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I dunno, the leads know so much about each other (especially all sorts of embarassing dirt, lol) since early childhood it's hard to imagine them becoming a couple now, because they're always acting like bickering siblings. They've put an obligatory trope of ML secretly loving FL all these years, but like in basically all the other such childhood connection dramas by not confessing he missed his chance, the moment is gone and he wasted everybody's time. Could have been married for 10+ years and continued bickering like an old married couple, lol. Could FL start seeing a man in him after all these years? In a natural, not drama forced way? I dunno, just feels not very realistic. Imho, all these childhood connection plots are dumb fanfics that that office lady at ML's work likes to read.

I haven't seen much of her work, but she was very good in Alchemy of Souls.

I think the problem is FL's acting feels forced, overacted. Perhaps it's supposed to be part of her character, but just looks all roung fake. ML is more or less ok.

FL's mom is a bully. She bullied FL to a point she can't even tell her the truth because of fear of being beaten, that's why FL is lying and acting all the time, it became a habit. Also, almost breaking her leg? Da hell? Like many Asian parents, it seems her mom looks at her daughter not as a person but as a property she invested in and is angry that return was a dud. She's way more brutally incensitive than in Doctor Slump, however similar these dramas are. Empathy is not in her dictionary, it seems, nor is burnout. Also, the vicarious living through relatives' successes and cringey bragging to people that don't really care is just the worst, I hate people like that.

The ratings are high because of the cast.

I'm not feeling it so far. The cast is there, but everything feels forced and not very interesting.

This is why nobody likes Asian parenting in the West.
-Immense pressure on the kids since early childhood to overachieve and be competitive;
-Living vicariously through kids sucesses and pathetic bragging;
-Having unrealistic expectations and not caring about kids feelings or their inability to cope with pressure and driving them to staggering suicide rates.

It'd be so annoying if it wasn't so sad. Anyway, I hate leads parents.

Actors taking roles once in several years always remind of Touch Your Heart where FL wanted to turn down a role for a drama even after struggling to find one for two years and her clever producer did a reverse logic and told her she'd have to wait two more for another chance. It'd be like Olympics, she can work every four years, lol.

Anyway, this sound promising, though FL's occupation at school is not clear. A teacher?

Doctor Slump was disappointing in the end. I'll give this one a try for a couple of episodes.

Is this any good? How similar is it to Doctor Slump (similar poster, similar synopsis)? Is it one of those boring healing dramas?

Probably not, she's rather dumb 🤣

Yea, I was thinking they gonna shove the beaten to death LDR here until the last moment.

It was fine, I guess, in this good kdrama drought, if rather tame and short. Second couple was better and funnier though.

I just can't help but feel that mom's gonna get her way in the end, at least for a time until ML properly finishes his job's dangling loose ends in the US.
As for them leaving to the US? Personally, I don't like it. FL will lose all of her friends and a job she likes, and ML too said he missed SK.

How about a bet? With all the cliches here how about an obligatory LDR and year long time skip to work on themselves/tie loose ends/prove they work hard even as a couple/whatever other bs reason? Kdrama writers can't help themselves with these.

I don't get the uncle suddenly starting crying about his first love from 20 (!) years ago and getting drunk all the time. He seemed fine before ML's appearance. Did he board the mass hysteria train since everybody are suddenly meeing their first loves?

The mother, not sure whether to trust the next week's teaser, but if she's as possessive of her son as she seems to be it's a big fat cliche I can't wait to skip. Seems like she's bitter and lonely and wants her son by her side all the time. If ML, a grownup adult, can't tell his mother to stop interfering with his life his shows of maturity are just a joke. He's smart enough to not depend on her financially so all she has on him is the regular old manipulative guilt tripping.

And SML is just manipulative trash as well, avoid at all costs. Nothing more to add.

I'm not sure whether FL is really into ML yet, it just looked like he wore her down. Until that annoying SML is out of picture for good it doesn't look very genuine so far.

My favorite part though are the secondary couple. No dumb first love or fate tropes, just a regular couple of co-workers. They're funny and cute, but man that teacher guy has serious problems talking with women.

I hate it when characters are in the middle of some serious conversation and then a phone rings and they drop everything to answer the phone or run to solve some stupid problem. Just for the sake for drama and misunderstandings.

Yea, just because you're sick doesn't mean you should act like a selfish pos. Other people too have feelings and it's their choice whether to stay or not. Though with this personality I wouldn't - he's a manipulator and guilt tripping is not out of the picture. Whether he really loved FL is up to debate as well.

Sigh, not the beaten to death trope of disapproving parent thinking their child's too good for anybody. And what's up? ML is not even a chaebol, but still same bs reasoning.

I like the second couple more here, lol. They're funny.