Meilleurs comédie romance 2024
Le point que j'aime le plus c'est que l'histoire est originale pour une romance. En plus que ce soit ZB1 qui fasse l'ost était une super idée. Chaque épisode m'a surpris, il y avait tellement de rebondissements. En terme de comique, c'est très drôle, certains drama dans leur genre est écrit comédie romantique mais ici on retrouve vraiment l'aspect comique. Je recommande vivement. Le casting est de très bonne qualité. J'aimerais voir l'acteur qui joue Danho avoir un rôle principal au moin une fois. Et qu'il prenne un autre rôle que l'homme discret et timide. J'ai mes beaucoup le fait qu'il est des lunettes aussi car souvent les acteurs privilégie les lentilles de contact au lunettes mais je trouve que cela rajoute du charme à cet acteur la. La jeune fille qui joue Yeondu a aussi une grande carrière sur son chemin, j'espère la revoir.Was this review helpful to you?
Love from the UK
I enjoyed Love Next Door even though I sometimes threw a cushion at the screen. It wasn't perfect but I would recommend everyone to watch it. I have looked forward to seeing it every week but I wish Netflix didn't hold back episodes like it does. I have watched other series on week nights which is a shame ...Actors from the smallest to the older were lovely and there were no weak links.
For scripting and direction, I hope there will be a part 2 - in which case I would like to see more passion and dialogue time for the main leads. If the parents can be nice in the end, there is no need for them to be like ogres in the beginning and being more human suited them.
Don't waste such gems like Jung Hae-min and Jung So-min - making them just kiss and hold hands for weeks and weeks when the poor lad has been waiting for years just doesn't seem realistic!
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Best RomCom of 2024 ???
Wow, I can't believe love next door is already over, Honestly, its been a really honour of watching this drama & it has become my comfort drama of 2024. Kudos to all actors and actresses for creating this masterpiece ❤️❤️🙏🙏.If you a big fan of romance, comedy, friends to lovers, slow burn, friendship, all this elements then you will really love this incredible drama. First of all, Jung Soo min and Jung Hae in a.ka Jung-Jung couple ❤️. These two chemistry throughout the drama was chemistrying like the bickering, their love and their humour was so awesome to watch. Second of all, our second couple Danho and Moeum was really amazing too, like i really love and adore their relationship,they were so funny and wholesome together. I would love to see them in another drama again..
And to the lavender sisters, I really wish i have the type of friendship they have, the bickering between our leads' mums were the best, they bicker but they still love each other like any other friendship and also the dads too aka drinking buddies, they were the best and so cute together. And our cute Yeondu, she slayed her role at such a young age. She is such an amazing actress and have a bright future ahead of her.
And other actors and actresses such as the exes of the leads, the child actors and actresses, all supporting roles, they did so amazing. 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️
Overall, you will enjoy this drama if you like the elements I stated in the intro, and most importantly enjoy the drama, the chemistry between the actors and actresses were really top notch🤎🔝🔝🔝 so you will love love love it.
Thank you for choosing to watch this if you haven't already and thank you for taking time to read my review. God bless you 🙏🙏
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Love Next Door did not disappoint; it turned out really great and became quite a decent melodrama with elements of a slice-of-life drama. Not everyone might like the story since some people could expect something else from the genre, but I was deeply satisfied and grateful for what this drama got me through.
The actor played the iconic role of the father to Bae Seokryu. I just couldn't help but cry in so many scenes because he acted so well. His naturalness and well-acted performance gave so much weight to those emotional moments in the show, much like the theme itself-a truthful theme in general. This is quite a drama that heavily relies on realism, and given that, it's bound to receive a mixed bag of opinions-some good and some not quite as great. However, I definitely stand on the positive side here, since the strengths of the series far outweigh its flaws.
But while it may prove slow for some viewers, the slow-burn romance develops organically and further adds to the drama's feel of realism. The way Seokryu and Seunghyo transitioned from childhood friends into something more flowed naturally and paralleled the subtlety of real-life relationships. It is a very realistic tale of family dynamics, friendships, and all those little yet strong moments that mold our lives.
There are those, of course, who would have liked a more conventional ending, but for me, this open-endedness worked. It allowed the characters to move on from what we had been seeing on screen. For anyone who can appreciate a drama that actually focuses both on emotional growth and subtle, significant moments, Love Next Door is rewarding.
Ultimately, it is a series of delicacies regarding everyday life, emotions, and personal ties. Although it may not be up to everyone's standard, the positives surely outweigh the negatives in this beautifully portrayed story.
