The only redeeming part of this story is the absolutely hilarious interactions of ML and his man servant. They cracked me up. So many plot holes, and odd things that happened - and can anyone tell me what happened to the pregnancy? Like did she loose it? Why didn’t she falling at that height? She should be dead lol. I could quite easily have missed something because I skipped so much of the last 15 episodes it got so tiresome. The political nonsense dominated way too much. I haven’t read the novel nor could care less about who everyone is in real life, but the story was so monotonous and boring. Princess Royal character was so cringe the entire time, its not about power she says almost the whole way through, yet at the end her being the Regent is because she wanted the power? OK. Without the humourous antics that take place I might have given up on this earlier. Very disappointing show.
I’m gonna miss this. Major bingefest, I don’t know how folks wait to watch as its releasing week by week. It would have driven me nuts. I need a whole show dropped before I even start. So funny. Jaesoo was one of my faves. A little disappointed the mains didn’t step it up a bit romantically that felt a bit flat as it progressed- but the comedy was on point. It did loose its way around ep 13-14 and it began to feel like plot rewind, so I took off one star, the momentum was rolling the entire time so when it suddenly changes dynamics it was really obvious. 9/10 for a solid UNIQUE kdrama that had feels of a 2000’s classic yet modern in every way.
I wanted this to be a 10, but I can only give it a 7.5:- An overwhelming amount of slow or irrelevant content…
I wanted them to resolve Lilis relationship with the single Dad. to give him the growth arc- amd happiness as a new family. That was a major lost opportunity for the script and the show. Everyone loves a HEA for a family dealing with grief. And redemption for the guy as he faced his fears would have been inspiring. They had chemistry that we as viewers felt organically not forced on us like the man child from the office. That was flatter than a pancake. No excitement when she showed up at the airport and utter frustration when the single dad gave his stupid advice at the end. That little girl must have been so confused. horrid decision writers and director.
I wanted this to be a 10, but I can only give it a 7.5:
- An overwhelming amount of slow or irrelevant content in parts. Some of it moves along perfectly. Until it doesn’t. When you find yourself skipping, because you feel like your time is being wasted it adds to my overall view. - Multiple plot holes. Bad guys always know the instant a main character decides something. Like why?!? - The exhausting breakup we all know just HAS to be included in every cdrama romance. So many can’t seem to grasp that despite ML ability to better communicate- the entire previous part of the drama he was a total green flag doing nothing but helping to start, grow and keep Star Tech progressing. They are absolutely nothing without his money. They’d have tanked as soon as FL money was gone. Which was early on. He patiently observed, advised and guided. His intentions were not nefarious and thecway the writers progressed a pointless breakup and the way they wrote it made the FL look pathetic and selfish. I realize this is very typical in cdramas. Over reactive FL who run off at the first sight of trouble, blaming it all on the ML their perfect standards for life destroyed.
I want to say its terrible to portray women as so stupid and immature. We are better than that, but the message being relayed to young women is not healthy. As always the ML has to grovel and beg, and this time based off of the way it was written it was so repulsive I skippes most of ep 32-34 due to my huge irritation for the FL behavior. Please stop it. You disengage empathy for a main character with the viewers. A show that was doing well now takes a nose dive. There are better alternative ways to cause conflict to resolve.
What I did love about this show: - Romance is perfect for the leads. They did a great job. Plenty of zing and lovely scenes. - Friendship between 3 of the friends was wonderful - Despite the regurgitation of the tropes amd plots - they were all there, it was refreshing to have a bold no nonsense ML who wasn’t taking any hidden agendas, and stood his ground.
biggest gripe after the dumb breakup episodes- the way they handled LiLis romance subplot. It shows that writers can write whatever they want, you can’t convince the audience if its just not there. I was mega disappointed at how all of that was written. It deserved a much better development.
Overall tho I was loving it until I didn’t but it ends well. The lost stars are reflected in the huge dissatisfaction mentioned above.
What is with all these young guys pulling off such incredible mature performances? Wang Xing Yue, Leo Wu are incredible and I hope WXY can get more bigger ML roles moving forward.
I’m not quite sure why the casting if such an older FL, they do this sometimes and then we are starved of romance scenes in a romance. At least this wasn’t completely bereft but I would have preferred to see their relationship move forward a little earlier, I understand the need for delay as FL has a crap ton to process. However, the chemistry was building nicely and then seemed to disappear for a while.
For all those praising what a clever FL she was, Duke Su literally saves her in almost every single bad situation she ends up in. Always the hero but getting none of the credit lol.
Was this better than Love Like The Galaxy, nope, but it could have been if we had gotten a bit more screen time for the leads and better romance scenes for them. At times it feels platonic, despite the zings some of the scenes bring.
