Mimi876

At first, my initial, shallow reaction was pure annoyance with the costumes, the sets, and the overall ugly aesthetic of the entire series (did you see IU's clothes, nails and her ROOM? my gosh..), even the boring emptless look in the prince's eyes. (This actually made me start to rewatch Lovely Runner so I could feel some warmth looking at him again). He seems so naive and fragile sometimes that is annoying. This is an absolutely terrible drama, with warped social views and incredibly superficial portrayals of humanity. The worst part, though, is how they keep trying to frame the prince as endlessly physically desirable while giving him zero intellectual depth at all, it’s just plain boring.

If you look close there are so many low quality copies from Crash Landing on You, I think they tried to portrait the same family mess with an illegimate daughter who is arrogant, rich, and strong woman, but they failed a lot on doing so, Yoon Se-ri has a unique personality and the drama is much more well written. For the lead man, I think they tried to follow the Lovely Runner script in so many levels, even the phrases, the scenes also badly copied and it looks like BWS is trying hard to make it look different, but honestly the writters and directors made terrible jobs.

I genuinely love IU and Byeon Woo-seok, but the writers and director are truly disappointing.
It feels like such a cheap production, as if they poured all their budget into casting these two leads and had nothing left to hire better behind-the-scenes professionals. I’m honestly even embarrassed for them. Coming right after Lovely Runner and When Life Gives You Tangerines, this show is honestly downright cringeworthy by comparison.