Ex-Girlfriend Club Drama Review

“Ex-Girlfriend Club” (2015)

There is nothing worse than believing you are in a relationship to later find out that you are only considered a friend. This is the perfect recipe for a romantic disaster; the end of your future relationship; you’re being delusional. It takes a pack of crazy ex-girlfriends to knock you off your cloud. Yep, that’s how this drama goes. Oh! she wishes she was one of those ex-girlfriends. Although short, I consider this a good underrated drama with great potential.

 This story is about producer Kim Soo Jin (Song Ji Hyo) being assigned to turn a webtoon into a movie, practically as a last resort to save the company. But when the writer of the webtoon, Bang Myung Soo (Byun Yo Han), turns out to be a love interest from the past things get a big complicated. And if that is not complication enough, when Soo Jin starts reading the webtoon she realizes it is based on Myung Soo’s past relationships with his ex-girlfriends. She starts thinking -will their past relationship be the fourth and last instalment to the webtoon series?

This drama showed really good potential. Sadly, it was cut short to 12 episodes due to low ratings. The story is pretty simple and a super mega A+ is that it is free from major K-Drama clichés -even the roles of the ex-girlfriends surprised me. You are in for a surprise if you think this is a “let’s join forces to revenge on our ex” story, because it is NOT. In addition, the background story for the lead characters can be very relatable for men just as for women. It is all about mixed signals and being in the friend zone -and who has not been there?

Something I was not clear about was Soo Jin’s role in her company; was she a producer? A producer/ CEO? How could she take care of everything? It was as if tvN didn’t have enough money to cast more people or extras. On the bright side, the fact that there was literally only or four three people working in an office helped the development and interaction of our character’s conflict. Like I mentioned earlier the drama had been cut short, which, any k-drama lover knows, means a rushed ending. Miraculously the ending wasn’t bad, but I always had the feeling there could have been more. As consequence of the rushed development, there wasn’t really space to see the process of turning the so called webtoon into a movie until the very end. On another note, I have to mention how the OST went well with the drama, setting the mood and reminding the audience the drama is a romantic comedy.    

Ex-Girlfriend Club was a great example of Song Ji Hyo’s capabilities as a romantic-comedy drama princess -not that she was bad in Emergency Couple, but she shone more in this drama. A great aid to this was his on screen chemistry with her so star. When I first saw the teaser for the drama I wasn’t sure if it would work out because Ji Hyo looked a bit older than Yo Han; nevertheless, I wasn’t disappointed. I will admit that Soo Jin and Myuns Soo’s relationship seemed more friendly and playful than intimate and romantic. Still, later on I realized that it was charming and different from the typical romantic relationship -I fell in love with them, I wanted a relationship like theirs and I still want a boyfriend like him. *keeps wishing* 

In short, the drama was full of cute, funny, sad, and crazy moments worth the 12 episodes. This drama is the perfect medicine to get a break and get over a past love (drama that ended).

My rating for this drama is: ♥♥♥