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I genuinely do not understand the hate.
Pple complaining about cliches... It's a romantic comedy. What life-altering plot did you expect to pop out of it? Humans are wild. They claim to want throwback type romance, they get it, they are mad. Hard eye roll. Personally, I liked it.
The ML was such a green flag - very adorable consent king. The FL was also well written. Not overly dramatic and firm in her mind and choices. The couple was also very mature - and I don't mean the 1 million kisses, but in their interaction, communication, conflict management, etc.
What I wish was better was
(1) Eps 15 and esp 16 were boring as hell
(2) The love stories with her friends. I wish we got to see more of the budding romance btw the FLs friend and the younger guy. I think it'd have been really cute. As for the friend with the useless husband, I wish it had been done differently. She ended up looking like a tyrant to her stay-at-home husband. I wish she had
(a) Left him and her terrible in-laws or,
(b) The husband would have been shown enjoying being a stay-at-home husband. basically a role reversal without the subtle misogyny that "utakaliwa kama bibi yako is the breadwinner".
(3) Oh, also, not all family members should be forgiven. The sister was shit. N his mum, it should have taken more conversations
The ML was such a green flag - very adorable consent king. The FL was also well written. Not overly dramatic and firm in her mind and choices. The couple was also very mature - and I don't mean the 1 million kisses, but in their interaction, communication, conflict management, etc.
What I wish was better was
(1) Eps 15 and esp 16 were boring as hell
(2) The love stories with her friends. I wish we got to see more of the budding romance btw the FLs friend and the younger guy. I think it'd have been really cute. As for the friend with the useless husband, I wish it had been done differently. She ended up looking like a tyrant to her stay-at-home husband. I wish she had
(a) Left him and her terrible in-laws or,
(b) The husband would have been shown enjoying being a stay-at-home husband. basically a role reversal without the subtle misogyny that "utakaliwa kama bibi yako is the breadwinner".
(3) Oh, also, not all family members should be forgiven. The sister was shit. N his mum, it should have taken more conversations
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