PRODUCERS - EPISODES 11 & 12 (FINALE)
Cindy and Seung Chan, oblivious to the weird glowing alien starfish devouring Seung Chan's nipple...
We're down to the final two episodes. So, are all the dangling plot threads wrapped up nicely? Let's see:
Seung Chan's kiss with Ye Jin doesn't go well, and they talk to little result. She walks off to meet up with Joon Mo, and they speak of how she feels she doesn't deserve to be loved. Moving day comes, and they all part in tears. Later, at the office, Joon Mo's team agonizes over low ratings while Cindy is beset with problems. First, the preview she did has earned her the sobriquets "Cindy the bum" and "Cindy the singing beggar." Seung Chan tries to encourage her to embrace this. Later, Cindy is embroiled in a controversy when the media finds out she lied about being raised by her parents. CEO Byun doesn't let her finish talking about how the agency made her lie. Helping Ye Jin move into her apartment, a tearful Seung Chan is rejected by her. Later, the PDs take responsibility for helping Cindy out and urge her to get ready to shoot a new episode. She cries tears of joy.
Seung Chan talks to Ye Jin, telling her he wishes he could re-shoot and re-edit scenes from his life, so that he could maybe do it over and win her heart. They continue to shoot the new episode of '1N2D.' Seung Chan eagerly watches over Cindy, making sure all the footage is golden. He asks Joon Mo if he thinks they'll be cancelled, and Joon Mo unhelpfully tells him that variety shows end when people are tired of them. At the station, Ye Jin tells her colleagues that she doesn't believe Cindy lied, and one of the cameramen adds that CEO Byun shut down an interview with Cindy, years ago, when the young starlet started crying about how she was an orphan. Ye Jin heads to the footage room to find the tape. After shooting wraps, Seung Chan drinks with veteran MC Song Hae, and our young PD plays the sauce monster once again, getting totally wrecked, and ends the evening by planting a kiss on Joon Mo's lips. The footage that Ye Jin dug up airs on 'Entertainment Weekly,' and CEO Byun is mortified. The look on her face is priceless!
"Yes, if you open your mouth wide like that you can fit more food in there."
So, as things wind down, Joon Mo and Ye Jin continue to tease their romance out, Seung Chan is helping Cindy out now that she's started her own agency and left CEO Byun, and the show gets 3 more months airtime. Seung Chan's teasers all hit high in the search engine rankings, as well, giving him that sweet, sweet glow of success. Not a bad ending at all.
You have to feel sorry for Seung Chan. He ends up in tears so often during these two episodes, you think he'd be dehydrated by now. It seems like the last few installments have been primarily about him, and how driven he is to show his love for Ye Jin. When he finally gets up the nerve to kiss her, she pulls away. It's all rather ironic. He gets a job at the station for a girl, his girl really isn't his girl, so he starts to crush on another girl, who doesn't view him as a guy at all. At least things end up well for him at the end, and we see a well-deserved smile on his face.
I wonder how long it will take them to make a drama out of this toon...
It's nice that Cindy has up and left. I'm not a fan of how the entertainment companies treat their stars, and so it's very satisfying to see someone empowered to do it on her own. She started out so unlikable too, just -- ugh. And I think they did a good thing by casting IU. Not only did she nail the spoiled starlet, there's just this aura of "nice" around her that makes you feel bad when something bad happens to her. The "Cindy the singing beggar" bit had me in stitches, and I nearly ruined my laptop squirting out my nose when they unveiled the little cartoon.
It seems like Ye Jin and Joon Mo are trying to get a romance underway. That's half the reason I watched this show, really, the romance. Their relationship was so hilarious and often awkward, that it was difficult not to laugh at it. Joon Mo would be infuriating while Ye Jin would want more tenderness from him, betraying the normally brisk, prickly side that she showed at work. Sometimes they were so annoying that you wanted to yell at them, and other times there were just these scenes that showed they were so comfortable with each other that they couldn't see the bigger picture.
"You...uh...don't want to know what you just ate"
I guess I wasn't alone in my assessment of the docu-format. Korean fans hated it, and wanted more romance. I didn't find it hilarious or terrible, but I found it a bit extraneous, at times. I think if you're asking for more romance, you're missing the point. Yes, this is a rom-com, but it's also so much more. It was experimental, and I guess that was its downfall. It's nice to see them try something different, even if it didn't work as well as they hoped. There was enough romance in here, or at least teases of romance. It almost at times became the Seung Chan-Cindy show, and that was a bit annoying, if only because Ye Jin and Joon Mo were solid characters, and I felt there was more they could have done with them.
In any case, everyone was all smiles at the end, and all the characters were where they were supposed to be by the end. And I think that's as much as you can hope for.
