[Drama Review] Missing You (보고싶다)

MBC's Missing You  (보고싶다)
Park Yoo Chun, Yoon Eun Hye, Yoo Seung Ho

After being on hiatus from dramas for a few months, Missing You debuts as my first since BIG. And I have to say...

I AM DISAPPOINT.

Just goes to show, just cause you have an all-star cast doesn't mean an impeccably written plot. To be honest, I wanted to watch this drama because of Yoo Chun and a friend's suggestion finally pushed me to watch it. But it totally bombed and I got so disappointed and ugh, I just wanted to throw something.

Missing You was labeled as a Melodrama...

Melodrama - a dramatic work with an exaggerated plot and characters to appeal to emotions.
c/o Wikipedia.org

I wasn't appealed.

And that's just the problem, the writers tried to appeal too much to their audience that it was bordering on desperate. Most throughout the show I was scoffing at how easy it was for everyone to cry.

Sees person. Cry.

Sees person with another person. Cry.

Discovers person saw her with other person. Cry.

Kneel. Cry.

Stand. Cry.

Eat. Cry.

Cry. Cry.

There was just too much crying! And I could feel that the writers desperately wanted my tears. The ONLY scene where I did cry was when Detective Kim found out that there was a high probability that Lee Su Yeon (Kim So Hyun, young Eun Hye) was kidnapped by a previously convicted sexual assaulter and he said...

"Eun Joo-ya, can I go crazy? I won't go crazy as a detective, but as a father. So can I?"

A parent's love. Right in the feels.

But the rest of the show? Meh. Here's my summary of how the show went, from episode 1 - 21.

The last 3 screencaps are from episode 21.

And yeah, that's just about it.

Only the first 5 episodes appealed to me. The story of when they were children was probably the most heart-wrenching part (though not that much wrenching). As much as it pains me to say it, Kim So Hyun (Young Eun Hye) and Yeo Jin Goo (Young Yoo Chun) had a more believable chemistry than Eun Hye and Yoo Chun. Gah.

Though I loved Seung Ho acting like a mad man, great acting there buddy. The rest of the acting was done well too, but the plot didn't do them any justice if they only wanted to see how much tears one could shed in 21 episodes.

Mama rates this (4/10)!

Smells like: 20 crates of Eye-mo.