While in 99% of romance shows it's the FL that outshines the ML, here, while the FL shines bright, the ML goes freaking supernova. The guy practically oozes charm.
I'm torn. I loved the start (especially the dancing, which, while short, was just wrong enough to be the right amount of creepy), but the plot really brought it down with the whole evil spirit thing.
The mayor should be prosecuted for trying to frame Hana for a crime she didnt commit. The mayor’s son should…
I'm assuming that the showrunners only found out the show will end after 10 episodes after making episode 8, because episodes 9 and 10 were extremely rushed and their plots, including the creep/sexual predator and mayor ones, shortened to basically a sketch.
On the plus side, the mandatory third act romcom tragedy plot trope only lasted like 30 seconds.
It still doesn't. Why that hospital, that ICU ward, those people,...? Is it just a shared dream, is the FL common denominator,...? Episode 4 answered literally no questions, just posed more.
"teenager in an adult body"Sadly, that describes literally every single character in the show. I don't know if…
It's not so much breadth as it is two extremes with nothing in-between. If a show involves romance, it's either extremely childish (romcoms) or psychotic (romance dramas, melodramas, soaps).
In all fairness the FML is acting pretty immature as well. At the end of the day this a romantic comedy so the…
To be fair, there are degrees of comedy though. It doesn't have to be full-on forced slapstick to qualify, it can be more subdued. Once it goes past the ridiculous stage (like 3 people just sitting there, watching a man on a ~4 metre tall ladder and no one securing it just to force the falling-off-a-ladder trope, for example), it's just too much.
The leads always arguing is funny, while the ML moving in with the FL is borderline creepy and stalker-like.
Is the teenager in an adult body trainee teacher supposed to be the 2ML?!
"teenager in an adult body" Sadly, that describes literally every single character in the show.
I don't know if I've had my fill of romcoms or something, but I wish there was a genre between angsty, idiotic, melodramatic, trope-filled romcoms and scheming, overdramatised, romance dramas.
This one is on you. You went into a romance drama expecting that it wouldn't revolve around the romance? 😭
I went in blind, and only because I liked the FL in I am Not A Robot, no other preconceived notions. Also, romance doesn't necessitate angst and melodrama (even though in Korean shows it damn near might).
I am disappointed. It was quite good for about 90% of the first episode, when it looked like the FL was going to use the failed kidnapping as a means to facilitate an escape from her forced marriage prison and borderline obsessive controlling husband, mother, and mother-in-law, but then it rapidly devolved into generic angsty melodrama BS filled with tropes and misunderstandings.
I've read the webtoon of this season, and let me tell you, show=webtoon. nothing more nothing less.Monsters are…
The rationale seems to be all over the place, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Like, why is the MC turning into a demon because he was a coward? Why was he told he'd die 20 years ago, when he was still a boy? ...
The plot honestly feels like stream of consciousness brain vomit, like the author just followed the rule of cool, and threw in whatever plot element they thought would be, well, cool. Reason, rationality, and worldbuilding be damned.
How would this even work as a remake? Like are they planning on telling the same story, just with different actors?…
Probably just Americanising it; everyone speaks English, culture-swap Korean with American, maybe go full retard and set it in the US with one of the characters being a North Korean sleeper agent,...
alaska girl landing in russia or vice versa 😂, This type of script only works with neighbouring countries with…
Oh dear god, an Israel-Palestine CLOY, where an Israeli woman crash lands in Gaza, is murdered immediately, and Israel then invades and kills a couple thousand Palestinians, and takes more land in the West Bank. Or, a Palestinian man's car breaks down near an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank and he is disappeared by Shin Bet.
China-Taiwan would work though. Their people are disconnected enough for it to be believable.
On the plus side, the mandatory third act romcom tragedy plot trope only lasted like 30 seconds.
Episode 4 answered literally no questions, just posed more.
If a show involves romance, it's either extremely childish (romcoms) or psychotic (romance dramas, melodramas, soaps).
Once it goes past the ridiculous stage (like 3 people just sitting there, watching a man on a ~4 metre tall ladder and no one securing it just to force the falling-off-a-ladder trope, for example), it's just too much.
The leads always arguing is funny, while the ML moving in with the FL is borderline creepy and stalker-like.
Sadly, that describes literally every single character in the show.
I don't know if I've had my fill of romcoms or something, but I wish there was a genre between angsty, idiotic, melodramatic, trope-filled romcoms and scheming, overdramatised, romance dramas.
Also, romance doesn't necessitate angst and melodrama (even though in Korean shows it damn near might).
It was quite good for about 90% of the first episode, when it looked like the FL was going to use the failed kidnapping as a means to facilitate an escape from her forced marriage prison and borderline obsessive controlling husband, mother, and mother-in-law, but then it rapidly devolved into generic angsty melodrama BS filled with tropes and misunderstandings.
Like, why is the MC turning into a demon because he was a coward?
Why was he told he'd die 20 years ago, when he was still a boy?
...
The plot honestly feels like stream of consciousness brain vomit, like the author just followed the rule of cool, and threw in whatever plot element they thought would be, well, cool. Reason, rationality, and worldbuilding be damned.
Or, a Palestinian man's car breaks down near an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank and he is disappeared by Shin Bet.
China-Taiwan would work though. Their people are disconnected enough for it to be believable.