SBS right now is a lighter, funnier approach to its weekend programs take, with the new Premiere rom-com birth of a Beauty to the ridiculous goofball accession Modern Farmer on Saturdays and Sundays. When was the drama first announced, I wondered how she would take this premise makeover and to make it fresh, because I felt like no matter how it played, I would somehow know what would happen. Do not get me wrong, I as makeover and underdog and comic revenge stories; I just was not sure how Birth of a Beauty would set itself apart.
So I was pleasantly surprised when the first two episodes will be managed to keep me fun guessing when executing this famous story twists to keep us busy with fun and counter-expectation. The clippy pace and the constant bag of tricks to work, in order to enjoy the show, and a large lead-pairing with a solid sense of comic timing. Joo Sang-wook be cocky and dorky, bickering with Han Ye-seul looks as sweet doormat with Killer? It works
FYI :. I will not continue recaps for this show, although I wish I had the time to cover it. But it was a fun enough first week that I wanted to give you an introduction to at least.
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EPISODE 1
There is a great gig for a beautiful woman we'll come as SA-RA to know ( Han Ye-seul ), a road goes down and turns heads left and right with her stunning good looks Everywhere she goes she draws admiring glances and drops jaws;., she explains that she is an actress, who has just come back to Korea after working in the US This is useful for everyone who sees it, and it is the royal treatment.
sent from a face reader said gets her assets by the intimidated interesting combination of fate they will hold in their hands (er, face): Not only a rare beauty, she has the good fortune of a military general and could even save the nation that is if they clearly articulated their both cases the. need to engage Affairs and villains.
Sa-ra begins in the uncomfortable feeling to know that they followed His and that's how we get our introduction to the HAN TAE HEE ( Joo Sang-wook , whose combination of dorky and Heo-dang antics I really missed, and love it here again in action). She catches him peeping in her while she is in a lingerie shop and freaks out, in the process in some latent self-defense instincts knocking him decrease. It is subtracted from officials, and Sa-ra sighs.
It is safe to say that every spectator probably the show knows that Tae-hee would be more than just a stalker, and it makes us wonder why Sa-ra would not know him in this situation. But this is an example of one of the premiere strengths that it plays on our expectations and keeps us guessing. We know the core of the story, but it's how that arouses our interest.
Sa-ra, a look at an extreme-makeover television program entitled Change starts, and is one of the history of woman hooked the running with a full makeover to be gifted. Her name is SA GEUM-RAN ( Ha Jae-sook ) and she is a kind-hearted woman said with honest much assholes to hide in her life when she endures with a smiling face, the tears.
From here the episode flips back and forth between Geum-RAN-history (which in the recent past will) and Sa-ra reactions to the woman feels it a strong train towards. She looks with sympathy as Geum-ran spurned-and gets worse, pity-for its mass, which makes such stumbling in public accidents or fall into a tub of fish twice humiliating if nobody helps.
it's even worse at home. Geum-RAN has married to a well-to-do family, but her husband has spent the past seven years in the United States for his business. Your place in the household is more a handmaid as a daughter-in-law, with Snobs for a mother and sisters-in-law, who think nothing of her face and said: "We should stop eating, we want don 't, to end . "senile grandmother that Geum-RAN care as her for a source of comfort, but the only one.
The sisters-in-law giggling behind Geum-ran when she films a video for Hello their busy man lately their calls take not been able to. It is because they know what it is, to find out what is that you are good-looking man cheater and liar, he is not only completely unrepentant has an affair, he has introduced even the friend of his family. Who all love over Geum-ran.
Sa-ra is fully incorporated into the show and furious when Geum-ran the Extreme Makeover opportunity that loses other contenders. She's so moved that she decides she has to help her, but when she calls the TV station to ask about it, she hears back that Geum-ran from the process.
Meanwhile past Geum-ran discovered her husband's infidelity when she hears in Seoul he's back and goes to his hotel room. That's where she sees him (named LEE KANG-JOON, played by Jung Kyeo-Woon ) with his girlfriend on the side cozying, demanding broadcast announcer GYO CHAE-yeon ( Wang Ji-hye , yet another in a strip of adulterers Other women play).
