Less business talk. Focus more on the ladies!
Let me start by saying this is not romance. ML and FL did promos together for the show, and I just assumed. I was very wrong. Honestly, that’s fine because there's no messy love triangles then.
Second, this show gets infinitely better after the halfway point. Before then, I found the first half quite boring. Even toward the end, the show is only good when it focuses on the female lead’s roommates and her immediate coworkers. Their struggles related to the business and the IMF crisis in the background are the highlights. Very emotional and very good, especially concerning a certain character and her child.
So, what was so bad about the first half?
Old folks talking business.
Absolutely relentless hours upon hours, episode after episode of just scheming over and over in the chairman’s office. How to hide this, how to cover that. Finance talk. Stock talk. Bonds talk. Shares talk. Even if you don’t understand the terminology being thrown around, you still get the general sense of what’s happening. But my goodness, they needed to cut down on this nonsense. It feels like 30% of the show was filmed in the chairman’s office talking about the slush fund. This series should have been trimmed to 12 episodes and it would have been infinitely better.
Otherwise, the acting is good. Costume and set designs are nice. Mildly funny in regard to her entire undercover shtick as a 20-year-old. Ending is good.
Second, this show gets infinitely better after the halfway point. Before then, I found the first half quite boring. Even toward the end, the show is only good when it focuses on the female lead’s roommates and her immediate coworkers. Their struggles related to the business and the IMF crisis in the background are the highlights. Very emotional and very good, especially concerning a certain character and her child.
So, what was so bad about the first half?
Old folks talking business.
Absolutely relentless hours upon hours, episode after episode of just scheming over and over in the chairman’s office. How to hide this, how to cover that. Finance talk. Stock talk. Bonds talk. Shares talk. Even if you don’t understand the terminology being thrown around, you still get the general sense of what’s happening. But my goodness, they needed to cut down on this nonsense. It feels like 30% of the show was filmed in the chairman’s office talking about the slush fund. This series should have been trimmed to 12 episodes and it would have been infinitely better.
Otherwise, the acting is good. Costume and set designs are nice. Mildly funny in regard to her entire undercover shtick as a 20-year-old. Ending is good.
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