Gorgeous! Real! Perfectly imperfect! Loved it!!!
One of the best shows (if not the best) I have watched in years! I loved every bit of it. I’s very real, honest and human. The cinematography is astonishingly beautiful. The characters are perfectly imperfect, deep and down to earth. The acting is superb - there was not even one supporting actor in the whole series who couldn’t act. Kudos to the casting director.Nam Yoon-su portraits Gu Young in the best way possible, showing his character development and his imperfections very realistically and authentic. He deserves all the praise for his acting and for his bravery to accept this role. The rest of the main cast did an outstanding job, too! Every character was played with sincerity and I could easily imagine them existing in the real world.
The book is amazing and the series does the book complete justice, even though the Gu Young from the series is a tiny bit different from the one in the book. If you read the book, you will understand the series a little better, but the series can stand on its own.
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Touched my heart and made me laugh
„You are the best in your own world“ (quote from the final sequence)Wow, this (series + 3 special episodes) is one of the best things I have watched for a long time and it’s joining a place in my heart next to Love in the big city. I came across it by coincidense and I am glad I did. It made me feel everything, made me smile, laugh, feel anxious, happy, helpless and shed a few tears. I loved the vibrant green, the nature setting, the real rain (yes, finally some real rain and not some fake rain with sun in the background!), the summer energy, the story, the acting, the cinematography, the fact that we didn‘t hear the characters‘ thoughts, that some things were not explained, but we could still understand them (like the bathtub scene) if we switched our brains on, that the characters were not bland, that both of the leads had realistic human feelings and struggles and that both leads were equally strong and equally weak. The series and episode 6 especially had some very beautiful and poetic insights on life. I‘ll definitely watch the show again.
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Very refreshing!
Great story, unique and unexpected. Awesome acting. All in all the series was very refreshing and I enjoyed it immensely.There wasn’t one boring minute in there. The actors looked and acted naturally and human and the chemistry they created was 100% believable.The only thing I found a little cringey was the endling. Showing up with the flowers and “stealing” the show didn’t fit perfectly to the rest of how the story went and how the characters behaved - at least not in my eyes - but the actual proposal felt genuine and real.
The show was a breath of fresh air!
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