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Review- My love from the stars



Country: South Korea
Cast: Jun Ji Hyun, Kim Soo Hyun, Park Hae jin, Yoo In na
Year: 2013
Genre: fantasy, romance, crime

As a human being all of us have some childlike curiosity when it comes to aliens. Our imaginations have created varieties of what aliens might look like. So why not a young, good looking professor who happens to live next door?
Sounds interesting? And yes it is.

So we have our Cheon song Yi (Jun Ji Hyun) in her 30s  top actress. Although very successful professionally, she is not bright student. This has caused some scandals in her life and her agency is constantly trying to save her from all bad publicity. She changes her house and starts living next to Doo Min Joon (Kim Soo Hyun)- a college professor. Apparently, DMJ is an alien who was left out from his spaceship 400 years back! He has been living under the radar in the society disguising as various personalities. The best thing about him is he does not age here like other earthlings. In his current avatar he is college professor teaching psychology (I think). He does not mingle with anyone, eats his meals alone to keep his secrete.  He has some powers which he uses as and when required.

 As CSY starts living next door his peaceful life come to an end. CSY has two classmates Yoo se mi (Yoo In Na) a fellow actress and Lee Hee kyung a chaelbol who likes CHY since high school. Se mi pretends to be friend of CSY but actually is jealous of her accomplishments. CHY looks like a girl who DMJ liked 400 years ago. This invokes DMJ’s curiosity. But through the interactions he realizes that they are having totally opposite personalities. 

Meanwhile CSY becomes prime suspect for murder of her rival actress. Even though there is no proof the society boycotts her. Those who once adored her now start avoiding her. So her stardom suddenly comes to an end. The story further unfolds events in the past and mystery of murder.


The good thing about this drama is it perfect balance in comedy, fantasy, thriller and romance. The acting, cinematography is top notch. CSY slays her role with flying colors. Kim So hyun manages to portray lonely alien perfectly.  Smart Hee kyung will give you very bad second lead syndrome. All the secondary characters are well written. I especially liked his DMJ’s friend pretending to be his father. Being fantasy there are few loose strings but you can turn a blind eye to it. It is pretty lengthy series (21 episode) so watch it when you have ample of time.

                                                           ( image- from Google )

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