I am up to episode 6 and it’s been P.A.I.N.F.U.L. OMG, Kim Ah-Joong, I swear there’s been hundreds of times when I just wanted to crawl into the TV screen and slap her to her senses. I was watching this scene of her accidentally running into the man whom she loves but can’t marry on her wedding day and then finding out he did something he had promised her not to do. You think she would at least show four layers of emotion – from surprise to happy to shock then sad? Well, she only managed two: happy and sad. THE END.
I’ve heard that her performance would pick up from episode 7 on but I doubt I will have the patience to sit through one more episode of agony. Having just finished City Hall where Kim Sun-Ah was simply at her best and matched Cha Seong-won’s acting in full stride, watching Kim Ah-Joong now just kills me. Especially they just had to put her alongside Hwang Jung-min, who is incredibly brilliant and absolutely gifted at acting. She is so far the weakest link in the drama (yes, even the second leads are way better at the game) and I honestly don’t know how she managed to grab the Best Actress Award at Grand Bell.
She is a beautiful lady. A great star perhaps, but fails horribly at the acting game.
