Meru

A completely different show from what I expected

So basically, what I imagined how this show would be was as follows:
FL is shooting a reality show with a Japanese actor and in order to understand each other ML has to translate. However, SML slowly falls in love with her and tries to swoon her over while ML has to watch. We did get a few scenes like that but I wanted more. Also I wanted the FL to be more swayed between the two men. I wanted Hiro to be bolder and clumsier to create funny moments and ML to be more tsundere but caring to catch FL’s attention. And I was hoping to see this kind of rom-com style in the form of an adventure across cultures.

Instead we got a psychological-romance 🤯 And no it was not done very well! Here are the reasons why I didn’t like it:

1. It irked me how a very serious mental health condition was treated in such a lighthearted, comedic way. It seriously gave me the ick! Well luckily they ended it well in the last episode, clarifying the reasons etc but throughout the whole drama I was just so confused and it was such a pain to watch.

2. The main couple’s banter was NOT CUTE NOR FUNNY! the constant push and pull was giving me so much unnecessary stress!!! In just ONE EPISODE they would go from fighting to making up and even promising to stay together and back to fighting and breaking up again!!!! I was so frustrated!!! People who find this romantic have a serious problem istg!

3. I didn’t understand why Hiro reacted so extremely negative towards Mu-hee, just because she didn’t know who he was 🙄
Other than his good looks his character was rather annoying…

4. Some scenes were SO CRINGE to me I was getting goosebumps 😖 For example when Hiro and Mu-hee were on a tv-show date in Canada and there was a musician playing music or sth and they were both acting “funny” but I was just getting second hand embarrassment it was so cringe how obviously fake it all was. There were some other scenes like that…

So basically the only things I liked about this drama were the beautiful travel locations that were filmed so beautifully, so props to the cinematographer, they literally saved this drama.
And I really liked the second couple a lot! They had much more chemistry than the main couple 🥲🥲🥲

This is it! I hope the rest of the upcoming netflix dramas will be better…

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Second Couple saves the show

Don’t get me wrong, the story was quite unique, sad yet beautiful. The characters were intriguing and the music was hauntingly beautiful.
Still, there were some things I didn’t like about this drama so that’s why it is not a full 10/10 rating.

1. The obvious age gap and the controversy of grooming being romanticized was too much for me to handle sometimes. I tried to overlook it at the beginning by telling myself that she just wanted to have a person to love after loosing her parents at a young age and being stuck with an evil aunt and cousins. She was craving for love and a family basically after being so lonely and unloved for years. It really broke my heart so I could somewhat understand her desire to marry someone and become the Goblin’s bride. And when we found out towards the end that she would have to pull the sword out and kill the evil ghost, I was relieved: At least, we didnt see a marriage between people with an almost 20-year age gap. He can die in peace and she will forget everything and live a happy life. That scene was incredible tho! The filming, the acting, the atmosphere!!!! Kim Go Eun carried that scene!!!! I absolutely believed her!!! What an incredible actress!!!! Her as an actress alone gained this drama a lot of bonus points. So yes, I cried a lot in this scene and here comes reason no.2 as well…

2. I didnt understand why they had to bring him back just to make her die at the end again… it was literally zig-zagging back and forth, I got tired of it… And in the end, just by coincidence they all die or leave and he is all alone… Also wtf happened to Deok-Hwa at the end??? We didn’t see that!!! That was quite disappointing.
If they were gonna be reborn anyway, they should have just skipped the marriage part and made everyone come back after dying at some point… like idk it was unnecessary for me…

3. It was also Very slow and a bit boring at times. It took me almost 2 months to finish.

Luckily there were many good points too. My faves were DEFINITELY the Grim Reaper and Sunnie!!!! In my opinion they stole the show!!! I was quite happy how they both turned out to be actors and police officers 😂😂😂perfect match!!!

I loved it when they mentioned BTS too 😂😂😂

In general the drama dealt very intensively with grief and death which is always so well done in K-Dramas and especially in this one.

All in all it was a good drama. I kinda get the hype. However I would not watch it again.

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The most boring action-drama I have ever watched!!!

I had really high expectations for this drama but it was a HUGE disappointment… The trailer was promising and the cast looked phenomenal! Lacked in story-writing and character development especially, but there were more flaws as well.

