Meru

To start ofd with, the premise of this drama sounded really interesting and the first 3-4 episodes were fun to watch. But after a while, somewhere in the middle it got quite borinf and repetitive and I started getting annoyed by the FL’s cartoonish behaviour.
First of all, she was supposed to be a prosecutor but her behaviour was totally untypical for someone who is supposed to have such a professional job. First of all, she goes off by herself to catch these bad guys, at night, at this deserted place, without any guns or weapons whatsoever! Really? She is a prosecutor but she lacks logic? This situation would even be dangerous for a strong man! And she has no fighting or self-defense skills, is a bag of bones and has no weapons… Yeah sure!
Then there is the apparently cold-blooded gangster who killed many people brutally but suddenly gets all flustered by this woman? idk! I didn’t quite buy it. He was suddenly not acting like a gangster anymore. Same as his colleague and friend Gwangrok who suddenly turned absolutely goofy and unserious. Something is not adding up here.
At the beginning I didn’t like the three village women but I ended up liking them and all the other villagers and I think the found family aspect of the drama was one of the best.
The drama started to get a bit better in episodes 8 and 9 when they were planning FL’s escape by boat. We also got to see Kaito who was one of my faves of this drama if not then my absolute favorite and it was a shame we only saw hin that briefly 🥺 I am sure I would have given the drama a better rating if he had appeared more often and had become an integral part of the cast… but oh well…
After the boat escape and arresting of Baek Sanggil we went back to fluffy content which I didn’t enjoy as much bcs I didn’t have any feelings towards the main leads especially the FL whom I couldn’t connect with at all. And in the last few episodes she was getting on my nerves even moreeee!!!! The whole oppa / chagi debate was excruciating!!!! I hated everything about it and didn’t find it funny or cute at all! Actually her behaviour was giving bully vibes to me. The way she called everyone oppa and laughed at him and made him into a fool and ridiculed him in front of everyone… disgusting! If I were Tae-ha I would have lost all my feelings for her! I really can’t stand people like that, making fun of their friends or partners. It’s toxic!!!

If the last two episodes with the background story of Tae-ha’s parents hadn’t happened I would have given this drama a 5. But I was actually invested in the story and character of Tae-ha’s mom and I liked how Baek Sanggil realized the truth at grandma’s house (I predicted that he would see a photo) and took the secret with him to his grave. The scene where he is holding the gun to Tae-ha’s face and Tae-ha is holding his hand and how it reminded him of the first time he held his son really broke my heart a bit. And in that moment I realized that he was gonna shoot himself! That was such a great way to solve this mess for real! But it was definitely fun for the audience to see this twist. I am glad he didn’t pull a darth vader on him. 😂

The wedding at the end was cute but the random coupling up of the besties was a bit cringe tbh.
I liked the rain reference and how he now has positive feelings about it. Reminded me a bit of Record of Youth. In general this drama felt like a mix of several other dramas: Sold Out On You, Doctor on the Edge, Vincenzo, Spring Fever, Dynamite Kiss, Good Boy, and probably some others that I don’t remember rn.

Here are some other thoughts, questions and criticisms that I had while watching the drama:

* The drama is already short with 12 episodes but it seems like it could have been even shorter
* The misunderstanding at the beginning of the drama was dumb when she thinks he pities her and he thinks she got her memories back…
* He is constantly loosing her and looking for her in the streets shouting her name
* The dog is so cute and I am sure I saw this dog somewhere before
* The psychiatrist is quite funny! He might be one of my favorite character in this drama tbh 😂😂😂
* End of ep.7 is finally getting a bit more exciting
* Kaito is a hottie!
* Her bestie is a bitch and their story didn’t make me feel anything at all!
* Why do they never call the police?
* What happened to Grandma’s dementia?
* How tf did he escape and why did they organize a huge ass buss only for him???
* Pil-seung looks like Kai from Exo
* Couldn’t Tae-ha just have taken a loan for the surgery of the grandma? Why join a gang?

All in all the mash-up of the genres was interesting at the beginning as a concept but in reality it didn’t turn out too well i think. It was quite unbalanced, lacked compelling characters, and had too many plotholes.

6/10!