Pretendente Surpresa (2022)

La mejor pareja secundaria

el ost es una verga, la intro es una mierda sin gracia, me he reído mas viendo los youtube rewind que han habido que con esto y sin embargo, ahí va la mejor pareja secundaria que jamás alguien podrá volver a crear, fue la primera vez que he visto a una pareja actual como tal y no como dos personas que parece les están apuntando con una pistola en la cabeza para que finjan amarse, los amo, Youngseo y Sunghoon debieron ser los protagonistas porque tienen hasta historias mas interesantes que los aburridos de los protagonistas los cuales llegados a un punto ya solo les ponía en velocidad rápida para no tener que lidiar escuchándolos, pero bueno

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In sunto: una commedia leggerissima e divertente, che procede per cliché, ma ben recitata e con un buon ritmo.

Elaboriamo: Siamo nell’abusato reame della commedia in ambito aziendale, che procede per mezzo di scambi di identità, falsi fidanzamenti che diventano veri e innamoramenti tra persone di diversa estrazione sociale. Le giovani generazioni vorrebbero trovare l’anima gemella in base all’amore, ostacolate da genitori e nonni, che insistono a spedirle ad appuntamenti al buio e cercano di sposare società piuttosto che persone.

Non c’è assolutamente nulla di originale in questa romcom, ma non per questo è un’opera da buttar via, anzi. Se la storia in sé è quanto di più trito e ritrito si possa immaginare, il modo in cui è stata concepita e recitata la rende comunque gradevole, a patto di non cercarvi significati profondissimi. E’ una di quelle opere con inserimento di buffe figurine, suoni divertenti, sottotitoli, e così via: una serie leggera, da guardare per divertimento coi neuroni in stato di placido riposo, magari tra due drama un po’ più impegnativi, per allentare la tensione. Ci sono alcuni momenti veramente spassosi: in uno dei primi episodi ricordo un inseguimento all’interno dei vari piani di un edificio che ha rischiato di mandarmi in crisi respiratoria.
Ma non di solo divertimento si parla: una grande importanza è riservata ai rapporti interpersonali, al valore dell’amicizia, dei legami familiari, della solidarietà fra colleghi.

Però poi, alla fine, si torna sempre al fattore umoristico. E se si ammira l’impegno lavorativo di Shin Ha Ri, votata alla realizzazione di manicaretti da commercializzare sotto forma di piatti istantanei, a maggior ragione si apprezza la compostezza di Cha Sung Hoon, serissimo segretario del protagonista Kang Tae Moo, giovanissimo presidente maniaco del lavoro, nipote del capintesta Kang Da Goo, che non vede l’ora di avere dei nipotini…

Peccato che, nella grande famiglia della Go Food, industria alimentare intorno alla quale gravitano quasi tutti i personaggi, le giovani leve abbiano idee proprie. Così quando il giovane presidente Kang Tae Moo, interpretato da un ottimo Ahn Hyo Seop, viene mandato all’ennesimo appuntamento al buio organizzatogli dal nonno prepotente, stufo di perdere tempo in cose che giudica inutili, decide che sposerà la prima che gli si presenterà davanti. Dovrebbe trattarsi di Jin Young Seo senonché, anch’ella, stufa di questi laccioli, manda al suo posto l’amica Shin Ha Ri, perché mandi tutto all’aria. Il presidente della Go Food non ne vuole sapere di mollare quella che non sa essere una sua impiegata, per quante follie faccia. E da lì cominciano gli spassosissimi guai.

Ripetiamolo ancora: è una commedia, per cui molto spazio è affidato ad attori e caratteristi dalla mimica a volte volutamente esagerata. Allo stesso Lee Deok Hwa, che interpreta il nonno del protagonista, e che nel panorama coreano è praticamente un’istituzione, è affidata una parte piuttosto spassosa. La protagonista, una bravissima Kim Se Jeong, sa farsi apprezzare sia nei momenti drammatici che in quelli comici, dove sfodera smorfie molto divertenti. Ma il protagonista maschile, Ahn Hyo Seop, è sempre misurato, grazie anche al suo personaggio molto riservato che è, poi, quello che compie il maggior percorso di crescita. Il nostro passerà dall’essere un mezzo tiranno narcisista, restio a sprecare cinque minuti, ad un perfetto innamorato, tenero e generoso nei confronti di molti.

