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Story that should've stayed simple
This had kinda lot of issue in my opinion and not that many good aspects. The premise was okayish, bit fantastical but that's would've been okay if execute correctly, which i think this didn't do.
I don't know where it went wrong with the leads but both suffer greatly from different things. FL overacts like crazy the whole drama, i don't know if that directing issue or what, i've seen her do better but this just ain't it. At times it's jarring to see.
ML is either miscasted or directing and costuming just don't know what makes believable gangster. ML didn't at any point seem like anything close to resembling one and it's really breaks my immersion. He is also good actor by all accounts so it just disappointing to see.
Rom-coms usually make or break with the leads and their performance and this just breaks totally.
Side characters are way better and in general enjoyable if not little bit silly side. They helped a lot in making this better than it otherwise would've been. I enjoyed FLs friend that little time she had, maybe she should've had more screentime instead of 2ML and 2FL, i really don't know what was up with those two character and neither did writers cause they basically forgot them in the second half.
Story had interesting premise with potential but it kinda fell flat for me. I enjoyed the start, decent rom-com action it had going on and maybe i would've enjoyed this more without the villain angle fully. The tonal whiplash the drama at had the 8 was too big and out of left field it didn't really work for me either. After that it didn't really hook me in anymore same as it did at the start. The past connection with almost every character to some other character was bit jarring too. Also what's the point even showing hospital scenes if you're going the have the characters be fine after 1 scene, like cmon. I think ending it at 10 episodes would've been good choice, the 2 extra episodes were kinda pointless imo.
Villain character was okay but i don't think he ever got to the potential he could've had. Good actor, limited writing.
Conclusion
It tried somewhat too much and didn't really nail anything that well. The start was good, but at the end it was kinda meh. Both leads failed majorly and didn't really work. Side characters and villain were the better part of this. For the good start carrying this, i'll give it 7/10, i would recommend it for cute rom-com start but anything other than that i couldn't really recommend.
I don't know where it went wrong with the leads but both suffer greatly from different things. FL overacts like crazy the whole drama, i don't know if that directing issue or what, i've seen her do better but this just ain't it. At times it's jarring to see.
ML is either miscasted or directing and costuming just don't know what makes believable gangster. ML didn't at any point seem like anything close to resembling one and it's really breaks my immersion. He is also good actor by all accounts so it just disappointing to see.
Rom-coms usually make or break with the leads and their performance and this just breaks totally.
Side characters are way better and in general enjoyable if not little bit silly side. They helped a lot in making this better than it otherwise would've been. I enjoyed FLs friend that little time she had, maybe she should've had more screentime instead of 2ML and 2FL, i really don't know what was up with those two character and neither did writers cause they basically forgot them in the second half.
Story had interesting premise with potential but it kinda fell flat for me. I enjoyed the start, decent rom-com action it had going on and maybe i would've enjoyed this more without the villain angle fully. The tonal whiplash the drama at had the 8 was too big and out of left field it didn't really work for me either. After that it didn't really hook me in anymore same as it did at the start. The past connection with almost every character to some other character was bit jarring too. Also what's the point even showing hospital scenes if you're going the have the characters be fine after 1 scene, like cmon. I think ending it at 10 episodes would've been good choice, the 2 extra episodes were kinda pointless imo.
Villain character was okay but i don't think he ever got to the potential he could've had. Good actor, limited writing.
Conclusion
It tried somewhat too much and didn't really nail anything that well. The start was good, but at the end it was kinda meh. Both leads failed majorly and didn't really work. Side characters and villain were the better part of this. For the good start carrying this, i'll give it 7/10, i would recommend it for cute rom-com start but anything other than that i couldn't really recommend.
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