Also, despite the betrayal, Geum-ran meets with Chae-yeon to ask them to step aside. Chae-yeon is initially quite politely apologized for the hurt they caused and contrite its regret, but you have done the wrong woman simply expected back away. So when Geum-ran sobbing and begging on, Chae-yeon words get blunt: be Kang-joon been ordinary when they married and it is true that Geum-RAN supports him through his career, but he is now far out of their league. Simply ask: "Did you ever look in the mirror?"
I do not konw if it is better or worse, that the husband seems cheating as a kind of a nice guy, I mean, yes, he is a lying jackass scam, but basically he does not seem to be petty. But when Geum-ran for another chance Kang-joon asks so they can treat him better, he is only his wedding ring and says that their marriage is over, and that he just wants to love.
Adding insult to injury, they are to be terrible in-laws, grazing practically Geum-ran for so naive as to think her husband should be faithful to their looking like the . Senile grandmother offers sweet look nice to her, but paints her face in a grotesque parody of beauty.
to see what a distraught Sa-ra, the so jumps at the chance when she gets a mysterious touch to tell her where she Geum- ran to go out. She meets Geum-ran friend who shabby to her friend treatment and tells the truth is outraged that adds even more terrible news: committed Geum-Ran suicide, and today is their 49th day memorial. (The 49th day is observed as a day when a departed soul to the afterlife goes on.) Not even to watch your in-laws bother rites for them.
The straw that broke the camel's back, as Geum-ran saw Chae-yeon of the family to be received behind her back, and Geum-ran could not bear to return to this house. But she had nowhere to go, and finally to drive their car into the sea.
The Sa-ra Geum-Rans leaves monument, they Tae-hee is from her stalker-Man, also known as our hero, knocked. (Joo Sang-wook really get some surprise blows silly comedy, that's great.)
Sa-ra wakes in Tae-hee car when he at a hearing - News report about serial killers who abduct and murder women and takes the first opportunity to run out. He chases them in despair when they run the beach down, but ends up getting his ass handed when Sa-ra of dormant Judo skills back pop up to him, and send him from spreading. It draws only when he bellows " You are Sa Geum-ran!"
She is understandably skeptical, but Tae-hee declares that she has missed her medication and suffers a spell Verblendungs side effect of all anesthesia from her head to toe plastic surgery. (HAHA). He was chasing to give her the pills, she's just leave it locked in her imagination, an actress that she does not recognize him and took him for a murderer.
There is Tae-hee that Sa-ra gets the rest of the story shows us how Geum-Rans drive off a cliff was not intentional, but accidental. She looked to pull all her strength, she was so wronged she could not bear to die-and when she'd returned to the city, everyone believed already their dead. So Geum-ran, as her husband watched and attended law dutifully her funeral and shed tears exactly zero.
So they appeared on the doorstep good doctor to have him as the surgeon tracked the change show participants working at all . She had asked him to help them become beautiful and their revenge on the people who have done exactly the wrong that she could not bear let go unscathed while she was allegedly died. Tae-hee reluctantly agreed to allow their transformation begins to even a vocal cord surgery that changed her voice. And the chic apartment, which she had believed she was actually be , which it has been living in since.
With her head back on straight, Sa-ra / Geum-ran to Tae-hee, who is now on a contract outlining their consent excused. To his horror, Sa-ra biting their thumbs down and stamp the thing down in their own blood, ready to do everything he told her to do.
However, Sa-ra do not really have a plan for revenge but "I see rather, should be as it is now to be easy," and Tae-hee has to impress on they need to, to work a carefully thought-out strategy. He tells her very seriously, how little her husband cared for her as she did not even register on his radar as something worth a thought, and pumps them up properly to go to their mission. You can not just look like a new man; it has to be one. He asks them behind Geum-ran to leave completely, and after being with his girlfriend comfortably her husband finished, she eyes the determination to do just that.
EPISODE 2
Now that they are on the same page about their goals, Tae hee something is of an all-round life-coach for Sa-ra when he directs training and transforms them (sometimes literally) into an irresistible woman. They do not lose their love of food (or their herculean strength), but she follows his instructions faithfully, as best they can (with sometimes amusing results).
given their vague plan to get revenge a kick in the pants when the announcement public wedding plans for the scam pair is made. With 3 weeks until the wedding, which accelerates both their time and gives them to shoot a specific goal: to stop the wedding.
Tae-hee has a curiously strong interest in Sa-Ra, to ruin the wedding, and things will make more sense when Sa-ra finds that he has a past with Chae-yeon. It's sensitive to what they and refuses to talk to, but we can see that they are going back to childhood and it is clearly not about them.
