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Woah didnt think her next after call it love would be a romcom with white scandal! Excited to see how it goes :)) hope she writes amazing dialogues and character arcs again

Im most excited for the second sister’s plot lol...the ray of sunshine × tsundere combo is to die for i really hope the drama leans into exactly that vibe with these two

Ya the jacket scene tho felt kind kf reciprocal in effort for me tbh. She offered him help in the restaurant without asking him.and he simply accepted it. He simply returns the act but ya he was pretty persistent. And tbh i do wish he would've just told her the truth for a change actually. Or the drama gives a real plausible reason as to why he cant tell her the truth. Coz there is a novel out there with this plot but reversed the fl is the one who writes letters anonymosuly to an ml who actually she thinks hates her in real life. Thats a believable reason as to why she feels hesitant to tell him the truth when they actually meet again. Likewise i wish this drama added a real reason other than him being scared or whatever

Oh that timeline makes sense

Maybe they get funding or sponsors to promote or use ai services? That could explain why almost every new show has it...but at the same time im not anti-ai. This is the new reality. It will only get more prominent and normalized in lesser than a decade's time. We might as well start getting used to it or we'll be left with nothing to watch... 🤷‍♀️

Idk if there's more to it, for the sake of seonu chan i do hope there is, but from the first two episodes, the drama isn't really doing him any favors with ehat they reveal with the flashbacks. He says she saved him from taking his own life, meanwhile the only 4 interactions they've had so far is him replying to her text coz the real bf asked him to, then buying her a gift coz her real bf asked him to, another scene talking about the rain and then her calling him to say that she's visiting, but there's no reveal about deeper conversations where he might've felt understood by someone ekse? Like a proper friendship/relationship that would make someone second guess taking their own life right when they're in the act, but instead here, the scene just shows her text notification popping up and he what? Slips off the ledge and is now grateful to her for "saving him"? Like? What relationship did they form that he feels like life's worth living just coz he saw her text? Almost feels like they're trivializing something as grave as suicide just to have a plot device?

I understand they probably want it to stay vague deliberately coz we still have 10 eps left but imo if u were going to reveal something that literally forms the spine of this story and the central conflict, then u might as well have been more open with the past reveal. At least involving a short montage of all the times they interacted in linear order to show the progress...coz rn their past just feels like a plot device more than an actual fleshed out reason as to why seonu chan feels so indebted to haran. The non linear editing with the past reveals where some of their old interactions were shown in the first ep and some others in the 2nd dont make it easier to connect to whatever relationship they had developed back then either.

Long story short, i do wish there's an actual portrayal of their connection building in the past instead of making it look like it was really just that stupid as her texting him exactly when he was about to jump and him falling back into his room only coz of that interruption, or that seonu chan was just a lonely loner who jumped at the first opportunity with a person who was willing to talk to him (and not even him him at that!)

On the other hand, actually, if that is the case and if the drama's focus is actually on deliberately making haran's interruptions into seonu chan's life only mere disruptions that ended up adding way more meaning than they should've into seonu chan's life, that is actually a really novel concept. I wish they would match that same energy in the present tho with making seonu chan actually recognize the randomness of it instead of having him melodramatically proclaim "she saved him" when in reality that suicide/phone notification scene was portrayed to be just random coincidence so technically that text could've come from even a food delivery guy, u get what i mean 😅 they do lean into this randomness angle actually with seonu chan's actual interactions with haran but then when he's talking about her to others like the psychiatrist or the grandpa, it feels like the drama is inching towards deliberate attachment of more meaning to something that was just mere coincidence...so the tone becomes inconsistent from the past to present

I'm all for she falls firsts but miran, girl u can do so much better than minuk 🙄

Now that its over, i genuinely have no idea why they gave us that one scene between haerim and jaeyi with phenomenal chemistry in the first episode only to have literally 0 development in that direction for the rest of the show?? Seemed like a lost opportunity to me (tho haerim is too precious for anyone in this show...)

