Started strong and crashed badly . . . another failure at modernising the Cinderella/Alpha CEO trope
Our couple meets and falls for each other in a flash, excellent banter and physical chemistry, giddy in finding someone on holiday away from their everyday lives.
Reuniting causes a huge mess, and it's a very clever idea, beause what are the typical lies people tell?:
1) Lying about their lives back home while on vacation
2) Lying about their background or skills for a job
Our main female character Da-Rim has done both and the traps and miscommunications resulting from this are exaggerated but still within character. Da Rim tries the best she can, and with the support of the women at work, starts to blossom a bit despite it all and you even start rooting for her.
Ji-Hyeok stomps around like a bunch of red flags ogre from another decade but you never doubt, despite the plots and dialogue, that he deeply cares for Da Rim and that keeps the romantic tension going.
Then, about half way through, it was like this drama felt like it needed to get larger than life: ridiculous scenarios, life and death situations, corporate espionage, absurd situations at work, instead of being an understandable cringe . . it jumped the shark.
I literally by end of episode 11 could not bear to watch it anymore.
Which is a shame, it's been a rough year for the romantic comedy genre, and I had large hopes from the first episode that this could, if clumsy, be entertaining through to the end. But nope - I just can't force myself to watch anymore.
Our couple meets and falls for each other in a flash, excellent banter and physical chemistry, giddy in finding someone on holiday away from their everyday lives.
Reuniting causes a huge mess, and it's a very clever idea, beause what are the typical lies people tell?:
1) Lying about their lives back home while on vacation
2) Lying about their background or skills for a job
Our main female character Da-Rim has done both and the traps and miscommunications resulting from this are exaggerated but still within character. Da Rim tries the best she can, and with the support of the women at work, starts to blossom a bit despite it all and you even start rooting for her.
Ji-Hyeok stomps around like a bunch of red flags ogre from another decade but you never doubt, despite the plots and dialogue, that he deeply cares for Da Rim and that keeps the romantic tension going.
Then, about half way through, it was like this drama felt like it needed to get larger than life: ridiculous scenarios, life and death situations, corporate espionage, absurd situations at work, instead of being an understandable cringe . . it jumped the shark.
I literally by end of episode 11 could not bear to watch it anymore.
Which is a shame, it's been a rough year for the romantic comedy genre, and I had large hopes from the first episode that this could, if clumsy, be entertaining through to the end. But nope - I just can't force myself to watch anymore.
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