I just finished W yesterday night and I wanted to put this somewhere except the reviews tab on the drama (you know, I don’t want to rate a drama low). The drama is crudely made, seriously crudely made. There are so many episodes in the drama where I can clearly see the crew. In one of the starting episodes, I saw the camera in Lee Jong Suk’s car’s rear view mirror. Then I saw a cameraman AGAIN in mid series, this time it was even worse since he was clearly visible along with his camera sneaking in a corner with his camera when the antagonist was swinging a chair and struggling to get out from the cell. Then again I saw a shadow of the camera and a mic at a night scene in the last episode just before somebody’s death. There are many more along with these.
Then I didn’t liked the acting of both the main leads although the cartoonist was my favorite. I never choose a drama because of some oppa or whatever in it. It was my first Lee Jong Suk drama and I don’t say his acting was bad, it’s just that the character just wasn’t him. I couldn’t see Kang Cheol but just Lee Jong Suk. Just before the last scene, there was an incident where he had to collapse and the phone in his hand to fall from his grip, that fall wasn’t natural but it seemed that he deliberately threw the phone from his hand unconsciously.
Spoiler ahead, don’t read if you don’t want to be spoiled:
The drama definitely had a unique story something which could not be found in any drama so far and probably will not be found ever again. But I just want to know, which stupid idiotic girl will choose a man whom she met a few months ago over her dad? Even if I get Lee Min Ho or the entire Korean superstar pack in exchange of my dad’s death, I definitely won’t even look at them if it means my dad won’t be with me. Although the drama did had a hidden meaning of existential crisis and it dealt with this really smartly, I am not even going to accept my dad’s death in exchange of a really handsome rich yet fictional character
Just like Lee Jong Suk, I didn’t liked Han Hyo Joo’s acting either. I don’t know if this is the actress’s habit or was supposed to be the female lead’s habit, whatever it was, it was annoying. What it was? Everytime the Yeon Joo receives a phone call which is not in her favor, she puts her hand along with her phone on her chest which is incredibly annoying and feels weak for the character.
Then the make up team of the drama wasn’t good either. There is a scene where it was raining and Kang Cheol was wet outside his hotel. The moment he enters his penthouse, he his all dried with his hair fixed and dried, perfectly ironed clothes.
The production team lacked too. In the last episode, it was raining at the time of climax, of course, it wasn’t a real rain and just some rain showering in the scene. I could see the that the road wasn’t wet and just the actors were wet. All the visible part of the road wasn’t wet which should have been avoided by at least pouring a bucket of water in the road if you want the scene to look real.
I have seen so many dramas where the crew is visible or shadows of cameras, in Moments of Eighteen, the entire crew with director was visible in reflection of the window pane in school’s building and in Reply 1988, shadow of the camera was visible in the scene of a funeral. I let them go since they were never repeated but in W it is as if the team wants me to throw a fit with constantly making themselves visible in several car reflection’s and mirrors.
I am sorry if I bothered anyone here, you know, I desperately needed to put this somewhere and thought of putting this here.
I remember we were talking about W a few weeks ago and at that time @vivi_1485 told me not to watch but I still went ahead and now regret. I gotta get good recommendations from now on