Lee Evanie

Okay done watching this season and I gotta say, although I don't believe the drama was THAT amazing, it was still quite interesting and enjoyable to watch. I LOVE Thriller/horror/dark fantasy genres/concepts to death lol so I will watch/listen to anything related to them. Glad we get to see more versatile genres now instead of the typical rom coms/sitcoms, or any shows that are mostly about romance or slice of life.

Now for my PERSONAL opinion:

Positives:

1- I actually like the FL character. As someone who is almost a professional FL characters hater at this point lmao can't help it, most FL characters in Asian dramas get on my nerves greatly. Although there are still a good amount of cases where female leads or female characters overall are basically perfect like Alice in Borderland (All female characters both main/support or good/villain were amazing in that drama and they carried the show), Flower of Evil, Alchemy of Souls, The Legends, Save Me, The First Responders, Never Give Up (Seul Ki, not the wife. If you watched this Kdrama you will know the character I mean)...etc these are very positive and likeable examples of how a FL should be. Some of them are physically strong, athletic, and stronger than male character even, some are very smart and capable, some are very kind hearted and gentle but not weak and meek because of it.

Now about Mi Ho/Wonjeong I don't get why some people hate on the character or the actress so much, I mean about the actress, she is gorgeous, has an amazing body and nice fashion style, and her acting is decent, not that great honestly but still not bad at all. About the character, I mean I expected her to be a total stuck up, arrogant, selfish, rude, spoiled bitch that will anger me to death.

Surprisingly, she isn't that bad. She is smart, has decent humor taste, knows some martial arts and was able to come up with some good ideas while dealing with the demons (Like how she hang on that car so the bride demon won't see her feet), good at doing her job, has some great driving skills (Like she is able to drive like a pro racer), treats her employees in a good way (She even hit those thugs for the sake of her traitor secretary, then left the car for him and decided to walk alone in that creepy forest), and even though she "hired" Van, he is still the one treating her more badly than she does to him.
Even her bond with Johan is funny and cute, and the fact that she risked herself to save that teen girl, felt guilty over what happened to her, and tried her best to punish the sociopath boyfriend was a good way to show she is a good person.

Only issues with her is that sometimes she gets a bit too childish for her age (I assume the character is in her early thirties?), but I guess that is her being a bit spoiled? And how she constantly fixes her hair, that shit irks me for some reason, like damn stop messing your hair every three minutes! If it bothers you that much then change the freaking hairstyle!
That goes for every person who does that, don't have a hairstyle that will force you to keep pulling the bangs away from your face so they won't be getting in your mouth or pocking you in the eyes and turning you blind. I know how stressful that can be since I have a very long hair myself.

Also how she spent ages teasing Van while Johan was getting stranggled to death by that tree spirit, it was a bit funny at first, but got irritating quick. Like shit, save the boy first guys then picker like kids as much as you like, and the way she at times moans when someone almost kills/stab her...I mean this one isn't a big deal and yeah it's normal to gasp when such a thing happens, but she literally be moaning and making expressions like she is about to orgasm, not gasp due to shock.

2- Ooooh finally they gave Cha Eun Woo the perfect role for him! Finally!!! And he seemed to enjoy acting the role to the fullest. I don't know why they were so obsessed with giving him the cold, emotionless, jerk, with internal mental issues role over and over again (Though I liked his character in True Beauty and the bromance between him and second male lead was dope, so I didn't hate his role there).
I knew that the mischievous, overly confident, and funny type of character was more his style cause I have seen him have that exact type of character in The Biggest Hit/Hit The Top Kdrama. It was a support role with a very small screen time, but it was a very enjoyable character and he done it very well. The dude has a nice smile so why not allow him to show it more?!

Father Johan was even better and he was my favorite character and honestly carried this drama for me. Everything about the character was great, the fashion style, the personality, and overly depressing backstory. Of course Eun Woo's flawless visuals helped a lot too and he looks great in the priest outfit lol

Couldn't help but find it amusing how he is a priest but listens to Kpop/Rap music, watches Kdramas, wears a shit load of accessories, and has piercings. Just liked how I loved KNG's priest short tempered, violent, thug like, and justice obsessed character in The Fiery priest. Wish all priests were badass and hip like that lmao

Now for everyone hating on him for being too childish and arrogant, I mean...dude is like 19? He is barely a proper adult What did you expect? I have seen people in their forties being more childish, and him being arrogant is a result of him basically being the best youngest priest exorcist out there with many grand achievements so...it's not illogical for him to be too childish and arrogant duh! At least he adds flavor to the show with his humor, sometimes innocent, adorable, and cheerful personality.