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Achieving Your Dreams while Benefitting Others
Love Next Door isn’t just a love story between the leads, but also a touching exploration of love and compassion for others. Lifelong friends finally find their way to each other after 30 years of missed opportunities. Choi Seung Hyo, the male lead, achieves great success as an award-winning architect, though it wasn’t his first dream. His passion for swimming was cut short due to an injury, but his resilience and determination led him to a different kind of fulfillment.The female lead, Bae Seok Ryu, lived most of her life chasing her mother’s dreams, leading her to a personal and emotional breakdown despite achieving "success" in the States. Returning to Korea, she seeks to discover her own dreams and break away from her controlling mother. I loved how her childhood friend Seung Hyo supported and guided her toward her true passion—cooking.
However, I was upset when the writers introduced a stomach cancer storyline for Seok Ryu, which added tension to the rest of the drama. Though I was relieved there was no relapse, I found myself worried until the end. In the end, though, it became a meaningful reason for Seok Ryu to create healthy food for others who might face similar health challenges.
Ultimately, the dreams of both leads evolved into something bigger than themselves—doing good for others. Seung Hyo turned down big corporate projects to focus on architectural work that revitalized his older community, while Seok Ryu chose to cook healthy meals for everyone. The positive message that came through—that personal success is best when shared with and benefits others—is one that the world truly needs to hear.
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Close to Perfect
This drama was as close to perfect as you can get. It was laugh out loud funny, pulled at your heartstrings, and just felt smart. The leads had amazing chemistry and excellent banter. I truly believed that they were childhood besties who had grown slightly estranged because one of them had developed a massive yet poorly timed crush. The family dynamics felt very real and like many Korean families I know, from the types of expectations they have for their kids to the way they can bottle up emotions until they become explosive to the love and guilt and hopes they cherish for each other. The story really nailed all of the friendships, too - for both the parents and the children. There was a lot of affectionate arguing (which is extremely common in Korean households), the type where familiarity breeds affectionate insults (which could have been translated better, IMO, thank you Netflix) as well as unintended slights. It felt consistent in its themes and wrapped most everything up with a soft set of final episodes. I couldn't be happier!Was this review helpful to you?
everything happened too fast?
i won't say a lot because i can't fully remember everything BUT i felt that, after seunghyo confessed to seokryu everything was so fast, specifically when seokryu also confessed to him and listen, i understood that she was kinda into him when they were kids but i still felt that something was off. i wasn't expecting a lot about this drama because i'm not a big fan of childhood friends to lovers trope in dramas but it was okay.the good part from this drama was the dialogues, i loved them so much. specifically when moeum and seokryu confessed, they were so cute and made me so happy :(
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A BFFs to Lovers well done
JSM & JHI ate this up! They have such natural chemistry, it's overflowing XD They both looked so gorgeous and pretty in this show. I am so curious and dying to see their story furthermore even after the show ended. The dialogues, emotions were so powerful, they seemed real. The story arcs from their childhood to their thirties was so eventful and I was rooting for them. Side note: The kid actors were so cute.The older ladies group dynamics was lovely and beautiful. Dads were pretty fun too. The whole idea of a community and their stories over a period of time is something that tugs at your heart. Second leads had a great presence in the story. For a change though, I was not so invested in their story, usually second leads take over my brain. XD Also, the exes were not your average exes, which was a big positive. The other supporting actors were really good as well.
Also, the area they shot this show is so beautiful. That part of Seoul must be breathtaking. :)
This show deserves much more love!
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Nothing just beautiful
The story is about a love hate relationship Between two childhood friends it is a wonderful comfort drama.Not much of emotional scene and not a point in the drama will you be bored.
Various relationships are shown in the drama each very beautiful very beautiful.
My favourite one is the father daughter relationship.
The placements of music is very accurate.
Overall worth watching and rewatching.
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Awesome drama
I just love haein & somin chemistry... Uff just awesome... Loved the plot of the drama.... I'm in love with the main lead as well as the whole casting 💟🫰100 percent recommended... Loved the fact that haein & somin both got the beautiful roles
Loved it 😍🦋
Loved it 😍🦋
Loved it 😍🦋
Loved it 😍🦋
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The plot wears off quickly. Lack of deeper storyline and character connection.
"I've seen it thousand times"..The beginning is promising, I thought "This might be the best one this year actually"..
Around 8th or 9th episode you notice how they lack ideas and innovation, as if they took 100 other dramas and took parts of it and tried to adapt it to this series. It doesn't go well together, 99% of characters are over 30, they all act if they have an teenage alter ego. It doesn't fit when it comes to serious scenes because you can't take them seriously. They threw scenes one after another, but gradually deepen the plot and having a rich ending was not an option. As if they didn't have ideas or material for continuing the original idea (the first few episodes). The drama is alright, but it reminded me a lot of many (seriously, many) things that I've seen already. I'm used to typical k-drama acting and some repetitive scenes, but this was too much.
