The two stars of this show, Park Bo-gum and Park So-dam, have a lot of charisma and decent chemistry but with a hopelessly unoriginal and derivative story and some of the most crass Subway placements ever, the show fails to deliver. (Subway product placements have polluted numerous Korean shows but achieve a new low in this one. For example, Park Bo-gum earns nearly $10,000 from a three day modeling job but is still working part time earning minimum wage serving sandwiches.) Some snappy dialogue, especially from Park So-dam, but otherwise a tedious love triangle with an entirely predictable outcome, the usual parade of parents spouting sophistries as they bully, badmouth and play favorites among their children, the usual bad guys getting away with it for as long as the writers think they can get away with trying the viewers' patience. Really, the whole thing felt like it was created by an unsupervised 3D printer programmed by a monkey on loan from the effort to recreate Shakespeare by random typewriting. Give this a miss unless you feel like making goo goo eyes at the Parks. But don't expect anything very tasty.
Review of Record of Youth
