![]() Sadly this one isn't getting as many views as it deserves. With popularity of Squid Game and Parasite winning an Oscar, I would've thought lot more people would be interested in their content like k-pop and kdrama has huge following. Even some of their bad ones have great action choreography and set pieces. Korean cinema does better action, crime than many industries. These comments are based on watching the series in Korean with English subtitles. Overall I'd definitely recommend this to fans of the genre it is top notch. of course it helps that we are invited to suspect certain members of the police and there is a more unpleasant gangster to treat as a main villain. I liked the fact that the series is morally ambiguous most viewers will be highly sympathetic to Ji-woo even though she is part of a criminal gang even her boss is sympathetic to a degree. She manages to make scenes of a diminutive woman defeating several men believable. The cast does a really fine job especially Han So-hee who excels as Ji-woo. Our protagonist gets into many scrapes and there is a real sense of danger she certainly isn't immune to injury. The story delivers plenty of impressive, sometimes bone-crunching, action as well as twists and turns to keep the viewer guessing as to the identity of the killer. perhaps this is because key plot elements reminded me of the Hong Kong 'Infernal Affairs' trilogy. The plot and general feel were more movie like than televisual. I really enjoyed this South Korean series. This gets her closer to the suspected killer it also puts her in the investigation into Choi Moo-jin's activities and face to face with somebody who might expose her true identity. ![]() As the years progress she advances and ultimately gets assigned to the drug squad. He gives her a clue to the identity of the killer a discarded police issue pistol. Choi Moo-jin has her declared dead then, under a new name, she enters the police as a spy. He takes her in and she trains in martial arts in the gang's training school here she does well but makes an enemy of a fellow student. Determined to find and kill the man responsible she approaches the only person who might help her father's associate, crime boss Choi Moo-jin. On her birthday he returns home but is gunned down in front of her by an unidentifiably assassin. Nor does it reject the tropes and clichés of South Korean dramas: Doo-na falls into Won-jun’s arms in slow-motion, Jin-ju sports a cute bob only worn by third parties in K-drama love triangles, and the show loves to put Yang Se-jong in a shower.As this series opens school girl Yoon Ji-woo is hassled by the police and bullied by schoolmates because her estranged father is working in a major drug dealing operation. It’s something South Korean television does so well, seeing community-building not as a means to combating greater evil - a la Stranger Things - but as an antidote to the alienation derived from the systematic rigors of modern living.ĭoona! doesn’t quite reach the emotional heights of Park Hae-yeong’s masterpiece, My Mister, and the series retains some of the meandering nature of its source material, especially with the introduction of Choi I-ra (Park Se-wan) as a new housemate halfway through. With precious little to say about pop-idol culture - which is merely a facilitator for its central romance - Doona! instead builds a community around Lee Doo-na to pull her out of isolation and help her rediscover herself. Unsurprisingly - this is a K-romance, after all - it doesn’t take long for opposites to attract.Īs Won-jun brings Doo-na into his friend group, she begins to address the trauma behind her pop-star exit, becoming more herself as she and Won-jun grow closer. Won-jun is taken by Doo-na’s forthright, even defensive posture while Doo-na seems intrigued by someone so far removed from her own celebrity. Their initial encounters are clumsy yet charged. On the surface, it feels at home with contemporary clichéd dramas yet represents a startling departure.Īfter Doo-na’s dream, Lee Won-jun (Yang Se-jong) moves into the house, a shy and reserved boy who is so clueless he has no idea he’s living with an erstwhile K-pop idol that gave it all up after the stress of performing non-stop caused a breakdown. Directed by Crash Landing on You’s Lee Jung-hyo and based on Min Song-ah’s webtoon The Girl Downstairs, Doona! fits a lot into its tight runtime, weaving a complicated yet relatable narrative about loss and love. This dreamlike quality permeates the nine-part drama. Then she wakes up in a small, dim room - alone. The light filtering through the water’s shimmering surface displays distorted memories of her past as the lead vocalist of Dream Sweet, a K-pop sensation that surrounded her with dancers, flashing lights, and adoring fans. ![]() A sequined Lee Doo-na (Bae Suzy) falls into deep water, sinking into the darkness below. Netflix’s latest South Korean hit Doona! opens in a dream.
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