Hello! It’s good to be back and to bring this blog back to life. I really am finding the time to write reviews but I haven’t had time to watch any kdramas lately. Netflix has eaten me and I was able to finish The Big Bang Theory (after years of looking where to watch), started watching Lucifer and Outlander ( as well as read them Outlander books, I’m at book 4 now). This drama caught my eye a few months ago and I really haven’t had the time to write a decent review so here I am. I think what made me watch this was Bo Young, I love watching her dramas because her characters are always funny and charming.
Cast: This cast wasn’t that huge since the story did revolve on just out the main cast and our villain which is a plus on my part because I got to focus on just two main storylines [the best thing about kdramas, tbh]. Park Bo Young as
; I think I’ve said this before, she is amazing. I’ve seen some of her works before and I’ll continue watching her works. She’s playing this policewoman who was murdered and it was the best thing ever, she played it very well. Ahn Hyo Seop as
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; this man I’ve seen in My Father is Strange and I thought he was cute but aside from the snippets I saw, I don’t have any idea who he is or how he acts. I can say that he was really good in this drama, the played his character very well and he’s very charming too.
Story: The story is about this thing, “Abyss” that revives people who passed away. Cha Min, who was trying to commit suicide and accidentally fell to his death was the first one to be revived by these grim reaper looking people using the abyss. It says that once you’re revived, your face will be different because that’s what your soul looks like. He transforms into this good looking and young bachelor.
Eventually, he finds out that his best friend, Se Yeon passed away and he revives her as well and she turns into this petite and cute girl who is very different from her previous appearance.
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) – At first, I was a little skeptical about how this pairing would go about but it worked. I actually saw a clip of them on youtube that urged me to watch the series. I really love it when Bo Young’s partners are taller than her, I dunno it just looks good on-screen plus she just firs into that little crevice between the body and the arms, Anyway, their love story is pretty adorable too. They’re childhood friends but Cha Min is always open to Se Yeon about his feeling for her but she isn’t. It’s just a cute love story and it’s really pure.
) – I don’t want to spoil too much but I just can’t pass up mentioning these two. [SPOILER ALERT] They’re actually a big part of the drama because Se Yeon, who is supposedly dead, came back to life and she can’t use her own name to investigate so she uses Lee Mi Do’s identity to investigate. Now, what she doesn’t know is that Mi Do is Dong Cheol’s girlfriend. It’s a very confusing plot like I know but it’ll all work out in the end. It’s just for the four of them to sort things out. They’re an adorable couple afterward and they’re also happy to help.
My thoughts: The drama was okay. It wasn’t all that great because some of the details were missing. The plot for the villain was confusing to me and the ending was VERY VERY similar to You Who Came from the Stars which bummed me out. I can understand Cha Min’s character development because his family is rich plus he was never reported to be dead so they can just say that he got surgery. For Se Yeon however, it was a different story and I kept on thinking how she’ll be able to go on living because the news of her death spread and if she uses her fingerprint they would be registered to a dead person. That was what troubled me, to be honest, but aside from that major plot hole. The love story is okay and is fun to watch. It did make me cry a couple of times because they kept on dying, lol but if you get past that it’s okay.
Review: Abyss (2019), Korean Drama — Ashley Hajimirsadeghi
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. And my god did I not like that drama. Nothing happens! I wrote a review about it on the blog that was pretty scathing to be honest. It had potential, but, alas, it was just too boring and out there for me.
Is slightly similar in that vein. I knew the first warning for me was that A) this was the first Park Bo-young drama I was watching since
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And B) her freaking male lead from DAYS, aka Seo In-Guk, literally appears in the first episode of this drama. I should’ve seen that as a sign, as I only could watch up until episode 13. I couldn’t make it y’all.
Is that there’s this little orb called an Abyss that the male lead, Cha Min, manages to get his paws onto after the grim reapers accidentally kill him. He wasn’t supposed to die yet, they felt bad, so they revived him with the Abyss and then actually give him this powerful little orb. Which is kind of a dumb mistake because they don’t explain it and he accidentally revives a full-on serial killer. There’s a catch about this orb though: the person who is revived will have a change in appearance based on their inner soul. So our male lead goes from what society calls ugly to model-status. Our female lead, a prosecutor murdered in her apartment, becomes more plain looking and like a coworker (who she then impersonates for the majority of the series).
But then this little orb, after being held in the hands of the serial killer, disappears for the rest of the series. It isn’t mentioned until someone important dies, but then it isn’t used on her. While our main character was out here just reviving people, including our female lead, before then we just transitioned. There’s something else that I found was dropped: what body to Go Se-yeon’s, the female lead’s, body. They dig up the grave to find out that there’s no body in the casket, which then shifts the search for the serial killer to finding the body. Obviously there isn’t one, but it isn’t mentioned again by the cops.
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Now, while I have been negative so far, but there was something really good in this drama. The momentum in the first half of the drama up until the serial killer is quote-on-quote caught is absolutely perfect and riveting. It had my attention and I was genuinely interested in the series and the writing was very good. But then it all starts to go downhill as Cha Min is just accepted as being alive and with this new face/body, then there’s the search for the serial killer’s accomplice. It’s muddled as the family dynamics begin to come into play, as well as how the person Se-yeon was impersonating comes back to Seoul with plastic surgery.
The romance isn’t important to me, but there is good character development. The romance is a really slow burn, one where we literally didn’t see anything until like episode eleven or twelve. I also do understand that there’s going to be so much criticism about how exactly the concept of beauty was handled in the drama—e.g. Park Bo-young’s face is seen as plain and not enough, or how Cha Min’s new look is the ideal. There also just wasn’t enough suspense for the second villain’s reveal because it was obvious and done really early, so it was just a matter of catching him.
Side note, because it seems to be a theme on my blog of not recognizing people that I’ve watched a lot of content from, this time I didn’t recognize Han So-hee. Literally right after watching and ranting about
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, which she stars in. God, I hate the drama and how it made toxic behavior romantic.
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