Dream to You

A very beginner level drama with top class actors

Genuinely great cast. Love it! Hwang In youp , Lee Hye Ri , Baek Sung chul, Park Ji Young and Lee Sang Yeob. I want to say that with this cast I should've expected more from the drama. But my expectations weren't at all met.

The first episode left me seriously disappointed. There was something missing in the whole drama in my opinion. Most of them had a relation to emotional depth. The second chance, reunion plot needs a lot of emotion, and is hard to get right. The first episode when the leads met, the emotional weight seen at all.
The other missing thing was enough chemistry. The characters seemed like they hadn't changed at all even though half of the scenes were trying to show that they changed after 10 years. It didn't feel like "two lovers in the past reunited again". It felt like two really good besties had a falling out and one of them met each other after a week and reconciled.
Oh, yes, the reconciling part. There was a scene where Woo Su Bin started trauma dumping as to why he didn't see her for 14 days and Ju Yi Jae says "I DON'T CARE" What! What do you mean??!!!!! I was very confused cause the reason was very concerning. Ah, I don't know.
Next, during the 4th episode I think, there was a sudden kiss. I thought that the kiss could turn the emotions around but it didn't work. Had so much hope for that part.

The romance between Chae Sang Ra and Seo In Uk had so much potentianl for a nice ending and it was so beautiful, I seriously expected more from that trope. The reason Chae Sang Ra had for the break up was seriously so dumb. I don't understand why such a nice couple was broken up because of this dumb reason.

Now for the nice parts, this drama was a very beginner level drama. The reason I have so many complaints is because I had so much hope for the chemistry and emotions between the two actors.
But I liked this drama cause of the calm flow. This is a good drama for when you don't want to watch screens too much because of school work and don't want to get absorbed in it. It's best if you just want to pass time or watch something while crocheting or something.
Overall, I'll give it a solid 8. Other than that I just wished it could have been more heart warming in a way.

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Cute and Fluffy ( Easy Watch )

This drama is not doing to much storyline wise but that's also why this was a breeze to watch, it's quite simple in plot where the leads are concerned... One is a movie director and the other is aspiring to be
They are separated lovers, who later reunited and eventually started Fliming a movie together
The story tells about how their love connection got lost in the past and how it was found again in the present...

Good Chemistry!! Both First and Second Lead Couples
They are adorable to watch 🩷
Is it something I'd watch over? No!! It's just good for a one time watch and that's about it... But it's definitely worth the watch...
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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decent and entertaining drama

it was okay. i thought it was decent. its one of those dramas where you don't think too much about what you're watching lol i've learnt to lower my expectations and just wait and watch my 2 eps per week. i mean i was entertained throughout the whole airing and never missed a day. yeah there were times where the plot dragged on for too long, or was too rushed (or just a bad storyline lol) but it was good nonetheless and the main couple's chemistry was good.

all three couples were fun to watch. i liked yi jae and soo bin but idk sometimes this couple is just pure ragebait lolll soo bin needs to grow up fr. he makes horrible decisions, has the mind of a highschooler (perceives and romanticizes yi jae as how he did in highschool and even after 10 years, he still thinks the same...), and is just an annoying (sometimes red flag) bf tbh. i still can't believe yi jae forgave him so fast after the horrible event 10 years ago. like come onnnnnnn and this man comes back and acts like everything is ok?!?! bffr

second couple was really good. they had lots of chemistry and didn't have too many misunderstandings. it was really fun to watch them tgt. i loved watching oh ha na's character grow and with yu geon by her side (YEASSSSS)

third couple... it was okay... super rushed in the beginning and thought they were gonna be so good but then the side plot with the dating show?? like what even was that... it was so random and weird and well ig one couple needed to be mysterious lol and then the open ending??? like what even was all of that.

the plot twist was the best part of this drama. like i would have never guessed. it was so unpredictable, which made it so fun to watch and tune into for the next episodes. i was on my toes fr.

i also liked seeing the progression of soo bin's mom. i felt so bad for her character and im glad she got her happy ending.

there were some (a lot) of plotlines in this drama which were HORRIBLE but it was okay. i stayed consistent and watched my 2 eps per week and was satisfied. my expectations weren't high so this was a good drama for me 7.5/10

p.s. the ost has bangers. they did so good for this ost i luv it

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A veces los sueños solo necesitan una segunda oportunidad

Dream to You es un drama que, a primera vista, parece otra historia de primeros amores que se reencuentran después de muchos años. Y sí, tenemos romance, momentos tiernos, malentendidos y ese inevitable “¿por qué no hablaste antes?”, pero creo que reducirlo solamente a una historia de amor sería quedarse con una parte muy pequeña de lo que realmente quiere contar.

