Aramintai

Pretty decent start. Leads act natural. I especially like ML acting mature all the time. But you can see the whole plot from a mile away, predictable. Someone even wrote it down below.

First saw that poster with FL giving ML the confession letter and thought it was yet another take on Itazura na Kiss. But looks like it's something else.

I'm now thinking the killer is the cleaning lady ahjumma. She's kinda sus. But statistics say it should be a man.

Is SML necessary for the plot here? I feel like you can take him out and nothing would be lost. Useless character made to be an annoying third wheel. Why writers think it's necessary to have love triangles in dramas is beyond me, especially considering that they basically always end the same - SML never gets the girl.

No episode 12 this week?

FL has great dad.
The plot be dragging though, should have had fewer episodes.

The old glasses guy among new workers is the killer, right?

When fantasy is presenting itself to be grounded in reality, but makes even non-fantasy things look unrealistic it is hard to enjoy.

It's another thing we don't have where I live - seniority system. No matter how much dumber you are than younger people, you'll get promoted before them according to seniority system. And even if your position is no longer required you'll still get transferred around and retain your job until retirement. Even if it's being a nightguard, like in famous Japanese case.
Western world looks at this and only sees two things - inefficiency and waste of resources. And nobody cares about your retirement plan either, if you're no longer needed - you get fired, government job or not, and that's that.

It's just rather unrealistic, ahjumma getting hired off the street, I mean. Civil servant exams being brutal I've heard about, I can only pity FL. And I'm glad we don't have this rank system where I live and anybody with a proper degree can apply for a job either in the private sector or public sector. Whether said degree is of any actual use in actual work is another question entirely. In FL's case looks like what she studied for wasn't worth a damn and ageism is rampant in hiring practices. She could have complained about discrimination, but I get that she just got so discouraged she just called it quits.

But ahjumma didn't have any credentials to work in the office of a prosecutor. She didn't present any sort of documents about her education. Even her ID is dubious, being from a missing person. I very much doubt random people off the street can get hired into said office without any vetting. Even as a cleaning lady, too many classified documents laying around.

It's kinda frustrating that FL couldn't get a civil servant job after studying for years, while being a halmeoni with no skills or credentials she not only got a job, but also got promoted to ML's assistant.
I'm not saying older people get preferrential treatment, or that it was through connections. But it does make one question life's choices and whether what young people waste years on to study is even worth a damn.

What sort of reuniting with your first love are you talking about here? They were kids!

Is this sort of like that supernatual kdrama about a vet who could see through the eyes of animals by touching their butts to find the killer? Some sort of supernatural possesion/transformation with killer plot?

I agree. Relying on these dumb childhood connection/reincarnation/destiny tropes is just lazy writing. Irl, people work on their relationships every day, but tropes like these just promote fairy tales for naive teens and establish unrealistic standarts.

That's not true, some rom-coms are packed with plot, with lots going on. Here it's just about FL living with gnomes like a Snow White in their house and getting reconnected with her childhood crush. There are seldom any jokes that land and it's all very repetitive.
Bandits aren't banditing, there are obligatory annoying third wheelers, as well as secondary couple nobody cares about, although they're struggling through the most realistic relatioship in the whole drama.

Sad to say but the last two episodes were boring. Probably because there's not much in terms of the plot. And lots of cringe was introduced as well.

Second hand embarrassment was the title of today's episode 🤣

A rather boring episode today, ML is still not budging. FL knows that he knows that she knows that he's her childhood crush or something like that and that's about it 🙄. At least SML has stopped being an ass, now he's just a sad third wheel. And where the hell are those ending teasers from the previous episodes? FL friend's pregnancy test, ML confessing, where is it? Tomorrow?

Alchemy of Souls & Touch Your Heart are one of my favorite kdramas. Highly recommend.
CLOY - lots of unrealistic soap in the later half.
It's Okay To No Be Okay - lots of soap and FL is really crazy.
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha - sooooaap.
Vincenzo is pretty funny, but it's also really corny. There are some iconic hilarious scenes there, can watch even to just to be in the know.
Goblin - overrated af, a snoozefest about a sugar daddy and poor girl that wears $8K coats and goes to somehow public, but very fancy highschool. Second couple saves the day.
Tale of the Nine Tailed - also overrated. For LDW fans.
Her Private Life - meh. Better watch Crazy Love with the same actor. If you'r PMY's fan better watch What's Wrong with Secretary Kim - arguably her best attempt amongst samey wooden office rom-com performances, but that kdrama gets boring and repetitive after around 6 episodes.
Extraordinary Attorney Woo - pretty good, actors did a superb job. But there were lots of underdeveloped character arcs, some of which with 180 turns and court cases were pretty meh. There's gonna be a second season, allegedly.
Suspicious Partner - not enough plot for the format, too many episodes, but is occasionally funny. Ending is pretty meh.

P.S. Also, shoutout for this year's Flex X Cop. It was so good it's getting a second season.