DrKay

Thank you too!

Yes, she was the surprise in the show. Totally loved her characterisation.

I honestly didn't pay a lot of attention to the costumes but now that I think about it, I have to agree with you. My main issue with them was how their friendship had a lot of potential but was only used to discuss the men in their lives. Barring that one incident with the guy who was feeling up Mi Seon, that is.

This!! Agree with every single thing here. Towards the end, I felt a shorter series of shorter duration would have been much more meaningful. Bcz plot? What is plot? Character development? What is that? Character consistency? (Since these are established characters already) Nope. Romance? Forced. So called life lessons (which we've already seen in S1)? Repetitive. Actual medical scenes? Relatively non existent.

I didn't like the ending either. Honestly, they should have gone for fewer episodes or reduced the duration of the episodes and cut romance out of the drama completely. Romance ruined it for me. IkSong was forced, Jun Wan and Ik Sun- meaningless, Winter Garden- muted and stale, Seok Hyung and Min Ha- half cooked. If the season was going to be about romance, they honestly could have put in more efforts in that direction.

I'd say several factors went into the rating here on mdl? 1. Popularity and success of S1 (which was good and totally deserving) 2. Many watching S2 right on the heels of S1 and carrying forward the feels of one season into the other. 3. Watching the show as it aired (I've observed that this makes a difference seeing that I've rated the same drama differently when I binged it and when I watched it as it aired) 4. This is just a conjecture but I think a lot of teens and young adults who only just now got into kdramas were quite taken by HP series. It is not bad, truthfully speaking, but it was not good enough to deserve that hype. Not to be disrespectful to them but I think many high ratings come from there. 5. Even while airing the hype around the drama continued to rise- pages aggressively promoted it.

I went by the ratings and was in for a surprise.

I'd say several factors went into the rating here on mdl? 1. Popularity and success of S1 (which was good and totally deserving) 2. Many watching S2 right on the heels of S1 and carrying forward the feels of one season into the other. 3. Watching the show as it aired (I've observed that this makes a difference seeing that I've rated the same drama differently when I binged it and when I watched it as it aired) 4. This is just a conjecture but I think a lot of teens and young adults who only just now got into kdramas were quite taken by HP series. It is not bad, truthfully speaking, but it was not good enough to deserve that hype. Not to be disrespectful to them but I think many high ratings come from there. 5. Even while airing the hype around the drama continued to rise- pages aggressively promoted it.

I went by the ratings and was in for a surprise.

S2 lacked content and it showed in every frame of the drama. A good slice of life turned into a boring and repetitive makjang. If I have to be very critical, I'd say it ruins the charm of S1 too.

Agreed! Jun Wan and Ik Sun bombed in the worst way possible for no apparent reason that too (especially considering their age) and they were the ones I've most rooted for in S1. I felt quite disappointed. And also their ending? The less said the better.

I'm actually glad someone came out of the "OMG it's HosPlay2" daze and pointed out how the second season messed up the romance and the characters thereby because of it, even if the article is a bit late. All this needed to be told. Honestly expected better from the writer of the drama.

I came close to doing it many times too. I just kept on going bcz of the leads. The story was bad. And you really aren't missing anything by dropping it.