My Sweet Dear

Falls flat

While I appreciated some of the long shots, the soundtrack, and the food/cooking scenes, this drama was a bit disappointing overall.


It’s supposed to be a romance, but it falls flat in that regard. The two chefs seem to treat their romance as an afterthought rather than the central emotion they should be experiencing. I felt that the actors didn’t commit enough to make the story believable on screen. The overall plot was intended to be one of enemies to lovers, but I didn’t feel that connection at all. They were rivals at best and then became friends, with a romance that felt like a lovely afterthought.


In the end, I’m somewhat relieved this series only had 8 episodes, as the time I spent watching it wasn’t too significant.

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At least they tried and had some decent chemistry?

Honestly, I have to begin this review by saying that I did not hate this! I rated it a 6.5, which is not terrible at all. However, there were several things that could have been done better.
But first, the positives:
+ The chemistry between the leads was good! They were sweet together and made me feel giddy and happy and that's honestly the most important thing for me, especially in BLs but also in other romance dramas, and affected my scoring a lot.
+ The supporting characters (well except for one iykyk) were very sweet
+ The food looked great
+ The cinematography was pretty
+ Jang Eui Soo (Choi Jung Woo) looked insanely good with that hairstyle and overall styling haha. (His MDL profile pic doesn't do him justice honestly.)

But then the negatives:
- The soundtrack was honestly possibly the worst that I've ever heard in a drama. It was filled with songs that had English lyrics that were just complete nonsense. The grammar was abysmal and the sentences did not make any kind of sense. The only okay song on the OST was okay simply because it was fully in Korean :/ Also, having a song where a male singer sings about a "lady" on a BL drama OST was certainly... a choice lol. (If this wasn't released in 2021 I'd have to wonder if the songs were AI)
- The editing was.. bad. There is no other way to put it. They sometimes put scenes and shots in very bizarre order, and sometimes after an episode ended, the next episode would start from the "same" scene, except that in the latter episode there would suddenly be a line or even several lines that were not in that scene in the previous episode. Once they left the episode in a cliff-hanger (kinda) and then the next episode started from a completely different scene taking place before the cliff-hanger scene, but that scene wasn't shown in the previous episode at all. It made me wonder if I accidentally skipped an episode lol (I did not). Also there were several weird time skips and unexplained things, some scenes would just fade to black without proper closure, and then suddenly the characters were somewhere else with no explanation. Overall the editing was a hot mess.
- The sound management was also bad. Sometimes it would sound like the actors' mics just stopped working mid-scene, and they just rolled with it lol. Also the (terrible) music was too loud compared to the dialogue, and sometimes the lines would fade under a (bad) song.
(- The acting was a little bit awkward especially in the first episodes but that is something I can honestly forgive.)
- The writing was not great at all. Listen, I love me some enemies-to-lovers, I do, it's one of my fave tropes, but this drama was written in a very strange way. The twists were silly and created unnecessary drama out of nowhere, and the ending felt a little bit unsatisfactory. Some of the characters' motivations were very unclear until the end.
- We didn't really get a lot of kiss scenes or even that much hand holding ): A liiiittle bit more skinship would have been great considering that the leads had even some chemistry.
- I don't understand the drama's title, it would make sense if even one of them was a pastry chef, but they just both made savoury dishes so it's confusing me a little lol.

Overall, this drama had a lot of negatives, but honestly if you have some time to kill this is not a terrible way to do it. It's a short drama, I easily binge watched the whole thing in one sitting. If for nothing else, you could give it a chance for the leads, they're cute together (: The actors honestly carry this whole thing.

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Short but Sweet

A very nice brotherhood story.

I felt no romantic chemistry between the two and not even a kiss scene. All I saw was two bro's who had a misunderstanding, apologized and helped each other grow then held hands at the beach, like all good brothers bros do. Very nice brotherhood story. Baksu ??

Don't know why it's listed under bl but oh well , mistakes happen.


The plot is not that complicated or fleshed out but that only natural considering the average runtime of the drama was 15minutes and it only had 8 episodes to work with so I don't really fault the director or the script writer they did what the could with what they had.

It did kinda feel rushed at the end as they tried to reveal the overall plot and rush towards the conclusion all in one episode but like I said, this drama was only 8 episodes each an average of 15 minutes long, what do you expect?

It might sound like I'm complaining but the fact that I binged and completed this series in one sitting at normal speed without utilizing the 2x speed option means that I at least didn't hate it.

I loved the actors. Visuals were on point, acting was above average and the most, despite the horrible google translate lyrics, was a fun listen. All in all I score this best friend drama a 5.5 out of ten. A great watch for anyone looking to pass the time and enjoy visuals and cute acting .