Reasons why I didn’t like it:

1. A lot of things didn’t make sense or were hard to follow. For example, why did his father have to give him the superpower??? Like what would happen if he died without giving it to his son??? It was so unclear! The explanations in general were so sloppy and the motives behind the characters were not properlt explained. Also, what’s the deal with Jo Anna and Nathan? Why do they want these superpowers??? Whats their reason or motive to be so strong??? Did sth happen to them in their childhood??? Like for example Strong Girl Namsoon had an amazing villain (played by Byeon Woo Seok) who had a crazy, traumatic childhood. So the motive of his actions of trying to get that superpower is clear. But WHATTTT is the reason for the villains of this drama???? Why do they want that superpower so badly???? I just couldn’t understand and was sooo annoyed!!!!

2. Explosions, explosions, explosions! This drama thought it could be make up for the lacking storytelling by blowing up stuff constantly. It was literally trying to be like one of those American superhero movies. It definitely felt like one! We need Netflix to stop ruining K-Drama by trying to Americanize them…

3. Flat characters! Although I liked Sung-Un and Bun-mi (and the fire girl too), I just couldn’t properly connect to any of the characters. We barely got to know them on a deeper level and there was basically no character development either. Everything just stayed the same with the exceptions of a few explosions here and there…

Other things that didn’t make sense or bothered me:

- Episode 2 when there are the explosions inside the wedding hall and ML saves his girlfriend and then they just stand there and talk and he gets scolded by her for wasting money again 🙄🙄🙄 LIKE WTF ARE YOU DOING???? Get out there! All I could do is roll my eyes!!! I was SOOO ANNOYED!!!!

- In episode 4 or 5 when Sang-un is trying to get into Beomha ranch and then the two othet friends, Bun-mi and the attorney are trying to stop him… I just didnt understand the whole sideplot thing with the selling your superpowers. Did the alcoholic attorney try to deceive them??? Was it on purpose the note he wrote on the documents? What exactly happened? Why were Bun-mi and Sang-un mad at him and What made them forgive him???? I did not understand anything at all! Not understanding these made me feel so frustrated!!!!

- When Sang-un and Attorney are running away from the lab and ML drops the bag and it get stuck under the sliding wall and instead of focusing on the bag he ANSWERS HIS FCKING PHONEEEE!!!!! 😩😩😩😩 Uggghhhh!!!! I was sooo annoyeddddd at him and Min-Suk!!!! I also didn’t like her at all!!!! She was SO ANNOYING!!!!! 😫😫😫

- When they find out the police officer’s superpower is timetravel and when Min-Suk goes to the police station to ask him to turn back time and save ML, and the police officer just HANDS HER his watch???!?!??!!! IS THAT EVEN A SUPERPOWER????? It’s literally Hermione’s Timeturner!!! And it’s not HIM who has the superpowet but HIS WATCH which in that case it is a magical object that ANYONE can use???? Omg I was faceslapping myself!!! This was so bad!!!! Who tf wrote this???? I swear I could have done a better job!!!

-And then the last scene! Nathan turned into a supervillain and killed the labgirl and all the lab workers. Hmmm? I wonder who is gonna insert Sang-un’s superpowers into him??? 🤔🤔🤔 Again a very nonsensical, annoying scene with actions that made absolutely no sense to the plot moving on.

-The last fighting scene was so cliche too!!! Everyone throwing theit money for him… Awww! I am sooo touched!!!! Omg seriously! I neithet laughed nor cried while watching this drama! I was also not on the edge of my seat… it was just annoying and ridiculous!!!

Other than the amazing cast of actors there was nothing positive to say about this drama… Just don’t watch it!!!

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Deliciously Dangerous

This drama was so much better than I had imagined!!!!

I had only ever seen Yoon A in King the Land which was a very cringey show for me and I didn’t enjoy watching it at all, so before starting this drama I was doubting Yoon A’s performance but she was amazing! Hilarious in funny scenes and cute in some as well. Lee Chae Min was a new actor for me but I think his acting was phenomenal. My highlight in terms of acting was Kang Han Na as Mokju!!! Her acting was top-notch!!!

