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Title : You are such a handsome man
Starring :
- Park Shin Hye as Ko Miyeo the fake idol singer / Ko Minam the idol singer whose plastic surgery has gone wrong.
- Jang Geun Suk as Hwang Tae Kyung as the angry faced idol singer.
Synopsis : An accident-prone clumsy catholic nun doubles as an idol singer for her twin brother whose plastic surgery has gone wrong, to keep his dreams alive of being an idol singer in once in a life time chance.
Review : Wow, this is a Hong sisters drama, so the quality is guaranteed, right? WRONG!!! Infallible Hong sisters, after successes of hits like My Girl, Sassy Girl Choonhyang, The Fantasy Couple, and Hong Guil Dong, have their first flop in their hand, and this is it!!!! Basically, this show is a rip-off of Oran Host Club and Coffee Prince No. 1, the difference being that the girl being a male idol singer instead of a host due to circumstances, with a passing resemblance to Boys Over Flower because men in this show are idol singers who look good and are rich.
So why does it fail? Because it is not funny!!! All of Hong sisters' prior dramas were funny to a varying degree, not so with this one. They are outrageous as usual, but just not funny as before. And the story is draggy which is unusual for Hong sisters. And two leads, Park Shin Hye(The Stairway to Heaven and Heaven's Tree) and Jang Geun Suk(Beethoven Virus) are definite miscasts. Park Shin Hye's performance in tragic shows is proven, but it's not funny when she's trying her first comic role. It was fortunate that Park Shin Hye didn't win the role of Tsukushi in Boys Over Flower(She was one of two finalists until she lost out to Koo Hye Sun, an older but much more skilled actress), because Boys Over Flowers would have turned into a disaster if it was Park playing Tsukushi. Jang Geun Suk's a miscast because he doesn't fit the image of character he's playing. He's playing the character of a stereotypical pretty-boy idol singer, but he doesn't look good in the idol singer make-up and looks more like Japan's Visual Rock rocker. So this show takes little bits from other shows and mixes them, but the resulting product is rather disappointing and not funny, at least by Hong sisters standard.
Well, you can't always have hits, right?