Cute romance but extremely slow-paced.
This show must have been written by a teenager because every part of this slow-build romance was geared towards the sweet and naive mind of a teenager with longing looks and soft kisses accompanied by copious amounts of butterflies and texting. So much texting.There were so many odd choices that added nothing of value to the story such as the Finnish people not knowing how to act, everyone being obsessed with the ML to the point that they acted like he was a celebrity, a complete lack of personality for both protagonists for the majority of the screen time, the characters constantly eating, and repetitive scenes. It was so formulaic that even the protagonist pointed out that all the couple do together is eat, but by pointing it out and barely changing anything about it this was an arguably worse move than if they hadn’t pointed it out at all and I’d rather they weren’t self-aware.
It took forever to find something of substance in all the cloyingly sweet back and forth looks and by then it was too late to save what little shreds of plot remained. You could go blind trying to find the plot, it was so threadbare. And the whole snooker/billiards/whatever it is aspect was such an afterthought it would be laughable to consider this a sports drama. Every character was a pro, even the ones that weren’t and it made what should have been impressive seem average.
Surely there are better romance dramas out there. If you’re watching this in the background then sure go for it, but otherwise it’s a lot of time and a lot of episodes to commit to before you get anywhere and then it is barely worth going there at all!
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Lack of action and lack of chemistry
The main couple are… boring. There’s no personality, just shyness and sweet glances. The rest of the side characters are more interesting than the main couple!Also, this is so dragged out. The slow motion, the standing around, the unnecessary close ups. You did not need 38 episodes for this. You could’ve cut out all the almost-tension between the main couple who obviously both like each other and take way too long to get together, and this could’ve been maybe 16 or 18 episodes at the most.
For a show that takes place in a warzone, the action was barely there. Apart from a few scenes that show some actual fighting, the geographical area was quite calm. The most work the soldiers had to do was planting vegetables and ferrying the reporter protagonist around.
And they never did explain why the country was at war and who they were at war with which only goes to show how weak the writing was.
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