The Bold And The Beautiful

Ueto Aya as Sawa in Hirugao

Kichise Michiko as Rikako in Hirugao

 Because I love both Aya Ueto and Michiko Kichise, I decided to check out the first episode of their new drama Hirugao, the story of a prim and proper housewife getting pulled into a twisted tangle of lies and affairs when she crosses paths with the new chic woman in town.
 And while Aya Ueto was, naturally, very good as pretty young housewife Sawa and Michiko Kichise was, naturally, very good as the stunningly sexy Rikako, somehow this story just failed to grab me. In fact, more than enjoying the beauty I was seeing onscreen, I was spending more time being frustrated and angry at how dense Aya Ueto’s character has to be to get manipulated by such an obvious bad-news person like Kichise. 

Good Wife Sawa as her Clerk Job

Ribald Rikako planning her Next Affair

Not that’ I’d be any less susceptible to her charms., but heck, I’m a dude, and that’s our weakness, but an upstanding citizen like Sawa should know better than to keep getting involved in naughty Rikako’s schemes.
 I’ve got one more episode that I downloaded, so I’ll probably check that one out too, but so far I don’t think this one is gonna make my weekly playlist.
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com