The drama on Monday-Mid of TVn “My Detest Nemesis” (directed by Lee Soo-Hyun, written by Kim Soo-Yeon, produced by Studio N, planned by the Dragon studio) tells the story of Baek Soo-Jung, a “boss Assassin “Team Leader and Ban Joo-Yeon, a third generation” head of division “, while they navigate in a love story in the workplace after theirs Past history is “not sealed”.
In the drama, Moon Ga-Young (like Baek Soo-Jung) and Choi Hyun-Wook (like Ban Joo-Yeon) met as before he loves through an online game during their childhood. Later they met in person in an offline meeting, but their meeting became an embarrassing “dark past”. Sixteen years later, they gather at work.
Due to the setting of the online game, the first episode included scenes related to the game. Instead of briefly explaining their relationship through the narrative, the production team has directly inserted the actors in the world of game, with the aim of giving them life.
However, the execution has failed. The scene, which showed the characters who bind themselves through the completion of the missions and the sharing of emotions, lasted for 12 minutes. The spectators criticized him as “too childish” and “worthy of anger”. Some also stressed that the unknown plot and the unreliable direction alienated not only the youngest audience (20s-30) but also the older spectators (1950s and 60s). In addition, Choi Hyun-Wook’s acting has been described as a little embarrassing and not very convincing.
Perhaps because of these negative reviews, the evaluation of the first episode of the drama was not short compared to its predecessor. The previous drama of Tvn on Monday-Tasday, “The Queen Who Crowns”, was previewed with a national evaluation of 4.9% (according to Nielsen Korea) and concluded with a peak of 6.6%, marking a successful race. On the contrary, “My Carest Nemesis” made its debut with only 3.5%.
Before the drama aired, a photo of Choi Hyun-Wook and Moon Ga-Young Baciano was leaked online, triggering voices of appointments. Specific was arisen that the two could be a real life pair. In response, the production team clarified: “The photo was taken as a dramatic support and was not intended for promotional purposes”.
So far, the drama has been obscured by the surrounding issues rather than by its real plot. Despite his rocky beginning, he remains to see how “my dear Nemesis” will take place in the episodes to come.
