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Loyalty ignored, manipulation rewarded
Rating: 4/10
A Love Other Than Yours starts from an interesting premise: a couple of ten years, whose relationship has cooled, make a 30-day pact to date other people. The problem is that the series does not carry that premise through coherently, especially in the ending.
What worked
Ho and Su-a are the highlights. Ho is steady and devoted, and Su-a is honest, undemanding, and makes clear from the start what she expects. Episode 13 has some sincere conversations, such as Mi-do saying she is unhappy and hurt while taking the blame without excuses. It was the only moment she seemed to me to face what she had done.
What didn’t work
For me, trust is the foundation of any relationship, and the series treats betrayal as if it weighed very little. Mi-do kissed someone else while in a solid commitment with wedding plans. Ho only got close to Su-a after the pact, and the difference between the two is not small. The series doesn’t seem to want to see that asymmetry.
Tae-seung is written as a manipulator: he uses an accident to pressure someone into signing a contract, uses the death of Mi-do’s father as a weapon, and makes a client cry on purpose to reduce a sentence. Mi-do calls him vile and a scoundrel, signals several times that she’ll end it, and in the end stays with him. His promise to “try to be good” never shows up in action. He is rewarded without having changed.
The ending
The two-year time jump puts each of them with a new partner without showing what healed anyone, and Ho cuts ties with the family that took him in, with resentment. That isn’t a fresh start, it’s an open wound. A coherent ending would have been Mi-do alone, resolving the fear of being alone she herself admitted, and Ho healed, free of guilt, with Su-a. I would have given a higher score for that.
Conclusion
A series about what sustains a relationship over years that ends without rewarding loyalty or holding anyone accountable for broken trust. The premise was better than the execution. Anyone who values loyal characters, as in Crash Landing on You, may leave frustrated.
A Love Other Than Yours starts from an interesting premise: a couple of ten years, whose relationship has cooled, make a 30-day pact to date other people. The problem is that the series does not carry that premise through coherently, especially in the ending.
What worked
Ho and Su-a are the highlights. Ho is steady and devoted, and Su-a is honest, undemanding, and makes clear from the start what she expects. Episode 13 has some sincere conversations, such as Mi-do saying she is unhappy and hurt while taking the blame without excuses. It was the only moment she seemed to me to face what she had done.
What didn’t work
For me, trust is the foundation of any relationship, and the series treats betrayal as if it weighed very little. Mi-do kissed someone else while in a solid commitment with wedding plans. Ho only got close to Su-a after the pact, and the difference between the two is not small. The series doesn’t seem to want to see that asymmetry.
Tae-seung is written as a manipulator: he uses an accident to pressure someone into signing a contract, uses the death of Mi-do’s father as a weapon, and makes a client cry on purpose to reduce a sentence. Mi-do calls him vile and a scoundrel, signals several times that she’ll end it, and in the end stays with him. His promise to “try to be good” never shows up in action. He is rewarded without having changed.
The ending
The two-year time jump puts each of them with a new partner without showing what healed anyone, and Ho cuts ties with the family that took him in, with resentment. That isn’t a fresh start, it’s an open wound. A coherent ending would have been Mi-do alone, resolving the fear of being alone she herself admitted, and Ho healed, free of guilt, with Su-a. I would have given a higher score for that.
Conclusion
A series about what sustains a relationship over years that ends without rewarding loyalty or holding anyone accountable for broken trust. The premise was better than the execution. Anyone who values loyal characters, as in Crash Landing on You, may leave frustrated.
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