Though his scenes with his brother killed me, that was just tragic, didn't expect to actually cry by the end of the drama...especially after the few adorable and heartwarming siblings moments between them before the disaster occured. His brother lived his whole life in pain and misery then died in pain and misery too. (Again Eun Woo did well in these super emotional moments, it's clear that he his acting is improving quick. He still needs more practice, but he is going well and I feel proud enough).

3- Well, there wasn't that much romance here which I actually appreciate since I'm not the biggest romance lover, I do watch many romance stuff and do enjoy them, but still not the biggest romance fan, especially when they make it the main focus in a crime/thriller/horror/fantasy plot (Ironically I loved the main leads romance plot in AOS, though them making it the main focus in season 2, ruined the season a bit to me so I highly hope they won't do the same to Island and other dramas of same concept). Anyway I do feel some nice chemistry between Mi Ho and Van so if their will be some romance I guess I wouldn't mind it that much.

4- CGI was decent, the demons designs are stupid to me like an odd mix of a werewolf and rock golem or something, but the shiny weapons (Like Johan's sword) and dark Smokey things coming from the demons mouths'...etc were good. Not AOS or Alice in Borderland level, but still not bad enough to give me trauma.

5- The OSTs were all suitable and good. I especially loved the song that Johan was listening to while exorcising that Italian woman, and the sound track they play whenever Van appears to fight (The chanting women sound that sounds very similar to a sound track they always play at the beginning of every episode of Demon Slayer anime if I remember correctly).

6- Loved the villa design, I would love to live there even though it can get a bit eerie at times , the view from Mi Ho's bedroom balcony is super cool, and Jeju Island is such a beautiful place. Wish I could visit it.

7- I dig Gungtan's character, and the white hair. He is way more interesting than Van actually. Glad to see Sung Joon acting again, I prefer him playing these dark non romantic roles.

I assume that unlike Van who turned good and decided to live the rest of his miserable, basically immortal life saving and protecting humans while fighting demons, Gungtan got filled with malice and the desire to revenge and get stronger over the torture they had to go through by the monks which makes sense to me.

I mean seriously couldn't the monks just do that half demon-half human shit on themselves instead of forcing it on innocent kids and turning them into lab rats/salves then monsters?! I get why they needed the demon slayers, but they could try it on each other...

Negatives:

1- Although Van is cool and great at fighting, but he sometimes feels hollow and boring as a character. Kim Nam Gil did the role justice as usual and he is a great actor, I know. I'm not insulting the actor, but the character itself. He was the least favorite and interesting character in the show for me. Just the typical quite, edgy, goth kid who sits at the back of the class and ignore everyone while maintaining a grumpy expression all day long vibe or something lol you could replace his character with a robot and nothing much will change at one point.

2- Plot and scenes editing felt really messy and choppy at times. Like some characters be talking, then they cut the scene before they properly finish their talking and move on to the next one in an abrupt way that I didn't like.

3- They didn't give a good amount of screen time to have the character bonding properly, they just became all close and family like pretty quick. I guess I could let it pass with the excuse that Mi Ho and Van knew each other before like hundred of years and so she naturally gets attracted to him, and she views Johan as a cute younger brother figure hence is why she allowed him to get close to her quick, but still wish they gave them more time to bond.

4- I find it stupid how they divided the drama into two seasons when they could just make it 12 episodes/one season instead. I 100% support the new trend of Kdramas not having more than 6-12 episodes (And Cdramas not having more than 24-36 episodes instead of 40-90+ episodes), since I got tired of the 16 episodes rule where plots get utterly draggy and painful after like episode 8-12. But sometimes it's better to just have one season with 12 episodes than 4 seasons with like 3 episodes each lol It just felt too short and rushed for my liking.
This season was just a quick introduction to the characters, and barely introduced their world.

Sometimes I felt like I'm watching an anime (Like Jujutsu Kaisen or something) instead of a drama. This is not a bad thing at all since I love anime a lot too, but at times it felt too comical to me. Like a kinda cheap live action version of some cool anime or manga.

5- Some characters didn't need to exist or die, like the FL friend's fiancé. Why they killed him? What was the point? I knew something bad will happen since they gave the two a bit too much screen time like how they done with the teen girls, but why?!

6- They wasted too much screen time at unimportant stuff like FL's family issues (Couldn't care less about that shit). Was better to spend that screen time on something useful to the plot.

7- Wish they made the FL awaken her powers in the end of this season so she can start kicking ass and save people including the two male leads for once as a change instead of her constantly being the damsel in distress, and male leads almost dying everyday for her sake. Well, I hope the trio unite and become stronger in second season.

