This review may contain spoilers
A fun watch, even more so if you are a seasonal cdrama watcher
Spoiler-free bitThis drama had a tight storytelling and by that I mean, strong beginning, middle and ending. The story was cohesive and made logical sense within the context of the world building. The writing was on point; we had lovely character development and story progression. The OST was amazing and very pleasant to the ears. The acting was good; everyone did their job and had fun with it. Plot is unique in this sort f cdramas, and the story did go off-rails at times in the best way possible.
It’s not every day you get a cdrama where they make fun every possible trope that they could squeeze in. If you are someone who has watched plenty of cdramas this one is for you. If you aren’t familiar with the standard cdrmas trope that’s fine as well, some of the tropes used are very well know in every other media type.
Gotta love the way they made fun of love triangles and stereotypical melodramatic scenes. Oh and the creative way they use those tropes as “rules” and the ensuing comedic shenanigans that happen. “The ML must always save the FL” comes to mind.
SPOILERS!
A lot of people complained about the FL, about how annoying she was and how slow it was for her to trust ML and yes, it took a while and it dragged on more than necessary that said it made sense for her to take so long. However, story would have benefited if that had been shortened and we had more episodes with the main CP as a couple, or have the FL slowly start being nicer and work together with ML until finally giving in to her feelings. However what we had was a poor ML continuously chase after the FL despite being told “no” several times and go through several shades of heartbreak when the FL was not ready to give in yet and when she did give in it was cold turkey style.
That could have been handled better unless it was written this way on purpose to make fun of those specific tropes? Regardless once they got together, it was awesome.
Also, the poor second male lead. I might be the only that loves him. Typically I could care less about second male leads, but this is one of the few instances where I slowly learned to love him. I love what they did to the character, how he went from your stereotypical second lead to the big bad and it did not happen out of the blue. No, it happened step by step, we see how he slowly falls out of love with the FL, becomes very self-centered and obsessive in defeating the ML. It’s a slow fall at first until he hits rock bottom and no one can get him out of it, no, he wants to hit ever more rock bottom if it were possible. Love how he self destructed himself.
Also love the contrast between ML and 2ML. With ML, he always tried to reach out but was always pushed away and yet he stood firm in his convictions. On the other hand with 2ML, people reached out to him and he always pushed them away because they didn’t say or do what he wanted and when he tried to reach for someone, he would always end up pushing them away because of that reason.
It’s so very interesting to see how their positions flipped from where they started and how their choices shape their final outcome.
Also, it’s not every day a c-drama gives you FOUR endings without additional extra episodes to appease the enraged masses. You get your pick of favorite flavored tragedy or happy ending, so rejoice!
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