The Number You Have Dialed (2024)

Captivating show ! I am watching it on loop ?

I must say this show has exceeded my all the expectations. From the very first episode, I got butterflies and this feeling is still there.
The drama is so good. As everyone is saying even first episode is addictive. The director and screen writer have done great work i think. They have worked hard on this, and it can be shown right away. To talk about expressions and acting of actors, they should receive awards. Yoo yeon seok must be really good actor. I appreciate his skills and talent, as well as chae soobin. Both actors have worked hard on it. The show is going to hit and everyone's hard work is going pay off. God bless.

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What a disappointment ! Such an overhyped drama !

It started so well (that "plot twist" ending of episode 1 was especially interesting and intense - I was seated !) and I was quite entertained until about halfway through where it rapidly started going downhill.
As the show progressed, the storyline became more and more unrealistic and the characters' development stayed too superficial. I could barely understand any of their (nonsensical) actions or relate to any of them.
The plot also became so predictable in a very chaotic way (like they were desperately trying to make each new episode more exciting).... until the most RIDICULOUS and UNNECESSARY (and politically shameful) last episode ever.
Btw, have you ever heard of the Republic of Argan... in Africa (obviously) ?!? ;-D

During airing, most viewers were talking non-stop about the main leads' fiery chemistry. Well, I'm not so sure about that, sorry, but I'm pretty certain the only thing that saved this drama is the ML (Yoo Yeon Seok) great acting.
PS: sadly, the second couple (was there even a second couple, really ??) had ZERO chemistry.

At the end, I was relieved it was a short drama.

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MY FAVE KDRAMA FOR THIS YEAR 2024

This drama is absolutely captivating! I haven't been this invested in a K-drama in ages. Each episode was so good, keeping me on the edge of my seat. Surprisingly, not a single episode feels dull. Just when you think the previous one was the best, the next surpasses expectations, delivering peak after peak!

The OSTs also are all so good. Non stop with the "Numb". AND The casting of Yoo Yoon Seok and Chae Soo Bin is pure genius! THE CHIMESTRY! OML. it's electrifying! That scene on the latest episode (episode 7) has me blushed profusely. The drama's pacing, paired with exceptional acting, makes for an unforgettable viewing experience. Bravo to the entire production team!

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Second Review... Will this be deleted too?

Ok,

So here we go again... a week ago, I wrote a review for this drama without thinking anything else and gave it a low rating because that's what I thought this drama deserved. It was my opinion, my right...

What I said was, this drama was great until episode 6. I loved the plot and the chemistry between the leads, but I felt like once the big reveal happened the drama lost its charm and somehow the chemistry between the leads too.. I felt like everything else was forced along with the plot to move ahead.

Now while writing this, I wonder will this be deleted too?

I gave a 5 rating last time, this time I am bringing it down straight to 1!

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it a nice movie

This Drama is the savior of those failed to capture the heart of many kdrama fan like me. The turns and twist can makes you want more of it, the casting I mean the undeniable chemistry of the leads is quite amazing, before it aires some says it will fail as the leads age gap is huge but they prove it wrong. I watched 3 episodes, and I am already waiting for the next, there is a mystery from the past that connects the leads, and crazy how my intuition saying that the leads college friend is the mystery guy.This drama challenge the power of my intuition. Let see after more eps revealed. I hope the prod and director handle it well and not over cooked it. Kudos! we also feel the sparks between the two, it’s nice to be in love, much nicer if secretly.

