A Win For Reciprocal Love!
This drama started out pretty cliche for me but completely won me over by episode 3.
What is truly commendable is how they've taken a lot of cliche creative decisions and made them uniquely theirs in the best way. From love triangles to the cold man x sunshine girl dynamic to the generous villagers and small town romance tropes, everything works well within the context of the show and they make it feel very lived in and real. The theme of homeshopping hosts, influencing, faulty products and the real damage all of these can leave when careless was explored with sincerity too and not treated like a plot device.
But outside it all, what stands out the most is the main couple, specifically how the FL Dam Yejin is just as into the ML Mechoori. Their dynamics are so healthy, natural and reciprocal from the beginning that rooting for them simply felt like the easiest thing to do while watching this drama. You could even say that Yejin falls first for the goodness she sees in Mechoori and Mechoori quickly follows suit seeing Yejin's sincerity. Both of them feel like real individuals with their own lives who choose to build something together without becoming codependent in an unhealthy way. Mechoori's kindness exists outside of Yejin and Yejin's sincerity exists outside of Mechoori, and yet these same traits that define them are exactly what they also extend to each other which ultimately makes them fall for one another.
They are truly the highlight of the show for me. Two genuinely wonderful and kind people who found their way to each other and keep spreading the same generosity around them! A match made in heaven, truly! They didn’t even need a confession scene to announce the beginning of their relationship...that's basically unheard of in kdramas and the most interesting thing is that it works here because the transition from being strangers to lovers felt *that* effortless and natural.
Ahn Hyo Seop was as usual a delight to watch and Chae Won Bin was very impressive as a newcomer. Their chemistry felt very natural and easy from ep 1 with a lot of the subtext filled tension that makes onscreen chemistry work for me. Chae Won Bin is definitely someone I'm looking out for from here on out. She is the perfect romance lead. She gives the best heart eyes and looks at her ML with so much love, exactly the kind of performance that makes a romance worth watching coz sincerity and genuine affection from the FL just makes your ML look that much more attractive to the audience. Likewise, I hope Ahn Hyo Seop keeps doing more of these romcoms. He has amazing chemistry with all his costars and it shines here too. He plays a restrained, traumatized young man who opens up with the help of genuinely good people around him very well.
The supporting cast make their world feel more alive and so many of them stand out. The SML love triangle arc doesn't linger long enough to leave a bad taste either.
So this has definitely become my third favorite romcom this year after Spring Fever and Our Universe.
Very thankful to the makers of SOOY for this amazing show!
Highly recommend for fans of dramas like Spring Fever, Hometown Cha Cha Cha and Summer Strike.
What is truly commendable is how they've taken a lot of cliche creative decisions and made them uniquely theirs in the best way. From love triangles to the cold man x sunshine girl dynamic to the generous villagers and small town romance tropes, everything works well within the context of the show and they make it feel very lived in and real. The theme of homeshopping hosts, influencing, faulty products and the real damage all of these can leave when careless was explored with sincerity too and not treated like a plot device.
But outside it all, what stands out the most is the main couple, specifically how the FL Dam Yejin is just as into the ML Mechoori. Their dynamics are so healthy, natural and reciprocal from the beginning that rooting for them simply felt like the easiest thing to do while watching this drama. You could even say that Yejin falls first for the goodness she sees in Mechoori and Mechoori quickly follows suit seeing Yejin's sincerity. Both of them feel like real individuals with their own lives who choose to build something together without becoming codependent in an unhealthy way. Mechoori's kindness exists outside of Yejin and Yejin's sincerity exists outside of Mechoori, and yet these same traits that define them are exactly what they also extend to each other which ultimately makes them fall for one another.
They are truly the highlight of the show for me. Two genuinely wonderful and kind people who found their way to each other and keep spreading the same generosity around them! A match made in heaven, truly! They didn’t even need a confession scene to announce the beginning of their relationship...that's basically unheard of in kdramas and the most interesting thing is that it works here because the transition from being strangers to lovers felt *that* effortless and natural.
Ahn Hyo Seop was as usual a delight to watch and Chae Won Bin was very impressive as a newcomer. Their chemistry felt very natural and easy from ep 1 with a lot of the subtext filled tension that makes onscreen chemistry work for me. Chae Won Bin is definitely someone I'm looking out for from here on out. She is the perfect romance lead. She gives the best heart eyes and looks at her ML with so much love, exactly the kind of performance that makes a romance worth watching coz sincerity and genuine affection from the FL just makes your ML look that much more attractive to the audience. Likewise, I hope Ahn Hyo Seop keeps doing more of these romcoms. He has amazing chemistry with all his costars and it shines here too. He plays a restrained, traumatized young man who opens up with the help of genuinely good people around him very well.
The supporting cast make their world feel more alive and so many of them stand out. The SML love triangle arc doesn't linger long enough to leave a bad taste either.
So this has definitely become my third favorite romcom this year after Spring Fever and Our Universe.
Very thankful to the makers of SOOY for this amazing show!
Highly recommend for fans of dramas like Spring Fever, Hometown Cha Cha Cha and Summer Strike.
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