Sell Your Haunted House (2021)

BOO!

The cursed case-of-the-week format! I was more interested in the FL's mother case which is the main case that was developing in the background than whatever case the ML threw himself in. I really wish this was a one big coherent case to follow or at least have the side cases directly connected to the main one. What made matters worse was the poor dynamic between the leads, they just didn't bounce off each other well. There was a weird constant disconnect between them. Thank god they didn't add romance into the mix. The side characters were an embarrassment to label them as a supporting cast. They were just a white noise blended in the background, completely forgettable and faceless. One of the most important things about horror is to set up the atmosphere which this drama forgot to do most of the time. It was more like a flashy horror with some horror elements. This was probably my least favorite Jang Na Ra drama.

Leggi di Più

A fantasy drama done right

i’m not a big fan of ghost themed dramas but WOW this drama took my breath away! my initial thoughts upon starting this drama is there’d be scary ghosts and violent scenes but this drama put a unique twist on the supernatural genre: hong ji ah a mysterious, strong enigma who owns daebak real estate, a company that specially sells haunted houses. her abilities to exorcise ghosts were awesome ( the way she’d remove that hairpin from her hair made her look so cool ) but she always holds a mysterious aura that simply pulled you in to her character and made you wonder just what weight does she carry on her shoulders. i love the fact that the ghosts ji ah encountered all had a backstory and gave some depth and meaning to the plotline, which leads us to our other lead: oh in bum, a conman that ji ah encounters. and guess what: in bum specializes in exorcism fraud. what a coincidence.

this drama was packed with action and never was there a dull moment, and the acting especially blew my mind — jang na ra was simply out of this world! she wore a stoic expression but upon meeting her gaze you could see the deeply buried pain that would briefly resurface; when she cried your heart would constrict with her just as much as it would soar upon seeing her have a moment of happiness. jang na ra’s acting was flawless, she fit the role of hong ji ah so well i can’t imagine anyone else playing the role. another thing i loved about this drama was the characters and their portrayals. as ji ah and in bum slowly got to know each other you could see they had developed romantic feelings but nothing needed to be said: they had each other’s backs and i love the maturity they both had ( ex: when ji ah found out her mother’s death was connected to in bum’s uncle’s death and she lashed out at IB, she swallowed her pride and apologized to him, showing her maturity and that she truly cared for in bum ). they worked amazingly together as exorcist and psychic, especially their fight scenes! there was no actual romance but the drama was okay without it, the characters were still enjoyable.

the recurring antagonist, do kak sung, is one that certainly infuriated me with his horrid crimes and manipulative tendencies — the actor did will on his role as I found myself hating DKS more and more as the drama progressed. he played a large role in the deaths of many characters, IB’s uncle as well, and DKS is a prime example that when allowed, greed can poison a person’s heart and lead them to do despicable things; till the end our gang dealt with him and his evil, the ending showing DKS getting sealed away eternally — the villain getting defeated and the characters finally being able to move on well, a satisfying ending in my book. overall this drama was paced well, i found it difficult for me to say goodbye to this drama; i’ll miss the characters greatly, i enjoyed every episode thoroughly, a 16 hours well spent in my eyes. if you’re looking for a good supernatural / ghost themed plot with a steady storyline and no-filler episodes i 100% recommend this drama! congratulations to the actors + directors / producers that helped in creating a truly amazing drama and, in my opinion, one of the best 2021 dramas.

Leggi di Più

If you love Del Luna's Jang Man Wol, watch this!

PROS:
- A refreshing genre and plot (this drama was released in the season of thriller/crime dramas).
- Chic, gothic, savage, cool af lead female. I dare to say this is the real Del Luna's Jang Man Wol competitor. IOTNBO's Go Moon Young is crazy, but from the character consistency side, Sell Your Haunted House's Hong Ji Ah is far on the top of hers.
- Touching ending. I'm a male and I couldn't hold my tears watching how Hong Ji Ah's story ends.
- Horror-themed drama is not that common, but this drama bravely shows a beautiful story while maintaining its scary scenes. - The concept is unique (just like Hotel Del Luna's uniqueness, but the story is far different).
- Mesmerizing action scenes by female lead that we can rarely see in K-Drama.

Cons:
- Lack of comedy.
- The anti-climax is not that dramatic and too short.

Questionable Pros or Cons:
- Horror level: It's on the same level as Hotel Del Luna. Jumpscares are there, but only a little amount and intensity.
Not so horror. If you don't like scary stuff, this is one is for you. But if you a horror-drama lover you might find this drama not so satisfying.
- No romance: I personally love it when romance is not taking a big part in the drama. It focuses only on the mystery and horror plot. But, I think most people want to see the male and female lead end up in a romance world.