The acting was fairly good in general.
Since it's a series I can't really comment on how realistic some situations and facts are, they could have been made more accurate, but it was okay without getting too much into facts.
For me personally, I've seen better.
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로코퀸 & Tteokbokki
It's loud. Warm. Messy. Viciously human. A story about choosing your own life and the people who love you enough to argue you back into it. I've watched this at least five times now and only now feel like I can start writing about how this show buried itself in my chest the second I saw it. It's still in me, planted from the very first second, and it hasn't moved. I don't think it ever will.Jung So-min… my bias… my chaos… my 로코여신… my 국민 첫사랑… I would follow her into hell if she asked, so seeing her burn everything down as Seok-ryu just to keep herself warm felt like someone ripped the air out of me. She is transcendent in this role. Watching her here doesn't feel like watching a performance. It feels like being dragged directly into her nervous system. When she feels anything, I feel it immediately. When she loves, I love. When she laughs, I laugh. When she cries, I cry. When she is sad, I am sad. She doesn't act emotions. They explode out of her. Tiredness, irritation, grief, relief. She makes exhaustion feel specific. It is that heavy Reiner Braun/AOT energy. The psychological exhaustion of being consumed by a role so long you don't know where the character ends and the person begins.
Her letting feelings exist before they are named assaults my psyche in the best possible way. Angry before it's reasonable. Soft before it's safe. Hurt before she's willing to admit it. Her body tells the truth first. When Seok-ryu is pretending she's fine, I feel that lie sit heavy in my chest. When she finally snaps, it feels like pressure releasing that I was holding. She isn't unraveling for spectacle. She's burning down the version of herself built to please everyone else. Surviving matters more. She spent years in the US like Tanjiro, carrying kindness and endurance while suffering alone, dragging the weight those that loved her should have cared about.
I love that when Seok-ryu finally comes back to Korea, she and Mo-eum just seem to fit right back together. No manufactured drama, no "why didn't you call" for ten episodes, just the immediate reality that they are together again. Pure friendship.
No one's a villain here. Sure, there are a couple of assholes. The co-workers in the US. The fiancé. But the people who matter, the ones this show is actually about, they just exist, make choices, hurt and confuse and fail in ways that feel unapologetically human. And the more you watch, the more you see it. Sometimes no one is wrong. Sometimes people just don't match. The timing is off. Life is heavy and messy. You can't meet the expectations. You can't fix the impossible. You just… live through it.
Families here are a mess. Both Seok-ryu and Seung-hyo grow up carrying invisible backpacks stuffed with expectation, longing, and enough trauma that was always going to add some weight. Seok-ryu’s mother is loud, demanding, certain about what a good life should look like, and those expectations press straight into her daughter’s spine. Seung-hyo’s parents are mostly gone, a mother chasing a version of herself overseas, a father always working, so he drifts next door and grows up under Seok-ryu’s roof without ever fully belonging to it. The Korean title says it outright. Mom’s Friend’s Son (엄마 친구 아들). A label that freezes him in place long before either of them gets a choice. He is fed, watched, worried over. Loved. And that is exactly the problem. To her mother, he is a child she helped raise, not a boy who could ever stand beside her daughter. That misalignment sits at the center of everything. It is why love feels dangerous before it ever feels romantic. The parents orbit each other awkwardly, the fathers trying to keep the ground steady, the mother unable to see past the shape she assigned him years ago, and the kids stumble under the weight.
That cussing scene in the room is everything I love about this show. Seung-hyo is sitting there in the dark, romanticizing his own misery, clinging to the wreckage of his swimming career like it's a moral obligation. She doesn't soothe him. She explodes. She knows exactly what he's doing. Loves him too much to let him lie to himself. The anger is sharp. Intentional. She knows where to aim it. That isn't chaos. It's control. She isn’t trying to hurt, she is trying to heal.
Watching her carry the reality of fighting stomach cancer alone, far away in the US, while still reaching out again and again and being ignored, is brutal and it wrecked me. She fought and defeated the cancer on her own, and that loneliness put her halfway in a coffin instead. She survived the cancer but was still dying inside. Then add her co-workers. They weren't overtly racist, but wow… the stereotyping, the assumptions that because she was hardworking she'd do anything, the way they never took her intellect seriously, the way they took advantage of her. It is infuriating. It's humiliating. It is exactly the kind of quiet cruelty that makes her perseverance feel even more impossible. She doesn't dramatize it. She doesn't ask for sympathy.
