#3 You're Beautiful (K)

Well, this is a bit interesting because I literally changed my mind about third place yesterday. My initial third place winner was bumped down to fourth by this show and there's really one reason for it. Whenever I watch asian drama, I'm always alone. This is because no one else I know has any interest whatsoever in other-language television in general, let alone crazy romantic-comedies (fair enough). However, I recently forced one of my friends to watch an episode of the drama You're Beautiful with me as I thought it was the drama she would most relate to.

Strangely enough, watching the drama with someone else makes it almost double as hilarious. It helped as well that I just came off watching the first few episodes which are definately the best ones. But anyway, that explains the abrupt rank change and my change of writing...

So now to talk about the actual drama itself.

You're beautiful is the usual cross-dressing story (that makes it the top 3 =) where nun in training Go Min Nye (or Gemma) pretends to be her brother Go Min Nam so that he can join top rock band A.N.JELL. She meets band members Tae-Kyung, the control-freak lead singer, Shin Woo, the charming bassist and Jeremy, the adorable drummer.

The first time I saw this show I was put off by the fact that Tae Kyung looked like an asian Severus Snape that I couldn't pay attention to anything else. Once I got used to it I was happy to instead watching Jeremy and Shin Woo instead, but as the series progresses they naturally lose screen time as Tae Kyung's romance with Go Min Nam/Nye progresses.

And right there is the week point. The drama begins filled with joyous comedy, helped along with a delightfully slap-sticky turn by Go Mi Nam's manager and A.N.JELL manager who enjoys attempting to speak English at random times. Combined with the cuteness of Go Min Nam and the sexiness of Jeremy, and Shin Woo's 'get in my pants' looks, everyone is happy.

Even Tae-Kyung's character works nicely into the mix. This drama falls down when, like most dramas, it attempts angst. The story and character connection isn't deep enough for anyone at all to care about everyone's relationship troubles. The only person I ever felt sorry for was Jeremy and that's because no one should ever hurt Jeremy.

Okay, I might be a bit Jeremy biased.

Just a bit.

But overall, it's got some great moments, such as the immaginary fan fiction sequence in which Jeremy confesses his feelings to Tae Kyung and Shin Woo overhears and says he will destroy them whilst in a jealous rage. Similar moments occur throughout the series, but the angst dappens the mood a bit. As does the constant playing of the song "promise" by A.N.JELL - seriously, enough is enough.

Irritatingly, the villains of the peice are annoying but not really to the point where they become hateable. Although, of the dramas I've reviewed so far, this is the first to actually have at least one clear cut villain, which is interesting. (If you are a villain fan, stick around for #5)

All I can say is that this is worth watching for the cuteness of all the leads, plus a generally interesting plot, and the amazing adorableness that is Jeremy.