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It’s just a product placement for Perplexity AI (less popular analogue to ChatGPT and Google Gemini).

It gets better in ep. 3 & 4, but this is definitely one of those dramas where it’s safer to check reviews & comments after all episodes are out.

Probably best to wait until this is finished airing. First two episodes were so-so, next two episodes were much better, but we don’t know what the writers will do next. If you haven’t watched them, watch Once Upon a Small Town (same vibes but much better drama), Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (similar type of ML, but here he’s grumpier) and The First Frost (FL has sleep problems/sleepwalks as well; of course, TFF is a more serious drama based on a novel by a top writer, so it’s not a fair comparison).

P.S. “Filing for Love” so far is a better drama but also not perfect, so maybe best to wait. Oftentimes recent dramas had started strong and then got worse, so we have to be cautious when a drama has an average start — it has a potential to be bad by the end… or improve a lot.

It’s honestly not that bad. It’s not like other dramas where 2ML is FL’s best friend and takes up a lot of screen time. Here the majority of time is spent on the lead pair and 2ML is more on the sidelines as a business associate of FL & ML.

It’s definitely easier to watch when 2-3 pairs are clearly defined with no love triangles/squares. Not sure why so many recent K-dramas felt the need to have a third-wheel 2ML. On this drama, at least, there’s a plot reason for that — if 2ML didn’t like FL, he probably wouldn’t have given her permission to sell the products. And he honestly seems pretty harmless and doesn’t get in a way a lot (yet).

The writer’s description of the character was “like male lead of Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha but grumpy” 🤣

Episode 4 is better but, yes, it’s not the most logically written drama 😳

It’s the famous actress who helped FL promote the cosmetics product which caused damage to people (which caused the actress to stop acting and caused FL to stop selling cosmetics) and who is now promoting her own beauty line which is being sold on air by FL’s rival (#1 ranked person in sales at their home shopping channel . More about mom & FL’s backstory will be revealed in episodes 3 & 4 but we still haven’t found out how it happened that both of them were selling that defective product.

This does get better in episodes 3 & 4 (especially 4), so hopefully things will improve even more. But it really feels like they tried to combine cozy village vibes of Once Upon a Small Town with village/town hero of Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha with sleepwalking heroine of The First Frost.

This drama isn’t super serious (especially how ML behaves), so I fully expect them to have a quick storyline about ML/FL/2FL. Maybe they will always be going to FL’s place instead of ML’s and FL will suspect something… just a typical comedy situation :)

Bad public image?
But also here you will have situations where both cheating people are employees (there are rules about that, of course, if you cheat in a workplace). And then another episode had a situation which definitely wouldn’t be allowed anywhere (not spiking it).

The actress is absolutely slaying her role. She also manages to look more mature than IU despite being only a few months older

Logically speaking, no one would like it if their bf/gf lived with an ex :)

We knew a contract was being leaked as soon as they were writing it — that trope is legally required by K-Drama Censorship Office 🤣

But, on a more serious note, the main way I can see them try to get out of this if they claim contract was a fake they planted in order to catch palace leakers

It was hilarious when FL’s brother tried to repeat his haircut 😁

He dad aside, I kind of love her sister in law and the bumbling buffoon that is her brother. Her sister in law obviously want to help her husband, but it’s nice their interests align and it’s not a typical bad relationship

ML is whipped by women (his older sister and now his ex), so the ex just moved into his place. But she will surely be homeless again once FL becomes serious about ML… unless FL takes 2FL in as a roommate 🤣

Yeah… reactions like that may explain low birth rates 🤣🤣🤣

Would be hilarious if 2FL had to move with FL because there’s absolutely no freaking way that FL would allow ML to live with his ex 🤣😁

I totally understand your feelings as there are some great sub-8.0 dramas that I loved but they didn’t get enough attention or were more mature-oriented. But at the end of the day, MDL ratings don’t matter to Korean or Chinese companies as they use their own metrics. Also, this is not a zero sum game and rating for one drama doesn’t impact another drama. But on MDL it’s really hard to get a fair rating because of endless waves of haters / antifans. Actually, this drama also has been endlessly attacked by haters — it should be rated even higher given its overall popularity and ratings (probably 8.7-8.8 MDL).