The Obsessive Dilettante

thesaratea
replied to your post “You can fill a drama with idols, but it’s gonna be the indie…”

what show?

Entertainer, with Ji Sung.

It’s not… very… good. I mean, I didn’t have high hopes walking into it, and it’s not expressly terrible, it’s just… not good. This writer has disappointed me previously so I’m not surprised there, but I am surprised that the directing feels “off,” too. It also doesn’t help that I still don’t, no-way no-how, buy Minhyuk as a brooding high school student, especially one younger than Hyeri. I like them both independently, but together there’s just no chemistry, and there’s no chemistry with her and Ji Sung. I don’t know what’s going on with that because, again, I’ve liked her in previous works, but maybe she’s just not a strong enough actress to rise above a mediocre script and a director who’s just phoning it in, apparently.

Why is why, when I realized I was having a hard time forcing myself to pay attention, I was going to give up on the show and put it in the “dropped” bin, I was pretty much bowled over when Lee Tae Sun arrived and his character suddenly made me believe in everything again.

I had been expecting him to play a role similar to himself – a punk rocker with the crazy outfits. I thought he had been cast to lend an air of authenticity to the drama’s show. But apparently the dude can act, because he’s nothing like his punk rocker frontman self (well, at least as far as I can tell, since I’ve only watched performances and don’t know him personally, y’know?). So now, in my mind, this is a story about a single dad who had a kid when he was super young, and now is ready to break free from the mediocrity of just surviving on the one talent he has – music – and become something that he won’t be ashamed of any more, to make his son proud.

Also all the while smiling like giant beams of sunshine.

(Hence all the spam earlier this morning, because I was idly watching while doing other chores and wanted a drama I knew I didn’t have to play close attention to, then all of a sudden I’m trying to figure out if I can squeeze in the latest ep before I go to work. All because of this indie punk rocker who is a better actor than most of the people on this show.)