8- This isn't a serious issue in this drama, but something that highly bothers me in every drama I see it in, which is the drunk FL/female characters scenes. One of the worst ways to deal with stress. I mean why there are so many scenes were FL get their asses drunk to the core then start doing dangerous or stupid shit, acting and talking like retards, then forcing the male characters to chase after them and take care of them?!
So many dramas have this shit. The Fabulous, Summer Strike (In this drama FL got drunk to death like 5 times and each time she wanders around the whole town acting like a mad woman bothering people and ML had to chase after her everywhere), May I help You, and the list of dramas goes on and on...

That crap ain't cute or funny, it's irritating and gross. For all those who thought Johan was too childish, what about actual adults who are 25-30+ years old who can't even know their drinking limit and always do things they end up greatly regretting later thanks to it?

I just can't help but be like if that was real world then the woman would (Unless she is with someone/people she can 100% trust that they will take care of her):

1- Get raped or murdered by some bastard while wandering around streets or in shady places alone.
2- Get run over by some car.
3- If she is home alone, something might go wrong and she could get herself hurt somehow, like if the glass of wine fell from her hand and got chattered then she tries to do something about it but lose her balance and face plants into the broken shards of glass lol
4- Or at least, she will end up highly embarrassing and humiliating herself and her friends/family.

Hope these odd trends die soon.

Oh, sounds cool! Will check it out after am done with the Kdrama I'm currently watching (Never Give UP).

And to make it worse they made the fall scene in slow motion to make the watchers' pain greater lmao

Thanks for reading everything and you're welcome! Glad my review was useful to you.

What is LBFAD??? Another dark fantasy drama? I really love this concept/genre so will be great to have another drama with it lol

To be exact the chaos fighting scene of all clans on that cliff place over the cursed stone thing, that was the worst and most unforgettable to me lol

Lmao sorry about the reminder, but yes the Island CGI so far is good enough.

Oh, I couldn't stand Sharon at all. Nor her two friends.

I mean as long as both plot and acting are good enough, I wouldn't give two fucks about CGI. That's why The Untamed and Word of Honor (Both are world wide famous historical fantasy Cdramas) are among my top dramas even though they got one of the worst CGi I have ever seen in my life and overall shit budget.

It seem cheating and very toxic sexual adult relationships is slowly becoming a trend in Kdramas romance genre...what makes it even more irritating is that it that it's adults constantly doing it instead of just talking about and breaking up...one of the biggest reasons I stopped watching western shows is due to the constant one night stands, cheating, and all these gross stuff and now they be including it in Asian dramas too, it's so freaking infuriating lmao

In case you wonder why am saying this then here are some recent examples:

1- Forecasting Love and Weather (Both ML and FL get cheated on by second leads and guess what? The cheaters never pay the price and they all basically become friends and cheaters shamelessly bother and interact with main leads in the end).

2- The Fabulous (FL cheats on her boyfriend with her ex-boyfriend in first episode, then blatantly like about it proudly to her boyfriend's face, then gets upset when her best girl friend's boyfriend cheats on her girl friend and preach about how he is scum even though she cheated on her boyfriend too and then she never pay the price for it and it's never mentioned again).

3- Nevertheless (FL was in toxic abusing relationship then she breaks up with her perverted rude boyfriend, and spend some time being a bit traumatized, then meets playboy, creepy, narcissistic, irresponsible ML, gets in another toxic relationship with him (Though at least he was very honest about himself fucking girls around, not wanting to commit to her, and she saw it with her eyes) and guess what? She realize that she in an abusive relationship again and everything all in the end yet still stay with him...because "she loves him" even though another guy who was decent and actually cared for her wanted to date her.

All three dramas were utter trash (Not only for the cheating/toxicity but plots and characters were also awful), and the horrifying messages they be trying to teach. That adults (Mostly) women should handle, forgive, and accept toxicity, cheating, and abuse crap.

Since you mentioned that this drama got cheating, it will be a hard pass for me. Cheating is one of the things I can't stand the most in life honestly, even if it's just a show (Unless they do it to show how bad it actually is instead of glorifying it like most dramas do).

Well this ending was very predictable and kinda cliché at some parts (The parts where Park Jin, Lady Jin, and Maidservant Kim "died"). I could tell they wouldn't rush to kill so many important characters in last episode, especially Park Jin and Kim, since they are very likeable and popular characters. Also main characters. It was clearly just put to make the audience a bit emotional in a cheap and stupid way.

Couldn't care less about lady Jin and I didn't get why would Kim decide to stay with her inside that place that was about to collapse. It's not like they were besties or sisters, and it's not like she also had powers she could use to assist her, she was just standing there just putting her hands on her back and that's about it and even lady Jin told her to go. It's lady Jin's responsibility and issue to keep the relics not hers.