La commedia procede ad un ritmo abbastanza sostenuto, subendo solo un po’ di rallentamento negli ultimi due/tre episodi, ma che non va ad inficiare troppo il fattore divertimento. Le musiche sono adatte allo spettacolo, non terribili ma, sinceramente, neanche eccezionali: nella media. Per quanto riguarda i costumi, diciamo che, essendo alcuni personaggi molto ricchi, le donne sono vestite molto bene e gli uomini… beh, alti, mori e con vestito tre pezzi. Detto tutto no?

L’ultimo episodio è, per certi versi, forse un po’ affrettato, e per altri un po’ lento, ma in definitiva tutti i santi finiscono in gloria e si glissa sulla sigla finale con soddisfazione e un sorriso stampato in volto. Cosa chiedere di più?

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Wasted 9 hours of my life

I have zero clue what's to like here. Void, empty, full of cliches, and meaningless. The main girl is supposedly likeable because she's 'different' but as far as I can tell she's literally just your average girl. The romance isn't believable either. The whole love at first sight stuff is so tiring and I dislike it immensely. The main girl's whole thing is she's supposed to be 'so different' but there is nothing she does that's particularly out of the norm or unusual. The bit where he pretends to be her bf in front of their friends isn't too far off the vibe of the actual romance.

I found the directing was awful and over the top emoting (no doubt at the director's behest) extremely tacky.

Oh and lastly the entire show sometimes seems to me to be just one big product placement. The vit C spray thing, face stick, bomb shots...

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Your typical rich CEO falls in love with the middle class/lower middle class girl

It's literally not anything new but it's still so good. Every single scene is so painfully similar to every other cliche K-drama out there but it still is very good (I think all K-drama fans are immune to this kind of stuff atp). Btw, I don't really focus on OSTs and such so don't trust my rating on that, I don't remember a single song from this drama or other ones I watched unless I REALLY like it. Not gonna lie it did make me roll my eyes sometimes, but then again I've done that to almost everything. I did get bored sometimes, but as I said it's probably cause we've seen it all before. But it definitely was funny, sometimes I would end up laughing and repeating a scene for five minutes

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The first six episodes of Business Proposal were literally everything. Lots of supremely well-used tropes that were equally well-subverted. I was constantly laughing at the humor, and anxiously awaiting the eventual romance. But something felt off in eps 7 and 8, something I couldn't put my finger on, so I did something I tell myself never to do, and I looked up spoilers. And I'm honestly glad I did, because they put their finger on what it was that felt off to me.

Somewhere in ep 7/8, the writers forgot that their drama was trying to use classic Kdrama tropes differently, and they pivoted to taking classic tropes too seriously, thus creating unnecessary angst. What I got through with 7 and 8 certainly couldn't be compared to the level of angst in a classic early to mid 2000's Kdrama, but it was a very definite tonal shift, and not one I liked. What's worse though is that the eventual story choices I read about were not something that made sense in regard to the characters. They sounded like obvious attempts at adding drama in a story that had been rather delightfully drama-free most of its run. They also just sounded like a waste of our character's time. I mean, the writers had a perfect opportunity to subvert the classic 'family doesn't approve' trope, and they Didn't take it. How uproariously hilarious would it have been for grandpa to pretend he didn't approve of their romance as a little bit of payback for them hiding it from him?

Armed with the knowledge of things to come, I decided to drop Business Proposal. But it's all good, cause Legally Romance (Cdrama) is doing all of the things with my heart right now, and I'm totally okay with it, lol.

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Dopamine-inducing Cliched Rom-Com ❤️❤️❤️

❤️ INGREDIENTS USED in DRAMA

♥ Contract Relationship ✓
♥ Loveable Characters ✓
♥ Cliched Plotline ✓
♥ Good Kissing scenes (non-cardboard stiff ones) ✓✓✓
♥ Hot Male Leads with a mysterious past ✓
♥ Pretty & Awkward - Getting into Embarrassing Situation Female Leads ✓
♥ Loud and Comedic Support Cast ✓
♥ Breezy Music to download in your playlist ✓
♥ Happy Ending ✓

❤️ PRE-REQUISITES:
• You love cliched love dramas/rom-coms, cause this is a tried and tested plot
• You don't mind silly illogical situations, cause you are here for the toe-curling, giddy romance
• You need a dose of dopamine
• You love pretty drama settings and of course, hot and beautiful leads ♥

❤️ FAQs
• Will I guess the plot? YES
• Will I end up laughing and snorting at the awkward situation? YES
• Is the Male Lead Swoon-worthy? YES (By all standards)
• Is the Female Lead Cringey? NO (Not by usual standards)
• Is the drama too cute to ignore? YES
• Does the second ML have the cutest puppy eyes/face? YES
• Will I have a goofy smile on face while watching this? YES
• Is this worth the watch? ABSOLUTELY YES

