The hardest I've thought about a rating I have made
Contrary to popular consensus, even though I could find faults in this drama, I liked it. So, let me tell you what irritated me so you can decide whether you want to watch it or not.
This drama is corny and cringy. I first watched this during exam stress almost 2 years ago, and liked it. Love Revolution was one of the first K-dramas I had watched after a 9-year break from K-dramas, and to me, it was decent, but I couldn't rate this drama. The other dramas I had watched (Twinkling Watermelon, My Demon, A Good Day to Be a Dog), I had no issues rating. Fast forward two years to 2025, a year that's already off to a good start in the K-drama department, and I still feel like this drama is hard to rate. The issue is mainly the cringy corniness. But it's as if I'm somehow immune to it when I watch this. This is objectively Park Ji Hoon's worst performance, but it's still watchable if you watch him in Weak Hero first, because then you understand that Ji Hoon is a capable actor. The story is weak after the initial episodes; the majority of the cast is hard to watch; the comedy is inconsistent but solid in some parts; the male lead is annoying to watch. But goddammit, this is the only K-drama I have completely rewatched from the first episode to the last. Overall, this drama is a bit overhated as well, but I get the frustration. The romance is too cold because they have tried to adapt the scenes in the webtoon without making them realistic to fit the real world, because no guy would date Ja Rim, and no girl would date Ju Yeong if this were realistic. (I'm not saying that every show must be realistic, but they could have easily toned down the characters a bit, but didn't, which resulted in flat, 2-dimensional, colourless characters that feel way over the top)
But hey, you forget most of this stuff after like the 5th episode, but if you want to ditch it, I won't blame it either.
TL;DR - The show is decent; the acting is weak except for Park Ji Hoon's, but he's annoying to watch; they have tried to apply these webtoon characters into the real world without attempting to make them human. But I still liked it - I don't know why. Maybe it's because it's lighthearted.
This drama is corny and cringy. I first watched this during exam stress almost 2 years ago, and liked it. Love Revolution was one of the first K-dramas I had watched after a 9-year break from K-dramas, and to me, it was decent, but I couldn't rate this drama. The other dramas I had watched (Twinkling Watermelon, My Demon, A Good Day to Be a Dog), I had no issues rating. Fast forward two years to 2025, a year that's already off to a good start in the K-drama department, and I still feel like this drama is hard to rate. The issue is mainly the cringy corniness. But it's as if I'm somehow immune to it when I watch this. This is objectively Park Ji Hoon's worst performance, but it's still watchable if you watch him in Weak Hero first, because then you understand that Ji Hoon is a capable actor. The story is weak after the initial episodes; the majority of the cast is hard to watch; the comedy is inconsistent but solid in some parts; the male lead is annoying to watch. But goddammit, this is the only K-drama I have completely rewatched from the first episode to the last. Overall, this drama is a bit overhated as well, but I get the frustration. The romance is too cold because they have tried to adapt the scenes in the webtoon without making them realistic to fit the real world, because no guy would date Ja Rim, and no girl would date Ju Yeong if this were realistic. (I'm not saying that every show must be realistic, but they could have easily toned down the characters a bit, but didn't, which resulted in flat, 2-dimensional, colourless characters that feel way over the top)
But hey, you forget most of this stuff after like the 5th episode, but if you want to ditch it, I won't blame it either.
TL;DR - The show is decent; the acting is weak except for Park Ji Hoon's, but he's annoying to watch; they have tried to apply these webtoon characters into the real world without attempting to make them human. But I still liked it - I don't know why. Maybe it's because it's lighthearted.
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