InspectorMegre

JJ is written as dumb and weak, yet believing and acting like she is smart and strong

well said

Imo that sentence that you wrote as a "simple review" is totally lame and totally UNinformative. We would have no idea WHY and WHAT, specifically.... That sentence sounds like a fickle whim, like "I am not in mood for sushi tonight."
. I would NEVER write something so generic and shallow.

I think the pretty lady doctor is a very critical and important character in this drama. But she is still a mystery. So I was speaking tongue in cheek, not literal. I have NO IDEA what the pretty lady doctor is to ML. I know she was counseling him. As a doctor or as his lover too? He was eating her with his eyes as she was doctoring him.... He was coming home late without wedding ring... BUT ... We do not know anything for sure. . But she is definitely someone important bc I am sure that ML means a lot to her, she was so worried about him and ML's "friend" doctor was super concerned about that, I would say, jealous, which made me think pretty lady doctor liked ML as a man.

A lot of things are unknown! like what Chairman is doing at the hospital, what MLs "friend" doctor is doing with the Chairman, why that other doctor was trying to kill his patient, what is the role of the pretty lady doctot, where was ML spending his evenings without the wedding ring, etc etc etc etc etc etc

If ML runs away with the pretty lady doctor NOW, it does not mean that ML was cheating from the start. Maybe he did and maybe he did not... I want him to run NOW :)

Although he and his wife seem to have some feelings - based on the last ep - still, his wife is lukewarm at best, she did NOT try to defend him and just went along with her family and watched him being whisked to jail
Plus her Dad and she refusing service to ill people bc VIPs had to have preferential treatment was totally inhumane NASTY EVIL Plus wgatever illegal stuff Dad is doing with the hospital, plus all the nasty Dad did to ML. I want ML to just RUN from that family. With or without the pretty lady doctor lmao I am not sure who she is to him, but in any case, he gotta RUN from that evil family

Well said

Wow you are serious about your reviewing, etc. Like a professional reviewer

Ok cool, thanks I will check them out!

yeah I think that is a correct diagnosis, it has become a factory mass production

No I did not even try idol dramas specifically bc I am so not interested in that.
"regular" cdramas have some idol-like actors. I tried watching that drama which got criticized by Chinese military -recent one very popular historical drama. Omg that was TRASH

And I tried watching historical and modern cdramas and they are all terrible. The only decent one was Bond but it is just like the rest, it is just reciting life as it goes along, without any meaningful character growth and problem solving. It was educational to see how they lived, but I havent learned one thing from that drama. And that was the best I saw from China.

EXCEPT some really amazing stuff, like movie Xuan Zhang, 2016.
I also like Making Family c-k drama, and everything from Stephen Chow - he is Hong Kong so there is slightly more room for fun but definitely, it is very clear that he cannot step on sooooo many toes... That is the problem with Chinese-based stuff, everything in their culture is based on connections and corruption, so even "free" countries like Hong Kong or Taiwan cannot poke any fingers at anything really

I dont understand why YOU are so insistent on censoring and shutting people up if they are saying something that you dislike.
Get used to it. NO CENSORING

And FYI I am a fan of ML actor, so I tied really hard to watch this, and QUIT. And I am voicing my disappointment here. I AM ENTITLED TO IT.

And you are not entitled to censor anyone. Good and bad opinions are all shareable. So please stop spamming me. Do NOT ever write to me again, This is a waste of time. You lack basic manners to let your fellow viewers express their opinions.

It is american slang. You said he was groaning at the lines he was delivering. Sounds like he hated them. Hate in slang is a dislike - anything from a joke dislike / flirting all the way to very strong and real dislike .... and if you use it seriously then it is really hate.. ... and you discern what level it is from the context and tone

Well imo cdramas are a lot worse ... I tried watching so many and I just dislike them. They have the feel of a military parade or Shen Yun circus - so serious, flashy scenes, no humor, no dialogues, no character growth, no jestering, no social issues, terrible fake acting, so many identically looking plastic surgeries, and everything made to look white or Korean or ... just fake. I cannot stand cdramas. I can see why - China is clamped down.
Once in a blue moon, I find a good cdrama/movie and then it is WOW!!!!
I like all Stephen Chow movies from Hong Kong

Also, I am not the only one saying things like these. I dont see you leaving such reply to every negative review. So please STOP singling me out and harassing me.

