K-POP - The Ultimate Audition

A series full of annoying clichés where you run into the person you’re just thinking of on the street and where your conversation is overheard by exactly the person who shouldn't be hearing it. Of course, you have to completely overlook the fact that the main character, who everyone is buying that she's a boy, doesn't look like a boy at all. The makeup artists, whose black eye wouldn't be believed by a three-year-old, didn't do a great job either. Despite these flaws (and many others), I found myself enjoying this dorama. The cast is decent, the music very nice in places, and the atmosphere upbeat. 2.5 stars. (03.07.2012)

It started out interesting; not a very original concept, but at least this girl wasn't a nun (remember You're Beautiful) and wasn't constantly agape at all the things she was encountering in the world of "boys". The music is typical K-pop (oh, right, the name...), but also nothing miraculous. It was cute (at times the couple's interactions were awesome), sometimes insane and overwrought, laughable, confusing. It was flagging a bit towards the end, but it still somehow held on to 3 stars. So why did I only give it 2 stars? The abrupt ending. I don't know what happened, but they cut the series by 2 episodes, so it just ends as stupidly as it possibly could. I would have been happy for that length, but it would have to wrap up all the problems it introduced, so it just sucks. And what a disappointment. Add to that how I wasn't always entertained... and that I was bored and rolling my eyes by the end. A weaker 2 stars. The heroine may have done a decent job of pretending to be a boy by the standards of a Korean series, but those boobs... no one could have missed that. Boing. And the shower scenes have leveled up, I must admit – not just one guy anymore, but now 7. What show can top that? :-P (03.05.2012)