So I Married the Anti-Fan

Endearing Feel-Good Romcom

Although the premise of this drama felt cliched - a haughty celebrity male lead and doormat female lead, the characters slowly started to grow on me and by the 7th episode I was hooked and ended up helplessly binge watching the rest. Both the characters have amazing chemistry and despite cliched scenes (the accidental kiss was so cringey) their natural bickering rapport and mutual support, growing understanding of each other, gradual decrease in pride and prejudice was heartening to watch. The ML is revealed to be an absolute sweetheart. And when there comes a time for justified misunderstanding and anger towards the FL for something leaked to the press, the drama again surprised me by showing their mutual trust on each other and patience to wait out the circumstances. For this alone the drama is worth the watch.
It has easily become one of my go-to feel good romcoms with high rewatch value, something that brings a smile on the face when reminiscing about.

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surprise late night binge session...

I started watching this series because of review and trailer seemed interesting, and I thought here is a nice fluffy cliche drama I can tuck in with on a late Friday night. Boy was I wrong.
I love this drama hence binging it into my Saturday morning so as to finish it. The story for me was lackluster at beginning and then as I watched it drew me in, the plot grew better in my opinion. My favourite part was the new perspective I got about love and relationships, which is neither my cup of tea nor how I would react, but it opened my eyes to another person's character traits and point of view.
There were times I wanted to scream and shout at the Fl for just taking it, why she let herself be a doormat, but that is why I loved this series it showed me another character trait and went about to explain it. I do not think this will be me in the future, but it will teach me how not take advantage of people with her trait.
The ending, producers of this show that was very rude, personally I would have loved a bit more insight into their future or current present, but oooh well.
I loved the Ml and I am going to search for shows he has done to see how he transits from one character to another.

This show is not everybody cup of tea and that is perfectly fine, because the world would be Hella boring if we were all similar or liked the same thing, so sorry if this not it for you.

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it is a rollercoaster of emotions

quick summary, a journalist that went on an event and met the idol that is hosting it. the idol has a really good picture in front of his fans, but she accidentally caught some dirt on him, they argued and she ended up throwing a shoe on him. she got fired from her job as a consequence. but his managers decided to give them a show for him and his "anti-fan".
really great story.
it was funny it was sometimes sad and the characters had really great chemistry with each other.
i loved the first like 9 ? episodes
but then i got really confused and kinda bored in the second half of it.
things started to get complicated with his dad and him lying about studying in the US and stuff.
and also the side characters are kind of boring.
but overall it is a great drama and a light one too.
7,5/10 i would recommend

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Bad script & production. Talented actors.

A story with attractive synopsis but delivered so little after 16 arduous episodes. At fault are writers who could not craft likable main characters in the first 3 episodes. That's right! It took 10 episodes to find a glimmer of connection with the main characters. It was a bad combination of situational drama, weak/mousy females, arrogant males and too much hidden from the viewer to grasp any enjoyment. Even the wardrobe made the women look even more pitiful than needed. An all round dud in my opinion. Really poorly written and executed. On to the next thing....

The high 9.3 rating misrepresents what's here. Other things that affected it:
Soundtrack - nothing appealing & 1 song repeated too often that wasn't even that good.
Wardrobe - also lacking. The women looked comical and badly dressed.
Editing - Writers & Director probably didn't communicate with each other.
Series length - overkill at 16 episodes could have presented in 8.
Story - had promise. But lost the mark early on.
Characters - second lead male had all the emphasis. Mystery and secret surrounded the lead male and second female. Lead female was left undeveloped for too long. As a result the 4 main characters were never likable or had any pull until episode 12 which is too long for anyone wanting to engage with a drama.

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I was excited by the premise of a love-hate relationship between celebrity and commoner that I ignored the lukewarm reviews. After watching it though, it was neither here nor there. What I did enjoy was the idea of a kpop idol and a rookie journalist being at odds in the beginning due to misunderstandings. It was their story that made me finish the drama. What I did not enjoy was the secondary couple who should not even be together due to the toxicity of the relationship. I wish that they casted a real kpop idol to play the male lead who could actually sing and dance, but instead they casted a kpop idol for the female lead who did not require her singing/dancing skills.

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Should I love this or hate this???

The drama has quite lot a issues,but still I couldn't help watching it. If it was not for the second couple, the drama would have got a whooping 9 ratings from me. The leads were too good, whenever I thought that they will go off track,they surprised me by making it through the situation maturely. Also they had some very cute,fluttering scenes.
The osts and background scores were superb and are my absolute favourites.
The drama is not bad, but the issues it had,and how the deeds of second couple were whitewashed was disturbing for me.
Anyways, I would never mind going back and watching the scenes of the leads

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I must say it's really a good drama to watch. It started with a good storyline from the first episodes. And they really showed how anti-fan the female lead was. However it should be noted that this drama still had flaws. The writers would have atleast shown enough chemistry between the leads the female lead is so neutral and naive that she doesn't know whom to support while the male lead seems to care about only what happened in his past. He's actually stuck in his past. They're talented actors and actress buy were not used enough. Another thing is that on several occasions the male lead seems to be behind the second male lead with him being humiliated a lot on several occasions. But overall it's a drama a recommend it's so great and entertaining.

