Scent of a Woman: FAIL

Scent of a Woman? more like Bored as a Woman-Viewer

fail, fail, triple-ty fail fail fail. Scent of a Woman is so slow and boring, even the stars in that promo poster look bored. 

i'm not sure what went wrong with this movie (both leads are attractive enough) other than the plot and story progression was just bland (and it even involved cancer!! how can this be?)

the male lead is good looking but a perfect example that stars don't necessarily need to all get the double eyelid surgery to look sexy and succeed on screen, because he had the deepest-set double eyelids i've ever seen (be it natural or not), and was sexy enough, but i still had zero interest in the show after watching just 30 minutes of it. and he just looked so bored and sleepy all the time.

this is how he looked in the entire show --  like a stagnant ken doll.

his face never reacted to anything -- which i normally like of my plastic ponies because it's indicative of just how much filler they shoveled into their faces, but this was too much. i think he was actually sleeping with his eyes open the entire series.

they even look bored here during a supposedly sexy moment!

also the female lead was so rail thin, it irked me. i wanted to feed her a big bowl of ramen and then some.

lastly, maybe i didn't watch enough with all 8 episodes i tortured self with before abandoning ship with gusto, but what.in.the.fuck does the title mean? who and why are we smelling a lady? 

this drama was the first one i could not finish -- and i'm extremely OCD about finishing everything that i start even if i hate it.

in other less ranty news, i started BIG with Gong Yoo and i LOVE it to bits and pieces. i will write an entry about how enamored i am with his impossibly tiny ball-point pen-tip head and how funny the story is so far next! so look out for that!

alright, let's never talk about Scent of a Woman again. stop smelling women!

hana, dul, set! press play.