Also ending at parts felt dragged and other parts felt rushed and even cartoonish, the whole fire bird thing was also rushed, it was supposed to be this overly powerful creature which everyone feared and it could destroy the world without too much effort but...it just died that easily by Jang Uk and Bu Yeon (Which still makes sense since just like Jin Seol Ran and the dude whom she loved, they were supposed to protect the world from choas...etc but it was still anti climactic and too quick that my only reaction was "Okay...I guess we are done with that now".

And before an hour pass from the last episode I could tell Seol Ran/Bu Yeon will just leave and let Naksu take the body since the mission Seol Ran stayed for whole 200 years for is already done so she got no more reasons to keep her soul attached. At least she left the divine powers so that Naksu won't just be a 100% weak and normal woman.

Well overall at least Jin Mu and other bastards got burned to death thanks to their greed and lust for power, and everyone got a happy ending. Yul was the only one without a love interest sadly, but he still got a job he is passionate about and his ideology about it is good (Allowing anyone to join the mages army or whatever as long as they qualify power wise, instead of relying on family influence) which is great. Also Park Jin and maidservant Kim, Park Dang Gu and the younger Jin's daughter are all finally together after dragging their love and marriage thing for eternity, and the crazy Jin mother is finally chill now.

That physician Heo actually wanted his irritating granddaughter to become a queen?! Lmao glad she found someone and didn't end up cursing the crown prince/new king with her bullshit.

At least it's a happy ending for everyone whom the watchers like, although a bit cringe and bit lackluster to me, so cool anyway! best part about this season were the few bromance moments between crown prince and Jang Uk, the best ship! <3 I'm still salty over Jang Uk not carrying the Crown prince to help him get over that fire bird barrier in Jinyown lol

Why are you even so bothered with me not wanting to watch that you wrote many comments? Did you direct this series or something? Chill dude/girl me not watching it isn't gonna lead to the drama's ruin obviously so leave me alone, and stop wasting your time on comments like mine that aren't your thing, just like how I won't waste my time on a drama that isn't my thing to begin with. This website exist so that people know what is their thing and what's not, and share their honest opinions whether they like the dramas or not.

Guess what? I did actually watch many dramas which I didn't like the synopsis of thinking I wasn't being fair and hoping I might be wrong and they might turn out good later, and what was the result?

Utter waste of time, I still didn't like nor enjoy most of them. So far I watched more than 100 Kdramas, and lots of Jdramas, Cdramas, Thai dramas, and even some Taiwanese, Filipino, and Vietnamese dramas in case what you're trying to get at is that am a rookie drama watcher here. Even if I was a rookie, it's nothing to make fun of, it's not like any of us will get a degree, golden medal, or a million dollar over being a veteran drama watcher.

Find other fans of the drama to chat with and have fun, I'm not hating on you or trying to be rude to you personally, so lets allow each other to life peacefully and logically without unnecessary drama and hate on this website.

You don't understand my point, the plot itself isn't my thing to begin with. I didn't get that interested anyway when reading the synopsis but since I wanted more shows to watch I was willing to give it a chance, but then again didn't feel that excited and the libido thing turned me off completely, so instead I found other shows that made me more interested. Nowadays I only will bother watching if the plot according to the synopsis might truly have something to lure me in.

You know like ads for products? The purpose of them is to make people want to buy the actual product, if they aren't that good then most people won't bother buying nor trying it.

In that case I will just wait for all episodes to be out then read the reviews and comments about it just to be sure.

A flawless queen! I hope she acts more <3

Oh, finally I managed after so much effort and whole two weeks to finish this drama. In my opinion they should've named it The Shallow Society or Stereotypes: The Series instead. I find it utterly baffling how some people say it's a sophisticated and great drama, but of course everyone got their own taste and I don't have the right to force others to agree with me, I know all that so anyway here is my personal opinion. I'm not against a show or song not having dark and deep meanings, or having genius characters at all, am cool with some shallowness, stereotypes, and light hearted stuff as well, but only when it's done in an actually fun and non overly insulting way.

To be fair this drama had both positive and negative parts, though the negative parts were more, but the positive ones are worthy of mentioning as well.

Negatives:
1- Almost none of the characters were likeable or well written. Only character I genuinely loved and didn't have that much issues about was the super model/Seon-ho even though she also didn't has that much character development till the end. Loved how she handled the issue with that other model in a very mature way after protecting her from that rich woman and protected other two models in last episode.

She is very honest, straightforward, bold, confident, and loyal. I also love the actress's visuals, she has a perfect body that I wish I could have sadly my dang short ass height won't allow me, stunning face, sharp and pretty monolid eyes, and crazy charisma. I totally forget about everyone else including Minho when she on screen. Even her hairstyle and her way of walking (I mean her normally walking not only on runways), I always wondered if is she is indeed a model in real life as she totally seemed like it, and turns out she is!

