My Demon (2023)

I was obsessed with this show when it started

When this show started, I was obsessed. The minute new episodes dropped, I was there watching. And for episodes 1-10 I was in love with it. Every drama has filler episodes and I don’t mind 1 or 2 but this show is mainly filler episodes from episode 8-16. And I can’t believe I’m saying this because a month ago I was telling everyone I know about this show.

The acting and chemistry keeps this drama going. Kim Yoo Jung is really good in this and I would like to see her in similar roles as she matures as an actress. She really has chemistry with any actor she’s put with and I thought she was pretty good at the funnier scenes too.

I see a lot of people not enjoying Song Kang in this but I think he’s fine. He excels at the more intense scenes, but he could probably stand to work on his comedy delivery. His performance isn’t helped by the fact that outside of romantic scenes, he’s always paired with a much stronger comedic actor - the actor playing his sidekick assistant being a prime example.

The story had a lot of potential and I almost wish someone would redo the concept in a few years time but give us an actual mystery. Maybe the family could’ve been a lot bigger and with a real whodunnit.

I liked the songs in this; the title sequence music fit perfectly. However, there’s one song (and I’m sorry I don’t remember the name) which they used often and it rarely fit the mood of the scene. I’m only mentioning it in case someone out there feels vindicated that I also hated the use of that one song.

Overall, it wasn’t bad but I think a lot of us are mourning wasted potential.

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How did they make a fascinating premise so boring in parts?

7/10 is my rating. This is a 2023/2024 South Korean supernatural romance drama with 16, 67 (average) minute episodes.

First I provide a unique synopsis then review

Synopsis

Do Do Hee (Kim You Jung) is the adopted daughter and heir apparent to a conglomerate company called the “Future Group”. She is known as a devilish, hard hitting, and “take no prisoners” executive who has won many awards. Her adopted mother, Joo Chun Sook (Kim Hae Sook) made it clear, when she was alive, that Do Hee would take over after she passed. This does not endear Do Hee to Chun Sook’s children who consider it their right to inherit all of their mother’s assets. The obvious solution to some of them is to get rid of the problem. In this case the problem is Do Hee. When a serial killer is hired to kill Do Hee, he nearly succeeds until Jung Koo Won (Song Kang) appears in his role as a Demon who strikes deals with mortals by granting wishings in return for their trip to Hell 10 years later. He originally plans to only save Do Hee if she enters into an agreement but then agrees to save her and then talk about the agreement. In the chaos that follows they both wind up nearly drowning and the tattoo that gives Koo Won his supernatural powers, transfers to Do Hee. Koo Won finds that he can still perform his role and have access to his power by holding Do Hee’s wrist where the tattoo is located. When Jun Sook tragically dies a condition of inheriting the business is Do Hee must marry within a year. Koo Won agrees to a contract marriage for mutual benefit, he needs to be close to her to touch her tattoo and she needs a husband to secure her inheritance. The two have twisted fate in the present, but things get even more fate based when it appears they also had a connection in the past.

Review

When I looked at reviews there seemed to be those that really loved this series but there was a near equal number that did not like it well. I am in the “did not like it well” camp. I think it is worth watching for the two talented actors, great chemistry and interesting premise if you can relax your expectations for a sensible plot. I was actually bored at times because the progress would hit a stall. I would recommend drama fans watch it once but I wouldn’t rush out to watch it.

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I have seen hundreds of dramas at this point and that could be why I am among those that found this one very underwhelming. The main couple got together too early in my opinion. Then was no sense of anticipation. It did not make sense to me that she was so driven and determined to be the heir and then she just gave it up. I know they were trying for the “anything for love” angle, that she was willing to give up all the power and money to protect herself and the person she loved but it was out of character in my opinion.

The serial killer bad guy who was hunting her died too early. I was wondering what they were going to have happen next. It was just odd to have that particular bad guy gone so early in the story.

Two very annoying things in this one. Usually you feel somewhat sorry for 2nd girl or guy and I did like second guy but the 2nd girl was one of the most annoying I have experienced to date. They tried hard to gain our sympathy for her in showing how he saved her from abuse but, even that, did not excuse her toxic behavior later. She even tried to get main girl to drink poison so that the main guy, who is a demon who already lived hundreds of years, could live. Although she had hung around him for over a decade and he showed no interest she still blamed main girl for wrecking her chance. What chance? Her jealousy was misplaced and annoying.

