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Crazy Love from the top of my head.

Lol, wdym? The main audience for these dramas are women. And these classic plots allow them to vicariously live a fantasy of having a loving, rich, handsome Prince Charming, instead of broke, toxic, petty, crypto scam addicted goblins they they meet irl dime a dozen.
And toxic exes are usually put in dramas for another purpose as well - to show how good ML or FL are compared to them. And also, for the sake of drama.
Comments here seem to be very positive, so the tropes work. Also, actors have good chemistry.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel all the time, you know. If it works, don't break it.

It's a very tropey Cinderella style rom-com, but actors are doing ok and the plot is not too bad.

Ugh, this one has a teaser for season 2 at the end. Unfinished.

It's hard to tell from photos, go watch a drama with the other one. Gaus Electronics, for example. It's mainly the eyes.

Is FL a relative of Go Sung Hee actress ? They've such similar looking faces, I'm getting confused.

It was in the webtoon, writers didn't add much.

FL actress got married and became a mom after doing this drama, likely gonna be too busy for a couple more years. Not sure about the other one, but she's in some drama that's gonna air this year.

And she apologized for that one in the last episode. She didn’t even know it was him that time.

He's an actor, she's a journalist. It's her job to dig dirt on celebrities and write sh*t about them. She doesn't owe him anything, it's just a job. She needs to do good to get back to her political journalism job. But she did start to feel bad about it after getting to know him better.
And celebrities need to grow a very thick skin if they want to succeed in the social media era. Everything about their lives is scrutinized and is fair game. Him crashing out all the time is all on him, he's a drama queen and takes everything too seriously. It's not nice, or fair, but that's the age we live in. Don't like it, get off that job and go back quietly printing paper.

To each their own...

Except for the main villain and his junkie friends. Those are cringe.

Is this some sort of alternate reality like The King: Eternal Monarch? Royalty in SK in modern times?

I didn't like these Squid Games with cars in the last two episodes. Hopefully ML will finally escape.
And the villain is annoying af, I hate these unhinged trololo mfs who turn a serious drama into a cringe caricature circus. His background story about how he got hold of all of the country's CCTVs is facepalm worthy as well. Also, involving so many people in cover up operations is rather unrealistic, somebody's gonna squawk eventually, or leave some incriminating evidence, you can't carpet bribe everybody and expect nobody'd make a mistake. But whatever, seriousness of the plot went out the window already, I guess it's gonna be a brainless watch till the finish line now.

Just check it out, the first two introductory episodes are kinda all over the place, but then the plot starts rolling good.

She felt really bad about that though, and even tried to contact his agency to warn them before hand. Job's a job though, you're right. But seems like ML got over it quickly, with relief actually. His mother may even benefit from it later on.

Even ML's manager and the quirky script writer are more entertaining. I hope there won't be any dumb love triangles because of those two. And then there's that sus ML's ex, giving all sorts of bad vibes. All the actors chosen are top notch though, love all of them.

Exactly, there's no weird stuff here. It was really off putting in that other drama.

And yea, FL is great here. She's a versatile actress and her facial expressions are top notch when portraying FL character here, she's a rather complicated one.
ML is playing a drama queen here, he's ok too. I'm just struggling with the age gap and his childishness.

It's not like that drama. That drama was trash, this one's better. For now.