Leggi di Più

Multiple wrongs made right a. Great drama

What a great great Drama absolutely love these type of fun fantasy mysterious crime solving just like zombie detective(watch if you haven't) you didn't want them to end.
Between Jang na ra, Jung yong Hwa, kanh Hong suk and Kang Mal geum there acting was superb made you feel all there emotions happy, funny or sad. Then we have Ahn kil Kang who always aces as the bad guy with his facial emotions. I loved the storyline of an exorcist and a medium who start off on the wrong side. Oh in beom is running a ghost scam and convincing his customers to buy his equipment until he crosses path with Hong ji ah of Daebak reality who rids homes and businesses of real ghost then sell there place. Oh in beom was always told to keep his crystal necklace on no matter what by his uncle who they say killed 7 people in a fire then committed suicide. Now grown-up hes trying to find any information on the fire and what really happened 20 years ago as he remembers being at Daebak realty when he was younger. Once she realizes he's a medium which he didn't know she uses him to try and send off her vengeful mother who's by her side for 20yrs, but it doesn't work.. The story continues as more cases seems to be involving Do Hak sung construction company in his underhanded fight for power and money.
The story continues of them sending off all type of ghost. Until they meet the egg face(which is formed what multiple people die at the same time, samenplace etc.) Its very difficult to get rid of that how Jiah mom. Died. Watch the drama??????????????

Leggi di Più

Ghostbusters Kdrama Style

Likes:
1. Perfect combination of badass Jia and cool In Bum ? i didnt mind that they didnt end up together, coz Inbum might lose his psychic (special) abilities ☺ They are like Kdrama version of ghostbusters!
2. I really liked the episodic cases, though towards the middle the main story was losing steam. The tone of the drama also changed from fun to somber.
3. No matter how many times they show it, i cant get enough of Inbum whenever he is possessed by the spirits.
4. Jia's mom had a nice sendoff. I thought they were going to give her a fantastic goodbye but what we got was beautiful and perfect.
5. Loved the bromance between Jichul and Inbum. Even Jia lost to their i love yous ? i also liked Hwajeong and how she took care of Jia.
6. This drama had the oddest PPL (men's underwear lol).
7. Are they releasing the OST album? I hope so! I keep hearing "I Got you!"?? In my mind all day

Dislikes:
1. The exorcism of the egg ghost wasn't spectacular as I expected it to be.
2. Do Hak Sung was a boring villain.

Leggi di Più

Slow storyline

Slow storyline which does not elaborate much on anything else aside from exorcism related, which fits the title, no complains.
The story can bring out more each other's backstory instead. Maybe it is just me, but I felt it is up to the viewers to decide the relationship between each characters. Either the explanation was not clear or vague for my opinion.

Jang na-ra may be a good actress but her expression felt stiff this time through all episodes (unlike her previous dramas, which I know, was supposed to be light hearted). Might be due to her role in this drama, but I felt it could have improvements on this part (see character development).

However jung yong hwa's acting was surprisingly good in this. You can see that he matured through the episodes tho some dialogues are still tacky. And his friend, I am not sure if he supposed to love yong hwa or not??? I felt some BL going on between them, am I over thinking?

The ending! I do not fancy an ending like a first episode kind. Nothing ever changes and I want a season 2 now.

Leggi di Più

very very good

Just finished watching this, a couple of years behind everyone else but then there's no expriy date on excellent television. Abolutely loved it, every moment, and jang Na-ra's performance is absultely grupping, spellbinding, notew perfect in every sece. I'm getting used to the excellence of Korean female lead actors but this was a standout alongside IU's work in Hotel del Luna. And the ending - which is sometimes either a little rushed or too drawn out in Kdrama - was completely perfect, giving a completely acceptable rounding off of the story.

Obviously production qualities were superb.

One question, and I hope someone can help; the music we hear on the actual soundtrack does not all seem to be on the OST that I have found on the internet. (I cannot find a copy of the cd) I am particularly interested in the instrumental sections, particularly the main title opening credits theme. PLEASE can someone tell me what the full soundtrack credits are - on the actual drama, not the OST.

Really great television. Next for us is going to be something more recent - THE BEQUEATHED - which I have seen only a few minutes of so far but looks good.

Leggi di Più

unexpected bursting chemistry and heartwarming in a pretty dark way

The concept itself is pretty refreshing. One is specialist in eliminating spirits in houses that can't be sold and one is specialist in tricking people believing that their property is haunted by a ghost.
Every exorcism that's been done got a good background story. There are stories that made me sad and even mad of how the victim ended up dead.
The past between the main leads are also quite tragic and what I don't expect is , Jang Nara and Yong Hwa's chemistry is just so good even the skinship is mostly hand holding and there's not even more than that.
Quite satisfied with the ending even I hope there's more between the main leads.