La historia sigue a Joo Yi-jae y Woo Su-bin, dos personas que durante su juventud compartieron el sueño de convertirse en directores de cine. Sin embargo, la vida los llevó por caminos completamente diferentes. Su-bin consiguió perseguir su sueño hasta convertirse en un reconocido director, mientras que Yi-jae terminó dejando atrás aquello que alguna vez quiso hacer y se convirtió en reportera. Cuando vuelven a encontrarse en sus treinta, también tienen que enfrentarse a todo aquello que quedó pendiente entre ellos.

Lo que más me gustó de Dream to You es precisamente ese contraste. No todos tenemos la misma oportunidad de perseguir nuestros sueños, y el drama muestra bastante bien cómo las circunstancias, las responsabilidades y las decepciones pueden hacer que una persona termine alejándose de aquello que alguna vez quiso.

Yi-jae me gustó especialmente como protagonista. No es la típica protagonista que tiene todo claro. Es divertida, espontánea y bastante fuerte, pero también lleva consigo cierta frustración por la vida que terminó construyendo. Me gustó que el drama no la presentara simplemente como “la chica que dejó escapar su sueño”, sino como una mujer que intenta descubrir qué quiere realmente hacer con su vida.

Y luego está Su-bin, que representa la otra cara de la moneda. Él sí consiguió llegar a donde quería, pero eso tampoco significa que tenga una vida perfecta. Su éxito no borra las decisiones del pasado ni el dolor que provocó. Creo que ahí está una de las partes más interesantes de su personaje: conseguir un sueño no significa necesariamente que todo lo demás vaya a salir bien.

En cuanto a Hwang In-youp y Lee Hye-ri, creo que funcionan bastante bien juntos. Hay una química tranquila entre ellos, más basada en la familiaridad y en todo lo que compartieron en el pasado que en una relación explosiva. Y eso me gustó, porque se siente como dos personas que todavía se conocen incluso después de tantos años.

También disfruté mucho el tema del cine dentro del propio drama. La película utiliza el proceso de crear una obra cinematográfica como una especie de reflejo de la vida de los protagonistas. Al final, hablar de películas también termina siendo una forma de hablar de recuerdos, decisiones, sueños y de las personas que dejamos atrás.

Eso sí, no todo me pareció perfecto. Creo que en algunos momentos la historia pudo haber desarrollado mejor determinados conflictos y personajes secundarios. Hay situaciones que parecen tener mucho potencial y que terminan resolviéndose un poco rápido. Incluso sentí que algunos momentos importantes habrían funcionado mejor con más tiempo para desarrollarse.

Pero si hay algo que me dejó este drama es su mensaje sobre los sueños. Me gustó que no dijera que necesariamente tenemos que cumplir aquello que soñábamos cuando éramos jóvenes. A veces nuestro sueño cambia. A veces lo abandonamos. Y otras veces simplemente necesitamos recordar por qué alguna vez quisimos alcanzarlo.

No es un drama perfecto ni pretende ser una historia romántica llena de grandes giros. Es más bien una historia cálida sobre segundas oportunidades, sueños abandonados y personas que se reencuentran cuando ya no son las mismas de antes.

¿Lo recomiendo? Sí. 💕 Especialmente si te gustan los dramas románticos tranquilos, las historias de reencuentros y esas series que, además de hacerte suspirar por la pareja, consiguen hacerte pensar un poquito en tu propia vida.

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A waste of a good cast

I'll start with the positives because to be honest, I don't have a lot for this show. So first off, I love In Youp and Hye Ri so much!! I love him and was so happy to see him finally be the main lead and not the second choice! I love her as well and was happy to see her in something again since it's been a while. I think their chemistry is fantastic and the acting was great. I loved Baek Sung Chul and Lee Yul Eum as well as their characters. I think all the actors did a great job in this show.

I liked the concept of the show as well. I thought it was very cute to see them make their movie together after all those years. I loved that, it was so sweet. The music was pretty decent in the series as well. I absolutely adored the set and the costumes for the movie!! Stunning!

I loved Soobin. He was such a green flag, good guy, and cared so much for Yi Jae and his mom. I loved that he helped his mom get away from his dad too. I really liked how he handled most situations in the show.

