Eleison

It's the necessary suspension of disbelief for this trope in a drama. 🤷🏼‍♀️

The confused ML in Coffee Prince really stressed me out (partly for him to discover her lie, and also because she let him get all worked up about something that wasn't even happening simply because "the right time" to tell him had passed. It frustrated the heck out of me 😅).

I would prefer characters know who/what they're dealing with. 😏 Like in adorable, cheesy Cdrama, My Unicorn Girl, I loved that the ML knew she was a woman, but the FL didn't know that the ML knew, which made for some great comedic scenes where she got all flustered and confused when he flirted with her (cause I'm fine with the person who's doing the "deceiving" getting confused and flustered 😉).

I tried it, but it was just kind of... weird. Unlike other movies set in other countries, this did NOT make me want to visit Thailand. 😬

The pacing is strange, the humor makes drama humor look tame (as far as cringe is concerned), and it just... wasn't landing for me. Couldn't finish it.

I loved Liu Hao Ran in Nirvana in Fire season 2 so I really wanted to like it... 😞

I think there's a good chance the ML in this already knows she's a woman.

I thought so, too!

The plot synopsis is dreadful. 🫣 Yikes, almost incoherent.

Two different characters played by the same actress.:)

How so?

Yeah, I've been scarred. 😅 Mr. Sunshine has made me shy away from any Kdrama that smells remotely of tragedy.

That's true, I didn't think of that. But Kdramas don't usually give villains a love interest?

It doesn't seem like it's viewed as a demotion in the industry to go from ML to 2ML or a support role, since it rarely happens. But I'm not sure. It just seems unusual. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Kdramas + RomComs = Cheesy

*Can't think of any that aren't...? Melodrama, romance Kdramas are sometimes less cheesy in the cringe sense, but then those will often lean more soapy.

Yeah, most actors who play MLs are not that short. Song Joon Ki and D.O. are two others that come to mind that are on rhe shorter side and have played leads. I sometimes wondered if there's a Kdrama height requirement for the MLs and some guys just manage to make it past the criteria. 😅

It seems like some readers of the webtoon are saying he knew almost right away she was a woman? Just quoting what I've seen.

It's interesting that Kim Jung Hyun made huge waves as the ML in Mr. Queen, but then kind of fell off afterwards and started taking 2ML/Support Roles again, which is an unusual trajectory. Is it because of his scandal? Even Kim Seon Ho came back from his scandal into lead roles (except WLGYTs, which was admittedly a HUGE drama to be a part of, even if not a main lead).

I was wondering if someone else strangled her/hung the belt from the closet bar and he was trying to loosen the belt (but the angle made it look like he was tightening it). It seems to me like she was blackmailing him, which makes it seems unlikely she would commit suicide? It seems maybe someone else mer her before he could meet her and had already killed her by the time he got there.🤷🏼‍♀️ Some if my theories. 😅

I see what you mean, but I guess why it would disappoint me to find out he didn't already figure out that she's a woman is that they already showed us how obsessed he is with noticing details and making meaning out of them. To introduce these unique aspects of his character and at the same time make him unable to notice something that anyone who's paying attention could notice would feel... lame (and I mean, more lame than the stuff dramas generally try to get viewers to swallow 😉😅).

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With the comment the ML did nothing wrong? 😅 Fighting words, those. 😉😏

The first scene where you start to get glimmers of the ML being anything but a goofball (besides the hint of the pic in his office) was pretty cool. It was so quick you'd almost miss it, but he definitely showed his true colors/capabilities, and I liked how they teased it; it makes you want to see who he actually is.