We do not know much about Tae-hee in the past, played deliberately vague, partly for reasons of suspension and partly for the comedy. I laughed out loud when he he is not a real doctor gives (all Episode 1 in a completely different light casting) until he, his brother clarifies which was Change doctor, and he orchestrated only the operation perform, rather than you. Later he admits also that the apartment she is living in is not, but his brother, requires a hasty escape at night. So generally speaking, we are in the dark, what he's doing or who he is, although an offhand comment about him seems chaebol, as it could be true. (Sa-ra laughs in his face, to think it absurd.)
The chaebol Note explains a few things seem on the amount of free time he have on his hands to help on the way mean Sa-ra with these expensive plans-and I not only the operations he can afford. For example, decide to make that they hosted their first approach to the target at a charity function of Kang-joon of the company (he President of a broadcasting station is) where Sa-ra may dazzle him with her eyes and arouse his interest.
as mere attempts flirting (and clumsy at that) are not enough, they have to resort to Plan B, which requires them to purchase anything at the charity auction Kang-joon to secure attention. One hundred million won little the average person has to lie, but somehow Tae-hee just waves it off as a necessary cost.
Ultimately ends the charity function with made little progress, as they want since Chae-yeon to wipe away obvious Kang-joon. Kang-joon does not seem to have a roving eye, and he seems completely in love with Chae-yeon, so Sa-Ra sees enough, are not enough to attract his attention.
So Tae-hee a second encounter concocts Sa-ra in Kang-joon path sans put the fiancee, and from going to bump into him fishing. (Tae-hee attracts a number of panels in each of these missions that seeks him as a homeless person ever makes. It is quite large.)
Kang-joon politely helps Sa-ra cast a line, but it is not until it slips on and leaves ran Geum-their inner, that he takes notice of her than that. For example, they recognize his bracelet as part of his grandmother, whom she had taken to for the last seven years. Hearing that grandmother recently died, Sa-ra swell with tears, and when they fly the bracelet into the water accidentally sends the lake plunges in without thinking, and dive in to retrieve it.
Tae-hee watches in disgust, trying telepathically instruct them thresh stop their female goddess image and hold, but to his surprise, the effect is not negative. These surprising and conflicting sides of Sa-Ra make Kang-joon wondering who she is, because it can not make sense of it. He does find one thing in common with all of them, but the heat is. And the heat ties him enough that he asks her to meet again. Success!
Sa-ra and Tae-hee are thrilled to have to get exactly what they wanted, and Tae-hee sees its goal in sight. All they have to do now is, it in fact of two time his fiancee (with Sa-ra) and exposing his fraud past ruined his reputation and brings shame on his head handed red-catch. The wedding will be as good as toast.
celebrate, but this has two unintended side effects: (1) Tae-hee begins a surprise to feel attraction to Sa-ra (I know this is fast), and (2) Sa- ra thinking they begin not want revenge could (I know this is too fast) (no complaints). Always a softy at heart, Sa-ra thinks of the way Kang-joon at her looked at the lake (... , because you're pretty ) and decides she wants to win him back, instead of destroying it. She insists that she had sworn a man to love her forever, and could swear that he thinks you still (as Geum-ran). You will also be taken back to his (hateful) family as a daughter-in-law into account, and decides that she would like to remarry him.
Tae-hee is understandably stunned, but since ultimately the end result is the same for him, he goes along with the revised plan, Operation: Marry Kang-joon. Tae-hee it secures a new house in the same neighborhood as Kang-joon family (again nice to be a chaebol), to give her an easy access to the in-laws, as it presents itself as a new neighbor.
[1945010So] they provide a fresh new round of run-ins with Kang-joon family members, to win them one by one. (This is depressingly easy to do, as everyone is happy to give the friendly gorgeous girl the benefit of the doubt, and the best treatment.)And you would not know ra with the various encounters with semen fresh new love on his mind and his family in it, Kang-joon finds himself betrothed begin to ignore. he calls One night Sa-ra and asks outside to meet, such as Chae-yeon comes to experience her suspiciously friendly encounter. Your intuition is an alarm bell, while her fiance dopily the new girl smiles, not knowing it is his wife. Serves you all right.