So far for the plot, I liked it. The end felt a bit rushed. Although I did enjoy the cooking battle, they could have shortened the scenes there a bit and added one more episode in the end, when the main leads meet again in the modern times.
I had the same questions as everyone else for the end about how he managed to get to modern times (I assume it was the one page that fell on him), and did he have money? (Maybe he sold his sword 😂). I would have loved to see his journey. I am sure it would have been very entertaining to watch 😂😂😂

I guess my theories for the end came true! I rather thought they would go back together instead of seperately and then meeting by surprise. But eventually he came as himself and not as a descendant like all the other characters 😍☺️☺️

Now I want a season 2 showing their lifes in modern day Seoul

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One of the best Underdog stories in K-Dramas

I seriously loved everything about this drama from beginning to end!!! It kinda reminded me a little bit of Itaewon Class with the revenge story, the dads being involved and the ML’s dad actually dying from the beginning, the unconventional beauty of the female lead, the group of people they’re working together with and building a found family with them… just sooo many similarities, there was absolutely NO WAY I wouldn’t love this drama! 😍😍😍

First of all, it starts off with Tae-poong leading this carefree life, always wearing the hottest clothes, dancing in Apgujeong Clubs like an idol (that he is in real life 😂), and getting into fights with his arch enemy Hyun-Jin 😂😂😂
His look in this first half of the drama was among the hottest looks I have seen in a K-Drama actor! I was seriously obsessed with his blond highlights, silver bracelets and leather jackets, it still lives rentfree in my head 😂😂😂

Then the next part of the drama, basically the majority happens after his father dies. That part I would divide it into 0 + 4 parts, based on the products they sell and with each product they earn another one of their former colleagues to join them again.

Part 0: Everyone is still together and they still have the fabrics that they had ordered before the father died I think. This was also before Tae-poong lost his home. Basically, this story arc shows how everything slowly crumbles: the work, and his home.

Part 1: Now it is only Kang Tae-Poong And Mi-seon and they decide to sell the work shoes they found in Busan and how they are getting involved with the Busan Gang members and save the life of the man who invented the shoes. This was one of my favorite parts of the drama. I still wonder if the shoes arrived at their destination and what happened to the guy 😂 They didn’t really show him at the end anymore. Also the video they made was phenomenal 😂😂😂super 90s coded!!!

Part 2: This part was my favorite part!!! the helmets that they sell in Thailand!!! 🇹🇭 😂😂
Go Majin joins them and lands in prison 😂😂😂 I was sooo annoyed with him in these episodes tho!!! He was being a misogynistic idiot and he treated Mi-Seon so rudely I was actually happy when he landed in prison 😂😂😂 And the measures they took to get him out with the pictures and all and then Mi-Seon DROPPPPPPING it all into the rivvverrr!!!! I was SOOOO MADDDD!!! I was screaming at her actually 😂😂😂
AND THEN OMG!!! Junho singing at that party!!!! omggg!!! And ofc their kisssss!!!! GYAAAAHHHH!!!! I was swooooooninnggggg sooooo hardddd!!!!! 😍😍😍 What a smooth talker!!! and the way he said “how lucky you are to have a guy like me crushing on you” omgggg i would have melted and then slapped him for saying that and then melted again 😂😂😂 we need more men like that in our lives!!! Thailand arc was just superior!!

Part 3: The glovessss!!!! In this part So many things happened. Mr Bae went to Indonesia, there were a lot of scenes at the government office, Tae-poong and Mi-Seon were in a church trying to get one of the former workers to come back. A lot was happening in this arc. The promissory note with Mrs. Cha spying on them was also happening here. And on top of that the fire broke out!!! It was CRAZY!!! a crazy arc!!! But I enjoyed every second of it.

Part 4: The last part was shorter compared to the others and it led to the finale. They got involved with Mr. Bae’s father and tried to sell security cameras. In this arc they also found the promissory note and before that Hyun-Jin started acting like a REAL asshole! The actor did such a good job at playing one of the worst villains in K-Dramaland. Also, it was funny how Hyun-Jin’s English was so much better than that foreigner Alex’ English 😂😂😂 I didn’t understand ANYTHING he said in English 😂😂😂

The end was a bit different than what I had imagined. I didn’t expect Tae-poong to save Mr. Pyo. And then for Mr. Pyo to go and lock up his own son!!! Wow! Crazy but I can understand since Hyun-Jin was a danger to so many people around him. Definitely an unexpected ending!

