Choco Bank

Choco Bank

3/10

Choco Bank

Genre:                              Episodes: 6                          Year: 2016

Romance

Synopsis:

Kim Eun Haeng is struggling to find employment in the financial field despite being smart and determined. Eun Hang meets Ha Choco, a young woman who has started her own chocolate business. Choco enlists Eun Haeng’s help as her financial advisor because her business is struggling.

Cast:

Kai (Kim Eun Haeng)

Park Eun Bin (Ha Choco)

Yeon Joon Suk (Bae Dal Soo)

Lee Chae Won (Hong Chae Ri)

General Thoughts:

Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh…so that wasn’t good. Even for a tiny web-series it wasn’t good. This series has absolutely no idea what it is doing. None. It kinds knows what it wants to do, but really skipped a lot of material in its attempts to reach its conclusion. 

Where's our plot? Where's our characters?

Sure, you can argue that 6 episodes isn’t enough to generate a well-rounded story- but that excuse is a cop-out. Because you totally can. Case in point- ‘Splash Splash Love’ did it in just two. The writers just plain didn’t know how to utilise their time, which resulted in a drama full of inconsistencies, unexplained points, and just plain bad plot. 

What Was Great:

Way to go, Kai

The Acting, I Guess:

While nothing close to phenomenal, the acting wasn’t outright bad. Which makes it a bit of a stand out point when it comes to this series. Kai was believable in his character, which is great for him as it’s his first real experience acting in anything. Hooray for Kai. Park Eun Bin also does a satisfactory job playing her less than adequately constructed character. And then they just throw in Lee Il Hwa who totally sells the adorable, yet way too involved mother. Does she ever not?

What Wasn’t:

Everything Else:

Zero character construction. Zero plot momentum. Zero Development. Yikes. So basically the story does nothing and goes nowhere, which gives our characters very little room to manoeuvre, and well, do anything. 

I highly doubt it.

For starters, I really don't believe that free financial advice is what would make a chocolate shop successful. If it were a financial business giving out free chocolate…maybe. 

Hold up- who's the dude in the middle?

It’s all just a bit of a clusterf*ck. We aren’t given enough information about our characters to really know who they are or what they want. Stuff just happens and it’s a bit like ‘oh, okay. I guess that might happen in that situation’. The love-line isn’t sold believably- the whole series hardly had any cute in it at all. What even. You’re a web-drama set in a chocolate shop- you’re supposed to be nothing BUT cute.And all the other characters just fall by the wayside. Which is unsurprising as they only get about 5 minutes of screen time apiece. It’s just…it’s not good.

Re-watch?

No. I got far less chocolate and far less cute than I was expecting. And deserved.

This is so unbelievable.