Roopayan Ghosh

Another drama which MDL hates but I love. Glad that I gave it a chance and didn't care about ratings.

Surprised at the ratings, and this is happening quite consistently recently, probably no longer of the same generation as most of the people in MDL. Loved the drama, sometimes you don't move on. Episode 11 and the emotions there was actually one of my favourite.

When life gives you tangerines is from this year as well.

This drama is the best melo I have seen this year. 7.8 doesn't do it justice.

For me: extremely strong first 7 episodes, but too much emotions cramped in the last 3 episodes, the background sad music was never ending. Prefer an even distribution of good and bad scenes every episode. The episode to episode transition was too jarring, they never linger on the last event of the previous episode, for a drama released all at once that is a fatal flaw as people try to binge it but are taken from one emotion to other quickly. Overall loved it when Woo-shik and Bo gum were on screen with their antics but fails to impress otherwise, expected better from OBS director. OBS is my favourite melo/rom-com. 8.5/10

Quite the opposite again, its "Why is this drama I like not popular", which is something positive. You are again pointing out things about why something is "not" good while I am trying to say the reverse. It doesn't seem as good as 8.6 doesn't mean its bad either since I still like it, it just feels "normal". As my original point, things are not black and white.

Quite the contrary, the very fact that I agree with the majority most of the times means in fact I have a very popular taste, which is neither a good or a bad thing anyway, but that is why this makes it a surprising aspect. Of course even I want dramas to be like fantasy not in the real world, I doubt what is being shown in this drama ever happens in real world, it's just I like characters which have their own flaws.
I don't really understand where the putting down part comes from though, if one likes violence on screen so be it. Plus correlation does not mean causation, I merely showed some correlation with my observations that is why I said I will never understand, because it's almost impossible to understand moral framework of everyone in this world.

If not passing judgement then what is the comment section for, just agreeing and moving on? That's not very fun is it. :) I wrote the comment knowing fully well about the retort of morality, which frankly is another debate altogether because as far as the drama goes it is showing that the side being cheated on is miserable, which for me is an accurate description of what usually happens.
Nobody is telling others to rate highly what I like, I just wrote an observation and a plausible reason behind it.

Also this pro-life stuff, I have one rule, does the woman want the child? In this case the dead brother's wife does and wanted it desperately, so I will support her wanting the child. The daughter had problems, hence removing the foetus was correct and kang kang su is wrong. That's the vibes I got from the drama as well. Eve is right too btw, rules are rules but the anger is understandable as well. But I guess people don't want to have two sides of the story.

Some ratings in this site I never understand. The last time I had a huge disparity with the popular ratings was Doona, which I think was excellent, but people seemed to agree otherwise. Now with all the three dramas I am watching this season the same issue. I find this and Motel California most refreshing and exciting to watch, while Love scout just an extremely formulaic K-drama, which is definitely good but not 8.6 good, but popular opinion is reversed. I think the biggest problem is people like all tv characters to be perfect, and the stories to be black and white morality based, while for me that's good once in a while, gray morality stories are the best. This seems to go out of the window though for k-dramas like the judge from hell (which I absolutely love btw), because somehow violence gets a free pass.

Nah the flawed characters are what makes it interesting, this is the one I look forward to most every week.

This drama had no right to be as good as it is based on the summary. Completely out of the blue. Also wtf Park Shin Hye, her acting gives me goosebumps, that nightclub getup was incredible and then the fight. Well the fight could be choreographed a bit better, but its always tricky when superbeings fight. The romance is subtle and for me just the perfect amount as well. Don't think this can have a very good ending, but I will accept an open ending.

halfway through ep 13, the writing is straight up terrible, even worse than QoT. The plot devices have made no sense , the comments are giing me hope that at least the ep doesn't end this badly.

As I had said in one of my comments before, watching it weekly makes the story flaws worse than it actually is, because where each episode ended is probably the main problem of the show overall. Binging will not have the problem.

Fair enough, was wondering which had more. Didn't follow that when it was airing.

All things aside almost 32000 comments for this drama in MDL. That should be some sort of record Which drama has more?

Exactly. I don't understand the reason almost all of the plot threads was resolved at the very last episode. It is much more fun to watch them unravel one at a time. Weird decision by the writer.

happy with a bittersweet taste in your mouth.

Okay the ending was beautiful, didn't expect them to show the "visit" at the end, +0.5 for that. :D
Overall what a roller coaster. So many plot devices could have been avoided if they made the runtime shorter and I would have enjoyed this a lot more. Not one for immediate rewatch for me thats for sure, but the acting and the OSTs were god tier. I would rewatch the OST videos in youtube over and over again.
8.5/10. Could have easily been a 10 (it was at the end of ep 10) and my favourite romance drama if they cut the makjang .

The biggest problem with this drama is the plot devices feel entirely artificial, and the writer always seem to take the long way out to resolve a problem. Conflicts are welcome, but when the conflicts start feeling forced, it ceases to be good. Couple that with the decade old idea of every episode has to end on a "bad" cliffhanger. The entire ep 15 felt so pointless. If you frustrate the audience so much the payoff better be good and over a few episodes. I cannot see that happening here. The writer has written herself to a wall, now no payoff will feel enough, specially if at the end the mother and son turn against each other. That will be really a nothing payoff for all this.
I expected so much since the director was also of Vincenzo but entire thing offers me no emotional payoff, been a while since I watched such a frustrating drama, more so because the acting osts cinematography are incredible.