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Something was just not right

I really really liked the overall idea of the drama and the acting was perfect, I loved it very much. However, it just did not make sense after a certain moment. I don't want to spoil anything so I will try to keep this part pretty dry, but at a certain point, which was supposed to be the "turning point" or idk how to call it, things went south and I felt like I was watching a wattpad story but in video. Maybe it was because it was very short and there was not enough time for the story to be developed properly. Other than that, I don't really have something more to say about it. It was a short, sweet drama and great for people who just start watching BLs. Maybe it did not look good to me also because of the fact that I've spent more days watching bls and reading wattpad than I'm comfortable sharing and I am expecting certain things to happen that are quite predictable.

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um... average for a KBL I suppose...

mini series, short time frame, and low budget aside... the plotholes in everything goes crazy. the chemistry in the outtakes seemed more realistic than in the show itself. many questionable things... the awkwardness, like if some stranger acted like that, the police/HR would be called. finally, who are these people? like really? why bother hinting at a backstory if you're not going to go into it? ML2 got so many unnecessary details compared to ML1. and I'm left with so many questions... but it was a decently fun watch, if you're into super mega fantasy relationships that personal space doesn't exist and you go 0-100 with your enemy within the span of <1hr.

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So close and yet so far

This show was so close to being actually good and enjoyable but then it tripped and fell flat on its face just before the finish line.
To be clear: I didn't expect this show to be a masterpiece by any means, but I was hoping for a romance drama that, while shallow, would be just charming and self-aware enough to spark my interest. And for the first few episodes that's what I thought I was getting. Sure, there are some fairly obvious flaws with the series even early on, but all in all the first half of the show is still entirely watchable.
But then, instead of slowly improving on the main characters' dynamic, the show inexplicably starts spiraling, sidelining its lovable supporting cast, introducing strange conflicts that go nowhere and an antagonist who sees zero consequences for her actions, before ending on an incredibly strange note that feels nothing like the satisfying happy ending it presents itself as.
I admit I'm being fairly harsh here, but I suppose I'm just annoyed at the wasted potential. This didn't have to be some queer epic, but it could have at least been a pleasant, if slightly silly, food romance. It's just a shame, is all.
If you're just looking for a show that's easy on the eyes and requires absolutely zero brain cells to follow you might like this fine. But even as far as mindless entertainment goes, there's better series out there, in my opinion, and you'd probably be a lot better off watching one of them.

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This time, I'll probably go against the flow, even the enthusiasm of the duo ŠK+Susannah, who translated the series superbly into Slovak. The story is appalling, out of control, illogical to the point of embarrassment. And the entire series was built on it, which was saved by other aspects of the evaluation. It wasn't enough for the owner of the restaurant that they have such success and chef Yoon Do Gun with a Michelin star, and she tried to trip him up with the help of an uneducated amateur Choi Jung Woo (actor Jang Eu Soo, who we know here from the series Where Your Eyes Linger or Nobleman). . Besides, the ending of the story didn't appeal to me either (forgiveness, final contest). The actors played it well, but I didn't believe their relationship one iota. Everything seemed forced to me, and the one kiss at the end and the fake hug didn't make much sense to me that these were adult characters and not schoolboys in knee socks and shorts, which is the most common form of BL series.

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Sweet but too short

The base plot of the script is the same old story, enemies to lovers where there is a charming handsome guy who makes the cute one fall in love with him.
The story is a bit realistic, unlike most BLs but at the same time need to explore the depth.
The acting was pretty good according to the simple series but I believer the series could have been better if emotions were shown in a bit more intense way.
Woud recommend to watch if you are in mood of something sweet, simple and quick.
The relationship between the leads were handled in a very matuered way wich is the part I really liked in the series.

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good simple drama

I started this drama around midnight and finish it in one laying. I think that this show if a create show to just watch in a one sitting, almost like a filler show or a break show between the other dramas you may be watching.

I really like the simple confession, "i like you" "i like you too" *clink wine glasses* and then after that they really didn't do a "are we together" type of thing, they kind a just got together after that. I also like how there was any homophobia in here or any type of scenes or moment that made this be like a bl, even though it is. (does that make sense?) I am also just a sucker for parallel or when things connect, so the beginning of the series and the ending of the series was very satisfying for me because of the parallel.

DISLIKE:
The fight scene was so weird to me personally just a bit. Like they were yelling at each other then hugging each other. For the pace it was I understand, but I think that could've been done a little better just a bit. They had pretty decent chemistry I felt like it was a very neutral, friendly chemistry and for the amount of "romance" scenes we got I say it was enough.

COMMENTS:
I think if the chemistry between the actors were a little higher this plot and idea, along with change of length can be an even better bl.

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