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This will be short, seeing as it's my first ever review here, and I just wanted to write all I felt during and after watching this drama and my process of rating a drama good.
Disclaimer: These are my opinions, so don't take anything personally. We don't have to agree, and I'm not here to argue with anyone. Just dropping my honest thoughts on something I very much like.
The drama does start off slow, trying to set up things—a little too slow in my opinion—and because of the whole love potion bit, it kind of made me lose interest a bit because it did start off well before the love potion bit. I was lost by episode 6, and I just had to power through and hope that it got better.
After episode 7 I was invested again, and it didn't disappoint. Yes, Yun Na was cheating, but before Sin Yu knew about it, he was already thinking of cheating himself. So I think we can say he cheated after the fact (still cheating), but he had been looking to end things way before; she was just clingy af. So I understand people not really liking this because of that aspect, ultimately glorifying cheating and calling it "fate." But I look past these things because it's K-drama.
What I look for is if the story-writing is compelling enough to overlook certain flaws and if the actors (mainly the leads but some supporting cast) are executing that story very well, and this didn't disappoint in the latter, and the former just had minor details that I mentioned but didn't really take away from the main plot.
Jo Bo-ah, as always since her debut, is fantastic as an actress and sold her character for me. Our ML Ro Woon, my first intro to him, and he was a great match for her, and their chemistry was solid off the bat, even though I kind of hated the love potion thing at first in the beginning, but ultimately it didn't matter. The other leads and cast really did well too.
But one thing that bugged me and still does is how did Na Jung Beom get his hands on spells or even know about them? And was it the love potion that made him crazy, or did he just legit think Hong Jo looked like his dead wife? Plot holes were bound to exist in this sort of drama, but everything else was very good.
Overall, besides these aspects, I mentioned one important factor that supersedes most of all I said, if not all, which is enjoyment. If I don't enjoy it, I can never rate it no matter what. And because I'm not a paid critic or someone who just looks for plot holes or things to point out while watching dramas, I have to choose enjoyment first before anything else.
So I gave this a 9/10 purely from the acting and execution from our leads, their chemistry, and my overall satisfaction and enjoyment of the drama. Really glad I finally watched this after putting it off for so long, and it was really worth it for me.
Ok, this ended up being kind of long in the end, but I hope this my personal review and thought process are able to help you give this drama a try. Because personally, I don't think you'll regret it.
Disclaimer: These are my opinions, so don't take anything personally. We don't have to agree, and I'm not here to argue with anyone. Just dropping my honest thoughts on something I very much like.
The drama does start off slow, trying to set up things—a little too slow in my opinion—and because of the whole love potion bit, it kind of made me lose interest a bit because it did start off well before the love potion bit. I was lost by episode 6, and I just had to power through and hope that it got better.
After episode 7 I was invested again, and it didn't disappoint. Yes, Yun Na was cheating, but before Sin Yu knew about it, he was already thinking of cheating himself. So I think we can say he cheated after the fact (still cheating), but he had been looking to end things way before; she was just clingy af. So I understand people not really liking this because of that aspect, ultimately glorifying cheating and calling it "fate." But I look past these things because it's K-drama.
What I look for is if the story-writing is compelling enough to overlook certain flaws and if the actors (mainly the leads but some supporting cast) are executing that story very well, and this didn't disappoint in the latter, and the former just had minor details that I mentioned but didn't really take away from the main plot.
Jo Bo-ah, as always since her debut, is fantastic as an actress and sold her character for me. Our ML Ro Woon, my first intro to him, and he was a great match for her, and their chemistry was solid off the bat, even though I kind of hated the love potion thing at first in the beginning, but ultimately it didn't matter. The other leads and cast really did well too.
But one thing that bugged me and still does is how did Na Jung Beom get his hands on spells or even know about them? And was it the love potion that made him crazy, or did he just legit think Hong Jo looked like his dead wife? Plot holes were bound to exist in this sort of drama, but everything else was very good.
Overall, besides these aspects, I mentioned one important factor that supersedes most of all I said, if not all, which is enjoyment. If I don't enjoy it, I can never rate it no matter what. And because I'm not a paid critic or someone who just looks for plot holes or things to point out while watching dramas, I have to choose enjoyment first before anything else.
So I gave this a 9/10 purely from the acting and execution from our leads, their chemistry, and my overall satisfaction and enjoyment of the drama. Really glad I finally watched this after putting it off for so long, and it was really worth it for me.
Ok, this ended up being kind of long in the end, but I hope this my personal review and thought process are able to help you give this drama a try. Because personally, I don't think you'll regret it.
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