KBS lines up new drama Unkind Women for February launch
by javabeans
The PD of weekend blockbuster My Daughter Seo-young is teaming with the writer of Equator Man for a new drama, which makes me wonder: Will they be courting a reunion with lead actress Lee Bo-young? That’d be one way to shoot my interest level way up.
For now, the show has been announced as a 24-episode series titled Unkind Women and centers around three generations of women in a “hot-blooded family.” The title doesn’t mean that they’re specifically mean people, just that they’re not “nice girl” types, which makes sense given that they’ve struggled to endure through hardships and get where they are in life. (And now I really do want Lee Bo-young in it, since she’s an actress who can take conventionally unlikable traits—selfishness, pettiness, schadenfreude—and make a character lovable for them.)
The description is pretty vague about the ladies finding love, success, and happiness, but I think I can picture it well enough. Writer Kim In-young’s recent credits do skew more melodramatic than comedic (Women in the Sun, When a Man Loves), but (1) she also wrote one of my favorite rom-coms, The Woman Who Still Wants To Marry, and (2) the production house has done lighter material, so I’m hoping for something more along those lines. IOK Media produced Queen’s Classroom and Sly and Single Again (the latter was a joint venture with Fantagio), as well as tvN’s Marriage Not Dating.
The drama is tentatively being planned as a follow-up to KBS’s King’s Face, which airs in mid-November. That puts Unkind Women’s premiere in February 2015.
Via Star News
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1 klir
October 12, 2014 at 12:30 PM
So there will be more than one female lead in this drama and they will all be `not nice`? Sign me up.
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2 ThoseWhoKnowMe...
October 12, 2014 at 1:33 PM
Womance alert! I like this writer: TWWM3T is also a fave of mine & WAML was surprisingly light for a melo. If LBY would be cast, that would be fab. The channel needs a hit badly, maybe that will be it.
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bibapr57
October 12, 2014 at 1:39 PM
I agree that KBS needs a hit, and it needs it soon... Because SBS and MBC are running ahead with everything (MBC has the percentage numbers and lately SBS has better dramas than KBS). Hopefully this will put the network up there again.
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3 bibapr57
October 12, 2014 at 1:35 PM
I like the way you guys describe it.. So It seems to have potential. If Lee Bo Young is in it, I'm down.. I'll have to keep my eyes out for news on this upcoming drama.
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4 ujsid
October 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM
If they score Lee Boo Young, then i am totally gonna watch it!
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5 trotwood
October 12, 2014 at 1:52 PM
. . . only if Lee Bo Young does NOT play a character like she did in Equator Man. Any time she can't make a character interesting, the character is flatter than a wet piece of looseleaf paper. I love her and was just annoyed that her character was not really given anything to do in that drama.
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bibapr57
October 12, 2014 at 2:10 PM
but then that's not her fault... If the writing was flat, she can only make the character do so much. When something like that happens I don't blame the actor as much as I blame the writer, because the actor can only create a character based on what is written in paper, they can't do something else to it because that's when we get a character that reads a certain way but is acted in a different one.
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6 Annie
October 12, 2014 at 2:11 PM
Kim In Young is such a one trick pony and the topic of the career woman finding her heart's desire is a tired one. Stay away Lee Bo Young, whatever you do!
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7 kanz
October 12, 2014 at 3:21 PM
Anything to make Lee Bo Young comeback to dramaland I'm in! I haven't even seen her nowadays since GG14Days.
I also have no problem if they cast Jo Seung Woo :)
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PeepsLeAwesomePotato
October 12, 2014 at 5:12 PM
You shipping her with Jo SeungWoo? Mr. JiSung might have something to say about that...
Hehehehehehe ~
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kanz
October 12, 2014 at 7:03 PM
I have no problem with either Ji Sung or Jo Seung Woo.. LOL
I mean, I want at least resolution for LBY-JSW after the F*** ending in GG14days.. hahaa
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light
October 13, 2014 at 8:23 AM
Yes!
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8 jademwong
October 12, 2014 at 7:02 PM
Ooooh interesting interesting. Will be keeping an eye on this drama
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9 tasha
October 12, 2014 at 9:38 PM
I watched Lee Bo-Young in My Daughter Seo-young and Equator Man and she is an interesting actress. Not my favorite actress yet but i wld watch a drama w her in it. Thanks for the post
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10 Janis Jap
October 12, 2014 at 9:40 PM
thanks JB,
They are successful women in this drama?.
Three women in the family exciting !.
1 Lee jiah, choi ji woo
2 Lee dae hae
3 Yoon eun hye
Interesting if it happens.
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11 fab
October 13, 2014 at 4:13 AM
Oh Lee Bo-young would be perfect for this! Crossing fingers.
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12 Bex
October 13, 2014 at 7:55 AM
I would def be here for Lee Bo-young and I like stories about not the "typical" heart of gold women, as they for me are hard to relate to.
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13 Joanne
October 13, 2014 at 7:27 PM
I want to see BoYoung onni as soon as possible <3
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