Gosh it was sooooo binge-worthy and tbh, I don't even know why. This drama was a mess, but a beautiful mess! As if I was on crack, I couldn't get enough.
Some bits and pieces that made me love it:
- The work setting of a broadcasting studio ('Pinocchio' nostalgia!)
- Girl has crush on boy for several years but boy has no interest until fate pushes them together in the unlikeliest of ways ('Mischievous Kiss'/'Playful Kiss' anybody?)
- Even though the male lead says he has no interest in her, he comes through when other people disrespect her. (E.g. when she faced difficulties at work: he barged into the news room and was ready to throw hands!!)
- Another guy enters the picture to help him realise his feelings
- Love triangle with comedy & heartache
- Touched on a topic I wasn't expecting at all: male breast cancer. Was NOT expecting a fun broadcasting romcom to go down that road, but I'm so glad it did! So much came from it, from character growth, inner turmoil, shenanigans, great characters, and of course bonding of the couple.
- The male lead Hwa Shin's character is so interesting. A mix of arrogant, charming, tsundere and adorable. So multilayered, Jo Jung Suk truly shines in this drama.
- All the surrounding characters. Especially our big messy family
- Big relationship milestones that are we rarely see in kdramas!
If I had to describe the drama in short though, it's a love triangle taken to the extreme XD
It's one long, fun, bumpy ride that I'd gladly go on again and again
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Brilliant Acting Carried out with Charm
NON SPOILER REVIEW :' Jealousy Incarnate '
This drama is so true to its name.
There are 3 phases in this drama :
1. The Push
2. The Pull
3. The Centre
All describing how jealously is a part and parcel of the game called love.
People take each other's presence for granted.
Friendship and love go hand in hand.
You know what the best part about this drama is,
It's the charm, the easiness and the blending.
You won't even realize how good the characters are.
Each and every character in this drama is fantastic, especially our leads,
Jo Jung Suk acts so well, his facial expressions are one of the best in the entire industry.
Gong Hye Jin, Damn! She's the plotting queen for me.
Even though her face is not quite eye catchy still she's one of the greatest actresses in this industry.
If you're looking for a drama with a rom-com experience, continuing with the social dilemma, and great friendship continuing through the form and representation of a Broadcasting station. Then this is it.
The only con is 24 episodes so i do feel they could've cut the drama for around 6 episodes short.
It does get slow and I did skip many parts of it nonetheless it's a great drama.
Worthy of being watched.
Final Call
8/10
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I admit that at some parts, it is a bit draggy but come on.. sit back, relax and just watch it. The so-called draggy part is to snow-ball the feeling of the 3 leads between them. I find it rather helps the story well.
The acting of the leads.. AWESOM!! Especially Jo Jung Suk. He is a good actor, he can act so well. He is just born to be an actor. I'm glad that I watch his drama and I will definitely continue to watch his future drama as I know I won't be disappointed. Even if 1 day, he acts in a lousy drama, I know his acting will let me go on to watch finish the drama. He is just too talanted.
The story somehow I believe that there is a struggle between the 2 male leads because 1 is gentle and loving, the other is self-centered and arrogant. Some people will choose the one who is gentle and loving but in real life, the self-centered and arrogant one is the one who will attract you more. I really like how the script is written to round the story so nicely.
The comedy in this drama is DAEBAK!! You will find yourself ROTFL UNCONTROLLABLY. Maybe my laughing point is below average..lol. I just loved romance-comedy.
The reason for me to rewatch is the comedy and most important the acting. I'm not sure if you ever come across some drama that you just wanted to see the acting of the leads because it is just too awesome that you want to watch again and again. And strange enough, everytime i rewatch it, it just attracted me more to watch it again.
Seriously, it is really worth a watch.
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The summary here is not really correct I think
I started watching because of hate to love and without reading the love triangle tag. But in ep2 I just thought it is not a love triangle but love triangles. And there is no hate to love actually... It is not hate ... Of course it wasn't hate nor there wasn't any competition kind of thing which I expectedAnd I hate love triangle.
So y I continued watching was only because of the comedy. There were fun even at most serious moment. And hence I was able to brush away the triangle love. So for someone who may skip because of the love triangle... May be give a try and drop.. of u can't continue
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It's all about 2
Do you have spare time? Or having a bad day? Wanna laugh like crazy? Great grab some popcorn and you're good to go.This drama is a complete mess. I felt like I was watching a telenovela.
Summary: Stay single. If not, always date two persons at the same time. The person who makes you more jealous loves you more.
Reasons why I love this drama:
Fantastic casting! I love almost every work of Jo Jung-suk and Gong Hyo-jin, especially romcoms. Their acting will make you invested in the story for sure. Super addicting. The best thing I like about this drama is it's self-aware. It lets the viewers know that this series isn't meant to be taken seriously. There are some heart-touching emotional scenes if you love those. Production was good.
Reasons why I dislike this drama:
Plotline. The story isn't much, it's typical romcom just super messy.
Lacking side characters screentime. I was really interested in those three teenage characters, I would have love to know more about them. Same goes for Pyo an ri's parents, her father doesn't make an appearance, her mother snd stepmother had very small screentime, I wish it was longer.
Unnecessary events, overdramatic. As I said this drama is so extra, it has so many random events, not impacting the storyline at all.
Osts were bland.
I recommend, watch it. It's fun and a great time killer.