Istg!! Agree with everything. This has been a long time complaint for me too. It's like kdrama writers only know how to swing between extremes for the last half decade or so. Either make mls the most bland green flag with no character arc or growth outside of serving the fl or make them the most toxic moron ever. This is why im loving shows like our universe, spring fever, can this love be translated and even idol i from this year alone. Cant believe the beginning of this year alone made up slightly for the past 6 or so years of constant dissappointments with horribly written male leads. I still think a lot of work is left to be done, especially with how female leads r also written one dimensional but i think this year has already had a great start and hopefully while there r still shows with the same old cardboard cut out male leads like in your radiant season, positively yours and to my beloved thief, im glad that there's been at least some difference so far. Honestly i wouldn't even mind a boring green flag ml as long as the drama at least showed *how* he caught feelings and for what purpose?? It's like writers dont want to put in the labor of actually showing how feelings begin from scratch and want it preinstalled either through some weird childhood connection or begin the show 10+ years after he's caught feelings. How do they expect viewers to be invested in the relationship when we r *told* he loves her but they dont *show* why he does ?? Plus making the female lead look like she's forced to accept him instead of making her just as invested in the relationship. Which is why i enjoyed the shows i mentioned earlier, coz all those dramas had very reciprocal female leads who actually showed their affection to the male lead as well so it makes for a very balanced dynamic.

Ig chae jong hyeop is being typecast with these roles. Off the top of my head i feel like him, park bo gum, moon sangmin and a few others have become the poster boys for what i call the painfully green flag carboard mls. Their entire personality revolves around serving the fl and only the fl, no life or interests outside of living and breathing the fl, and it's in every other drama they do. Doesnt help that shows like lovely runner reinforce the popularity of one dimensional male leads like this either

Thankuu so much!!

Oh interesting...coz she addressed her bf as kang yeokchan in the end there but the ml's name is seonu chan, i was thinking along the lines of them being pen pals and him changing his name later for some reason? Never actually met maybe? Like he's seen her face through the video call but she hasnt seen his? Idk now that im saying it out loud it sounds dumb lol...the roommate theory makes more sense...if true, *sigh* another chae jong hyeop drama where he's stuck in unrequited love 🫠

How does showing basic human decency to check on the fl when she had that tough fall mean "letting the kid get hurt"? He's literally carrying the child and staring at her blankly while she's on the ground in pain?

Also ur reading of the fl is super harsh. First of all, she *shouldn't* have to do anything. She was thrust the responsibility of taking care of her nephew coz literally nobody else showed up. She could've sent him to a children's home, but she chose to step up. The only person who chose to step up for the child. U expecting her to be perfect literally reveals ur own lack of empathy for someone who is trying to do her best considering the situation, especially when the ml gets all this grace coz, what? He's been suffering longer?

Also she isn’t "trying" to date her boss. She's just someone who unexpectedly met her first love again while grappling major life changes and probbaly finds some comfort in reminiscing back to her college days with someone who was important to her when her life was different, but in no way is it anything like the obvious show of interest and flirting the sml keeps initiating that she, mind you, keeps shutting down. Every time the sml obviously flirts with her, she literally subtly shuts him down or redirects the conversation to taehyung and woojoo.

Also i can't believe i need to spell this out, but just because she's living with a "baby and man" doesn't mean she isn't allowed to date anyone else as long as she is fulfilling her responsibilities? Which she clearly is? I mean r we still living in Victorian England?? She doesn't date simply coz that's her choice, not because it's an obligation. Let's pls make that clear.

It's just that she's always giving 10/10 effort to woojoo that the one time she gives an 8, everyone wants to write her off as being negligent and irresponsible. I mean i wonder if u r even thinking about the fact that outside of her work hours (where she's working btw, not frolicking in the garden with the sml), she's the one *always* responsible for woojoo? Like she never gets a day off! After work, every morning, every weekend, she's the one taking care of woojoo without complaint.