Was not a fan of that last episode or the ending either. I haven’t read the book so perhaps they had to stay true to a story but when I’ve given 40 hours of my life to a typical period drama where everyone is out to destroy each other, I want a happy ending for as many folks as deserve it lol.
Don’t like it feeling flat and thats where this left me. We remember how we feel at the end Directors, keep that in mind.
Not bad though overall. The Double was a decent shot from cdramaland.
I didn’t overly love this. Too long and poor design layout, meant various cast members had way more screen time than they should have.
This starts out REALLY strong. The first episode is fast paced and dynamic. The military scenes snd team members were on point and the drama should have had far more of these kinds of scenes. Cut the business stuff down to a smaller qty of issues and edited the growth arc for NWK. Its choppy and doesn’t flow correctly. I’m probably in the minority for saying this but I love a redemption trope and I like how it ended for him, but getting there was a complete mess.
The writing is all over the place. So much drag time. Trying to throw in last minute problems. Rushing other elements. Dragged out the relationship development of the 2 leads so much that when they finally hook up theres no zing it felt meh.
The Chens were my favorite though I cringe every single time we have grown women acting like little girls. I get that a pitch of a voice might be high or even whiny sounding, but the BAD acting of childish tantrums and pouting is ridiculous. It makes asian women look like idiots.
The amount if air time is so unbalanced that if you started this show mid way through you would have no idea who are the leads. Everyone gets a lot of time. Odd.
This is not the best cdrama ever and its honestly exhausting in the end, but its watchable-I just wished it was shorter.
Short simple drama without a lot of depth to it, due to the length most likely. A few usual tropes- but overall a cute show with nice chemistry between the leads.
What the heck? I thought this show was pretty awesome. Who’s rating this? Tweens? Overcritical idiots? Look if you go into these shows looking for anything to criticize you’ll find it. I’ve seen some total pants shows these days but this wasn’t bad. It’s fairly light, the romance is cute. ML definitely pulls it a long but its certainly better than a whole bunch of other dramas coming out at the moment. Get a grip folks and just enjoy the show lol.
Glad thats finished. I stayed for MSH because he’s an incredible actor (and easy on the eyes of course) but that pairing was a trainwreck. I could care less if leads have age differences if there is chemistry- I mean I just saw Midnight Romance Hagwon.. and theres a huge gap there but it wasn’t obvious and the romance was fire… but this oh geez that was a terrible choice for him. I kept thinking where on earth did they find her? Did she have some 1 kiss only clause and what on earth is with the old style drama wide eye frozen fish kiss??? Please Directors please stop that this minute.
The FL looked way older than she is. people complain about her clothing, honestly after being to Korea multiple times, a lot of that you see in women that age commuting to work, sorry folks but thats the fashion over there— however, some of the stuff was just plain weird, and considering she was supposed to be an amazing fashion designer they styled her absolutely trash. my girl is in Korea studying fashion design and no one dresses like that. What a joke. They dressed Camille like they used to style kdrama leads in the 2000s… however the guys were on point, the sister looked fine. The bodyguard fine also, but I guess the harsh hairdo and awful styling for FL was for some reason not sure what???!?!!
The plot was bad too. It felt predictable and off. There was zero chemistry between the leads, the story had so many holes. I waited for the opening scene to pop up again, never did. I was more invested in the sisters love life that is heavily hinted at, and just ends up flat in the final episode- like why lead us to believe they will be together thru the whole show to a nothing burger in the end. The ending is also dumb. She chooses her career over an amazing partner and breaks up never to contact even tho we seem to have forgotten that the internet, kakaotalk, planes etc exist, and the HE has to go running to France give me a break. She needed to get her behind back to Korea and beg for forgiveness because that was silly. He never wanted to break up. Bad storytelling, too much pointless filler stuff. Camille and Frankie were highly annoying. I’m sorry they didn’t seem anything like High end designers. And why is LJH still in jail at the end?
A mature slow burn for adults. Not necessarily for content, but kids just will find this boring and slow. The topics are to be appreciated by a mature audience too. I could really have done without that awful song from the opening credits being overused, if I don’t hear open to page 64 again I’ll be really happy.
Yes it gets a little draggy and could have done with some momentum at the halfway point. The plot around scandal of teachers dating seemed silly, since two other teachers at the Hagwon also liked our leads, if it was so risqué why on earth were they so upset they didn’t get to date them?!?! And at the end the nepotism seemed totally fine cute and supportive if you follow the comments, but whatever.
Overall I liked this show but I was happy to see it end.
- An overwhelming amount of slow or irrelevant content in parts. Some of it moves along perfectly. Until it doesn’t. When you find yourself skipping, because you feel like your time is being wasted it adds to my overall view.
- Multiple plot holes. Bad guys always know the instant a main character decides something. Like why?!?
