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True Beauty korean drama review
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True Beauty
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by Cooki6Day
Feb 5, 2021
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 9.5

Cozy, Hilarious, Nostalgic but left me Empty

This review will not contain spoilers, but, in order to do that, I will also not contain too many details about the drama itself. I will mostly give an honest review about how this drama made me feel throughout.

When I started this drama, not only was I pleasantly surprised, but I found myself waiting on my toes to start or wait for the next episode.
I am in a very stressful period in my life but I still found myself unable to stop binge-watching as much as I can till 4 am, because, despite waking up like a zombie to work or to classes, I still had no regrets because the drama has acted as a much-needed remedy for this tough period.
The number of times I had to stop myself from laughing out loud in order not to wake my sister up so late at night was almost suffocating. Although I am not always a fan of over-the-top silly humor, somehow this drama made it work, because the characters made it work, because the actors made it work and they fully drew me in with every breath they took.
In terms of acting, everyone fulfilled their role so perfectly that I even forgot that I had seen the same actors in different dramas. In many dramas, I would still be able to hold on to one aspect of a personality that I had seen from some of the actors in other dramas. But in this one, the world of this drama was the only world where the actors belonged as the characters who they played. I forgot everywhere else I had ever seen them. Even Eun Woo who originally I was too scared to associate him too much with his role in My ID is Ms. Gangnam Beauty because of the similar theme of the dramas, I did not. He was simply Su hu for me. I laughed with the characters and cried with them, and even spoke to some of my family members about their problems as if I was their friend.

For some reason this drama made me feel very nostalgic. I am now in my college years and mid-twenties, and somehow this drama made me feel nostalgic to the time I was in high school, where life seemed like a dream full of possibilities and fairytales. The drama felt so cozy, and the comic book store where they always meet felt like just the place I would have loved to have in my neighborhood to escape into the world of stories and books. This is exactly how this drama felt - like it was my escape into a fairytale world.

The only thing that went wrong for me and left me empty in the end is how the last two episodes were dragged on, focusing mainly on a love-triangle that did nothing more than hurt at that point. Regardless of who I was rooting for, I will admit that in terms of the character and relationship development, the main couple who end up together make more sense. But, the fact that until the very last minute, they hinted that one side has yet to fully move on left me empty and unable to move on myself. Instead of finishing this drama feeling like I received my closure with the happy ending, It just left me wondering "what if" and "what will happen next," especially to the one she does not end up with, while fully knowing that nothing, nothing will happen next. The world of the drama has closed never to be open again, only leaving it to my imagination.

I will still probably rewatch this again, because regardless, the journey was beautiful and way too funny to not experience once more. And I do recommend you do give it a watch, especially if, like me, you feel like you need an escape from your reality for a bit.
If I wasn't in such a stage in my life I might have not appreciated the drama necessarily the same way. But this is the true beauty of dramas, that they find you at the right time and place.
Hope this one does the same for you.
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