COMMENTS
I went in Birth of a Beauty expect something 'd light and be sparkling, and if we were lucky, funny and good-natured to boot. I did not expect much more than the story seemed pretty obvious, so they turn surprises me that the implementation of the drama of history increases a notch by making it a bit screwball and quirky, without losing its emotional center.
The emotional center is, of course, the character of Geum-ran, played with a lovely groundedness of Ha Jae-sook, which is crucial. I want to feel sorry for Geum-ran, but not frustrated with their pathetic for his to . She has to be treated the fine line between unfair (what our sympathies spores) and is a sad sack, people go about their leaves (which gets frustrating really fast). What is key is the sweetness of her nature, which is more positive than negative, or at least makes a concerted effort, believes things to accept in a positive light.
But it is not only the "before" version that should stir our sympathies because of goodwill to our current heroine as also has to carry. I give Han Ye-seul due credit for holding Art Nature in Sa-ra of Geum-ran, because while I was still getting used to the part where they are the same person, then I can ran Geum-the emotional through lines of follow Sa -ra. And if Sa-ra reacts to hurt the show has combines a credible work of their pain to Geum-ran, both by technical means (such as fades and cuts overlap of the two ladies) and like by the action (I Han Ye-seul in this )
, it is both endearing and believable Sa-ra to fully appreciate how good she looks now to have without being vain .; it is almost as Sa-ra through an outsider's eyes, and dizzy at the thought of her as this can be seen. The sweetness of spirit was a decisive train in Kim Ah-Joong character in 0 pounds beauty , and it is why I feel invested in Sa-ra here. Without, or with the slightest trace of vanity played, I would be done with the show from day 1.
There is that quality that I expect it is all they carry in spite of the to go over is above directive, that it has to leave behind their Geum-ran. And I'm fascinated with the idea that it is their personality that they can win her husband's heart. I'm curious how they married in the first place, even if he used to be quite normal, because Geum-ran regarded with polite sympathy Kang-joon seems without stating once loved her with. Was he motivated by guilt because they supported him through his early career-building days? Has their appearance him so off that he never saw her for her heart, or was it just that he has forgotten what he has seen in it again? Does he love you forever or was it completely deceived?
Sa-ra the new appearance levels the playing field in a way for Geum-ran to shine, although ironically, nobody sees Geum-ran more. I wonder if the problematic rhetorical arguments caused across the board, what does that say about beauty and value in society, and I suspect that if I this thinking pursued further down I would end up with a big ol 'headache , But it is worth about anyway (in small bites, perhaps) to think, because what makes Sa-ra special is her warmth and kindness, and that are not new things. Her appearance made them invisible to most of the world, as well as their beauty exaggerates now their virtues.
In any case, I like the idea that Geum-ran over win Kang-joon like themselves, although I understand that you can expect anyone fully that identity of a person divorced from their appearance; it is too much a part of being human. If a person is exactly the same in a body, as it is in others? Well, that is a non-answer (and perhaps in vain) to ask the question, but I think it's naive to think that we are not affected by our field, if only because affect our outer how others treat us, and which affects how we feel again.
Heavier leaves aside (hur hur) questions of beauty and identity, is this drama wellness and fun, with a touch of wacky, and these first two episodes zip right through. The lines have a very nice odd-couple chemistry, sharper with Sa-ra of agreeableness playing out of Tae-hee temperament and quick mind (admittedly Sa-ra is a bit dark, but in an endearing way). I was surprised to have his attraction to reignite as soon, but it is certainly not a bad thing to flow the romantic juices as soon as possible. This is one of the strengths of the show to keep things moving in quickly so that things happen before we expected a chance that they have. That makes the difference, because it's not even enter to think for a moment: "I know how to do it" because it has already gone in another direction. The show as all probably falls within fairly predictable lines, but there are unpredictable moments that energy sprinkled the Add method.
Furthermore, with Sly and Single Again and now Birth of a Beauty , I have decided that I want to see Joo Sang-wook always goofy rom-coms, where he shakes of professionals he played before, embrace the benefit of his inner dork the serious faces and chiseled-and-perfect way. I love that Tae-hee thinks , it is the smooth operator genius tactician, while the reality is more like he is a semi-charming strategist and a half total bill. A bit like your quintessential Owen Wilson to hear character I cracked that he, and then again when they kicked no doctor from the apartment, and now expect each episode have a hilarious new revelation about his origins. In fact I will be active disappointed when that does not happen. Can we have a whole parade of hysterical secrets? Please please? Also do only little?
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