I love Ha Na and Yu Geon so much! I thought both of their characters were really interesting and LOVED them together a lot. They were so cute together. They were my favorite couple in the show. I loved seeing Ha Na's growth throughout the show and see her stand up to her mom and get to live how she wants to. See Yu Geon work so hard to achieve his dream was so nice to see. The part with his dad getting to watch his movie before passing was the best part of the whole show. It made me so emotional and was so beautiful to see.

Onto the things I didn't like about this show.
I wish we got to see a bit more of the movie since that's what the show was leading up to. We just kept seeing the same few scenes from it over and over again. I think it would've been cool to see more of it so we as the audience could see more of what they accomplished. I think it would've been more satisfying that way.

This could just be me being picky, but for a show about two directors, I thought the directing was pretty mid. There was nothing special about the directing at all. I know it's a romcom, so it doesn't necessarily need it, but it was very basic and with a show about directors I think it could've used a bit of flare.

The third couple...if we can even call them that. I don't know their names and forgot about them entirely until they showed up again for their two minutes of screentime. I know he has a role outside of his storyline with her, but honestly, I think they both could've been written out of the show and it would've been the exact same, especially her. Their storyline has got to be the most useless thing I've ever seen in a show.

Onto Yi Jae...I liked her a lot in the beginning and then that changed. I loved her in the high school flashbacks and in the first couple episodes as an adult. She was funny, determined, and I really liked how she talked about wanting to make movies and what that meant to her. Then she just started to annoy me more and more. I felt like she was always upset or angry with Soobin for one reason or another, and I didn't ever think they were for very valid reasons either. He was just a way better communicator than she was. Her decision to breakup with him and go abroad felt so random and stupid to me. It very much felt like they just needed to have some kind of conflict for episode 11 and that's the best they could come up with. Making this movie was her dream and she left before the final edit was even done and wasn't there for any of the promotion. So much of the conflict between her and Soobin throughout was she felt like it was his movie more than hers and yet she leaves so he does all the promotion by himself so then it really does look like it was his movie more than hers. That was just such bad writing.

I liked how early in the show they got together and didn't wait until one of the final episodes, except we never saw them really be a couple. We saw them either onset of the movie, working on something related to the movie, or talking about the movie. We didn't really get to see very much of them just being themselves as a couple, so their relationship didn't progress or feel satisfying at all. And again, she left for two years and then walked right back into his life like nothing happened...and then he proposed. This really pissed me off. She didn't feel bad for leaving him and left at an awful time, but then they just get engaged after that like he wasn't doing horribly the time she was gone. I could talk about it all day, it made me so mad. We also just always saw him doing way more for her and putting in more effort for their relationship than she ever did.

Overall, as you can tell, I didn't like this show. The writing wasn't very good and was very repetitive. Every episode was just her feeling like the movie wasn't hers, she'd get mad at Soobin, he'd do something to make her see the movie is both of theirs, and then it would repeat. Even Soobin's trauma with his dad just felt like such an afterthought. It was barely important to the show at all. This had such an incredible cast, and I was really excited for it, but it was just a major let down.

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Good Start, Failed to Keep Me Hooked

So, I recently finished Dream to You, mainly because it has none other than Hwang In-youp and Hye-ri, and honestly, I went into this drama with pretty high expectations.

The first 4 episodes were SO good. I genuinely thought, “Okay, they are really going somewhere with this!” It felt like the writers had pulled out every card they had just to hook us in. But then we reached episode 5… and somehow, the drama started going downhill.

After episode 6, I kept waiting for the story to finally give us the thing it had been building toward. I thought there would be some exciting reveal or a plot twist that would actually surprise me. But nope. We basically got a typical villain backstory, predictable twists, and a storyline that didn't feel as fresh as I initially expected.

The concept itself had potential. I really thought it was going to be something different, but unfortunately, it didn't give me enough reason to stay completely invested.

And yet… I still finished it. 😂

Not going to lie, I watched a lot of the later episodes in 2x speed, especially the last few. I was basically skipping everything except the main points just to see how it would end.

One thing I did enjoy, though, was the two other couples. I liked the chemistry between both of them, but if I'm being completely honest, I was MUCH more interested in the CEO × writer. Their chemistry was SO good, and I genuinely wanted to see more of them.

But then the director/writers decided to do… whatever they did with them. 😭

Because by the end, I was sitting there thinking, “Wait… what happened to them?” Their storyline just didn't give me the payoff I was expecting, and I honestly didn't understand what they were trying to do with that relationship.

I do think everyone got their happy ending, but that last episode had me questioning everything. Like… THIS is how we're ending it? This was definitely not what I signed up for.

