You're Beautiful: Not the James Blunt song, but in some ways just as excruciating.
You're Beautiful
She's a crossdressing nun who joins a boyband. They're the mostly-hetero members with more eyeliner than sense. Together, hijinks and gender confusion, and only some of it from her!
You don't exactly watch You're Beautiful so much as accept Stockholm Syndrome from it. I spent awhile going OH MY GOD THIS IS SO STUPID and HOLY CRAP IS EVERYONE IN THIS DRAMA AN EMOTIONAL RETARD (answer: yes), but once I gave up and stopped expecting reality or logic or even common sense, everything went nice and numb... like being a lab rat and pressing the pleasure button over and over and then going into a coma.
My advice for watching YAB: drink heavily, throw all your standards out the window, and surrender yourself to an epic explosion of crack, kpop, bad hair, boys in drag, slash parodies, random dream sequences, characters who freely discuss their own fanfiction, and a breast-binding nun in eyeliner and purple skinny jeans.
Before...
After!
Even though Minam looks, speaks, and acts like a girl, everyone is inevitably SHOCKED TO THE CORE when they realize SHE HAS GIRL PARTS!
I mean, there were no signs at all! No prominent... round... signs...
I guess when everyone in the band is already wearing panties, the actual crossdresser flies under the radar.
I mean, it's not like the androgynous, ambiguous, fashion-challenged pop sensation A.N.JELL could get any gayer.
OH YOU HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO SEE THE FASHION. NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Nice shirt for a nun, yeah?
This is Shin Woo. Shin Woo is the Rui, the nice, well-adjusted guy who never stands a chance, despite being handsome and charming and attentive and all-around perfect. (Shin Woo~ &hearts)
Jeremy is the Nakatsu, baffled and uncomfortable around their newest bandmate because "he's so soft and squishy!" and "wow, my heart feels funny around him!" He eventually decides Minam must be so friendly because he's trying to seduce them. I can't explain this logic except to say that in Jeremy's world it makes perfect sense.
He must stay strong against Minam's glossy lips and slutty man-pants!
This is TAE KYUNG.
Tae Kyung is a bitchy princess stuck at a slumber party. He is fabulous. He snarks, sneers, and glares at everything; he has posters of himself all over his room; he's a perfectionist and a neat freak and can tell at one glance if someone disrupted the pencils on his desk. He wears his shirts ridiculously tight and buttoned to the VERY TOP BUTTON, and don't even get me started on the huge diva sunglasses and cowl necks. When he gets angry, he has this absolutely hysterical stalk -- he squares his shoulders and his lips go in a thin line and he strides over to the poor bastard who incurred his wrath (usually Minam) like a peacock on a rampage.
Quoth the actor: Tae-kyung shows a particular way of pursing his lips that I got from referencing Meryl Streep’s editor character in The Devil Wears Prada, which she uses whenever she’s displeased about something.
CONSIDER THIS, THEN DIE LAUGHING.
Tae Kyung discovers Minam's secret almost immediately, proving he has at least two braincells, a rarity in YAB world.
He tries (and fails) not to let her affect him, which is hilarious when you can tell his inner monologue is going something like: THIS WAS SUCH A BAD PLAN man she's so annoying and stupid and I wonder if she packed her lunch or does she need me to bring it to her I could go pick up some of that stuff she likes and IT'S NOT LIKE I CARE BUT IF SHE DIES IT'LL BE TROUBLESOME wow her hair is really shiny today and when she smiles at me it's like ARE YOU TOUCHING MY STUFF??? DO YOU WANT TO DIE???
Battling her own feelings, Minam makes pig noses whenever she needs to control herself around Tae Kyung. Because the nose is a pressure point to the heart, you know.
Yeah. There are noooooo light bulbs on in this house.
She glues her fingers together. She zaps herself unconscious with her own taser. She is terrorized by a bidet. A BIDET. YOU KNOW, THE TOILET THAT JETS A TINY STREAM OF WATER?
That's right, Minam is literally less smart than something that cleans your ass.
Her saving grace is the adorable, prickly, begrudgingly mushy OTP full of dork and denial... and PARENT ANGST.
I know a lot of people hated the parent storyline, but I found it hilarious, sometimes even on purpose. Picture a high drama confrontation full of tears and anger and Tae Kyung demanding -- with a completely straight face -- "Did you eat my mother's cookies?!"
WELL, MINAM? DID YOU? DID YOU EAT THAT BITCH'S BAKED GOODS?
Aren't they the coolest? When he demands a personal ranking of his coolness, she gives it serious thought and says he's a four.
Not that he cares what she thinks.
Because it's not like he has feelings for her or anything. Ewwwww. Feelings.
Feeeeelings.
He's just checking for germs! On her face.
Did I mention they mock their own slashfic? There are lots of fantasy sequences and jokes about TV, music videos, drama cliches, celebrity stereotypes, even commercials. They dance to Super Junior and SNSD. This could be a deep commentary on the struggle of modern man to connect with himself... or it could just be Tae Kyung getting chased by a pig to Shayne Ward's "Breathless."
Fans of this drama are basically divided in two camps: those who think it's a wildly innovative pop culture parody, and those who think it's ridiculous nonsense and watched the whole thing anyway. I know which side most of you will land on.
