Beautiful but Too Slow
I saw so many promising and positive reviews that I thought, okay, this must be something special. So I gave it a fair chance and watched all 16 episodes.
But honestly… I just didn’t feel it.
The storyline actually sounded promising. The idea behind it is nice, and I understand why people would find it meaningful. But for me, it was so incredibly slow. The whole story feels very small and compact, yet it’s stretched out over 16 episodes. Because of that, it becomes very repetitive. It honestly felt like the same conversations happening over and over again, just said in slightly different words.
The settings are also almost always the same. The same places, the same atmosphere, again and again. There’s very little variation, which makes it feel even slower.
And the chemistry… I’m sorry, but I just didn’t feel it between the two main actors, Choi Woo-shik and Kim Da-mi. For me, the spark just wasn’t there. Because of that, the emotional moments didn’t really hit. I know many people loved their dynamic, but I personally didn’t connect with it at all.
The acting also felt a bit flat to me. Very calm, very subtle — which can work — but here it just didn’t move me. The series didn’t surprise me, didn’t really touch me emotionally, and definitely didn’t keep me on the edge of my seat.
The whole time I kept wondering: what am I missing? Why is everyone so in love with this drama? I genuinely tried to see what makes it so special, but I just couldn’t find it. And I really did finish it until the very last episode.
Maybe this is just one of those series you either connect with or you don’t. For me, it simply didn’t click.
But honestly… I just didn’t feel it.
The storyline actually sounded promising. The idea behind it is nice, and I understand why people would find it meaningful. But for me, it was so incredibly slow. The whole story feels very small and compact, yet it’s stretched out over 16 episodes. Because of that, it becomes very repetitive. It honestly felt like the same conversations happening over and over again, just said in slightly different words.
The settings are also almost always the same. The same places, the same atmosphere, again and again. There’s very little variation, which makes it feel even slower.
And the chemistry… I’m sorry, but I just didn’t feel it between the two main actors, Choi Woo-shik and Kim Da-mi. For me, the spark just wasn’t there. Because of that, the emotional moments didn’t really hit. I know many people loved their dynamic, but I personally didn’t connect with it at all.
The acting also felt a bit flat to me. Very calm, very subtle — which can work — but here it just didn’t move me. The series didn’t surprise me, didn’t really touch me emotionally, and definitely didn’t keep me on the edge of my seat.
The whole time I kept wondering: what am I missing? Why is everyone so in love with this drama? I genuinely tried to see what makes it so special, but I just couldn’t find it. And I really did finish it until the very last episode.
Maybe this is just one of those series you either connect with or you don’t. For me, it simply didn’t click.
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