Better late than never, right? At least that's my philosophy when it comes to checking out a drama. With that in mind I started up My Strange Hero which just got it's last episodes and is now officially over. 9 episodes in and I wish I had started this on earlier. I didn't realize it was a romantic comedy (which is my bread and butter) because from the description it sounds more like a melodrama. It has some melodrama but it also has a crazy streak running right through the middle that I absolutely adore. Seriously. I am low-key in love with this drama.
Yoo Seung Ho (of I Am Not a Robot fame) is quickly becoming one of my favorite leading men. He's good looking, charming, cool and most importantly, really funny! He isn't afraid to be goofy and do the slapstick and somehow he looks as natural and effortless doing that as he does being the loverboy with puppy-dog eyes that all the girls go wild for.
Our leading lady, Jo Bo Ah, I was unfamiliar with until I started this show. My impressions of her so far are that she's absolutely gorgeous and is very good at expressing by using her eyes and face. She is definite heart-throb material and one of the few actresses who I think can successfully pull off the flashbacks where she's in high school in a uniform looking young but also look older and more mature in the present day. I mostly hate it when shows do this (just use a younger actor or actress!) but here it seems to work for her.
And finally, the delightfully weird cherry on top is our foil and other leading man Kwang Dong Yeon. I remember him most recently from My ID is Gangnam Beauty where he was the lead's room mate and love rival. In that show he was the older, more mature nice guy that everybody liked. Here he is the very incarnation of a diseased mind and whenever he's on screen I can't take my eyes off of him but I'm also really uncomfortable with his character. All I can say is that he projects a special kind of pathos that is the complete opposite of our charismatic leading man. I'm sort of shocked it's the same actor but that just goes to show that he has some great range in terms of his abilities.
The show bills itself as a revenge thing where Yoo Seung Ho goes back to the school that once expelled him unfairly but really it's about conflict resolution and doing the right thing even if it's uncomfortable and unpopular. What makes it work so well for me is that it has this delightful goofball vibe to it that makes it feel almost like a good comic or manga. Even though I don't know how it will end yet I am extremely glad that I gave it a chance because so far it is a whole lot of fun.
Yoo Seung Ho (of I Am Not a Robot fame) is quickly becoming one of my favorite leading men. He's good looking, charming, cool and most importantly, really funny! He isn't afraid to be goofy and do the slapstick and somehow he looks as natural and effortless doing that as he does being the loverboy with puppy-dog eyes that all the girls go wild for.
Our leading lady, Jo Bo Ah, I was unfamiliar with until I started this show. My impressions of her so far are that she's absolutely gorgeous and is very good at expressing by using her eyes and face. She is definite heart-throb material and one of the few actresses who I think can successfully pull off the flashbacks where she's in high school in a uniform looking young but also look older and more mature in the present day. I mostly hate it when shows do this (just use a younger actor or actress!) but here it seems to work for her.
And finally, the delightfully weird cherry on top is our foil and other leading man Kwang Dong Yeon. I remember him most recently from My ID is Gangnam Beauty where he was the lead's room mate and love rival. In that show he was the older, more mature nice guy that everybody liked. Here he is the very incarnation of a diseased mind and whenever he's on screen I can't take my eyes off of him but I'm also really uncomfortable with his character. All I can say is that he projects a special kind of pathos that is the complete opposite of our charismatic leading man. I'm sort of shocked it's the same actor but that just goes to show that he has some great range in terms of his abilities.
The show bills itself as a revenge thing where Yoo Seung Ho goes back to the school that once expelled him unfairly but really it's about conflict resolution and doing the right thing even if it's uncomfortable and unpopular. What makes it work so well for me is that it has this delightful goofball vibe to it that makes it feel almost like a good comic or manga. Even though I don't know how it will end yet I am extremely glad that I gave it a chance because so far it is a whole lot of fun.
