This drama kinda got boring and stale with all the love triangles and going back and forth whether spells work or not. It was interesting in the beginning though, even with unlikable protagonists. SML is kinda creepy and jaded and ML, let's face it, is a cold hearted jerk. Not sure what FL finds in either of them, but I guess since she feels so lonely she's willing to jump on any guy who says he likes her, even with mixed messages and/or under a spell. I agree with other commenters saying that there's not enough meat on this drama's bones and love triangles are a filler to waste our time for 16 episodes.
Second season is not much better than the first. Yea, there’s much more action here, but the plot is all over the place; protagonists most of the time are stubborn, dumb af and naively trusting, barely able to react to what’s being thrown at them; there are lots of folklore characters and monsters packed here to waste the main hero’s time since he's stuck in the past for a while and even zombies are thrown into the mix for yet another dumb and cheesy “save some character” subplot to prolong screen time even more.
Most of the time in this season the main hero spends on babysitting and/or saving his whiny brother, his friend from the present who jumped after him, his retconned backstabbing mountain god peers, tons of side characters, other Korean folklore creatures and seems like the whole of Joseon from occupying Japanese forces, many of which are Japanese yokai in disguise. No pressure, right? But the whole time watching this I just got annoyed at him for his guilty conscience and for wasting time on something that cannot be changed and what will only leave more painful memories and make it harder for him to leave. His brother would have survived somehow for the future no matter whether he saved or left him.
In the end dumbassery and scatterbrained plot made this season almost as boring for me to watch as the first. It mostly felt like a fanservice for bromance between two brothers, which the audience barely got at the finale of season 1. Also, the brother now has 2 plotholes: 1) him still acting in the future like a whiny bitch who didn't experience anything from season 2 with his brother; 2) his mermaid girlfriend from the past. And there's as of yet unexplained one: why Ginko looked just like Russian female fox character (same actress) from season 1. And finally, they've introduced a new big bad right at the end of the season 2 and nothing came out of it, gotta wait for season 3 maybe. 6.5 max from me, I’m not ML’s stan so I won’t give freebies here, overrated.
The writer is doing ML dirty, making him spew all those dumb cheesy lines. And what is this? ML says he won't make another step towards FL then immediately proceeds to grab and kiss her.
Also, half the show is a boring snooze fest with boring work scenes, gossiping co-workers, cliche bitch of an SFL and clingy SML. Skippity, skip, skip, skip... I'm finding FL's two senior coworkers back-and-forth jabs at each other due to some unrealized feelings more entertaining than anything else currently going on in this drama. At the very least it feels more real, them working together for years, than sudden romantic obsessions of ML and SML and forcing fake love with spells or whatever.
I feel like they’re trying to make the point that he loved her before the spell already, but that makes no sense.…
Yea, "barely knew her" point is huge here. It looked like he really couldn't care less about FL before the spells, he was only interested in her as a possible way to cure his terrible disease.
ML says too many top cringe level lines for it to be natural. His initial personality was that of a tight lipped ice cube, blurting out all that dumb corny crap would be akin to split personality disorder, which as far as we know is not what his disease was. I dunno, if they're going for a placebo effect here in the end I'm not feeling it, just doesn't mesh well. He really couldn't care less about FL prior those spell shenanigans. If the spells were real that would be preferable in my book.
Now I somehow unhappy with the FL because to me she is too clingy for the SML
It’s as they have said about her in the drama - she’s a lonely outcast who falls for anyone who’s even remotely kind to her. This story would have sold better if she wasn’t so good looking and kind though. Kinda hard to believe it.
ML is dosing his body movements and speech so deliberately sparingly it's as if moving and talking is painful to him. I'm not sure what they were going for here, him having a painful disease that is affecting his whole lifestyle or just showing him as a cold blooded robot.
Overrated af, it's a 6 max. One of the most boring dramas I've ever watched. The chemistry somehow just wasn't there between the main leads and their romance culminated way too early. Maybe it's the dumb reincarnation trope, or ML actor's perpetual bored face, I dunno. The only character I liked here was ML's brother, even though he was a whiny b*tch for most of the season. Literally forced myself to push through this slog because I wanted to watch the second season. Second season's first episode has more going on in it than the entirety of the first season.
can someone tell me what episode he regains his memories spoilers please
He never lost them, he pretended to have an amnesia. It will be revealed to the audience at the end of episode 4. But he'll reveal it to FL at the end of episode 7.
Too many episodes and the ending was very boring. It started strong in the first few episodes, but ended up in Disneyland. I especially didn’t like how they treated the villain - from “I will destroy you!” to “I will destroy you…later…maybe, or maybe I will just look after my son since I somehow gained back my maternal instincts”. ML’s mother leaving him was also dumb af. And lastly, I didn’t like FL here. Too many things bothered me about her character, but main thing her actress failed to sell it being in love with ML. More like she allowed it. Just like her flight attendant friend gave in to the male flight attendant. She did one right thing though by leaving the company of ML. No problems or gossips that way. 7.0 max for this boring show. I’m getting too old for this outdated kind of plot.
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I agree with other commenters saying that there's not enough meat on this drama's bones and love triangles are a filler to waste our time for 16 episodes.
Most of the time in this season the main hero spends on babysitting and/or saving his whiny brother, his friend from the present who jumped after him, his retconned backstabbing mountain god peers, tons of side characters, other Korean folklore creatures and seems like the whole of Joseon from occupying Japanese forces, many of which are Japanese yokai in disguise. No pressure, right? But the whole time watching this I just got annoyed at him for his guilty conscience and for wasting time on something that cannot be changed and what will only leave more painful memories and make it harder for him to leave. His brother would have survived somehow for the future no matter whether he saved or left him.
In the end dumbassery and scatterbrained plot made this season almost as boring for me to watch as the first. It mostly felt like a fanservice for bromance between two brothers, which the audience barely got at the finale of season 1.
Also, the brother now has 2 plotholes: 1) him still acting in the future like a whiny bitch who didn't experience anything from season 2 with his brother; 2) his mermaid girlfriend from the past. And there's as of yet unexplained one: why Ginko looked just like Russian female fox character (same actress) from season 1.
And finally, they've introduced a new big bad right at the end of the season 2 and nothing came out of it, gotta wait for season 3 maybe.
6.5 max from me, I’m not ML’s stan so I won’t give freebies here, overrated.
And what is this? ML says he won't make another step towards FL then immediately proceeds to grab and kiss her.
Also, half the show is a boring snooze fest with boring work scenes, gossiping co-workers, cliche bitch of an SFL and clingy SML. Skippity, skip, skip, skip...
I'm finding FL's two senior coworkers back-and-forth jabs at each other due to some unrealized feelings more entertaining than anything else currently going on in this drama. At the very least it feels more real, them working together for years, than sudden romantic obsessions of ML and SML and forcing fake love with spells or whatever.
Literally forced myself to push through this slog because I wanted to watch the second season. Second season's first episode has more going on in it than the entirety of the first season.
I especially didn’t like how they treated the villain - from “I will destroy you!” to “I will destroy you…later…maybe, or maybe I will just look after my son since I somehow gained back my maternal instincts”.
ML’s mother leaving him was also dumb af.
And lastly, I didn’t like FL here. Too many things bothered me about her character, but main thing her actress failed to sell it being in love with ML. More like she allowed it. Just like her flight attendant friend gave in to the male flight attendant.
She did one right thing though by leaving the company of ML. No problems or gossips that way.
7.0 max for this boring show. I’m getting too old for this outdated kind of plot.