True Beauty (Netflix) is everything a rom com kdrama should be and I had an absolute blast watching this show. It is fun, silly, swoony and v tropey.
The entire drama feels like it has been made by people who love kdramas as much as we do. I am glad that this is not my first kdrama rodeo because the tropes here are meta level good. If you had a shot of soju every time a classic trope appeared, well, you would be pretty plastered by the end of every episode.
Crucially, the show handles its "beauty standards" theme really well. I had avoided this show because of its “ugly duckling” premise. However, thankfully, True Beauty offers a very welcome and far healthier take on this trope. If this concern is preventing you from starting this drama, please feel reassured.
The cast are all great... Moon Ga Young particularly.
True Beauty features a love triangle that, despite the choice never really being in question, is heart breaking because Cha En Woo’s Lee Su Ho and Hwang In Youp’s Han Seo Jun are both extremely pretty, green flag boyfriend material.
Cha En Woo’s performance in True Beauty has been criticised. Personally, I think this is unfair. His character has repressed his emotions because of “reasons” and doesn’t feel that he has the right to experience anything other than a narrow, solitary existence. For me, his performance makes sense.
While there may be one “toilet humour” gag too many, True Beauty is a journey worth taking.
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