Review – Defendant
I’d like to press charges, your honor. For bad acting. Ji Sung was so god awful in this show, I could barely stand it. I suffered through most of it, assuming it might taper out and get better. It didn’t. It got worse. What happened to this guy? He was so adorable in Protect The Boss! He was less adorable in Kill Me, Heal Me, but still okay. But in this show… it was painful. PAINFUL. My eyes hurt from witnessing the horrors of such a lackluster, over-the-top yet simultaneously disingenuous performance. Ugh. To make matters worse, Uhm Ki-Joon brought his A-Game and was outstanding, playing twins… so the comparison in abilities was blinding.
Now, I know I am on the unpopular side with this opinion – as the ratings and reviews for this drama are high with tons of comments praising Ji Sung for his performance. I have to assume they are either new to K-World or just… delusional. Is everyone watching the same show I was? I don’t get it…
The plot itself was decent – though overly convoluted and a little too gimmicky for my taste. I adore a great murder mystery, amnesia, psycho-killer, hidden identity story… but this one tried too hard. Thumbs down. Gave up after 8 episodes.
Overall Rating – 4/10. Guilty of Over Acting.
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Damn, I am so relieved to see this lmao. I barely managed to get through the first episode, then dropped it 15 minutes into the second, because I found the whole thing so incredibly…bizarre. I think gimmicky is the perfect way to describe some of the scenes that were a complete turn off for me (a scene in the first episode where Jo Jae Yun’s character picks his nose and sticks it into Ji Sung’s character’s soup comes to mind here). It didn’t capture my attention either. I also felt Ji Sung was three much for my taste. Glad I’m not the only one who failed to understand the hype over this one.
I think I can understand the opposing views over the acting. Some may find it too over the top..but some may find it intense. Lol.