Waste of time, actors and actresses, management and resources.
This drama gat to be the worst K drama I watched.I lot of you all are so biased about k dramas. If this was a Chinese drama most of you all will have scrutinized it so badly but let's call a spade a spade
THIS DRAMA WAS STUPID AND UNNECESSARY.
Only good thing I can say that made this drama ok was the acting.
They tried to start well but ended up crashing.
It was so ducking slow, so many unnecessary stories and dramas.
I watched till the end hoping it would get better only but then again I was still disappointed.
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Absolutely Nothing
Dissappointing! The writer of this drama either had never love before or trying to be 'naughty' with real love. Both Sang Su and Su Yeong were truly in love with each other, but the writer used this to turn the love upside now so that audience will want to watch till the end. The world is already suffering. Rich or poor are the same. Dramas helps to lighten one's life. But this drama did the opposite. Made everyone angry and depressed, especially the last two episodes. Don't watch the last two , waste of time as it was poorly done and communication is so poor...Like what Sang Su replied to Su Yeong in the end..'Absolutely Nothing! . The last two episodes should be removed and just hang there...it will make us feel more positive and more hopeful amd this enjoy watching. True love does not work this way ...Was this review helpful to you?
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A Realistic Drama
The acting, music, writing, and production were superb. I watched the series three times and feel sad that there are no more episodes or series. Korea is known for its good dramas, but so many on Netflix are comprised of impossible plots, silly characters. However, the Interest of Love is a fantastic character study aided by the great acting of all the major stars. No gimmicks, but a story of love, its dangers, its heartbreaks, its happiness. Some questions I had: What was the brief glimpse of Mr. Ha and Miss Ahn going into hotel room 1243 at the introduction to a new episode (episode 13). It was never shown again or developed. Was it a scene cut out? Did Mr. Jung, the police officer, ever pay Miss Ahn back the money? If Moon Ka Yeung acts in a similar drama, I would like to know.Aside from romance, it dealt with some of the problems of Korean society, its foibles, its problems.
This has become my favorite Korean drama and perhaps I will watch it a fourth timenext year!
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fantasy or reality
It will be a little harsh. Many don't like this drama and give it a bad score because it doesn't satisfy their fantasies. This drama is enough to describe the characters that exist in the real world. And storylines that happen a lot in the real world are also unfinished stories. Unlike other fantasy dramas that always finish the story. That's why this drama did not get good marks in the eyes of the audience. Of course I understand this. Many drama viewers want to run away from reality a little with the fantasy offered by drama shows. But unfortunately they were disappointed because they didn't get it in this drama.Was this review helpful to you?
Watch at your own detriment.......
I can not believe I over-hyped this FL....Many things are wrong with ML and Fl...1. Why will both leads go out with different people since they liked each other?
2. Why will both leads decide to hurt their respective partners just so they can break -up?
This drama is a definition of '' life ain't complicated, but it is humans that make it complicated for themselves''....
It is safe to say ML and FL really did their respective partners wrong from the beginning.
Both pathetic leads deserve what they got.
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WASTE OF TIME
Honestly the show was good first few eps but after it was a mess. EVERYTHING IN HERE WAS SO TOXIC AND UNNECESSARY. I don’t even know why i even finished watching the show but i was just disappointed in the end. The main leads relationship never even really evolved they just were some SNAKES. there are way better dramas out there. if u like slow burn dramas where the leads don’t really get anywhere except get into unnecessary dramas bc they don’t know how to COMMUNICATE THEN THIS ONES FOR YOUWas this review helpful to you?
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Realistic relationships? Just an overly sugarcoated toxic scandal.
The story was supposed to be about the romantic relationships of four people in the same workplace. I expected so much when I saw the gist, and the character backgrounds.An average bank clerk who is quickly going up the ranks because of his good performance.
A charismatic young assistant manager who is all about her independence and self-reliance.
A young security officer of the lowest rung trying to achieve his dream of joining the police force.
A high school graduate trying to fight her way up in a discriminatory workplace, to become more than a replaceable labourer.
How did these 4 people's lives turn out to become a romance sob story in the hands of writers and directors?
From the overused OST, locations, art pieces, to the strikingly similar portrayal of the 4 main characters, was extremely off putting. I don't think I have enough fingers and toes to count the amount of scenes with Ahn Su Yeong walking or sitting with that blank lost look with the same OST in the background. I almost lost it when I saw people describe this drama to have portrayed relationships realistically, because I just want to know what kind of rose tinted worlds do you guys live in?
No relationships are like this. This was supposed to be a melodrama, emotions are supposed to run high, conflicts highlighted, with raw feelings and actions dramatised. There was nothing like that in here. Even during a critical scene like the one where Sang Su finds out Ahn Su Yeong slept with his best friend, the same sad romantic music played, and he right afterwards, Sang Su just kept up his lover boy act. Like I get he is supposed to be hopelessly in love, but is it even possible for someone to act that way?
Sang Su likes someone else but is dating his junior from college, and it wasn't like Mi Gyeong and him had no chemistry at all. But he is just shown as hopelessly in love with Su Yeong to the point that he was just wavering everyday. His struggles with Mi Gyeong and the reality of a possible miserable married with her could have been highlighted, and we could have gotten more backstory on him, but nothing connected. His mother was just a character that was there to emphasise his feelings towards Su Yeong.
