Kdrama Review: Oh! My Lady
Since I devote so many hours too watching these drama, I figured why not review them. I wanted to give a fair and balanced view of it, because I tend to see both sides of every argument. That and it annoys me when someone recommends by declaring "I HATE IT" or "I LOVED IT", I want to know why they hated or loved it.
Oh! My Lady
Stats
Orgin: Korea
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Synopsis
A recently divorced housewife, Yoon Gae Hwa, is struggling to support herself and regain custody of her daughter when she meets super star Sung Min Woo. Through a series of coincidences, Gae Hwa discovers Min Woo’s illegitimate daughter, forcing the two to work together to hide Min Woo’s secret from the press.
Found on…
Hulu, Mysoju, and D-addicts.
Rating
★★Tread at your own risk! Half the time I kept asking myself if this was actually a comedy and if there really was a romance, add a long drawn out story, and I would like to request my 16 hours back.
Viewing Style
Weekly - If you dare to try, don’t tackle it in one sitting.
The Hero
Choi Si Won as Sung Min Woo
Seen in: Legend of Hyang Dan
A super star that’s managed to get by on his looks and his great voice. He’s taken an interest in drama, but can’t act. (Ironically fitting for Choi Si Won- okay maybe that’s harsh, but I’m bitter right now.)
Hot or Not: Sometime Hot, Sometimes Not. There were moments when he was gorgeous, but other time I found him totally unattractive.
Personality: Spoiled, selfish, and a jerk. In other words, your atypical Kdrama hero.
Annoying habits: Shouting was just about the biggest annoyance that he provided.
Overall Performance: ★★ Again, harsh, but fitting in my point of view. Maybe if he had done the entire drama shirtless I would have felt better about him.
The Heroine
Chae Rim as Yoon Gae Hwa
Seen in: Da Ja’s Spring
A hard working and spunky housewife looking to make her life better after a hard divorce.
Likeable or Not: Generally Likeable
Personality:
Annoying habits:
Overall Performance: ★★★
The Chemistry
Build Up: What build up?
Emotional: Throughout the entire series I wasn’t sure if they liked each other or why they would like each other.
Physical: One moment of physical chemistry is about all I saw. It was a pretty decent moment but the actors and writers didn’t cash any on any other moments.
Overall: Warm There was potential but it wasn’t shown or built on.
The Rivalries
Lee Hyun Woo as Yoo Shi Joon
Park Han Byul as Hong Yoo Ra
This series tried drawing out he rivalries over and over and over again. They’re what I call constant rivals, always on the scene popping up, creating drama, and not the good drama. These two don’t even seem to push the hero/heroine together; they just kind of exist in extremely annoying ways.
Side Stories
Little girl side story was cute, I like her. The Ex-husband side story was a little useless, and Manager and his wife side story bored the crap out of me. The jerk Manager side story annoyed the crap out of me.
Cliché Check
Love/Hate relationship
Superstar Scandal
Lying girlfriend\rival
Compassionate boss as rival
Sneaky press agent
Contract (Not dating-)
Struggling working heroine
Single Parent (x2)
Clichés Done Well
Illegitimate child - could have been better but was decent.
Something New or Interesting
As usual I like the concept, it had tremendous potential. And the little girl was so cute, if only they had played it right.
Things I liked
· The little girl was adorable.
Things I didn’t like
· Drawn out story line
· Assholic hero on the verge of abandoning little girl several times (in his defense he stuck with her)
· Lack of romantic build up, lack of romance period.
· Jerk Manager served no point besides making bad drama.
· Constant Rivals - i.e. always popping up and refusing to go away.
The End
Sucked to Disappointing fits here. The series drew off the ending until the very last second. And it wasn’t that great, nothing big, nothing wonderful, one brief moment and then the credits rolled.
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