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Lazy Writing
I respect the viewers and the ratings, but I honestly don't think this drama deserves its score at all. Just because we love some of the actors in this drama and enjoy watching everything they're in doesn't mean we should completely ignore reality.
Look, we love C-dramas and K-dramas with all their typical tropes within their own framework, but this show completely messed up even those basic tropes. Everything feels so surface-level. The story starts as if it's heading toward a really deep premise, but then it devolves into almost nothing.
I want to start with the ML. The show tries to sell him as this powerful, badass guy through charismatic scenes. He fights off dozens of people, does dirty work for a genuinely evil villain, walks through flames, and so on—yet when faced with his actual situation, he showed zero intelligence. He literally spent almost five episodes playing house in his village with an amnesiac woman. On top of that, even though our FL lost her memory, she is definitely not stupid. If you talk to her reasonably, she’s more than capable of processing and understanding what’s going on. Despite this, treating her like an idiot was just absurd.
Seeing a guy who's been a mob enforcer for years unable to string a coherent sentence together, blushing, and turning into a shaky mess whenever he talks was laughably bad. Maybe this concept came off as romantic in your first two dramas, but right now it’s just hilarious. It’s 2026, and nobody expects a mobster to have never kissed anyone before. Frankly, no one buys that anymore.
As for the FL, I can't really say anything negative about her performance. Honestly, I felt genuinely bad for her throughout the episodes I watched. When you think about it, even though memory loss gets heavily romanticized in shows and movies, it’s actually terrifying. Nobody respected her enough to tell her the truth. I have zero respect for the whole "I did it all for your own good" nonsense. Everyone has the right to know the truth.
Because of what I mentioned above, the romance between the two of them felt completely unappealing to me. I just couldn't get over the fact that she was being manipulated and lied to the entire time.
Of course, these are evaluations from my personal perspective. From a technical standpoint, the writing, directing, and editing were pretty weak. The scene transitions were so jarring in some places that they totally pulled me out of the story.
In short, the drama felt lazy and sloppy. This plot premise deserved so much better, but everything ended up feeling completely unrealistic and illogical (and I actually enjoy well-executed absurdities)
Look, we love C-dramas and K-dramas with all their typical tropes within their own framework, but this show completely messed up even those basic tropes. Everything feels so surface-level. The story starts as if it's heading toward a really deep premise, but then it devolves into almost nothing.
I want to start with the ML. The show tries to sell him as this powerful, badass guy through charismatic scenes. He fights off dozens of people, does dirty work for a genuinely evil villain, walks through flames, and so on—yet when faced with his actual situation, he showed zero intelligence. He literally spent almost five episodes playing house in his village with an amnesiac woman. On top of that, even though our FL lost her memory, she is definitely not stupid. If you talk to her reasonably, she’s more than capable of processing and understanding what’s going on. Despite this, treating her like an idiot was just absurd.
Seeing a guy who's been a mob enforcer for years unable to string a coherent sentence together, blushing, and turning into a shaky mess whenever he talks was laughably bad. Maybe this concept came off as romantic in your first two dramas, but right now it’s just hilarious. It’s 2026, and nobody expects a mobster to have never kissed anyone before. Frankly, no one buys that anymore.
As for the FL, I can't really say anything negative about her performance. Honestly, I felt genuinely bad for her throughout the episodes I watched. When you think about it, even though memory loss gets heavily romanticized in shows and movies, it’s actually terrifying. Nobody respected her enough to tell her the truth. I have zero respect for the whole "I did it all for your own good" nonsense. Everyone has the right to know the truth.
Because of what I mentioned above, the romance between the two of them felt completely unappealing to me. I just couldn't get over the fact that she was being manipulated and lied to the entire time.
Of course, these are evaluations from my personal perspective. From a technical standpoint, the writing, directing, and editing were pretty weak. The scene transitions were so jarring in some places that they totally pulled me out of the story.
In short, the drama felt lazy and sloppy. This plot premise deserved so much better, but everything ended up feeling completely unrealistic and illogical (and I actually enjoy well-executed absurdities)
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