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I really liked her and she is the only one other than park Min young (but for secretary Kim) that I liked all their projects. She went through a very tragic personal life event which is why we have not seen her in my humble opinion. This is why I think her comeback project Chocolate was such a sad drama too. I hope she has healed and recovered and that we have her back.

That’s exactly what I was trying to say 😊😊. Sometimes what global audience liked is not liked by local audience and vice versa. So it’s like the production house picks up it’s target audience, it’s almost like marketing a consumer product. The creators when they get a script I think they know which is the consumer here. And some dramas are liked by all for example hometown Cha Cha.

I still really really liked flaw. Save for ep 13 and 14. The story was very healing and very meaningful for me. Only thing I hated was the glorification of the cheaters.

I agree with you, that many global audience will not find it relatable, I think what we are talking about is that this drama is popular in Korea with very high ratings (higher than 2521 even) and the story appears to have domestic audiences as it’s key target segment. So it may strike a chord of dissonance with audience elsewhere. It’s happens sometimes like this right some stories are global in their appeal and some are very local in their appeal. Many Indian, Nigerian and Indonesian movies are like that with the content very localised and specific. I personally loved a Nigerian movie called NNekka and Indonesia Islamic story Verses of love. But both did not gain much popularity on Netflix. I think FLAW was the same. Locals really liked it and it’s brutally honest portrayal of the toxic work culture in Korea.

Netflix is in financial distress and their share prices have lost a lot of market value. I am suspecting that their future content will be more driven by their key markets North America and Latin America . I saw so many telenovela type shows these few months. Plus more business proposal type entertaining and fluffy stories without much depth.

I am seeing a trend here. Forecasting weather was also loved by Koreans but not so for international audiences. With Netflix not doing well, I think it’s something production houses were already aware of probably? Which is why maybe the cable networks are focusing back on local audiences. So I am seeing very polar ratings- programs loved by local audiences but not so much internationally. I don’t think that’s a bad thing though since it’s allows for more diversity beyond the usual college/high school stories or romances with ceos :)

I am person who can enjoy a drama in bits and parts. And with forecasting what I skipped I hated and what I watched I loved. I found the leads chemistry very good. I just pretended episodes 12 to 14 did not exist and so did the cheaters. And watched episode 15 on fast forward. Ep 12 to 15 felt like someone else wrote this show. And don’t know why I ended up liking this drama on rewatch even though I had initially hated it.

This drama is going to be on my watch list. I seem to like dramas which MDL rates 7.5 to 8 since those are dramas which show flawed older (sometimes younger) characters who are going through existential crisis - Nevertheless, Weather Forecasting, Marriage Contract. So I will tune in once this finishes airing. Conversely all dramas rated 8.5 and above, save for Hometown Cha Cha, It’s Ok Not to be Ok, Navillera and Business Proposal, I dropped in the first couple of episodes. And yes all dramas below 7 are usually bad from a product and technical perspective - Bad acting, bad direction and incoherent storylines. So my thinking (it’s my humble opinion), if you are called to watch a drama rated 7 and above, give it a shot, because we are diverse people with diverse tastes. Who knows you may love a drama which many others find average 🙂👍

So I am a huge fan of park min young. But the dramas I like are not the usual ones. If I want the happy feels I watch this drama. In 2019, the world before covid, reminds me of this drama. Every time I want to think of a happier time of a world before covid, I just come back to Her Private Life. I hate secretary king due to the absolute jerk hero. And every time I want to think of the world moving back towards a new normal, I think of weather forecasting. When I was watching weather forecasting, this was the first time I stepped out of my country of stay after more than 2 years. Weather forecasting was almost like poetic justice since that drama showed life which was far from perfect and is very true of this post covid world. Hopeful but still far from what it used to be. And when I want to see a drama about a time where women are fighting to be educated, I watch sungkungkwan. So these three trio of dramas are the ultimate fix for me 🙂

Yes the actor was wonderful and he made it adorable. But the character to me was a red flag, since I have met such men in real life you know. It’s easy to meet handsome powerful rich dudes especially in consulting worlds. But even if they are nice to you their narcissism means that they have a bite and can hurt you materially if not physically. He was actually very cold and very mean. A ceo who was done well and who respected his employees no matter how inferior they were to him in social ladder was Kang Tae in Business Proposal. I really really liked the way his character was written. He was not a jerk and he did not force himself upon the female heroine to make her like him. He was adorably written 🙂.

