ColourMePurple

Based on the concept of Make Me Tingle, I really expected a lot but the show side stepped the issues at hand. The drama is sweet but not at all what I expected it to be.

The show introduces a woman in a relationship with her boyfriend who is uncomfortable with the idea of sex without the possibility of marriage. The boyfriend gets frustrated with her when she requests he use protection during their first time. He tries to manipulate her but she stands her ground which was great. Frankly, that is quite fair for her to not want to have sex before marriage. But the show tries to depict her letting go of her ideals when she meets the male lead.

Personally I thought it would have been better for her to be able to explore what she likes on her own rather than just choosing to have sex. She works with a company that sells sex toys and she is never shown (or even hinted) that she tried them. Whereas she is working on marketing them and trying to break the taboo of using sex toys. So I was a bit confused why even create this scenario for this drama. In fact, there are many women who have had sex but never used sex toys. One could have easily created a story around such a character instead.

I felt that the drama completely ignored her changing opinions. And even rushed matters towards the end. The male lead was nice to the female lead but I expected more of a chemistry between the two. If anything, I liked the second male lead because he was both sweet and understanding whereas the male lead would frequently disagree with the female lead and basically made no promises to her at the start.

Also, the comedy didn't impress me much. It also presented the grandfather favouring sons over daughteds as funny which was offputting. The relationship between the leads is sweet and the bromance was nice but that's about it. The depth I expected in this subject simply wasn't there. There was a modest way to make a drama about sex without completely ignoring having deeper conversations about it.

Because it only delves with issues on a superficial level instead of taking more of a risk, it didn't deliver what it teased.

In fact, one of fhe biggest issues I had with this drama is when a young woman who is a dancer chooses to give up her dreams when she gets pregnant. It's pretty obvious that Korea has a low birth rate. But making women feel guilty about abortion and giving up their dreams, kinda pissed me off. Especially when the boyfriend was not even settled in life himself.

I wish the drama didn't side step the reality of women and try to convince them to let go of their comforts for the sake of others.