Doctors (2016)

It's so frustrating because this drama had so much potential to become an all time favorite.

Let's to the good parts first


Acting/Cast
Whenever you see Park Shin Hye's name in a drama, you know emotions will run wild and it did. She was brilliant, and made viewers love her badass with a brain character because it was so believable. Kim Rae Won was fantastic; I actually thought multiple times if he is a real doctor because all his habits and mannerisms in the show looked like a real doctor's. The supporting cast was also one for the books, they all portrayed different doctors with different personalities but they still made us feel some sense of realism.

Music
OST was excellent. Each scene was packed with the right tune to sooth our ears and hearts.

Rewatch value
Contrary to many, I do believe the drama is rewatchable if you can get over the really really really weak........ (see bad)


The BAD
STORY
The show actually started really well. Showing us a bitchy Park Shin Hye who was nothing but trouble being turned good by her grandmother. It also introduced to us Lee Sung Kyung (the real bitch) and Kim Rae Won as a music-loving should-be-doctor. However, after the solid start, the drama went sideways from there. The main conflict of the show, Park Shin Hye coming to a prestigious hospital just so she could prove that her grandmother was wrongfully killed in an operation can literally be covered in 2-3 episodes. Instead, the director streched it out up to episode 19. Until now, I feel really disappointed that such a great cast was ruined with a really uneventful plot with a really stupid conflict.

My advice, if you have yet to see this show and want to see the quality of this show, watch episodes 1-6. After that, you can straight up jump to episode 20. Trust me, you'd be missing nothing and you'll only remember the good parts. Win-win situation

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This show motivates to-- Get off your bed--and kick some a**!

I love this drama.

It is kind of oldish and the story has some cringy moments but the core, that the bad girl goes to become neurosurgeon is there.

This backbone is so inspiring.

How the Hye-jung was not stubborn and convinced in her teenage delusion but when she saw better opportunity for her life she took it and embraced it.

What a character. Persistent and loyal. Knows how to fight, is the most promising female neurosurgeon and gets the cocky doctor/teacher as a partner. Decade long friendship with a quirky friend who is her total opposite. Wow. My cozy drama for sure. Rewatched 3x. It is easy to digest.

Now to think about him. They had solid chemistry and his character had a playful writing. But meh I feel some other actor would have been fine in this role. Also teacher-student relationship was not a thing despite audience having a feeling that they are into each other in high school. Tad bit strange cos he really looks older than her. The main actress was the heart and soul of this drama. The antagonist, actress Biblee, phenomenal as usual.

Story is nice, sometimes cringe but always ultimately uplifting. I loved how honestly the main lead fell in love with medicine and how she repurposed her strength and anger with her upbringing.

If you like medical tv shows, after Hospital Playlist go for this one.

Funny, badass and sometimes even meaningful. But uplifting. Always uplifting.

Thanks for reading.

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Review:Doctors (2016)

I like Park Shin Hye/Dr. Yoo Hye Jung in here she is so good at fighting and its just the first episode. I have never even seen her in a role like this before. So exciting and fun. Lots of actors in here that I have seen before so it must be good.

She has a lovely Nana Kim Young Ae/Kang Mal Soon [Hye Jung's grandmother] (ep.1-3)who loves her.

Park Shin Hye/Dr. Yoo Hye Jung has got the street smarts and her friend Lee Sung Kyung/Dr. Jin Seo Woo has got the brain who going to help her study. Their other friend is fun and friendly Moon Ji In/Chun Soon Hee [Hye Jung's best friend] but not as brainy as the other two. Chun Soon Hee becomes her friend for life.

Isn’t it sad when sometimes its only our grandma that loves us. All my growing up years my grandma was already old but she loved me the most. She carried me for miles on her back. She taught me how to ride a horse. I slept with her all the time and she just loved me. I miss her. She wasn’t beautiful but for me she had a heart of gold. Everything she did was for me. When she was 70 she was still riding her horse then she got bone cancer and died when she was 80.

She saved the first Lee Sung Kyung/Dr. Jin Seo Woo girls life but she caused her problems because of her jealousy. This would continue in their adulthood but Dr. Yoo Hye Jung had only gratefulness in her heart for Dr. Jin Seo Woo because she taught her how to study.

