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Disappointing
I like series with mature, non-toxic, nurturing romantic relationships. I'm always looking for recommendations and lists, and this series was recommended to me a lot. I kept watching until the middle of the 11th episode and at some point I thought I could warm up to the series. And the scene with the father who opposes the divorce of his daughter who wants to get divorced, even though he learnt that her husband was violent, was enough for me. The relationships in this show are very toxic, there is a lot of miscommunication, and the characters don't act mature for their age. Honestly, I can't understand why this series is found romantic, just like Something In The Rain, which is incredibly similar to this series, this series seems like a very long clip filmed for a couple of songs. Sorry, I'm not buying this.Was this review helpful to you?
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Bro's before hos
Just like her parents, I'm not in favor of her relationship with jiho. Well, first thing, there wasn't any proper back story to actually hate gi seok. If she wasn't happy with him in a long time then why even drag it for that long. She's just a bitch plain and simple. Also with jiho, where's the bro code dude?I like to think that the story was to address some hard situation women are facing in Korea. But that's not how it's supposed to be. Like I can understand how the older sister is in a bad marriage and the stigma of divorce in a very conservative society. But jeong in and ji ho's relationship is just plain cheating. You cant possibly make an excuse from that.
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Ep 6 has just been released and I simply cannot watch it any further. But I will because I don't want to miss Jung Hae In and the other cast performances.
I love the storyline, I love the rest of the cast. I wait for their scenes, and Jung Hae In is outstanding as usual, the support cast is great, but Han Ji Min is so flat, so lifeless, so one-dimensional in her performance that if I could I would skip over all her scenes. Which means skipping over most of each episode. As I said, this is a subjective personal viewpoint. But I do feel that the team that cast this serial could have chosen someone with more acting clout to act alongside Jung Hae In and the rest of the stellar cast.
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I liked the story a lot, definitely a mature and difficult subject to discuss. It's slower then other dramas, but works well with this one. It perfectly shows the struggles of being an older adult especially one going against the norm. The different relationships are presented well and are just as interesting as the main plot.
Cast:
I honestly loved the cast. The characters are my favorite part of the whole drama. Each person stand out and portray the story of each character very well. The two male leads are my favorite, you can easily sympathize with both and understand both sides. I only have a problem with the female lead. Maybe it was supposed to be her character, but she seemed to wishy-washy with how she feel about the two male leads and the situation. She also took forever to solve the problems. Her sisters are both great as well, both strong and smart women that deal with thier own issues the best way they could.
Music:
The music isn't bad, it just not as great as the korean osts I'm used to. Korean osts stand out and match the emotion of the scenes so well, but theses ones were okay as you heard them more but didn't provoke the same emotions
Note:
I'm kind of torn on the random basketball scenes. I enjoyed see the male characters interacting on the court without the involvement of emotions, but scenes related to the basketball scenes were unnecessary. They would randomly has scenes just to talk about Giseok needing to reserve the gym, more than once. honestly the plot could deal without all the extra basketball scenes
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My Review: One Spring Night (2019)To be honest Jung Hae In/Yoo Ji Ho seduced me to watch this drama. I watched a few of his other works
2018 Something in the Rain 16 Seo Joon Hee Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food
2017 While You Were Sleeping 32 Han Woo Tak
2015 Blood 20 Joo Hyun Woo
He has a way of drawing you in. Something about his smile that makes you want to cry. This is a new drama on Netflix. I’ve paid for Netflix in New Zealand. What I like about it it is that the quality of the product for the viewer is outstanding, perfect colour and clear crisp picture. Sound doesn’t affect me because I’m a bit deaf and I’m watching the subtitles anyway and I can read fast. If I need too I can stop it and rewatch it. Music yeah its there in the back ground sometimes I turn it down anyway because in interferes with my enjoyment of the story or stresses me out. I just started it.
I have discovered there are three sisters, Han Ji Min/Lee Jung In lead actor, she a librarian. She has a long term boyfriend Jung Hae In/Yoo Ji Ho but the glow has come off her relationship and she doesn’t want to marry him. Im Sung Eon/Lee Seo In [Jung In's elder sister / News Anchor] not happy in her marriage wants a divorce. I think he’s abusing her but she’s keeping it hidden for her families sake. Joo Min Kyung/Lee Jae In [Jung In's baby sister] bit of a roaming, attractive woman and just come back from France where she was stalking a guy. She said France has got tough laws on stalking so best for her to come back to Korea.