I loved seeing all the office workers together at the end walking down the road! it warmed my heart! A perfect ending to a great drama!!!

Other things I liked were:

1. Mi-ho and Nam-mo’s cute little relationship! 🥰 Mi-ho legit looked like a supermodel from the 90s!!! And their wedding at the end was so cuteee!!!

2. Tae-poong’s mom 🥹🥹🥹 Such a sweet woman!!!

3. Mi-Seon’s family 🥹🥹🥹 The grandma was soooo funnyyy!!! sometimes she was so senile, mixing people from the past up with people from the present 😂 but then sometimes she would say the wisest things hahahah 😂😂😂 Like when Mi-Ho was crying over Nam-mo and the halmoni was like “Why would you cry over a man?” or sth 😂😂😂 That was one of my favorite scenes!!! And Beom in his Taekwondo suit 😂😂😂He was the CUTESTTTTT!!! CHUBBIESTTTT!!! SWEEEEETEST KDRAMA BOY EVVVERRRRR 🥹🥹🥹I swear he looked like he could be Sunwoo’s little brotther from Reply 1988 😂😂😂 The way he always grinned melted my heart I wanted to cryyyy!!!! 😭😭😭

Things I didn’t like:
Nam-mo’s mom PISSED me off when she suddenly was against Mi-ho dating her son!!! I seriously didn’t get her point! Did she thing her son was a chaebol or a prince??? and she the Queen? Like she acted like they were soooo rich!!! In reality they had no money either!!! Mi-ho’s family lived in a bigger house than they probably did… I was so fed up with her 😖

All in all, I loved this drama and would recommend it to everyone!

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A story about Love, Resistance, Passion, and Identity

Omg! What a ride this drama has been!!!
Every episode was like a movie and there were 24 of them!!!!

The storytelling: topnotch!
Character design: each and every character was relevant for the story to unfold and develop!
Cast: The level and skills of the actors were insane!!! Before watching this drama I knew these actors were one of a kind but after watching this I see them in a totally different light…
OST: INSANE! Each and every track still plays in my head like a musicbox… Can’t stop thinking about this drama!
Historical significance: The main plot being the Japanese occupation of Korea and the significance of the Righteous Army, this drama depicts not only human struggles of the characters we see and their connection to their homeland (Korea aka Joseon), but also this drama helps to understand how and why the Korean people nowadays are so passionate and proud of their country…
This was the best way to romanticize patriotism…

What a masterpiece!!!
If you are interested in Korea this drama is a must!!!

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Finally a drama about a teacher’s pov

As a teacher I enjoyed this drama a lot. It’s a mix of comedy and tragic stories. Getting a glimpse into Korea’s extremely competitive education system was very interesting.

Here are the things I especially liked about this drama:

• I liked seeing the lifes of both the adults and the kids. But also seeing the stories of the different families was interesting too and showed how despite the craziness of the comoetition, it is akways the mothers whose only concern is to give the best they can for their children. Ofc what the mothers are doing is toxic and very unethical, but in their obsessive way of thinking, they think that that is the best for their children. And it was nice to see how it was their children who saved them and taught them to be better people. Both Sua’s manic episodes and Sun-jae’s cheating controversy helped their mothers become better people. At this point, I have to say that these two women who played toxic mothers deserve an award!!! What incredible actresses omg! I was both touched and shocked by their performances…

• There were some scenes, especially at the beginning that were sooo hilarious I couldn’t stop laughing 😂😂😂 Kyung-Ho is such a funny actor, the way he always tries to act cool but finds himself in goofy situations killed me 😂😂😂 his facial expressions were gold too! Jae-woo, the autistic brother added a lot to the comedy element too, especially his painfully honest remarks about his sister were hilarious 😂😂😂 His relationship with Chi-yeol was really cute too! I think this actor definitely did a great job in portraying an autistic person. I also felt really sad when the incident in the cafe happened or how sad he got when Hae-e was in the hospital. Those were some of the few scenes I cried a lot

• The warm family dynamics and the question of what truly makes a family warmed my heart a lot in regards to Hae-e’s family 🥹🥹🥹

•I think many people didn’t like the serial killer aspect of the story but I think it added some extra excitement to the story as well as the dangers of being obsessed with a person to the point of comitting crimes. Also how villains can also be gray instead of just evil. The culprit in this drama was also a victim of motherly abuse. I actually felt really sad for him and hoped he would get a redemption arc.

