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the part of her crawling out for dear life from death basically is also awe worthy. Excellent acting chops. You can see her desperation in every move. As you watch, you realise that some people really should actually die lol. Ah Jin is such. I literally watched with my mouth hanging open as she manages to survive the only time someone truly had a shot at killing her finally.

You are totally right about how viewers expectations reduce the depth that characters whether male or female can get to.

The show did a good job of waking the viewers up often from our Ah Jin beauty induced states. No amount of beauty she has could make us not notice how much death follows her. She is like a gold package that when touched gives disease. The show did well with this.

You are right. Reading through comments and having people say 'we love Ah Jin', 'she is a bitch but i love her' (viki viewing comments) makes me realise that in real life people stay falling in love with sociopaths and psychopaths especially the good looking ones and getting destroyed for it. It is somehow sad and scary.

The lightning part cracked me up lol. The FL we got is incapable of romance or warmth so how are we are supposed to get a nice ending when there is no proper romance in sight? lol. A psychopathic/sociopathic lead points to the impossibility of a rosy ending. A nice, warm and lovely walking into the sunset holding hands with whoever scene would have been completely ridiculous. I would need to check if it is still the same show and same writer/director team lol. People are getting spoiled by 'happy endings'.

What are people talking about? I loved the ending. It was appropriate!!! Ah jin the cockroach!!!! The weed! the horror! my goodness. Only Jesus can save someone like Ah Jin. She is a moving disaster! I would legit watch a season 2. She is so terrible it is interesting. The whole thing was like watching a crash -2 speed and we loved it. Kim You Jung deserves an award for this acting. The most dynamic one she ever did. Amazing. Excellent direction and everything really. Ah Jin simp association and all lol

Baek Ah Jin Simp's Society lol 😂😂

it just kept showing up and cracking me up. It is actually the perfect name for these guys caught in her orbit 😂

Viki Commenters are cracking me up! They went with Simp #1 and Simp#2 and we all know who they mean 😂😂

that is the point lol

it is a very very just okay type of watch. Doesn't rouse any feelings or interest in the audience. It feels like a good mixture of good cinimatography, pretty leads, but blah storyline lol

Chinese dramas can be so blah and lacking sometimes. Not always but sometimes and this is one such instance! like 10 episodes in and still I don't know and I don't care, and I do not care enough to know and i still do not get where they are heading, cos it is taking forever to head anywhere! There was no central conflict that was strong enough from the start to keep you going. Like it is just so blaze and empty feeling you may as well not be watching anything and feel the same. The kisses are good but not enough to save the blahness of it all. There was literally one funny part (for me) and that was it lol. I thought cdramas had begun to overcome this issue of lacking something crucial but alas. The characters (FLs especially) also always have a type of non-dynamic way of being and as a result they are sort of one way, one look, one face, one emotion, one vibe way of acting. Not up for a rewatch though it is all modern and chique. I managed love ambition but that was saved by the fact that Zhao Lusi ate. She played a more dynamic character than usual. It also had a central and clear moral conflict that we had to watch the FL work through episode by episode. It reminded me of the best albeit old family kdrama Seoyoung my daughter where she lies to get married and then has to go through the process of losing it all and finding redemption. From the start we can see the trouble in the horizon and are just waiting to see it all crash. This one just had a pile of characters nobody cares about and even the FL and ML are not intriguing enough for the audience to be truly invested or really interested in their plight. It lacks in essence which kdramas tend to get right from episode 1. Dramas are never about about cinematography, wardrobe, beautiful faces but first and foremost is about the drama and essence captured through already excellent story telling. The other things then complement it. I have a whole rant for jdramas too but let's leave it here lol

I wonder if I am the only one that has noticed this issue. I just had to rant at this point.

check out two of her shows and decide. something like clean with passion for now and then compare the acting there to Dear X. This young lady has more acting chops and years of experience behind her belt than even some older actors. Don't undermine all those years.

the only 'negative' comment i have read that makes perfect sense and you are objectively right lol. We just love her acting so we are biased. People are interested in her thoughts so a reporter asked her for her thoughts and wrote this article. All part of the job. You don't have to read it like I didn't have to but chose to cos Dear X is just so fascinating a piece for me. Nothing deep about it all.

lol. i thought the same as the comment below after reading this spiel. Tell me you haven't seen her acting from when she was a child to adult without saying it. This young lady has more acting experience in years under her belt and acting chops than even some older actors. Growing from a baby to an adult in the eye of the world is no small feat either. She rarely plays a villain. Going from mostly playing protagonist FL to then playing a cold and nasty character and anti-villain (which is harder than just being a villain) is actually art. Check out her drama 'clean with passion for now' which is comedy or the moonlight one with Park Bo Gam and compare it to Dear X and then write another review about her objectively. Also, it is not her fault that she is art to look at either. If she was ugly people will complain she is ugly. If she is pretty, people are still ill at ease lol. To each their own standard i guess.

That is how it be! Kim You Jung and Kim Young Dae ( just noticed that the cast has so many Kims lol) are too good for this to not be good. I am not going to deceive myself again saying I will just watch one episode. I know full well that with all the cliffhanger endings i will be clicking next till I can click no more.

Went to count. A record breaking 13 Kims in this cast!!! I wonder if any of them are related.

Oh I see what you mean. I know that this is adapted from a manhwa. I do not know how it ends but I read somewhere that it all just comes crashing down as we expect. I guess it is something like the show Anna with Bae Suzy. It perhaps offers a life lesson on greed and how it all amounts to nothing as it was built on the tears and misery of others. I also like the fact that she does all this scheming and manipulating and still finds no joy in life. It is poetic lol. That is my approach to viewing this. I take her misery as a life lesson and observe all those that fell for her scheme and try to decode why they did. But agian...this is not for everyone. I enjoy antivillain things. E.g. one of my all time favourite anime is Code Geass where the main lead is pretty much the villain of that universe if you were in the universe. I rewatched it recently and realised that if I was in my right mind, and if the story was not being told from Lelouch's perspective the 'antagonist' would actually be the standard main character that is just and kind 😂...i guess I am twisted like that and enjoy these shows when done brilliantly like this.

What are your top 3-5 shows? I may understand your taste more.

don't tempt me. it is already very hard to manage. I regret even starting. It just lives rent free in my head now 😭😭

yes. It is a type of genre where the main lead is pretty much the villain. The point of view is really not for everyone but these leads do an excellent job!!!! They ate and left no crumbs with these characters.

I said I will watch episode 1 then watched 1-4, clicked next and realised there was no more. The misery i felt has made me realise it is better to wait till it ends lol. I am like someone that has been burnt once and now shy. I envy that you have watched till episode 8 but I shall wait till 4th of December 😭

She got the coat when she was most happy and tried hard to keep seeming like her past selt. That is why it was such an eyesore.

should be the title of the show lol. My goodness everyone was different levels of miserable. All caused by themselves.

You are exactly right. If she stopped at just dishing back what people deserved I would say oh well they deserved it. However, the innocent shop owner really was just a good guy and she intentionally approached him for his goodness and ruined his promising future to get her own promising future.