Sassy Go Go Review

Title: Sassy Go Go
AKA: Cheer up!
Genre: School, Drama, Romance
Episodes: 12
Broadcast Period: Oct-2015 to Nov-2015
Cast: Jung Eun Ji, Kim Min Ho, Lee Won Geun, Ji Soo, Chae Soo Bin, Shin Jae Ha, Kang Min Ah, Cha Hak Yun,

Set at the elite Sevit High School in Seoul, the drama follows the lives of five students as they attempt to survive in a vicious environment where academic elitism takes place. Kang Yeon do (Jung Eun Ji) is the leader of an outcast street dance club "Real King", a group of students who band together because of their poor academic performance, whereas Kim Yeol (Lee Won Geun) is the President of "Baek Ho", an elite club comprised of students from the top 5 percent. When the two clubs are forcibly merged to create a cheerleading squad, the two put their differences aside for the benefit of their clubs.

This started out really well, I fell in love with it almost instantly. Who can say no to those handsome guys! However I guess they blinded me for a moment, because after a while (not too long, after all it’s only 12 episodes) you kind of feel that the drama has fallen into a cycle. It keeps repeating itself constantly. Same problem, different characters. It was a well-produced drama, I liked the cinematography, (the school was so fancy!), all the actors lived up to their potential. There were a lot of newbies, but you couldn’t tell that it was their debut drama, I guess the standards for actors are rising in Korea :b Eun Ji did really good, I liked her very much in this drama, to be honost I’ve liked her since Reply 1997 and watches all her dramas, she never disappoints! As for the plot, it could have been better, that was the only thing that takes the drama down. Sometimes even though how good the actors are, they can’t save a boring plot. Overall, I want to recommend this, but I’ll have to warn you that the story can get on your nerve!

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts

That Winter, The Wind Blows Review

Title: That Winter, The Wind Blows

AKA: Wind blows in the Winter

Genre: Melodrama, Romance

Episodes: 16

Broadcast period: 2013-Feb to 2013-Apr

Cast: Jo In Sung, Song Hye Kyo, Kim Bum and Jung Eun Ji.

Having been abandoned as a child Oh Soo (Jo In Sung) has learned not to trust anyone, and also does not believe in love or commitment. Together with his best friend or right hand man Park Jin Sung (Kim Bum) they earn money and live by swindling and gambling from the rich and powerful.

When their fellow roommate, who shares the same name as Oh Soo, tells them about his past, being the long lost son of the chairman of the PL Group, the two just laugh it off. But when a blind woman named Oh Young (Song Hye Kyo) seeks out her brother, Oh Soo reluctantly reads a letter written from her brother.

Shortly after their encounter, Oh Soo is hunted down by the police and by fate runs into his roommate Oh Soo. While running, the friend gets hit by a car, and Oh Soo is arrested.

A year later, Oh Soo finds out about his 7.8mio debt, and the fact that his roommate has passed. Now with no money, no one (except Jin Sung) to trust, he tries to come up with 7.8mio, but without any luck. That is until the attorney of the PL Group comes to find the long lost son of the chairman, called Oh Soo…

This was one of the Korean dramas that without starting I knew I would have a harsh time getting it done. It is draggy and stuffy, and you really just wonder sometimes why on earth you started in the first place, but to tell you the truth, it is so well acted that everything is kind of not important. The cast does an amazing job, and even though the script and screenplay suck pretty much all the time - and not to mention the mean AND ridiculous climax - you sort of enjoy the drama. You get worried, you get sad and you get hyped, though by the end you actually are mostly glad for it to end, or I was at least.

It is a classic, or has become a classic, meaning very Korean, and all that Korean dramas stand for - stuffiness, dragginess, melodrama and occasionally theatrical? Anyways, if Korean dramas are your thing, this is a good watch.

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts

Answer Me, 1997 Review

Title: Answer Me 1997

AKA: Answer to 1997 / Reply 1997 / Answer 1997

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Youth, School,

Episodes: 16

Broadcast period: 2012-Jul to 2012-Sep

Cast: Jung Eun Ji, Seo In Guk, Shin So Yool, Hoya, Eun Ji Won and Lee Shi Un.

Sung Shi Won (Jung Eun Ji) is the ultimate H.O.T fangirl, to the point of her sleeping outside her idols house. She doesn’t care about school, or about being the second worst on her class. All her money, time and thoughts go the either H.O.T concerts or her swooning over Tony An. Her next door neighbor Yoo Yoon Jae (Seo In Guk) is quite the opposite, being number one in school, and actually being the best at everything. They two grew up together, and after Yoon Jae’s parents die in an accident, he and his brother Tae Woong (Song Jong Ho) tend to almost live with the Sungs. The two share a special bond, fighting and bickering all the time. Their friends, Kang Joon Hee (Hoya) number two in school and with a secret, Moo Yoo Jung (Shin So Yul) a ’loose’ girl loving falling in love, Bang Sung Jae (Lee Shi Eun) a pervert and Do Hak Chan (Eun Ji Won) the new kid from Seoul, wonder how on earth they manage to stay friends, but when Yoon Jaes brother one day tell Yoon Jae something, everything changes…

Wow. All that I can say is wow. I really didn’t expect it to be so good. I have heard a lot about it, but I never thought it to be as good as people said it was. Honestly, from the beginning all the way till episode 13, I didn’t feel bored at all, completely entertained. The actors were brilliant, the screen play, the dialogues and hell, even the nonstop jumping back and forward in time was genius! Like it made me really interested in the relations, and the script was written so good, that it kept you intrigued all the time. I totally understood every emotion, and reaction, though the brother-brother relation was a bit annoying, yet livable. Thumps up!

The reason it wasn’t 5 hearts is just the little dragging from episode 13 till 16, annoying me a bit, but if yo ignore that, it’s almost perfect.

☆☆☆☆☆/ 5 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts