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Not Great, Still Okay
If you watch this drama, you need to at least get through episode 1 (about 36 minutes) to decide whether it’s worth continuing. To be honest, I didn’t like the past storyline. It felt badly written and boring to me. Still, you have to watch it to understand the later episodes.
You’ll also need to accept the female lead’s look after 25 years in the future. The styling and makeup were terrible: long curly hair with too much red blush high on her cheeks. This continues until the end of episode 8 or 9, after which her appearance improves and she looks fresh, elegant, and stylish.
The younger sister felt useless. I don’t understand why she didn’t work together with the detective or show any curiosity about who tried to kill her older sister. All she does is blame Bong Cheong-ja (the elder sister) for what happened in the past. The father was also useless. He did nothing until the very end. Honestly, the drama would have been fine without him.
I thought the Jumbo Gwison group would help Bong Cheong-ja or Lim Se-ra reclaim her position, especially characters like Kwon Do-jeon (a fan of Lim Se-ra), Lim Jae-won, or Nam Yoo-ran (the hallucination).
The villain or “puppeteer” of this drama was too predictable. It all connects back to a politician. Like many other K-dramas, the politician orders his assistant, the assistant orders the Jenseung-pil group, and they order someone else. It’s the same pattern again.
Almost everyone close to Lim Se-ra disappoints her: Kang Tae-sook, her husband, and even the detective. Only a few people truly stand by her. Kang Du-won and Sa Sun-yeong are on the wrong side and only care about themselves.
By episode 10, her niece just felt like a burden, though she did help a bit with the investigation. In episode 11, we suddenly see that Nam Yoo-ran was already dead, and Bong Cheong-ja was only hallucinating her. The last episode shows Go Hui-yeong depressed after meeting Lim Se-ra, and her niece being accepted by her mom to become a celebrity.
I expected Lim Se-ra to meet Kang Du-won after he was caught, but that never happened. The politician is shown getting caught for just a moment, and then it ends. Still, the ending wasn’t bad. In the end, Lim Se-ra finally gets the award she deserved.
You’ll also need to accept the female lead’s look after 25 years in the future. The styling and makeup were terrible: long curly hair with too much red blush high on her cheeks. This continues until the end of episode 8 or 9, after which her appearance improves and she looks fresh, elegant, and stylish.
The younger sister felt useless. I don’t understand why she didn’t work together with the detective or show any curiosity about who tried to kill her older sister. All she does is blame Bong Cheong-ja (the elder sister) for what happened in the past. The father was also useless. He did nothing until the very end. Honestly, the drama would have been fine without him.
I thought the Jumbo Gwison group would help Bong Cheong-ja or Lim Se-ra reclaim her position, especially characters like Kwon Do-jeon (a fan of Lim Se-ra), Lim Jae-won, or Nam Yoo-ran (the hallucination).
The villain or “puppeteer” of this drama was too predictable. It all connects back to a politician. Like many other K-dramas, the politician orders his assistant, the assistant orders the Jenseung-pil group, and they order someone else. It’s the same pattern again.
Almost everyone close to Lim Se-ra disappoints her: Kang Tae-sook, her husband, and even the detective. Only a few people truly stand by her. Kang Du-won and Sa Sun-yeong are on the wrong side and only care about themselves.
By episode 10, her niece just felt like a burden, though she did help a bit with the investigation. In episode 11, we suddenly see that Nam Yoo-ran was already dead, and Bong Cheong-ja was only hallucinating her. The last episode shows Go Hui-yeong depressed after meeting Lim Se-ra, and her niece being accepted by her mom to become a celebrity.
I expected Lim Se-ra to meet Kang Du-won after he was caught, but that never happened. The politician is shown getting caught for just a moment, and then it ends. Still, the ending wasn’t bad. In the end, Lim Se-ra finally gets the award she deserved.
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