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My Opinion
If you want to waste your brain cells by watching something with lazy writing, plot holes, bad transitions and extremely overrated romance than go ahead and watch Queen of Tears. This show was so bad I do not know where to begin.The first episode actually did grab my interest. I was very much interested to know why these two people who were in love had begun to hate each other. To say I was utterly disappointed would be an understatement. They lost a baby and they fell out of love? There were so many potential problems that the couple could have had which would give more depth to their marital problems. But as a viewer you are left with nothing. Ok great I am just going to imagine the missing bits myself I guess
Now the chemistry between these two actors. Either I am blind or the people out there who endlessly spoke about their chemistry are delusional. I saw nothing, not saying the chemistry was horrid, but it wasn’t anything special. I have seen this actress have excellent chemistry with actors and he isn’t one of them. They are supposed to be a married couple who have known each other for years and their romance was more awkward than shy high schoolers. There was absolutely no spark between them. I failed to understand why they fell out of love just like I failed to understand why they were back in love. I saw no reason for either scenario
Now moving on to the side characters. Let’s begin with her crappy family. Why did her mother hate her for so many years? Seems extremely petty. You supposedly love your daughter but it feels like you almost wish she would have died instead of your son. I wont even mention the ludicrous reconciliation between her and her mother. And the brother that everyone on the internet called “golden retriever” is anything but. He is whiny, a loser, pathetic till the end and extremely annoying. Everyone else is so boring they aren’t even worth mentioning.
You sell us on the most ridiculous excuse of a terminal disease that she suffers with in the trailer and turns out it’s not really that important or terminal even. It barely disrupted her life. I will be honest, I did not watch the last few episodes. By episode 9 the show had gotten intolerable but I did try to watch some of it. And then I just gave up, skipped to last episode and watched the last 5 minutes. So go ahead and waste your time with the most overrated show of 2024. Bet nothing can surpass this shit.
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Boring and overrated !!!
A bit tired of these absurd stories about these "poor" rich chaebol.A poor script, a drama that relies only on the couple FL and ML A disastrous casting choice, with the father looks as old as the grandfather (Hong family) and the son (ML's brother) as old as the father (Baek family). Useless characters to fill out an empty story. Everything in this drama sounds fake (how can such wealthy people be so naive and stupid?), and due to the lack of content, we're force-fed with repetitive crying scenes, where we are not even able to see the tears roll down on the protagonists' cheeks...
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I had high expectations but was let down by the story
I had high hopes with this drama but it was just a copy of some old kdramas. The story lack depth and originality.I couldn’t stand it post episode 8 but still watched it hoping the story will take off but it become more and more lame.
Acting was good as both of the lead actors are my favourites though their characters weren’t evolving. Baek hyun woo and Hae in will be remembered as a popular couple as their chemistry was amazing . Can’t say same about the drama thou.
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Glossy romcom
It's a glossy rom com with very little to cherish tbh so far. The power tripping Fam is just crazy. Enjoying terminal illness of spouse is like a new Kdrama genre or something & that dreaded TRIANGLE whether it's love or hate. ARGH!!!That Soo Hyun scene saying why am I cute when I drink was the best thing about this drama so far. The wedding scene was Binjin coded so much so that they even called it wedding of the century too.
The outfits that Kim Ji won is wearing is absolutely stunning 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 so far.
Let's see how it goes later on. So far I won't rate it extraordinarily for what I have seen.
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Overhyped average show
The show had great potential with great cast but it was wasted by a average storyline..the show was carried by the high promotion doone by tvn and visual attraction of the lead couple. The beginning was good and the middle and later pats were soo boring and included so much unnecessary plot twists..The story was very average and yes Overrated.. Nothing new & interesting..Was this review helpful to you?
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This drama is truly a masterpiece!
The OST is fabulous, the acting is outstanding and the story is great. Everything about this series is worthy of compliments.The drama contains all the elements that keep the watchers constantly interested and captured. It makes you want to know how the story will unfold and how it will conclude.
As I say this, I must admit however that the pace of the story at its beginning was pretty slow to me, so I kept it on hold for a while. Though, as I picked it up again I didn’t feel it was slow at all and the story unfolded smoothly. I am very grateful to myself for trusting the series and watching it until its end because it. is. worth. it!!!!!
Also I would like to add that even though this series has an ending that will make you satisfied, it is absolutely not tear-free. I can’t deny that on episodes 14 and 15 I bawled my eyes out!
Anyway, I highly recommend it!!!!
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everything everywhere all at once ?
as always, the show started off strong & interesting but it got real messy real quick!! the writers are trying to fit in every genre into the show and somehow trying to put everything in makes the show feels like theres nothing to be seen. they try to put all sorts of tropes into the show too like omg... enough.... it couldve been a REAAALLY good show had the writers only go in a certain direction but with every episode its just climax after climax like when do we relax guys...Was this review helpful to you?
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did not live up to expectations...
When I first watched episodes 1 to 4 I was shocked because based on the budget and story expectations I had, the plot was cliche and there was nothing engaging...given the deep plots introduced early in the drama I thought those will be the focus point for the drama. But eventually the plot just became messy because they added every single plot possible inside without giving proper closure to some open plots.Plenty of loopholes, still dont understand how not a single family member went with her to germany for such an important surgery. The car crash and the kidnap and the getting s**t and stuff was so redundant to be honest. The villain's story just ended abruptly after dragging it for 16 episodes....the main plots were barely discussed, why did he want to divorce, why was she so cold to him.
