my ajumma notes

How interesting can a show about potatoes be and how is post-military discharge Kang Tae-oh?   The potato research part sure wasn’t very interesting but it was passable as the backdrop.   The story was more about some very childish people doing very childish things but thankfully, there were a few meaningful threads running through it.     Kim Mi-kyung (Lee Sun-bin) is extremely childish, for example, in making life difficult for So Baek-ho ( Kang Tae-oh ) when he takes charge of the lab, for abetting the childish village chief and elders in their attempts to do the same (was that supposed to be funny?) and when expecting Baek-ho to do all kinds of silly tricks to win back her affection.  You’d think she would grow up over time but she doesn’t.  She is topped only by best friend Ong-joo (Kim Ga-eun), childish right to the core.  30-somethings who cannot behave their age.   Hee-jin ( Jung Sin-hye ) is more annoying than chi...

Agency (2003)   Lee Bo-young is a wonderful actress, and that worked against this show for me.  She was so intense, portraying Go A-in grappling with her personal difficulties and so naturally fighting office politics with her own manipulative shrewdness and scheming.  That was more angst and politicking than I wanted to endure.   lovely queen swats away the company snakes It all got far worse when Han-na ( Son Na-eun ) and the rest of her Kang family appeared.  The grandfather is ridiculously biased and full of himself, the father is so unsure of himself, and the brother is a pathetic victim of the silly practice of pitting the children against each other.  Han-na is thinly delivered, annoying, childish and strangely styled.  What was up with all those huge bows in her hair?! no match at all for the queen Special mention to Han Joon-woo (dead fiance in Be Melodramatic ), playing Park Young-woo, young man with brains and abili...