Jess

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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Misery with a side of Love

If you're into dramatic dramas with villains and unbelievable twists with some toxic romance that ends well and don't mind watching something a bit dated then this is for you.

At first I thought this was going to be amazing coming from watching nice man from 2013 I can say this was much better. similar storyline but written so much better with a more redemptive characters.
what I liked:
-the male lead was almost a step ahead of everyone. he was understanding and steadfast in his love instead of flacky and febble.
-the female lead was strong but allowed herself to be weak sometimes. I love the feminine give and take that was going on.
the OST was awesome.
-the clues were nicely put together and didn't feel messy with no crazy amnesi or something stupid like that.
-it was balanced well with her being a mom and a woman in love at the same time. -sometimes one takes precisence but not this time.
-the characters got to grow and go through some amazing development.
-their chemistry was great when they let themselves get into it.
-it was worth the wait to see them fall for me.
-it left a smile on my face.

what I didn't enjoy as much:

-not enough love scenes of both characters just loving and enjoying each other.
-love scenes came too late in the game, like episode 12, and they were far and in between all the problems.
-the happy ending was way too short and abruptly cut to credits. wish we could have seen them together for longer as a reward for making them go through so much.
-the criminals got redemption arcs ( they were so horrible I wanted them to rot)

Overall great dramatic melodrama where the characters were not completely insane and no crazy unbelievable plot twist like double or triple amnesia. and the love made sense and so did the breakups. where the couple were sincire and smart and made smart decisions most of the times. so yes I'd recommend it.

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suspense with a side of unconditional love

can I say that they wrote his character so well! I just loved how unconditional his love was and I just found a new genre of men that I love: it's the men who nothing fazes them and they're going to protect you no matter what.
I love the suspense I wish they had shown us more love at the end to close it off but we didn't get more of that but it was more about who did it and making them pay I just feel like the final payment for the main villain was not enough I think for all the things that that person did they deserved to get way worse I was literally expecting them to be either like dead on the street bleeding or at the hospital and a vegetable State that's how bad it was that's how horrible the things they did were and we didn't even get any of that and it was like so easy the punishment was not enough.
I like the forgiving aspect of it the fashion was insane the OST was cute and their love was super cute when we got to see some of it at first it started off making you think it's going to be a lot of romance and then it wasn't that much when you got to the middle and the end it was too much suspense to have space for romance but I still like that they had a really good balance between the love scenes and the suspense cuz there was so much to cover I felt like they didn't have enough time maybe it could have been a 20 episode drama if they had been able to focus more on like all the scenes and make them come together.
it wasn't a 10 for me because I feel we were missing in the love aspect of it and also because I think they could have shown the story a different way that would have made it even more impactful just like the one called w did it started off with showing us the character then being young and like making us fall in love with them and then having horrible things happen to them and making us root for them to see them get justice but here it's more of the opposite where all the things have already happened and we just get to see them through people's recollections of them which makes them less personal which makes you connect less the victim I would have liked to see the victim's lives just normally first to get to know them and love them and then seen the horrible things that happened to them so that I could be even more happy about the justice but it was still good and I think the just everything about this was amazing I fully recommend it to anybody who loves to spends in a bit of romance like if that's your thing if like dramas like your honor healer when the phone rings and that kind of stuff is up your alley then this will be right up there too.

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my perfect secretary sums It up

he was just perfect for her. If you want a medium to light hearted drama that doesn't drag the unassery breakups and where the couple is healthy and their love is pure this is for you. it doesn't have as much laughs as I would have thought but it was a cute little watch.
what I liked:
his pure heart
not dragging the conflicts
the love of family
the sweet spring feels
the fresh balanced take on female CEO and male secretary
the fashion
the OST
the cinematography was no joke

what I didn't like:
the love could have been deeper
they didn't linger on the sweet moments long enough. it felt more like teasing.
that they didn't become a power work couple like I thought but I got it.

