The loveliest twdrama you've never watched
I am getting a mad craving to rewatch To Get Her, a twdrama starring Jiro Wang and Rainie Yang. I love TGH so and find it so ridiculously underrated it's criminal.
The story, involving a washed-out former idol who enrolls in a college and his landlady/fellow student - who is a manga-obsessed otaku not terribly interested in or good with people, brims so much with tenderness, with off-beat delicate charm, that I remember tearing up at random odd scenes.
When it came out, TGH took me completely by surprise - with such a 'wacky' premise and Jiro and Rainie as the leads, I was expecting a lot of random faces and OTT but it's a very quiet, understated story with a quirky, indie vibe (sure, there are one or two OTT scenes in the beginning but the bare minimum possible and they disappear entirely as a drama progresses). This is the drama that made me truly fall in love with both Jiro and Rainie. Jiro embues his man-child trying to grow up and cope with the world that changed from under him with so much sweetness, vulnerability, and honesty, that you can't help but love him. Mars is one of those rare drama characters you'd not mind being around in real life. And Rainie is a huge hit-or-miss actress with me (Miss No Good, anyone? *shudder*) but she is luminescent here as an odd girl content in her oddness (there are no make-overs in this drama - she does not become a gregarious, gorgeously-dressed butterfly. She is loved for who she is) who has all these barriers but once you get past them, is infinitely tender and caring.
Mars and Momo together just work. They are a couple not just because the drama pushes them together and tells you to like it, they are a couple because they become each other's best friends, confidantes, soulmates. They take care of each other, they fight, they make up. They are necessary for each other's wellbeing. And oh, they have some ridiculously crackling chemistry. Sometimes I wanted to look away.
And in a way, their love story is so lovely because, like the best twdrama love stories, it's about finding the truth behind the person's masks. Despite their polar opposite images - a washed-out idol is miles away from a dedicated otaku - they are both outsiders trapped by their personas/perceived only for them. Everyone treats Momo as a weird/untoucheable freak without bothering to look at the girl within. And Mars is perceived by everyone around him as having value only for his former celebrity status or maybe being a beefcake/piece-of-meat to play with. While the reality is infinitely more complicated and the two of them find the person hidden within.
OK, enough of my blathering. Have this lovely MV:
I am off :)
The story, involving a washed-out former idol who enrolls in a college and his landlady/fellow student - who is a manga-obsessed otaku not terribly interested in or good with people, brims so much with tenderness, with off-beat delicate charm, that I remember tearing up at random odd scenes.
When it came out, TGH took me completely by surprise - with such a 'wacky' premise and Jiro and Rainie as the leads, I was expecting a lot of random faces and OTT but it's a very quiet, understated story with a quirky, indie vibe (sure, there are one or two OTT scenes in the beginning but the bare minimum possible and they disappear entirely as a drama progresses). This is the drama that made me truly fall in love with both Jiro and Rainie. Jiro embues his man-child trying to grow up and cope with the world that changed from under him with so much sweetness, vulnerability, and honesty, that you can't help but love him. Mars is one of those rare drama characters you'd not mind being around in real life. And Rainie is a huge hit-or-miss actress with me (Miss No Good, anyone? *shudder*) but she is luminescent here as an odd girl content in her oddness (there are no make-overs in this drama - she does not become a gregarious, gorgeously-dressed butterfly. She is loved for who she is) who has all these barriers but once you get past them, is infinitely tender and caring.
Mars and Momo together just work. They are a couple not just because the drama pushes them together and tells you to like it, they are a couple because they become each other's best friends, confidantes, soulmates. They take care of each other, they fight, they make up. They are necessary for each other's wellbeing. And oh, they have some ridiculously crackling chemistry. Sometimes I wanted to look away.
And in a way, their love story is so lovely because, like the best twdrama love stories, it's about finding the truth behind the person's masks. Despite their polar opposite images - a washed-out idol is miles away from a dedicated otaku - they are both outsiders trapped by their personas/perceived only for them. Everyone treats Momo as a weird/untoucheable freak without bothering to look at the girl within. And Mars is perceived by everyone around him as having value only for his former celebrity status or maybe being a beefcake/piece-of-meat to play with. While the reality is infinitely more complicated and the two of them find the person hidden within.
OK, enough of my blathering. Have this lovely MV:
Click to viewI am off :)