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Addictive but lost its way

I have already seen the clarifications on social media re: the scene that is causing controversy, so my review is not in any way affected by that incident. Regardless, this was my cup of tea for such a short time: I was right with Hee-Joo at the beginning of the drama, and was seriously intrigued and excited for a revenge story against what to me seemed like an emotionally abusive husband. Then surprise!! He isn't that bad! Okay, not what I expected, but I'll buy it. I was then in it for the intrigue of him finding out and then that was the most anticlimatic reveal in history. Regardless, I couldn't stop watching because the chemistry between Chae Soo Bin and Yoo Yeon Seok was great, and that kept me going up until the last two episodes, in which the characters made so many nonsensical decisions they turned what could have been a solid 7.5 to a 6. Why didn't they run the murderer over with the car? Didn't even have to hit him that hard, just get him out of the way until the cops came! Then the shooting fakeout, the disappearance and the worst plot point: THE NOBLE IDIOCY!!! Characters that were relatively smart kept making idiotic choices for the sake of plot twist after plot twist and it was just... not good. Listen, I can love a "so bad it's good" drama if it's at least consistent, but those last two episodes were "so bad it's really really bad" and ultimately made a huge disservice to what could have been a guilty pleasure show for me. Such a pity.

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Not worth picking up

The drama asks a lot of leeway to be given, to root for the romance, but it fails to earn them with the two important categories which is the writing and the chemistry. The two leads doesn't bring any sparks in their individual scenes let alone together. Had it been better actors that suited the roles and the romantic chemistry together, it would have brought life to the drama to the dark family secrets they bear the scars of. It was really lazy of the drama which puts so much emphasis on sign language to not spare an expository line that Hee Joo can sign both KSL and BSL because there is not just one universal sign language when she went to that political shindig on duty as an interpreter. It's ridiculous that Sa Eon decides to save her from a political arranged marriage by forcing her to marry him and proceeding to treat her coldly and harshly for three whole years until she snaps from the mistreatment, but it's all okay and romantic because he's been in love with her for decades and was doing it for her own good. Hee Joo just has the lowest bar from being horribly by her mother all her life. Hee Joo also has terrible survival instincts, just going back into her car that was previously shown very high jack-able. Her willingness to take the wheel from the kidnapper and drive it into death would be more impressive if she's not so callous usually. She just gets kidnapped needs saving in some way again and again, the designated damsel. Sa Eon getting out of the car to face down the serial killer with a shotgun rather that flooring it as soon as he saw who it was, either forward or backward is really ridiculous, especially considering he does that with a whole squad of militia firing at him while he plays international batman. He shouldn't have sent her any clues, of course she would just intentionally literally walk into a warzone and just so happen to survive unharmed enough to be rescued. The political stance the show decides to randomly take at the end is pretty horrific, though it seems that may be bad translation work, which is very ironic in a show that's centered around a presidential spokesman and presidential interpreter.

A plot line that was almost good was Do Jae's tragic arc with him out for revenge against his brother's killer only to unwittingly end up helping the guy instead and the unyielding support is what Sa Eon unconsciously craves so much that he blindly trusted Do Jae, even more than he trusted Hee Joo. Better writing could have done more with this meaty plot line, as was In A's heel turn to want sisterhood with Hee Joon randomly after all these years. They should have shown what exactly made her feel this way in the three years she was gone from the plot.

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Entertainer of 2024 Indeed!!!

Sometimes what we see might not be the absolute reality!

While “When the Phone Rings” started with a bang, charting through unraveled mysteries, I kept questioning the need for the “Almost” animosity between the lead couple. The pilot episodes led us to believe that Baek Sa Eon doesn’t care much about his fake wife, she is a mere replacement for her elder sister who ran away on the wedding day. None of the people in Sa Eon’s social circle have met her and no one knows about her existence; and yet somehow she ends up kidnapped. Makes you wonder how well Sa Eon kept her hidden. The plot gets thick when Hong Hui Jo decides to take things in her hands and starts blackmailing her own husband to get an easy divorce. Shockingly she doesn’t expect two things- one that her aloof, grumpy husband actually loves her and also his real identity is different from his public image. What drives the narrative further is deciphering these secrets and betrayals levied upon them by their so-called parents.

Read the complete article here-

https://kcdramamusings.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/when-the-phone-rings-series-review/

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