Doona Debrief
Added 2023-10-26 05:09:36 +0000 UTCI (Lia) finished Doona on plane home this Sunday. I can’t stop thinking about it. I have seen meh reviews and I’m strongly opposed to that take. So here is the deal…you are allowed to tell me it’s meh to you but I’ll forcefully argue my point lol. Also I want to hear from anyone who loved this like I did!
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I love Bae Suzy and felt like I should have loved this series, but the show never made me care about the main couple either as a couple or individually. I couldn't see any reason for them to want to be together beyond a brief fling. It seemed like the director tried to make it a higher-level story, but it felt underdeveloped instead. Given how many people seem to love it, I wonder if watching it as it aired would have been better than bingeing it.
Lena M.
2023-10-29 19:58:41 +0000 UTCYour thoughts about Yang Se Jong are really interesting (and also Kim Woo Bin 😊). His role is so sweet and vulnerable, which Suzy’s is not, that for me it was an impossible pairing.
Claudia Copeland
2023-10-27 17:41:47 +0000 UTCI liked a lot about Doona!, including the gorgeous and dreamy aesthetic, and I’m having a GREAT time thinking about it, so 10/10 in that regard. Seemed deliberately constructed in broad strokes, webtoon style, with big ideas raised about women’s power and agency; the idol life and its costs; friendship and romantic connection; and maturity and growth, but none of these was explored in much depth. Suzy’s casting and performance did a lot of work, and I thought she was great. I also really liked brave and reflective Jin Ju and goofy, genuine, kicksss I Ra. Their friendship enduring was wonderful. The bittersweet ending was the right choice. Doona and Won Jun didn’t make it work. They are apart. But hold up, now: Is that fate scheming to bring them back together again? There’s the CLOYness! (I can imagine this show redone and expanded to be VERY CLOY, I wish I could see that too—if only for the missing four years of growth and the reunion of our couple as more mature people. My hottest take: EXCELLENT kissing and chemistry w Suzy aside, Yang Se Jong was miscast as Won Jun. it’s a tough role, bc WJ’s qualities are Nice and Kind, and his fault is Inexpressive. You need big charisma to make Decency both hot and interesting (see Kim Woo Bin in Our Blues), and you need to convey what’s going on beneath a calm surface. I got little of that from this performance—little sense of who WJ was or what he was thinking or wanting, beyond wanting Doona, vaguely, from about Ep6-8. Critically, I did not for a second buy him as 20 years old, and I think you have to. Let me watch the version where Won Jun is played by Lee Jae Wook.
Katie M
2023-10-27 12:45:53 +0000 UTC