PIG-RABBIT IS JUDGING YOUR TASTE.
She's a crossdressing nun who joins a boyband. They're the mostly-hetero members with more eyeliner than sense. Together, hijinks and gender confusion, and only some of it from her!
You don't exactly watch You're Beautiful so much as accept Stockholm Syndrome from it. I spent awhile going OH MY GOD THIS IS SO STUPID and HOLY CRAP IS EVERYONE IN THIS DRAMA AN EMOTIONAL RETARD (answer: yes), but once I gave up and stopped expecting reality or logic or even common sense, everything went nice and numb... like being a lab rat and pressing the pleasure button over and over and then going into a coma.
My advice for watching YAB: drink heavily, throw all your standards out the window, and surrender yourself to an epic explosion of crack, kpop, bad hair, boys in drag, slash parodies, random dream sequences, characters who freely discuss their own fanfiction, and a breast-binding nun in eyeliner and purple skinny jeans.
Before...
After!
Even though Minam looks, speaks, and acts like a girl, everyone is inevitably SHOCKED TO THE CORE when they realize SHE HAS GIRL PARTS!
I mean, there were no signs at all! No prominent... round... signs...
I guess when everyone in the band is already wearing panties, the actual crossdresser flies under the radar.
I mean, it's not like the androgynous, ambiguous, fashion-challenged pop sensation A.N.JELL could get any gayer.
OH YOU HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO SEE THE FASHION. NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Nice shirt for a nun, yeah?
This is Shin Woo. Shin Woo is the Rui, the nice, well-adjusted guy who never stands a chance, despite being handsome and charming and attentive and all-around perfect. (Shin Woo~ &hearts)
Jeremy is the Nakatsu, baffled and uncomfortable around their newest bandmate because "he's so soft and squishy!" and "wow, my heart feels funny around him!" He eventually decides Minam must be so friendly because he's trying to seduce them. I can't explain this logic except to say that in Jeremy's world it makes perfect sense.
He must stay strong against Minam's glossy lips and slutty man-pants!
This is TAE KYUNG.
Tae Kyung is a bitchy princess stuck at a slumber party. He is fabulous. He snarks, sneers, and glares at everything; he has posters of himself all over his room; he's a perfectionist and a neat freak and can tell at one glance if someone disrupted the pencils on his desk. He wears his shirts ridiculously tight and buttoned to the VERY TOP BUTTON, and don't even get me started on the huge diva sunglasses and cowl necks. When he gets angry, he has this absolutely hysterical stalk -- he squares his shoulders and his lips go in a thin line and he strides over to the poor bastard who incurred his wrath (usually Minam) like a peacock on a rampage.
Quoth the actor: Tae-kyung shows a particular way of pursing his lips that I got from referencing Meryl Streep’s editor character in The Devil Wears Prada, which she uses whenever she’s displeased about something.
CONSIDER THIS, THEN DIE LAUGHING.
Tae Kyung discovers Minam's secret almost immediately, proving he has at least two braincells, a rarity in YAB world.
He tries (and fails) not to let her affect him, which is hilarious when you can tell his inner monologue is going something like: THIS WAS SUCH A BAD PLAN man she's so annoying and stupid and I wonder if she packed her lunch or does she need me to bring it to her I could go pick up some of that stuff she likes and IT'S NOT LIKE I CARE BUT IF SHE DIES IT'LL BE TROUBLESOME wow her hair is really shiny today and when she smiles at me it's like ARE YOU TOUCHING MY STUFF??? DO YOU WANT TO DIE???
Battling her own feelings, Minam makes pig noses whenever she needs to control herself around Tae Kyung. Because the nose is a pressure point to the heart, you know.
Yeah. There are noooooo light bulbs on in this house.
She glues her fingers together. She zaps herself unconscious with her own taser. She is terrorized by a bidet. A BIDET. YOU KNOW, THE TOILET THAT JETS A TINY STREAM OF WATER?
That's right, Minam is literally less smart than something that cleans your ass.
Her saving grace is the adorable, prickly, begrudgingly mushy OTP full of dork and denial... and PARENT ANGST.
I know a lot of people hated the parent storyline, but I found it hilarious, sometimes even on purpose. Picture a high drama confrontation full of tears and anger and Tae Kyung demanding -- with a completely straight face -- "Did you eat my mother's cookies?!"
WELL, MINAM? DID YOU? DID YOU EAT THAT BITCH'S BAKED GOODS?
Aren't they the coolest? When he demands a personal ranking of his coolness, she gives it serious thought and says he's a four.
Not that he cares what she thinks.
Because it's not like he has feelings for her or anything. Ewwwww. Feelings.
Feeeeelings.
He's just checking for germs! On her face.
Did I mention they mock their own slashfic? There are lots of fantasy sequences and jokes about TV, music videos, drama cliches, celebrity stereotypes, even commercials. They dance to Super Junior and SNSD. This could be a deep commentary on the struggle of modern man to connect with himself... or it could just be Tae Kyung getting chased by a pig to Shayne Ward's "Breathless."
Fans of this drama are basically divided in two camps: those who think it's a wildly innovative pop culture parody, and those who think it's ridiculous nonsense and watched the whole thing anyway. I know which side most of you will land on.
PIG-RABBIT IS JUDGING YOUR TASTE.