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I Dared to love it

By the end, I was more obsessed with the OST than the drama. It was a cute love story with some hilarious relatable moments badly put together. They used cheap tricks to get us to come back only to never continue the intense scenes. This drama felt like a nice puzzle badly put together by toddlers where pieces are missing or misplaced. the director or writers didn't pick a thing to focus on whether it was the Love story or the suspense or the traditions or the fashion and they just made a mess of things.
Also I don't get why everyone is hating on the FL but she carried this drama with her phenomenal acting and awesome fashion sense. at first she looked like a teacher and then they slowly made her look like toyalty. with stunning prices all throughout. she was a true joy to watch.
Anyway, they had such a great original concept if they'd just deepen the love between the characters and stop the useless subplots that no one cares about then we would have been better off. this had potential to be great but was just a miss when it came to execution. it felt discombobulated. one minute their focused on the love and have intense lovely and swoon worthy moments but they include it in the end as a cliffhanger for the next episode. one you start that episode the moment was never brought up again and was just used as a cheap trick to get us to come back and was only ever brought up again as memories of the characters which made no sense so it just felt off. every moment was cut off abruptly with no transitional scenes and it just felt messy to watch. I came in thinking let me enjoy this, it's gonna be great and for a while a was, until I realized they weren't going to stop using the cheap tricks.

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Lots of action and a bit of romance

From the beginning to episode 30 I loved this drama. that's not to say I didn't enjoy the last episode but I felt they could have done more for the story. Like they shouldn't have dragged the breakup so long, would have loved to see them in love. it feels unfinished. They shared one kiss and that was it. so disappointing. I love seeing his heart and his dilemma, but not to give him and us the readers an actual view of what happy looks like for them, is just borderline cruel.
This is what I feel is always the case, the drama is great and has amazing stories then writers get lazy or complacent and focus on parts no one cares about.

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Romantic and beautiful peice woth great flow.

This story felt different. I love the fact that i get to explore through joseon times and see marriages and how couples get together. The acting was great. Great music, costumes, production. But most importantly, this story doesn't feel like a repeat of all the others, they finished it well without questions as to what happened to characters and it was just great flow.
Only con is that annoying boy with the lipstick, calling the boys big sis which aslways threw me off and felt weird (like trying to fill an lgbtq quota for a period drama) *eye roll*. That's why they get a 9.5 and not a 10.
There was not an episode that felt drawn out or like an afterthought, which is what I've been observing with some dramas. None of that here.
Love love love. Would totally recommend.

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Waste of time if you like deeep romance

I usually love well written deep romance. And I wanted something light but this was so shallow and so useless. Basically ended with like a weird one night stand and then it just tried to make it cute and wrap it in a bow, which I'm not buying.
I was so sick of useless characters that should not have even been here getting so much camera time (like tha David stuff) when they could have just used that time to Write a better story and make the main characters fall in love with each other even more. The lame breakup just to breakup. I just did not find it necessary at all. I did not like this drama at all.

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Slow start but COMPLETE end ❤️ ?

10/10 would recommend to watch and would definitely rewatch with my friends. This was actually such a breath of fresh air. I really liked how they ended it which is why I rated it so high if it had stayed the way that it was throughout to the end I would not have rated it high but the end is so good and so justified that I rated it high.

I was really frustrated that they had a concept of being able to see smells and they used it a limited amount of times when it could have been used all throughout and shown better. I felt like they kind of dropped the ball on thatThey only used it when it was convenient for them and I don't think it was well written for the kind of concept that I thought I was going to get. The "use" of her gift felt pretty lazy; they used it to move the story along and in some spaces when it should have been used and was necessary they did not add it. I just felt like they could have done so much better with that concept it's such an original concept.

