Aww, this show is super cute. The gender-bender mini-drama Ma Boy initially got on my radar for its simple twist of taking the very familiar girl-dresses-like-boy-to-infiltrate-boy-world premise of so many dramas, and giving us a boy dressing as a g...
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This is our heroine, GEU-RIM (Kim So-hyun), a newly arrived transfer student to the Daehan Arts High School in Seoul, which is basically another Dream High. A big fish in her old, smaller pond, she's about to find out that she's not automatically the coolest at her new school.
That doesn't get her too down, though, because Geu-rim has a bright personality. She keeps her outlook sunny and brushes aside the naysayers.
Kim So-hyun has built her young resumé playing evil characters—notably the young queen in The Moon That Embraces the Sun and the sister-burning (and -abandoning) character in Rooftop Prince—so it's a change of pace for her to play the cheery heroine. As it turns out, I think she suits upbeat roles and she's got a bit of an Amanda Bynes vibe; overall I find her endearing.
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Geu-rim has a huge crush on the teen idol of the day, TAE-JOON (Min-hoo), who's in her class at school. He's essentially the school's marquee star, going to class in between shooting music videos.
She quickly learns that even liking idols isn't fair game at this school; a trio of mean girls claims exclusive rights to Tae-joon stalking/fawning/adoring. The call themselves Tackle, derived from "Tae-joon's Club," although it may as well refer to the way they attack anyone who dares look in beloved Tae-joon's direction. Geu-rim's all, "Whatever, weirdos," which makes me like her even more because Tackle's fuming all on their own and she doesn't care.
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