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Glorifying toxic relationships
This drama glorifies toxic and even abusive relationships by trying to portray problematic behaviors as if it's acceptable. They push the narrative that "family loyalty is everything," even if it means standing by your toxic family.In 2025, where progressive or emotionally mature directors and screenwriters understand that sometimes found family is better than actual family and sometimes it's healthy to leave toxic environment, the team behind this project disagrees.
This drama espouses misguided "Confucian" values, emotional immaturity, and manipulative tactics. According to the drama's logic, it's okay to abuse your wife physically, it's okay to abuse your kids emotionally, it's okay to steal someone else's husband and con him into believing he's the father of your son, it's okay to gamble, it's okay for an adult to not have a job and steal money from family members, it's okay to lie to your partners, it's okay to blame someone for someone else's actions, because in the end, you'll all be forgiven... your kids will still love you, your partners will forgive you, etc. The magical powers of filial piety will make you whole again. Are you disturbed yet?
You have to REALLY suspend your logic to understand this drama. Nothing about the plot, the dialogue, and the pacing is well-executed.
Even the romantic scenes were hard to stomach because the dialogue and situations were very over-the-top and corny. It's not cheesy in a way that makes you swoon and blush but makes you cringe with secondhand embarrassment.
Acting wise. I enjoyed Ryu's and Candy's performances. I thought Ryu did well given the material and delivered when it comes to expressing emotions through his eyes and face. He was able to go toe-to-toe with more senior actors during explosive scenes. Candy is a newbie but she's outspoken and fun to watch, even if the writers made her behavior a bit brat-like at times.
Namfah stayed solid --- she's long been typecasted into bubbly roles so she did not improve nor did she regress. Meen should stick to modeling and not acting. He lacks nuance and depth in acting and interprets a calm/pressured character as having to act stiff all the time.
Mint was the biggest disappointment. She regressed and is better off as supporting than lead, especially since she played the same role (poor, bland characters with mommy issues) three times in a row now. Her character started rather bland but level-headed then ended as just a dumb character who makes allowances for things emotionally mature people wouldn't make but hold grudges on things emotionally mature people would let go.
Lastly, the annoying gambling uncle. He had SO MUCH screen time because he's either one of the producers or married to the producer/screenwriter in real life. Yet his character is 100% disposable. They should have made the two female leads orphans instead.
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19 EP FOR NOTHING
If I am honest this did not work my watch, 19 episodes to resolve a crime at the very end, what upset me more is that the main villain did not receive his punishment, I mean he is a vegetable now but at least I was expecting a dialogue between him and his son.3 couples that I can resume as, the main couple how create drama w/ any sense, the second couple that was cute at first but at the end were annoying, and the third one that It was NOTHING special.
The story could work w/out the crime itself, It was nothing big, everything was resolve in literally just one ep and the other 2 eps were bored.
I was expecting a good romcom and It was at first but then I was just waiting for the end.
The end was not enough, we could have a lot but they just wasted 2 eps for a reconciliation and just gave us literally 3 minutes of love.
Too much drama.
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Eu esperava mais
E estamos chegando ao fim de um lakorn esperado e que no início foi bem promissor. Elenco muito bom, casais jovens afinados, trama prometia. Creio que no meio o roteirista se perdru um pouco, inventou uma antagonista desequilibrada e demorou para esclarecer os crimes do magnata da hotelaria. Achei abrupta a descoberta da trama criminosa, a morte do vilão rápida e sem graça. Faltou criatividade para intercalar o mistério do passado com os romances. No máximo bom nesse final para não classificar como frustrante.Vale assistir pela qualidade dos atores e OSTs perfeitas.
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