Every outfit fit her perfectly and all her clothes looked overall amazing (The cool brown jacket in episode 1 she wore after the fashion show, The grey suit in episode 3, The blue jacket and lavender long skirt in episode 7, That light pink dress she was wearing during the time she fought that other model in her ex boyfriend's show part was gorgeous and she made it look even more gorgeous, the tight blue long dress and the black dress with very long tail in last episode, and the super puffy dress designed by Joseph in episode 1 with the silver hair accessories and Kelp hairstyle also fit her greatly, she kinda looked like a beautiful mythical creature). I basically have a massive crush on the actress at this point and she nailed her role lmao can't wait to see her acting in another actually good drama in future, especially as FL.

2- The FL's character was pure trash and was the character I hated the most. Yeah she isn't a villain or literally evil, but she was your typical stupid, clumsy, childish, preachy even when on the wrong herself, constant damsel in distress who is only great at being lost, in trouble, or literal danger female character who obviously has a very unlikeable personality and rely heavily on male characters to always save her ass, solve issues for her, protect/take care of her, and do stupid tasks for her like a servant all day long since she is unable to do it herself even though she is an adult who should know how to rely on herself, do her own shit, and supposedly have a brain as well.

Yeah she did say she tried her best at her job, and that she doesn't want to rely on connections blah blah...but every time she tries to do that, something bad happen and guess who comes to the rescue? The ex boyfriends squad, and sometimes her friends.

Can we please kill this terrible never dying trend already and have more decent FL characters, please! Why make them this way in 98% of dramas and attempt to glorify male characters only by making them seem more badass, competent, and cool??? Can't the female characters be the tough, athletic, competent, and badass ones mostly rescuing the day and helping/protecting ML (Like female characters in Alice in Borderland or the FL in Flower of Evil), or make it equal by having both leads help and protect each other.

Also I found it amusing how she always act as if she struggling so hard to survive when basically her biggest issue in life is her having to pick between two hot and rich guys, and an aspiring younger cute model who chase after her as if she is the best or only woman that is left on planet earth (Which is clearly not the case, the actress is cute and has a pretty smile but she isn't drop dead gorgeous enough for me to believe they are into her for the looks, especially ML and 2ML, and her personality is ass so...typical reversed harem shows bland and garbage main character, ugh). Why are these two guys into her and fighting to be her lover? We know the younger dude chased her to take advantage of her job, meanwhile the other two supposedly liked her, I will never understand why they did, and the plot didn't help to clarify that either.

I mean yeah she gets a bit harassed and humiliated in work, but so what? Almost everyone goes through that crap unless they are filthy rich or in a very powerful position, and compared to people with low income jobs, the amount of humiliation and struggles she faces is nothing at all. At least she still gets to go back to her expensive apartment to wear her brand clothes and then goes out to drink with her friends the whole night without worrying about becoming homeless or starving to death any moment lol (Sounds like me being salty here, I know but I couldn't help it).

Style wise most of her outfits were gorgeous, but sometimes she had some outfits I would expect a woman in her 70s or 80s to wear (Like her outfit and shoes on Ep 6 during her break up scene with Nam Jin, I could totally see my grandma wearing that, the white dress with frills on top, and the ugly wrinkled light blue outfit in episode 8). Make up was always on point though. I hate her hairstyle, but somehow the actress makes it work, on other people that hairstyle would look ugly, but not on her.

3- The whole cheating thing, what was the point of making the FL cheat on her politics loving boyfriend in first episode? How did that help the plot? How did it make the FL any likeable? Like from that moment and then her lying blatantly and proudly about her cheating to her boyfriend's face, then rushing to get all upset and preachy over super model's ex boyfriend cheating on her and even calling him a "threat to society" for being a cheater was just too much and instantly made me despise her.

Like was that supposed to be funny? Or it's an attempt to make the drama feminist friendly or liberal and cool by having this horrible double standards that females are allowed to cheat, it's okay, and can be forgotten about completely, but when a guy does it, it makes him a monster and worthy of at least getting drinks splashed over his body as punishment.

Like if that what they had in mind then that's just sad, cause that's not feminism logic at all (Maybe it is for the fake ass crazy feminists we see nowadays, but it's not the true meaning of feminism nor what is being open minded and liberal about), and it just felt as if they were glorifying the whole cheating thing.

Just like other dramas that include seriously bad things like sexual assault, abuse, and even rape in relationships and make them seem cute, romantic, and normal. It's cool for them to include these things only if they do it for the purpose of teaching a good lesson about how awful these behavior are and that no one should do them cause they lead to ruins of humans, not to make the romance spicy or cute.