Han Ji Min/Lee Jung has met Jung Hae In/Yoo Ji Ho a pharmacist who is single but has a young son. So far just sparks are twinkling between these two.
I know I said thematic doesn’t move me but somehow it playing on my deep psyche. It because they are thinking about each other and I here the music soft and serious. Is it in English? It is moving words and music in English.
Jung Hae In/Yoo Ji does these sad crybaby roles so well. He doesn’t cry but us the viewers do. His face tell the whole despondent story. You just want to hug him and say keep going baby its going to be alright. He was like that in “Something in the rain”. I love his words ”If you come to me now they’ll be no turning back.” So exciting so final. So irresistible to me anyway. Wasn’t he having a secret love affair in “Something in the Rain?” Oh man he’s going to be typecast as the guy who has secret romances and breaks his own heart. Forbidden love is so exciting.
The Three Sisters are so good to each other supporting and watching each others back. But Korean parents just drive me crazy. Let your kids make their own decisions and who cares if your girls don’t ever get married. Why do they need to get married? If they have got a good job that is all they need. Don’t they have family support and old age pension in Korea. My sister’s and I are good to each other but my grand daughters are the best supporters of their nana.
That Kim Joon Han/ Kwon Ki Seok is so patronising. Acts like women don’t have a brain to think for themselves. It makes me annoyed when he says what did I do wrong? I did everything right by her. Yeah! Nah! Bro, you took her for granted. Went off with the bros every night. Forgot to get in touch when you were late. Your motto was bros before hoes. You only got in touch when you felt like sleeping with her. Not cool bro.
It annoys me so much when I get into these dramas and I realise that the next episodes not until next week. I start surfing the next and trying to find the continuation.
Get over it move on. In real life these things happen. She had already told him she wanted to finish with him but he just wouldn't accept it. So when a new guy comes into the picture. Get on it grab it with both hands. He might be the one who going to make your dreams come true. Test out the waters. He hadn't even given her a ring. He hasn't made a commitment to her. They don't live together. Just sleeps with her occasionally when HE feels like it. No way is this love. They are just dating. Going steady maybe. His parent don't even like her. Dating is the time for testing your feelings. For sure its going to wake up the ex and maybe he'll make better moves. Thing is though in New Zealand it can be a dangerous thing to do. Many male ex's have killed the female ex for less. It so annoying and frustrating that they are not accepting that she has broken up with that Kim Joon Han/ Kwon Ki Seok. She doesn’t want to be with him. Its only episode 11 so anything can still happen. I couldn’t stand it if my parents told me to stay with the two me I had children too. When its over its over. One I had a baby to when I was young and the other one I married.
Then there is the old sister who pregnant with an abusive spouse. Her parents still want her to stay with him. No way Jose carry on and get a divorce from that maniac. She showed her mother pictures of her injuries. The other finally understood and wanted to deal to immediately.
I have spent a lot of time infuriated and angered by the behaviour of some of the men in this drama. Arrogant, dictatorial, controlling, selfish, and indifferent to the feelings and needs of the women in their lives. Why would you force marriage on someone - making everyone's lives miserable? Why would you demand your daughter stay in an abusive marriage and forgive her abuser? (With hints he is also a rapist). Why is their father supporting and enabling the subjugation of his daughters?
Stupid woman she took his ring. That is going to cause a problem. Now his(Jung Hae In/Yoo Ji Ho) heart is broken. How can a woman be so stupid. She even let Kim Joon Han/ Kwon Ki Seok hug her. How she going to get out of this one. Its getting more and more like “Something in the Rain “. So pitiful! She finally gave it back to him and he threw it into oblivion and she just walked away.
These Korean Fathers are so horrible to their daughters. They just want them to marry rich men so they can be comfortable in their old age.
