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Fated to Love You with Jang/Jang couple is literally my favorite drama of all time, I was BEYOND hyped for Family, and only made it about 4 or 5 eps in before I had to drop it. I don't think I was entertained by a single moment of those episodes beyond the cute opening credits.

Why is Han Ji Hyun literally the coolest police detective I have ever seen in a drama. I need a season 2 just for more of her character.

Keep watching :)

This is literally the central message of this drama. Where something mainstream like Start Up, for example, utterly fails while pandering to the shallow crowd, A Poem A Day succeeds brilliantly by putting a mirror up to that same crowd and asking them to question their biases and what they want from their fiction.

As difficult as that is to watch at times, it informs why she loves herself enough to walk away from the toxic second lead (who exists as a deconstruction of popular main lead tropes) and chooses the kind and supportive main lead (who exists as a deconstruction of popular second lead tropes).

The way this show flips those tropes on their heads is the best part of the drama and I still haven't really seen it done as well as this anywhere else.

Same! Just reading this premise and picturing Chae Soo Bin doing it made me smile all on its own.

The last episode has this super interesting way of getting worse the more time goes by

Completely not a sarcastic reply: eat less.

I'm serious, and science has already proven this is THE answer. Yes, being more active will help in the short term, but the main culprit for obesity is just taking in too many calories, 100% of the time. Try restricting your diet temporarily (remove high-calorie food types, like dairy) and watch your snacking. A friend of mine lost over 100 lbs just by eating smaller portions at mealtime and removing snacking.

Still haven't seen a more lovable character since Shin Eun Soo's performance here.
This whole cast is unbelievable. Sometimes a drama is just a drama, despite everyone doing a great job, but the chemistry among the cast here was on a whole other level. Truly lightning in a bottle, can't ever forget it.

"Hidden gem" is the perfect description, as few other dramas are more hidden or more gem-like than this

I think Kim Seon Ho's laughable "scandal" a couple years back showed that there is some outrage fatigue happening and maybe people in general are beginning to gain a little perspective. But the fact is that people are unhappy and many deal with that unhappiness by wanting others to also be unhappy.

She is Top 1% kdrama cinnamon roll who deserves all the hugs and protection

The OST is seriously good

Yes, completely agree! The first episode had me in tears, which almost never happens for me on any first episode. And then that beautiful set up was completely wasted by the 15 eps that followed it.

Great points. You can tell that, after the first episode, this was written pretty cynically. The writers seemed to believe that all the audience would want is pretty Suzy with cute Nam Joo Hyuk and they don't need to write an actually-interesting romance. It undermines the entire show and wastes one of the best first episodes in kdrama history.

Lee Jung Shin does steal the spotlight from the ML for most of this show

Come back when you've seen more than a couple eps

Man, 2 months since the season 2 rumors, but still nothing official. I would absolutely love more of this.

Just the commentary portion is subbed on youtube, but it doesn't have the footage of the show that they're commenting on, so.... kinda pointless

Dang, Han Suk Kyu as ML in a comedy and Lee Re with a main role, I'm totally here for this