I mean tbh i dont blame the viewers for not seeing hyun jin's effort. The makers dont even care to show it. It's always more appealing to make the man "perfect" and give him a clear growth arc from jerk to decent man while the fl (like most women in real life) r treated like an after thought whose efforts always remain invisible even when they're doing the most work objectively

Okay I've been trying to be kind to the sml coz park seo ham makes him really innocent and likable but his progressive immaturity and unprofessionalism around the fl is making me pretty uncomfortable now especially after the team dinner. It feels like the show is trying to make it seem like 7 whole years didn’t just pass between hyun jin and him and that didn't make any difference to their childish mutual crushes at all, but the reality is that *everything's* changed and the sooner both of them, especially the sml realizes it, the better it would be for everybody involved.

Also while frustrating, I don't blame hyun jin yet for feeling confused about her feelings. I mean she's just a few months into losing the most important person of her life and her only family, now suddenly thrust into a whole new role of parenting, navigating a job she worked so hard to get, meeting her first love again, living with a roommate who was completely indifferent and prickly just a few weeks ago who over a month grew to have feelings for her. I mean y'all have to recall just how indifferent taehyung was when hyun jin sprained her wrist after colliding with him at the funeral. He's obviously grown since then. But everyone processes grief and change differently. There's no one perfect timeline that works for everyone.

So ofc she would be confused! I mean taehyung *just* confessed his feelings like two days ago. And the sml has been flirting with her very obviously since she started work while she's been harboring a long time crush on him the whole time, literally confessing that she fantasized about being his "Suzy" all this time. Like give the girl a break, she'll get there 😅

Also *we* can see taehyung's growth. But hyun jin lived through the most traumatic experience of her life with someone who walked away without looking back and only chose to come to her at his convenience while being hot and cold the whole time. Also at this point, it's still early to tell if what taehyung feels for hyun jin is real mature love or simply the relief of finally feeling like being chosen by someone. he literally says that when he confesses to her too.

So the point ig I'm trying to make is that both of them r a bit all over the place rn and for good reason and therefore, need time to find each other on an equal footing before they can realize their true feelings for each other.

So let's be patient, ig? ;p

Also dont get the hate on her parenting woo joo. She literally signed up for daycare for him, finally got him in, been responsible for him during weekends and after work and mornings, just like the contract they made for the month. Just coz the drama doesn't show all of her parenting moments compared to the ml's, doesn't make *her* the bad parent all the time? Like this particular episode, according to their contract, the ml is responsible for woojoo? So why isn't he getting any flak? Sure Hyun jin messed up the time woo joo got sick, but that was literally one time? I mean Hyun jin isn't partying her nights away, or escaping her duties on weekends without woojoo. She's literally working, then going straight home back to him? Like y'all need to check ur own biases about why the fl is getting this much flak? It's almost like the man only needs to do the bare minimum to be considered great coz he went from complete jerk to decent, but the female has to always go above and beyond or she isn't doing anything at all!

Ooh that's interesting...so many new shows releasing this weekend and next week with kdramas too, i could use an advanced pre release schedule to plan everything lol...thanks for this!

But r cdrama schedules usually 6 eps on the first day and then 1 new ep every day? On average

I didn't really understand why many viewers kept saying this show reminds them of old kdramas but now i realized it's coz for the past couple of years, we're been force fed carbon cut-out mls and bland as paper fls who rarely reciprocate with the same intensity to actually appreciate a relationship developing from the beginning, the whole point of romance dramas :") So glad shows like this are making a much needed "comeback" of sorts to fill the gap.

I for one am *sick* of the shows that take the easy route and have the fl and ml know each other since infancy so the makers can lazy their way out of actually showing how two adults and strangers can meet and form a sincere relationship, how they're relationship even formed in the first place and how they developed feelings, not simply because they're "destined" and meant to be

I liked the first episode. Humor, romance, plot, chemistry, everything was perfect. Felt the 2nd ep was pretty redundant if they extended the first 1 by an extra 30 mins but cute watch regardless.

Oh and that scene in the poster is from the drama and it's gorgeously filmed! In fact I watched this show just to see how it turned out and it was worth it haha...love when historical dramas get emotion/cinematography both right!

Park hae jin is in the part?? Has it officially been announced? That's so exciting.

They're probably giving the art of sarah its own time to shine and will start dropping things one by one from next week