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Yes, Perfect Marriage Contract is indeed very clever and so beautifully and thoughtfully written. I was mesmerised. To be honest, the first two episodes made me want to drop it as the female lead was beyond weak.
However, she really comes into her own to become one of my most loved heroines. Her revenge is seriously fierce. Of the
scale fierce and her chemistry with the male lead is stunning to behold.

I hear you about her acting. She was better in the Dr Romantic Series as the 2nd FL, quite bitter and twisted in earlier series, but pulled it off well. Aw, you're so on my wavelength, 👍🏽😍. I'm currently watching The Story of Park Marriage Contract and My Demon, which I'm really enjoying. Also, just finished Perfect Marriage Contract, which I thought was excellent.

Also, check out... Tell Me That You Love Me. It's a Japanese series remade by South Korea. It's very, very different from these, but about a deaf man who falls in love with a struggling actress, formerly cabin crew. It's so silently powerful. Their chemistry is off-the-scale palpable and their screen time together just beautiful to behold.

I haven't checked out My Man Is A Cupid, but have read some reviews. What makes it good? I'm not really into fluff and go for a good story, great chemistry, sublime writing and absolutely no damn fish kisses! #Snigger.

🤣🤣Love this too much. #Hilarious. However, I find myself hoping you're joking, as we are talking about a fantasy, fiction drama. However, I do find myself liking and respectful of how deep your thought process went, but I have to admit, I just don't think they gave it the degree of thought, like you, it deserved.

🤣🤣🤣Hilarious! So hear you. I think even I'd be bored, but not if my husband continued to look so resplendently beautiful.

Yeah, I'm so utterly done with the flashbacks.

I watched Shooting Stars and I found him more expressive than in this drama. However, he still follows the same traits, mannerisms and expressions of a moody, illusive, narcissistic man. I'll be sure to check him out on Forbidden Love, as I do enjoy his screen presence. Not to mention, he's got a bloody fine nose and features. #JustSaying #Snigger

Damn, you're so right. I nearly dropped it on EP1 because I knew I couldn't watch 14 episodes of a narcissistic, childish, imbecile. However, I pushed through and absolutely adored Do Ha's character coming through. He mesmerised me in the earlier episodes simply by his eyes. The script they're delivering, as you so rightly say, simply don't match their actions or body language. I find it so jarring. That scene on the bed in the latest episode, where she's reading the book. Could you also visualise the director saying "take 32, smile more, be playful, look at her with longing and love, show that you want and desire her?" I so did and also visualised their uncomfortableness with all the cameras around. Such a shame.

… and thank you for your response.😍 The beginning was really fascinating. I honestly believe they ran out of steam and simply couldn't fill the episodes, so resorted to lazy writing, by way of fillers and flashbacks. I also find myself astounded how beautiful their chemistry was in the past and it's non-existent in the present. Honestly, I don't think they're actually comfortable acting together romantically in the present, where they needed to elevate it to show longing, love, passion and desire. They didn't need to do that in the past as it was an early love story. I feel the present is forced. I can't stop seeing them reading their script and the cameras all around them when they need to be romantic. However, I do feel their chemistry when just talking outside the romance, but they're obviously not comfortable together in romantic scenes.

I also don't regret watching it, but would never re-watch, which I think is a shame. #Sigh

It really is a pity, as they set us up for such a memorable drama. However, irrespective of the fact it is likely to end on a happy note. I'll honestly say, I'd never re-watch it. They had this fierce female firefighter in the beginning, who turned into an utterly unlikable, unintelligent idiot! Her decisions and thought processes just didn't make any sense to my brain. It was like we were viewing a completely different personality to the brave heroine we were introduced to.

Yes, the father. Don't even get me started on that scene!! Do Ha threw him down some steps and he couldn't get up, yet he took out a whole bloody police station! Make it make sense writers. Make it make sense. #Sigh. Such an opportunity lost.

