Leia Mais

New Favorite!

I loved this drama I have only a few on my favorites list and this a new one I finished it in one day it was so good! The acting was very good and if you hate to love dramas this would be for you and if you have watched Mask (2015) I guess you could say its like that but just a little more different in some way but it's still a very good drama and definitely recommended you watch it and it's most definitely a re-watch when your bored or go nothing to watch. Sometimes you wanna punch your screen cause the people in this drama make you mad or very unhappy but you got to keep it in cause how else would you watch dramas if you broke your screen lol.

Leia Mais

a melodrama i would always come back to

i can't entirely express my love for this drama! it is so brilliant from the plot writing to the actors' acting as well as the soundtracks and cinematography.
the story, i would say, is a pretty classic or even cliche one, a love story between 2 people who have feuds or hostility towards each other. but the drama was conducted in a way that still leaves us astonishing moments as well as intense emotions. it doesn't make us bored at all for knowing how the story is going to end!
the break-ups, reunions, and starts of relationships in the drama are full of emotions: joy, sorrow, and surprises. the progress of characters in discovering themselves thanks to other characters and learning to love and cherish who they love is gold, which attracts and keeps the audience till the end of the drama.
not to mention the visuals of all 4 main characters is undeniably great! Ji Sung and Hwang Jung Eum have established such perfect chemistry in this drama that I could not accept the fact that they are not even real!
overall, a very satisfying drama to watch! highly recommend!

Leia Mais

Ok, I've seen it so many times what it's obvious the only possible rating of my part is 10. It's just that the drama has an intense, dark and profoundly touching charm. There are many few Korean dramas with such a captivating melodramatic plot and equally few cases of such a chemistry as Ji Sung's and Hwang Jung Eum (fortunately, both of them reunited in "Kill Me Heal Me" and I couldn't say where they were better, as they really managed to play absolutely different characters with an amazing naturalism).
I love the aesthetics of painful beauty laying in the relationship of the leads, an interesting development of the characters and another wonderful feature of this drama: the supporting plot disgorged into the integrity of the drama with an absolute naturalness. There are a lot of brilliant dramatic scenes and somehow one can admire it as a good cocktail.

Leia Mais

Story- as soon as I saw the story I knew I would like it, although there were some parts I did not like, overall the story was good.

  Cast- now this is one thing I didnt like. especially the female leads actress, she was very annoying. I also think the female lead could be a bit dense at points but other than that it was fine. I liked the male lead he was pretty good, other than that the rest of the cast was nice.

  Music- The music was nice I loved the song sung by Ailee.

Rewatch- I probably wont rewatch this. I rarley rewatch dramas anyway.
 
Overall- I would reccomend this drama if you want some good writing, with some mystery. I dont reccomcend if you dont like the female actress, and dont like a lot of crying. (there is lots)
   
   

Leia Mais

SECRET'S secret of a successful drama - THE CAST

My first review although I have been having sleepless nights watching dramas throughout the lockdown period. BUT i had to give a review on this because one character who stood out though a mere supporting character. But the character Gwang Soo was my ultimate favourite in this series. A through and through loyal assistant who never flinched and would never stop a second from carrying out a task given by the hero Min Hyuk. The story was not typical but it was too melodramatic for me to give it a full-scale 10. But every character was aptly cast hence the acting was impeccably played. the romance was just nice without the normal cliche of falling in love very quickly. it was steady progress and took place at the perfect timing.

Leia Mais

Quand l'amour rend bête... et l'arrivisme odieux...

Il faut vraiment s’accrocher et tenir bon la rampe pour résiste à l’avalanche de catastrophes qui s’accumulent sur la tête de cette pauvre Yoo Jung, qui se retrouve en prison pour 3 ans alors qu’elle est totalement innocente !
Il faut résister à l’envie permanente celui crier « mais bon sang ! Dis que tu n’y es pour rien !!! » tellement ça paraît invraisemblable qu’une femme supporte tout ça pour les beaux yeux d’un homme ! D’un homme, qui plus est, plutôt du genre « planche pourrie » qui non seulement ne la soutiendra pas mais l’enfoncera ! Sans parler de Min Hyuk, l’héritier caractériel, qui ne pense qu’à ce qu’il peut inventer pour faire de sa vie un enfer !
Il faut aussi passer sur le scénario du début qui nous fait sauter d’années en années très rapidement, juste le temps de faire un enfant, passer deux ans en prison et en sortir et là commence vraiment l’histoire.
Mais ensuite commence ce qui fait l’intérêt majeur de ce drama : les personnages, leur psychologie et leur évolution. Parce que le « méchant » Do Hun est en fait un faible, blessé par les humiliations qu’une société de classe gérée par l’argent lui a infligées, qui veut absolument monter dans ladite société, il y perdra presque son âme. L’autre « méchant » Min Hyuk, n’est qu’un enfant qui n’en finit pas de faire le deuil de sa mère, que son père ignore ou traite comme un pion, à qui on a enlevé son unique amour, et le chemin sera pour lui difficile pour devenir un homme !
Sa fiancée officielle Se Yeon (arrangement entre fortunes) semble dure et cynique, sans pitié, mais en tant que femme elle le doit si elle veut sa place à la table du pouvoir. La moins intéressante pour moi est l’héroïne, campée dans sa stature de perfection morale persécutée, mater dolorosa et victime expiatoire, qui ne se rebelle jamais, supporte tout, est un peu lassante quand même ! Il faut remarquer qu’elle est un roc autour duquel les autres tournent et soit qu’ils s’y opposent, soit qu’ils s’y appuient, c’est elle qui va générer leurs évolutions diverses !
Donc au final, j’ai suivi ce drama avec beaucoup d’intérêt, bien que, comme toujours, je l’ai trouvé un peu trop long ! Il aurait fallu équilibrer le début trop expédié et la suite trop insistante…
Très bonne distribution, Bae So Bin excellent dans ce rôle difficile, Ji Sung parfait, Lee Da Hee aussi (cette pauvre femme, si elle continue à maigrir, un coup de vent va l’emporter sur les côtes japonaises sans qu’elle y fasse attention ! ) et une mention pour Choi Wong, l’ombre, le bras droit et l’ange gardien de Ji Sung. La musique ? Je ne m’en souviens pas donc elle doit être bien !

