NEW KDRAMAS: CHIEF KIM, VOICE, DEFENDANT, & INTROVERTED BOSS

January 2017 is coming to an end, new years resolutions are being broken and people are getting their first pay cheques of the new year and for us new drama's are commencing. Let's just get into it.

CHIEF KIM

The drama has Namgoong min who I am a fan off since Remember and Beautiful Gong Shim. It also has a member of 2pm Junho, which is the first time seeing him acting. Other members of 2pm have done quite well and for him to play such an unlikeable character is different but exciting.

Story is based on accounting and finance and of course fraud with a bit (or alot of) corruption and Nam goong min brings a humorous side to the drama and after watching the first two episodes I will carry on watching and will see what happens.

DEFENDANT

 Starring Park Jung-Woo who is an amazing actor who can play just about any character and he really is the best man for this role. I don't want to give too much away about the story line but it reminds me a lot of remember in the sense of memory loss and the rich son of a massive company being super evil and getting away with it.

The only down side that I saw in the second episode is the acting of the main female lead who is called Yuri and she is from a girl group called SNSD and I don't mind idols, I didn't even know who she was but I dislike idols, actresses who cannot act. She was bad, it was very obvious that she could not act and the fact that she probably got this role, took it from someone who can actually act is what makes it worse. Worse even is that it looks like her role is quite important. Will see how awful she will be and if it will affect how bearable this show is.

VOICE

Reminds me of signal and the call which had Hale Barry. It is a crime drama that is based around the police and the emergency call operators. I enjoyed the first two episodes but I started to see a pattern were by the same thing happens with each call and it became predictable very quickly. Also, I couldn't finish the third episode because the female lead was annoying. I think they tried to make her a strong female character but she comes across as a know it all and very unlikable because there is only so much you can do on the phone and it just became unbearable. I have put this drama on the side for now but maybe I judged it too soon and I might go back and see if there is some character development and originality to the storyline.

INTROVERTED BOSS

I saw the trailers for this one so it looked funny and cute, also the female lead was from Age of Youth which I loved. (If you have not seen it, it is a must watch) Anyways, the first episode was lukewarm, I didn't hate it but I didn't love it and it wasn't as funny as I thought it would be. Second episode was alright. Girl from Secret the girl group did really well. (Yuri, here's a tip, when you start acting go for a supporting role (small role) instead of a big acting role when you are starting out.)

Again, I love the female lead but in this drama she comes off as annoying, I get her not wanting to be typecast with shy girl roles but she just can't pull this extroverted character and it just comes out wrong and annoying. Which is bad because I like her but a poor casting choice here. Also, the story line, if there is any, is not really flowing fast enough and became boring very quickly. Again, I just couldn't finish episode 3 and maybe I will give it another go but it's just not doing it. Even though the male lead had his little cute moments.


I still need to try Missing Nine, I have heard a few good things, I will carry on watching Chief Kim and Defendant and will see. Looks like the beginning of the year, winter weather has brought about more serious and plot heavy drama's when I am just looking for a cute fluffy drama.(sobs to myself)