Jung Hae In/Yoo Ji Ho is such a sook and they are both crying. What is the problem with a man having a child, in New Zealand about 1:4 single men have a child and many New Zealanders live together without marriage. Don’t tell me he’s going to cry again after she ask the son if he’d like her to be his mum. He suits these romantic roles so much.
Seo Jung Yeon/Wang Hye Jeong [Ji Ho's colleague] she is the owner of the Pharmacy that he (Jung Hae In/Yoo Ji Ho) works at. She must be a relative of Yu-mi (the mother of (Jung Hae In/Yoo Ji Ho) son. He is very close to his child and worries that his mum will turn up and take him away. When she tells him that she had married and has a child (Jung Hae In/Yoo Ji Ho) has a bit of a break down. Gets drunk and says a dumb thing to Han Ji Min/Lee Jung. She doesn’t take it that well but gets over it. Just analysing his reaction to this news. He was probably upset because she just proved to him that she really just didn’t want him or his son. He should be grateful she left and both him and his son can carry on without a woman who doesn’t love them. They’ve got Han Ji Min/Lee Jung now and she is going to be a great mum to the son.
Jump to the ending its a bit ambiguous to but I think they are going to be together but nothing is really solved with their parent relationship (her dad). Lots of loose ends not tied up. I don’t think I understand the subtleties of Korean courtship.
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No sense slice of life
For starters, am I someone who supports cheaters? Nope. Are the two main leads low key cheaters? Yes. There you go that’s my review. The dramas conflict is self centered, rude, confused female lead disguised as strong, independent, opinionated lady trying to cheat on his boyfriend of 4 years with male lead and dragging the same mess forever with out any resolution. The male lead Jung hae is a decent actor and very likeable but his character here is so annoying. Dude! Common you already fell for a red flag who left you and your kid and what’s your excuse to fall for a redder flag like FL? That she bought hangover medicine once at your pharmacy? I pity for his little kid. Anyways I wasn’t a big fan of SITR by the same director and most cast repeating it is just a mess I couldn’t go past through 4 episodes.Was this review helpful to you?
The music was very unbearing, maybe because I read the comments and someone pointed it out but it was excruciatingly timed. Lots of pointless scenes that try too hard to show longing and slow down the drama but in reality can just be filled with blank space.
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Cheating?!
I really tried to give this drama a fair chance but… I could not stand watching any further.At first I figured it would be some emotional and accidental cheating. I didn’t read any synopsis of the drama nor any reviews so I went in blind. But quickly I realized that this drama is just some cheating fantasy of some kind. I thought maybe the ML would try to make the FL break up quickly with her boyfriend(who he knows and plays basketball with?!?) but nope. They just straight up keep flirting, touching, etc..
I know some people like the cheating stuff and can “oh but they didn’t ____” or “it’s just fictional” but I definitely can’t.
Sorry but definitely dropped this. I can’t do cheating…
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I started watching this on a whim since the trailer was interesting. I'm okay with one of the leads starting out in a different relationship and then finding the other lead. I'm not a fan of one of the leads falling for the other lead while IN a different relationship. And I am 100% against cheating- it is not justifiable, it is not romantic, it is not okay. In the past I have always dropped the show when I realize that's what the plot is. This time I held on a little longer because the ML's acting was so compelling. Other problems:
-the FL was entirely unlikable. She was pouty, she was cranky for no reason, she was selfish. She reminded me of the FL from She Would Never Know, whom I couldn't stand. She said she hated lies, but her entire screen time was one big smush of lies. She was wishy-washy with her boyfriend, while telling the ML she wasn't interested in getting involved but stringing him along the entire time. Which brings me to...
-what the duece did the ML see in her? Can someone please explain what her allure was? Never mind, I don't actually care.
-there were two songs that took turns filling up the airspace like a Groundhog Day of folksy elevator music.
The ML did a great job of pulling me in to his character. The little boy was really cute. That's about all I've got.
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Can an OST really ruin a Drama??
In this case, for me, most definitely, YES! I like the 3 sisters, I like the ML but the constant playing of the same 2 awful songs every 5-10 min has been enough to ruin this show for me.
I forced myself to watch episode 3 but there are so many other shows and I just don't care to have to mute my tv and wait for dialogue! So frustrating!
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