Yes needless to say the acting and the osts are really good, but sometimes if the plot is so obviously not linking, it removes the relatability from the drama making it harder to understand the characters. For example, first half of the drama even though she had few months to live she focused so hard on getting into the trillion group (disregarding her health), the minute she just lost her company overnight suddenly all her desires disappeared??? literally the only person who was fighting back was the aunt. Even the family, how can a director and CEO of such a big company know nothing on how to handle the situation and they just dumped everything on hyunwoo to solve....
anyway i really tried to find why this was so hyped but really it is way too overrated and overhyped.
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Carried by the actors/actresses
The show was enjoyable to watch but i dont know.. a lot of people said "oh it took over crash landing!"but in terms of story.. left a lot to be desired, and even when it gave bits and pieces of certain resolutions or things coming together.. i was always like "ok, thats it?" lol this drama could have been a heavy hitter if the writing was better
I really gotta say that it's just enjoyable to watch due to the actors/actresses..
but i usually re-watch dramas that i truly love.. and this one.. i'll gladly be just leaving behind
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Disappointing !
I watched this drama with great expectation . The ratings were high , it ranked high on Netflix global top 10 .But I am afraid to say I did not find it so . It is watchable , but I will not watch it again and I am pleased to know that there won't be a second series because we ended up in 2074 !
I agree with the first two comments on this page . The first 8/9 episodes were interesting but I could not place this drama , was it a black comedy , was it meant to be serious , or not . The characters did not grip me . Hae-In is cold , stony , intransigent, her family not any better . Baek Hyun-woo is not only clever , good looking , but perfect in every way . His family more ordinary .What could have been an emotional journey to reconciliation between the two main characters became a not so believable story and the writers seem to have lost their way . Come on , being hit by a car at full speed and taken to hospital with severe bleeding and injuries to the head , , and on the same day being shot in the shoulder and back in ER after losing consciousness and much blood again . Ridiculous . To emerge from these traumas with not so much as a scratch or scar , or side effect is pushing it into the ridiculous and then I lost all interest and emotion. The twisted plot , the villain and his long lost mother , just not gripping . It had to end , and the ending left me cold . It had been a hell of a journey .
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Starpower shines, while storytelling stagnates
What worked for the show:Major starpower across the board. Even outside of Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Ji Won, Park Sung Hoon and Kwak Dong Yeon are budding stars of their own and provide reason to tune in.
Strong middle episodes. Once the FL's family moved in with the ML's family in the rural town I was sure it was going to follow the trope of them being arrogant, rude etc, but actually the budding relationships among the family members on each side was the major positive driving force of the show.
Inverting the gender trope of the tsundre male CEO to female CEO. The drama industry needs more badass FLs.
What didn't work:
Over-focus on the antagonist in later episodes when the screentime could have been focused on the main couple overcomming the FL's memory loss. Like many kdramas this one included someone with psychopathy/sociopathy playing an overbearing evil character.
Childhood reunion trope. In this drama we find out that the ML not only saved the FL's life, but also kept her ipod as she was his first crush. I don't think this trope is natural, although extremely common in kdramas with the idea of fated love, but felt completely unnessary and forced.
Poor writing at times and overly convient plot devices. There are several issues with the plot in general, how are we supposed to support a character who actively feels relief when he finds out his partner is dying in a few months. Everything medical is spoken as a matter of fact and that medical science for experimental procedures is exact. The show treats her surgery which is a supposed rare technique with a few academic papers as a 100 percent success rate on curing her terminal cancer and highly likely to affect her memory. Medical procedures, even those not used for dramatic effect, have risk involved and uncertainty.
The certainty of how the medical side was handled made the show feel less realistic. How are the parents not following their daughter who is getting an experimental treatment in a foreign country with likely memory side effects?
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Las third is not good, ending is unsatisfaying
I'm happy this wasn't longer, because I don't think I could have gone through with more episodes. The last third, or even the last half didn't hold up to the quality of the first part of the show. I really felt like the writers were just clocking it in and throwing all the noodles at the wall (looking at you, unconsequential TA (iykyk)).It's a shame because it had potential, and not just as a concept made out of a cool idea and a cool teaser that doesn't deliver on ep 1 and 2, but we had really good eps at first.
There was some good acting at times, but also a lot of over-the-top stuff that I could overlook at first, because the story was good, but when the makjang hit bad... bruh.
I didn't follow much about the scandal, only heard bits and pieces, as I try to stay away if I'm actively watching something, but I'm not mad since this drama doesn't deserve much aknowledgement the way it turned out. I feel robbed in a way I haven't experienced a lot with kdrama before. Like we know the last third curse is real, but I never felt it as bad as witht his one, where the good of the rest of the series cannot outweight the downfall of it all.
Crush's song is good and I did add it to my rotation. The other songs are ok, but not in a "I'll listen to them again by themselves" kinda way.
I cannot say I'm happy I've watched it, but I'm happy I've finished it since I was in a huge kdrama slump for the past few years and I'm ready to get back at it. If I can get through this one in a few weeks, I can do anything!
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