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Drama Recommendation: W – Two Worlds Apart

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Another 2016 masterpiece, W: Two Worlds Apart is an MBC romantic fantasy drama starring Han Hyo Joo and Lee Jong Suk.

Oh Yeon Joo (played by Han Hyo Joo) is a promising young doctor. Kang Cheol (played by Lee Jong Suk) is a crime fighting CEO. One night Kang Cheol is stabbed and Oh Yeon Joo saves his life. There’s just one problem – Kang Cheol isn’t real!

He’s a comic book character in a popular manhwa series that her father, Oh Sung Moo (played by Kim Eui Sung), created. And yet, he’s alive. He breathes. He bleeds.

Is he the horrific abomination that her father fears he is? A monster that must be killed at all costs? Or is he just a man? A man on a mission to figure out the meaning of his life.

All Kang Cheol knows is that there have been strange things happening to him – cars with no drivers trying to run him off the road, a man with no face trying to kill him, and a mysterious young lady who somehow manages to keep showing up just in time to save him.

To top it all off, she has intimate knowledge about him – knows things about him that he’s never said out loud to another soul before. She’s mysterious, has no identity, cannot be hurt, and holds what Kang Cheol calls “the key to his life”.

But, if Oh Yeon Joo tells Kang Cheol the truth – what in the world(s) will happen?

Honestly, this show is so amazing!

I love it so much! It’s beautifully shot, wonderfully casted/acted, has a perfect soundtrack, and is the story that every author has found themselves crafting at some point or other. Cause, let’s face it, we’ve all reached that point as a writer where we’ve felt like our characters were REAL. Well, this show deals with that thought in a very literal sense.

What would you do if your characters WERE REAL?

How would you react?

Would you befriend them? Fall in love with them? Fear them? Hate them? Try to kill them?

I would love it so much if my characters turned out to be real!! And I would be absolutely terrified too!! Oh my goodness, could you imagine? All of the good characters (swoon!), but all of the bad characters too (yikes!)?

W: Two Worlds Apart can be found on Viki.com, and this drama can be viewed (with commercial breaks) as part of Viki’s free service!! How awesome is that??? Seriously, there’s no reason not to watch this show!

On the newly minted ranking system (the FaWPoV 5 out of 5 typewriters system), W: Two Worlds Apart gets a resounding 7 typewriters out of 5!!! (You read that right! That’s a full 2 typewriters over the limit! That’s how good it is!)👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Thank you for reading, Happy Watching! 😄💕

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Drama Recommendation: Suspicious Partner

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A legal rom-com with one of THE best villains in drama history, Suspicious Partner is a 2017 SBS korean drama that stars Ji Chang Wook and Nam Ji Hyun.

Eun Bong Hee (Nam Ji Hyun) is wrongfully arrested for the murder of her ex-boyfriend Jang Hee Joon (Changsung). No Ji Wook (Ji Chang Wook), the prosecutor in charge and her former mentor, doesn’t believe that she did it. An expert of the law, No Ji Wook manages to uncover evidence that proves Eun Bong Hee’s innocence. He then quits the prosecutor’s office to become a lawyer instead. Eun Bong Hee is now free, but her hopeful career as a prosecutor is also over. She focuses her attentions on becoming a lawyer as well, but unfortunately the only clientele that want a former murder suspect as their lawyer are, more often then not, guilty murder suspects themselves.

Until, one day Jung Hyun Soo (Dong Ha) a package delivery man, gets wrongfully accused of murder himself. He reaches out personally to Eun Bong Hee, pleading for her to take his case, as she herself knows what if feels like to be wrongfully accused. Eung Bong Hee and No Ji Wook team up together to save their client, and win! The only problem is – he might not have been exactly innocent.

As I said, this drama has (in my opionion) one of THE best villains in kdrama history!!

SPOILER ALERT!

Dong Ha is absolutely phenomenal as the treacherous murderer.

His performance is only made better by the reactive acting of Ji Chang Wook and Nam Ji Hyun.

Some of my favorite scenes are the initial interrogation scenes between the three of them. Nam Ji Hyun is so earnest and distraught for this young man who has been wrongfully accused, while Ji Chang Wook is just thrown off by all of the little smiles that Dong Ha keeps suppressing every time that Nam Ji Hyun looks away.

And then, there’s the moment where Nam Ji Hyun hears the whistling tune that’s been haunting her, the tune the man who she suspected of murdering her ex-boyfriend was whistling on the night of that murder. She runs into Dong Ha on the street, drops whatever it was that she was carrying, and when the two go down to pick the items up she hears that tune emanating from the loose earbuds around his neck. Aaaaaaagh it’s so good!!!

It is such a good show!

Even if you’re not really a fan of legal procedurals, you should give this one a chance. I personally am also not a fan of legal procedurals, but this one I absolutely loved! It’s light, it’s fun, it’s serious (without being too graphic or horrible), it’s got an incredible cast, and satisfying love story to boot.

You can catch the drama over on Viki.com. They have a free trial for newbies, but then all of the dramas you could possibly want are available if you fully commit for a very reasonable annual fee. Viki is also in the habit of offering a special deal around Christmas and New Years, so if you’ve been wanting to sign up, now would be the time of year to do it! (not sponsored, btw, just a huge fan of Viki! Although, Viki if you’re hiring…)

Anyways, I loved this drama, I give it 10 out of 10 stars, and I hope that you’ll love it too!