It makes big chunks of episodes much less interesting to watch - but easier to fast-forward, so there is that. Since this is a family sitcom revolving around the central Lee family, it’s a pretty big hindrance when you find yourself disliking every single adult character (to varying degrees). Part of why I was noncommittal about High Kick for a long while (whereas college-campus sitcom Nonstop 5 won me over almost immediately) was because half its cast hugely annoys me - the entire adult half. Once I let go of the expectation for the sitcom to be funny, though, thinking of it as a short-form family drama instead, High Kick was a lot more entertaining. But that’s the current format, and I’m sure Korea will find a way to make the structure work once they break out of the mindset of replicating early American family sitcoms with the bad laugh tracks and cheesy (non-)humor. I find a lot of the hour-long comedic “dramas” are much, much funnier than a sitcom (i.e., Samsoon, My Girl). In fact, I find a lot of Korean sitcoms are really just excuses for family drama content to be compressed into a shorter, lighter, more plot-meandering series. It’s mildly amusing, but it’s not laugh-out-loud or joke-laden. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.įor being a sitcom, High Kick isn’t really terribly funny. Heritage – “Grateful” Īudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. I’m somewhere up in the nineties now (there are 167 episodes), although I skipped a bunch in the beginning. It finished its run earlier this summer, but AZN has been showing it (unsubtitled), and I’ve let the episodes accumulate on my Tivo, watching them whenever I remember to. I missed the boat on High Kick when it first aired - daily sitcoms usually air over a hundred episodes, and that’s just too much of a commitment. What does that have to do with The Unstoppable High Kick? Nothing really, except explain just how bored I am and in need of something light and fun, even if it doesn’t aspire to be meaningful. (I am not my accessories closet! … and if only I actually had an accessories closet!) But let’s say that if trendy dramas are the television equivalent of chick lit, I’m looking for Bridget Jones, not Shopaholic or Lipstick Jungle or whatever else comes with cheesy pink covers and pictures of high heels and handbags and jewelry. Of course, I do have some standards - I won’t watch just any trendy drama, if it’s just a boring rehash of familiar stuff. As I was saying to a friend recently, I can find meaning in the most superficial of trendy dramas - just give me the sugariest cotton-candy drama and I’ll mine the hell out of it looking for depth and thematic resonance. It’s not hard to tell that my taste veers to trendy dramas - the fluffier, the better - and I feel the current lack keenly. The only drama that holds my interest these days is Legend, and that’s just barely. 85 SeptemOctoThe Unstoppable High Kick by javabeans
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