Lee Evanie

I understand what you said and I fully agree! Besides most people watch dramas to escape the real world and boredom so they prefer exaggerated, fictional, and exciting plots way more over slice of life/realistic ones. I'm like that as well, but I did watch up to episode 5 and I have to admit, the drama did actually get much better. I felt like I forced myself to watch first two episodes, but from episode 3 I was starting to care about the plot and characters (Especially the male lead and his glasses wearing partner). Their job actually seems intriguing in a way. The acting is flawless so far. If it keeps getting more interesting, I probably wouldn't give it less than an 8 rating by the end.

Actually I only watch Asian dramas so I don't know much about American shows. Especially crime ones. I did watch many crime and psychological Asian dramas and movies. But this one is a bit too slow for me. You said it's first K-drama of this kind, I guess that's why am not used to it. I will stick around and give it a chance till like episode 5 then decide if I want to continue or drop it.

Is it really that good? I watched two episodes till now, but I was awfully bored during them. I can barley even remember what happened in them, does the show really gets better in next episodes?

Does it get less boring and gloomy after the first 2 episodes? I mean I do dig dark plots but this one is gloomy in a very boring way.

I watched 16 episodes so far and I'm highly enjoying it. Unlike other law dramas which tend to be overly gloomy and suffocating, this one is so easy to watch. I don't feel awfully depressed while watching it. Without realizing I already finished half of it.

Ironically first two episodes are the best episodes in the drama lmao

You're welcome!

I watched 16 episodes so far and god damn, I was struggling to not fall sleep during it. I decided to watch this drama for the trio (Ga Young, Doo Hwan, and Min Jae) and had lots of expectations, but was disappointed greatly. The first two episodes were a bit interesting, but everything started going downhill from there. The plot, the romance, the characters...everything. The FL was supposed to be this cool headed, cold girl who doesn't fall easily for guys and is able to turn down all of them, including foreigners since she doesn't believe in love. Yet it didn't take more than 5 or 6 episodes for her to fall for the ML and get all jealous and emotional over him before they started dating even. She knew something is off about him but she still insisted to give him a chance. Her character was bland as hell. I found myself forgetting about her most of the time.
Then we get tortured with the repetitive cycle of them, getting into misunderstandings, crying over it, then they get back together to have cringey lovey dovey moments over and over again. Doo Hwan's character was introduced as the cool, bad boy kinda of guy, but he was more on the pure and naïve side. It didn't take him more than one glance at the FL to fall for her head over heals as if she is the first female he interacted with. He doesn't even deserve his "The Great Seducer" title. Even his way of "seducing" the FL was childish.
I noticed many people fighting over Joy's acting skills. I think her acting wasn't that bad but it wasn't good either. I think thanks to the fact that she was casted with actors who already great at acting and well known along with her character being bad written, it didn't allow her to show her full potential. Her acting did lack but it was bearable still. She just need to learn how to make her facial expressions fit with the mood, sometimes her expressions wouldn't go right with the feelings she was supposed to convey. Other times it felt as if she wasn't in the mood to act even.
Ga Young's character AKA second FL was just annoying as hell. Selfish, over dramatic, controlling bitch who thinks that the whole world revolves around her. We are supposed to sympathy with her but I found myself sympathizing more with her mother than her. The woman was trying hard to make sure that both of her and her daughter stay wealthy and maintain their status, even sacrificing her happiness in the process, yet all her daughter did was throw a tantrum daily and do stupid shit. Second lead needed some serious therapy and way to handle her serious anger management issues.
Min Jae's character was the most interesting and I found myself wanting to know more about him, but I still thought that one of the biggest reasons he got into trouble with his shit family is that he kept doing wrong stuff to deal with the whole issue. Drinking, partying, hanging with girl, running from home...etc he does all that and expect his family to still spoil him somehow?!
Overall it was just a story about rich, annoying brats with mommy/daddy issues who have too much free time and money to waste them on doing stupid, pointless, dangerous crap then whine about it later when shit go south. The romance was lackluster and cringey. and I couldn't relate to nor sympathy with any of them. I just didn't care at all.
To make it worse they had to add 1000 side characters with their own subplots and romance. As if the romance between the main leads wasn't bad enough, they had to grace us with their parents and friends gross love affairs as well. What is it with Koreans and their obsession with making rich people always seem miserable or evil?!

Same!

Well, I watched 16 episodes so far and it's really boring to me. Typical romance Kdrama tropes revolving around annoying rich brats who like acting dramatic over the stupidest stuff. Of course you can still check it yourself since everyone's taste is different, but I personally wouldn't recommend it. The only reason I watched this much is cause I love Woo Do Hwan, Moon Ga Young, and Kim Min Jae. The more you watch the more lackluster and repetitive the plot and characters get.

Yeah, exactly!

I understand and it feels as if she just exist to give the ML reason to be all emotional when dealing with the whole killer thing.

Well, at least he was straight forward and went to her. Hye Young just lurked in the shadow like a freak for years, yet never dared to say a word till Sun Oh became into her. Sun Oh asked him many times if he liked her and he insisted he didn't even though it was clear, so why would he be upset that Sun Oh dated her? He claimed to not care for her after all. It doesn't mean Sun Oh wasn't at fault at all but still.

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I don't mind the height difference, but I do hate the whole aegyo voice females use and the overly talkative and hyper nature. Yeah, they are high school students so basically still minors, but they don't need to act and sound like 5 years old brats literally. At times the characters, especially the FL feel as if they are rapping instead of talking due to how fast they speak, and it gave me a headache.

Wow, few minutes in first episode and cringe level already hit the roof. The drama is quite famous though, so I will still give it a chance till the end of episode 2. Seems they are planning to use every type of romance trope and clichés that ever existed in Kdrama history in this drama. Feels like a cheaper, worse, over the top version of Boys Over Flowers. Also the FL is slowly getting on my nerves.
The plot is so messy, I can barley understand what's going on at this point lmao

Yes, he does resemble him. Currently watching Kei x Yaku and it's really good so far!

Oh, I heard of that C-drama but never bothered checking it out. Glad I didn't since according to what you said the FL would make me hate the show anyway.
I also hate how everyone kept hating on Sun Oh even though his behavior got million times better after they officially dated. As long as he treated her right during that time then he does deserve to be called a good lover.

Yeah lmao