My honest advice?

If you want to watch this drama, watch the first 6 episodes. After that, you can either drop it and tell yourself, “I just couldn't continue because of some silly reason.” 😂 Honestly, you'll probably remember the drama more fondly that way.

But if you're the type who needs to finish whatever you start, then go ahead and complete it. Just don't expect the drama to maintain the same quality or excitement it had in those first few episodes.

Good beginning, interesting concept, great chemistry… but unfortunately, the story couldn't keep up with its own start.

⭐ My rating: 6.5/10

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This drama is significantly underrated. It remains perplexing to me why many viewers reacted unfavorably to the series or the lead couple. For me, this drama served as a breath of fresh air within the romantic comedy genre.
I eagerly anticipated its premiere. Hwang In-yeop and Lee Hye-ri form an exceptionally attractive and compelling duo. The visual of the drama was equally enticing and a narrative centered around two directors offered a novel and refreshing concept.
This is a highly commendable drama, and the inclusion of two secondary couples alongside the primary storyline served as a substantial asset to the drama.
I genuinely enjoyed the plot, the cast's performances, the chosen locations and also chosen music. However, the ending felt overly convoluted. I sympathize with Yi-jae’s decision, as going abroad for her studies was indeed necessary, yet severing ties with Soo-bin appeared remarkably inexplicable. While I understand that she felt overwhelmed by his hyper-fixated care and complete focus on her, I generally dislike such abrupt plot twists in a finale.
Hye-ri delivered a delightfully vibrant and playful performance—an archetype in which she truly thrives. Hwang In-yeop’s portrayal was equally impressive and represented a novel direction for him. The lead pair demonstrated outstanding onscreen chemistry, embodying their respective roles to perfection.

A standout highlight of this production was the relationship between Yoo Gyeom and Oh Ha-na, portrayed by Lee Yeol-eum and Son Chae-ryeong. Their magnetic dynamic and the intensity conveyed through their subtle glances made every scene deeply captivating. I’d have greatly welcomed seeing them on screen more frequently.
As for the pairing of Sa-rang and In-wook, they possessed immense potential; regrettably, the production chose to accord them minimal screen time.

I thoroughly enjoyed the depiction of their school years, filming scenes, grow of their relationships, and every nuance in between. From start to finish, the drama maintained my complete engagement, with every narrative arc receiving thorough resolution. There is simply no reason to overlook this drama!

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Even in 6x its boring

Just didn't like it. They are trying to make it healthy but the root itself is super toxic

Maybe its actors , i tried my best to like it, atleast try to like it. Even in 6x its unbearable
From actors to music to story i didn't like anything

But the major point is not any of this

Something is feels off
Loved the main from beauty....( Drama) with controversial cha woo..
But whatever its kind of boring there acting maybe
The cast overall....
I barley watched 4 to 5 on 6x still found it unbreathable so i dropped

Will i regret ? No way ... I am watching my boss my bias its amazing so no regret also there shop where we find killers soo

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Started off strong but fell flat in the end

I was very excited to watch this drama when it was first announced because of the cast. I had seen them in previous works and liked them. The first episode was intriguing and I was excited, but then the story just started going downhill. A random kiss in episode 4 after a 15-year separation made me pretty pissed—like, where was the angst? It was like there was no emotional weight to their long separation. There were also lots of plot holes and subplots that were not resolved, fell through, or added nothing to the story. To be honest, the second leads carried the show, and their storyline was one of the only reasons I rated it a 7.5. Overall, it's a pretty mid show with nice visuals, but the story just couldn't carry it.

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I could have given a solid 9, but gave 8

The Female Character is annoying and irritating, a worst GF i would say. i would find it extremely offensive and lacking boundaries when they call their Ex-boyfriend Oppa infront of their new boyfriend and the FL in this Drama letting ex bf rub her cheeks, not showing clear intentions that she's off the market is pretty annoying.
I still don't understand why does she have to break up with him in the last Episode, she's selfish, immature and a Red Flag 🚩





































The Second lead actress are just so good,

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Seems like everyone got tricked by the PR. It’s not a rom-com but a melodrama 🙄. The BTS have more comedy than the actual drama

They keep repeating the whole “ML comes back for his first love” storyline while the FL is struggling. But honestly, she’s not struggling that much. She’s gonna survive anyway

The cast is on point. The OST is good. The script, however is absolute nonsense plus the director’s decision to cut everything and wrap up the drama in one week was insane

Also, apparently most K-actors only review the script up to Ep4 so… I guess that explains how this drama happened💀

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