Genie, Make a Want is a fantasy romantic comedy about an emotionally risky genie (Kim Woo Bin) who’s trapped in a lamp and grants three needs to a lady (Suzy) with anti-social persona dysfunction who helps him escape.
Suzy performs Ki Ga Yeong. She has an anti-social persona dysfunction inflicting psychopathic tendencies. Her loving grandmother (Kim Mi Kyung) has raised her with care to assist her match in additional, however she nonetheless faces many difficulties in life. Then issues take an surprising flip when she unleashes a genie.
Kim Woo Bin is a genie named Iblis, often known as Devil. After being trapped in his lamp for a thousand years, he’s launched and able to take revenge on the particular person liable for his captivity.
Then now we have Steve Noh as Ryu Su Hyeon/Ejlael. He’s an angel who’s pitted in opposition to Iblis due to a rivalry courting again millennia.
Genie, Make a Want was an attention-grabbing drama in some ways, but it surely was additionally a combined bag for me. I at all times love a novel premise, and having a genie on the middle of the story is a bit more distinctive for a kdrama.
On the optimistic aspect, I did like the primary story centering round Iblis and Ga Yeong and their lengthy historical past. Kim Woo Bin and Suzy had been each unbelievable of their respective roles with a enjoyable chemistry between them.
The drama comes from the author of some extremely popular dramas that I loved together with Goblin: The Lonely and Nice God, Descendants of the Solar, and Mr. Sunshine. It had a sizeable price range which is evidenced from the ample use of CGI and particular results. A few of it was somewhat wonky, however lots of it was extraordinarily effectively carried out. We additionally get some attention-grabbing places together with Dubai.
On the destructive aspect, the general tone of the drama was a bit odd with the plot being messy at instances. The comedy additionally didn’t hit for me more often than not. The villains had been pretty underwhelming as a complete too.
I didn’t love how the drama structured the general story. We solely get flashes of the again story for about half of the drama, and even going into the latter third, I nonetheless felt like we had been lacking lots of vital info.
We then get a giant flashback episode on the very finish, which was an excellent episode, that dumps all the lacking info. I’m not normally a giant fan of that kind of construction because it leaves the viewers at midnight for too lengthy and might make sure parts a bit complicated, which was the case right here.
I believe the connection between Iblis and Ga Yeong would have had much more which means so much sooner if we might have went deeper with this earlier within the drama. As a result of the extra we discovered about their story, the extra invested I turned. Now, they do have a really enjoyable bickering kind chemistry from the get go that had a sure enjoyable chaos to it. It largely stays in that territory, however the feelings do deepen because the drama progresses.
Iblis and Ga Yeong Every have vital character journeys to go on. Iblis begins out with a kind of revenge mission and has lots of rising to do as he learns extra about Ga Yeong and people.
Then Ga Yeong has struggled with psychopathic tendencies all of her life which complicates all of her relationships together with the one with Iblis. I loved exploring her character and all the changes she makes in her life to not trigger hurt to others. She’s an attention-grabbing character on many ranges, and we get some nice developments along with her.
So in the long run, I did get pleasure from Genie Make a Want. We had nice performances from Kim Woo Bin and Suzy, and their characters had been participating. The story and manufacturing was stable, however the total construction of the drama had fairly just a few points. The tone was a bit odd, and typically the pacing suffered.
At instances, it felt just like the drama wished to be very grand, and in the direction of the tip, it typically felt like that, however incessantly, it did really feel prefer it was making an attempt a bit too laborious and fell quick. However total, it was a enjoyable experience should you don’t take it too significantly.
My Ranking: 7/10
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