Heartbeat (2023)

Comédie légère et bon enfant avec un Ok Taek Yeon à croquer

Heartbeat n'est pas parfait, mais pourquoi doit-il souffrir d'autant de critiques sur son final ?

Le scénario est assez léger mené par un trio de vampires absolument incroyable. S'ils manquent un peu de mordant, il est facile de s'attacher à chacun d'eux. Le vampire est une créature qu'il est possible de décliner pour le rendre moins sanguinaire et c'était plutôt réussi. Sans être gore ou violent, la comédie l'emporte sur le fantastique.

Mais ce qui dérange, c'est la fin.
À choisir, j'aime les fins heureuses. Par contre, je ne supporte pas la fin heureuse lorsqu'elle n'a aucun sens. Lorsque depuis le début (ou presque) on sait qu'une carte bonus n'existe pas.
Contrairement à des dizaines d'autres dramas, Heartbeat ne tombe pas dans la facilité en offrant une fin heureuse sortie de nulle part. En réalité, je ne suis pas sûre qu'on puisse parle de fin triste/heureuse. Car en fin de compte, ce n'est pas heureux, mais ce n'est pas complètement triste non plus, nous sommes sur un entre-deux assez intéressant.

Si la fin était une incohérence monstrueuse, ok. Mais ça ce l'est pas. Je pense que les gens ont décidé de descendre ce drama parce que la fin ne correspond pas à leurs attentes. C'est tout !
Je ne vois pas en quoi cette fin gâche l'histoire. Rien que pour le personnage de Sun Woo Hyeol. Il suffit de voir plus loin que le bout de son nez pour comprendre la fin, la vraie fin. Celle où tous les sentiments se révèlent. Pour cette raison (et même si 6.5 semble bas), j'avais envie de contrer les 1/10 qui n'ont pas lieu d'être.

Alors oui, Heartbeat n'a pas la prétention d'être un incontournable de cette année. Il ne révolutionne rien. Ni la romance, ni les intrigues et encore moins le mythe du vampire. Et pourtant, il en ressort une comédie légère et bon enfant avec un Ok Taek Yeon à croquer.

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It will make your Heart BREAK and not BEAT!

Warning: For those thinking to watch Heartbeat now - Do it At Your Own Risk.

This is me as the drama was announced: ❤️_❤️
This is me as the drama progressed and now ended: ?????

For the first time in my K-Drama watching history, I have not been so disappointed as today. Cause I honestly had high hopes for this drama, given the cast and premise. Even recommended to few friends and MDL-ers as I completed the initial 2-3 episodes (please forgive me). But the magnitude of disappointment is making me rant here so please bear with me ?

I chose to watch an airing drama (big feat in itself) that continued to dip low as the series progressed. But I still thought - No, I have dropped too many dramas and I judge dramas too early - so let's keep watching and hope that it will get better. But it doesn't, week on week it got worse and I was watching this on 2x speed and then just fast-forwarding all together.

But man, that ending - worse than Bella Swan's character and acting in Twilight (and that's saying something).

> Story: 0 (wish I could mark the same in MDL)
> Acting: 7 - cannot blame the actors, they all did a good job - just that the script was terrible, hence the result was terrible.
But no fault of the skills of actor, I would still look forward to their other projects so that I can erase this terrible memory.
> Music/OST: didn't make any difference, cause with such bad writing even when it was good, it all lost meaning.

> Overall: 4/10 - and this 4 is just for the sake of actors.
> Verdict for Heartbeat: Skip it or you'll be filled with regrets like me.

The premise was so good which made me have great expectations as they could have done so much with the romance, comedy, fantasy and mystery elements. They had a decent cast and music as well - but nothing could save it because the writing/script is one of the worst ones I have come across. Like what were the writers eating/drinking that made them act like this??

I feel bad for Taec Yeon as I like him as an idol from 2PM days, and this was my first proper drama of his that I wanted to see. Also, Kim In Kwon - cause he is an exemplary actor! He is one of my favorite support actors, I means see that guy in Mr Queen (what a fine senior actor).

Personally, this drama is making me rethink that I need to continue staying away from airing dramas, and watch them only when it finishes. Binge-watching is better for my sanity and drama viewing. I am just so angry/sad/disappointed. Dramas are after all supposed to bring joy and not make me pull-my hair. Hence, anyone reading this - hope you have a fair idea what could be expected, please tread carefully in case you are planning to watch this drama. Better, don't and watch something else.

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