I originally wasn't going to write a review for this but then I just had too much to say about it. If you watch this and find you hate my opinion then I apologize and feel free to erase everything I write from your mind. 'Beautiful Days' really should have been renamed as either 'miserable days.' or 'the worst days of our lives.' because really that's all it focused on was tears....heartache.... and oh wait more tears. plot: to be completely honest the plot wasn't that original or even engaging. although I will say a couple of characters circumstances were unique and towards the end, the main male lead's life completely turns around which I haven't seen happen in a lot of dramas. Beautiful Days was very refreshing in that aspect. characters/ acting: I had no problem with the acting in this. The actors and actress could only do so much with their characters. and speaking of characters I completely fell in love with Sena. She stole the show for me because her spitfire attitude at everything was hilarious and in the beginning I only watched it for her absurd and rash scenes. As for the main female lead well...she was a dull as a doorpost that one. In the beginning she was just a really flat character that had the charisma and personality similar to that of what I'd imagine a dead slug to have. Luckily towards the last few episode she seemed to gain a little bit more of a personality though but I found it disappointing that all the side female leads seemed to outshine the main female lead hands down in terms of interesting quirks. ok now lets move on to the main male lead of this drama. .......to be completely honest I found him a little creepy. He was good looking but somehow, perhaps by fault of the way they directed it, he came off a little....well creepy. I wasn't a large fan of the whole 'here, let me just....reach out and attempt to intimately touch your face....hahaha just kidding I was totally just reaching for the post card behind you because I get off on making you feel overly awkward and uncomfortable' scenes. Then there was that fond habit he had of just randomly popping up when you least expected him to in a very uncomfortable kind of way. For example, here's the main female lead having this nice little conversation with said second lead with some uplifting music going on in the background so i'm like I can roll with this when all of a sudden, with no warning from the director or easing into the scene BAM, the main male leads creepy leering face peering through a crack in the door. I don't know why but every time that happened (happened more than once i'm afraid) I jumped and got chills in a bad way. it gave me the feel of a horror movie. I really half expected there to be some scary music in the background during those parts. chemistry: I don't really think there was that much chemistry between the two leads either. really just nothing. There were hardly any couple or heartwarming couple moments and more than half the drama he was too busy being a jerk or a terrible boyfriend to take her out on dates and really accumulate happy memories for those lovely flashback barrages we all love to see every three episodes. I could count on one hand how many times he was actually nice to her. All in all, kind of wish they didn't spend 19 episodes doing nothing but making each other miserable and then crying about making each other miserable. oh well, at least there wasn't a crazed jealous second female lead out to ruin their lives and suck the main male leads soul out of his body. music: music was so so but Ididn't really expect anything awesome from such an old drama. there was one piece that I rather liked though which was the ending music. I could roll with it. overall, I'd say this was an ok drama. don't think i'll ever rewatch it but it was a nice experience. You should watch it for Sena since she was hilarious and if you're curious about those dramatic almost horror movie type moments then give it a try. Also, if you're expecting a sad and tragic ending i'm pleased to say that you won't be crying you're weight in tears by the end of it either. Thank you director for that much at least.