OVERALL Good drama, but one that had the potential to be a lot better. Watch it if you’re looking for some good action, but also some good comedy and a cute couple. Don’t watch if you want serious/mature couple stuff and lots of supernatural (unfortunately, the girl who sees smells is primarily a girl, and she sees smells on occasion – at least, that’s what it looks like in the show). THE STORY Maybe because I was put off by the weird title, I had low expectations for this drama. Maybe because I had low expectations, the show really hit me hard when I started. And maybe because I was so in love with the beginning of the drama, I couldn’t help but be disappointed by the last few episodes. There are three sides to The Girl who sees smell: the action, the comedy and the romance. The action was absolutely awesome until roughly episode 14, with great suspense and an antagonist that goes into my top ten villains headed by Queen Seon Deok’s Mishil (forever and always my favorite). In the last two episodes though, things lose all coherence, including (sadly) our awesome antagonist. The comedy is quite alright, and relies a lot on the character of Oh Chorim (Shin Se Kyung), who I really liked, and a little on Moon Gak (Yoochun). The comedy starts out pretty good, then dies in the second third of the show, then is somewhat revived at the end, but the characters’ personality pretty much die halfway through the show and never come back. Finally, there’s the romance, which, to my taste, was not so great, neither at the beginning nor the end, but since everything else was cool, it was forgiven. THE ACTING Shin Se Kyung, man. What a surprise. I always thought she was okay in historicals but bad in everything else, but boy is she good in comedy. I am seeing her in a whole new light. Please, people, never give her a melo or makjang drama, ever again. And then I have to say, Nam Gong Min!!!! This dude, who knew he could act soooo well! I was really impressed. These two were the big stars of this show. Romance-wise, no chemistry between Se Kyung and Yoochun, but they were lots of fun together, so it was forgiven. THE MUSIC Mmm…not for me, but okay I guess. REWATCHABLE VALUE Can’t say I won’t rewatch this, but there’ll be some skipping parts from the middle to the end.