Frumusețe Adevărată (2020)

All Hail Hee-Kyung Eonni

If you're thinking of starting this drama, you should definitely consider watching Extraordinary You first. Trust me, it'll make watching True Beauty all the more fun.

This drama would be worth watching for the eye candy and fun references to other k-dramas alone, but it had so much more to offer!

The first few episodes were totally chaotic, extra and over the top. Kinda crazy, but a lot of fun! Then a few more serious topics like low self-esteem, bullying and psychological trauma were brought up. Honestly, the show struck a good balance between kooky and serious. It was funny and lighthearted, but also emotional and deep in certain aspects. It succeeded in making me laugh, swoon and pulling at my heartstrings.

And the casting! The 3 main actors look like the webtoon characters come to life. Which is insane. And they delivered solid performances all around. But I have to admit the older sister completely stole the show. All of her scenes were hilarious.

I absolutely loved this show and would recommend everyone who loves romance dramas watch it.

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Swoony but bittersweet love triangle

I had somehow missed the hype around this drama and didn't have much expectations. At first, I was more than a bit concerned about the premise, a makeover of an "ugly" girl, but the drama handled it quite well.

True beauty was enjoyable, often funny and swoony drama with great chemistry between the female and male lead as well as the female lead and second male lead (and between both male leads, too). Lots of old tropes were recycled, but they were mostly used skillfully, except at the tail end of the series.

I couldn't avoid the second lead syndrome, so the ending was bittersweet.

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Average.

Honestly, I knew what I was getting from seeing the poster, and name of the show.
A girl who to society is "ugly" and gets bullied for that, therefore. She hates her looks. Then discovers the power of makeup! And now she's not getting bullied all that jazz you get me.

The story isn't that original, I say it's kind of bland to a lot of "ugly" to "pretty" stories. Although I did like this show for some twists that they did.
The acting was good! Nothing was bad but it's not SO amazing to the point where I'm crying at every emotional scene. I personally only watched for Cha Eun Woo but y'know, he didn't make the whole show sparkle. Same for Moon as well as I did come for her from tempted.
The music? Honestly I can't remember ANY of them. I only remembered the intro and these two tracks I loved but forgot the names. My fault since I haven't watched this in some months.
Re watch value is low for me, I can only watch for the main couples cute moments but that's all. Maybe for the sister's side romance?
Overall, the show's not that overhyped as some people say, the full ratings for this show is actually the way I want it to be, if it was higher than a 9 then I would've called it overrated. But y'know, some people are into these cute light predictable and unoriginal dramas. Not me though, well once in a while.
The show's good! Just don't expect anything extreme and it'll be predictable than you think. Great high school drama though!

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Starts off good, gets a tad boring later on

Now don't get me wrong, I love a good romcom. But this one just kind of fell flat by the end. (Keep in mind I have never read the webtoon while reading this review)

The first few episodes provide a good backdrop. It introduces us to the main character and her issues and trauma regarding her looks. This is of course where the title comes from, and I was expecting a drama centering around this issue of finding beauty inside yourself when people around you seem shallow. And it was that....for like 5 episodes.

Listen, I love Eunwoo and his acting was fine for what he was given, but good lord Suho's characterization is so dry. Besides a few scenes regarding his past trauma and fighting with Seo Jun, his whole personality is either nothing or simply Ju Gyeong.

They did my man Seo Jun so dirty. Like yeah he got to debut but is that really considered a happy ending for him? She strung him along (albeit unconsciously) for years and in the end he got friendzoned and ended up with nobody. Speaking of characters done dirty, I don't know how Su Jin's character is in the webtoon, but she had so much more potential that they wasted on making her the intentionally evil person just to move the drama along. Her backstory and her emotions were well portrayed and I caught myself feeling so bad for her, until they just threw that all away to make her pure evil and then she disappeared until the last episode and suddenly all was forgiven? nah

Unfortunately I found myself skipping through a lot of Su Ho and Ju Gyeong's more intimate scenes. I thought at least the entirety of the drama might delve deeper into their relationship and expand on them slowly coming to realize their feelings for each other, but nope they get together in like episode 5 and then all the magic is kind of gone. i found myself saying 'yeah yeah get on with it' anytime they were acting all lovey dovey in the later episodes, especially because i knew that Seo Jun was still getting the short end of the stick.

Overall, the side characters and their relationships were a lot more interesting and they held my attention more often than the main couple. The music was cute and I enjoyed listening to it. The show as a whole is okay, but I don't see myself ever rewatching it.

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Simples, mas bom.

Sinceramente, para um Dorama de comédia romântica, me prendeu bastante. A história é um tanto simples, mas movimentada e explorada de uma boa forma. Os atores são ótimos, passam muito a energia do personagem, e também são muito parecidos com do webtoon. Te arrancam boas risadas, é aquele drama que quando a personagem sofre você sente com ela. Apesar de já ter vistos muitos dramas de comédia romântica, ele certamente tem um diferencial. Acho muito bom a forma como eles mostram o significado da maquiagem para as garotas, de muitas formas.
Não é o melhor que já vi, mas eu certamente recomendo.

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Es una verdadera belleza

Historia
La ame como no tienen idea, no sabía que necesitaba algo así tan animado, con situaciones cliche y cómico hasta que la mire. Estaba basado en un manhwa que leí después de ver esto. Y la verdad me gusto más el k-drama, es que dieron lo justo y necesario. (La música ayudó mucho) y me gusto en los temas que se enfocaron y me gusto que esté ambientado en el último año escolar y no en la universidad, lo hizo más tierno. Al adaptar el comienzo del drama (sin esperar que termine) dieron su propia interpretación y me encantó. Creo que hay que ver tanto el manhwa como el k-drama pero está es por mucho mí favorita.

Actuación/elenco
Los actores todos increíbles. Desde los prota, a los secundarios. El trío principal los ame. Y Cha Eun-Woo se volvió mí oppa (?)

Musica
Ame todos los temas.

Valor de repetición
Recomendada. Mírala cuántas veces tu corazón lo requiera.

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Got me into dramas

Say what you want, it was chessy, not well thought out etc but I don't care. Before this drama I tried to watch other dramas but this drama just stuck with me more than the others. I found myself having anxiety for weeks waiting for an episode to come out, went on twitter to talk and tweet about it others etc.

I enjoyed every single thing about it, except the love triangle and how the second lead was treated. Even at the end the authors kept disrespecting the guy. As much as I was rooting for the first lead, i could recognize that a two year time jump and he's still in love with her and gets chosen over is such disrespect to that character. Making him long for her til the bitter end. Not saying that that the writers should've given him another love interest because that would've been a cop out, but I'm saying that the writers should've made the seconds leads feelings dwindle a bit.


Also secondary couple was so damn cute I loved them so much

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yeah

I see where all of these other comments bashing the drama are coming from. When I watched the drama by myself before reading the other reviews on this site, I genuinely enjoyed and looked forward to every new episode that came out. Although I do understand and agree how the plot isn't anything special, it didn't really matter to me. I'm sure there are more hopeless romantics like me out there that wouldn't mind watching the same cliché plot over and over again but still get butterflies everytime. I had a great time watching it while sitting back and enjoying the eye candy the lead actors/actress provided us with. Honestly, most of us watched it bc of the visuals. I wouldn't rewatch the whole drama, but I'd be more than willing to skim through the trailers and clips of the drama on YouTube ig.

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