Things that could be better:

• I was actually sad that the murderer did turn out to be the manager of Chi-yeol. I loved the scenes of him playing with Hae-e’s family and taking care of Chi-yeol. I was even shipping him with the bestie of the FL 😂😂😂 I think if he hadn’t developed such a hatred towards the FL then I would have still shipped them despite him being a murderer.
Also it was him who found the Banchan shop.
But I did suspect him at first for the killings because he seemed very protective of Chiyeol and how he said he wished that obsessive girl would just stop coming to his classes and what happens next: She is being killed. So I suspected him first before they tried to lead us into confusion with Sun-jae’s brother.

• I think the dating of Jae-Woo and the bestie was absolutely unnecessary.

• The real mother showing up and Hae-e announcing she would go to Japan with her was all very rushed and random and sudden at the end. And then when the mom disappeared we never got a scene of Hae-e apologizing and explaining why she did that. We also never saw her telling the story of her getting kidnapped. Just because the culprit was dead doesnt mean that Hae-e would be able to overcome her trauma of what happened.

• I hoped for more scenes between Sun-jae and Hae-e.

Most of these things I didn’t like happened in the last two episodes of the drama. So I think the landing was a bit rough but the rest of tge drama was great!!!!

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One of the best book adaptions!

Season 2 started off sad and dramatically with the beginning of WW2 and Isak’s death. Isak is one of my favorite characters in this drama and Steve Noh really played it amazingly well!!! He was the perfect Isak!!! I wished more lovey dovey scenes of him and Sunja but sadly he was in prison and then died so we didn’t get to see him that much 😢🥺🥺

The war scenes were just incredibly terrifying… Watching this drama made me even more grateful for the privileges I enjoyed in my life. It also made me realize how much Korea has been through so far. How much and long they suffered but how fast they managed to rise up and beyond their former perpetrators (Japan)…

The highlight of this season for me was little Mozasu 😂😂😂 He was SO CUTEEEE!!! That little child actor was something else!! 😂 He for sure has a bright future ahead of him 🫶🏻

Tbh this season had a few more boring scenes than the season before. I personally thought Yoseb’s days at the factory before the bomb hit were a bit unnecessary. They did nothing to the plot really. They should have kept it short…

Also Solomon’s path is really worrying… I don’t remember it being so sketchy. I thought he was involved with gambling in the book 🤔🤔🤔

All in all, season 2 seemed to be a bit more accurate to the book.
I wonder if a season 3 will be out soon since this story is not finished 🥺

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An emotional rollercoaster

As someone who read the book as well, I have cried much more while watching the drama and that’s all thanks to the acting skills!!! I already expected this to be good since I already knew the book but it definitely exceeded my expectations!!!

I do have a few qualms related to the book accuracy tho. For me, one of the scenes or plot spans that was missing was the time when Sunjae started working at Hansu’s restaurant. If I’m not mistaken, this was happening when Mozasu was still a baby and when Isak got arrested and the women had to sell kimchi at the market. I think after Sunja’s arrest, she was no longer allowed to sell at tge market so she got offered a job in a restaurant to prepare the side dishes especially kimchi and ofc it wad all orchestrated by Hansu. But they left out this part of the story and instead added a whole episode on Koh Hansu’s past during the big Kanto earthquake. I must say it was a well-executed episode and since it was not in the book, I also didn’t know what was gonna happen. But I did wish they had included the kimchi-selling-at-restaurant plotline too.
Something else I didn’t like was the deepdive into Solomon’s financial life struggles with the company and all that. It was honestly a bit boring. Also, Solomon is my least favorite character in this drama. However, I liked how they tried to match the changes happening in the past with the changed happening in the present. Like sth dtamatic would happen to Sunjae in the past and they would cut to the present with Solomon and he would be going through some similar turning point … Those parallels between past and present were interesting but sometimes could be a bit too much.

