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Good Start, Horrible Finish
This show has a decent premise with a great start.Go Rim's friendship and relationship with the father/ her friend was natural and wholesome. Nothing felt romantic (more on that later) and on top of that, both being pursued by wealthy love interest made for a fun dynamic. The Main lead is a bit cold, but not overly emotionless as some other leads. The SFL lead was fun and probably my favorite character, with the side couple being the one I paid more attention to.
So, with all of that going on, I was really looking forward to watching both relationships unfold and getting through the series until...my enjoyment was immediately snatched and burned right in front of me due to one writing decision.
The SML loves Go Rim too and always has? For years upon years, he's loved her but never confessed?
What in the cliche, boring plot reveal is this?
Adding a second male lead into a story where the female lead is 100% going to choose the other guy doesn't build tension. It builds annoyance.
And maybe the show writers didn't consider this or didn't care, but if SML has been in love with Go Rim for forever, what does that make the woman he had the child with? The writers could have easily made his reluctance to date the SFL be about his inability to move on from his first love, but no. We get a boring, random love triangle introduced instead.
Even after being hit with a wave of disappointment, I tried to keep going and skip over any scenes related to the love triangle, but my interest declined every episode, until I eventually just skipped to the end.
This drama reminded me of how much I don't enjoy second male leads. As I stated previously, even after his interest in Go Rim was revealed, him and her had no chemistry, and no other reason other than to make the male lead a little more jealous than he already was.
Halting the development of a relationship for the SML and the SFL (who end up together anyways!!) just didn't make sense to me. But, oh well.
Other than the love triangle, the other thing I didn't like was how the ML treated the SFL. While he was not aware that Go Rim wasn't married and felt guilty regarding his feeling for her, he suddenly becomes a man who's willing to force the SFL into an arranged marriage, despite the fact he didn't want that same arranged marriage forced onto him?
That's not heroic and it doesn't make me sympathize with him feeling sad. He just ends up looking selfish.
Overall, I'd said this show is a 5. Good start, good actors, but kind of feels like the writers didn't care by the end.
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