KioroDjirane

Overall, it was good. This isn't a good romance drama but a really funny one in an interesting setting (Dystopia). A lot of funny to hilarious moments especially in those "trials". For the romance, it was rather weak but not bad I guess. What really bothered me was we don't really see why they started to like each other except for some superficial reason.

Son-Day: Typical Childhood Memory romance but what they show us was really short and wasn't THAT powerful for them to fall in-love at first sight to be honest. But I guess he was hot and she was cute. Don't ask much.

Max-Channel: Well, he find her hot at first and I guess she find him hot in the end ? They did some trauma bonding with their insecurities so I wasn't that disappointed in them. But again, it's rather weak.

Paper-Chun: The big ??? here. He listened to his song, he texted him, they meet one time and they are in-love. Tada! It was forced so freaking much. Purely fan-service. They were cute so I forgive them. :P

For the rest: Bovy -> Max is hot enough to maybe make her heterosexual (I hope I'm wrong with that but it's what I understood when she talked about it to Paper). And I guess Almond -> Day is cute. Don't ask much again.

Even if I ranted a lot here, it wasn't that bad and they do have some cute & lovely moment but if the Drama wasn't funny I would have drop it if it was just about the romance.

8/10

For the ending, yes it is indeed a teaser for a potential S2. For it's meaning, you remember that this PDG was obsessed at marrying her daughter to Son for no 'real' reason except she wanted the best for her ? Well, it was more likely that HIS father was her actual first love (her husband did said she didn't married for love) and projected that into her daughter or he was a bait for her to get a grasp into the father.

I agree with you but what bothered me is that she didn't fight back at all when he struggled her. She knew that Ji-Hyuk was coming really soon. I know that this scene have impact to show the most ugly side of her ex but come on, nobody will throw push line when your life is on the line. :P

Well, it's a little bit more complicated. A part of this story is about the relationship between the two fox brothers who was also a part of season one. They did include flashback in this season so yes you could skip the previous season but it wouldn't be perfect (for obvious reason). Season one is still good if you aren't allergic to fantasy romance. But if you really dislike that, yes you can skip it.

Well, I really didn't expect this. I watched the small trailer and thinking that it will be a little bit superficial, a light comedy and borderline trashy but no no no. Binged in one day. Really interesting stories, great actors and beautiful ending. 9/10

Really short so it's hard to evaluate. I'm not really a fan of open ending but if it's called 'Happy Ending' I do hope it's for some reason. Honestly it almost look like as a trailer than an actual short film. The fragmented release also didn't help in my opinion but it's probably because of a better pay off monetary speaking. And shouldn't matter to the one who just discovers this show.

It's a text book open ending. It mean like what you are actually doing, you can imagine whatever you think it happened after the ending. The person who enter the shop in the last scene could be anyone. Dong Ho, a new Lover, a very close friend or even family. Obviously some scenario are more 'likely' than other and I think most of us would like to believe that it was Dong Ho but they didn't show us that. Probably on purpose because they wanted a open ending for whatever reason they had.

I liked this remake. It's more focused on the two main couples. I will add that the two couples are equally important so I don't think we are in a situation were we have a Main couple & a Side couple. But they are written really differently so it isn't that weird to some to prefer one in particular.

Lee Won & Ji Oh: A funny & quite lighthearted story. The setting ("the BL novel become reality") make them use quite a lot of cliché that appear in BL novel and it often used to make some situation funny or romantic out of nowhere. It's also a Enemy to Lover trope. It was well done even it wasn't very original given the initial plot. If I would want to nitpick, their acting (or how their characters was written) were a bit clumsy & awkward at time. Their scene also have so most technical issues. It wasn't that bothering because the story itself is well written. Even if I seem to bashing them, they are actually my favorite because I really like lighthearted romance.

