Something's Not Right

The story line is overall GOOD!

The drama is nice, I liked the characters too. The drama also gives off a cute vibe, which I like. The only problem is it takes the guy to know that guy likes him lol, it is kind of annoying but also cute.

What I loved :
The characters
The male leads (not the 3rd guy)
The story line
The setting

What I disliked :
The 3rd guy (the one who draws webtoons) - because I feel like he would come in between the friends to lovers couple which makes me a little mad.
The time it takes the guy to realise his best friend has a crush on him lol. (its cute but kind of annoying as I said earlier)

BUT overall the story so far is GREAT, I like how he is slowly trying to understand the feelings of each other.
HOPE YALL WILL WATCH IT!!

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The ingredients were there — it just never came together for me

Years of unrequited feelings, one last attempt to get over them, a week of fake dating to force the issue — on paper, that's a setup I should have responded to. And I went in genuinely wanting it to work.
It didn't, at least not for me. The chemistry between the leads never quite built into something I could feel, and the intimate scenes didn't land either. I followed the story without being pulled into it, and by the end I was already halfway to forgetting it. That particular kind of forgettable is hard to pinpoint — nothing went dramatically wrong, it just never sparked.
There are people who will connect with this more than I did, and I don't think it's a bad show. It's just one of those where my personal experience was mostly indifference, which is its own kind of disappointment when the premise had real potential.

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miscommunication galore

While I really enjoyed this drama, it was SO frustrating at times. The inability for either ba wu or ji hun to really say what they are feeling is FRUSTRATING. I loved jung ha min's character though and how ba wu changed his outlook on love.

** spoilers
In the beginning I think ha min was confused about unrequited love and why people couldn't just confess and then if it didn't work, move on. By the end of the show we see that ha min understands its not as simple as that. The feelings you have are yours and yours alone, and what you decide to do with those feelings is also up to you. One, ha min knows that confessing wouldn't go anywhere because of how strong the love is between ba wu and ji hun. Two, I think he also knows how much ba wu regretted confessing because maybe it would have been better to just be friends and suffer in silence than to lose that person altogether. I just want ha min to find his person T^T he was a character I really came to love at the end of the show

On to frustrationsss~
I don't get how if ji hun liked ba wu first, why didn't he take it more seriously when ba wu confessed? idk i think bc of what he heard about ba wu not wanting to date but UGHHHHH its been too long for all the miscommunication.
Even after reading the notebook he doesn't take action.. I love them but I also feel like I wanted to shout at the screen a lot >_<

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Something is Wrong Indeed.

Maybe I liked this accurately named short drama (which I will admit, is good for a watch and discard type) because it was obviously never meant to be as serious compared to the likes of Blueming or Semantic Error. I did not expect anything out of it, considering that the team probably had a very tight budget as they seemed to have shot every single scene either with the lighting effect of the burning sun or bright streetlights at night.

• Cast: Was quite good. They portrayed what they had been given. Which makes me think about the characters...
• Characters: I know that more than half of the people who watched this drama are cursing Do Ba Woo, as the entire story is told from his perspective. But, the character whom I just did not understand till the very end is Ji Hoon. It is blatantly obvious that the script was written solely for Do Ba Woo. Every single scene with Ji Hoon did not convince me even once that he had had any feelings for Ba Woo.
Somebody should've banned Ji Hoon from using the word 'like' because he took it in a literal sense, whatever the case. Yes, it is sort of explained that he was far too scared to reveal his emotions, but writing the entire story from the point of view of one character and attempting to convince viewers about the other in the last couple of minutes just did not sit well with me.
Do Ba Woo might come off as a selfish individual immersed in his own feelings, but how was he to go after a friend who -- 1. Did not take his confessions seriously. 2. Heavily implied that they were friends multiple times.
Ba Woo was a serious loner and Ji Hoon was always the kind of person who seems to easily attract friends. (Look at his bandmates! By the way, they were another favorite part of the story for me.)
Ji Hoon makes Kakeru from Kimi Ni Wa Todakanai look like Einstein when it comes to verbal communication.
Ha Min was the impetus that sets the boat sailing. He deeply regretted it, but I was far more satisfied with how he grew up by the end of show.

• Script: Weak as wet paper. They should've speed run the last three episodes and focused on important moments -- such as Ji Hoon's character and reactions. Heck, even the last scene seems to be a re-imagination of what would've happened if Ji Hoon fearlessly communicated his feelings back then.

• Music: The songs were okay. But, I think this is the first time I ever felt that the background instrumentals failed to properly convey the urgency of the scenes. It was the same multiple times.

• Final Thoughts: It's not terrible, but the script was undoubtably a failure. So, I suggest you close your eyes and attempt to understand the characters and dive in to decide on your own whether something is very wrong.

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The risk of losing a friendship

Having been in a friends-to-lovers situation, I get why neither of them wanted to risk losing their friendship once their feelings started to change. Ji Hoon witnessed what their close girl friend went through when she confessed and lost her friendship with Ba Woo, and he didn't want that. He was happy to remain by his side as a friend, as long as they could be together. And Ba Woo kept his own feelings inside until he could no longer do so. His confession was not heard though, because "I like you" is something friends say to one another. It didn't let let a dense and clueless Ji Hoon know that it was a different kind of "like."

I was commiserating with the characters' feelings of being misunderstood, because that's how it felt when I was in my late teens and my early 20s. I was still learning how to communicate my very large feelings to a guy whose personality was very different from mine. We met the first week of university and were in the same friend group. Although I didn't spend all my time with them, I enjoyed being with them as time allowed. My guy and I started dating after knowing each 3-1/2 years; we've been together over 36 years now.

What I liked:
* The 3 main leads' acting.
* Ha Min was an interesting character and conflicted once his own feelings started to change.
* GL representation
* OST

What could've been changed: I wouldn't have minded if they had it one episode shorter and resolved the misunderstanding sooner.

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Gave it an 8.5 at first but after seeing popular opinion I had to give it a 9.5

I love my friends to lovers trope so much and the main reason is the angst involved whenever you fall for a friend.

Ji Hoon and Do Bawoo both fell for their best friend and one couldn't confess properly for fear of losing the friendship and the other tried but wasn't taken seriously. See the dilemma here.
So it is only natural for miscommunication to happen more so when you're repressing or hiding feelings and let's be honest you don't get enough plot without this very important plot device.

Jung Hamin played his role so well that I'm sure all of the viewers at one point rooted for him even if they got back to their original ships (I know I did )

The only thing I would complain about is how short the epilogue was and nothing on the main couple, they showed only side couples. The main couples only got a dream sequence ending. I would've loved to see the dynamic change between the leads after they finally started dating.

I can also imagine how exhausting it must have been to wait for the episodes weekly because the plot progress is kinda slow, I am so glad I binged.

To conclude, loved it and I would a one hundred percent recommend it.

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