Final thoughts
•Isak Baek is the goat!
•Kim Minha is one of the most talented actresses in Korea!
•Probably the best performance by Lee Minho!
•The intro was ON FIRE!!! Loved it!!!

Review on s2 is coming next…

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Started off amazing, ended a bit awkwardly, but still cute

I loved this drama a lot!!! Especially the first episode and the first half of the drama were amazing!!! 😍😍😍

Basically, this drama started off like Cinderella and ended like Sleeping Beauty 😂😂😂

Things I liked:
1. The cast: The main leads were amazing!!! both actors are rather new on my radar but I have been loving their performances in various dramas I have seen recently even if the drama itself was not amazing.

2. The dreamy fairytale vibes: From episode 1 everyone got hooked!!! The makeover, the party scenes, the swoony moments 😍😍😍Jang Kiyoung is so good and his voice os amazing 😍😍😍

3. The humor in the first few episodes when ML thinks FL is married amd cheated on his husband 😂😂😂 And all the inner conflicts he keeps having 😂😂😂 Him scolding his team members was really funny too 😂😂😂

4. Jun and Ha-yeong’s heart-warming relationship 🥹🥹🥹 She was sooooo sweet to this little boy!!! I literally cried in every scene!!! 😭😭😭 SFL was actually my favoritr chatacter 🥰🥰🥰

5. The OST: It was so fun!!! the songs really give a different vibe to the drama!

6. The kiss scenes: Let’s be honest, we all continued watching because we wanted to see another scene like in ep. 1 and 2 😂😂😂

Things I didn’t like:
1. The ML was sometimes a bit too aggressive and toxic at the beginning especially when he threw the documents into the pool etc. I didn’t like that behaviour at all. I would have been sooo turned off by him…

2. Seonu: This man was annoying af!!!! Why did he have a crush on his best friend??? And why was it so hard for him to fall for Ha-yeong??? Dude, even I fell in love with her!!! How can he not??? He does not deserve her!!! He annoyed me so much!!!

3. Darim and her serial accidents and how she constantly had to be saved in the middle of the drama. I was like “AGAIN?” every time it happened… it was a bit too much…

4. The memory-loss at the end was a bit too much imo but they made up for it by kinda justifying it: He basically had to gain them back by another dynamite kiss at the same location where they first met… 😂😂😂

All in all, the positives definitely outweighed the negatives. A fun little watch! I recommend!

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The drama with the most tripping tropes ever

In general, this drama was a fun watch. I especially liked the university setting and the friend group as well as the portrayal of student life in Korea. There were a lot of hilarious scenes that made me laugh out loud for example the way that Dam always ate so much food 😂😂😂and in general her facial expressions etc! It was definitely very relatable.
Also it was almost ridiculous how OFTEN the female characters all tripped and fell 😂😂😂 I think every female character except for Hye-su tripped and fell or was caught by a male 😂😂😂

I also really liked the two Gumiho actors. I have recently noticed these two actors more and more and I love their acting skills so much! I definitely wanna see more of them in the future 😍😍😍 I really wanna see Kang Hana in a main lead role! I absolutely love her!!!! 😍😍😍

All in all it is a nice drama. Nothing too deep but also not confusing or annoying either.

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The Hospital Playlist cameos were the best!!!

First of all, I watched this drama just because I liked Hospital Playlist. I usually don’t like hospital dramas because of all the surgery scenes. I can’t handle the gore and sadly, towards the end of the drama they showed a lot of surgeries which they didn’t at the beginning of the show (I guess on purpose, the show was advancing according to the progress of the residents).
Like I didn’t understand why they had to show the frigging bloody scene at the beginning of episode 10!!! I was trying to eat my breakfast but I had to turn it off because I was starting to loose my appetite.
Another thing I didn’t like were all the annoying professors and teachers being mean, toxic and screaming at everyone. I don’t remembet seeing so many annoying characters in Hospital Playlist!!! And tbh even the MFL was not someone I could identify with at all. At the beginning I didn’t really like her that much. Jae-il was the only character I liked at the beginning and then also Pyo Nam-kyung. I started liking her the most among the female characters as well as Professor Seo. I also liked it how the 1st-year resident had a crush on her. I wish they had brought him into the story faster instead of wasting so much time on her being an obsessive girlfriend…
Also I am not so sure about Sa-bi and Jae-il pairing up… And the main female lead and Do-won dating is quite weird too… They are in-laws… That’s SO WEIRD!!!! I definitely did not like it and would have liked it better if she had gotten together with the anesthesiologist hottie 😍😍😍