The other annoying thing was the romance between the elder couple. It was fine they liked each other, even cute, but them hiding it for so long became ridiculous. I think it was supposed to be funny and they definitely did the big reveal where they thought they were hiding it but everyone already knew. Oh ha ha! Like we have never seen that play out before. It was unoriginal and just not funny.

When Netflix gets ahold of something I know it is going to be drawn out too much and there will be way too many flashbacks. That was the case in this one. The plot would already be dragging because so many of the major conflicts and reveals already happened and then, oh great, let’s rehash the whole script again.

They, of course, had to do the separating from you for your own good trope. I don’t like that trope. It is right up there with the amnesia trope for me.

I believe it was confirmed the leads were dating in real life and they definitely had that level of chemistry. It is not their fault the script was just awful at some points. Their acting was excellent but the content was off.

There was so much potential in this one. With a great cast and interesting premise this could have been a great addition to the supernatural genre. I am not sure how they managed to make it so drawn out and boring except the pacing and when they chose to do reveals.

#MyDemon

#SongKang

#KimYouJung

#KimHaeSook

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Apesar do titulo entregar tudo me senti abrindo Um pouco Kinder Ovo

Em resumi, assistam apesar de muitas divergência nas crença religiosas e de montarem um diálogo que chega a ser perturbador entre Deus e Diabo, se você não tem fôlego drope e quando se sentir bem paR essa conversa assista.

Para quem gosta da temática fantasia e vidas passadas acredito que esse seja um drama bem interessante. Porém, tem muita certeza que o enredo poderia ter sido melhor, assim como as motivações da transformação do rapaz e não ser espiritualmente maligno, e toda linha de pessoas que fizeram muito contratos Assim como as mortes apresentadas poderiam ter sido mais bem elaborado. Apesar de que o efeito especial apresentado nas diversas explosões foi realmente Fantástico e fez na minha opinião sobre de nível a série. Não vou citar nada sobre o final, mas deixe em aberto que poderia ter sido melhor.

Eu assisti muitos dramas de quase todos do elenco principal e posso dizer que as atuações foram cheias de sentimentos e conseguiram passar a mensagem que os personagens precisavam, neste ponto gostei muito.
Em outra ponto a descoberta de quem realmente são os verdadeiros vilões e como eles começam a surgir e mostrando diversos problemas de saúde e distúrbios mentais dos personagens deixaram a série muito rica de informações e passando algo mais atualizado, ate porque temos passado no mundo momentos de guerra e sussurros de guerra, depois de um vasto de tempo de pandemia, que deixou rastro de luto e muitos bloqueios psicológicos, foi isso que me motivou ir até o final além do elenco principal que gosta muito posso dizer que sou realmente apaixonada na atuação do casal protagonista. Eles arrazam e cresceram muito na telinha.

Enfim nesse exato momento que estou passando na minha vida me fez fazer algumas reflexões e tomar algumas decisões que estava postergando e principalmente me pus a chorar precisava esvaziar um pouco às vezes adiamos o choro e a tristeza para ficar focando na vida que passa rápido e o mundo não para nos esperar e esquecemos de dar a pausa necessária que todo mundo precisa de tempos em tempos você esvaziar e olhar em volta e realmente dar valor ao que merece é necessário de tempos em tempos reavaliar a nossa vida, e deixar para lá sentimentos que nos pesam e esquecer de situações que não nos levam a nada porque não podemos voltar no tempo, assim como diz aquele provérbio chinês "Há três coisas na vida que nunca retrocedem: a flecha lançada, a palavra pronunciada e a oportunidade perdida".

É isso.

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"Somos destruidores e salvadores uns dos outros."