Despite everything I still love this drama, since I loved the leads chemistry and interaction. It’s rare when we see someone as a female boss. But I literally deluded myself saying the cheaters don’t exist and blindly fast forwarded whenever they were there on screen the cheaters. I agree with your points, the weirdest thing is that the female lead shows plenty of spine with the sweet male lead and keeps getting angry with him even for the slightest reasons. And I was like “girl you still talk to your cheater ex, you forgave your cheater ex, why are you so mean to this boy”. Nonetheless I still liked this drama, don’t ask me why though 🤷‍♀️. I hate this writer to be honest she is one twisted lady.

Thank you. I will try and watch this. In any case Shakespeares twelfth night which had the same concept is still my favourite story 🙂. I forgave that since that was written in the 1500s, but this is a bit foolish on this dramas writers part. But like you said let me give it a shot 🙂

Want to watch this drama but it’s biologically impossible to have male and female twins be identical. Since males have XY and females have XX chromosomes. So resemble an extent yes but identical no. This is such basic high school level science. Is this drama good otherwise, then I can suspend my disbelief?

I have an entirely different perspective. I do not want to see a Korean remake, because Korean dramas attracts a lot of viewers from more misogynist countries . Which means that we will now be bombarded with comments like “oh the actress has started looking old”, “oh the hero is too young”. The same people who have no problem with goblin where a 40 year old man (that’s the age when he died to become goblin) is romancing an underage heroine, in short the comments will have nothing to do with story or acting. The same way it was for forecasting love and weather. I mean the story was problematic but people kept hating for reasons which have nothing to do with the drama but with the age disparity. I have seen how quality of Korean dramas have dropped since the first time I watched it to now when they cater to more patriarchal audiences. I love Chinese dramas and Taiwanese dramas and I don’t want them to be also spoiled this way. That way then I will have nothing left to watch when I can enjoy a simple story without feeling triggered by the terribly gender biased comments viewers post.

This is such a healthy wholesome drama. No super toxic workplace (forecasting love and weather), no glorified cheating (forecasting love and weather), no stupid unrequited first love (2521), characters who were stuck in the past failing to live in future (2521). I don’t know why this drama was on my bottom list after forecasting and 2521. But I love this one the most… it’s such a squeal worthy, swoon worthy drama. While I liked, loved and hated forecasting in equal measure, dropped 2521 out of sheer boredom. This is how secretary Kim (this is most my hated k drama due to the toxic hero) should have been without a jerk face ceo, one who makes his employees work like medieval slaves with no rights. This one is so so so good. It shows how an old wine in a new bottle can taste just so sweet. Love it. 12/10 for me.

U know like for some readers it’s ok to skip pages when reading a book? I usually do that for super long Brandon Sanderson novels where it’s 1000 pages long and multiple plot lines, but I still love his books. This drama was similar to me. What I hated I totally skipped and what I liked I loved (weird I know) so maybe see if you still like it after skipping. By the way skip ep 12 to 14, they are well and truly horrible.

I hope this is a good drama. I loved Melancholia but didn’t like Song Hye Kyo in recent dramas. I did like her in that winter the wind blows. She was amazing in it. She did the part of a blind heiress very well. She did not come off as weak or helpless even once. So for that was a very sensitively played role by her defying usual conventions that visually impaired people should look helpless. That why I keep tuning in to watch her amaze me again. But sadly it’s not happened. So hopefully she will deliver this time. Lee Do Hyun is superb as usual. I am ok with watching age difference since usually outside of K dramaland we usually see male leads who are sometimes older than thirty years even so don’t understand this hypocrisy. But really I hope song hye kyo delivers

Uff when will this start airing? Never waited so long for any drama and with so much excitement. Xu Kai always delivers and so does Yang Mi.

The way to watch it is to pretend it’s a 10 episode drama and skip all the scenes with 1) them talking to their exes 2) the scenes of the cheating exes. If you cut that story line out and pretend it does not exist, I did a quick rewatch on fast forward and surprisingly found it quite nice to watch this time around which is why I raised my personal rating from 1 after 15 episodes to 7 after 16 episodes (they tied the story quite well) to 7.5 after a quick rewatch skipping everything about that idiot called Han Ki Joon and his cheating wife. Other stories were done well. I personally loved the redemption arc with the Lee Shi Woo dad, since I have seen similar things where people do change after a reckoning with death. This is new for me and my drama watching since I have never raised my ratings on rewatch after initially thinking of giving it one star. So just wanted to drop by and share my second thoughts. 👍

Exactly right ? Love this comment of yours. They don’t allow their celebs to breathe even