Well there were some good parts to the drama too. In general it definitely captured the Hospital Playlist atmosphere quite well. I did wish the main characters would also engage in some kind of collective hobby like in Hospital Playlist but I guess as residents they must be so overwhelmed that they can’t even think of a hobby.
I also liked that this one focused on the OB-GYN more and it definitely had much fewer devastating storylines and in general had less scenes involving death.

All in all a lot of heart-warming and inspiring scenes, seeing how the residents grow into better doctors and people all together.

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Better than expected!!!

I watched this drama because it was gonna be taken down from netflix and also because I heard good things about it and it’s been on my list for too long.

This drama was AMAZING!!!! Here are a few reasons why I loved it and why everyone should watch it:

Reason no.1: The quotes in this drama were some of my favorites!!! I literally wanna take them all and write it down somewhere! Such beautiful quotes!!!
Also the fact that this drama is centered around writing was already a big bonus point!

Reason no.2: The characters!
I loved both Ji-Ho and Se-hee as well as both their friends!!! One of the few dramas which has such amazing friendships and friend groups! I loved how the drama didn’t only focus on the Main leads’ stories but also on the stories of their friends. It made this drama so much more relatable because in real life, not everything is always just about us. We meet friends amd share their joys and sorrows in life as well! This was actually one of my favorite points about this drama! I feel like every secondary couple got as much screen time as the main couple!!!! I have never seen this in any other drama before!!!! Soooo good!!!!

Reason no.3:
The comedic relief!!! Se-hee’s character and reactions were HILARIOUS!!!! I laughed everytime he came up with a rational explanation for everything or whenever he was confronted with the irrational behaviours of crazy humans (like his colleagues or Ji-ho’s family) 😂😂😂 The misunderstandings were funny too and CEO Ma always killed me with his flashy behaviour 😂😂😂 Especially that scene when he walks out of his office and kisses one of his nerdy colleagues on the forehead 😂😂😂I literally diedddd!!!!

Reason no.4: The CAT!!!! Omg! This must be the most beautiful K-Drama pet I have ever seen!!!!

Reason no.5: The soundtrack!!!!! IT WAS SOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!! Definitely one of my favorite soundtracks ever!

Reason 6: The messages of following your dreams, womanhood and feminism, the question of marriage or love etc, were so deep and meaningful and often got me thinking about life while watching this drama…

The things I disliked were few which I won’t mention here now because it might have spoilers.

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A fun and heartwarming story

I absolutely LOVED this drama!!!! It started off lightheartedly and funny, almost even silly with her hiding her real identity and her Private life from everyone. Towards the end it actually got deeper and sadder. One of the dramas I cried the most!!! It broke my heart sooooo much!!!! Seeing the final picture that was missing with the boy aka Yun Jae on it, Duk-Mi’s story of loosing her brother and her memory at the same time and just how they were all connected since their childhood. Of course, very unrealistic like what are the odds of that happening? But that’s such a popular K-Drama trope and tbh it’s one of my favorites 😂😂😂

The side characters were also all super cool especially her bestie and Eun-Gi. I was annoyed a bit at him for a while especially when he was trying to break the main couple apart but I quickly went back to liking him! However, his romantic feelings towards Duk-Mi were not neccessary. I wish they would have kept him as her fake brother and given him another second female love interest (which I hope is NOT Hyo-jin 😰😰😰)
I was definitely rooting all for Ryan Gold 😍😍😍 I was whipped for him the second I saw him at the auction!!! omg!!! Yes I want it!!! 😂 Kim Jae-Wook is so hot and his acting is superb!!! his dreamy eyes and the voice omg!!!

Some critique point was the amount of accidents used as a cause for tragedy in both sides: Yun-Jae’s mom getting into an accident and not making it to pick up her son and then Duk-Mi and her brother getting into an accident and Duk-Su dying… That was a bit too many accidents for my taste…

But all in all really amazing drama with beautiful quotes, music and characters!!!

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