Or maybe that was their lousy attempt to make the drama have a mature vibe? But why they think being mature and an adult is all about drinking till you pass out, basically living in night clubs, one night stands, and cheating?! It felt as if they tried so hard to give the drama this Hollywood style by picking the most garbage stereotypes of Hollywood you could ever think of and include it in the plot. Honestly first episode was one of the worst first episodes I have ever watched in drama history. Netflix really love to ruin so many shows by doing this exact crap over and over again.

And for any person who might try to rush to come at me, to write a long lecture about how that I shouldn't say cheating, one night stands...etc are only western/Hollywood thing.

Yeah I know cheating, party life blah blah exist in the whole world, but guess what? Unlike in the west where dramas and movies love to show these stuff all the time, have constant intense and graphic sex scenes, and basically glorify everything I mentioned before about how adult life is supposed to be in their eyes. Asian dramas are mostly the quite opposite, most of the time you wait at least till episode 8 for the leads to bother kiss and sex scenes are super rare, especially in first episode. You know?

That's not really Asian style since their culture is still more on the conservatives side, so it's very valid to say they are being more Hollywood like. Am not hating on the west here, or against having fun, partying, and being all free (As long as you're not doing something really harmful or wrong), and yes Hollywood still has a great side to it by producing really amazing shows and unforgettable movies, but I'm just stating facts and I find it sad they like to copy the bad sides only of Hollywood that made me stop watching western shows completely.

4- ML was just meh, pretty weak written, at times he was a bit creepy and annoying (How he blatantly chases after female lead while knowing she is dating another person, hits on her clearly in front of said other person, thinking that it's okay for them to have a friends with benefit casual relationship cause it's easier that way since he is too lazy to be serious and emotional, yet dislike it when she be with another man or want to have a serious relationship with anyone, and how he is so indifferent and dead inside like she said, I get that's how the character is supposed to be, the non emotional/expressive type, but god damn he is indeed annoying by being that way).

Some times he was a bit sweet by how he respects the FL wishes when she told him to let her drink alone and not following her everywhere like a stalker to shove his feelings down her throat, and how he helped with her grandma and the Audrey show issues. So although he isn't 100% trash like FL, he is still 90% trash lol

Though honestly the fact that he barely work and has almost zero passion about anything in life apart from simping for FL and playing around, yet still lives the luxury, responsibility-free life is also a bit infuriating when tons of people work like donkeys all day long everyday, and yet still struggle to stay alive.
love Minho though and am a big fan of Shinee so I will watch any drama/movie him or other members participate in, Minho, Seon Ho, Joseph, along with the friendships and fashion were the only reasons I managed to finish this shit show.

5- So many creepy as hell and despicable characters in plot:

I- The Shim Doo Young/young model guy creeped me to death, like from the first moment he showed in the break up scene in first episode as a waiter, smiling from ear to ear like a maniac all the time for no good reason while witnessing such a non-happy and embarrassing moment, I found myself disliking him. And he kept saying and doing so many creepy and irritating things that made me eventually hate his guts. I know why he acted that way, but doesn't makes it any less creepy.

Hated when Joseph kept talking about how great he was. I mean Actor is adorable (His visuals are good enough to work as an idol, though he doesn't look like nor give me a model vibe at all), but character is pointless and scary as fuck. Thanks to his odd behavior I did expect him to turn out to be a stalker sociopath who tries to murder the FL by the end of the drama due to her not wanting to be with him before they revealed he done it to improve his career or whatever.

He is arrogant to death, loves mooching off other people, rude, fake, overly energetic, cheesy, and as clingy as a blood sucking parasite. Oh, I would rather jump of a cliff than force myself to handle someone like him lmao
His scenes with that other girl (Whom he supposedly is dating in episode 6 were a waste of screen time, like why they add so many stupid subplots in only 8 episodes drama?!).

II- Seon Ho's ex boyfriend, that cold and painfully rude and heartless, self-centered prick. He talked and acted like a robot.

III- That JD brat who "defines Gen Z" (Whom I wished I could slap many times, actress is cute as hell and I loved all her outfits, the pink hair and the red carpet hairstyles were stunning, but god damn the character is awful. I'm Gen Z myself and though I know our generation is fucked up in a way and that's is the case for all generations, none is perfect, having her define us is tragic. Her scene with the gum was super disgusting, can't stand when people eat gum with an open mouth while making tons of noise in that non-civilized manner), and her MS. Hong stylist or whatever that rude woman is supposed to be was also shit although she got a bit better later. Both deserved some good slaps.

IV- Even FL's boss/CEO was annoying and pathetic at doing her job and just threw the FL under the bus all the time, making her do everything while she was busy panicking and drinking.

