I watched my share of 2000 melodrama and this doesn’t deserve all the hate is getting. It has cliches like most…
I too have watched loooooots of 2000s melodrama. I tend to like them. They were entertaing in their melo, this was not. And the couples were actually shippable.. Here they were not. Actually Melo is my fave genre. Currently watching the Old Revenge Melo-romcom drama Birth of a Beauty, and it's a million timess better than this. 😅 Leads have fun personalities, entertaining writing, no boring moments, leads are shippable. Han Ye Seul acting a traumatized character really well, better than Lee Se Young, as mucha s I like LSY, i have to admit this....
Motel California on the other hand.... These two were only cute when young. There's no reason for them to be together as adults or be endgame. They are only annoying together, bring out the Worst in each other and have NO chemistry. 🤦♀️
If anything, this deserves more hate. I gave it 2/10 for bad writing, boring characters and unshippable leads with boring personalities.
I'm just about to watch this, but why is it getting bad reviews and a lower rating? I'm here for the romance.…
The romance is very badly written. It's not realistic at all, and then it goes back and forth and ML has no backbone, total Whimp. It's just annoying. Bad writing.
I really WANTED to like this drama. And usually I disagree what MDListers opinion when they dislike a drama, but unfortunately I have to agree.
It had POTENTIAL, with Great cast, interesting setting with the Motel, FL had an interesting career as interior designer....But I simply didn't like it. Didn't see why the leads should even be together. And ML was a backbone lacking whimp. Didn't ship them.
People on this site rating his best projects as 6. something, because they hate Melodrama! 🤦♀️
There's no objectivity in the rating on this site, whatever is more lighthearted and has young famous actors as leads will gain higher rating, despite being trashy. 😅🤦♀️
I'm not surpised that Knetz didn't like it, while ifans liked it.
It seems like the type of movie more for international fans to enjoy.
Koreans prefer to just watch things they releate to, koreans are quite racist and don't like a cultural exchange themed story, in other places people are generlaly more Cosmopolitan and enjoy this type of immigrant movies.
not a character representing a p e d o 😭😭😭son ye jin nooooo
I don't know much aboit the irl person, but if they're really a pervert, then going by the previous work the character will likely end up dead and killed by someone and the killing of the pervert will be shown as fully justified, so the viewers will be rooting for the killer.
Even when in Mask Girl the pervert charcter was shown as the Point of view charcter for an episode (The drama changed points of if view/lead each ep), the pervert wasn't shown particularly sympathetic beyond just the start of the episode. Actully showing from THEIR point of view made them look EVEN MORE creepy.
So This PD is pretty much Team Kill Perverts, don't sympatize with them. 😅😆 Don't expect justificationd of pervert behaviours, unless someone funding the drama is a creep calling the shots above the PD.
If Son Yejin accepts this drama, I think we can be cerrain there's no creepy funder and Yejin's character will indeed follow the Mask Girl honesty and her character shown as a Villain.
not a character representing a p e d o 😭😭😭son ye jin nooooo
Yes it's a VILLAIN character. Like most of the Leads where in PD's previous work Mask Girl too. This PD doesn'y do the Leads are nice and suporting are villains. Most are villains.
Wow FL's Ex-husband really as flaky as can be. Took FL only 1 ep to revenge-seduce him lol, like this has to be some type of Record on flakiness of jerk exes lol
The way both women keep competing over a man like this is headache-inducing 😭, even the trashy 2FL deserves better than this Flaky playboy. How did he ever like the FL at ANY point back when she was fat, seeing how easily seduced he is by looks.....
Usually dramas like this end up being my favourite, but the main couple had zero chemistry imo. They both felt…
I agree with every word! You said it so well, for the reasons of the characters being BORING as hell, No chemistry and bad writing where ML made his whole personality about FL - I unfortunately had to give this drama only a 2/10 and drop at after ep4. Despite liking both lead actors.
I actually like imperfect characters, but I didn't like them here, because they were also boring. All the supporting cast were more interesting than the leads.
This was too similar, with the added downside of being longer. At least WCAL was Short. And the leads had actually Chemistry there, very good chemistry.
It should be lower. I gave it a 2/10 and dropped it now after finishing ep4.
In a Romance drama it's VITAL that you actually ship the leads together.
But 2ML is everything ML is not: Fun, Compelling, Cool.
Instead I only cared about FLs career, which has now been built up nicely following her becoming one of the owners of the design company. The End. Happy ending for me, No need to continue watching.
This ML is too much a Doormat, No backbone, and mostly just NOT an interesting personality. It's a good thing he lost the weight and become handsome, because his personality is snooze, so there was no great personality to compensate for his lack of looks....But even with his loook he's still snooze..
FL wasn't particuarly likable either.
It's not realistic either how they STILL just like each other after YEARS with NO buildup when they meet again.
THE OTHER DRAMAS with this Back to Hometown & Reunite with childhood love (Will Love In Sping, Welcome to Samdarli, Love Next Door) HAD BUILDUP 1ST: Meet again, don't instantly crush, built up a New adult connection....
