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Cute romance with slice of life injected. Enjoyable ?

It was cute and sincere. It was fun. I laughed so much while watching it with my mom. I thought the begging in was sooo strong and if feel apart a little because of how slow they moved and we didn't get our kiss until episode 11 or something crazy like that.
I hated the ringers she put him through for no reason. I didn't like how he had to help her get over her broken engagement and go through so much just for this girl. I didn't like their bad communication. I liked how cute they were. Didn't like all the sex scenes, they felt unnecessary and like they were trying to beat it into our heads that they were sexually active. I just like those kinds of things to be unstated and classy like most dramas and it wasn't the case here.
I loved the family relationships. At some points towards the end, I started skipping the lavender girl because I felt they were taking over, especially when the two mom fought, and the dads just kept getting drunk. Also hated that they didn't get married and it just ended with them looking for a house but I got it... It was implied but still... I wanted the whole thing with the kids and everything. If would have been so cute.
I loved the acting and heart behind this. This is the kind of drama that made me fall in love with Korean culture and I'll forever be greatful for them.

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Love in its purest form

It was soft and raw and I cried for the first three episodes straight. I was in pain for him. If you like watching characters slowly but deeply for each other, this is the one for you.

LOVES:
- It's just a cinematic marvel, at least the first few episodes.
- watching this feels like a fresh cup of coffee in the morning. Cozy, sweet, but a bit bitter yet satisfying and just what you needed.
- I loved that it felt like I couldn't skip a second of it. It was true storytelling in a fresh new way I haven't seen done before.
- it's the kind of healing slow burn I love. It reminds me of "When the weather is nice", but with a higher budget and even more cinematic scenes
- the fashion and OST are just chef's kiss
- this is the kind of drama 그 남자의 기억법 or find me in your memory wished it could have been
- they didn't play games when it came to the love confessions. I loved how straightforward everything was, and you never had to guess where they stood.
- how devoted he became to her. Her devotion to him was there, but he was unexpected.
- how they made the love interest that would have been the love triangle trope a good person instead of someone you hate. That's what I was expecting, and then I ended up liking her and getting sad for her.
- there was no unnecessary break up for stupid reasons. The reasons kind of made sense and it wasn't long and drawn out.

DISLIKE:
- How long they lingered on the second love interest that was long gone. I mean, for someone she just met, I felt she went overboard, and they didn't have enough time together for her to be acting the way she did.
- Their first kiss was long lingered on for longer. Considering how long we waited, I wished it would have been slower and more emotionally charged. That's the kind of couple they were to me. That's why it wasn't a 10 for me. When it came to skinship, they did great, but the big stuff, like first hugs and kisses, was not slowed down and focused on as being a significant moment. It was just natural and quick for them, which I got, but it wasn't enough for me.

Overall this is one of the best things I've watched this year. It's new and slow and healing and the actors were just a dream. There was no bloat when it came to side characters or supporting stories that would distract from the main love story. Everything came together for the good of the two main love interests and I loved it.

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Amnesia four times is insane

a book on not to trusting people disguised as a love story, badly written and executed without enough substance to even fill 16 episodes but they made 20.

what I liked:
the ML actor is just so good at what he does.
the little seconds when they genuinely loved each other and no one was stabbing anyone in the back.
all the actors killed it
what I HATED:
I hated how dirty he was and how he was basically a gigolo, how cold he was at the begining and it lasted way to long. They keep breaking up and coming back together like they have nothing to show and just keep teasing us. They still didn't make up their minds to be together even by episode 9. They show a resolution only to take it away in the next 30mins. He still loved the horrible woman after all she did to him. It was over the top with music and slowly showing scenes to waste time. They broke up and got back together like 3 times already by episode 9. Oh and the little 11 months hiatus in the middle like whyyyyy.The love story was too weak for how cringy the camera angels and music and all the melodrama extra stuff got thank God they toned it down after episode 10. I loved how unconditional her love for him was, in the begining. Nothing fazes her and she was so smart.

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A cute love story and a lesson

I liked the concept of this one I thought they did such a great job and it did not feel like it was predictable. I really like the couple together. I liked that the people that were supposed to be villains and name pretty good people and that it was A. Redemptive hopeful story. I love how they ended it and how everything felt like. It was well thought out and while written instead of being an afterthought.
It was the perfect length and needed to be. And I really like over subjects that they covered. It did kind of feel like it was dragging around ep 9 and that is why im giving it 9 stars. But I think that it was just amazing. And I would definitely recommend it to my friends.