Leggi di Più

Ghost Whisperer meets Buffy the Vampire…eh ghost slayer….

…Well sort of. There are some minor similarities between this show and those two shows but a lot of differences too.

The FL is a dark, brooding real estate agent with mommy issues. Her real estate niche is that she exorcise vengeful ghosts in haunted houses then makes a profit when helping the owner sell those homes. In this mist of all this she meets the ML a ghost hunter con artist who turns out to be a true medium. At first they’re at odds but eventually team up to rid various dwellings of vengeful ghosts while unraveling the traumas and conspiracies of their intertwining pasts and present.

This show was an easy watch and works well mainly due to the cases of the week and chemistry between the characters. The underlying storyline with the ghost mom and the town gangster were passable but not enough drive intrigue in the series. I will say the antagonist in this was awful. Hated him. I was absolutely sick of him by the time he met his end late in the series. The acting was good. The FL/ML had good chemistry. It was obvious there were more feelings between them than friendship but the expression of those feelings were minimal at best. The description of this series genre as “romantic comedy” is grossly misleading. Southern if you’re looking for a love story in the midst of ghost slaying you won’t find it here. Still this was good series and thus worth watching.

Leggi di Più

Buen cast.

Este drama lo empecé y lo deje en la primera mitad porque me pareció aburrido además de que competía con otros mucho mejores pero lo volví a retomar porque soy un fan de jang na ra así que me decidí por terminarlo antes de juzgarlo pero si en la primera mitad se aburren no les recomiendo retomarlo porque se pone todavía aun mas aburrido. Primero que nada la premisa del drama es una historia de exorcistas y en los primeros capítulos (1-4) parece atrapante por la producción y las visuales de los fantasmas como de los efectos en ellos al ser poseídos o también cuando ven los restos por donde transitaban los fantasmas me pareció que esta muy logrado y estoy más que satisfecho porque es uno de los puntos fuertes del drama pero poco a poco la historia empieza a tornarse de forma muy obvia y capitulo a capitulo empieza a perder esa esencia de terror, entiendo que se esta desarrollando el pasado de los personajes pero creo que podría haberse tomado desde un punto de vista mas interesante para contarlo.
en cuanto a la actuación, este a mi parecer es el punto más fuerte de todos y el porque termine este drama. tanto jang na ra como jung yong hwa y también kang hong suk lo dieron todo, sus personajes estan tan bien actuados que se pueden sentir verdaderamente los sentimientos que quieren transmitir.
En cuanto a música creo que junto a la historia forman los puntos mas débiles del drama

Leggi di Più

Interessante

Um drama interessante de se assistir. O enredo é decente assim como a atuação, quase tudo aqui foi equilibrido, só acho que deveriam ter diminuido na comédia um pouco, ficaria mais coerente com enredo porém não prejudicou muito.

A protagonista é daquelas girl power, forte destemida, um pouco mal humorada mais tem um coração bom, era um pouco irritante ás vezes, rsrsr mais quem não é não é mesmo, contudo gostei muito da personagem, assim como gostei do protagonista masculino também, ele era o oposto dela ,achei que os dois formaram uma bela dupla o que faltava em um o outro complementava.

As histórias dos fantasmas eram bem interessante, a parte do terror foi bem feita, confesso que levei vários sustos , o clima era tenso, bem caracteísticos de filme de terror.

Nem tudo é perfeito por aqui, mesmo sendo cativante o drama tinha seus erros, em algum momento o drama ficou arrastado e um pouco previsível, principalmente na reta final porém ainda sim não tirou o brilho do show.

Em fim é assistivel , não é exepcional mas é bem feito , algo descente para se assistir.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

An interesting drama to watch. The plot is decent as well as the acting, almost everything here was balanced, I just think they should have reduced the comedy a little, it would be more coherent with the plot but it didn't hurt much.

The protagonist is one of those girl power, strong fearless, a little moody but she has a good heart, she was a little annoying at times, lol but who is not really, however I really liked the character, as I liked the male protagonist too, he was the opposite of her, I thought the two formed a beautiful duo what was missing in one the other complemented.

The ghost stories were very interesting, the horror part was well done, I confess that I had several scares, the atmosphere was tense, very characteristic of a horror movie.

Not everything is perfect around here, even though the drama was captivating, it had its mistakes, at some point the drama got dragged out and a little predictable, especially in the final stretch, but it still didn't take the shine off the show.

In the end it's watchable, it's not exceptional but it's well done, something decent to watch.

Leggi di Più