Review – Bride of the Century
Two things were made abundantly clear by this cute, odd, quirky, melodramatic, supernaturally-tinted show. One, Yang Jin Sung is a adorable! Two, Lee Hong Ki… maybe not so much. Don’t get me wrong, I love this little guy… but he just doesn’t have the chutzpah for leading male status, in my humble opinion. Yang Jin Sung, however, blew me away. I actually didn’t realize it was the same actress playing two characters until the end of episode one, she was that good. Her face is so expressive and she can go from sticky sweet to hardened bitch face in two point five seconds and both are perfectly believable. My favorite is her little lip curl – which makes me think of the famous lip curl of Jang Keun-Suk. I’ll be bookmarking her other dramas and watching them soon.
Bride of the Century is mainly a story about women. It’s about a rich, rich family with a sexy ghost watching over it for generations… but she demands payment for her services, in the form of the first wife of the first son of each new generation. This is a conundrum for the mom of the current first son, as she wants him to marry the gal of her choice but needs to get that sacrificial first marriage out of the way before her plans can be realized. So it’s scheming demon, and momma is willing to go to great devious lengths to get what she wants… but soon finds herself at war with another momma who doesn’t plan to lay down her daughter’s life without a fight. It’s the behind the scenes battlefield that so many women wage wars on and claim victories over. The battlefield of other women (dead and alive). It may the be the worst thing patriarchy has done to humanity – setting women against women. But it’s a great thing for dramas and novels.
Overall Rating – 8/10 – You Can’t Trick A Ghost With A Doppelganger, But You Can Trick A Man.
Discussion and Spoilers Follow
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