Frustratingly fine ?
If you’re like me and you care about emotional intimacy, devotion, being let into the couple’s relationship, and not having to sit through endless cringe before anything meaningful happens — this drama is going to test your patience. Hard. I finished it, but I was annoyed for most of the ride.
LIKES:
-The music is cute and honestly one of the few consistently pleasant things about the show.
-The cast is strong, which is the only reason I didn’t fully rage-quit early on.
-Once they finally get together, the chemistry improves and the drama becomes watchable.
-I did appreciate the more realistic conversations about marriage, pressure, and expectations — in theory.
-The second half is clearly better than the beginning, which made me understand why people like this drama… even though I still don’t love it.
DISLIKES:
-The female lead is written as painfully naive, clingy, and lacking self-respect — not in a cute way, not in a sympathetic way, but in a secondhand-embarrassment way.
There are cute versions of naive characters. She is not that version. She makes me cringe.
-She has no dignity. People clearly don’t want her, don’t choose her, don’t treat her well — and she keeps forcing herself into their lives anyway. The pool auction scene incident made me furious. She chased a man who treated her like trash, got herself arrested, humiliated herself, and still didn’t learn anything from it.
-No self-control, no dignity, no backbone. Just constant bad decisions followed by crying. She gets drunk, causes problems, has zero self-esteem, and somehow the drama wants me to root for this behavior. I couldn’t.
-The early episodes are so slow it felt like a chore. I was bored, irritated, and not emotionally invested at all.
-I disliked almost every character at the start, which made it hard to care where the story was going.
-The barista situation completely turned me off — making out with someone else while acting emotionally invested elsewhere felt gross and careless.
-The tone is way too silly and childish for a drama that wants to talk seriously about marriage.
-I came in expecting devotion and emotional growth, and instead got chaos, immaturity, and nonsense for way too long.
-A big part of my frustration is that this drama was overhyped to me by chatgpt, which made the disappointment worse.
-This is one of those shows where finishing it made me feel relieved, not satisfied.
CONCLUSION:
I didn’t absolutely hate this drama, but I also don’t understand the hype. It has moments, and the second half improves, but the beginning is rough, frustrating, and emotionally empty for far too long. I’m glad I finished it, but I would never randomly start it again.
For me, this is a 6/10 — not awful, not great, and very dependent on mood. If you’re sensitive to cringe, humiliation arcs, and characters with no self-respect, this will probably irritate you more than entertain you.
LIKES:
-The music is cute and honestly one of the few consistently pleasant things about the show.
-The cast is strong, which is the only reason I didn’t fully rage-quit early on.
-Once they finally get together, the chemistry improves and the drama becomes watchable.
-I did appreciate the more realistic conversations about marriage, pressure, and expectations — in theory.
-The second half is clearly better than the beginning, which made me understand why people like this drama… even though I still don’t love it.
DISLIKES:
-The female lead is written as painfully naive, clingy, and lacking self-respect — not in a cute way, not in a sympathetic way, but in a secondhand-embarrassment way.
There are cute versions of naive characters. She is not that version. She makes me cringe.
-She has no dignity. People clearly don’t want her, don’t choose her, don’t treat her well — and she keeps forcing herself into their lives anyway. The pool auction scene incident made me furious. She chased a man who treated her like trash, got herself arrested, humiliated herself, and still didn’t learn anything from it.
-No self-control, no dignity, no backbone. Just constant bad decisions followed by crying. She gets drunk, causes problems, has zero self-esteem, and somehow the drama wants me to root for this behavior. I couldn’t.
-The early episodes are so slow it felt like a chore. I was bored, irritated, and not emotionally invested at all.
-I disliked almost every character at the start, which made it hard to care where the story was going.
-The barista situation completely turned me off — making out with someone else while acting emotionally invested elsewhere felt gross and careless.
-The tone is way too silly and childish for a drama that wants to talk seriously about marriage.
-I came in expecting devotion and emotional growth, and instead got chaos, immaturity, and nonsense for way too long.
-A big part of my frustration is that this drama was overhyped to me by chatgpt, which made the disappointment worse.
-This is one of those shows where finishing it made me feel relieved, not satisfied.
CONCLUSION:
I didn’t absolutely hate this drama, but I also don’t understand the hype. It has moments, and the second half improves, but the beginning is rough, frustrating, and emotionally empty for far too long. I’m glad I finished it, but I would never randomly start it again.
For me, this is a 6/10 — not awful, not great, and very dependent on mood. If you’re sensitive to cringe, humiliation arcs, and characters with no self-respect, this will probably irritate you more than entertain you.
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