It’s been such a long time since I have last watched any type of Asian drama. I really want to get back into it, and start pumping out reviews, but I haven’t found a drama that really caught my attention. That’s one of the reasons I haven’t watched a drama in over a year, I hadn’t seen anything that pulled me in. But I thought I would come back, scroll through some shows, and just put one on and that’s when I ended up with “Are You Human Too?”

With the success of “West World”, it was just a matter of time before people started making more AI themed dramas. I’m sure “West World” wasn’t the first AI based television show, nor is “Are You Human Too?” the first AI based drama in Asia. But with the popularity of West World sweeping the world, it make’s sense that AI is going to start popping up as the new it thing in dramas. “Are You Human Too?” focuses on the relationships between AI (Nam Shin I through Nam Shin III) and the people around him. I actually went into this drama blind. I had no idea what the plot was, or who was in this drama. Other than seeing the poster, I knew absolutely nothing about this drama. I obviously knew it was about AI since the poster gives that away, but I never read the synopsis or the cast list before hand. I think that’s a pretty good way to go into a drama. It keeps you open-minded about whatever is going to happen within the script.

“Are You Human Too?” was a pretty good drama. As things are with me right now, it was a pretty good time. Being the first drama I have watched in a year, it needed to pull me in, and I think it did. It pulled me in and makes me want to watch more dramas, so that’s pretty good. I would say it was a pretty decent start to coming back to dramas. I’m the type of person who enjoys melodramas so I guess I had a little bit of that sprinkled into this drama for me, but I am going to be honest I never cried once. Now this is pretty big news because I’m a big old baby, and I cry a lot during the shows, but for some reason this didn’t make me cry at all. I assume it made other people cry, but it just never got to me. I was never truly invested in any of the characters other than Nam Shin III. Literally everyone else in the drama, could of did anything and or lets say died, and I would of been like “uh huh they died,” and shrugged it off. I felt like that character never really gave me a reason to feel for them. I don’t know, they just never really connected with me.

The acting in “Are You Human Too?” was pretty good. I never once thought someone’s acting was so bad that I couldn’t watch, but that acting was so good that I felt like they deserved awards either. They were all just well, pretty decent. I feel like that’s the theme with this drama, to me at least, everything is pretty decent. The concept, the story, the acting, the execution, the editing, the music, it was all just pretty decent to me. I guess this drama has the curse of being the first drama I have watched in a long time. I have higher expectations from what I want and what I expect to feel or see in dramas, because I want them to pull me back into the world I was so deeply invested in for years. However, this drama did give me hope that perhaps I will fall back in love with binge watching dramas for days and days, because I did watch it in pretty much a few days. I will be honest, however, that I did find myself more preoccupied with other things, because it wasn’t all that interesting to me. I don’t know, it just couldn’t hold my attention that long, and I will admit I skipped through a few episodes because I was like ” can you please just do something of importance ” or something along those lines. But that goes back to me not really feeling connections or emotions with the characters other than one.
Overall I thought “Are You Human Too?” was a pretty decent drama. It wasn’t mind blowing or life changing. It was just a drama that I personally think could be played on in the background and you don’t have to actually pay all that much attention to. Now I know I’m probably alone in thinking that, since when watching the drama on Dramafever, it had a pretty high rating. People seem to love it. But I always find myself against the crowd anyways when it comes to dramas that I love and dramas that I hate. This drama doesn’t fit into either of those categories, it has been just… alright. An alright drama that perhaps boosted my interest to get back into dramas so that’s pretty good. I think maybe, it would be a pretty good beginner drama for people. It had the sense of “This is my first drama” kind of drama feel for me. So there is always that as a positive. The rest, to be honest was just not memorable, I literally don’t remember any of the OST, which is a pretty important to me. Listening to OSTs after the fact should rush back memories of the drama and have me remember things I loved about it, but the OST for this drama isn’t even memorable itself. I feel like I am flip flopping with my thoughts on this drama, but I guess I would say that I think it started a spark in me to get into dramas again so I thank it for that.