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So much potential wasted.
Work Later, Drink Now 2 had SOOO much potential to be a great series. However, it suffers from what a lot of long running shows suffer from: Writer's fatigue. I thought it had great characters, played by fantastic actors and actresses. Some of the plot threads were peak K-drama writing. I was over-joyed to see Yun Si Yun as a love interest. But those are the only positives I can say about WL, DR season 2. I really wanted to give it a 10, but I saw too many plot fails.
For starters, Season Two erased and re-wrote Ji-yeon, So-Hee, and Ji-Gu's backstory. In Season One, they met at a dance competition at a pub . In Season Two, they met and started hanging out in college. Did no one watch Season One before writing Season Two?
Second: The living in the mountains plotline was a bit jarring. These 3 just disappear for a year or more and NO ONE but Buk-Gu goes searching? Their parents or loved ones don't reported them missing? And So-Hee still has her old job? I know it's a fictional story, but it's got to be somewhat believable so the audience can relate.
Third: The way Ji-Gu and Ji-yeon got over their very serious fight was anti-climatic, incredulous, and disingenuous. They had the kind of fight that PERMANENTLY ends friendships in real life. I was eager to see how the three would make up. But, nope! Not even an apology. Just a "let's pretend it didn't happen because I saw my estranged Daddy," plot fail. A man must have wrote it because a woman would not have written such a lackadaisical fix. There would have been some hair pulling and eye-gouging at the least.
Fourth: Ji-yeon did NOT have a character arc. She ended up the same person as she was at the beginning of season one. I'm okay with her not diving into a relationship with Kim Sun-Kook. But winding up with 3 men at the end of the series, 2 of whom came out of nowhere? Seriously? A simple arc would have been her trying monogamy with Sun-Kook, or at least admitting that she liked him but was scared of hurting him because of her Daddy issues. Or at the very least, she could have turned down a guy who chose to flirt with her in front of Sun-Kook. But when the show runners have writers fatigue, the viewers get copy-paste character decisions, I guess.
Fifth, speaking of Sun-Kook, how'd he get over his sensory disability? One line of dialogue about it would have been nice.
Sixth: Will Ji-Gu and her mother continue hating each other?
Seventh: Will So-Hee and her mother continue hating each other?
And last, but not least: DID Ahn So-Hee die? Who thought it was a good idea to end the show like that? A fall because of alcohol brain is believable since these women are fun drunks. But why tease the idea that So-Hee died? At a wedding! She was one of the MAIN characters! How could the writers drop the ball so disastrously?
You know what...DISHONOR! Dishonor on the writers, the show runners and their LAZY CREATIVITY! WL, DN 2 could have been a 10, but you're going home with a 5!
For starters, Season Two erased and re-wrote Ji-yeon, So-Hee, and Ji-Gu's backstory. In Season One, they met at a dance competition at a pub . In Season Two, they met and started hanging out in college. Did no one watch Season One before writing Season Two?
Second: The living in the mountains plotline was a bit jarring. These 3 just disappear for a year or more and NO ONE but Buk-Gu goes searching? Their parents or loved ones don't reported them missing? And So-Hee still has her old job? I know it's a fictional story, but it's got to be somewhat believable so the audience can relate.
Third: The way Ji-Gu and Ji-yeon got over their very serious fight was anti-climatic, incredulous, and disingenuous. They had the kind of fight that PERMANENTLY ends friendships in real life. I was eager to see how the three would make up. But, nope! Not even an apology. Just a "let's pretend it didn't happen because I saw my estranged Daddy," plot fail. A man must have wrote it because a woman would not have written such a lackadaisical fix. There would have been some hair pulling and eye-gouging at the least.
Fourth: Ji-yeon did NOT have a character arc. She ended up the same person as she was at the beginning of season one. I'm okay with her not diving into a relationship with Kim Sun-Kook. But winding up with 3 men at the end of the series, 2 of whom came out of nowhere? Seriously? A simple arc would have been her trying monogamy with Sun-Kook, or at least admitting that she liked him but was scared of hurting him because of her Daddy issues. Or at the very least, she could have turned down a guy who chose to flirt with her in front of Sun-Kook. But when the show runners have writers fatigue, the viewers get copy-paste character decisions, I guess.
Fifth, speaking of Sun-Kook, how'd he get over his sensory disability? One line of dialogue about it would have been nice.
Sixth: Will Ji-Gu and her mother continue hating each other?
Seventh: Will So-Hee and her mother continue hating each other?
And last, but not least: DID Ahn So-Hee die? Who thought it was a good idea to end the show like that? A fall because of alcohol brain is believable since these women are fun drunks. But why tease the idea that So-Hee died? At a wedding! She was one of the MAIN characters! How could the writers drop the ball so disastrously?
You know what...DISHONOR! Dishonor on the writers, the show runners and their LAZY CREATIVITY! WL, DN 2 could have been a 10, but you're going home with a 5!
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