Reply 1988 Review

Title: Reply 1988
AKA: Answer me 1988
Genre: Family, Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 20
Broadcast Period: Nov-2015 to Jan-2016
Cast: Lee Hyeri, Ryu Jun Yeol, Go Kyung Pyo, Park Bo Gum, Lee Dong Hwi, Sung Dong Il, Lee Il Hwa, Ryu Hye Jung,

The drama centers on the families of these 18-year-olds, as well as the friends themselves. Dong Ryong (Lee Dong Hwi) is the neighborhood "counselor," living in the house across the street. He showers the group with shrimp chips when the bag pops during a movie. Jung Hwan (Ryu Jun Yeol), this boy lives upstairs our heroine Deok Seon (Lee Hyeri), she calls him "Dog," and explains "he's not exactly a human yet”. Deok Seon is direct and extreme, in the only way a teen can be with her feelings and thoughts. Taek (Park Bo Gum) is a genius Baduk player but an idiot, when it comes to anything else. Sun Woo (Go Kyung Pyo) is the most normal person of the group. He's not only normal, he's the prototypical good son, the guy who looks after his little sister and mother.

I’m pretty sure I’m in the same boat as everyone else who watched Reply 1988. The boat floating on desperate feelings over why this drama didn’t have 20 more episodes! I seriously am in love with this serie, I even thought of it as a first placer in all the Reply series, with 1997 as a 2nd and 1994 for 3rd. I’m still hungover from this series, so don’t take that seriously. What I like about this drama, were the 200% realness. The raw emotions portrayed by each character, and how it’s not always by mere “fate” and circumstances most dramas show these days. All the characters were different from one another, and that’s a huge achievement giving how big the cast is. The overall plot were so damn (sorry) good! The Reply series is always touching and relatable, but 1988 just killed it with the dynamics between characters. I won’t go into details about the actors and characters, beause I’m pretty sure im gonna spill the beans soon, so I’ll stop here. No, just one more thing, I don’t think they could have casted better actors and actresses than what they did. Bravo! Even though it ended in 2016, I’m gonna put this into my favorite dramas of 2015! I’m looking forward to a Reply 19XX.

☆☆☆☆☆ / 5 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥♥ / 5 out of 5 hearts

Divorce Lawyers in Love Review

Title: Divorce Lawyers in Love
AKA: The Divorce Lawyers is Dating
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 18
Broadcast Period: Apr-2015 to Jun-2015
Cast: Jo Yeo Jeong, Yeon Woo Jin, Shim Hyang Tak, Wang Ji Won, Lee Yeol Eum, Hwang Young Hee, Lee Dong Hwi

Go Cheok Hee (Jo Yeo Jeong) and So Jung Woo (Yeon Woo Jin) once worked together at a law firm; she was a divorce lawyer, and he was her office manager. She treated him like her inferior, while he constantly irked her by pointing out her mistakes and calling her "Chucky" behind her back. But Cheok Hee is so ambitious, so determined to win every case for her clients, that her unethical misdeeds catch up to her, causing her license to be suspended. Meanwhile, Jung Woo studies and gets his law degree. Years later, they end up working together again for a different law firm. But this time, the tables have turned: he's the divorce lawyer, and she's the office manager. Now Jung Woo is determined to get his petty revenge.

18 episodes were too much for this drama. The main plot could have been a great movie, but I guess it was all the divorce cases, that took up the time. There were a new case every 2 episodes, they were interesting, true, and I liked that there were not one case similar to another, but it got really boring and messy in the end. I guess they couldn't handle all that at the same time. The main actress seemed to be more annoying as the drama went on. Her main expression to anything seemed to be to widen her eyes. The 3 other mains were excellent and why I didn't just drop the drama completely. This drama had potential but too bad it started to get boring really quickly.

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts