Sinasina

Really??? Would you for real pick them over Bogom + IU?

Also while I feel Miss Chu has grown a lot as a main actor in this show & by episode 10 her acting has improved tremendously, but overall on average this is still not that great, with awkwardness aplenty.

I don't care about the quality of kissing scenes very much, I know this is often not related to the actor's kissing skill at all, but rather other factors such as the age rating of the show or what the production team thinks can be or should be shown on the target channel. (maybe even contracts)

Anyway my concern is also the lack of romance genre, because I have doubts that without romance a plot like this could be enjoyable in the kdrama space.

It's not great, maybe a tiny bit better than Would You Marry me, but it's like comparing rotten tomatoes with moldy lemons.

I don't think any actress can easily sell that, an elite 30s supervisor pretending to be a 20 yo that is. Though they could have found someone a bit younger, sure.

The best compromise would've been making her pretend to be a 25yo high school graduate ..

No it doesn't, more like 2005.

Oh My Venus and Hogu's Love came out in 2015, honestly it has been a better year for kdrama romcoms than 2025.

This plot could work very well, but the ending surely should be two gumiho lovers with baby foxes, not the cliche human ending, but alas all this talk about growing up leaves little hope for that, ay??

Can a human turn into a Gumiho? Can a Gumiho be a successful soccer player, while hiding his identity from other gumihos?

There are so many, I'm literally talking about the best of the best. I'm jelly that you can watch such amazing shows for the first time in 2025, when I have like nothing to watch & due to that somehow I have not dropped Dynamite Kiss of all things. (Business Proposal is fine though.)

For example: Goblin, Hogu's Love, Secret Garden, While You Were Sleeping, I Can Hear Your Voice, Pinocchio, It's Okay That's Love, Oh My Venus, Still 17 etc..
(In secret Garden the second FL defo doesn't want the ML, but it takes a few epis for that to become clear, it's actually quite a similar FL character to the one in Dynamite Kiss)

I have a list actually https://kisskh.at/list/1dOGjNE4
though this list is about weak love triangles in general & half of it is cdramas, as such there are a few love struck second FL's around that give up quickly or are not too bothersome. For example one of the best romcoms I've seen is Another Oh Hae Yong & in that show the second FL defo wants back in ML's life, but it's a weak effort..

If you can accept shows with annoying second ML's, but not FL's then there is probably hundrends more. The most common triangle setup is 2 men & 1 woman, often there is not even a second FL. Strongwoman Do Bong Sun is the biggest name in that otherwise wretched genre & it's incredibly funny if you can FF button the second ML's scenes.

I'm watching e10 rn, I'm 50% in & I'm thinking good gawd, are they going to turn this show into Jealousy Incarnate?

Really, you have missed some of the best kdramas if true.

Yeah well, this is just as true for cdramas & c-idols. It's just a surprising quirk of Korean society that their entertainment industry is nearly as restrictive as the Chinese one.

It's not an acting issue, it's a kdrama issue. Wouldn't surprise me if some high profile actors had it in the contract that dead fish kisses only. What's even more plausible that the intensity of the kiss affects the age rating of the show as well.

It's all the writing. Sure we could criticize FL's acting -though I think she is rapidly improving- however this is tiny tiny problem compared to the characterization and the dumb strategies to make this drama longer than it had to be.

I would be okay with him remaining a sad single dad & that's it. I don't think meaningful redemption is possible without 30 episodes of steady character development, maybe with some long timeskips added in.

What bad thing do you think HY has done that makes her comparable to the 3 other leads?

Second ML is awful, the plot in general is quite awful, ML's family is 2005 kdrama style cartoon villain-ish.

And the mom division's depiction is straight up disrespectful to educated & smart housewives dreaming about returning to the job market.

I have not been talking about her character or moral choices, just the fact that according to the script she shouldn't be stupid & is a university graduate, with scholarships at that.

I do agree that this is not a very good drama. Though Darim's controversial character is just a small part of that in my mind.

There could be contradictions in the writing, but at the very least there are the job interview flashbacks where the interviewers joke about the shitty uni she went to.

>that's why she never finished Uni

She finished Uni, she's been struggling with the civil service exam that guarantees employment if successfully taken, which is absurdly difficult & most people cannot do it. Failing it repeatedly is normal, like only the best of the best of the best can do it.

If you rationally analyze her basic setting as shown in the early episodes, then she should be on the smarter side of average, punished by society for her poor / fatherless family background.

In my experience by and large non romance South Korean shows tend to suck, especially compared to 2000,2010 era American television. The only reason Korean thrillers etc are still gaining traction is because Hollywood is in a big decline. What I'm trying to say is that that is not a very high bar to aim for, especially if we ignore production values & focus on real substance.

So what is the Sci-fi tag about?