The Girl Who Sees Scents (2015)

You don't know the outcome

Enjoyable to watch in my opinion. Congratulations on the crew who were involved in making the series. The interaction between Park You-Chem and Shin Se Kyung was superb. The support actors were great. The comical scenes had me in stitches laughing. It was suspenseful, but at times a little far fetched in places, e'g stakeouts. A light hearted murder mystery. The title through me, but once I got into the series I warmed to it. It was a series of a different nature, unbelievable it may be, but it was different. It was nice to see a happy ending, as most endings end in tragedy. Good entertainment for me. Left me thinking at the end that there maybe a sequel up and coming. Looking forward to it if there is.

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So unrealistic like they didn't even try

Okay, I get that it's a fiction story. However, there are a couple of things that I cannot "let go" just because it's fiction:

1. Synesthesia doesn't work like this. Yes, the person with synesthesia might see scents, but not purely see without feeling the smell. The basics of how synesthesia works: when some part of brain senses the trigger, it activates not only related, but one more part. Meaning that you can hear and see, smell and hear, etc. What you cannot do is see the smell without hearing it - like when you are standing behind the glass or with nose closed. If that would be possible, MC would be able to see smells by photo. That's just so absurd that it pisses the hell out of me. Also, just why should eye be different, and ability working on one eye only? It's a brain condition, not eye.

2. Cliché: people with rare disorders. These people do exist, and it's totally ok to have them in a series, however, the point is that such disorders are actually RARE. And 3 people with rare disorders, caused by trauma (synesthesia, having no senses, and face blindness) meeting together is either laboratory or a beginning of the joke. Or they had some "club" and decided to meet. It's close to impossible for them all to be connected like this.

3. Very, very prolonged series. You already showed that main characters are getting married - why do you need details of that additional investigation to make them decide they want to work in that field? Just leaving that dinner scene (where "Oh this is from X whom I helped, this is from Y whom I helped" could have ended up a nice conversation about "You know, I wish to continue working on cases". Why do we need a full episode - no idea.

4. Police not able to work without a person with superpowers. For real, that last scene, where cops are desperate with amount of cases where people need help - just how they were working all this time? How were they solving crimes without MC?

5. Cliché 2 (and this one is super butthurting): you found out that something in your past affected your spouse in a bad way, and they don't know about it. You feel guilty. What to do? Of course, break up without telling the real reason, just "I stopped loving you". No, that's not how it works! You talk and express your feelings. This cliché is just too much.

6. Keeping secrets: at the beginning I was really happy that no matter what characters find out, they share it with the team, and we go further with the investigation. But at some point they just stopped, and started keeping secrets - while revealing the trooth could have helped solve the cases faster.

7. Young MC. I really like Shin Se Kyung's acting and so on, but why does she always play the younger version of herself as well? I mean, she is beautiful, but in any way doesn't look like a high schooler. She and Kim So Hyun are supposed to be ~ the same age in flashbacks - but I'd be damned if you can look at them and honestly say that they look like the same age. The person in 30, no matter how young they look, should not play a high schooler.

8. Corpses. They didn't even try to apply some basic "corpse" make-up for actors. One thing is a person who was in a car for a day or two - being with a normal, even a bit tanned skin - but the person who was in the river for a couple of days, and dead a day before that - looking like a sleeping person is just too much. They didn't even try making them look dead. Check A Korean Odyssey - there make-up is top-class in this matter. Here you can't tell alive and dead person apart.

I'm sure there were much more things that made me upset in this series, but I'll stop here.

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This is the first Korean Drama I've watched since I don't know when :D

Korean is not really my cup of tea, so I didn’t watch it much. But, thriller is my cup of tea genre, so when one of my friend recommend this k-drama to me, I’m willing to watch it. I watched this on 2016, BTW :D

The plot is beyond my imagination, which I like it because it’s anti-mainstream. I love when the movie / drama contains any psychological issues and this drama provides a lot of it. Not only that, this drama have a twist plot which makes it even more better for my taste ^_~

Now for the casts. I enjoyed the interaction between the hero and the heroine. At the first I didn’t feel so much chemistry between them, but as time goes by their chemistry built and I feel pleased with that ^_^

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Un début de série assez chaud... pour poser l'intrigue qui est assez intéressante. Ce drama que l'on peu classer dans la section Policier, l'est aussi en parallèle dans la section Romance compliquée ...
Les acteurs jouent vraiment bien et le "méchant" (je vais pas spoiler pour ceux qui ont pas encore regardés) est vraiment effrayant jusqu'au bout ... sa personnalité fait meme un peu pitié je dirais sur la fin mais bon c'est l'histoire; lol.
En même temps c'est quand meme un tueur en série hein ... L'actrice joue tres bien, et le concepte des odeurs transformées en micro objets colorés est vraiment intéressant et novateur.

Pour l'histoire d'amour, les deux protagoniste forment un joli couple... un peu décallé. Elle avec son odorat hors du commun et lui avec sa perte des sens. Après avoir terminé cette série je passe d'une note initiale de 8 (en cours de visionnage) à un 9. Une série qui m'a au final beaucoup plu avec une fin comme je les aime ....
Une série en somme assez simple mais bien dévellopé. Si vous aimez les énigmes à résoudre foncez, ce drama est écrit pour vous.

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Right blend of RomCom, suspense/crime/mystery to make a very entertaining story

Right blend of RomCom, suspense/crime/mystery to make a very entertaining story.

Being connected by a tragic past is nothing new with this type of genre but it's still very refreshing, not having a jilted best friend turned evil. It has a straight forward love story, from their tragic past to meeting again by accident, to being friends then turned to lovers.