Que final ótimo!!!! O drama desde o começo do marketing dele, foi incrível, todo mundo esperando por um drama com um casal já casado que ia prometer tudo e em nenhum episódio decaiu em qualidade e expectativa o que foi ótimo e surpreendente.
O drama tem uma história muito boa, mas podemos falar que além da história teve muita química do nosso casal protagonista? Pra mim foi um dos melhores papéis do Song Kang e acho que ele fechou com chave de ouro pra ir pro exército e deixar a gente esperando pela volta dele, foi divertido, sombrio e amoroso, a química com a yoo Jung foi perfeita e entregou tudo, tão apaixonados esse casal, um dos melhores até hoje que assisti.
Além dos demais personagens, Austin e Justin fizeram história nesse drama, o final justo pro Suk min.
Nosso casal secundário Sr park e a Sra Shin amei demais esses dois, extremamente hilário KKKKK
Imaginei que a Ga young não iria embora, ela ficou tantos episódios dizendo que ia que já tava claro
Gostei do personagem do Sang yi mas achei que ele ia ter um papel mais importante devido a outros papéis dele anteriores mas o final dele como CEO foi justo.
Nossa mais nova mamãe da dramaland como Deus foi incrível né? Amei
Acho que o que me deixa triste é só saber que o gu won não se tornou humano, a gente fica pensando que ela vai envelhecer e ele lá acompanhando essas fases dela...
Acho que é isso, o drama foi bom, eu adorei e manteve sua qualidade!

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Só na ficção mesmo pra um demônio ser funcionário de Deus

Do Do Hee perdeu os pais muito nova e foi adotada pela CEO de um grande conglomerado. Acostumada a perder aqueles que ama desde cedo, ela construiu uma armadura em volta do coração e não deixa ninguém se aproximar demais.

A única pessoa que conseguiu se infiltrar novamente em seu coração, foi Cheon Sook, a mulher que a adotou. Porém, quando ela morre de maneira suspeita e deixa todos os seus bens para Do Do Hee sob a condição de que ela se case em um ano, Do Hee se torna alvo de um assassino.

Do Do Hee vê seu caminho sendo cruzado com o de Gu Won, um demônio que tem feito tratos com humanos há 200 anos, e por um acaso do destino, o poderes dele acabam sendo transferidos para ela. Agora, os dois se veem obrigados a trabalharem juntos: Gu Won, para recuperar os seus poderes e; Do Hee para descobrir quem está tentando matá-la e desvendar a verdadeira causa da morte de Cheon Sook.

A partir dessa aproximação forçada entre os dois e um contrato de casamento, começa a florescer um romance entre eles nesse processo.

My Demon foi um dorama que não entregou o que prometeu e eu acabei finalizando ele com uma sensação de que faltou algo. A história começou muito bem introduzindo os personagens e estabelecendo uma dúvida central: Quem matou Cheon Sook? Quem está tentando matar Do Do Hee? E eu realmente duvidei de muitas pessoas até o culpado ser revelado. Mas acontece que para mim, essa era a parte mais importante da história, então quando os mistérios e as investigações foram deixados de lado para dar espaço ao romance, eu acabei desanimando.

O romance não foi ruim, eu gostei bastante da dinâmica entre os dois, porém a mudança na personalidade do Gu Won foi tão abrupta, que chegou a ficar artificial: Num segundo ele era imponente, poderoso e só estava com a Do Hee por seus interesses pessoais, e no outro, ele tinha virado um bobo apaixonado. Os roteiristas pesaram muito a mão, senti falta de um desenvolvimento mais gradual dos sentimentos deles.

Com relação à conclusão, eu faço parte do 0,1% da dramalândia que não queria que eles ficassem juntos. Eu senti que esse dorama pedia por um final trágico, principalmente depois de descobrirmos que o Gu Won foi o responsável pela morte do pai da Do Hee. Mas isso não foi algo que me incomodou muito, só acho que eu teria feito uma abordagem diferente.

De modo geral, foi um dorama muito bom, com fotografia, cenário, trilha sonora e figurinos impecáveis, mas que se perdeu um pouco da metade pro final, além de ter focado demais nos protagonistas e esquecido de desenvolver melhor os outros personagens.

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brand new old

Comecei este depois de meses sem assistir absolutamente nada e no geral. É um bom dorama.
Foi como ver um remake de Goblin e Desgraça ao seu dispor,a história segue o mesmo rumo mas te prende de forma igual.

a primeira vista, você pode confundir os vilões, então muito cuidado ao julgar o livro pela capa, definitivamente não estamos vendo Vincenzo.