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Not perfect, but good enough.

I didn't plan to watch this, but it came up in my viki recommended and I decided to check out the first ep. A lot of things don't really catch my interest, but this seemed to do it and kept me interested to the end.

The only real criticism I have is for the second pairing and the holy moly rollercoaster they made us ride throughout the show. JJ seemed largely one dimensional throughout this series, where he's on edge and annoyed/angry at every bend of the story. At some point it does get really annoying and for half of the series I was just thinking that this guy really needs to get his **** ****ed and chill out. But then he tries to save Inhyung and gets hit by the truck and honestly it made me laugh (I know it sounds terrible), but finally he was silent and somewhat enjoyable to watch on the screen. Also the fact that they wrote Inhyung denying a record deal to take care of JJ was infuriating. Inhyung deserved so much more at the end of the series.

Despite this, overall the series did make me laugh and had me pulling for the two leads. Geunyoung's dad had me rolling a few times. No matter what, the good does outweigh the bad and is worth the watch.

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It was an okay one time watch

So I Married an Anti-fan
2021 ‧ Rom-Com
Korean Drama
Viki
🍬🍬🍬 (sweet, fluffy watch)

First it was a book (2010) then a weebton (2012), a Chinese Movie (2016) and now a Korean Drama (2021).

♡Fun fact the female lead in real life is a singer and was part of a girl's kpop group. Girls Generation debut in 2007, which was one of OG girl groups.♡

🎥Hate to Love
🎥TV Show plot
🎥Star Love
🎥 Sweet Romance
🎥 Based of a book

What I liked 👍
~When the female Charcter stood up for herself!
~The Romamce
~A good fluffy watch
~The very drama tropes, they just were so funny at times.

What I did not like 👎
~That side story about his past, didn't care to much for it.
~His ex friends 😒
~The last two episodes felt a little rushed.

Rewatch? No

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It's been a few months since I enjoyed a drama as much as this one.

The main couple is the main reason for that. They had such good chemistry and were so sweet. I'm a sucker for the "enemies to lovers" trope, which was executed so very smoothly. I also really liked the relationship between the producers for the variety show. Joon's manager, wardrobe lady and Geoun Young's parents were very likable characters, too. The parents had a few hilarious scenes, and it was cute how Ji Hyang was their first shipper.

On the negative side, the second couple was so very toxic. Which was only made worse by the fact that they were two sides of the show's love triangle. It, perhaps, would have been better if JJ died. He was such a mean, manipulative and emotionally abusive character, and I don't think he deserved the weak attempt at a redemption arc they gave him. He was nowhere near damaged enough to justify him being that absolutely awful to other people. In Hyung was not much better. So pitiful for no apparent reason. She made her choices, picked her path and then refused to take responsibility for her own life. I don't really like "woe is me" characters who don't do anything to change their circumstances.

But, all in all, this show was extremely bingeable and so much fun! Would recommend.

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the little drama that could but wouldn’t

i loved the storyline. that is what pulled me
in. after episode 1$2 I almost dropped it because it wasn’t what i expected. but the fl was so good that i stayed. ml lead was ok for me but to me they had 0 romance chemistry. big sister chemistry? yep. but that was about it. the entire line of him suddenly out of the blue falling in love with her when just minutes before he cried for his first love, wasn’t adding up. it was so forced and rehearsed. i just couldn’t take him serious!
there was no magic moment or anything like it. just here we go we are in love now. you could tell with the fl when it changed but not him. his explanation was “I don’t know when it changed”. this entire story felt forced after a while. the sfl is a great actress and so beautiful but seriously… in this drama they just let her have one meltdown after another because she wasn’t famous?! playing one against the other with her crying and needyness. her facial expression barely ever changed. i wanted to see so much more of her and they completely missed that opportunity!
sml was great and I was on his side until that moment! until he raised his hand. i was done after that. idc what happened but You do not hit someone. idc if male or female. you just don’t, period!
that long drawn out “wait for me” ….seriously?! this wasn’t an illness or threat or anything like that. you lied. you got caught. you are facing consequences! the end. same with sfl and her running in the street. you caused the problems. take responsibility!
that marriage proposal was so rushed lol. i expected more romance.
i was a bit disappointed to be honest.
it could have been so much more.

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