Go Kyung-pyo is desperate to stop Frankly Speaking

13 April 9, 2024April 26, 2024

Go Kyung-pyo is desperate to stop Frankly Speaking

by tccolb

The promo train for JTBC’s Frankly Speaking has been chugging along at a busy pace, delivering new character posters and stills of our three leads: Go Kyung-pyo (D.P. 2), Kang Hanna (Red Heart), and Joo Jong-hyuk (Extraordinary Attorney Woo).

Set against the backdrop of the entertainment and media industry, Go Kyung-pyo plays our hero Song Ki-baek, a well-respected announcer aspiring to rise to the news anchor seat. For the last eight years, he’s been carefully curating his public image as a man of truth – which naturally requires taking some… creative liberties in how he presents himself. But Ki-baek’s career is at risk of termination when he’s suddenly afflicted with an actual inability to speak nothing but the truth, and our announcer admits in his poster’s tagline: “Truthfully, I want to lie.”

Enter Kang Hanna as variety show writer Ohn Woo-joo, who had been feeling like she lost her touch. However, 12 years of experience in her field is not something to snub at and when Woo-joo spots one of Ki-baek’s truth-spilling antics, her gut tells her that she’s hit the jackpot. It’s a timely discovery for Woo-joo and fingers-crossed that she’s right on the money because her faltering show is about to get axed if Ki-baek isn’t enough to turnaround the ratings.

Thankfully (?), Woo-joo’s ex-boyfriend Kim Jung-heon – played by Joo Jong-hyuk – knows a thing or two about being the underdog as a failed idol singer who later found success after winning second place in a trot audition show. Now a variety mainstay as the nation’s beloved son-in-law, Jung-heon hoped to get cast on Woo-joo’s show and rekindle their romance. But something tells me his plans are for naught.

On the production side, the rom-com has PD Jang Ji-yeon at the helm with scripts penned by Choi Kyung-sun. Slated to air in the Wednesday-Thursday slot, JTBC’s Frankly Speaking premieres on May 1 and will be released internationally on Netflix.

Via Newsen (1), (2), (3)

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1 HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞

April 10, 2024 at 3:40 AM

I'm really excited about this! Go Kyung-pyo is so funny, and with the news and variety show setting, this sounds like a lot of fun!

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🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸

April 11, 2024 at 9:59 AM

Hope the drama is able to deliver on the vibe promised by the teasers. We all know who was made a sucker in the last variety show setting drama. 😳

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HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞

April 11, 2024 at 2:39 PM

Lol true true 😂🤞

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2 Isa is always time travelling

April 10, 2024 at 3:51 AM

This can be funny! I'll give it a chance. I like the three main leads, and I have not watched them for a long time.

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3 Blue (@mayhemf)

April 10, 2024 at 3:53 AM

Oh wow. I just realized May is around the corner!! Time flies.
A lot of May dramas I am looking forward to. This one should be fun!

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🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸

April 11, 2024 at 10:02 AM

😅 It was not showing in Netflix coming up yet and I thought ooh! May is so far away. But your comment gave me a pause. Indeed it feels like it was Jan just a few days ago. 🤣

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4 Seon-ha

April 10, 2024 at 4:24 AM

I'm gonna say it so it doesn't come true...the graphic design of these posters keeps reminding me of the graphic design for Behind Your Touch, a drama that really disappointed me in the way the comedic promotion did not match the actual tone and content of the drama at all.

That said, what I'm actually hoping for here isn't likely to happen anyway, so I shouldn't blame the promos when it does not...I want a cross between Jim Carrey in Liar Liar for Go Kyung-po and, for Kang Hanna and Joo Jong-hyuk, I want to see them as Holly Hunter and William Hurt in Broadcast News . Why would I want to see that drama? Because it'd be awesome, that's why.

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5 Dylan [is crying bc of Umi no Hajimari]

April 10, 2024 at 7:06 AM

My Wednesday and Thursdays are gonna be so busy lol

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6 vienibenmio

April 10, 2024 at 7:47 AM

I'm pretty excited for this one!

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🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸

April 11, 2024 at 10:03 AM

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7 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

April 10, 2024 at 8:19 AM

It’s about this time that they usually start to drop hints about the slightly darker elements, if they are going to be present in a drama. The fact we are not seeing anything that could rain on this parade gives me hope that all will be as shown.