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It's a little bit predictable. Most of the times a love triangle is inserted just as another attempt to create a bit of drama/tension, make it ''interesting'' or fill episodes up having a bit of a side story (aside the usual trauma). I don't have a problem with love triangles as long as they are not predictable, we already know that in kdrama land 99% of the time ML and FL end up together and SML or SFL are just there to be more of a support role than actual leads with independent stories and life. In this drama i don't see SML having a real shot with FL, and if the SML is a good guy like in this case up to this point, he'll just end up a character people will be sorry for or pity. It is still a nice feel good watch all together, i don't have a problem with FL's acting or personality, she is nice. I also like the dynamics between regular ML-FL characters, than poor clueless FL that is most of the times a doormat in front of CEO ML. I am still going to rate this pretty high just for the fact there is no ML and FL childhood trope/connection with endless flashbacks, that's already progress to me as long as romcoms go.

To me Maki has the most obvious motive, for now. Keisuke suggested to report it as the blackmail won't stop but she was worried that it will affect their son's school admission. It would be too obvious to be Keisuke as he went the last to talk to Sakuma, and it wasn't shown what they discussed, there was a scene where the camera lingered on Keisuke's visible concerned face by the fact Junichi suggested to open the capsule, i think it's just a bait. It could be someone outside the group as well, maybe someone witnessed what happened that day, or someone from the group confessed to someone about what happened or the gun's location. But if it's someone from the group i am thinking it's Maki, she also acts the weirdest among them. There is more to the story that it is shown now, likely the civilian killed that day is tied to the story as well, as well as the motive they decided to hide the gun.

I enjoyed it up until episode 5 or 6, with the last 2-3 episodes fell into total banality. I didn't like the Do Ra-Mi trauma plot, her manager found out about her other personality but just brush it off like it's nothing and watch her go out acting like that, ML as well was aware about it but didn't took her to get professional help as soon as he noticed she acting way off. So she is so famous all of a sudden after her first movie with a leading role, everyone across the globe watching her on their phones, got invited to lot of shows, but after she went to film the ,,reality show'' with the Hiro, she just freely roamed at night with the ML getting close or kissing with 0 press after them? I thought she was actually big and got interest on her. Just one picture taken of them could ruin the movie they we're filming at the moment. And what's the deal with Ji-Seon and her ex , why did they broke up actually? Did Ji-Seon get the ick because she felt like the guy considered it a chore to marry her and felt nothing for her, but also considering how easy it got for her makes me think that there were no feeling towards him to begin with and the writer just wanted to set her up with someone else, or am i missing something? Also did ML ever found out that his roommate is dating the girl she was not over for so long? I'm just fed up with these trauma sub-plots, they are so superficial and hard to believe because they don't have a real built up, they are just thrown at some point in the series to fill up episode and drag the show. If it's that hard to make a consistent good show for 12-16 episodes better stick to 8 episodes, most of the shows i have watched lately are just not as consistently good in the second half. Also for me romance felt off, most of the times FL chased ML but he didn't knew what he wanted or wasn't over the SFL, then they have the talk soon after Mu Hui spots Ho Jin talk to Ji Seon, FL still seems like she likes him a lot but ML took that at a rejection or that she's pushing him away, just too many dragging and misunderstanding for the sake of drama. Really unnecessary overcomplicated dynamics between the leads .

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i was more broken hearted at the half of last episode, i thought this was it

beautifull series full of emotion and with such good acting

Eventhough i watch more kdramas i stopped watching the korean version halfway through, i found it was too clichee filled and too superficial for my likings. I'm glad i watched this adaptation all the way to the end, no episode felt unnecessary or too long, human interactions felt so real and altogether this drama had so much feeling to it.

only on episode 1 and wanted to say that prosecutor is a POS for leaking that personal video and should be fired and not be able to work ever in the field. she wasn't even trialed and found guilty yet. and what's all about with Korea's obsession with media and hyping up every person and case possible?

Rescue team full non-persona mode like in every K-drama. It's not about finding them but to give them a few moments alone so romance develops. So unexpected. ML is breaking some limits or being inappropriate considering he thinks she is married. Fake marriage went for too long and it should had been resolved sooner instead of carrying the plot until now.

On episode 7 and getting annoyed by the constant occuring poor clueless and helpess female lead always getting into trouble and needs to be saved by the white knight in shining armour ML clichee. How romantic. Can't these drama writters think of anything new by now? Soon as the kid got lost in the woods and she started searching told to my self "this ain't about the kid right?". It started good with the first 2 episodes which could have been a movie but soon after it fell into banality.

Wished she remained constant if she was portrayed as a sociopatch right from the start. Forgot this is kdrama land and even bad mothers/grandmothers get redemption stories left and right. So from the last episode it seems like the writters are pushing for some redemption or at least trying to show us she's not that bad. But she's way past that point in my opinion. You don't get to change her in the last few episodes, just to make the star FL more likeable to the ''fan base'', it just take away from the consistency and credibility of the story and this is not your usual character growth/development story.

Dissapointed with this drama, it felt rushed towards the end. Second couple didn't develop almost at all, not that it was interesting anyway. Leads romance lacked any spark, too dull.

strong first 2 episodes, i hope quality stays up for the rest of the series

that's a lot of mental gymnastics to justify her actions. she uses people around her for her own benefits and gains, she doesn't care what happens to people he uses like the guy who ended up in prison. or did he trigger her as well? unlucky I guess

writting is kinda lazy and too convenient in some situations. idk what to make of her character, is it entertaining to watch her manipulate everyone around her even the people who care for her? maybe.. I guess. i've seen some people cheer for that. all right..? that's what the story revolves around it seems until now. it's just that I don't see any real progress to the story, she's just trouble everywhere she goes and that's it.

I wanted to root for the FL's character and story but she's so manipulative toward the men around that care for her, i just can't. She could have sent her father to jail but that doesn't make a better or interesting enough plot than sending an innocent guy there that tried to help her.

she should probably remember it as a traumatic event, even for a little girl to see someone drenched in blood should not be a happy memory. but her remembering him as her first love talking about head shapes, it's just a weird pushed dynamic. K-drama writers/producers just want to romanticize every childhood encounter like it was predestined and a love is more pure if they randomly met and are tied as kids. I just find it creepy as hell and unnecessary

Just watched ep. 5 and it's pissing me off. I dont't mind the popular ever occuring fake marriage main plot but.. What the hell are these writters thinking to romanticize every kindergarden level childhood encounter that the leads have. Is no romance possible and not wholesome enough if the leads have not met when they were literally children? How tf is this interaction wholesome in anyway that the writter is making the little girl having her first ''love'' a boy with his head full of blood which just had an accident, because she liked his ''head shape'' and she remembers him in her 30s? Like what the fuck? And then the boy is blamed by the other adults by the dead of his parents on his birthday? How does it makes the least of logic to blame a child just because the parent turned his head to talk to him when he should be watching the road in front? It's not even the dads main fault, because the criminal truck driver just swerved into their lane with the literal empty road and without even overtaking something. Maybe it's the criminal truck driver's fault and not the little boys? Does in these writters head , recycling the same childhood tropes and trauma sub plots over and over again almost each drama/romcom makes a good series, is there no any other sub plot idea to fill these episodes? It's been years and years and they are writting the same lazy ''safe plots'' not stepping their writting once, just making a generic copy-pasta kdrama these days is good enough it seems and the directors/producers are also fine with this.

no kdrama without childhood trope

how did he had the gun at him, they didn't search him?