I Need Romance Season 3

I Need Romance Three Saved the Series

So, as the headline says, this is really the only installment to watch in this series, which is probably why the writer ended the series with this one. The first two installments are infuriating to watch. Seriously, genuinely hard to get through. I cannot speak for all viewers, but I am not sure what you call the sub-genre of romance dramas where they deep dive into the romance and then the awful and painful breakups of a couple. I would put this series on the same shelf as the Reply series, as the female lead (FL) will eventually have to make a decision. Try something new or go back to what you know.

I get that noona romances are not for everyone, but Kim So Yeon is exceptional in this drama. She portrays the FL in a way where you can root for her, notice the flaws and mistakes without completely hating her. I also like how the second female lead is multi-dimensional. It is so easy to watch a drama and choose, this is the one I like and this is the one I don't. She does a good job of being the antagonist but she humanizes the character where you feel empathy for her as well. Sung Hoon is also a standout. Prior to watching this drama, I had only seen him in Flower Boy Band and Can We Get Married before this, and his acting was quite good. He had great chemistry with KSY. They turn this complicated love triangle into a cute, romantic drama that is enjoyable enough to leave quite an impression on you and leave you wanting to re-watch in the future.

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This one is all about the romance.

I appreciated that the story depicted is more realistic than that of many rom-coms out there. People held realistic jobs. Working relationships are realistic too, no unreasonable boss or stab-in-the-back villainous colleague here, which made the office scenes a bit boring yet thankfully not frustrating to watch either

What's interesting is that the 4 main females' perspectives of love were all challenged. How do you find yourself, be true to yourself and your values, yet still find a fulfilling and thrilling romantic partner? It seems each of the women has their own view of the type of men they want but realize that love will find them only after they stop trying to change the men, but either change themselves or find someone new who is a better fit for their values. To me, that is way more realistic than many dramas that transform the tsundere man to a lovesick fool once he meets the main girl.

Lots of sweet kisses in this drama, even for rewatching it in 2017. The directorial decision to freeze frames as photos with narratives spoken over them was extremely annoying to me. I guess the director wanted to go for a nostalgic feel but I felt it was overdone and didn't add to the overall drama.

I did enjoy it as a lighthearted drama that you can watch before bedtime, as it isn't an action or thriller drama that keeps you alert through the night.

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It's totally a mediocre drama even though it has some redeeming quality

This drama was released during the early 2010s so its in the era where drama was so exaggerated. This type of drama started fading away in the 2016 above, from it's quality to budget. 'I need Romance 3' is the one drama that I'm not a fan of, the story/plot and the characters development so ridiculously made. This are my opinion but maybe because I haven't had any relationship irl even once also that's why i don't understand much, this drama always about the break-up, the relationship of a boyfriend-girlfriend and about the meaning of love and trust. The only thing why I watch this drama was because I'm a fan of Kim So Yeon, she's one of the top 5 most attractive, beautiful and strong actresses I've ever seen, just wow! Her character in the drama definitely not my cup of tea, yes I find her cute and adorable but that's it, the ML ... he the only character that has redeeming quality but others some are average and some so badly written it's confusing. Also I'm a little underwhelming with their using of western formula i.e. alot and lots of kissing scenes, it's not just a normal kiss but boy it's RAW and JUICY like french-kiss style (it's rare to see such kdrama). All the characters who's appeared has alot of their kissing screentime even the FL had kisses 3 guys, a very rare for me to see a FL to not only get to kiss the ML but the 2nd ML and the supporting character. 2nd ML played by Nam Koong Min, one of my fav actor but I don't like how they write his character in this, sometimes he's honest and reasonable guy but most of the time he act like a goddamn cunning fox. But the way this drama indicates the FL personality related too much irl for a person to be like that, which is a good part in the drama. The love interest of the FL's close friend also steals many scenes, his character has little screening time but he did delivered comedy really well. Meanwhile the two employees characters arc bored me, I don't like them, one scene the female employee cheat on her boyfriend but this drama shows it as a comedy?! What kind of logic is that? That's just bad attempt to do it. Before 2015, kdrama really strange but I'm sure at that time was what viewers demand, I've watched couple of rom-com release pre-2015 before watching this and this drama has more ridiculous in it, if it has action or psychological thriller then it even has better quality than the post-2016 kdrama. The remake of this drama in chinese titled MY FATED BOY was vastly better than this, because they have more episodes and more focussing on ML trying his best to get together with the FL who's a matured woman with some minor changes like The parents was there to witness and childhood storyline was explained even better, however 'INR3' is like an ensemble casts, everyone matters, even they didn't fully focus on the ML but instead on the supporting characters too, also FL definitely not mature, she's a workaholic and always criticize unreasonably whenever or whatever she wants and when it comes to emotions, she's like a robot... But all that changes in the very later episodes when ML always interfere in her life.

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i have to say the story was really brilliant

& although i saw it a little bit slow motion but definitely was not boring ^_^

but i was pissed off from 3 points

1st :

there was no chemistry at all literally between (Nam Gung + Wang Ji) so the relation between them

was so lukewarm

2nd :

Nam Gung was really emotionless & tepid as if it was the first time for him acting or someone forced him to participate in this drama

3rd :

there were lots of kisses' scenes at the beginning i saw it really was not necessary or even add anything to the story except filling it

in the contrary sometimes i thought it spoils the drama from being smooth & superfine

although it's a rom drama but really they did not place these scenes in the right way.

except these points i do really enjoy this drama alot

& Sung joon as usual was lovely , kind & brilliant my sweet heart ( junior oppa) ^_^

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Un noona romance que pudo ser mejor

Partiendo desde la base, como empezó y como lo recordaba sung joon en contraste de como lo recordaba kim so yeon y como hizo que el se diera cuenta de que no todo era tan hermoso como el creía recordarlo, este era un muy lindo noona romance. la idea de la historia era perfecta para dar todo el fan service que puede dar este genero pero siento que no se pudo desarrollar de la mejor manera.
otro punto negativo es la falta de química entre kim so yeon y sung joon que en lo personal me pareció nula. Las demás parejas me parecieron algo aburridas y con personajes bastante sosos.
Tampoco me agradaron esas tomas en imágenes con voz en off.... me parecieron innecesarias y aburridas, es verdad que no vi los otros dramas de la saga así q este puede ser un sello distintivo de "i need romance" pero personalmente no me agrado para nada.
En fin, dejando de lado las actuaciones, química y desarrollos de personajes creo q el drama, siento que el drama habla y da una visión interesante de las relaciones de pareja y me gusto mucho eso.

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