Secret Garden vs Mary Stayed Out All Night

[Aryael]

Secret Garden or Mary Stayed Out All Night? Which will you rank higher?

[amrita828]

In my humble opinion there's no comparison: Secret Garden is way better.

I enjoy Mary Stayed Out too, but I must confess I'm a little tired of the usual love triangle/quadrangle and a little exhausted by Mae Ri's tormented expressions (no offence to the actress, it just gets a little on my nerves).

Secret Garden, on the other hand, not only has a gripping plot and the wittiest dialogues, it also has the most obnoxious, neurotic, unpredictable male lead and a perfect, intelligent and strong leading lady, whose chemistry on screen is undeniable. A truly awsome drama.

[riin]

although Mary is fun in a weird way, the additional characters are too annoying and the plot almost nonexistent for it to be great

Secret Garden has the best ever male lead character I've seen in my life totally enjoying that assholishness and neuroticism of him. and the sparkly tracksuit that kept on going... it never gets old I think

[tsukiko]

IMO secret garden is way better than MSOAN.. i'm totally quit watching MSOAN though both my fav actor (JGS) & actress (MGY) are in. i think i can tolerate the sparkling tracksuit much more better than sleeping in the suit.... that's a fashion terror. LOL~

[sarahkhins]

This is hard for me.
I want to say Mary...but then again...Secret Garden gripped me a lot easier and better than Mary did. I was mostly attracted to Mary because of JGS, he is my all-time favorite Korean actor.

Secret Garden just seems to flow more smoothly than Mary does, in Mary it seems like the relationship between Mary and Myul-Kyul happened a bit to easily for my taste, I like a bit more conflict than the whole ex drama and parental opposition. Those are both easily passable obstacles, I like to see actual conflict in the characters emotions. Mary is great when you want that fix of cute and adorable but nothing too too serious. I tihnk the greatest flaw was how easily Myul-Kyul went into that relationship with Mary and was so serious about it, even though he spent his whole life as a serial dater, and for a good reason.
Secret Garden not only makes me wonder what will happen more, but it has made me laugh probably even more than You're Beautiful did, one of the funnest dramas I have encountered, and one of my favorites.

Bottom line: I like them both. SG has just hit home a bit more for me though.

[Libradaj]

There is NO comparison...

[some1unoe]

Secret garden for me.

The first episode of a drama has to be good for me in order for me to continue watching it. And Mary didn't really catch my attention.
That was different for SG though :P


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[perfect_world]

Secret Garden, of course!

[Aryael]

SG for me too. It has a more mature and developed storyline PLUS the dialogue is so damn witty. MSOAN is your typical love triangle story. It is an adaptation of a manhwa and since I know how the manhwa ends, I kinda know the ending (very predictable and I hope the directopr sticks to the exact same ending as the manhwa, anyone with an IQ above 90 can guess the ending correctly!).

[Jezzy]

I love both series...But in terms of acting, Hyun Bin and Ha Ji Won rocks! I really love Hyun Bin's cute expressions and although JGS is absolutely and amazingly goodlooking, SG has more laughable scenes..Plus the fact that YSY is there! hehehehe...VERY VERY VERY GOOD DRAMA