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Apparently Laura wanted Do Gun to change, then she wanted to get rid of him but Do Gun didn’t want to leave “Laura’s Dining” because she had the rights to his special dish? But when she finally fired him he simply started his own restaurant no problem? I’m a little lost here. There didn’t seem to be any real weight .. or logic to any of the conflicts

Mediocre. There’s been a lot of food-themed BLs lately like “Bite Me”, “Tasty Florida” and now “My Sweet Dear”. I usually like food-themed stories but here the cooking-setting felt a bit random. At least “Bite Me” dedicated itself to the theme of cooking. Here, it felt like they chose the cooking-theme because it’s trendy, not because the story asked for it.
All in all I liked the acting and the character of Jung Woo but the plot and the dialogues were incorrigible. What kind of conflict was that even? Can somebody help me out?
What the heck was Laura’s problem? And why did she have to go in such a roundabout way about it?
Btw, I’m not even gonna touch Jung Woo because that’s a completely different suitcase which I’m gonna throw overboard, unpacked.

Stunning on the outside but dull and boring on the inside. The slow pace wasn’t the problem, the problem was the wasting of screen time on unnecessarily long shots, superfluous montages and rehashing of scenes. To make something more impactful you got to use it sparingly. There are times and places for longer shots and it certainly isn’t EVERY shot.
Anyway, this drama felt more like a food photography book instead of a storytelling medium. It was beautiful but a little out of place as it ended up taking too much of the screen time.
The actors seemed to be capable as well but the strange directing choices worked against them. I’m still baffled by the discrepancy between the beautiful visual style and camera work of this drama and the actors’ awkward and stilted line deliveries and movements.
There was so much potential for interesting conflicts but literally nothing happened for the first 9 episodes. The romance was almost non-existent and the potentially interesting plot points regarding all the different chefs and the competition were completely ignored. Then everything got neatly resolved in one episode. It was almost funny how things got resolved when they didn’t even have time to properly amount to anything first.

I didn’t think I could be more disappointed than I already am but here we are. After reading the comments about the special ep I not only have zero interest in watching it but also feel embarrassment for Mame and the team about this brazenly blatant money grab that could be summarized as „ Happy End-baiting for L/P“. There‘re is cliffhangers and then there’s this. They’re not even trying to be subtle about their intentions and that all at the cost of their viewers (literally).
At this point the whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Same. I just finished ep 3 and while I like the visual style of this drama, the unrealistic dialogue and its awkward and slow deliveries are really getting to me by now :/
It’s like the whole series is in slow-mo

No, it really doesn’t. You might like Leon and Pop though. So if you’re unsure about dropping it you can skip or fast forward if you find yourself cringing too much

That‘s true. Forgiveness is a good thing to teach but you got to draw the line somewhere. Regardless of being forgiven or not, there rarely seems to be any proper punishment for the perpetrators.
Yes, especially in He’s Coming To Me the uncle apologized, opened some fond or something and everything is all and well. Same with Lhong, his punishment seems to be that he’s sad and regrets it.

Yeah, it’s probably their way of milking money. Same thing they did with TT the wedding episode.
I remember Lhong didn’t go to prison so I guess everything did work out for him lol

Wow, that sure sounds promising :(
But I gotta finish what I start, which means still 9 episodes to go. Goddammit.
I was at least hoping for good Leon/Pob ending but I guess not.

Thank you for your reply.

You’re right, I waited for the series to be over so I could easily binge watch it but I guess I didn’t expect any of the pairings to not get together at the end. I already started watching it so I’ll just continue and hope, like everyone else, for the special episode to give Leon and Pob their Happy Ending. The waiting time seems to be bearable at least.

I just started this series but can somebody tell me what happens to Leon and Pob? The comments here are ambiguously ominous...

I usually wait till the series is over and then binge watch it, knowing that the last episode is supposed to air today I started watching this series. I somehow managed to watch the special episode prequel and the first episode of DNS and I’m already agreeing with you on a lot of things. Especially Leo planking over Fiat! I cringed so hard at their scene in the prequel but I just couldn’t figure out what felt so wrong and you put it into words so wonderfully! Thank you for that. I feel like it was a mistake giving Mame another chance but...yeah.

Also, the Uber-Uke thing is truly annoying. Watching Fiats overly dramatic crying scenes I feel like crying myself. Only for the wrong reason.

That’s actually interesting bc he seem to remind a lot of people of a lot of different actors. He has a very unique face in that sense.

That’s actually interesting bc he seem to remind a lot of people of a lot of different actors. He has a very unique face in that sense.

Yup, that one. Imo they look like they could be twins lol

Nothing special but it was cute I guess. One of the main leads reminds me so much if Sam Lin! I probably added an extra star just for that.

Maybe Sam Lin from WBL? He sure reminds me of him a lot

I agree as I’m not sure about the demographic either. Maybe they wanted to try something new and see if they could entice audiences to watch something they usually don’t? Who knows. I wish they’d have connected these storylines much more closely, especially if they wanted the audience to watch all of the episodes. Tbh it reminds me a lot of En of Love in its concept. These shorts feel like a preface to something. Or they feel like a rough pitch that could be extended into a full series. But yeah , I’m not super about their original intentions with this project either

A „mess“ is the perfect word to describe ... whatever you want to call this.
I applaud them for the intention to want to bring awareness to serious issues like sexual harassment and toxic fan-service but they failed in its execution by a mile. The whole thing felt like a distorted, mirrored version of our reality, sugarcoated with an improbable Happy End and lacking any deep discussion about the important subjects. „Lovely Writer“ had a better grip on the issues of toxic fan-service and that’s saying something.
If you want to showcase reality, then make it realistic. Serious subjects need serious discussions and not this trifle, superficial shite.

I‘m still not over Gameplay not being a part of the series anymore but at least Perth is back. Yay for that!