Madame Antoine Review

Title: Madame Antoine
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Period: Jan-2016 to Mar-2016
Cast: Han Ye Seul, Sung Joon, Jung Jin Woon, Lee Joo Hyung, Hwang Seung Eun, Jang Mi Hee, Byun Hee Bong, Moon Ji In

Go Hye Rim (Han Ye Seul) is a fortuneteller known as “Madame Antoine” due to her supposed spiritually connection to Marie Antoinette. She uses her intelligence and keen sense to read her clientele. When Choi Soo Hyun (Sung Joon), an expert psychologist, opens his clinic upstairs, they clash instantly. Partially out of petty revenge, he chooses to enlist her in his psychological experiment to prove that love does not exist. As part of the experiment, he and two other men will woo Hye Rim. However, what will happen as he begins to fall in love for real? And will she ever be able to believe in him again when the truth of this experiment is revealed?

I can’t believe I finished this one. This drama is SO weird. It started off as a really strange and peculiar drama, fortunately it picked up later. Can’t hide I was SO close to just drop it. Firstly, it’s because of the bizarre ‘experiment’ we get introduced to. Fool a woman into falling in love just to test how much she would sacrifice for that person. All that to prove that love doesn’t exist, and that it’s just some drug infused by the brain. What the heck? That made the whole thing so predictable! HOWEVER, it doesn’t go as you expect, maybe that’s why I finished it. It was hard to continue in the beginning when I kept feeling the need to punch Sung Joon in his handsome, smirking face. After all, he doesn't deserve that pain for being an excellent actor. And trust me, any guy who gets me from 0 to "gosh, you are a JERK" within the first five minutes of a drama is an excellent actor, bizarre storyline and complete spectacular of psychological ethics aside.  In the description, they had put ‘psychology’, so I did expect a lot more of that in the drama. I loved the small cases they had in between, but I just wasn’t satisfied with it. Overall, a weird drama with a smooth save in the middle.

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts

Marriage, Not Dating Review

Title: Marriage, Not Dating
AKA: Marriage without love, Anticipate Marriage
Genre: Romance, comedy, family
Episodes: 16
Broadcast period: 2014-jul to 2014-Aug
Cast: Han Groo, Yun Woo Jin, Jung Jin Woon, Han Sun Hwa, Huh Jung Min, Yoon So Hee, Im Ye Jin, Park Joon Gyu

Gong Ki Tae (Yun Woo Jin) is a wealthy, handsome plastic surgeon, who doesn’t believe in marriage. He believes that his life is perfectly planned, and being single is the only option he accept. However, his family is badgering him to marry. But as fate wants it, he meets Joo Jang Mi (Han Groo), while she is proposing to his best friend Lee Hoon Dong (Huh Jung Min). This is where Gong Ki Tae gets a brilliant idea, and wants Joo Jang Mi to act as his fiancée, because he know his family would never accept her as their daughter-in-law and he would never fall for her. His plan would be a success, if not his family were so desperate for him to get married, that they accepted Joo jang Mi, and the wedding preparations started.

When I first heard about this drama, I was so happy and thrilled to see Yun Woo Jin as the lead actor, and I hoped this would be his break-out drama, I only remember him from Ojakgyo Brothers, and he didn’t really have a big role there, but it was enough for me to fall for him.
The summary of this drama made me even more excited and I looked forward to a hilarious drama. Maybe that’s why I was disappointed, I expected more than what I got.
The first 2 episodes were really exciting and amusing, and I couldn’t wait for the lead actors to be a couple. But it ended out as a really dragged out drama, so much that the main chemistry between those two disappeared. I ended up just watching the drama, because I had to finish it. But if you are a big fan of 2AMs Jinwoon, and you need a drama just for fun, then this is a pretty good choice, just don’t make the same mistake as me and expect a whole lot, because you’re not going to get it.

☆☆☆ / 3 out of 5 stars

♥♥ / 2 out of 5 hearts