DOH wrote:
So our Shin Hye in Doctors will be battling it out with ex-SALT colleague Park Se Young in Beautiful Minds for Mon-Tues 22:00hr slot.
Both dramas have good cast. Beautiful Minds lead male is Jang Hyuk. Have to see which story will pull in the ratings.
Thanks for the update. Sort of confused as whether Park So Dam took the offer as the main lead and whether Park Se Young is second lead or is she now the main lead. According to the article in Dramabeans:
Park Se-young up for medical mystery Beautiful Mind
by girlfriday | April 22, 2016
It might be a My Daughter Geum Sa-wol reunion for Park Se-young and Yoon Hyun-min, who are both considering secondary roles in KBS’s new medical mystery drama Beautiful Mind. The new Monday-Tuesday series is cutting it really close to the wire with casting, since the drama is due out in June and technically nobody’s signed on; Jang Hyuk (Master of Trade—Inn 2015) and Park So-dam (The Priests, Because It’s the First Time) are being courted to headline, but no one’s finalized yet.
Beautiful Mind comes from the writer of Sungkyunkwan Scandal and the PD of Dream High 2, and tells the story of a neurosurgeon who’s brilliant as a doctor, but lacking empathy and emotion due to a frontal lobe injury. He gets caught up in a mysterious case when his patients start dying off, and the drama is about solving the mystery, as well as his growth as a doctor. The heroine will open his eyes to love and change him, even though I have no clue how this is possible if he feels no feelings.
Yoon Hyun-min is considering a role as the villain, a cardiothoracic surgeon who is the very opposite of Jang Hyuk’s character. He’s trusted and well-liked by his patients and colleagues, which hides his duplicitous nature. Park Se-young is up for the role of a neurosurgery fellow, a smart, beautiful researcher in the department who’s at the top of her field.
There’s no indication that she’s evil or anything, but after playing the evil second lead in My Daughter Geum Sa-wol, I wonder if it’s expected of her now. I like Park Se-young and don’t want her to be typecast as evil forever, but as long as she’s doing it well, there’s no reason not to have some fun with it. So far the cast is looking great… that is, if any of these people sign on.
Beautiful Mind follows Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho in June.
Either way, doesn't matter who is the main lead. From what I read in some articles about Beautiful Mind, it is multiple personality drama sort of similar to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. If that is the case, then Doctors have a better chance of good ratings. I'm not too crazy about multiple personality/psychotic dramas. Doctors...Fighting!!