And that’s really the highest praise I can give it.

A story that’s full of action, drama and humor. It allowed me to revel in a touching story. Why are you starting the damn review with what you didn’t like about it?īecause you know what, I didn’t really care about all stuff when I was watching it, for once, it allowed me to mute the critiquing side of my brain, which is actually becoming increasingly hard for me to do and just be swept up in a love story between two people. Wait, wait, hold up, Carolyn, you literally just said you had fallen in love with this drama. There are some questionable medical practices (STOP GOING INTO THE QUARANTINE, THERE ARE INFECTED PEOPLE IN THERE WHY ARE YOU PUTTING AN IV IN HIM WITHOUT STERILIZING IT FIRST), I would have liked more backstory for Mo Yeon, also the transitions are very confusing and maybe more a little more depth to its themes would have been appreciated. A lot of the dramatic events end way too early for there to be an emotional punch they are convoluted and random and the plot has basically no sense of realism. They meet again in a war-torn country called Uruk where Mo Yeon is heading a medical mission and Shi Jin is stationed. Trouble and chaos ensue.Īnd the other funny thing is, it’s a show with glaring faults and usually I can’t look past those. Because of circumstances, they are separated for 8 months. The funny thing is, the synopsis is not one I would immediately be drawn to. It’s a romantic drama following a soldier (Yoo Shi Jin) and a surgeon (Mo Yeon) who fall in love. My mom is so I’m familiar with a lot of them and I didn’t really think anything could equal Reply 1997 in my head.īut I watched the first episode and at about maybe 20 minutes into the first episode, I had fallen head-over-heels in love. I was skeptical at best mostly because I’m just not a kdrama person. It was on all of my friends’ snapchats and a lot of people I knew had at least heard of it even if they didn’t like kdramas. Even the prime minister of Thailand encouraged people to watch it. I should have known because it was getting a lot of buzz even outside of the sphere of kdrama lovers. It currently has over 440 million views in China on legal and not-so-legal streaming sites and has been sold to 27 countries and translated into 32 languages.

It then continued to surpass its own ratings as the show went on. During its original run in South Korea, it broke record ratings with a 28.5 percent viewership surpassing another insanely popular kdrama from two years ago called My Love From Another Star (that one was so popular, there’s going to be an American remake, although I don’t know what happened with that project) in only six episodes. When I first started watching Descendants of the Sun sometime last week, I had no idea how popular it was. Starring: Song Joong-ki, Song Hye-kyo, Jin Goo, Kim Ji-Won

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