Su Yeong just ended up buckling to the pressure and discrimination of society and love failure. And like every other character with a failed love life, ends up opening a cafe. The writer gave so much about her background and family, but never explored into her character itself, and the personality was all soft and wrong. She always had this I am depressed about life look, while I imagined someone like her to have a stronger personality. It is no easy feat to become a senior bank clerk without going to college, but everything is focused on the romance. And do you know how expensive it is to run a cafe in a city like Seoul?
Jeong hyun that boyfriend, also could have had a great story coming to terms with finances and the reality of the world and trying to get to his dreams through all that. But it gave me a really bad feeling that his success came from following the instructions of a girl he liked, and had no mind of his own, other than to feel ashamed by his circumstances. In reality, he would have never made it that far with that attitude of his.
Mi Gyeong's relationship with her father could have been the highlight of her storyline, but what was that really sorry conclusion? She just accepted it like that? I had expected her to have a strong personality different from Su Yeong but strong. Someone that understood the privileges she had given how much she preached about independence. In fact, I agreed with that friend of hers who called her out at that wedding banquet. Thought herself as better than others.
Overall, it was consistently slow and boring with such a disappointing storyline. I get this is a romance Melo, but life is not just all romance, rain and tears...honestly disappointing. The only character I liked was that office worker who got pregnant with her third child at the end. There was something so down to earth and straightforward about her character I couldn't help but appreciate.
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The Emotional Interest of Love
He's the constant.She's the variable.
Life is the equation
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Love is the problem.
It's about the interest one has to pay after being indebted with love for someone. It's about the emotional cost of being attached to someone naturally. It's THAT INTEREST. It's that EXTRA YOU PAY.
A very mature & complex tale of a group of people with all sorts of differences from backgrounds, social status, education & emotional strength to deal with a job, love, life & relationships.
Beautifully filmed, Cinematography & Music was so brilliant. Characters were all flawed human beings & striving for that care but with so much hesitation in their minds & hearts.
YYS had the best emotional expressions through out the show. It's criminally underrated performance. Shadow love OST was fabulous.
It's a drama for mature minds & will need your time & attention to consume it.
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The most tortured non-romance ever!
It was like watching an endless train wreck. You keep watching thinking there has to be an upside to this story, but it never happens. You just get sucked further down a rabbit hole of a depressing storyline . Kudos to the principle male lead for excellently portraying the most heartsick, forlorn, long suffering character imaginable. This had to be exhausting for this actor to play this tortured role, but he really pulled it off. He was one of the few characters I liked and could emphasize with, aside from the young boyfriend that was used and discarded. I really grew to despise the character that was the female lead. I found her to be arrogant, heartless, deceptive and selfish. The clingy, privileged, wanna-be girlfriend was another irritating character. The soundtrack was the only redeeming factor in this drama.Was this review helpful to you?
Boring
The male lead excellent the female lead to boring not what i expected i hated the way she was treated the male lead, terrible story line was a beat off. The second male lead was good the second female lead better then the first, the ending was a beat slow something was missing and the 4 years was a beat to match.Moon Ga young her act is always the same nothin more.................................................... my opinion the males lead safe the series. I thing the rating is going to be bad.
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Very slow dreary slice of life
This drama moves incredibly slowly and seems to be centered around stereotypical kdrama misunderstandings and missed timing in romance. That could be fine if handled well, but the misunderstandings so far stretch through countless episode after episode, without resolution, while just adding ever new ones to the pile. After awhile you stop rooting for the 1st leads to resolve their misunderstandings and start to root for them hooking up with the second leads instead who look better together, meet cuter than the main leads do and who seem much better suited for each other.Spoiler alert! .............................. So now I have watched all episodes and my review numbers don't change but now will add some final thoughts. Most Kdramas I don't think much about afterwards, but this show is nothing if not memorable. The lives of the four main characters are changed forever by a single moment of hesitation by one lead.
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The Interest of Misunderstandings
Looks like it's about a huge hot steaming pile of misunderstandings between the love interests. I've only seen the ML in Mr. Sunshine and Narco Saints. He really shone in his role in Mr. Sunshine, my GF thought it is worth a try with this series because of that. At this point, I'm not sure what to make of this. It is slow for sure. By the first four episodes, the story should sink their claws into the viewers to keep them engaged. It kind of meanders and you don't really feel much between the ML and FL. Are we supposed to root for them? It goes straight to the ML having a crush on the FL, he timidly tries to go after her; some misunderstandings take place which shuts the whole thing down. Since their love story is supposed to be the main arc of this romance drama, it would be better if episodes were dedicated to the build up and process of him falling in love with her instead of through a flashback of how she was helpful to him when he started at the bank.The scene where she trips and falls into the SML arms accidentally, it felt like a good long while before she disengages herself from him. It was used as a plot device to add to the whole hot pile of misunderstandings. It could have been more realistic since people who aren't close to each other don't linger like that and it was not clear if she was attracted to the SML for her to pause like that. The trope of tripping and falling into the man's arms is so overused in the KDramas and CDramas. At least he didn't catch her by the waist and swung her around in slow motion while the love ballads are played in the background and the confetti falls.
The actors and actresses acted well in their parts and have good visuals but so far the story is missing some key ingredients.
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