my holo love

i've been watching my holo love teaser in my netflix feed, and since i have nothing to watch, i decided to watch it. i only have seen the female actress, so i was worried this might be a dud. if you read my other post, you'd know that i hate having too much leftover in my netflix feed. i mean i don't like too many "continue watching" drama in my list. 

title: my holo love

cast: yoon hyun min, ko sung hee

genre: romantic melodrama

han so yeon is an ordinary worker at a eyewear company. she didn't have many friends at work because she hid the truth about her condition, that she had face blindness. her life was ordinary until she found a weird glasses in her bag. however, it's not an ordinary glasses. it was a holo glass. the moment she put on the glasses, she could see a holo in form of a human being. the company named the hologram image as holo (yoon hyun min), but nobody knew that the holo was made according to the portrait of its founder, go nan do (yoon hyun min).

nan do was planning to take back the glasses, but there's an incident, so he retreated. he told his adoptive sister goo yoo jin (choi yeo jin) that they were going to do a beta test for holo and asked her sister to postponed the launch date as well as talked to the investors. yoo jin has been posing as the creator of holo since nan do has been living in the shadow since high school. in the past, nan do hacked korean government system and was chased by the cop, so he decided to fake his death, thus living in the shadow since then. 

holo caught up that so yeon had face blindness so he's been helping her to recognize faces at work. suddenly her coworkers opened up to her as she warmed up to them herself. holo also caught up that so yeon had a crush on her coworker, and offered to be her love guide. while nan do was surprised hearing holo's ideas. mainly because holo was the first one that recognize so yeon when yoo jin was being chased so she hid the glasses in so yeon's bag per holo's suggestion. now holo was being initiative again, offering help to so yeon as his love tutor. nan do was curious why so yeon changed holo's program, so he asked yoo jin to prolong the beta test. he even moved as so yeon's next door neighbour, and he discovered so yeon's condition since so yeon didn't recognize him, even though he had the same face as holo. 

since holo was a most wanted AI program, so yeon's life has been in danger as well. the love plan fell apart as holo program's was attacked when so yeon was about to confess about holo's existence to her love crush, as well as her face blindness condition. her love crush didn't believe about her confession that all this time she was only talking to holo, and not to other guy. nan do then tried to replace holo with himself, torturing himself in the process as holo didn't need to eat, drink or sleep, but nan do did. anyway, in the process so yeon fallen in love with holo, while nan do acted weirdly since holo started to show interest in so yeon, making yoo jin confused as nan do has been super rational, but became weird because of so yeon. so yeon then confessed to holo about her feeling, and nan do at first was against holo and so yeon, but later let holo lived his own way. he planned to make another holo version, so the original holo became so yeon's solely, and the one that got marketed is another holo. however, as time went by, so yeon felt there was something missing in her relationship with holo. even though holo has been super gentle and caring, he was, after all, just a hologram, not a real human being. while nan do on the other hand, started to feel attracted to so yeon as well. we saw then that apparently, nan do was a little boy that happened to live next door to so yeon, and nan do's mom often let nan do played, ate and slept at so yeon's house when his mother was working.

yoo jin realized the change in nan do, and told nan do that he created holo in order to replace his mother. nan do's mother died when nan do was very little, and they assumed nan do's mom was having suicide. nan do was feeling betrayed as he was going on picnic when his mom was found dead. he felt abandoned by his mom, so he made holo as his only loving and caring friend. and he let his only friend to be with so yeon, because he loved so yeon as well. anyway, danger was coming closer. magic mirror, nan do's competitor, played dirty. they kidnapped so yeon, and nan do, who was helped by holo, managed to save so yeon. at that time, so yeon suddenly could see nan do's face (as well as holo). apparently, so yeon's condition was psychological. she was under extreme stress that she couldn't see faces anymore. and the doctor said it would come back once the problem was solved. but so yeon couldn't pinpoint the real reason why she couldn't see faces anymore. we just saw glimpses of her past, while she was having picnic with her parents, she saw something horrible that made her suffer face blindness afterward.

as so yeon realized that she liked nan do as well, and probably even better since nan do was a real human being, while holo wasn't, she began to compare between the two. she even said to holo that they should stop being a couple as holo wasn't real. that rejection sent holo to isolation. his program was getting error. feeling guilty, so yeon offered her help to nan do. but things were getting weird. while on the other hand, yoo jin got some intel from baek chan sung (hwang chan sung), director of magic mirror as well as the son of the CEO, that his dad was the one that might be behind the accident of nan do and so yeon (nan do was almost killed in motorcycle accident, while so yeon was kidnapped). the police became suspicious of nan do as well because both accidents were saved by holo's hacking into the security system, and that violated the law. nan do managed to dodge the first time, but chan sung's father used his influence so the police tried to arrest nan do.

nan do then had to give up holo. chan sung's father commercialised holo, so yeon felt holo was different, so she became reluctant to use holo. nan do went into hiding. then he hacked magic mirror's program, causing big problem to magic mirror. the only holo's working was so yeon's. long story short, holo was originally created by nan do's mom, so she put a bit programming left in holo's original command lines, and told holo to protect nan do. that explained why holo was being interested in nan do, because so yeon was the only friend that nan do had back in their childhood. when so yeon and nan do was held in magic mirror building, holo managed to break magic mirror's program to save so yeon and nan do. chan sung finally stood up and fight his father, and at the end, good side won again. unfortunately, holo was found guilty of hacking thus his program must be deleted. fast forward one year later, yoo jin married chan sung, and when they were getting their picture taken, holo was captured in one of the picture. giving hope to nan do that one day holo would come back again.

what i like:

- though the whole hologram story might not be new, but the way they make the real person falling in love with the holo first is kind of new. 

- no thinking needed. all questions were answered. from nan do's mom death mystery to nan do's living in the shadow, as well as so yeon's face blindness problem. 

what i don't like:

- though in radio romance i complained that the main actor frowned almost the whole drama, but here, i don't like seeing the main smiling. he seems weird while smiling. it's better when he's just being cool. 

- i don't feel the chemistry between the main. somehow you can see that there's some awkwardness between them. however, i can feel chan sung's love toward yoo jin. though at first they make so yeon picked the holo, but at the end they kept the usual choice, that so yeon picked nan do at the end and made holo disappeared. 

- some actors and actresses were so-so so. 

- the plot is simple. in the beginning, it seems interesting. but as times goes by, you can predict the end. 

rating: 7/10

binge worthy: no

recommended for: someone who like simple story, don't mind about the idea of love between human being and holo.