Bimileun Eobseo

Korean Drama '' Frankly Speaking '' is a romantic comedy which blends in a lot of genres but ends up a hot mess.

The drama starts off smoothly, but soon it loses its way and gets all messy. It actually turns into a completely different drama, completely forgetting its original storylines and ending up being all over the place.

Thus, the romance was swept up into this mess and was hard to enjoy it. The comedy part got weeker and weeker as well.

The performances, on the other hand, were all great by every actor and actress of the cast and, especially, the two main leads.

So, overall, two out of ten.

Wacky storyline and laugh out loud moments. The story becomes more grounded as the show goes on and deviates from its' initial comedy to focus more on a romance and family. I enjoyed all the actors even if it wasn't their best project, and found it an easy fluffy show to watch slowly.

Concepts include lying and the psychology behind why we choose to hide certain parts of ourselves, and found family. The setting of variety shows was actually interesting to me and there were a lot of show styles showcased so it kept me engaged mostly. I also like the second male lead's story and his cheeky personality. Wouldn't necessarily recommend but I enjoyed it for what it was.

The lead actor Go is one of my favorite RomCom actors and have seen him in seen extremely funny roles which he always delivered hysterically and with top FL actresses too. The casting of the female lead could have been better as I didn't see how she complimented his skills at all. While this started off funny in the beginning the soon gets off track and boring. Writers could have done so much more with it and the 2nd male lead was good too but the FL was no match for him either. I don't see the romantic triangle coming together at all. The last 2 episodes including the final were boring. The best friend's side story was boring and unneeded. Too bad since the male lead is top romcom talent and the script wasn't taking advantage of his talents. Some funny moments at the start but then what happened? All my stars are for the 2 male leads.

Lead actor has a good reputation for being in romcoms and orher genres. Too bad the lead actress has a flat personality and not a good match. Lead actor carries on his character with ease but is dragged down with a poorly matched actress who dowsn't even have a history of good acting performance. Was casting a lead actress that difficult. Hhis other lead actresses in his other dramas had very good chemistry which led to higher ratings. Thjs romcom is a bomb sorry for the spoiler but I really like the lead actor which made me look forward to watching this. What a let down .it is just dragging on.

This comedy started off a bit too slapstick/goofy for my taste but then it settled into a decent cometic style. Unfortunately, I found the romance side of the drama to be lacking. The main romantic thread between Go Kyung-pyo's and Kang Han-na's characters consisted of either hiding or denying any relationship or with her helping control his 'truthfulness' issue. And I felt there was more chemistry in the other leg of the love triangle than with the leads. The secondary romantic threads were no better as they were given very little screen time in which to develop. Other reviews blamed the FL but I think she did a fine job with what she had to work with...I blame the writers for a story line that didn't give any of the actors much to work with wrt to the romance threads.

That said, overall, I did enjoy the series as a light-weight romantic comedy.... somewhat the junk food of kdramas - enjoyable but lacking much substance. I especially liked seeing Kang Han-na in a leading role. I had first seen her in My Roommate is a Gumiho as the female side of the secondary romantic thread where her character was very different than what she portrayed in this series. It is always a good indication of talent when an actor plays characters that have very different on-screen personalities and does a good job in both roles. Too many actors essentially are just themselves reciting lines.