Synopsis: Go Eun Ha is a young sweet girl who has spent most of her life searching for her childhood friend who went missing. She encounters a group of some of the most unlikely people she'd ever thought to meet at an event for children. As a content creator for children she tends to look on the sunny side of the everything and does what she can for the children who watch her channel to enjoy themselves. When she meets a group of former thugs who are trying to promote thier product at the same fesival she is working. An argument between the thugs and the parents of the children breaks she is the first to try and break the tension and even defends the rough lookign gang. They take her under their wing when she loses her job and she in turn helps them rebrand their image.
Review: Hello dear reader, this drama took me by surprise. I was not expecting this drama to be as funny as it turned out nor as engaging. The actors did a great job in this, especially the male lead, which was a bit of a surprise for me since I knew about 2 actors out of the whole ensemble.
If you are new to my reviews I rate my dramas on mainly two categories: storytelling, and direction. Under Storytelling, I take into account not just the acting, but the writing, and music as well. It is usually presented as a percentage. Under the category direction, I consider both editing and direction, editing counts for 2 points while direction counts for 3. It'll be out 5. I call them my sticky notes because that tends to be what I write my thoughts on when I'm watching. For My Sweet Mobster, I have the story telling at a 85%. Under direction I gave this a 3/5.
I know the percentage looks low for this series and I promise I did enjoy it, but it was far from perfect. My main complaint for the direction has to be on what the director chose to focus on and some issues that I personally had with the main couples. The editing is alright. Not much has stood out to me as far as editing goes, but I have no complaints.
The first problem that I am going to nitpick at is the main couple's arch. I don't mean the cute, rom-commy moments in the beginning but the lack of contact or connection
when they finally become a couple. Eun Ha has more interactions and even more skinship (physical contact) with the second male lead, and the side characters than the her significant other. Aside from some good conversations between Go Eun Ha and Seo Ji Wan (the main lead), and meaningful eye contact we don't get much. Most of their contact happens when they're canoodling with each other trying not to freeze to death, which is again before they become a couple. Also, considering that both actors are older, in their 30's and 40's, the awkward ppoppo kisses were not what I was expecting. Give me some Ji Chang Wook or Lee Min Ho kisses guys! What were those? I have no clue if that was the actors choice or the director, but I'm going to blame the director.
I do appreciate the main couples ability to be able to converse with each other, even
when it is difficult. That is something that I am missing in most my dramas recently. However, when shit hits the fan and things start unraveling for Seo Ji Wan he depends on his underlings/ workers to deal with Go Eun Ha and she just lets him. There is no communication and she basically just lets him railroad her without so much as a fight. Come on girl, fight. Or at the very least SAY SOMETHING!!!! Good grief, for a character that was a total fighter for injustices and calling people out on their shit in the beginning, the lack of initiative in the end is frustrating.
The actress wasn't a bad actress, granted she wasn't the best either. There were moments where I wanted to shout at the screen for her to move her face. This is one of the biggest pet peeves that I have with some female, and sometimes male, Korean actors. Move your face. You can act without saying words. Look at Park Bo Gum in Wonderland. The man said so many things with just his eyes, and his expressions. When your face stays neutral in a scene it pulls the viewer, or at least me, out of the show.
If you want an example of what I mean, dear reader, just look at Kristen Stewart in Twilight, or Han So Hee in Gyeongseong Creature. If you want a male example look at whom I call the master of one face, Cha Eun Woo, in basically anything that he is in. If your face doesn't say anything, if it isn't acting with you, it kills the scene. If you want to know what scene in particular that I am thinking of in this series, it's in the last episode when Seo Ji Wan kind of hallucinates about Eun Ha. . . I won't digress any further details. I'm afraid I'll give away something and I don't want to write down spoilers.
I loved the side characters, they were lively and hilarious. They were honestly a breath of fresh air and definitely helped the plot move foward. The only thing I'd say
on the side characters is that I'd like to know was thier backstories. I loved learning about the youngest of the group, but I wanted to learn more about the others as well. The show mentions things here and there about the backgrounds of each goon that lives in the house, but to actually see it the way we saw with the youngest of the group. I suppose that was more of timinig issue more than anything. They could have cut some of bad man papa's scenes that were unnecessary.
As always thank you for joining me on this review, dear reader. These were just some thoughts I had on this series, please leave a comment below on your thoughts. I do love to hear from you. Until next time dear reader!
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