DNA Lover (2024)

Getting more interesting

Only on episode 2. Watching this because of Siwon. His character’s always have an element of humor to them. He plays those characters well. well and he is good looking too.😉 Like others have said the first episode dragged a bit. The second episode was better. FL seems ok. Not sure I would have picked her for this role but too early to tell. Appears there will be other story lines entwined besides the ML/FL story. Finding that newer dramas are putting different spins into their storylines. Let’s wait and see.

update: Episode 6-more to the story line comes in to play. I am giving it a chance.

update-getting more interesting. I think it started off slow. Not sure I care for the ML and FL lead together.

Leia Mais

Not my cup of tea

First 2-3 episodes were quite promising. A love based on DNA compatibility. But then the writers introduced telepathy between partners!!! Give me a break. Good thing that they didn't introduced teleportation, just so you can go where your loved one is.
Then there are way toooo many side characters. And of course we had to have a killer, cause 4 couples were not enough. Some relations were interesting (doctor-firefighter) but most were boring and annoying.
The series is too long (8 ep max would have been enough) and by the time I got to the ending I was pretty bored (and I dropped this series for a couple of weeks).
A good ending would have made it more bearable but the ending is an open ending, hinting that the ML will lose his eyesight or they will break up. And the SFL... she is something new at he end of the series, not mono, not polyamorous, something only she knows what she is. And the SML is with her, smiling like and idiot, God knows why, cause I really don't.
The main story had potential but it quickly faded away.

Leia Mais

This drama was good in beginning but sadly.
So we can say that the search of FL in DNA to find love is not necessarily wrong but it depends on the person.
Too many episodes wasted dragged on love triangles. But i really liked SML, he was caring and good with FL and no obsessed.
SFL has changed a little aronde the ending.
So SFL says she is no longer polyamory but that does not also mean that she has become monogamous but that she is in the process of looking for what she wants, and next to it there is SML who smiles at her like a stupid lol.
The end of the ML and FL is a happy ending but I have the impression that we had a glimpse of the possibility that the ML will have vision problems in the near future.

Leia Mais

A Bit Disappointing

I really wanted to like this series, but I am left a little flat. The FL's character is annoying. She's a well-educated researcher in her 30's and incredibly immature. I just cannot see how the ML, a well-educated, worldly man, could find anything endearing about her. I understand that aegyo is a cultural style in Korea, but it's annoying. Especially in anyone over the age of 30.

The story did not need to be carried over 16 episodes. I could have been wrapped up in 8. Siwon did a great job with his character and was probably the most developed of all of them. The rest all fall a little flat.

Honestly, it's a shame that given the level of talent in this series I cannot give it a better rating. Watch if you have nothing better to do.

Leia Mais

wasted potential

Pretty... the hairdo alone is the same. but the general silliness of the characters are the same.

As a writer, i like and understand flawed characters... so i get and understand how both of the leads act the way they do to their shitty childhoods. i juat wish we could acknowlwdged how the rest of their life (careers, school, friends) can also inform on their personalities.

it was still fun. just not great and not somethjng i will come back to for a second viewing.

also, slight spoiler here....




she finds put she ran the wrong DNA and it breaks up the main couple for half the show... BUT we never try to run Siwons DNA properly. she just automatically thinksnshes incompatible with him because she is compatoble with the wrong person she did run. WTF?

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Interesting premise. Lots of unlikable side character though.

8.5/10 is my rating. This is a 2024 South Korean romantic comedy drama with 16, 62-74 minute episodes.