Park Shin Hye/Dr. Yoo Hye Jung a most remarkable, tallented and intelligent woman that started as a street fighting hooligan into an extraordinary neuro surgeon. Without help from others she worked her way up the hierarchy of doctors through sheer determination and guts. It was her experiences as a teenagers that transformed her from that hot tempered child to the caring, compassionate doctor. First her learning experiences with Kim Rae Won/Prof. Hong Ji Hong a clever, warm hearted and sympathetic teacher and the death of her kind and indulgent grandmother, Kim Young Ae/Kang Mal Soon [Hye Jung's grandmother] (ep.1-3, they were the ones that impelled her to change her life.

She was never close to her dad Jung Hae Kyun/Yoo Min Ho [Hye Jung's father] whom she blamed for the death of her mother. As a teenager he was cold and uncaring towards her so he reaped her anger, aloofness and indifference when she was an adult. She never wanted to be or tried to be close to him. This hurt him as he didn’t understand want he had done to her as a child. Reminds me of me and my youngest daughter. We are not close. She believes that I hurt her emotions as a child.

My recommendation for this drama, I enjoyed her lifestory and her growing love for the man who fell in love with her when she was so young. She was in his heart the moment she came into his life. He tried to run away from it but fate brought them back together 13 years later.

The filming and cinematology are outstanding, beautiful night shots of the city. The kissing scenes are delightful and the filming of them clear and well positioned. I love the scenes of them dancing in the rain, walking in the park and bike riding.

Outstanding acting from the actors and those two little sick boys(Go Woo Rim/Nam Hae [Ba Ram's son](Ep.13-14)and Jeon Jin Seo/Nam Dal [Ba Ram's son](Ep.13-14) stole my heart, so cute and talented.

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I like the actor Park Shin-hye, and her character Yoo Hye-jung did give me a little bit of Cinderella vibes, but like a proper badass one! - Like just wasn't afraid of anything but yet didn't have the best of family backgrounds! I do think Park Shin-hye is super pretty actor though! -

I mean I did enjoy it, but I feel like I don't really like the character, Hong Ji-hong, I think they didn't really look that good together. I think the story is okay, but I don't like the falling in love with your professor kind of thing! I think it's not really my type of story and it did feel a little weird!

But it was a good like badass women kinda show though! Especially the fight bit at the start!

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Wonderful show to watch.

I really liked this show. I'm not one to tear up but this one got me a few times. Very good actors that bounded well and they made their characters believable. I had a really hard time pulling myself away from my computer because I just had to watch the next episode. That is rare that a drama can do that to me. I love dramas like this to where the script and story are done so well that they did not have to use gimmicks or filler stories to take up time. What I mean by that is that the drama had a good story line throughout the whole show that they had to skimp with lousy side stories that would not make sense and was there just to take up time. The show flowed from one episode to the next episode flawlessly. The characters were well defined from the beginning to the ending. If you do not have a lot of time to watch dramas this is one that your time would be well spent on. I'm wondering if they have any thoughts on doing more episodes for this drama. If they did I would definitely watch it.

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Promising series but it fizzled out and left you wanted more in an unfulfilling way

Doctors is a decent drama with an interesting premise, character ideas and a surprisingly interesting back cast. However, all are either left unfulfilled or under used. The show is really good and delivers on the overall plot until ep 12/13. The drama starts off showing our characters during their last months at school where our main lead, Hye Jung, was a delinquent and how she met Prof Hong and it changed her life. That was a really strong first main arc of the show with all the characters having strong aims and goals. But I can't help but feel that all of that work came off very weak once we were in the present day where everyone in at the hospital. That's disapointing. Hye Jung wasn't as mentally strong as she was as a child as she just seemed normal and, honestly, generic albeit likeable nonetheless. But her plotlines just totally fizzled out at the end and I just lost my investement in the whole plot. Hong was a cool character, was determined and smart - perfectly fine except the second lead was much more interesting. I'm not saying that I have second lead syndrome because I don't really thing Hye Jung and Yoon Do was a better pair (the main leads are right for each other, for sure) but Yoon Do was much more interesting in his motivations, actions, etc. He is on the losing end of a love triangle that he was never going to win but he's not angry or bitter. He takes it in his stride and contiues to function. That's what I feel the story should've focused on more. His scenes were the highlight of the show. In fact, Yoon Do's scenes with his Dr Jo In Joo and Prof Pa Ran were a joy to watch. Their chemistry together would've made for a better series on its own, imo. The side characters had interesting arcs and they were too something that make the series worthwhile but it's all limited as well and just squandered potential. I've seen other reviews that say that Doctors would be best as a long running sitcom and I throughlly agree with that statement. You'd get more chance to flesh out some of these interesting ideas and characters such as Dr Choi's brain tumor, Dr Kang's relationship with his subordinates.

