[Drama Review] 'My Sassy Girl' - Episodes 1 & 2

Hello everyone! Starting this week,askkpopwill be reviewingSBS's new Mon-Tues fusion historical drama, 'My Sassy Girl' starringJoo WonandOh Yeon Seo!

The historical drama remake takes after the renowned 2001 romantic comedy movie starringJun Ji HyunandCha Tae Hyun. A second movie, called 'My New Sassy Girl', was also made as a Chinese-Korean production in 2016, bringing back Cha Tae Hyun alongsidef(x)'sVictoria. Prior to the drama's premiere,Oh Jin SeokPD of the drama staff stated in a press conference that while the drama is in the most traditional sense an official remake of the famous movie in drama form, it will also stand as a production of its own.

Before this review, I decided to re-watch both the previous movies, so that I could provide fresh, clear comparisons between the movies and the drama. I will mostly be discussing the similarities and differences between the original 2001 'My Sassy Girl' movie and the 2017 drama, so I will go ahead and mention: Logistically speaking, 'My New Sassy Girl' was a production which failed to capture the essence of the first movie in a new and continued form. Not only did the story and characters veer off from the original piece, but due to the negative reactions of a second movie being made in the first place, many people, have not seen 'My New Sassy Girl' at all, and elements from the second film will most likely not appear in the historical drama. I apologize to any fans of 'My New Sassy Girl', but to give my best critique of 'My Sassy Girl' the drama in comparison to 'My Sassy Girl' the original movie, I won't be able to address the second movie for the duration of my review while the drama is airing.

(From here forward, I will now address 'My Sassy Girl' the original 2001 movie as 'OM'. Whenever you see 'OM' written in the following review and more reviews to come, it refers to 'original movie'!)