I have so many mixed emotions about this drama. It started out so, so well. It was interesting. Captivating. Alluring. Engaging and highly entertaining. And then, I honestly shake my head at times as to exactly what the writer and director were thinking. It just changed. I feel for the latter episodes, I've been doing a ballet dancer's pirouette, spinning, spinning, spinning with no reprieve. We've gone around and around in circles with this drama. Much of the episodes have just been much of the same we viewed in previous weeks. Serious amounts of fillers. The constant flashbacks continue to do my head in. Do they think we're goldfish with one second memories?

The chemistry between our leads from the past was palpable, yet in the present, it is literally none existent. This latest episode, I could actually feel they were reading from a script. I felt very little love, zero passion, let alone desire and a modicum of longing. This feeling is further exacerbated by those dreadful, dreadful fish kissing scenes. They make for utterly awful viewing and especially as we're meant to believe this longing has lasted 1500 bloody years! The kisses totally throw me out of the drama and what the script is trying to portray and make me believe. So actors, if you're not prepared to kiss in a romance drama, simply have the balls to walk away - I'd respect you for this.

Lets see what our final episode brings. My positive spirit is feeling it will indeed be a happy ending.

This is wonderful viewing. The silence between our two leads is indeed palpable.

Well, I managed to get to episode 17 and I just can’t waste any more of my time on this utterly tedious drama. It’s just so terribly written. The FL is a brilliant journalist, yet acts like a complete child when it comes to an adult relationship. Also, what’s with a grown arse adult running away all the time? She was in a previous relationship, yet acts like she hasn’t got a bloody clue about men. It’s all just so tedious and especially around the business side. It’s a 2.5/10 for me. Dropped.

So hear you. We’re aligned in our thinking. It’s just too bloody preachy for me, with nothing really happening to complement and enhance the reasons for the preachiness. Blah, blah, blah comes to mind. I plan to give it one more episode and then will possibly drop.

Yep. I’m so with you on your thinking. I think they’re going to find a donor for him. Although, I think the drama would continue to be just as good with him partially sighted, but I think the writer wants him to finally see how handsome Mhok is.

Agree. Really, so good. Makes for such pleasurable viewing.

Totally agree…and so hear you.

I can so see what this drama is trying to achieve. I feel they're trying to make it introspective, so us as the viewers reflect on the leads thoughts and feelings. However, for some reason, it just doesn't land with me. I feel like I'm watching a Filipino drama, which is often drowning in philosophical analogies on life, which I personally find tiresome and preachy. I can see what Gu Jing's character is trying to bring to Liu Li, by way of breaking his writers block. However, the delivery is simply not engaging, it's just bland, repetitive and sadly boring.

This drama is hugely entertaining. Laughed out loud when Do Do Hee ‘s assistant said fuck you to Jung Koo Won’s assistant while trying to pronounce his name.

Our leads are a match made in heaven. Whoever casted them, did an excellent job. At times, to me, they look like they could be brother and sister. Their chemistry is on-point, as is their hilarious banter. Love how the writer has made Jung Koo Won’s dialogue so rude. Wardrobe department also scores top points, as does make-up.

This is an excellent, engaging, cleverly written and directed drama. Can’t wait for tomorrow. Bring it on!

This is such a thoughtfully written and directed drama. The pacing is delightful in the narration of Mhok and Day's relationship. This is the kind of slow pace I really like. It makes sense to my brain. I think the writing is clever to include August at this stage. I think it will help Day to realise that August was a bygone crush and Mhok is where his heart truly lies. I believe the drama is setting us up to have Day regain his eyesight. #JustSaying.

I so hear you. That definitely wouldn't sit well with any family. However, I think, especially as her father was a renowned General, he would absolutely understand that his enemies would always come for him and would perhaps be happy that his daughter had been saved by his enemy and treated so well. If watching from above, I think as a General / father, he could understand how his daughter came to love him.

I so hear you. Bang on with your anology 😃 Apo is truly a beautiful, beautiful man and the two them where a match made in heaven.