I don't trust you! Fine, I trust you for now. You f*cking liar, I don't trust you! Ok, I trust you again now 🙄. Is this why this drama has 20 episodes? To go round in circles? I ain't down for that.
It's not too bad so far, not sure why this drama warrants 20 episodes though. The plot is rather intriguing so far. Not the mystery itself, mind (I bet like in every other saeguk an evil minister is the main culprit 🙄), but how FL navigates the world of men with her smarts while in disguise and her relationship with ML. Btw, ML has very pretty, kind eyes, I dunno why she thinks he's not as good looking as her fiancee. Her fiancee, imho, always has a samey blank facial expression and very angular facial features. But I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
But anyway, is it weird that I find the real highlight of this drama not the leads, but FL's servant and detective/minister's son couple? They're such a funny dynamic duo.
Very overrated, 6.5 overall from me. 1. Too much bashing on men. It feels like Western feminist agenda creeped into this kdrama. 2. Unlikable, unrelatable "She-Hulk" of an FL. Her acting in romantic scenes also wasn't very convincing. Or maybe it's because a hard-headed, jaded, misandric character like hers made me question her feelings towards ML until the very end. 3. Cliche, brooding ML with tropey mental trauma, which of course only FL was able to "cure" 🙄. And since she's so special somehow out of the blue, of course he immediately falls in love with her. A bit better acting than FL, but still pretty meh overall, wasn't getting top star vibes from him. 4. Additional baggage from their family experiences also was offputting - every other family has issues like that, it's nothing special, and children don't become an exaggerated mess like these two. The way they tried so hard to shoehorn all of their problematic behaviour to bad, but rather trivial experiences of the past still makes me wish that they would just go see a therapist or something. 5. The plot itself also was nothing to write home about. A typical rom-com, if a bit outlandish (mostly because of FL) and cringey (ML's delulu ex contribution).
I agree. I'm beginning to think they wanted to make a Korean version of She-Hulk: Misandry At Law here. I'm at episode 7 now and this nasty vibe is not going anywhere yet.
😬This is not going to end well for FL, I just know it. But I hope those bully monsters will get what they deserve and that she'll accomplish her revenge.
🤦♂️I'm at episode 7 and can this get any less cringe, plz, with ML's ex? She's just like that delulu ex from Crazy Love - more than a decade (!) has passed and she suddenly thinks ML'd get together with her like nothing happened, like she didn't ditch him herself. And where was she all these years? Unlike the situation in Crazy Love, there wasn't even anything here to stop that biatch from at least apologizing to ML. No, she was perfectly fine, living high life, with rich chaebol bf to boot, and then she saw his poster one day and decided to barge in into his life again with dumb aegyo and fake crocodile tears. Ffs, I'm getting really tired of every single drama out there inserting these kinds of toxic love triangles and these sorts of dumbass characters, they're nothing but an annoyance.
But that was what this drama was about.. they both had gender prejudices that they woke up from. If every drama…
Yea, but these people start with serious mental issues and not even deign to see the shrink. ML is even on some kind of drugs, so traumatized he was about his ex ditching him more than a decade ago that even acting with female actresses is nauseating to him. FL simply gets high from beating up men and since she sees only the worst in them she’s never serious about relationships. I’m already half way through and so far I’m not seeing much progress other than ML for plot reasons somehow not feeling physical aversion towards FL, because she’s gonna “fix” him of course 🙄 FL is still not progressing. Her being shown as perfect in everything, with incompetent men in the background doesn’t help either - what is she, a Korean She—Hulk? Add to that ML’s ex that suddenly decided she wants to be together with ML and latest in a row of FL’s lovers still running after her and you get a drama full of toxic relationships that so far I’m not seeing as becoming believably healthy.
I'm at episode 4 and don't like the leads so far at all. Very jaded, have serious trust issues and both look like they need to go see a therapist. FL is self righteous, collects men archetypes, sees the worst in them all the time and is borderline misandric, she likes to beat up men literally and metaphorically as a hobby. ML sees every woman as a gold digger and frankly gives a latent gay vibe. Those who completed this drama, tell me they gonna explain their hate towards the other sex later and put a band aid on it or something. I don't like watching media where people hate on the other gender/sex for no good reason other than just being mental.
I was going to ask if it their was a love triangle but I see you mentioned a love square can you elaborate, how…
It's pretty annoying. There's SFL who is bitchy to FL and who was ML's girlfriend when he was human. After he died and Kokdu possessed him she's still understandably clingy, even though he rudely told her to f*ck off, because he only needs FL to break his curse and doesn't even remember that chick.
Then there's FL's golfer ex-boyfriend from college times who cheated on her with another girl. Now he got entangled with her again because of the main villain and seemingly wants to get together again, even though she told him to f*ck off numerious times because he's an arrogant d*ck. That's about it.
Something is lacking in this drama, maybe comedy isn't funny or FL's acting is killing the mood, but it's really boring somehow. Also, an annoying love square doesn't help whatsoever. Why they think every romance drama has to have this trope?
