WARNING! This review is written from the perspective of somebody who wasn’t really impressed with this drama, so if you consider 49 Days a masterpiece, you might be a little annoyed. I’ve started this drama because ever since I discovered MDL I kept on hearing that 49 Days is one of the best dramas ever made and that I will not regret watching it at all. Additionally, it has a really high score on MDL and I won’t lie, ratings are important to me. Now, after 3 weeks of struggling with those 20 long episodes, I’ve decided that I have to write a review to express my opinion which is quite different from majority. But let’s keep this review in order. Story. Actually, the concept of this drama is quite good – maybe not completely original and unique, but still, it caught my attention. Although I’ve read that lots of people are complaining that it starts really slow, for me the beginning was the most interesting part of the whole drama; it kept me entertained and made me want to see next episodes. Unfortunately, somewhere around ep. 6 I became extremely bored with the whole thing: nothing really was happening and even those tiny revelations that were supposed to push the action forward were fading away because of the stillness of the plot. Also, I found some scenes too cliché and overly dramatic – I guess that I was supposed to cry a river while watching them, but all I could do was roll my eyes in annoyance. Acting/Cast. Let’s start with our main heroine, Shin Ji Hyun. Well, I have to confess that she was extremely pissing me off; her constant attempts to be cute, her naivety and stupidity, everything about her was making me annoyed and made it really hard for me to keep on watching this drama. I can’t even say if Nam Gyu Ri is a good actress – I was too blinded by irritation to really evaluate her skills. If the script included her being the most annoying female character ever then she should get a prize, because certainly she did a good job. Next one: Song Yi Kyung. First of all, I have to admit that I have a weakness for Yo Won – I consider her being one of the top Korean actresses at the moment. But the pleasure of seeing her in a drama was spoiled by characters she was playing: you already know what do I think about Ji Hyun, but what about Yi Kyung? Well, she was too broody emo-ish and gloomy for my tastes. I understand she lost the love of her life and whole family in one person but the feelings of emptiness, sadness and depression can surely be expressed in other way than by extremely slow walking, poker-faced expressions and wearing dirty, rumpled clothes? As for men in this drama, I’ll write only about the most outstanding one: Jung Il Woo as the Scheduler. At the beginning I didn’t like him at all, he was too goofy and loud but as the series progressed, I started to see his depth and really liked him. So yeah, Jung Il Woo played his part perfectly, he slowly made me love him and I think it was supposed to be like this. Music. The music was good, of course nearly all of the songs were sad and depressing to emphasize the melodramatic tones of this drama, but still, they were pleasant to hear and not too repetitive. Rewatch value. Well, I won’t rewatch it for sure – one time was already too much for me and I think that even those who did love this drama won’t find it as interesting when they will watch it again, simply because the strength of this drama lays in twists of its plot (and there weren’t many of them, may I add). Without this ‘surprise factor’ the story is likely to become unbearably boring I think. To sum it all up, for me 49 Days is not a drama I will remember for a long time, but I can understand why some people gave it a 10. Sadly, it can get only a 7 from me – in my opinion it was an average story with some nice points, like the Scheduler and a few unexpected twists in a plot.