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COMPLETE romance ? ? with no open endings

I literally cannot think of one thing that I didn't like about the drama. I love the complete ending and how there was no dumb open ending. I love how there was no unnecessary breakups. I love how they gave everybody in the crew their own story but it didn't overshadow the main characters and they only gave them a little bit so it's not like a full episode. I loved the overall message of hope and beauty and how it taught you not to only look for CEOs as your man. It was down-to-earth, it felt real and relatable. It felt like you were in the small town in South Korea. It was so cute.
I just really liked the way the writers went about this. I gave it and I 9.5 Because I feel like it's still not perfectly complete with the whole package exactly like I wanted. But it's still so good. I really love this and recommended it 10 out of 10.

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One word.... COMPLETE

This drama is so well written. Anybody who says differently is not watching the same drama I was watching. Because this was one of the most complete Korean dramas I've ever watched. They delve into each part of the story so beautifully and it was a redemptive hopeful story. It made me cry so much. I laughed and it just gives you hope for life. It's such a beautiful story of love, lost, forgiveness and everything in between.
The only part that felt overdone was hoe many episodes that was given to robin towards the end but it's understavle and respectfully done. I love how they ended it. I love everything about it. I will recommend this to everybody who loves a bit of thriller and romance put together. But I love that the Romans part was the main theme. I love how they dealt with issues of illness, and how they just went about solving everything. Maybe it's because I have not been watching good quality dramas lately in 2024 everything feels badly written with horribly damaging underlying message to our society, but this was such a breath of fresh air.

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Love letter about grief

so I enjoyed the fresh take and concept of this drama. the OST was okay, the actors did amazing. The chemistry was insane at the bigginging. I've never seen hand holding scene made more intimate than a kiss, but it happened here.

LIKES:
-the time they spent together getting to fall in love through the whole thing and it wasn't just abrupt. It was a slow process that we got to witness.
-how they made him realistic. It's fresh and new and feels kind of like a depressing slice of life.
-how he just boldly and shamelessly likes her and hugs her and does whatever he wants
-i like how they slowly revealed the story and everything happened unraveled like a little mystery
- I love how devoted she was and how smart they made her. she always realized when he was just being petty.


DISLIKES:
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-going through 3 episode long breakup without dating? They haven't even dated at all. They gave us 10mins of cuteness to tear it away with 3hrs of heartache over nothing. So annoying.
-im on ep 13 and they're still not getting as much sweet and swoony moments like in the begining.
-the greif part is just taking over the love story
-some of the accident scenes just started feeling way over used in the middle.
-how depressing it is that almost everyone broke up and there were almost no redemption for the second lead couples that were struggling.
-the affair

I started to lose interest because I thought the love story would be more important than the grieving and sadness or the business but in the middle it started to take precisence over the love story and I just got bored for a bit that's why the rewatch value is so low for me.
Overall if it wasn't for the main couples love I wouldn't have watched this because the grieving and the business did not interest me at all. It's a nice deep dive into loss and love and how those things can change you. Gives you hope to fight to see another day.

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come by with some romantic teasers

I got into this thinking the main charact rs would fall in love and date but I was so wrong. don't get me wrong I did an all nighter to finish it cause it was that fun to watch, but if you're here for the romance just know it's just a buildup and nothing else really.
LIKES
-the main actors did fantastic. I watched mostly for him.
-how funny it was. had me screaming at 5am
-how short they kept it because it wouldn't have made it to 16 eps
-the balance between the main story and the subplots and how we slowly got to know the bandmates
-they OST was Sooo good.

DISLIKES
- SPOILER ISH!! they never actually get together or date (super disappointed at that) that's why the rating so low.
-the band mates' love story was longer than the main leads
-they bandmates' lives too precisence over the main leads towards the end. the end should have been reserved for them to get closer and have a proper epilogue.
-their time together in the end felt like a few seconds.
-hared her character cause she was so flaky and kept hurting him towards the end before the resolution and even afterwards

overall, if you want a good laugh and a tiny itty bit of angsty romance than go for it. if you're here for the main actors also go for it. it was a nice little watch but if you're here for romance you might wanna reconsider SPOILERISH unless you don't mind the whole just being a buildup to a potential relationship some day that you never get to see.

