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It's quite good! (maybe a tiny bit overrated, there is less substance here than in Run On)
Kdramas do this thing where they pick a profession or an organization & then over-romanticize it. In this one that is the headhunter profession. I have mixed feelings about that, while this topic seems somewhat decently researched, it's a rather hard sell for me for various reasons.. Anyways,I can look past that with some difficulty. At the very least the show as an office drama -most of the day to day company happenings etc- works rather well. (discounting maybe episode 11 & the big shareholder guy's few scenes)
The romance is pretty good, it's not the best thing ever or anything, but nothing particularly annoying happens and there is quite a bit of fluff & cuteness in the final episodes. The bickering early on & the the minor enemies to lovers thing works well too. Considering the subject matter, the whole single dad + wealthy woman thing, the writers really sidestepped most of the mines that plague pretty much all such kdrama relationships that I've seen thus far.
The triangles are very minimal, so that's obviously pretty great too.
All things considered the writers did an acceptable job, overall more good than bad. However the pacing is a bit weird & some character personalities really shift too suddenly in the early episodes. Kind of like how sometimes in Hollywood there is a Pilot episode shot for the studio & then they change a bunch of things for episode 2 once the whole season is on order. I don't know, could be that kdrama writers are still not very comfortable with the 12 episode format, I cannot help but feel that the sweet spot for this kind of storytelling would be 13-14 episodes. Though at least in this one the final episode is reasonably well done, albeit the preceding `collapse of the company` plot is pretty dumb and sudden.
Also good god, "Peoplez" & "WE Company" are both incredibly stupid names. (sure real life Korean entrepreneurs have come up with countless awful brand names, but Koreans cannot even pronounce that "z" consonant, was there really a need for this?)
The child actor or rather actors are the best in this one. I just cannot believe a 7 year old kid can be this good.
The romance is pretty good, it's not the best thing ever or anything, but nothing particularly annoying happens and there is quite a bit of fluff & cuteness in the final episodes. The bickering early on & the the minor enemies to lovers thing works well too. Considering the subject matter, the whole single dad + wealthy woman thing, the writers really sidestepped most of the mines that plague pretty much all such kdrama relationships that I've seen thus far.
The triangles are very minimal, so that's obviously pretty great too.
All things considered the writers did an acceptable job, overall more good than bad. However the pacing is a bit weird & some character personalities really shift too suddenly in the early episodes. Kind of like how sometimes in Hollywood there is a Pilot episode shot for the studio & then they change a bunch of things for episode 2 once the whole season is on order. I don't know, could be that kdrama writers are still not very comfortable with the 12 episode format, I cannot help but feel that the sweet spot for this kind of storytelling would be 13-14 episodes. Though at least in this one the final episode is reasonably well done, albeit the preceding `collapse of the company` plot is pretty dumb and sudden.
Also good god, "Peoplez" & "WE Company" are both incredibly stupid names. (sure real life Korean entrepreneurs have come up with countless awful brand names, but Koreans cannot even pronounce that "z" consonant, was there really a need for this?)
The child actor or rather actors are the best in this one. I just cannot believe a 7 year old kid can be this good.
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