Another issue was the number of side couples. There were simply too many of them, which created unnecessary chaos and took attention away from the main story. At some point, Win and Team almost stopped feeling like the protagonists of their own drama, while Waan and Tul were the ones carrying the show for me. The main storyline also kept repeating the same beats over and over again, which made it feel quite boring after a while. On top of that, the dialogue wasn’t particularly strong, often filled with overly long pauses that made many scenes drag.
That being said, it wasn’t all bad. The drama is relatively easy and quick to watch, and it holds a special place for me because it was the show that first introduced me to this fandom. Because of that, I can’t help but feel a lot of nostalgia toward it despite its flaws.
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Breaking my silence...
I feel strange writing this, but the popularity of this drama far exceeded my expectations. It was meant to be funny and cute, but it turned out terribly forced. Its main plot axis was Thee’s unhealthy obsession with Peach. At first it seemed charming, but over time it became rather strange and overwhelming, essentially forming the core of his personality. And I never quite understood where it came from. One moment Thee wanted to sleep with Aran at any cost (literally), and the next moment only Peach mattered. And why? Because Peach stood up to him. The classic “no one ever says no to me, but you did and that turns me on” trope—how original (sense my sarcasm).The ending was extremely rushed (why does GMMTV insist on making 10-episode series???), and the wedding turned out to be less grand than the engagement itself. Not to mention that Aran—Peach’s best (and probably only) friend—didn’t even appear at it.
I regret that the mafia storyline was treated so superficially. Even though Thee wanted to distance himself from it and was not supposed to take over the illegal part of his father’s business, he still grew up in that environment, so he should have internalized certain patterns (which were only visible a few times).
Moving on to the characters: most of them (apart from the main leads) were NPCs who appeared only when needed. None of them caught my attention.
Every couple was stripped of chemistry, which actually takes talent, because I don’t think they normally lack it.
Peach was a typical “I’m not like everyone else” wallflower.
As for Thee—I understand that he’s the son of a mafia boss, runs a large company, and probably has autism, but I really disliked his lack of respect for Peach’s boundaries. Especially in the last episode, when he said something like “you’re my husband, you can’t refuse me.” Oh yes he can. Marriage is not consent to everything—remember that. Few things trigger me as much as the romanticization of sexual exploitation.
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A Promising Idea That Lost Its Way
The main idea of this series really appealed to me. The first two or three episodes were great, but after that the plot quickly went downhill. The story focused much more on the romantic storyline than on the crime plot, which was very frustrating. More than once I felt like shouting: “Stop focusing on romance—people are dying around you!”It would be easier to accept if the romance had been done well, but I didn’t feel any chemistry between the characters. We also didn’t get to see how their relationship developed or what it was based on—Khamin and Jade suddenly and unexpectedly became a couple.
Khamin’s character also seemed especially inconsistent to me.
Going back to the crime storyline: it was very easy to guess the solution to the mystery, but it wasn’t possible to reach it through deduction. The creators didn’t really let us play detectives by mixing the clues or expanding the group of suspects.
The characters almost never got injured, or they would magically recover very quickly, no matter what happened to them.
The ending was completely over the top, and what’s worse, the main characters didn’t seem to care much about what had happened.
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