Sun Woo & Yoo Kyeom: Their story are a little more serious. It isn't heavy or anything like that but they seem more realistic if I would say ? Their acting seemed more solid (but again it could be also because they had less technical issue). They deal with subject like poverty, dilemma & unexpected first love. Again, quite a nice story even if I didn't like the final plot twist about what caused the dilemma. It seemed a bit of nowhere and if it was really the case, I don't know why anyone didn't tell anything before hand but yeah, I nitpick again. :P

Overall what I really liked is that it's short but doesn't seem rushed & it's well developed for both couple. Mostly because they didn't add any side story or unnecessary drama. They were cute, funny & lovely and It's all I was needed at this time. :)

8/10

Come on. We had 11 episodes for developing their characters as villains (Sumin & Ex-BF). Remember how they were in the first episode ? Cliché of the most despicable people on Earth. And now you judge a character & how FL reacted at her as "not well written" in one episode were we didn't see that much of them... I know she is the typical sociopath that seem really overused in K-Drama (like Sumin in episode 1 btw) but that hate-train that many peoples seem to jump is quite overacted in my opinion.

And for the 'others issues' I guess you speak about how she handle the ML ? Like give her a break, she is traumatize by "cheater" (ex-BF, Sumin, her mom) and when she is the most happiest that bomb is thrown at her. THEN, she learned about her friend's cancer. THEN, the ex-fiancée is crazy. And THEN Sumin is acting up and bring her Mom to the table. She know deep down he isn't like the others (she went to see him that night) but you cannot expect rational judgement here. At least not now when everything is a mess. Again, reacting as soon as the episode is dropped and saying it isn't "well written' without knowing where they actually want us to go, is way too soon. You could have been right if it's handle poorly in the end, but don't bash an unfinished show.

I like how in MDL you can have people praised a show like no tomorrow and the next episode all you see it's the same people bashing the same drama for no reason. I don't want to spoil anything but ep. 12 isn't bad. The true antagonist appear & FL deal with unresolved trauma. Until that episode everything worked (almost) perfectly and it was satisfying but I didn't see how they could drag this show for 5 more episode without adding some struggle because everything was resolved at this point. So yeah, it was necessary.

Probably at some point ("FL" is in the poster to begin with) but it will more like a sub-plot than anything if I would take a guess. The story is about the two young men & their journey to the top.

Quite a unique story. I wish this was a little bit longer but still a really good drama. I was a bit afraid of the ending but it was perfect especially the bonus scene when I collected my reward for watching this. :P

Just to add something, those mission aren't aimed at Yeo-woon. Myung-ha needed to befriend peoples, to earn 3M and to get 100k follower on HIS insta. He could be nothing but the whole make 'Yeo-woon' happy isn't the whole purpose of this game but he was also to make Myung-ha happier. Because those missions are created based on what Myung-ha wrote back when he was asked 'How do someone get happy ?' (or something like that).

Yes it's definitely aimed at 'improving' Myung Ha's life. What I do like it's that I really don't know how it would finish. Of course I still hope a happy ending. But how ? With Yeo-woon ? Or with a twist when he actually return to the real world ? Maybe he will be loveless when he return but ready to move forward and finally starting to reach his own happiness kind of ending ?

Yeah and I love the way she did it. At first she wanted to throw it at him but then she remembered that it was probably a fake diamond and did it on the wall for everyone to see how cheap the dude was. :P

She did care! She just wanted to raise up his temperature a bit! :P

I don't remember exactly but he took the fate of ML (dying). It's just so fuzzy because ML took his own life in the manwha and didn't have a car crash. Or maybe I remember totally wrong...

I don't know but her coworker seems to have stomach pain. Like they said what bound to happen will happen so maybe it will hit her instead ? I don't really wish that because the poor girl doesn't deserve it + she seems to have a similar life as the FL before she regressed (useless husband, being a huge pushover and problem at work). I just hope she will be fine. :O

If I'm remember correctly I think in the manwha they ended together ? But I could be wrong because I read it quite a long time ago.

Yes, it's really good and very satisfying at how the FL handle her 'revenge'.