Tastefully, Uncooked.
This drama had the potential to be SO MUCH MORE. It just fizzles down. To give you an understanding of what watching this drama felt like... Imagine Uncle Roger, watching Jamie Oliver's egg fried rice video for the first time.
He starts off with high hopes and aspirations, because egg fried rice has his favorite ingredients. But the recipe starts getting weird after the most perfect prepping up. But he doesn't give up on Jamie Oliver's video yet, because he hopes things will get better from now on. Then he sees Jamie Oliver put water on the half-cooked rice, and he ends up putting his foot down, seeing the atrocity unfold in front of his eyes. Now, imagine you are Uncle Roger, and the atrocious egg fried rice video unfolding before your eyes is Tastefully Yours. It went the exact same route as Jamie Oliver's egg fried rice recipe. It started off weird, then got a little decent, and then just suddenly decided to FORGET ALL LOGIC and became such a convoluted mess. When the writers forgot what they wanted to show, they decided to bring in a big actor to bring extra intrigue. But the extra actor just brings with him confusion and ZERO intrigue. Then, when they got tired of the big actor, they decided to gift wrap his story in a neatly tied bow and scoot him off the set.
The only saving graces in this drama were Jungjae's coworkers, Noonim and Cheung-Sung, and Bomwoo's mom, played by Oh Min Ae. And it truly hurts when a drama with such good actors takes this bad of a nosedive midway through the series. They had so much potential; the drama could be so much more. But towards the end, it became just another rip-off of Culinary Class Wars (They even called influencers and chefs who came to CCW >_< ) . I think had they taken lesser-known actors, it would've made better sense, but wasting the potential of two of the best actors in the Korean industry is just sad. Do better, kdrama. There's only so far that food can take you.
He starts off with high hopes and aspirations, because egg fried rice has his favorite ingredients. But the recipe starts getting weird after the most perfect prepping up. But he doesn't give up on Jamie Oliver's video yet, because he hopes things will get better from now on. Then he sees Jamie Oliver put water on the half-cooked rice, and he ends up putting his foot down, seeing the atrocity unfold in front of his eyes. Now, imagine you are Uncle Roger, and the atrocious egg fried rice video unfolding before your eyes is Tastefully Yours. It went the exact same route as Jamie Oliver's egg fried rice recipe. It started off weird, then got a little decent, and then just suddenly decided to FORGET ALL LOGIC and became such a convoluted mess. When the writers forgot what they wanted to show, they decided to bring in a big actor to bring extra intrigue. But the extra actor just brings with him confusion and ZERO intrigue. Then, when they got tired of the big actor, they decided to gift wrap his story in a neatly tied bow and scoot him off the set.
The only saving graces in this drama were Jungjae's coworkers, Noonim and Cheung-Sung, and Bomwoo's mom, played by Oh Min Ae. And it truly hurts when a drama with such good actors takes this bad of a nosedive midway through the series. They had so much potential; the drama could be so much more. But towards the end, it became just another rip-off of Culinary Class Wars (They even called influencers and chefs who came to CCW >_< ) . I think had they taken lesser-known actors, it would've made better sense, but wasting the potential of two of the best actors in the Korean industry is just sad. Do better, kdrama. There's only so far that food can take you.
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