❤️ WHY I AM NOT BIASED? [okay maybe a little biased :P ]
• I prefer to binge-watch completed dramas ( I am a woman of little patience, and cannot handle suspense)
• The only 2 times I watched ongoing dramas - MR QUEEN & TRUE BEAUTY - both great in their own rights
• The drama spoilers/reels on Social Media compelled me to watch it while it is airing ♥ ♥ ♥ too cute to ignore ♥ ♥ ♥
• Just 7 episodes down - but this is breezy, light, will make you smile and fall in love with the fluffiness!
• Till now - 8-9 out of 10 (See my rating criteria on my profile: https://mydramalist.com/profile/omo-omo-omo )

Personally very pleased that Ahn Hyo Seop & Kim Min Gue are getting the recognition as main cast they deserve.
Especially, Ahn Hyo Seop - been his fan since - Queen of the Ring, Abyss, Thirty but Seventeen, Splash Splash Love - and finally a deserving lead role!

Going to update it, when I complete the drama - but if this helps you or you like it - drop me a message or like
Would love to discuss this drama with fellow MDLers!

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A complete messed up production!

Recommended by few friends and high rating just flushed my all expectations in the gutter!

Nothing new in this drama. The story is just nonsense. Recent drama trends are kind of worrisome for me being a drama-lover. Why either of ML and FL have to be orphan with a tons of inherited money! I just dont get this so-common theme now-a-days! Either ML and FL must have to have a childhood trauma, child prodigy, workaholic to the psychic limit, etc etc why they cant be normal people? Being an anime lover the episode 1 just raised my hope high but not soon enough the next few episodes just ended all future possibilities to enjoy this drama. The episode 1 starts with an introduction of perfect ML with too PERFECT image which just started to sway off in next few episodes. And at the end it is just a good looking guy with tons of money, thats it! No character development, no moral values: presenting a completely nonsense character! [ if there was a aftermath of the story; I wont be surprised if that will start with the ML's whole company went to bankrupt in next few years]

This drama is just a collection of good looking actor-actress and nonsense plot. It is imperative to say that "over-acting" became synonym of "comedy" now a days. The mother of FL just won the trophy in such context. I probably enjoyed till the episode 4. After that this show was just unbearable! They try to produce a romantic-comedy and failed horribly. The acting was so cheap! You can see that the male lead is having just "one kind" of expression throughout the whole drama, that is: "making eyes bigger" whether surprised/ annoyed/ impressed... for all emotions its literally same expression. The FL is also so poor in acting! I remember her work in "School 2017" and she improved nothing since then.
The 2nd couple were more impressive to me and collecting all of their scenes together sums up a LOGICAL short story. In episode 11 the FL's dad vs ML conversation was the first ever sincere scene with a good script, I would say. Other than that this is a very bad production!

Now, this is another drama which just proves that the drama with good rating in MDL are not supposed to be really "a good" production. In other words it just supports "Dont judge a book from its cover": "dont judge a drama from its MDL rating"

ONLY THANKFUL FOR IT BEING A SHORT 12-EPISODE NIGHTMARE! HIGHLY DISSAPPOINTING!!

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Swoon Worthy Drama

This is a really entertaining, sweet drama done really well. It all starts when a switch was made for an arranged blind date from Young Seo to Ha-ri with chaebol Kang Tae Moo (An Hyo Seop) whose grandfather is pushing really hard to marry him off, considering succession plans to their very successful GO Food business.

Kang Tae Moo pursues Ha-ri from the moment he sets eyes on her. Tae Moo's loyal friend and personal secretary Sung Hoon on the other hand conveniently falls for Young Seo. Through a series of confusing, comical and mis-led information and events each set of relationship go through their own ups and down, eventually falling into their respective fate and destiny.

The drama and the story was executed really well and what I really like is that the characters Tae Moo, Sung Hoon and Yeong Seo were decisive and confident when they know they love the person they love. Ha-ri's character is careful and responsible which took a little longer for Tae Moo to woo her.... (sigh) ... the guys and they way they love and pursue the women is sure to get all the ladies swooning when watching this drama. Yeong Seo is no slacker either when it comes to this when pursuing Sung Hoon.

I enjoyed it and highly recommend to all those romantics out there.

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What is better than one swoon worthy CP? Two, of course!

