Title:어비스 | Eobiseu Abyss
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Legal | Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Network: tvN
Broadcast Period: May 6, 2019 to June 25, 2019

Synopsis:

Ko Se Yun is very beautiful and smart prosecutor of the Seoul Center Prosecution Office. She have been revered by men most of her life, more so by Cha Min, a rich and sole heir of Ran Cosmetics. She has turned down the love of Cha Min all the time as they were growing up but they remained friends. In fact, she’s the one who set up Cha Min to meet Jang Hee Jin. Cha Min for the first time in his life felt the love of a woman from Jang Hee Jin but got devastated when Jang Hee Jin suddenly left before their wedding. In despair, Cha Min committed suicide but was revived by 2 Aliens in possession of a ball called, Abyss. This brings dead people back into life and resurrects them in the face of their soul. Cha Min came back in a handsome man and, now, the owner of the abyss. He can’t wait to see Ko Se Yun to help him find Jang Hee Jin but became a murder suspect instead of Ko Se Yun, who was murdered by a serial killer. Losing 2 women he love is something he can’t accept and brought back Ko Se Yun to life. Ko Se Yun was resurrected with the face of her colleague, Lee Mi Do. Cha Min and Ko Se Yun teamed up to solve the murder of Ko Se Yun and catch the killer. This led them to the dangerous path of the killer while trying to live again with a different face.

Characters:

• Park Bo Young as Ko Se Yun
• Kim Sa Rang as Ko Se Yun (before her death)
• Ahn Hyo Seop as Cha Min
• Ahn Se Ha as Cha Min (before his death)
• Lee Sung Jae as Oh Yeong Cheol | Oh SeongCheol
• Kwon Soo Hyun as Seo Ji Wook
• Lee Si-Eon as Park Dong Chul
• Song Sang Eun as Lee Mi Do
• Han So Hee as Jang Hee Jin
• Yoon Yoo Sun as Uhm Ae Ran
• Park Sung Yun (박성연) as Park Mi Sun
• Lee Chul Min as Park Gi Man
• Lee Dae Yeon as Seo Chun Sik
• Ha Sung Kwang as Se Yun’s Father
• Unnamed Actress as Se Yun’s Mother
• Shim Yoon Bo as Mr. Kim
• Jung So Min as Alien on Episode 1
• Seo In Gook as Alien on Episode 1
• Shim Hye Yeon as Oh Soo Jin

My Review:

So, What do I Like About this K-Drama?

I watched this k-drama because the premise seems to be interesting. Although, I’m familiar with the actress, Park Bo Young, in “Strong Woman Do Bong Soon”, I don’t know the leading actor, Ahn Hyo Seop. Nonetheless, due to lack of interesting k-dramas I want to watch, I delve into this k-drama in need of a good romcom after watching several mystery and action thrillers.

(1) Park Bo Young delivers the character of Ko Se Yun with good comedic timing in her acting. She’s passable to watch and didn’t bore me to death.

(2) Ahn Hyo Seop as Cha Min is quite good and made the k-drama interesting. Though he’s good looking and in his character he is considered drop dead gorgeous, I don’t personally consider him one.

(3) The twist about the abyss made this k-drama something entertaining to watch and the turn of events were fast pace, thus, I immensely enjoyed watching it.

(4) What made this k-drama riveting to watch are Lee Sung Jae as Oh Yeong Cheol or Oh SeongCheol, Kwon Soo Hyun as Seo Ji Wook and Lee Si-Eon as Park Dong Chul. I believe they made this k-drama worth watching rather than the lead actors.

(5) I like the OST. It is none intrusive and it has a chill and cute tune.

What I do Not Like About this K-Drama?

(1) This k-drama would have been better if it explained better the mystery of this abyss.

(2) It is quite unbelievable that the original Lee Mi Do surgical transformation was so vast that it even changed her height. They should have gotten a different actress to make this farce at least believable.

(3) The rules of the abyss when you are resurrected from death is so mixed up. For some reason, only the leads had a change of how they look. It is like the writer is doing the rules of what the abyss can do depending on the budget of the production. They ended up sticking to the actors and actresses that were resurrected from death.

(4) The weakness of this k-drama is its consistency on several events as the story goes along. For example, Han So Hee as Jang Hee Jin had a leg injury to the point that the doctor even said her leg might need surgery yet on the next scenes, her leg immediately healed and became okay. In the first place, the cause of her injury and the diagnosis of the doctor don’t jibe. I don’t know if the problem is the translation but the writer should have just stuck to a more believable diagnosis of mild sprain rather than making it very dramatic and then, in the end, making this event ridiculous and unnecessary to the story.

Would I recommend this K-Drama? Yes

My Rating to this Drama
( See My Rating System: ) 4/5 Stars

OST:

01. Into The Abyss – Suran | Coogie
02. Fallin’ – Kim Feel
03. Stay – Kim Bo Hyung
04. 어비스 오프닝 타이틀 – Im Ha Young
05. 외계인과 어비스 그리고 부활 – Im Ha Young
06. 정상이라면 있을 수 없는 일 – Yoo Jong Hyun
07. 그의 피가 흐르는 자 – Im Ha Young
08. 누명 쓴 자의 일상 – Yoo Jong Hyun
09. 음산한 전주곡 – Im Ha Young
10. 그의 등장은 곧 죽음 – Im Ha Young
11. 그들의 슬픈 시간 – Im Ha Young
12. 풀려가는 의문들 – Yoo Jong Hyun
13. 해결의 실마리를 찾아– Yoo Jong Hyun
14. 굿 아이디어 – Im Ha Young
15. 능청스런 시선 – Im Ha Young
16. 성공확률 백퍼작전 – Im Ha Young
17. 혼돈 속에서의 휴식 – Yoo Jong Hyun
18. 일어나지 말았어야 하는 일– Yoo Jong Hyun
19. 숙성된 우정 – Im Ha Young
20. 거대한 소용돌이 – Daniel Lee
21. 어비스의 법칙과 서사 – Im Ha Young