Sorry, i don't get what's so wrong with being mixed race and with coloured eyes in Korea?
They are super racist. I guess it's their own type of Nazi, they prefer people to only date within their own culture. They only accepted Song Joon Ki marrying a foreigner because he's a Man and a priviliged famous handsome actor. 🙄 Famous actresses or low status men could never.
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They were entertaing in their melo, this was not. And the couples were actually shippable.. Here they were not.
Actually Melo is my fave genre. Currently watching the Old Revenge Melo-romcom drama Birth of a Beauty, and it's a million timess better than this. 😅 Leads have fun personalities, entertaining writing, no boring moments, leads are shippable. Han Ye Seul acting a traumatized character really well, better than Lee Se Young, as mucha s I like LSY, i have to admit this....
Motel California on the other hand....
These two were only cute when young. There's no reason for them to be together as adults or be endgame. They are only annoying together, bring out the Worst in each other and have NO chemistry. 🤦♀️
If anything, this deserves more hate. I gave it 2/10 for bad writing, boring characters and unshippable leads with boring personalities.
It had POTENTIAL, with Great cast, interesting setting with the Motel, FL had an interesting career as interior designer....But I simply didn't like it. Didn't see why the leads should even be together. And ML was a backbone lacking whimp.
Didn't ship them.
There's no objectivity in the rating on this site, whatever is more lighthearted and has young famous actors as leads will gain higher rating, despite being trashy. 😅🤦♀️
It seems like the type of movie more for international fans to enjoy.
Koreans prefer to just watch things they releate to, koreans are quite racist and don't like a cultural exchange themed story, in other places people are generlaly more Cosmopolitan and enjoy this type of immigrant movies.
Secondly, she's already 36 WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
I thought she was in her 20s lol 😅😂
Go Soo + Seo Ji Hye as a couple! 😍 And Kim Jae Kyung too! (I'm pleasantly surprised she's back so quickly after getting married!)
Also this caught my eye:
"it will air in the first half of this year."
OMG, Not too much wait either!! 😍
Even when in Mask Girl the pervert charcter was shown as the Point of view charcter for an episode (The drama changed points of if view/lead each ep), the pervert wasn't shown particularly sympathetic beyond just the start of the episode. Actully showing from THEIR point of view made them look EVEN MORE creepy.
So This PD is pretty much Team Kill Perverts, don't sympatize with them. 😅😆
Don't expect justificationd of pervert behaviours, unless someone funding the drama is a creep calling the shots above the PD.
If Son Yejin accepts this drama, I think we can be cerrain there's no creepy funder and Yejin's character will indeed follow the Mask Girl honesty and her character shown as a Villain.
Maybe she wants to play a villain.
This PD in their previous work showed all the human darkness in a very honest way. Too honest for MDListers hating on the drama 😅
....So unless this drama gets funded by her personally or by some jerk who decides to control the narrative and potray her nicely, it won't happen
The way both women keep competing over a man like this is headache-inducing 😭, even the trashy 2FL deserves better than this Flaky playboy. How did he ever like the FL at ANY point back when she was fat, seeing how easily seduced he is by looks.....
Just watch that one and SKIP this Motel California trash with CRAP WRITING, BORING CHARACTERS and NO CHEMISTRY.
It's the same FL Returns to Hometown & Connects with Childhood crush story.
Except brilliant indepth writing and Chemistry so Wow that even the haters (with bad taste) of the drama liked their Chem aha ha
10/10 peak drama, and I don't even normally like cdrama!
Despite liking both lead actors.
All the supporting cast were more interesting than the leads.
This was too similar, with the added downside of being longer. At least WCAL was Short. And the leads had actually Chemistry there, very good chemistry.
It should be lower.
I gave it a 2/10 and dropped it now after finishing ep4.
In a Romance drama it's VITAL that you actually ship the leads together.
But 2ML is everything ML is not: Fun, Compelling, Cool.
Instead I only cared about FLs career, which has now been built up nicely following her becoming one of the owners of the design company. The End. Happy ending for me, No need to continue watching.
This ML is too much a Doormat, No backbone, and mostly just NOT an interesting personality.
It's a good thing he lost the weight and become handsome, because his personality is snooze, so there was no great personality to compensate for his lack of looks....But even with his loook he's still snooze..
FL wasn't particuarly likable either.
It's not realistic either how they STILL just like each other after YEARS with NO buildup when they meet again.
THE OTHER DRAMAS with this Back to Hometown & Reunite with childhood love (Will Love In Sping, Welcome to Samdarli, Love Next Door) HAD BUILDUP 1ST: Meet again, don't instantly crush, built up a New adult connection....
MY LOVELY SAM SOON kdrama!!!
That's where it suddenly happened!!
It was a 10/10 drama UNTIL it happened !!! 🤬🤬😡😡😡
BETRAYAL INDEED!!!
I'm STILL in Dumbfounded Shock over ML doing this!!!
NO DRAMA SHOULD EVER DO THIS AGAIN.
FORBIDDEN! 🛑❌🙅🏻♀️