What was weird was the mystery part. For televiewers, knows who's the main villain for most part of the story while the so called detectives goes round and round on finding the culprit.

I like the actors, I think they gave theirs characters justice. Even the ML and FL had a good on screen chemistry.

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Nam Gung Min. You will learn this actor's name by the end of the drama if you don't already know it. This drama was entertaining but 90% of this was due to Nam Gung Min and his incredible acting skills that made Kwon Jae Hee come to life. When he's on screen you can't take your eyes off him, and when he's off screen you're left wondering when you'll see him again. He's one of the types of villains that you love (not love-to-hate because I can't even remember a moment where I disliked him) and sometimes he's so darn cute acting-wise and looks-wise that you can't tell whether it's a good or bad thing to get kidnapped by him. Many times in the drama I thought people were trying to get kidnapped by him just for this reason. Trust me. I thought I was going crazy, but reading the comments of other people, I came to realize that I was not alone.

As a side note, I'll mention the other actors as well in case you're curious. An honorable mention should go out to Park Jin Joo for being an amazing side actress. Although I was never really bothered by it, many people have commented on Shin Se Kyung's emotionless face when she acts. Compared to her roles in HIgh Kick Through the Roof and Fashion King, Shin Se Kyung has improved quite a bit on this, and somewhat on her laugh. I've seen Yoo Chun in Sungkyunkwan and Rooftop Prince as a lead role but neither really like or detest him. He seems to always just be there but never gives a memorable performance, though I liked him some in variety shows. Unfortunately his comedy in this one sort of annoyed me and both the writing for his character and his acting when carrying the script out made me side with Kwon Jae Hee and dislike him even more. The romance in this drama was something like that of a side-couple in another drama. It's there, you watch it, but you're really waiting for the main character to get back on screen (Kwon Jae Hee). Another reason many seem to side with Kwon Jae Hee is that the writers made the detectives seem stupid. Many times they would just stand around and wait for someone who wasn't even a detective to do all the work while someone was dying. Yeom Mi was the only semi-intelligible one.

That being said, since I gave this drama a high rating, you can see how much Nam Gung Min carried the drama. I didn't plan to watch the whole thing in a couple of days because I thought it would be a weird drama from the title but this is one of the few dramas that you end up marathoning. Yes, some parts with Oh Cho Rim and Choi Moo Guk like the theatrical parts are odd, but the villain makes this drama well worth the watch.

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Good balance between romance and suspense

I really enjoyed this drama. The story is a big unique in terms of the special abilities/conditions. It has enough romance to satisfy romance-addict like myself while also keeping the non-romance crime suspense storyline. The pace was good, not too slow but not rushed either. It also has a couple of great reveal moments.

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My only complaint (and this is totally personally petty me) is that although Namkoong Min did a good job, I don't like seeing him as a bad guy just because I like him and tends to want to root for him.

Oh and this drama has one of the most unique, creative, and sweetest proposal ever.

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Story smells week with one of the worst kisses i have ever seen...

This is a story about a couple that is different from usual dramas, but not very developed. The beginning is promising, but it does not deliver.
We also have a villain that is very precise and intelligent as a psychopath normally is, but does some things in the end that are completely opposite from his character.

STORY - Choi Moo Gak lost his younger sister to a psycho and lost his ability to feel anything. He worked in a aquarium and now is a police officer.
Oh Cho Rim is a girl that, due to an accident, develop the ability to see smells, but lost all her memories. She is the only witness to the murder case that involve the psycho that killed Moo Gak’s sister, Known as the bar-code murder. The accident ocurr while she escaped the psycho who murder her parents.
They meet and they help each other. He becomes a police to find his sister’s murder and she became an actor in a small comic theatre company.
They start to have feelings for the other and they kissed… and, for me, another murder occur. The end of any romantic possibility between this couple. Even Wall-E, C3PO or BB-8 kiss better!!!!
The psychopath is interesting almost until the end. The plot is ok, but there is not much juice…
Her ability should been explored more …

ACTING – not bad, but there is romance between two robotic persons. I hope that they will find happiness in real life without the necessity of romantic gestures! The other cast is ok. The psycho and the police force is good.

MUSIC – maybe not bad, but not my kind of taste.

REWATCH – no, there are dozens of better dramas in this genre.

OVERALL – I was interested in the way the murders would or not be discover. There is some tension and unpredictability to support going through until the 15th episode. Cute scenes in the last episode, but too long, as well as all this drama.

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I don't even know how to describe this drama...

Okay, first of all, I am amazed at how they managed to make the power of the female lead (Oh Cho-Rim) look interesting and cool. Because who thought that seeing scents could help you solve a crime?

Now let's start on my real review. The story is so lame and corny; it is so 2015 (if that makes sense), like if I watched this drama around that year, maybe I'd find it good, but truthfully speaking, the plot is so awful. Half the time, I was cringing. Like, what do you mean that people think you're a monster just because your one eye is blue? It is not that deep, bruh. And the relationship between Choi Moo Gak (the male lead) and his sister is weird; they give me a "sibling or dating?" vibe. And let's be real: the character of Jung In Gi, which is Oh Jae Pyo, is really not necessary in this drama.

You might be wondering why I gave it a 6 out of 10 if I find this drama awful. Well, the plot is horrible, yes, but I did find the acting bearable. I always find some people criticizing the acting skills of Shin Sekyung, but honestly, I don't think she's a bad actress; it's just her character. And like I said, I find the female lead's power intriguing; that's why I still managed to finish this to see the end of this drama and how they will use her powers. And also, Namkoong Min did a good job being the villain, and Yoo Jin-seo slayed her character as an Ice Princess cop.

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