I was reading a review of a movie and the reviewer made a salient point, a movie is supposed to make you feel something and by extension, dramas should do the same. This pretty much summed up why this show is so good. The writer-nims really know how we want to feel when we watch a rom-com and they delivered in spades.

There is no point is pretending that this show has no clichés or tropey plotlines. In its defence, it was done in such a way that it piqued our interest, pulled us through the door and then threw away the key. It conditions us with little swoon worthy and feel good moments. Angsty bits are fleeting, and it is always followed up by a bit more sugar. We are addicted and want more.

This is aided and abetted by the CP's deep love for each other and they were largely unshakable. This core tenet is what gave the Show an edge over others. We have all seen this before, romance dramas go through the sundry meet-cute and feed us a large dose of artificial sweetener before expending a lot of negative energy to pull them apart. It can be so wearing that we find it hard to ship the CP. We don’t have that problem here. Most viewers should be able to ship the two leading CP’s and ship them hard!

Speaking of the CP's, we have two primary couples (Tae Moo/Ha Ri and Sung Hoon/Young Seo) and a secondary pair (Eui Ju/Kevin). The primary pairings are great with oodles of chemistry and matching good looks. In all honesty, the 2OTP was almost as interesting as the 1OTP and should have equal billing. The 3OTP was ok but I do wish they'd tone down their overacting a bit, especially the 3ML.

Is the Show perfect? If you had asked me before the end of episode 11, I’d have said yes but it did stumble towards the end. The intimate scene of the 1OTP was oddly lacking. It was a long time coming, the stars were aligned but it just felt clunky. Compared that to the intimate scene of the 2OTP much earlier, it was night and day.

The next slip up is the forced separation of the OTP. Simply put, it was a waste of time. The FL was doing fine winning the granddad over and they could have kept going along that line. The 1 year time skip took up precious time and the show lost momentum. I would much prefer they give us a wedding scene (or two!). Maybe even the honeymoons.

It felt like the writer-nims phoned in the last 15mins of the Show from a beach on Jeju-do. The granddad's illness has little emotional impact nor their separation. Why bother at all?

The ending is as sweet and happy as you’d expect but it could have been much more of a fan service. Our two beloved couples were left with just a promise of eternal love. It would be much more rewarding if they followed the webtoon a little closer and gave us the key milestone moments. :P

OST was good. Rewatch value is high.

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The goodness in cliches only works during the first half of the show

A fun and quirky drama who got lost on its own pace. The show begins with a great execution of typical scenes that doesn’t feel bad at all. However, after EP07, I began to feel bored till the story ended and that boredness still hangs all over me. I did enjoy the whole flow of the story before the main couple officially became a real couple. It was a perfect performance for a light rom-com drama -cute and entertaining. They cast suitable actors to portray the fluffy element of the story. I’ve seen these main characters during their early years of their career and I am so proud that lately they are getting major roles that highlight their talent in acting.

The glimpse of bromance were some moments to savor, it was amusing and delightful. The friendship of the two women was solid and fantastic. Both of the couple have an undeniably fine amount of chemistry, enough to send me butterflies. That sizzling and passionate kissing scene from the second couple was hot and commendable. On the other hand, the development of the main couple from being innocent to slowly getting intimate was good too. Aside from visuals, I’m glad that all of the cast in this drama can perform a natural way of acting.

However, the last few episodes are when I started to feel bored, which explains the downfall of the show for me. After they became boyfriends & girlfriends, the fun was lessened and the flow of scenes weren’t consistently good. It feels like their love story is being overromanticized in a bad way. The cliches of various sequences of romantic ideas aren’t that strong to curve a smile on my face. Till the end, I lost the passionate interest while watching the episodes. Too sad that it came to this but still A Business Proposal was a rom-com drama that is worthy of your time to binge-watch.

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Uma delícia de assistir

Amei! O drama é leve, fluido, divertido e sem muita enrolação. Amei do início ao fim, aquele clichê maravilhoso, pena que foram apenas 12 episódios, pois tinha capacidade e história pra mais. Todos os personagens são ótimos e carismáticos, os casais são encantadores e com uma química incrível. Cada vez que acabava um episódio eu queria mais. Caí no erro de não esperar sair tudo, então toda semana a ansiedade me consumia.
Minhas única ressalva foi que achei que o fim foi um pouco corrido, tanto que o desfecho dos casais ficou parecendo que faltaram coisas ali, foi muito jogado, senti falta de um casamento no final pra fazer o clichê completo.

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