Drama Review: You're Beautiful

What can I say about You're Beautiful?

Let me first summarize this drama into 4 points.

1) Overly naive nun turned idol

2) Nice guy finishes last

3) Arrogant douchebag gets girl

4) Extremely cute light bulb who was never really in the picture

If I had to be very honest, the drama was likeable, but not extremely original or flawless. There were major flaws with the script (I thought it could have been longer instead of rushed out like that), but it's subjective. Initially, I had only watched this drama for Yong Hwa because of Heartstrings, but before that, when You're Beautiful was the topic of discussion for many in 2010, I had no interest in watching something seemingly influenced strongly by Japanese manga plots. Gender bender, F4 and all the whatnots. 

It was and still is just the combination of the elements of all the successful dramas so far. Gender Bender definitely originated from Hana Kimi and the 'F-4' idea of course came from Hana Yori Dango. Add a little of music into it, and TA-DA! You have You're Beautiful. Not that I'm being biased, but I'm sure the scriptwriters had this in mind. 

Anyway, this drama is still cute, and a good time killer. 

Go Mi Nyeo (Park Shin Hye), the sister of soon-to-be idol of Go Mi Nam is almost a nun, however, in order to help her brother who had a plastic surgery gone wrong and in order to find her mother, she decided to stand in for her brother for a month, while he was in the United States correcting the failed plastic surgery. 

Things were bad enough when leader of group A.N.Jell, Hwang Tae Kyung (Jang Geun Suk) started tormenting her and hating her the moment she entered. And it took another deep dive downwards when he found out that he was a girl! However in the end, after millions of misunderstandings and conflicts, they... fell in love.

In A.N.Jell there are 2 other members, Kang Shin Woo (Jung Yong Hwa) and Jeremy (Lee Hong Ki).

Kang Shin Woo, was the first one to find out that Mi Nam was a girl, but kept mum about it. Deciding to become her guardian angel, he tragically lost Mi Nam to Tae Kyung. Romantic but mature and gentlemanly, many other viewers actually wanted them to end up together. However, his strengths, in the end, were the reasons why he failed to capture her heart. Overly romantic, and not being able to express his feelings directly.

Jeremy, was the last one to find out. Initially, he questioned his own sexuality whenever he saw Mi Nam, however, heaved a huge sigh of relief when he was actually a girl. Insensitive but cute, he is this lightbulb who never really entered the picture of Mi Nam, Tae Kyung and Shin Woo. This character really resembles Nakatsu from Japanese Hana Kimi, if you have watched.

All in all, the drama was a fun watch, although I had to fast forward to get over the parts with the emotional and mushy words.