V- FL's ex boyfriend who is into politics and economy, he broke up with her after basically calling her dumb and shallow, saying that she isn't of his league, then all of a sudden he makes a U turn and decides he likes her and wants her back, acting all gentleman like, supportive, and romantic afterwards...in like three days after their break up! What the actual heck was that?!

It's amusing how according to him being into/knowing about politics and economy...is the only instant way to makes someone a worthy member of living in society, yeah they are useful and important topics, but not knowing that much about them is nothing deserving of being insulted like that, and I'm saying this even though I majored in economics myself lol

I was also a bit upset that she decided to get back with him after his rudeness, but then I remembered her whole cheating and lying thing then I realized that they were perfect for each other in a way, since both are shit (Though to be fair, at least he didn't cheat on her like how she done to him which was way worse deed than him being rude during break up, so she still wasn't fully worthy of him just like he said in episode 1).

He just existed to drag the plot until it's time for the leads to finally become a couple again. To be fair, at least I didn't suffer with second lead syndrome this time which is great. The actor is good at acting though, would love to see him in another drama with a role that isn't being a douchebag. If it wasn't for his rudeness and shit logic in first episode, I would totally love him and prefer him over ML, since after them getting back together he actually acted like a proper, sweet, and respectful lover, he is good looking and elegant, has a bright future, and his family seems nice and open minded, unlike irresponsible, boring, and immature ML.

VI- And of course the FL and ML. I mean it would be okay if it was a drama having villains as main leads (Though even villain characters can be likeable, relatable, and well written, even more than hero characters). But here they are supposed to be good, normal people.

Having this grand amount of characters in one drama be this toxic and hate able (The main leads included) is an accomplishment!

6- Hated the stereotype that any fashion related person should be shallow, stuck up, selfish, stupid, have zero manners and respect to anyone or anything, especially if they are in a higher work position, and that gay guys (Joseph and the utterly annoying Thierry and Mr. Kang dudes) or transgenders should act in that over the top, cringe, "Feminine" way.

I'm not against gay guys acting/looking feminine or cross-dressing, Androgynous style for both genders is my favorite and I'm 100% all for guys of any sexuality with make up, long hair, skirts, dresses, nail polish...etc as well as girls with very short hair and masculine style, that's totally my type and thing actually as a genderfluid/pansexual person myself, but hate when they make gay guys that way most of the time in shows as if they can't behave normally or be more on the manly side be it style or attitude-wise. Just like when they make tomboyish girls mostly very "manly", vulgar, have zero fashion sense, and have extreme hatred to girly girls or anything supposedly girl related like make up. Seon Ho is a good representation for a mostly tomboyish girl personality-wise yet mostly girly style-wise (According to what the ML said about her, that she used to play soccer with boys and beat them up...etc).

In transgenders case they make the transgenders behave in a way even the most girly non-trans/biologically born women don't do and make it for the comic relief purpose, making other characters and the watchers make fun of them, and view them as dumbasses or crazy (Great example is trans characters in Thai BL dramas, most of them get on my nerves greatly).

Anyway Joseph is sweet and was my second favorite character. He looked really nice with his hair up and that outfit in his fashion show in last episode. But since they literally showed five gay characters in the same damn drama, they could at least make each one of them different than make most of them act cringe as hell.
Even one gay character acting like that is too much, let alone three! The guy whom Thierry was in love with (Who clearly was trying his best to hide himself being gay) and the one whom Jospeh was crushing on seemed to be the only normal ones among the five, if they also acted like retards that would be depressing.

7- The leads barley had chemistry and their acting wasn't that great, both seemed tired, blank, or bored while saying the most emotional and romantic lines, especially Minho, FL's actress done better to be fair.

They could pass for friends, siblings, or cousins, but not more than that, and even after they decided to get together in ep 6 then started acting all childish, cringe, and lovey dovey in ep 7, I still didn't feel any romantic vibe at all (Seriously I always fail to understand why they show many couples in dramas acting overhype, chasing after each other in parks playing tag and whatever, jumping around and playing with toys like 4 years old kids, I even saw couples in their 40's doing that crap in some movies...yeah keeping your youth and youthful soul blah blah is nice and I do believe that yes even adults should have fun just like kids, I get it, I also love playing some kids video games, going to amusement parks, and till this day I still watch some kids shows like sponge bob, Gumble, Adventure Time, Monster High, Totally Spies, and we bare bears...etc but it still looks gross when watching couples act that way in dramas, especially adult ones lol).

I mean both Minho and FL's actress tried their best clearly with the shit script and roles they were given, I know cause I have seen Minho act in other dramas/movies and he has done much better job. I know he isn't a bad actor at all although not one of the best out there, so I assume that even if they casted a very experienced, strong actors they will still struggle with this hollow script, at least that is what I believe.