The hurt just exists. Heavy. Unresolved. Like something she learned to live around. It gave me that Kaori/ Your Lie in April vibe. That desperate, frantic energy of wanting to leave a "good" impression and smiling through the absolute wreckage of her health so she wouldn't be a burden to the people back home. What makes my blood boil is the fiancé. He was there for the surgery, sure, but he checked out the second things got messy. He treated her cancer like a project with a deadline, and when she didn't just "get over it," he grew impatient. He was at work parties and moving on with his life while she was drowning in the depression of her recovery, basically asking her why she wasn't "fixed" yet. That emotional abandonment is a different kind of rot. The show doesn't sensationalize it. It just lets the loneliness fester.
When Seung-hyo learns the truth, the story doesn't collapse into excuses. The reality is that while she physically survived, she was mentally and emotionally dying, reaching out to him over and over, pleading and begging over text, and he just never responded. He takes the hit for that. He stays with the guilt. He doesn't center himself. It is like Frieren realizing the weight of the years she wasted while someone was waiting for her, but unlike Frieren, he thankfully gets the chance to fix it. He finally understands the gravity of his silence while she faced the end of her world alone.
And because of that history, their relationship doesn't suddenly turn soft and poetic. It stays sharp. Their bickering is the heart of the show for me. It's healthy. It's earned. It's intimate. They insult each other because that's how they're honest. It hits like legendary Inuyasha and Kagome energy, where all that loud, constant yelling is just a massive shield to hide the fact that they are the only people who actually understand each other's trauma. That rhythm, that trust expressed through irritation, is everything I want from a romance.
The relationships? They're everything. Parents who love in completely different ways. Childhood friends who drifted apart and somehow find each other again. Neighbors. Colleagues. People you meet as adults and immediately recognize as part of the rhythm of life. Every connection feels alive. All of it has weight. All of it matters.
Jung Hae-in acts the part perfectly as Seung-hyo. His energy, presence, and choices play off Seok-ryu and the world in exactly the right way. He's a foil, a chemistry partner. Another perfect casting.
Her dad, Jo Han-chul as Bae Geun-sik, is completely magnetic here. The way he wants to provide for his family, the way he has been making tteokbokki for decades, and how he kills himself working those extra delivery app hours just to recover from being scammed. He is steady, warm, human in a way that makes my chest ache. Watching him is like watching someone live with love fully, quietly, and stubbornly. I want to be near that energy forever.
Her mom on the drums is ridiculous and glorious. Watching her hit every rhythm to process her chaos is absurd and hilarious but it works. It is like a tiny explosion in the room that makes everything feel alive, human, and uncomfortably joyful.
The second couple is chaotic, alive, and impossible not to adore, and Kim Ji-eun as Jeong Mo-eum is the engine that makes it work. She first encounters him in the park on a medic call and doesn't see his face. Later she realizes he is the same Mudfish-nim she had a tiny crush on and she is embarrassed, stunned, and can't believe it. The tiny moments like Mo-eum finding a young girl searching for four-leaf clovers in the park and jumping in to help, not even knowing yet that the girl is the niece he is raising as his own, are absurd, funny, and sweet. They make every second feel alive. Every awkward flinch, every ridiculous "oh no I like him" moment hits me in the chest. They are living, breathing magic.
The Lavender Club is a typhoon. They fight, they laugh, they argue, they plan, and somehow all that chaos makes the neighborhood feel alive without ever stealing the spotlight. The mothers? God, the mothers. Subtle, quiet, perfect. They fight, they bicker, they drive each other crazy, but when one of them needs something, the others are there without a second thought. No speeches. No drama. Just instinct. Just care. It hits you in the chest every time.
The dynamic dad duo? Their drinking sessions were among the funniest things about this show. Watching them huddle over soju to escape the torrent of the Lavender Club provided the perfect, ridiculous relief. They were the steady, quiet ground that held the neighborhood together while everyone else was exploding.
The ending is existential. She does not just choose herself. She drags her whole history into this moment and says I am done apologizing for surviving. The way Seung-hyo works with her father to surprise her with Rainbow Kitchen in her dad's old spot is beyond sweet. It is them taking the wreckage of her past and building a physical space where her passion can finally live. And when he starts talking about designing their actual house, it's the cherry. It's a blueprint as a love language.
But the show knows better than to end on a sunset. It ends on a bicker. Of course it does. She says that whenever they argue, they have to hold hands. So there they are, clutching each other in the neighborhood while she sarcastically adds "honey" after every jab just to follow the rules while still being herself. It is a loop. They haven't fundamentally changed into different people. They've found a way to be themselves together.
They grew up next door to each other. Their families were neighbors then, still are now, and life just sent them in different directions. That history is the only thing sturdy enough to hold all the silence and resentment and distance. The pain mattered because it happened. Not because it was fair. Not because it was good. Not because it was required. Not because anyone told them it had to. It's just what they lived through. Just what they survived. Everything they lost mattered. And it made them who they are here, now, together.
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