#jtbc be melodramatic

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JEON YEO BEEN and SON SUK KU in

BE MELODRAMATIC (2019)

[youknowihavenochingu]

Slice of life kdramas

My Liberation Notes

Reply 1988

Our Beloved Summer

Something In The Rain

Because This Is My First Life

My Mister

Lost

Our Blues

Be Melodramatic

Hello My Twenties

[unnursvanablog]

King the Land is by far one of the more hyped dramas of the year by 2nd gen stans and just kdrama fans that have mostly been introduced to both Yoona and Junho through dramas. Soshipm has always been very popular (and understandably so) amongst fans but I must admit Yoona and Junho wasn’t one of those parings from soshipm that I though would be doing dramas together first. Nor did I really think they fit that much together. I had always though out of all the soshi actresses Junho would be pared with Yuri for some reason.

(I must add that Soshi is my ult kpop group, but I have also considered myself a hottest since 2009).

But fans have been begging for this since they did MC and the mbc gayo in 2021 and now finally JTBC has finally given it to us. JTBC who are not that good at rom-coms and I often struggle with Junho is rom-coms but love love love him in more serious melodramatic roles. Those just suit him way more imho. But I am always willing to be proven wrong!

King the Land (which I still think is an odd title btw… like what does it mean, although I am sure it makes more sense in Korean and it’s just an odd translation) just seems to be a very standard rom-com with your standard female kdama rom-com heroine vs your standard male lead in a standard kdrama rom-com. The characters are a bit of a blank slate now and a bit inconstant. They are there to serve the plot but they often go against common sense.

Let’s see of the script and the charm if the actors can make these characters and story have a bit more bite to them than they do on paper. It does feel quite a bit like a old-school cliché rom-com, which sure feels a bit nostalgic and fun in a sense, but I wish it had taken the notes of those older kdrama rom-coms and just updated it a bit more. Played with it a bit, instead of a story that just follows the old plots, because it feels like we have sort of moved away from some of these tropes and plot-points in 2023 rom-coms.

Both of our leads are actually dealing with some dead mother issues it seems, which has shaped their lives in adulthood - a trope that isn’t my favorite way to add trauma and stuff to a story but I also don’t totally hate it or loath it. It doesn’t make me groan, more just slightly sigh when it comes up. I have seen it done well (but that’s the thing with most over-used storylines and tropes… they can always be done well, it just rarely happens). Please just don’t make their death connected with some murder mystery or something. That might make me turn off my tv and never turn it on again.

I was happy to see that Junho’s character in this drama isn’t an outright asshole type of kdrama male lead and just kinda blunt and direct and emotionally numb due to trauma and tragic past sort of male lead (but those can also be sort of boring depending on the actor) but I wish we could get something else. I am however already tired of the rich-family story.

Did they just get Junho and Yoona and just dig up some old script that was stuffed away in a drawer? well JTBC didn’t really start producing dramas when dramas like Secret Garden were popular. But then again JTBC aren’t really that good at rom-coms I think. But there must have been something more to this story that attracted both actors to this drama, or did they just both want to act with each other and do something that didn’t feel too draining/demanding? which is totally fair.

It’s a bit excessive with Junho skydiving into work or owning a goddamn castle in the British countryside, but it is also so laugh out loud funny. But some of the toilet humor isn’t really the remarkable comedy it’s suppose to be and I have never found it funny.

I wonder what’s the point of some parts in the episodes, like this first encounter that we get with them in the gym. Like from a storytelling perspective, because so far I am coming up empty. There were million other, non sexist ways to do that. To show he isn’t a bad buy? because how could a handsome man like him ever do something perverted? ugh.

This isn’t really the first time this sort of misunderstandings happen where the female lead rightfully calls out a certain behavior and stands up for herself only for it being a misunderstanding or her mistaking the male lead for someone else who did do the thing and it’s always so odd to see it often blow up in the female leads face. It gives of the message that only a certain men, the non-good looking one, are going to do these deeds and someone who is nice and pleasant looking could never do that!. And I don’t like it one bit. It’s just wrong message to send out there.

