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Gil Ra-im is a tough stuntwoman with a soft heart. Kim Joo-won is a nit-picky CEO with a long list of complexes. Love-struck, Joo-won barges into Ra-im's life in all the wrong ways, trying to make sense of his illogical feelings.

Ha Ji-Won and Hyun Bin in Secret Garden (2010)

The body switching provides laughs, but the show is too long

There are some good points about this hit series that make it worth watching. There are some laugh out loud scenes when the body switch thing happens. Hyun Bin fans will get to see him show a whole range of acting ability from comedy to drama to romance. But he has to act really goofy and desperate in his love scenes and in a way that is quite dated by today&#39;s standards. Ha Ji Won is well cast since she is supposed to be tomboyish and her action looks convincing. Yoon Sang Hyun is well cast as the funny singer and it&#39;s nice to see him sing the hit OST songs. His romance with beauty queen Kim Sa Rang is a bit draggy. The music is quite nice in this series. Looks like the cast were filming in super cold conditions without thick clothing. The fault of this series is in the writer is repetitiveness as you can see from the other shows. She doesn&#39;t have enough story so the last part was silly with the amnesia. The mother in law disapproval thing is just way too overdone. The last episode should have ended earlier. The flashback at the ends things on a downer. If this had been 16 instead of 20 episodes it might have felt better.

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Secret Garden

SPOILERS !!! 1- It&#39;s not funny, I hardly ever laughed. Part of it could be poor subtitles, but you don&#39;t need those for physical comedy, and there&#39;s precious little of that. 2- The main premise of the body swap, which offered unlimited possibilities, is terribly underutilized. 3- Characters do not behave in a realistic way, for example we are asked to believe that while swapped they aren&#39;t curious about their new bodies. Also why pretend they don&#39;t feel any kind of sexual impulse? If the creators didn&#39;t want them to have sex before marriage they could have found some perfectly good excuse. 4- How and why the female lead, from the original distaste for him, comes to love the male lead, is poorly explained, we are left to assume she gets tired of him insisting so much and gives in. 5- The story arc of the sidekick couple, even in its simplicity, is a lot more interesting than the protagonists&#39; one. 6- While the bodies are swapped they are sometimes showed as un-swapped (for the viewer benefit I guess?) but this only causes confusion and negates the premise. 7- The main actress shows good acting skills when she does a man in a woman&#39;s body, but below average ones otherwise. 8- The two most important conflicts (the difficult love stories of the two couples) are resolved too soon, so the final episode lacks any punch and is reduced to some 50 minutes of happy ending, which is way too many. 9- The evil mother thing is overdone. 10- The sister of the main character is first introduced and then completely forgotten about. 11- Other characters which either had the potential for an interesting sub-plot (the gay musician) or were genuinely funny (the assistant of the department store director Park) were underdeveloped/underutilized. 12- To an extent this is to be expected in most TV shows, but when it comes to Secret Garden there are way too many plot holes and inconsistencies. 13- For a series produced in 2010, there are too many K-drama stereotypes: rich boy/poor girl, evil mother, sidekick couple, hospital we&#39;ve seen this for a decade now. Still it would be OK if at least it was well done, but it isn&#39;t. The series by which I jusge all others is &quot;Kim Sam-soon&quot; which, with all the limitations inherent to a family TV program / k drama, is funny, realistic enough, not too syrupy, and sports the best female lead character in the history of television. That show set the standard for rom-coms, and therefore we can expect it to be copied a lot, but Secret Garden went to far: - same actor in the male lead role - in both shows there&#39;s a trip to Jeju island - in both shows the male lead had a life threatening accident when younger - said accident left the male lead unable to ride a transport (car/elevator)

Unexpectedly, Secret Garden is quite entertaining. Sure, the story and the romance wasn&#39;t the best of the best, and the performances were so so, but still I can understand why this drama is so popular. First of all, the drama is about a rich, cynical CEO who meets a poor stand woman who gets his interest. Their lives get even more complicated, when they magically change bodies. Oaky, the magic part wasn&#39;t that good. It was a little childish at first, but it had a not-that-great explanation in the end. And the body exchange was very entertaining the first time, but the second time was just uncomfortable. The main male character was very funny, due to his character, and in the end, that was the only thing supporting the drama. For me, the twenty episodes were a bit too much; the story could have easily finish at the sixteenth or the eighteenth episode, and still, it would have been as good, as the final episode was a quick wrap up mixed up with a few concert songs, some flash backs and family life moments. So, 6 out of 10.

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The body switching provides laughs, but the show is too long

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