It's acting perfecty fine but the lack of compelling overall plot, the not fully fleshed out side plots and focus on the lesser compelling characters means this is just an good series. It could've been great and it was for large parts but I was left underwhelmed towards the end.

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Why I watched it: Though somewhat overrated, Park Shin Hye was in it.

Was it worth it: I’d say yes.

What I liked the most: The bad guys weren’t overly evil and all characters were reasonable to a fault.

What I disliked the most: The trait that made the main character cool was gone by the middle of the drama.

Moment Meter: 4/10 – I seem to recall a few heart pumpers.

Other thoughts: For the first quarter of the show I was in denial about who the male lead was, probably due to the huge age gap. I liked that the main female was a scrapper (tough), and that the female antagonist wasn’t overly evil. I’m always pleased to spot Kim Min Suk in a drama and hope to see him in more. Park Shin Hye looked sickly in the beginning, but rounded out later on. The individual medical cases were interesting. The story was told well enough to get you to invest feels in the characters. It’s not an instant classic, but it was pretty entertaining nonetheless.

Conclusion: It was consistently entertaining, but shows with “cases” (like medical or detective shows) are naturally more engaging because of the micro stories that are built in.

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I think it's somewhat collective opinion that the drama lost its way somewhere (imo after 10 or 12 episodes). What started out as refreshingly melodramatic and promising became a pointless drag later on.

Don't get me wrong everything is great about the drama- the cast, its characters and the introduction. The only thing it did not have was a plot. Actually it did. The sad thing was that the writer tried to fit an excellent 10-episode plot into 20 episodes. That ends up making it 10 episodes of absolute filler and no sense of purpose or direction. It's a shame because it could have been a great drama but resulted in being boring and skippable.

I started this drama knowing about the age gap but I ended up wanting an awesome sunbae-hoobae relationship instead. To me the lead pair weren't very shippable and most of their romantic scenes were cringe. I also found them unbelievable because their back story isn't as strong as it is usually in Kdramas.

To me the second leads were a complete waste. Yoon Gyun Sang and Lee Sung Kyung are both devastatingly attractive people and decent actors who deserved more than they got. Park Shin Hye was at her best in this role. I do not think she is capable of acting better than she did here. Kim Rae Won always leaves something to desire and I am yet to see him in something that impresses me.

There is a chance this drama may end up appealing to some people- fans of the cast, fans of medical dramas or fans of dramas that have lesser makjang than usual. The first four episodes were a lot of makjang but later on it was more of an everyday hospital setup than a revenge drama, which it set out to be initially.

This drama has one of the most forgettable soundtracks I have seen listened to. There is not a single memorable track from this.

To me this is one of the tens of other forgettable dramas I've watched. However give it a chance if you are looking for something where things are not too serious and characters are kidding around. Get through the first few tearjerking episodes and you are in for a mostly light ride with a number of likable characters. Not to mention attractive people. :D

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Characters/Actors:

Main Characters- The main characters seemed to be more of flat characters, which means they do not really change through out the story, instead of a round character, a person who does change through out the story; and what I mean by all this, after a certain point in the story the main characters stopped growing, learning new things about themselves and others.

Some of the actors/actresses suited their roles well and others did not, but they all did a fantastic job.

Supporting Roles- The supporting roles showed more of a change than the main leads. I enjoyed their back story more.

It seemed all of the actors/actress suited their role they were giving.

Overall- I would give this category a 9.0 I did get really emotionally attached to each character.

Story line:

The story line became rather boring and predictable after a while. The romance was almost non-existent, but the overall comedy filled in for that.

Overall- I would give this section a 6.5, the story became predictable. I did enjoy watching the medical aspect of the story

Music:

The music fit perfectly for each scene, it gave the scenes more of an intense feeling.

Overall- I would give this section 8.5, there is nothing much to complain about this section.

Would I re-watch this? Probably not, because it seemed more like a one time watch. Would I recommend this to other people? Yes, because it did keep me binging it for three days.

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Watch for the Cute Leads

I’m not a fan of medical dramas but I gave this a shot because I like both the male and female leads. PSH is such a beauty. She’s lovely to watch on screen. KRW is really manly and handsome. He’s lovely to watch on screen too.

Watch because:
- beautiful leads
- overall, good-looking cast
- plot is generally interesting throughout
- plot is generally well-linked
- plot is generally fast-paced
- chemistry between the two leads is sizzling - I love watching them being lovey-dovey on screen
- kissing scenes on fire between the two leads
- love triangles that aren’t full of angst

Worth watching for sure.
Rewatch value is pretty high!
Enjoy!

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