I'm Not a Girl Anymore

I’m Not a Girl Anymore

4.5/10

I'm Not a Girl Anymore

Genre:                                   Episodes: 12                           Year: 2017

Romance 

Synopsis:

Na So Nyeo is a top star, but a scandal looks like it may break out when one of her exes debuts and threatens to talk about their past relationship. So Nyeo looks back on her past boyfriends, and how her relationships shaped her into the person she’s become.

Cast:

Kyungri (Na So Nyeo)

Hong Jin Ho (Hong Jin Ho)

Joo Woo Jae (Seung Joon)

Ren (Shi Woo)

Seo Tae Hoon (Hoon Tae)

General Thoughts:

It’s a nice, easy watch and is a totally breeze to get through. It was a fun enough break from longer, more involving dramas as it’s easy to follow and is really quick to watch.

The whole thing only goes for bout an hour

It seems like it’s one of those web-dramas that was made purely for an idol though. The plot is engaging enough, but as it focuses so heavily on the character of So Nyeo, not a lot else happens. I prefer idols getting some acting experience in smaller productions like this rather than getting lead roles in longer dramas straight away, but Kyungri’s acting really wasn’t all that good.

Pretty okay for a web-drama

The parts of the show that showed her character ‘acting badly’ really weren’t all that different from her actual acting. The boys in the show weren’t really around long enough to get a grasp for their acting ability- especially Joo Woo Jae and Ren who just sort of had to stand there and look good. Admittedly, they were great at standing there and looking good. I liked the final reveal that So Nyeo was likely to try and love again after realising that her Manager had been protecting and looking after her all along, but I do wish it had been hinted at before the final episode. Until then, I honestly believed that So Nyeo didn’t even like her manager because she was so snappy and mean to him. It was a cute idea, but it was executed rather poorly. And considering that this was only a short show, there was a smorgasbord of product placement in there. I didn’t think it was possible to smack so many products in an hour long show, but there you go. I guess we should all be thankful that the products (makeup and such) could actually sort of blend into the show. Visually the drama wasn’t much to look at.

Two of the boys carried the visuals for the whole show

When you’re used to watching big 16 episode projects that have a lot of money thrown at them, you start to notice how important money can be in creating a visually interesting show. The cinematography was noting to write home about, and nor was the camerawork. They weren’t outright bad, they just weren’t very good. And that’s almost to be expected of a tiny little web-series like this. Perhaps the show would have won me over more had it included one of my own favourite K-Drama boys, because I’m a shameless fangirl, but I didn’t know any of these boys.

What Was Great:

Diversity:

I did appreciate that not all the boys in this were stock standard K-Drama dreamboats. Don’t get me wrong, I love dramas fills with handsome men as much as the next girl, but it’s kind of nice to see not-so-spectacular men getting their moment in the spotlight.

Just a regular dude

It’s not that these boys were hideous, it’s just that they’re not usually the type of guys we get populating our screen- especially when the show is about the love life of an attractive, famous, rich woman. It wasn’t just the boys themselves that were different, but also each scenario. The scenarios might not have been surprising or exotic, but they were still different enough from each other that each one felt like a different, seperate relationship. So Nyeo was drawn to each of these men for a different reason- most often being the new man had something the last didn’t. Such as the second boyfriend being a man who gave lots of skinship and affection after the first was too aloof. Similarly, there was always a different reason for the breakup. It kept the show from feeling like we were watching the same two episodes play out just with different boys.

What Wasn’t:

Was There a Point?:

This does tend to be a bit of a problem with some short web-series. There wasn’t really a point to anything. Despite the show claiming to be about how these relationships changed So Nyeo, we didn’t actually get to see her change all that much.

The heroine was just not that interesting

Sure, she went from a pushover teenager to someone who was able to stand up for herself, but that seemed to happen right after boyfriend 3 with no warm up to her sudden personality change.

She was kinda a b*tch

If her romance with her Manager was going to be the endgame and the point was that now So Neyo was experienced enough that she knew what to look for in a man, then it really should have been hinted at earlier. If the point was that after some reflection So Nyeo was ready to love again, then the writer really should have tried making her a more likeable character. She was snappy and rude in the present time, and she seemed to have a bit of a victim complex about her past- none of those breakups were bad enough to hold a super long grudge over. So in the end, I didn’t really care about So Nyeo or if she was ready to be in a new relationship or not.

Recommend?

Look, not really. Fans of Nu’Est and Ren will probably love his couple of episodes though.

Not a great web-series, but I've seen worse