The upcoming MBC Wed-Thurs drama Can’t Lose is something I’ve been keeping my eyes on, ever since it was announced that Yoon Sang Hyun was playing the lead opposite Choi Ji Woo. I’m fine with the latter in the right roles, but the former is someone I absolutely adore. Ever since his breakout performance in Queen of Housewives (still swooning over Tae Bong I am), I’ve loved the guy, even in My Fair Lady and Secret Garden when neither drama floated my boat.
I think this pairing is absolutely unexpected but totally intriguing to me. I’m not sure any pairing with Choi Ji Woo can top the insane chemistry she had with Yoo Ji Tae in A Star’s Lover, but I think the sparks will fly between her and Yoon Sang Hyun playing a married lawyer couple in the process of getting a divorce. The first stills from the drama are out, and I just felt my interest go from curious to woah-baby-come-to-mama-drama.
All I’m going to say is that if the chemistry between Yoon Sang Hyun and Choi Ji Woo is off-the-charts, much like it was between Kim Jung Eun and Kim Seung Soo‘s divorcing couple in I Am Legend, then the drama simply has to let the divorcing couple work through their issues. I can’t handle another IAL level disappointment.
Based simply on these first stills, I’d place my bet on the Yoon Sang Hyun-Choi Ji Woo pairing to be a giant win. Can’t Lose may just live up to it’s name. Because otherwise it’d be a horrible pun just waiting for the media and bloggers to dig into it. Can’t Lose will follow Heartstrings and premiere at the end of August.
[Credit: all pictures from Baidu Can’t Lose bar]
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hoping this will be a good one! ^_^
Looks adorable and I love both actors. Normally I avoid lawyer shows like poison for obvious reasons (though I deal better with those outside US legal system) but I simply have to check this out.
Also, is Star's Lover good? I've been curious about it for a while.
ASL is lovely, really really lovely to look at. The OTP chemistry is ridonculously sizzling. But the plot was plodding. Really draggy and pointless by the end why the OTP couldn't be together. But for some reason, I remember this drama fondly. I was quite taken with it when it aired.
Agree about the chemistry - but the plot plodded round the same merry-go-round for half the series - while I'd hoped they would highlight real top star issues - which of course was later tackled in Greatest Love.
However - I do like it and have rewatched it too.
I too have been keeping my eyes on this drama and I really really want it to be totally good. I can not handle another I Am Legend ending. That was bull and shit man!! But then again, maybe its a good thing it ended that way because i started routing for Kim Jung Eun and her ex hubby to get back together. I know i know, its horrible of me. But I really just wanted him to kill his mother and sisters and work it out with her. and I mean kill as in cut them off from his life. But...where was I? Oh yeah. I want this cant lose to have a major happy ending and I want it to be fun and romantic. I dont want it to be filled with misunderstanding either--because thats a waste of OTP togetherness!!
Unlike you, I don't particularly like either actors too much, but for some reason, I agree with you that the idea of the two of them being together really seems to strike the right chord with me. I too am looking forward to this! Hope it's good. *crosses fingers*
I know it isn't, but doesn't the guy on the left wearing the black suit/silver tie in the second photo look like Song Joong Ki? And the guy on the very right from the same photo look like Lee Su Geun?
"[B]ut for some reason, I agree with you that the idea of the two of them being together really seems to strike the right chord with me..."
Hmm, I think it should be "I agree with you that for some reason the idea of the two..."
I didn't mean to imply that it's unusual that I'd agree with you, but that for reason unknown, the two of them just seem like they'd have great chemistry together. I was rereading my earlier comment and knew something was off. Haha, maybe my friends are right. They say I'm watching too many K-dramas, and as a result, my English is going... Yikes!
It's okay, blue. I know what you meant to say. And I don't need watching K-dramas to butcher my grammar, since I barely had any basic understanding of it to begin with. :-)
I know, it's odd how the CJW-YSH pairing just seems so intriguing, rife with possibilities that it may just work. And work really well.
I really liked Yoon Sang Hyun in Secret Garden and the way he says i am a Halluyu Star, and he keep correcting , i did not through the story, i only threw the scene and when he starts to call people and apologize, and thinks i was so rude and even then people worked with me?
I went back and watched Take care of young lady, but it kind of seemed odd,i think YEH was kind of very young looking for him in the show, and he was very vibrant, somehow the chemistry between them was not magical for me, but loved him in the show.
I have not seen any shows of the leading lady in this show. I will definately show up to see OSKA
you know that fish that goes against the current? it gets old and tiring you know.
I'm sorry, but I have no clue what you want to convey with that comment. Care to elaborate?
MEI MEI,
are you calling OSKA oppa old?
But the fish is doing the swimming, you should praise such perseverance to fight against all odds.
Go figure... They DO look nice together. So they should get married, have 25 babies and keep themselves occupied. You know why.
Hahahaha. *wipes away tear*
Nice to see you in a good mood~
Yup, if they had 25 babies they could stop acting and maybe Yeouido be making more quality and less soapy. But I'll miss the soapy. :-)
But think about the childraaaaan.
Will give this a try...like both YSH and CJW...(loved her chemistry with YJT in ASL) not sure about Can't Lose but they look so adorable in the wedding pictures.
The wedding piX make her look so young and pretty, but the other picture ...... I have to say.... She looks old. :(
*SQUEEE* I still need to watch his other shows but I absolutely adored him in Secret Garden and found him completely disarming. And now I know what will be my first show to watch live in Korea. This is so perfect. Eep! I really hope it's good!
dude, I have no idea why, but I got stuck at ep 2 Queen of housewives. I know I have to go through a couple of more eps before I either officially drop it (it's been in the oh-noes-I-should-watch-it-but-I-don't-feel-the-urge limbo for over a year and a half now. LOL) or get addicted to it. In any case, I know YSH is wonderful. He stole the show in SG imho -and he's the main reason I actually stuck to SG till the end. You would that would be Binnie, but apparently not- and he was good in that wreck of drama that was MFL. I'm going to watch this one as well.
I just felt my interest go from curious to woah-baby-come-to-mama-drama.
This! So much!
omg, don't talk about IAL. I kept waiting for some kind of romance to happen or, well, happen again, but nothing. Boo!