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The actors did a good job, although, let's be honest, here: the actors of the two main leads always play the same kind of characters. Having watched many of their dramas before, I absolutely knew what to expect when I got into this. Nevertheless, the drama was enjoyable as the plot about breast cancer and dating two people at the same time was very fresh!
What I did not enjoy was any other plot beside the main one. I could not have cared less about any of those other broadcast employees or the people living in the female lead's building. Those scenes were all extremely uninteresting.
But what really really bothered me was the music. It was soooo bad. Just horrible. It did not fit most of the scenes. Some were completely ruined by the bad choice of background music.
All in all, this was a fun but rather unnecessary long ride. Had they left out all of the uninteresting side plots and chose some better music, I would have given a way better rating because in my opinion, the main plot deserves it!
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Painfully Predictable Horrible depiction of Cheating, Misogony and Women Choose the Mean Guy Trope.
Full disclosure I skipped through a lot of scenes. I didnt feel the need to endure the ML being an asshole and the FL being a dumb passive recipient of abuse.Plot
Woman who is depicted as ambitious but painfully naive and girly and just dumb enough so as to be paltable in a mans world has a crush on the Alpha male at work.
ML is a complete rude obnoxious asshole who rejects her forcefulky repeatedly treats her really disrespectfully and badly and is basically a bully.
Girls meets MLs Friend who is really nice respectful goudlooking charming wealthy and guess what likes her for who she is. FL falls for the guy and seems to be really happy.
ML sees this and decides now he wants the girl because as a male he cant have another male pissing in his territory.
ML pursues FL who of course wavers because as a girl she cant have the self respect or will to resist the handsome guy even though hes an asshole. So ML shows himself to be a horriblefriend as well as a petty possessive selfish manchild.
Anyway then FL just to really double down on the shittiness cheats on the nice guy with the asshole. Then strings along the poir guy while watching the ML still being an asshole and then chooses ML anyway. Why?? Because he treated her mean to keep her keen.
Cue lots of plot devices and bad writing (ooh male breast cancer so its okay the ML is a horrible guy) designed to
1) illicit sympathy for ML and made excuses for him being a terrible ass and try and justify the FL cheating with him.
2) Make the 2Ml first a doormat than present him as clingy and unreasonable make him less likeable when he is just a victim of the trashy behaviour of the two people he liked and trusted most.
3) to try and explain away the FL being portrayed as a silly, vapid, dithering insincere cheating b;*^"'h.
Girls its time to wise up to these misogynistic portrayals of women. The fact this trash is written by a woman and is loved by women is so frustrating abd disappointing.
Its basicalky the plot of BOF with a different setting and a few tweaks. Why is it women who propogate this patriarchal nonsense.
Grow up Girls.
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Cho jung suk was the only reason I hopped into this drama
This drama had a lot of great actors and actresses , however I really think the storyline was not that good and slightly messy . Normally not very interested in a common storyline about 2 guys over a girl, but I can’t miss on cho jung suk!! He was so good in this drama , he played the character very well though slightly was a jerk . As for the female lead , not a big fan of her character . In the case of romance honestly I think her character is the worst. Her romance switch on and off like a light bulb ( felt really sad for the male character) I would say , it is a light & quite entertaining drama , however I skimmed many of the scenes as it fell flat after awhile and it felt repetitive. Better to skim this drama than to actually watch all the episodes , not quite worth the time.Was this review helpful to you?
Falls short in every aspect of the story - plot, romance, comedy, feel good moments..
This may not be a popular review, however, after watching episode 10, I have come a conclusion that I cannot go on with this any further. It is already depressing to see the second lead (the really good guy) being cheated by his friend and later, I am pretty sure by the girl friend too since he is the Second Lead.The Main male lead is almost as nasty as a villain of a story should be. He is selfish, full of himself, arrogant, rude and egoistic and worst is stabs his friend on the back.. that friend who was there for him and was ready support him, always. How can any viewer who love romance can fall in love with this guy??
The female lead is unsure about herself and so she decides to give it a try with the SL .. seriously.. what happens when you decide you want to go back to crush? Not a feel good moment for romance lovers like me.
The comedy aspect? Hardly any.. I was more stressed watching the episodes thinking how hurt the second lead is going to be.. someone said.. until episode 6 it is slow.. damn right.. it was slow even at episode 10. So I am giving up!
No offence to anyone who liked the story/series. This is entirely my personal opinion.
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A waste of time
When I first started watching this show, I wouldn't say I loved it but it was meh. I thought it was quite messy, I didn't know where this show was going: reporting, breast cancer, family.After watching half of it, I couldn't push myself to watch another episode. It's so unnecessary to include breast cancer unless the writers just needed something to fill up the episodes. I really find the fighting between male leads, mums etc. so unnecessary. There were quite a lot of unnecessary filler scenes that I skipped. Finally, I had to drop it because I didn't have motivation to see what happens next. If this drama was 16 episodes instead of 24, I felt like I would've finished watching it.
I don't understand why the main girl would choose the hateful, stubborn male lead who is always mean to her rather than the gentle, kind and tall CEO 2nd male lead. The main girl kisses male lead while she's dating the 2nd male lead!! I do not support cheating.
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Que delícia de dorama ??
Incrível! Divertido, cativante. Me prendeu do início ao fim. Não vou menti, comecei a assistir porque estou um tanto fissurada em Jung-suk, mas eu me apaixonei pelo dorama. É levinho, fácil de assistir (eps um pouco longos, mas não é chato).Apenas assistam gente, é incrível!
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