8- The music sucked, can't remember any of the OST songs they played in any of the episodes.

9- Why did they skip the part with the super model and her new lover? I wanted to see their relationship develop in details, he treated her like a queen, was very supportive, sweet, cool, and decent overall unlike the ex, and she is among the most important characters in the drama with a good amount of screen time, so it was odd that they ignored it and they just got together suddenly out of the blue. I was way more interested in them than the main leads.
They gave so many scenes to that stupid young male model and his girlfriend, Ms. Oh and Ms. Hong, and other uninteresting and annoying characters, yet didn't bother giving screen time to Seon-ho and the new boyfriend?!

10- The damn constant mention of influencers (Whom I can't bring myself to like at all in real life), I get they are trying to make the drama trendy which makes sense, but I just hate influencers and the drama defiantly didn't help at making me dislike them any less lol

11- I also have an issue with plots when exes still interact/stay as friends when they both/one of them still got feelings. When it's one of them having feelings and try to get back/keep hitting on the other one, especially if the other dates another person. Then the other acts all wishy washy, struggle to make a decision, and give them mixed signals, instead of being like "Dude/girl, I don't view you that way anymore so you either stop it or we can't be friends anymore!". FL is an example of this.
Yeah she did tell ML she doesn't want to be with him few times, but she always seem hesitant and say stuff like "Yes, I like you" or "Remember this tie, it was our special thing blah blah" which makes the ML still has hope and insist to chase her. This bothered me, but I wouldn't cut any points from my rating for it since The Fabulous is revolved around exes getting back together, I get it, but it's not a concept that I enjoy seeing.

Wish they would make a representation of nice friendship between exes/divorced people in a drama in future, where they don't keep flirting or have romantic feelings for each other anymore. They both can be in relationships with others and support each other in a pure way.

At some point I remembered the movie The Devil Wears Prada or whatever it's name was, with the whole FL being clumsy and struggling in the fashion industry and her having to do absurd tasks to impress the top woman in said industry (AKA that Ahn woman the FL in The Fabulous idolize. That woman had a very similar personality, hairstyle, and vibe as the boss woman in Devils Wears Prada). Only difference is that in this drama the FL actually cares for and knows a lot about fashion.

Positives:
1- The friendship between the four main characters (ML, FL, Jospeh, and the Seon Ho) was surprisingly healthy and sweet, unlike the romantic relationships which were tragic.

2- Super model's friendship with ML was refreshing to see, I really hate when people make it seem as if pure, normal, and non-sexual or emotional friendship between men and women are impossible to happen, and the friendship between ML and Seon Ho is a nice representation of a healthy and pure male-female friendship. Friendship between FL and Seon Ho is also very healthy, got tired of women friendships that constantly get ruined and them stabbing each other in the back with one becoming an utter cruel bitch over some stupid guy in love triangles bullshit plots.

3- FL's grandmother was super caring and adorable, wish my grandmother was like her.

4- Joseph's mother and his assistant Esther were sweet too and the relationship and bond between the three was gold. Wish all parents were that supportive, upbeat, and chill.

5- The visuals in the drama were indeed nice (Which should happen since it's a drama about fashion lol), I loved many of the clothes, make up, hairstyles, and accessories of almost all the characters (Though the ones with the best styles were seon Ho, JD, Joseph, and FL's CEO). Even the houses/filming places decertations, and cars (Especially that pink car of Ms. Hong, I want it)...etc the cinematography was good too. The golden and brown bag in episode 4 designed by Joseph looked cool, I would wear it honestly, the black high heels of FL in episode 5 gifted to her by Nam Jin were classy, and the Audrey party themed fashion show in Episode three was a very nice idea actually.

6- The exhibition scene in ep 6 was very romantic, the ML hanging tons of pictures of FL, her grandma, and friends was quite the unique idea, that could be great for a wedding proposal scene as well. It was quite memorable, sadly it got wasted on this stupid drama with boring couple...

So after this long ass essay (I applaud anyone who actually reads it till the end) I will give the drama thanks to the positive sides I mentioned 4/10 lmao

Well that is the point of the synopsis, to know if the plot is your thing or not. If it's not my thing then there is no reason for me to waste time on it, watching many episodes waiting for the drama to get good enough for me and understand the libido bullshit, instead of watching something that I might enjoy more. If you enjoy the drama and dig the plot then that's 100% okay, but it doesn't mean everyone should agree with you, just like I'm not forcing you to agree with me.

Probably it will be a dumb cringe part honestly lol

Oh, so I was right that it's not that great. Thanks for saving my time lol

Probably this part could lead some weirdos to watch the drama hoping for some gross fanservice or some shit lol I guess I will just pass on this drama since it doesn't seem that good.