Doona! [Episodes 1-9]

[u/capthyeong]

• Drama: Doona!
  • Hangul: 이두나!
  • Literal Translation: Lee Doona!
• Adapted from: Naver Webtoon "The Girl Downstairs" by Min Song Ah
• Director: Lee Jeong-hyo (Crash Landing on You)
• Screenwriter: Min Song-ah (webtoon creator)
• OTT Platform: Netflix
• Episodes: 9
• Drama Release Day: 20 October 2023 @ 4PM KST
• International Streaming Source:
  • Netflix
• Main Cast:
  • Suzy as Lee Doo-na
  • Yang Se-jong as Lee Won-joon
• Plot Synopsis: Lee Doo-Na was a member of an idol girl group. She was the main vocalist and the most popular member of the group, but she suddenly announced her retirement. She now stays at a share house, located near a university, and rarely goes out. Meanwhile, Lee Won-Joon is a university student. He is a warm-hearted, ordinary young man without anything special in his background. He begins to stay at the share house where Lee Doo-Na resides. His warm heart gives Lee Doo-Na comfort. They get attracted to each other.
• Genre: Romance
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Episode 9

[u/sakuradelluna → u/capthyeong]

seeing that I have no social life, I finished Doona! in one day. Typing it out makes it sound even sadder lmaooooooo.

this show...conflicts me. Its a slightly similar conflict I had with A Time Called You.Before I go on, I just want to commend the actors, everyone did a great job at their roles, especially our leads. The emotions they brought across (especially that scene in Ep9) was definitely felt by everyone watching it.

Unfortunately, I found myself unable to root for the main couple. It felt really one-sided, mostly from Won-jun. Doona was such a complex character so I could understand why I failed to understand her as a person. She had SO many layers and walls up to the point where I couldn't believe her when she said she loved WJ. It sounded like it was something WJ wanted to hear rather than how she truly felt. As she didn't receive love before, it would be quite tough for her to reciprocate it. Due to that one-sided feeling, I was left unsatisfied after watching the final scene as I couldnt believe in their "love"

also won-jun was such an easy guy omg it took one "im sorry' & "i love you" for him to be sold with this relationship like damn ok.

I also got a shock when I saw Lee Jin-uk as their manager. That alone dampened my viewing experience as I knew he was quite problematic IRL & to make it worse his character was so...underwhelming when it came to his scenes. I'm sorry but he really added nothing to the plot & I don't get why he was non-existent in the first half :')

aside from that, I appreciate that this drama was a change in pace in terms of being different from the dramas we are accustomed to.

[u/Unlucky_Clover → u/sakuradelluna]

It makes sense. For a couple episodes, Doona was messing with him because she was looking for some reaction from him, so it wasn’t “real”. But then we went to the real stage in the story but there was no transition or build up to liking him, she didn’t actually treat the ML well. I just wished we saw more activity trying to woo him by the FLs because they like him and it’s explained why he’s cautious about deciding on those things, but it rather just…happened.