Cenicienta y los cuatro caballeros

I finished watching it, even though the last four or so episodes really annoyed me, because it had some nice moments and because the main character wasn't totally useless. She wasn't a complete wretch, she wasn't an unappealing hen, that's what the other one was for, who made clothes for fun and clung to one of her cousins in a way that was truly unhealthy. Anyway, thanks to the fact that the main character was a nice lady who was pretty clear about how she wanted things in life, she basically didn't have that classic heroine goosebumpiness. Sure, again, she was terribly nice, but it was somehow kept within the bounds of what was tolerable. Plus she had good chemistry with all the guys, not necessarily in a romantic sense. But then there's the rest of it. For example, the aforementioned unappealing chick with no proper character who acted like the biggest loser and was rejected by one of her cousins because of... idiocy (after all, it was even shown what idiocy it was in the end). So we had those two there so the hen could suffer and Kang Hyun-min could pretend to be above it. That he's the world's biggest playboy (he was on a date with like 2-3 random chicks in the beginning and then his Don Juan quality was over), unfortunately with no development. It simply makes the jump at some point from playboy to man with a teeerribly guilty conscience. Then we have Kang Seo-woo, the singer, who is a nice character, but also a total blank, a nothing, and is actually there to make three cousins. And the fact that he's a popular singer doesn't actually make any – or almost any – sense in the whole story. The same could be said about the hen and her dress making... It's just there, because that's the way it’s supposed to be. And then there's Kang Ji Woon, the rebel of the family. Because he's a rebel, they dressed him up like that, gave him that passion for cars and stuff, but he didn't really come across as a rebel at all. He was just a schmuck who for some unknown reason was terribly attracted to the hen house, only to find out that he wasn't really attracted to her because he was more into Eun Ha Won. At times I was entertained, at times I had trouble just looking at the screen, it was so awful. Especially as one cliché after another started piling up towards the end, it really took me a few days to even talk myself into finishing it. Still, I totally get what people enjoy about it. It's lighthearted, you can switch off and let yourself ride the waves of Cinderella-ness. All things considered, the show makes it clear by its title that it is not something to be taken seriously. The problem is that the show itself sometimes takes itself seriously, and there it goes. A better 2 stars (I was thinking 3 stars despite all the half-baked stuff). (03.03.2020)