Taino

I feel you. Romance stories are about the main leads, and any interaction or worse romantic interaction takes away from the main leads relationship...

I think you made a mistake with "Frankly Speaking". I believe that the one we are talking about in this thread is the Korean Drama from 2024.

They are officially together during the last two episodes. However, do not let this discourage you, since their feelings are obvious from episode 2, and their relationship since then is no less than practically dating.

The plot is very good, and she will try to put some distance between them a few times, but he stays with her at all times.

I loved how they were able to blend comedy and romance together in something this exaggerated and still somewhat balanced.

I genuinely don't understand second lead syndrome or simply shipping other people other than then main leads together. In a "romance" story, the whole point is for the "main leads" to be together, since it is "their" "romance" that we are talking about. How hard is it to understand?

I feel like people who likes love triangles and second lead syndrome are masochists who trick themselves with the hope of something that is not supposed to happen. I can go even further, and say that any exception where the main leads do not end up together is a sad ending.

To your point, shipping one of the leads with someone else just because they are pretty or handsome makes no sense, since they are usually completely disregarding the feelings of the main leads that usually like each other at that point, or going by looks alone, it is a whole crew of actors/celebrities; they all look good!

I couldn't agree more!

I will give this one a try! Wish me luck!

The sad part is that unnecessary break ups, annoying love triangles and evil mothers in law can be avoided with good character development, a good plot or even a good villain, but some writers prefer to drive us crazy with love triangles.

I watched "Radio Romance" recently, and was reminded that some people like to torture themselves because the shippers for the other guy and the second lead syndrome was not lacking, which is part of why writers keep doing this. However, for me, "romance" is about the main leads, so I prefer to see more of them than another dude stealing screentime and warm moments that could happen between the leads, but are wasted with this other guy.

Don't get me wrong, love triangles can serve a purpose through creating jealousy that will push the main leads together, provoking character development or moving the plot forward, but some of these stories push too hard on love triangles.

I blame the writers, and inside the story, I blame the three people involved in the love triangle. I blame the writers because they feed the unrealistic fantasy many women have of a herd of men just waiting for them, while their true love suffers, like making your true love suffer is a test or something...

I blame the male lead for not going for the woman he loves shamelessly; I blame the girl for not opening up to her true love and allowing this other guy to orbit around her one way or the other, and I blame the third person for not stepping back even when the girl does not like you and even when he knows that she likes someone else now.

I was looking into this one yesterday, but the tag "ex comes back" and how stupid and overwhelming love triangles can be in Dramaland, I am afraid to watch this one.

Allow me to correct myself; the writers to receive some blame for this because they introduce elements with the intention to create a window of doubt that would justify the cheater's actions. If they pretended to portray cheating as something bad, they would allow it to happen as something bad even if there is regret afterwards, instead of creating small elements that can add up to an excuse before the cheating happened. I know you are in no mood to argue about this, and I don't plan to invest my time and watch this after I found out about the cheating, so I hope we encounter again somewhere across MDL and talk about something else :).

I know exactly what happened now, and you are right, they don't normalize it, but some viewers seem to do it. That's on them.

Cheating have not excuses... and if you have them, you still did something wrong.

I ask the same thing to myself... I believe that angst and drama serve a purpose when they help the plot move forward, help character development or simply grant us a rewarding happy moment when it is solved, but most of the times is completely unnecessary and the reward is less than the angst, there is no balance. This brings the question: what is that for then? for people who like to suffer or feel bad? I don't get it...

Not cool...

I haven't watched this but it happens. You have to read the writers intentions, and sometimes they allow one of the characters cheat and usually justify their actions with something, so I don't doubt that it happened here.

Just watched this, and it was great! The best Drama I have seen this year!

I ended up skipping from episode 10 to episode 16 (while watching the previews) and the last episode is very cute! I will start season 2 now, but I already saw the nurse guy that will form the new love triangle. I hope that he does not have too much screentime or get too close to FL, since I don't want to skip, but I am ready to do so.

Just finished Season 1, and just watched the trailer for Season 2, and I am about to skip the hell out of the new guy who obviously does not respect marriage...!

It seems to be option A. I am giving this one a try, and I am on season 1, but while she constantly rejects the guy, he is still a close friend and is always hovering round her and claiming her or marking his territory one way or the other. To be fair, at least on season 1, this seems to be the only way how ML shows some interest for her out of "jealousy" I guess...

It does not make it better that the guy is still hovering around her after she got married for season 2. If I can, I prefer no love triangles, but if there is a love triangle, I prefer it to be useful to the plot or character development and exit the story as soon as the love triangle is solved, but it seemed like they recycled the love triangle from season 1 in this one.

I finally started watching season one, and while is the best version compared to other versions where I couldn't help but to drop them soon after the first episodes, I am having a hard time with season 1.

I understand that the whole dynamic and "charm" is about this "tsundere" guy pushing FL away, while she just keeps pushing regardless of how much she suffers in the process coated with comedy, but one thing is being tsundere and not showing your real feelings, and another one is to enjoy her suffering until you selfishly decide to keep on the hook making a move on her... That's just evil.

What I hate the most right now by episode 9 of season 1, is that not only FL has no self respect, but male lead seems to be kinda dating this other girl. The worst part is that FL does not have a good rebound because the guy that likes her could not be more annoying.

Knowing that later on, he will freaking "engaged" to somebody else does not help in the slightest. I am doing my best to push through, not take things too seriously, try to enjoy the comedy and brace myself in hopes that season 2 will be worth it, but it is hard...

I am one step away from just skipping through the episodes and just start the special episode and then season 2, because the thing I hate the most in dramaland is when the main leads date somebody else...