First I provide a Unique synopsis then review

Synopsis

Han So-jin (Jung In-sun) is unlucky in love. Multiple ex boyfriends cheated on her during their relationship. As a genetic research scientist, she normally anlalyzes her partners for a whole range of genetic propensities and has even narrowed down a cheater gene. She has tried romance the traditional way only to be disappointed when they once again cheat. Now she is determined to use her genetic knowledge to pick her perfect other half. Shim Yeon-woo (Choi Si-won) loves women. He is a skilled obstetrician and gynecologist who goes above and beyond to ensure the best health outcome for his patients. Which is why part of his standard practice is to run genetic tests to identify genetics concerns in advance. The primary genetists working with his hospital is So-jin the same woman who drunkenly attacked him for dumping a female associate. Yeon-woo is handsome and wealthy and has his pick of female companions. But he has never felt any connection with any of them. So-jin is not at all Yeon-woo’s type but, on a cellular level they seem to have a connection. Despite trying to stay awy from the DNA obsessed science nerd, So-jin, Yeon-woo finds they are connected socially as well. Seo Kang-hoon (Lee Tae-jwan) has been So-jin’s friend and protector for many years and also happens to be friends with Yeon-woo. So they are connected through work as well as in their social circles. When So-jin finds out Yeon-woo has multiple copies of the cheater gene will that be the end of their groing interest in each other? Seo Kang-soon realizes he has feelings for the woman he thought of only as his noona/friend when Yeon-woo gets close to So-jin. Is Kang-soon, who has always been there for her, her perfect match?

Review

I liked so much about this series It had an interesting premise, a great cast and a nice blend of comedy, romance and suspense. I have liked so many things Siwon has been in and the type of character(s) he tends to play that noticing him in any series is an immediate lure for me. I enjoyed this the whole way through despite what I felt were sme problems with how certain things were written. I may watch it again if someone else was watching it and I recommend it to to anyone that likes the actors, is a fan of romance, or finds the premise interesting. it is definitely worth the watch

Spoilers

This ends happy in that Sojin and Yeon woo reunite and it seems they are going to be back together as a couple. So if the desired outcome was for those two to be together, then it is a happy ending. I thought it was a bit uncertain in that he was working as a small town doctor and she was still working as a geneticist in the city. So it wasn’t clear how they would resolve working in two different places. He did finally say he loved Sojin.

Part of the issue I had with Yeon woo the entire time is I thought he was selfish and it really bothered me that he deceived her with pretending to be her DNA lover and trying to trick her with her telepathy. She had such a strong belief in those things that him ridiculing made him seem less geniune and serious with her. Plus he told Jang Mi-eun (Jeong Eu-Gene) the truth about the DNA mix up which gave Mi-eun ammunition against Sojin as a romantic rival. People do not change a lot. At least not their core personality. So, I never felt like Yeon woo would be right for Sojin because he was so emotionally damaged himself that he was stingy with affection. But, women in reality make the same flawed choice and are, for some reason, drawn to the broken ones.

Sojin’s family was just horrible Yoo Myung-hee (Seo Ji-young), her mother said the most unforgivable thing about her innocent child. She deplored carrying her and equated her with a demon or something like that. When the father was alive she seemed to treat her okay but after Sojin’s father died any warmth she had shown her daughter went with him. She said the most horrible things about Sojin to some random woman she decided to claim as a daughter, Jang Mi-eun, and I disliked Mi-eun for listening to all that and encouraging the mother. You would have to be a little bit of an abuser yourself to listen to al that emotionally abusive language from a mother about her own child and being okay taking that abused daughter’s place in her mother’s cold heart. I didn’t care later whe she had cancer and Sojin had been nearly murderd that she acted like she wanted a relationship. She was just a horrible person. The sister was no better. She said horrible things about her sister to others.

Seo Kang- hoon was the perfect man for basically anybody. He freely gave his time and affection to Sojin and was always there for her. I often get second lead syndrome, like everyone else, but in this case he was so perfect for her it was hard to accept her choice of Yeon woo. Even more disappointing was it seemed he had a relationship going with Mi-eun who I did not like for multiple reasons.

What is it with some of the recent dramas and having a character who is “polyamorous”? I have seen it in several series lately. It made me wonder if this was something that was becoming widespread in South Korea and everything I read indicates it is not. South Korean’s do not approve of polyamory at any higher level of acceptence than do Americans. Which was a relief to me because one of the reasons I prefer South Korean shows over USA series and others is the more moral and wholesome content. I did not like Mi-eun for any of the male characters because she proclaimed she was polyamorous. I detest that notion. It is like saying I am going to tie up someone’s hear but want the option to cheat if I feel like it. There must have been some recognition of this because one of Mi-eun’s boyfriends broke it off with her when she was openly flirting at a dinner with Yeon-woo. It is just wrong think in my opion that results in a lot of people being emotionally hurt. I hope they quit with the putting polyamorous characters in dramas because it detracts from the story.

#DNALover. #JungInSun #ChoiSiWon #LeeTaeJwan #SeoJiYoung

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