The OST did not disappoint. The acting in some spaces felt like it could have been better executed with a couple more takes. And the production and editing didn't age well. I was expecting way better for 2015. These are the little nitpicky things that would have dropped my ratings if the ending wasn't so cute and complete.

until about episode 6 I felt like it was so slow to show you the romantic parts but then as you progressed on it actually gets so much better which is why I stuck with it. I loved how they show the mundane and how they show you the thriller part in episode 16 instead of just doing 15 and then 16 being the happy episode. IT felt well thought out and like the happy ending was not an afterthought.

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Great drama and concept studip abrupt ending.

The drama as a whole was really good. But as always, the end left a lot to be desired. It felt forced and way too abrupt.
The suspense, the goods times, the funny tines, I had a great time watching it thats why i was disappointed in the abrupt end and how they ended up not being together even though they were trying to sell us this "she meets him again in new joeson" and have the men say the same things proving their hearts are in the fact the same and they're both the same, she rejected the poor man who was her original husband and who loved her and she left her parents greiving on the other side, thinking she was murdered by that guy who never paid for killing her. He was sentenced to beheading but I guess he escaped and they didnt show him paying for it. I just feel like there are holes all over that ending and it should have been better thought out

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Started well and then all hell broke loose

Super fun story to watch... at first. From ep 1-10 i thoroughly enjoyed the story with laughs and just cringy moments which i welcomed.
Then the writers lost their minds and started twisting this story into a billion different direction with some Background characters who started out super unhealthy but ended being extremely happy compared to the main couple.
I just feel like the ending sucked and they ruined a whole story that could have been so much better if they had just stuck to it and actually helped the characters develop instead of trying to do tricks. it was just cheap I did not like the ending at all I think they should just redo it because this had the same potential to be as good as "because it's my first life" and they literally ruined it completely in the end and the abrupt breakups which both made no sense I feel we're so dumb and they shouldn't just left the characters together and had given them actual real life issues instead of doing these dumb twists. It was promising and then it just failed even though that ending was happy ish I just don't like it at all I feel like they just missed the mark completely on this one.

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If you don't like silly dramas with exaggerated scenes, stay away.

7/10 Amazing with some not-so-great moments. It's silly and cute with some social justice points and mildly inappropriate romance. wouldn't be comfy watching it with my mom, but can recommend it to peers. Though this one is full of flaws in my personal opinion, I still enjoyed it and can easily recommend it.

PROS:
I love how much he loved her and how he fought for her and vice versa for her at the start. There wasn't any unnecessary, "let's break up and be apart for something we can get over in two seconds if we just talk it out," kind of stuff. I also loved how even if sometimes it felt preachy, in the end, they always tried to kind of balance it out. It left a smile on my face.
The supporting characters and even the villain are just phenomenal. they made the story sometimes. You will be laughing your face off and then crying at some points as they touch on a lot of issues.
It's a happy ending and I am a sucker for those.

I'm not someone who likes to complain about plots or acting or OST because I go with the flow of the story and accept it as it is. I don't criticize the writer or blame it on the attitudes of FL or ML.

CONs:
So now that you know this, it's shocking to me that this story had so many unwarranted highs and lows with the love story, that it made me consider badmouthing the plotline in my mind, which I never do. I just hated how she always treated him like crap and he had to apologize for everything, even though he had her best interest in mind.
It also felt a little too preachy with the girl power. I'm sick of this girl power, independent woman crap that keeps getting shoved down everyone's throats in American media and now seems to be infiltrating my safe space with K-dramas. they even had to ruin her style to do it(the ugly dress, in the end, distracted the audience from the story because it was so questionable and cheap).
This honestly was the most immodestly dressed FL I've ever seen and I've watched a TON of dramas. I like K-dramas for their purity and innocence. this one broke that. if you're into that then I guess you'll love the 16+ rated scenes. I didn't. Also dislike how they turned FL into an insufferable person at times for her wild takes that made no sense.

But if you wanna have a laugh and you don't care about innocence and purity or rollercoaster love journeys, then watch it. You'll have a blast.

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