Cindy and Seung Chan, oblivious to the weird glowing alien starfish devouring Seung Chan's nipple...
We're down to the final two episodes. So, are all the dangling plot threads wrapped up nicely? Let's see:
Seung Chan's kiss with Ye Jin doesn't go well, and they talk to little result. She walks off to meet up with Joon Mo, and they speak of how she feels she doesn't deserve to be loved. Moving day comes, and they all part in tears. Later, at the office, Joon Mo's team agonizes over low ratings while Cindy is beset with problems. First, the preview she did has earned her the sobriquets "Cindy the bum" and "Cindy the singing beggar." Seung Chan tries to encourage her to embrace this. Later, Cindy is embroiled in a controversy when the media finds out she lied about being raised by her parents. CEO Byun doesn't let her finish talking about how the agency made her lie. Helping Ye Jin move into her apartment, a tearful Seung Chan is rejected by her. Later, the PDs take responsibility for helping Cindy out and urge her to get ready to shoot a new episode. She cries tears of joy.
Seung Chan talks to Ye Jin, telling her he wishes he could re-shoot and re-edit scenes from his life, so that he could maybe do it over and win her heart. They continue to shoot the new episode of '1N2D.' Seung Chan eagerly watches over Cindy, making sure all the footage is golden. He asks Joon Mo if he thinks they'll be cancelled, and Joon Mo unhelpfully tells him that variety shows end when people are tired of them. At the station, Ye Jin tells her colleagues that she doesn't believe Cindy lied, and one of the cameramen adds that CEO Byun shut down an interview with Cindy, years ago, when the young starlet started crying about how she was an orphan. Ye Jin heads to the footage room to find the tape. After shooting wraps, Seung Chan drinks with veteran MC Song Hae, and our young PD plays the sauce monster once again, getting totally wrecked, and ends the evening by planting a kiss on Joon Mo's lips. The footage that Ye Jin dug up airs on 'Entertainment Weekly,' and CEO Byun is mortified. The look on her face is priceless!
"Yes, if you open your mouth wide like that you can fit more food in there."
So, as things wind down, Joon Mo and Ye Jin continue to tease their romance out, Seung Chan is helping Cindy out now that she's started her own agency and left CEO Byun, and the show gets 3 more months airtime. Seung Chan's teasers all hit high in the search engine rankings, as well, giving him that sweet, sweet glow of success. Not a bad ending at all.
You have to feel sorry for Seung Chan. He ends up in tears so often during these two episodes, you think he'd be dehydrated by now. It seems like the last few installments have been primarily about him, and how driven he is to show his love for Ye Jin. When he finally gets up the nerve to kiss her, she pulls away. It's all rather ironic. He gets a job at the station for a girl, his girl really isn't his girl, so he starts to crush on another girl, who doesn't view him as a guy at all. At least things end up well for him at the end, and we see a well-deserved smile on his face.
I wonder how long it will take them to make a drama out of this toon...
It's nice that Cindy has up and left. I'm not a fan of how the entertainment companies treat their stars, and so it's very satisfying to see someone empowered to do it on her own. She started out so unlikable too, just -- ugh. And I think they did a good thing by casting IU. Not only did she nail the spoiled starlet, there's just this aura of "nice" around her that makes you feel bad when something bad happens to her. The "Cindy the singing beggar" bit had me in stitches, and I nearly ruined my laptop squirting out my nose when they unveiled the little cartoon.
It seems like Ye Jin and Joon Mo are trying to get a romance underway. That's half the reason I watched this show, really, the romance. Their relationship was so hilarious and often awkward, that it was difficult not to laugh at it. Joon Mo would be infuriating while Ye Jin would want more tenderness from him, betraying the normally brisk, prickly side that she showed at work. Sometimes they were so annoying that you wanted to yell at them, and other times there were just these scenes that showed they were so comfortable with each other that they couldn't see the bigger picture.
"You...uh...don't want to know what you just ate"
I guess I wasn't alone in my assessment of the docu-format. Korean fans hated it, and wanted more romance. I didn't find it hilarious or terrible, but I found it a bit extraneous, at times. I think if you're asking for more romance, you're missing the point. Yes, this is a rom-com, but it's also so much more. It was experimental, and I guess that was its downfall. It's nice to see them try something different, even if it didn't work as well as they hoped. There was enough romance in here, or at least teases of romance. It almost at times became the Seung Chan-Cindy show, and that was a bit annoying, if only because Ye Jin and Joon Mo were solid characters, and I felt there was more they could have done with them.
In any case, everyone was all smiles at the end, and all the characters were where they were supposed to be by the end. And I think that's as much as you can hope for.
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