Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Trying to give Silent Poor a second chance

Warning: If you love Fukada Kyoko, please stop reading at once.

After watching the movie In the Wake, I felt compelled to watch a social welfare jdorama. So much of jdorama is not just set in fantasy realities but are usually are successful, people who are not struggling to get buy.

Take for example Koi Nante, Honki de Yatte do Suru no? a jdorama about 3 trendy 20 somethings. There is nothing about living in a shared house and trying to make ends meet. The struggle is not live but to make it to the confession scene in the end.

My first thought was Silent Poor which I remember clearly dropping after the first episode because of Fukada Kyoko. However I was sick of jdoramas with characters living in houses your average Japanese cannot afford. I decided to disregard Fukakyon's bad acting and just watch it for the social welfare stories.

Fukakyon is so so bad. She has two facial expressions; a smile and this sad frown where she is trying to show that she is thinking but it looks like there is nothing upstairs. She just cannot do natural facial expressions like everyone else in Silent Poor. Its as if she is a barbie character living among humans.

If I have to describe Fukakyon's acting is that its like she's playing an idoru character acting in movie. Its feels like there are two layers of fakeness to her 'acting'.

The writing for Silent Poor is skin deep. It touches on things I want to watch about like hikikomori and homelessness but simplifies things too much. It is so bad.

Absolutely do not watch this show. Really, really bad. If you want to watch a social welfare jdorama check out Kenkou de Bunkatekina Saiteigendo no Seikatsu or Caseworker's Diary which I had completely forgotten about. 

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