Leia Mais

NO WORDS FOR THE CAST!

I love how the story is quite different and it portrayed how much can one person do in the name of love and success. THE ACTORS DID REALLY GREAT. I love the music used in this drama.

SPOILER ALERT:
The end part kinda weirded me in a way because Do Hoon admitted to his faults just because he felt guilty upon seeing his son living with another family. I get it since he is the father but with his character, I think he won't let his successful career go down the drain just because he felt sorry for his son AFTER ALL THOSE SACRIFICES TO GET UP THERE. Another thing, Min-hyuk's father in the end just allowed his son to do what he wants when he spent his whole life pushing him to be the heir. Se-yeon on the other hand broke up with Min-hyuk even if she said that it's fine being unhappy as long as they're together. If this is character development, it's good. But I don't think the situations that occurred is enough for them to suddenly have character development. It's like they changed suddenly because the show will end already. Just my two cents.

Leia Mais

One of the classics ever!!

It starts pretty off and we think that it is totally unfair but when we get into the further episodes, we just binge watch and the characters portrayed the roles very well and I am not writing any spoilers but yeah a must watch one and all the cast lived up to the mark and story went very well and the resentment from the leads after knowing the secrets is so well shown and I can deliberately say that these type of dramas are rare now a days..MUST WATCH PERIOD!!
Every thing in this drama made much more sense and every death had a cause and also the chemistry between leads was phenomenal....whenever female lead tears up,,we tear up too omg she was fabulous

Leia Mais

Really puts you through the wringer

After watching more than 50 Kdramas over the last couple years, this one for me tops them all for the amount of angst, emotional turmoil, and tears. That's saying a lot. But I can't think of another lead character who goes through as much tragedy and suffering as Yoo Jeong. She has to put up with everyone unjustly thinking she's a murderer, and she has to go through the humiliating and scarring experience of being imprisoned. And on top of that, her beloved dad is murdered by her traitorous boyfriend. Her baby is stolen from her and turned into a stranger by her evil stepmother. Her fiance, for whom she sacrificed her life basically, turns into her worst enemy. And then this crazy rich guy chokes her and constantly tortures her because he mistakenly believes she's a murderer. No wonder she cried so much throughout this whole show.

But it's frustrating because much of this is her own damn fault. One thing that Kdramas have taught me is that honesty is the best policy. I get frustrated at how much the main characters in Kdramas lie or refuse to reveal important information out of some self-destructive and idiotic sense of duty or twisted sense of morality. But of course, this deceptiveness and secrecy almost always hurts not only them but the people they're trying to protect. So imagine if Yoo Jeong had simply told the truth at the beginning and admitted that Do Hoon was driving the damn car. She would have avoided jail, her dad would still be alive, and she would still have her baby. Do Hoon would have gone to jail, but he was going to jail anyway, except she would have spared him his complete descent into pure evil, so he would only have to feel guilt about the hit and run, which was nothing compared to the horrible stuff he ended up doing to Yoo Jeong. He would have been released in a couple of years, and actually, Yoo Jeong would have probably waited for him, and they would have probably become married. Maybe as an ex-con, Do Hoon would have had to change careers, but he and Yoo Jeong would have been much happier, even if he ended up doing something less prestigious than being a prosecutor.

Now of course, in this alternate universe, Do Hoon would have had to face Min Heok's obsessive hatred at the beginning, rather than at the end. So maybe Min Heok would have tried to take Yoo Jeong and the baby away from Do Hoon as his revenge. Maybe Min Heok would have seduced Yoo Jeong while Do Hoon was in jail as his revenge. So then the final results would have been similar, except that Yoo Jeong would still have her dad and the baby.

The point of all this rambling is just to express how frustrated and angry I was at the stupid or despicable actions of all the characters. If you want to watch this show, you have to be ready to go through an emotional rollercoaster, and you'll probably end up crying, groaning, yelling, and possibly throwing things at the screen. So this drama really did a great job of pushing my buttons and getting me hooked. I was staying up late every night watching it, even while I was often disgusted by the improbabilities of the plot and the stupid behavior of the characters.

One last flaw I want to mention is that after taking you through so much tragedy and sadness, the show suddenly gives you a happy ending at the very end that's so abrupt that I found it a little confusing and unsatisfying. So Min Heok and Yoo Jeong had to give each other up for the sake of Min Heok's father and the company. But then after he goes away for a few years to Armenia and comes back, the father is now OK with Yoo Jeong? I'm not totally sure what really happened at the end with Min Heok, his father, and the business. But beyond that, when a show gives you lots and lots of darkness and tragedy, I think they need to give you at least a full hour or more of happiness and joy at the end to help balance things out, rather than just the last few minutes, otherwise it could leave you unsatisfied.

But I'll remember this show and the character of Yoo Jeong for a long time, because of the huge emotional impact it made on me. And that's one of the main reasons why I watch TV shows and movies and read novels, so despite its flaws, I'm glad I watched it.

Leia Mais