Particularmente, acho que faltou um pouco mais de maldade por parte do vilão, acho que todo enredo tem que ter um vilão que te faça sentir ódio só de olhar pra ele.

Teria sim dado um fim diferente para o aue poderia ter sido um belo casal secundário, ah teria!

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Enjoyable but very forgettable.

I'm not going to lie, I enjoyed this k-drama, but I think its biggest problem is that it's very forgettable.
On one hand, the chemistry between our two main characters is good and it shows on screen. This show certainly doesn't let Song Kang's physical attributes down lol.
However, what I probably didn't like much was the plot, which in itself is not very innovative in the fantasy genre, it takes us back to past lives again, and reminded me a lot of Doom at your service and Destined With You and so many other kdramas, almost as if all of the fantasy Korean dramas had a child. For that reason, I think this show is easily forgettable.
Although I repeat, I'm not going to lie, I did enjoy it, but I wish they would have omitted so many things that I could tell were plot fillers and added very little from my perspective, and most of the characters were not that well written.

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Série bien construite, bien réalisée et bien jouée

Un démon qui tombe amoureux, le destin de vies passées qui se déroule, Dieu qui joue, des méchants cachés et d'autres pas bref beaucoup de choses arrivent, petit à petit. Les intrigues sont dévoilées tranquillement, les personnages également, tout n'est pas rose, ni blanc ni noir d'ailleurs.
Le démon a un passé, voir une autre vie, en commun avec beaucoup de protagonistes, c'est l'avantage (ou l'inconvénient) de vivre longtemps !
C'est une belle histoire d'amour, avec un HAPPY ENDING ! Tout ne va pas se dérouler comme prévu, attendez vous à des surprises, et des émotions.... Le duo d'acteurs principaux est très bon, ce sont des habitués des rôles majeurs.
A voir sans hésiter

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For New Comers its Feels good..

Netflix promotions and their visuals attracted
Overall good story ,line, their chemistry their comedy at few times were good.
Not toooo clingy romantic drama but a fantasy one ..
Felt like little over hyped
Good experience watching
But felt like we have seen it some where like all the fantasy realm dramas would be like first both leads are attached with some tho next them avoiding each other and next accepting
A CEO , a company a marriage contract, a body guard and owner love story
A past story
Sacrifice.a mixup of all famous ones

Few episodes were lagg
And in ending the heroine fl need not to take the gun shot as demon can't die
But she took the gun shot for him and she ended died and ml has to combust that was very annoying and tricky the directors made....
Not a new one
Not felt anywhere refreshing
An old repeat

For new comers its feels good

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Not bad but not good

It's an easy watch, no need to use your brain at all. Probably a good way to destress.

Plot
The writing is not amazing, but it's not so boring that I would drop it. As other reviews already mentioned, it's a mix-and-match of your favourite typical cliches. NOTHING AGAINST CLICHES, I like them.

Cast
Amazing visuals from the main cast, Song Kang and Yoojung, and they have amazing chemistry in my opinion (I mean what else can I say?) Acting is great.

Music
Amazing setlist omg, I would totally add the OSTs to my Spotify playlist. The opening theme is catchy and well. Tiktok speaks for itself.

Rewatch value
Rated it kinda high because I think it's really easy to just throw this on and enjoy it.

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Demon

My Demon drama is really subtle, cute and fulfilling. The chemistry between the leads is portrayed very well and i like Do dohee's character. She gives the real boss bitch vibes and the demon's visuals are irresistible. Episode 1-6 are the best and do not skip them. I liked Ms Shin and Mr Park's chemistry but their relationship should have been less rushed. The last episode is nice and als kinda emotional. I wished if the director whould have shown Star Jin's love life too. There should have been more interactions of Noh Dogyeong with his mother. The little moments between dohee and guwon will definitely give you butterflies. The 15th episode was not that good as compared to others. The twists are well plotted and the god's arrival was unpredicted. I liked how the secret culprit was disclosed at the very end. Overall the drama was nice and is worth rewatching.

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