I do not have to :) But I chose to. Anyone can leave a review. Good or bad. And you have to live with it.

Just ran into this by chance. It is quite artsy and conveys deep emotions as they really look and feel like in real life, so thus slow. The dialogue and narration really go deep.

FL is written painfully realistic - she is a super super super extra dumb toxic immature person. Stuck at the age of a very small child. Needing attention and grabbing it regardless how it is offered. Going on dates with a stalker who is spending his whole life to stalk you - no job or obligations, apparently - and never talks about himself, but only about you, is like a major NO NO. And yet this woman totally throws herself into it, asks if there will be cats? he says yes and she jumps into this "dream" on her own. She is ... mentally off. For sure. A grown woman does NOT behave like that.

So it is quite amazing how this kdrama just like others managed to turn the FL into a dumb loser and the ML into a very smart calm helpful guy who helps her live a functional life.
THis drama is just SNEAKIER about it than most kdramas

I just checked it out i.e I watched ep 1. Yes it is slow - like life. And imo it is on purpose bc it deals with severe trauma so we get a sense of what it is like in real life. Imo it is a very deep drama about severe trauma and thus painfully slow and difficult healing. The issue of alcoholic abuse is presented in a very artistic way that is also realistic. The scenes with storytelling and interpretations are EXTREMELY deep and artistic

So yeah many ppl will find it boring bc it is DEEP :) and so "boring" is one measure to find out good dramas lol

Thanks for the recommendation!

Ok thanks, some of these I watched and love, like Twinkling Watermellon, some I watched and am like blah like Oh My Venus, and some I planned to watch, like Reply series. Some of them I never heard of.
I dislike practically all cdramas I tried to watch, they have the feel of a military parade or Shin Yun circus - serious, pompous, dramatic, lots of flashy scenes, no meaningful dialogue, no character growth, no humor, no social issues, it is more like a mental game. Chinese make amazing stuff once in a blue moon and then they really make AMAZING. I love Stephen Chow stuff from Hong Kong
Just Kong Hyo Jin could not ruin It's OK That's love. I agree that her character had the worst script and even acting, but overall, the drama showed and resolved some very deep issues

Slow can be very shallow, e.g. Still Shining and Surely Tomorrow, or it can be masterful, like ... Discovery of Love, Our Happy Days, etc

I rewatched it is start of ep 2. Yeah I remember those scenes now, they made me conclude that DoDo is an evil person and then I forgot the details. I am glad I got to rewatch.

DoDo was never JiNi's friend - in the next second after JiNi shared that her mother was the famous chellist, DoDo has been bullying her.

So imo DoDo is evil by her nature PLUS the training of her evil mother and father. We never saw her father but what her mother said shows he is some brutal psychopath

That scene when JiNi finds DoDo's mother abusing DoDo and then two girls talk on the bench and DoDo plain asks JiNi to fake it and come in second .... that scene sets the tone for DoDo's character. DoDo is ***not*** a nice nor fair person, and she is clearly weak and looking for ways out.
The next scene sets the tone for JiNi's character. JiNi is stupidly naive and eager to have a friend, and shares that her mother is the cellist celebrity.
IN THE NEXT SECOND, DoDo accuses JiNi of corruption. That is too severely nasty behavior for such a young girl to have UNLESS she is already like that herself.
Furthermore, DoDo immediately proceeds to bully JN and shows natural talent and probably some learned behaviors as she starts severe sociopathic/psychopatic behaviors - the bullying by using others and spreading lies about Jini and physically harming JiNi.

DoDo is too young to be in that state of nasty evil just bc of her mother or father. Sure she was groomed to perfection to be that nasty evil, however her nasty behavior while that young shows that DoDo is inherently nasty weak selfish EGOISTICAL btitter nasty dirty competitive EVIL person.
She might be even better at it than her mother and father, since she is naturally evil and has a great training in being evil

Thank you, I will watch that! That piece is important

Hm why is It's OK That's Love mediocre in your opinion? It is extremely deep social commentary... I just checked your list, you seem to like fluffier rom coms?