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10/10 production and concept 4/10 love and chemistry

I used Chatgpt to get my recommendations for drama that match my expectations and my currentood and it usually never fails me. it kept pestering me about watching this, it was always in my top 5 recommended dramas to watch next and I have to say I'm sooo disappointed.
I came here for the deep love, the healing and of course the fashion and suspense. aside from the fashion and OST all of it fell short.
The love just felt so forced that I started skipping them towards the end just to finish the drama because I genuinely didn't care anymore and I'm someone who watches SOLELY for the love story.

LIKES:
-they slowly revealed the story to us and the things that happen to make them the way they are
-i loved her character as a whole until ep 26. I liked Her sweet kind and forgiving personality. just made her so likable to me. I love my FL with a bit of naivety
-i like how hard it was to know who the real culprit was
-no distracting subplots. all the subplots were supporting the main story which is always a plus.

DISLIKES:
-bumd breakup and hiatus that could have been fixed with a press conference.
-started to get bored around ep 16 because their romance was close to nothing. Not even enough to call it a some. It was at first and then since episode 7 or 8 they just never got closer to falling for each other. It was just moments of admiration really.
- he was just stuck in the friendzone or slowly falling for way too many episodes. For the pace of the suspense and the things that accured the romance should have been way faster or included more swoony scenes -it just felt completely flat the love was not there I was literally way more excited to look at the fashion, the cars, and production over them being together towards the end. It fell flat. It felt like there was a wall between them and it felt like she was not genuine in her love for him. Her character alsokept failing him and did not keep any of her promises.
- for all the hyping of that villain in all those episodes when it came to showing how scary the villain was, that also fell flat. the resolution was too quick and I wasn't scared of him and I didn't hate him either.
-The ending was too abrupt. What question was he going to ask? Was he going to ask her to marry him? Was he going to ask her about her work? like I'm just so confused as to why they ended it like that.

At the end this came from a potential 9 or 10 to a 4 or 5. It was so highly anticipated, it was supposed to match everything I was looking for in terms of ride or die love from either character, longing for each other, swoony scenes and awesome suspense that made you quake and heart wrenching story of their love. I wanted all that. just to get a regular rom com dressed as that. so disappointed. it's not a bad lot story but their love is more fit for a light fluffy drama than this heavy setting where we expect sparks to be flying out of the screen between the characters.

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business drama disguised as romance? still love it.

Nice Healing drama with romance, mystery and business. lots of business.
This was a fresh concept, and the balance between his life, her life and that of everyone involved was so well done. so much so that I just couldn't stop watching. for the first half anyway.
what I liked:
-how consistent he was with his love and how boldly and shamelessly he did so.
-they respectfully helped her move on from her ex, and it was so nice to see.
-their chemistry. it was on and off towards the end, but the begining, oh my.
-her father in law. his character was just such a treat. he was kind understanding and just amazing
-her kindness. the fact that she found good in him and pulled it out.
-no useless subplots about other useless characters
-added suspense plot to a romantic drama is always a plus for me personally
-the OST, specifically 꿈은 아니길 by 이영운 was amazing and it sucked I couldnt find it on Spotify.

dislikes:
- the breakup came before the relationship even started
-writers seemed to have been fishing for excuses to keep them apart for as long as possible, so their relationship officially started wayyy later on in the show. it started feeling like a business drama instead of romance the posters and everything promised.
- would have liked to see them together and happy longer in the end. even though it was relaxed and showed them for a couple minutes, I would have not been mad if they had more time together
-wish the resolution of the health issues in the end had been explained. feels like we just skipped that part

overall a really nice little healing romance and mystery drama with tons of business in the middle. I would recommend it just because of how well the writers balance everything at the begining and kept us coming back for more.

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she fell first he fell the hardest and stayed that way ?

Childish infatuation turned into beautiful everlasting love with stupid mess in the middle, is how I would explain the main characters' love story in this.
They made me think I was going to get second lead syndrome and masterfully fixed with how deeply in love the main lead became and how much he changed. you couldn't help but root for them.

things I liked:
-the deep love and just slowly watching him fall for her just go full speed with no break.
-how he just turns so sweet with her.
-theyre chemistry was just amazing and I loved watch them get closer.
-how naive she was and how insult just roll right off her back and she was so forgiving and understanding. I never once hated her or thought of her as a bleeppp word.
-full circle ending the couples living happily ever after is always a huge plus in my book.

