Dropped after episode 4. The slick Hollywood style of the series reached an embarrassing climax in this episode, with lots of dancing in the rain, running into the ocean in the rain, characters behaving totally irrationally because they value their feelings much more than all rationality, teary speeches, etc., and I just couldn't stand it any more. I don't know why cliched melodrama is so much more tolerable when done by Koreans (or Japanese) than when done by Americans or Asian-Americans.
Anna Sawai basically played the same character that she did in Shogun.
Also, when I read the book, I pictured the sickly pastor as this mild-mannered, scholarly looking guy. Instead, we get this hunky, kkangpae type guy who looks like he's raging with testosterone after having returned from his military conscription as a taekwondo master killer who can beat the leaving crap out of Lee Min-ho--i.e., a little bit of miscasting.
This was totally different from the Korean original. This version was too rushed for me, with weird, disjointed editing. I feel like they should have set up some of the final decisions a little better, because if they edit the footage to make viewers believe something only to pull the rug out from under them in the ending because they hid all the scenes that would have given you a more accurate picture, that's too manipulative.
I like the Korean original way better. But if they could somehow find a happy medium between the super long Korean version that gets too repetitive with the same arguments being repeated every night and this super quick Japanese version that makes you confused and hardly gives you a chance to get to know anyone, that would be the best version of all.
Juwon - Seo kyung back together too. Hyewon and Hwiyun got back together too but later broke up.
Hye-won should find someone better than Hwi-hyun. He seems like a nice, hard-working guy with good looks, but he's lacking in communication skills and emotional intelligence.
This was the most beautiful and likable female cast I've ever seen on a dating show. But too many of the guys were poor at communication or emotionally immature, which led many of the girls to pursue Ju-won. I didn't understand how some of the girls could go back to their exes (Yu-jung and Sang-jeong), since the guys seemed so unlikeable (one of them didn't respond to his GF's long, sad text that she wanted to break up, the other criticizes every little thing that his GF does), but I'm sure there's lots of stuff behind the scenes that we didn't see on the show.
Also, they need to cut back on shots of the commentators crying. If done selectively and sparingly, maybe a couple times a season, it can be powerfully effective, but when it happens a couple of times a show, it cheapens the effect.
By the way, I saw that Da-hye and Dong-jin are back together, but how about Ju-won and Seo-kyung?
They do have serial killers though and here it was just a Pyscho SML and his mum doing most of the bad things.
Yes, Korea has had serial killers just like every country, like the famous case that inspired Memories of Murder. But the chances that a person in Korea is going to be killed by a serial killer is about as unlikely as being bitten by a panda bear. But they seem to appear in half the K-dramas out there because writers have a bad habit of just sticking a serial killer sub-plot into any random show, regardless of whether it’s a romance, comedy, sports competition, slice of life, workplace, law, medical, or whatever. It’s an easy way to fill out the number of episodes that the network ordered without having to think too hard.
I put up with it through 5 episodes because it was fairly entertaining. But I had to finally give up, because it makes no sense and has no connection to reality whatsoever. Also, I hate annoying and idiotic in-laws and sibling characters, and there are plenty of those on both sides of the family. I also hate serial killers being inserted into every drama. Come on, Korea doesn't have nearly that many serial killers.
Anna Sawai basically played the same character that she did in Shogun.
Also, when I read the book, I pictured the sickly pastor as this mild-mannered, scholarly looking guy. Instead, we get this hunky, kkangpae type guy who looks like he's raging with testosterone after having returned from his military conscription as a taekwondo master killer who can beat the leaving crap out of Lee Min-ho--i.e., a little bit of miscasting.
I like the Korean original way better. But if they could somehow find a happy medium between the super long Korean version that gets too repetitive with the same arguments being repeated every night and this super quick Japanese version that makes you confused and hardly gives you a chance to get to know anyone, that would be the best version of all.
Also, they need to cut back on shots of the commentators crying. If done selectively and sparingly, maybe a couple times a season, it can be powerfully effective, but when it happens a couple of times a show, it cheapens the effect.
By the way, I saw that Da-hye and Dong-jin are back together, but how about Ju-won and Seo-kyung?