Finally got around to watch this drama and it was a gigantic disappointment. Yet another one of those grossly overrated dramas with draggy plot, dumbassery and eyeroll worthy villains. And a waste of KSJ's talents as well, she can do much better than doing cheesy fighting and making a tired face all the time. The rest of the cast was very meh, the actor who played amnesiac cop seems to have been typecasted into Alchemy of Souls for his slowpoke role here. My recommendation would be - drop this snorefest and watch Tomorrow.
The posters with the bullies are brutal. Revenge execution is incoming 😱! But I also like how posters with FL's allies have completely different expressions.
Anybody who read the original Chinese novel, spoil me - is this more of a detective story or romantic story? I've read that FL is gonna be like Joseon version of female Sherlock Holmes or smth. And what's gonna happen to the lead characters in the end?
I need to have a nice chat with whoever made the decision to split the show up! I knew I should’ve waited for…
It's Netflix bs. Since covid is in decline and less people work from home their revenue plummeted. So they're beside themselves thinking of new ways how to keep subscribers subbed. One of the things they've invented is splitting tv series into parts, hoping subscribers will stay until the next part airs. Dumb af, if you ask me.
It was a very hard watch for me, I usually get too frustrated with bullying plots and drop them. But I stayed for sad and gripping FL's story. She's definitely nuts, I doubt it will end well for her, but I'm 100% rooting for her to exact revenge. The bastards who tortured her showed no remorse or character development in their adult years. They must face justice and reflect on what they've done. Unlike the irl story this drama is based upon, legal ways of nailing them were unavailable to FL from the start due to neglect and widespread corruption. So I'm down with any means FL is planning to achieve her revenge.
My only complaint that it's been 8 episodes and FL's plans barely progressed - it was all about the backstory, pre-planning, getting allies and dropping all the lures for those awful inhuman bullies to tear themselves apart on their own. I hope in part 2 they'll get down to final execution of FL's plans and unraveling of the main evil bitch.
I last called the Her Private Life product placement more "stupidly obvious" than the average, but here it's really…
That device costs only $250, I'm sure FL's friend could afford it. But some ppls were really out of place, not gonna lie. Especially that scene where Gotop's cleaning lady, who has no money for her son's surgery, was talking on a top tier Samsung folding phone that costs $1.5K+ 🤣! I doubt that it was ex-secretaries club that gifted it to her, they're not well off as well. Just yet another ppl. But whatcha gonna do? It's a kdrama, they always have ppls in contemporary kdramas to fund production. Just gotta accept it. I only wonder how they even manage to find money to release historical kdramas? They can't put ppls in there 🤔.
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Is this why this drama has 20 episodes? To go round in circles? I ain't down for that.
But anyway, is it weird that I find the real highlight of this drama not the leads, but FL's servant and detective/minister's son couple? They're such a funny dynamic duo.
1. Too much bashing on men. It feels like Western feminist agenda creeped into this kdrama.
2. Unlikable, unrelatable "She-Hulk" of an FL. Her acting in romantic scenes also wasn't very convincing. Or maybe it's because a hard-headed, jaded, misandric character like hers made me question her feelings towards ML until the very end.
3. Cliche, brooding ML with tropey mental trauma, which of course only FL was able to "cure" 🙄. And since she's so special somehow out of the blue, of course he immediately falls in love with her. A bit better acting than FL, but still pretty meh overall, wasn't getting top star vibes from him.
4. Additional baggage from their family experiences also was offputting - every other family has issues like that, it's nothing special, and children don't become an exaggerated mess like these two. The way they tried so hard to shoehorn all of their problematic behaviour to bad, but rather trivial experiences of the past still makes me wish that they would just go see a therapist or something.
5. The plot itself also was nothing to write home about. A typical rom-com, if a bit outlandish (mostly because of FL) and cringey (ML's delulu ex contribution).
Those who completed this drama, tell me they gonna explain their hate towards the other sex later and put a band aid on it or something. I don't like watching media where people hate on the other gender/sex for no good reason other than just being mental.
There's SFL who is bitchy to FL and who was ML's girlfriend when he was human. After he died and Kokdu possessed him she's still understandably clingy, even though he rudely told her to f*ck off, because he only needs FL to break his curse and doesn't even remember that chick.
Then there's FL's golfer ex-boyfriend from college times who cheated on her with another girl. Now he got entangled with her again because of the main villain and seemingly wants to get together again, even though she told him to f*ck off numerious times because he's an arrogant d*ck.
That's about it.
My recommendation would be - drop this snorefest and watch Tomorrow.
But I also like how posters with FL's allies have completely different expressions.
My only complaint that it's been 8 episodes and FL's plans barely progressed - it was all about the backstory, pre-planning, getting allies and dropping all the lures for those awful inhuman bullies to tear themselves apart on their own. I hope in part 2 they'll get down to final execution of FL's plans and unraveling of the main evil bitch.
But whatcha gonna do? It's a kdrama, they always have ppls in contemporary kdramas to fund production. Just gotta accept it. I only wonder how they even manage to find money to release historical kdramas? They can't put ppls in there 🤔.