What I disliked:
-episode 15 onto 19 just trash
-how wishy washy they were with the skinship and getting close to each other after finally being able to "get the girl". he was hot and cold. he had his reasons but I felt they could have executed it better.
-all the subplots that didn't sign up to watch with the ajummas

OST was a mess. the hilarious oh no no no sound killed me every time. the fashion was on point.

At first I thought this is a drama that is well written, and well done because I never thought it was going to go the direction in which it went. a well balanced medium heaviness drama that was going to find humor even in things like loss, grieving and cancer. they had struck a really great balance, in a fun respectful way... until they got to episode 15 when I feel like the drama went under new management and the person had no idea what they were doing.

overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the first half with the friends and watching him slowly come to the realization that he cares for her and then the friend getting in the middle. until episode 15 like what were they thinking with this turn of events that turned something great into a complete joke, it went from a possible 8 or 9 to 5 for me. Afterwards they sure made up for it but it left a bad taste in my mouth. Also with all the extra characters no one cared about so the rating couldnt go over a 7 for me.

I don't get why writers and directors don't get that we come to watch the MAIN character's lives and see them fall in love and go through troubles. not to watch a bunch of irellavent filler foil characters' lives. NO ONE CARES. like seriously. so stop putting effort into other characters stories over the main ones.

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slow burn romance through the stages of life

they started off so boring in the first two episode I couldn't keep my eyes open. Then they took off halfway through episode 2 and I love it till episode 14 when the FL became an absolute idiot and a just a complete b word.
I loved the fresh new take on contract marriages with no one being wealthy and just too regular people falling in love through a fake marriage. It felt similar to because this is my first life a lot in the middle. I liked the mix of suspense and how sweet and pure their love was. How awkward they were and how ride or die she became. Now I'm loving how ride or die he is when she is flaking.
I don't like how the writers would make her character so kind and naive and then to cruel and shrewd. I also didn't like all the stupid independent woman stuff in the first few episodes. All that stuff to her boss about not looking down at women with small cars or how hard it is for girls in soul to drive. It was too preachy and in our faces.

They so badly wanted us to believe that she was a girl boss when she was everything but that. She gave up on her "girlbossing" the moment the right guy came along. Which I loved for her because I reality thats what most of us want.
I loved the love story and it was strong enough concept and actors to show more of it and not have a thousand filler subplots to try to extend the show. So I found myself skipping A LOT to get to the couple. Rewatch value for this would have been through the roof if they focused on the couple like 1% of something did.

By epi 20 I was screaming for an end to this.
though this story covers Love that trancends through many stages of the lives of the characters and how they made it work and compromised, I believe 24 episodes was overkill. If they removed all the useless subplots they could have a stronger story and rewatchable drama at maybe even 12 episodes of mostly the couple instead of all the filler work, useless family and cringy country bumpkin subplots I had to skip.
If it wasn't for ride or die she was at the start and then how oh Jak Doo picked up the baton after she dropped it, I would be able to continue with this drama. But they're love was so nice to watch I just had to see it through though.

the FL's character took a nosedive from epi 14 to 19 Because they had so many more things to figure out I forgot how much I hated her and it made up for it.
as for the OST the first half was so quiet with no music that I was wondering what they were thinking but they fixed it by the second half.
The main actors especial Kim Kang woo killed their rolls. they were able to portray the weird awkward vibe of two people who haven't had any experience in dating for years if not at all.

Overall it was a crazy ride I don't think I'll be getting in anytime soon. I devoured the love story, just wish there was less filler crap to skip through to get to main story and the reason we were all watching in the first place.

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Pure love ?

If you're here for Love stay, it's worth it. if you're here for the main actors performances, stay you'll love it. same for the fashion and OST. If you're here solely for the plot, also stay but know it'll get confusing halfway through.

I was stuck watching this even at 6 am. I was in from episode one. They struck a great balance between comedy and deep dark sadness at first and then it became a balance between suspense and love Wich I didn't mind either. At around episode 14 I started getting bored of them breaking up all the time and all the problems they kept facing. It was so on and off I started to get annoyed but oh did they fix it. I think I rated it so high because of how deeply they just loved each other.

It got me with the light funny scenes at the begining just to become one of the deepest mist heart wrenching dramas. it could just be cause I just lost my mother but I was just crying all throughout the second half.
I love the balance they struck with this drama and how it felt like an onion I just kept wanting to peel off to discover more layers. It was beautiful and the villains paid dearly for their crimes which I always Love. only thing is this was a bit too cry heavy for me and now I have to watch something light.

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