Love the focused this episode is giving the girls and their friendship. I thought the second episode would then focus more on the male lead but no, it was refreshingly balanced between the two. And we seem to be getting some cute secondary romances as well, for some fillers. Let’s hope the drama won’t at least sideline the female lead too much and actually give us a balance between the two. That was one of the standout things from both episodes. The friendship scenes. Because all the female character make sense in those scenes, but not in others.

The chemistry between the leads is nice and it’s obvious that Yoona and Junho are very comfortable with each other after having promoted often together and such as idols, but to me it isn’t exploding or sizzling, but we haven’t really seen that much for them together and the romance part hasn’t really kicked it. They are very much still in the ‘you get on my nerves’ phase. 

Just give me pining, lots and lots of pining. And make him fall in love first and make him suffer. Those types of rom-coms are the best.

Now I would also love for me to not be able to tell every story beat way before it comes on my screen, but it does make for a relatively at ease and easy watching experience to just enjoy but not think too much about. I don’t think this drama is going to too trying or going out of the rom com box and trying new things per se but I do expect it to be entertaining and cute watch judging by these two episodes. Let’s just hope that it won’t drag to much toward the middle because that’s often the biggest hurdle with these rom-coms.

Lastly, I must also note the overwhelming focus that the male leads has in these tags (all the gifs are just off him) and in other places that kdramas are discussed already annoys me. Kdrama fans never change, huh! so damn male centric.

[soiree-mayhem]

Chapter III: Her Muse.

Brief Profile

Name: Kim Do-Yeon

Hangul: 김도연

Born: December 4, 1999

Birthplace: South Korea

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Instagram: lafilledhiver_

Notes

Member of Kpop group "Weki Meki."

Drama Series

Jirisan (tvN / 2021) - Seo Yi-Gang (young) (ep.6)

One the Woman (SBS / 2021) - Kang Mi-Na (young)

My Roommate Is A Gumiho | Gan Ddeoreojineun Donggeo (tvN / 2021) - Gye Seo-Woo

Be Melodramatic | Melloga Chejil (JTBC / 2019) - Do-Yeon (ep.2-3)

Short (OCN / 2018) - Yoo Ji-Na

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DRAMAWEEN2020: day five • fall aesthetics (cozy autumn drama’s)

“There are some people whom you first meet in passing, but you remember how that person opened the door and walked in, whether they were sitting or standing, or how you started talking to each other. Time can’t erase the moment you first met them.”

[skyasma]

Be Melodramatic

I'm late to catch up on this one, couldn't watch when it came out though I really wanted to. It indeed has got brilliant ensemble of actors and Director too comes with impressive projects.

It does have 'Hello My Twenties' vibes, interesting backstories, quite funny scenarios. BUT.... uncomfortable amount of monologues.

Just can't with the monologues, no matter how funny or important they are to the story. I hate when characters just don't shut up and keep on doing commentary. Monologues feel like they're talking to me directly instead of eachother. I'm an audience, don't involve me, let me be just a silent witness. I don't want to be in your life.

[kuaintrelle]

My top k-dramas ! ✨

Sky Castle

Age Of Youth S1&S2

Be Melodramatic

Reply 1988

When The Camellia Blooms

Itaewon Class

Fight For My Way

The World Of The Married

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Be Melodramatic

Episode 6.

Teşekkürler Güney Kore.

[michyeosseo]

I can't say it is not fun. Yet, it would not feel [like something is missing] if it was perfect.

[jugeullae]

How dare you curse at him? He's someone's beloved son! How dare you call his mother a bitch? She is a human being. A cherished human being. Who the fuck are you to bully him?

BE MELODRAMATIC (2019)

[youknowihavenochingu]

Female friendships in kdramas 💕

A Business Proposal

Twenty Five Twenty One

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo

Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Be Melodramatic

Doom At Your Service

Hello My Twenties

Run On

Thirty Nine

Work Later Drink Now

[sunsetlow]

Jeon Yeo Bin (2019) Grazia Korea.

[secret-labyrinth]

[bortecinetugce]

He is something else :D

[this-is-youniverse]

Be melodramatic