Saturday, March 9, 2013

Drama Review: K-Pop The Ultimate Audition [2012]

K-Pop The Ultimate Audition [2012]

 

K-Pop the Ultimate Audtion (aka K-Pop Extreme Survival) is a drama about teenagers who want to become a successful artist or in other words an idol. In this drama, it starts Go Eun Ah (MBLAQ Mir's sister), Park Yoo Hwan (JYJ (or previously TVXQ) Park Yoo Chun's brother [He stared in Rooftop Prince]). Go Eun Ah plays Ji Seung Yeon who is mistaken as a boy yet is very talented. Park Yoo Hwan plays Kang Woo Hyun who seems extremely nice when he is public, but he is actually the rude, arrogant, self centered leader of M2, the most popular band of the time.

In a basic overview of the drama, the group M2 who is extremely famous is about to "graduate" in other words, once their time is up, or once they are old enough there will need to be a new M2. Moreover, M2 seems to be mainly popular due to their arrogant leader Woo Hyun, while the rest of the members are not as popular. The rest of the members really hate Woo Hyun because really all they want is the fame, which they know they can only get if they have Woo Hyun. Now, we honestly have to say Woo Hyun is very popular, but its just is arrogant self that is holding himself shine more. When there is an audition for M2, there were 3 members that were already chosen through the CEO and his assistant, however, when it was leaked who those junior members where chosen it caused a huge controversy, people saying they were untalented and it is unfair to start the new M2 already. Thus, the CEO, who in reality seems really stupid but he actually does know what he is doing; he holds an open audition to everyone/anyone. Seung Yeon's best friend wants to audition, and he definatly has the talent, however he can get over getting stage fright. Thus, Seung Yeon auditions with him, no one knowing that she is actually a girl, and the funny thing is, she wasn't even trying to hide she is a girl. In the end her best friend, Kwon Ji Woo (played by Kwak Yong Hwan) had passed, WITH Seung Yeon, and actually people were more happy about Seung Yeon passing. Now, i dont want to go into greater detail and ruin the drama, so i will just continue with, the Seung Yeon along with Ji Woo and 4 other juniors who passed, are being trained to be known as M2 juniors, although the company actually does not plan to debut them, they try their best to be known. While Woo Hyun slowly seems to fall in love Seung Yeon, he still is clueless about her actually being a girl! When will he find out? What will happen when he finds out? Will the M2 juniors debut? What is happening next??!?!?! Watch K-pop Extreme Survival to know!!!


FINALLY The Real Review

My honest opinion on the drama is that it is actually a really great drama. If your someone who likes dramas that have young teenagers trying to pursue a goal, and love being one of the important factors, i think you will like this drama. Personally, the drama to me seems like a combination of Dream High, Your Beautiful, and Heartstrings all in one. Since, the drama is focused around teenagers wanting to become famous idols, it has that feeling of Dream High, where Your Beautiful comes in because, well there is a group called M2 and  there is a girl who is mistaken as a guy here, and lastly Heartstrings comes to play here because the guy, in this case Hyun Woo actually hires Seung Yeon as a servant for a while! Overall, i did like those dramas, and combined all in one is pretty cool. 
However, what i am disappointing about K-pop Extreme Survival is that it seemed to have a rushed ending, the ending was not bad, but it could have been better. Since, i am assuming the ratings were not high for the drama so they had to cut it short. Now, there was so much more potential growth for it and there were so many unanswered questions, if the drama were to have continued i would have loved this drama even more, but sadly it didnt.
In terms of the actors, personally i thought they were really good. This was my first drama seeing Go Eun Ah and Park Yoo Hwan. I was originally skeptical about watching this drama because, i dont want to sound rude or anything, but i originally thought Park Yoo Hwan was just unattractive and i didnt really want to watch it, but as i watched the drama more i found him more and more attractive ^_^ <3 
Overall, if i had to give a score out of 10 i wold give K-pop The Ultimate Audition (aka K-Pop Extreme Survival) a 6/10. 
Basically, im giving a 6/10 since i liked the overall plot and the characters, its just that were was so much more potential for the drama to create an even better ending and expansion on the plot, although it didnt happen, i have to give it a greater than 50% ranking. 6/10

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