- The exhausting breakup we all know just HAS to be included in every cdrama romance. So many can’t seem to grasp that despite ML ability to better communicate- the entire previous part of the drama he was a total green flag doing nothing but helping to start, grow and keep Star Tech progressing. They are absolutely nothing without his money. They’d have tanked as soon as FL money was gone. Which was early on. He patiently observed, advised and guided. His intentions were not nefarious and thecway the writers progressed a pointless breakup and the way they wrote it made the FL look pathetic and selfish. I realize this is very typical in cdramas. Over reactive FL who run off at the first sight of trouble, blaming it all on the ML their perfect standards for life destroyed.
I want to say its terrible to portray women as so stupid and immature. We are better than that, but the message being relayed to young women is not healthy. As always the ML has to grovel and beg, and this time based off of the way it was written it was so repulsive I skippes most of ep 32-34 due to my huge irritation for the FL behavior. Please stop it. You disengage empathy for a main character with the viewers. A show that was doing well now takes a nose dive. There are better alternative ways to cause conflict to resolve.
What I did love about this show:
- Romance is perfect for the leads. They did a great job. Plenty of zing and lovely scenes.
- Friendship between 3 of the friends was wonderful
- Despite the regurgitation of the tropes amd plots - they were all there, it was refreshing to have a bold no nonsense ML who wasn’t taking any hidden agendas, and stood his ground.
biggest gripe after the dumb breakup episodes- the way they handled LiLis romance subplot. It shows that writers can write whatever they want, you can’t convince the audience if its just not there. I was mega disappointed at how all of that was written. It deserved a much better development.
Overall tho I was loving it until I didn’t but it ends well. The lost stars are reflected in the huge dissatisfaction mentioned above.
I’m not quite sure why the casting if such an older FL, they do this sometimes and then we are starved of romance scenes in a romance. At least this wasn’t completely bereft but I would have preferred to see their relationship move forward a little earlier, I understand the need for delay as FL has a crap ton to process. However, the chemistry was building nicely and then seemed to disappear for a while.
For all those praising what a clever FL she was, Duke Su literally saves her in almost every single bad situation she ends up in. Always the hero but getting none of the credit lol.
Was this better than Love Like The Galaxy, nope, but it could have been if we had gotten a bit more screen time for the leads and better romance scenes for them. At times it feels platonic, despite the zings some of the scenes bring.
Was not a fan of that last episode or the ending either. I haven’t read the book so perhaps they had to stay true to a story but when I’ve given 40 hours of my life to a typical period drama where everyone is out to destroy each other, I want a happy ending for as many folks as deserve it lol.
Don’t like it feeling flat and thats where this left me. We remember how we feel at the end Directors, keep that in mind.
Not bad though overall. The Double was a decent shot from cdramaland.
This starts out REALLY strong. The first episode is fast paced and dynamic. The military scenes snd team members were on point and the drama should have had far more of these kinds of scenes. Cut the business stuff down to a smaller qty of issues and edited the growth arc for NWK. Its choppy and doesn’t flow correctly. I’m probably in the minority for saying this but I love a redemption trope and I like how it ended for him, but getting there was a complete mess.
The writing is all over the place. So much drag time. Trying to throw in last minute problems. Rushing other elements. Dragged out the relationship development of the 2 leads so much that when they finally hook up theres no zing it felt meh.
The Chens were my favorite though I cringe every single time we have grown women acting like little girls. I get that a pitch of a voice might be high or even whiny sounding, but the BAD acting of childish tantrums and pouting is ridiculous. It makes asian women look like idiots.
The amount if air time is so unbalanced that if you started this show mid way through you would have no idea who are the leads. Everyone gets a lot of time. Odd.
This is not the best cdrama ever and its honestly exhausting in the end, but its watchable-I just wished it was shorter.
Ending terrible. Explains the poor ratings.
You want 8+’s finish a story to satisfy the audience. This was pants.
The FL looked way older than she is. people complain about her clothing, honestly after being to Korea multiple times, a lot of that you see in women that age commuting to work, sorry folks but thats the fashion over there— however, some of the stuff was just plain weird, and considering she was supposed to be an amazing fashion designer they styled her absolutely trash. my girl is in Korea studying fashion design and no one dresses like that. What a joke. They dressed Camille like they used to style kdrama leads in the 2000s… however the guys were on point, the sister looked fine. The bodyguard fine also, but I guess the harsh hairdo and awful styling for FL was for some reason not sure what???!?!!
The plot was bad too. It felt predictable and off. There was zero chemistry between the leads, the story had so many holes. I waited for the opening scene to pop up again, never did. I was more invested in the sisters love life that is heavily hinted at, and just ends up flat in the final episode- like why lead us to believe they will be together thru the whole show to a nothing burger in the end. The ending is also dumb. She chooses her career over an amazing partner and breaks up never to contact even tho we seem to have forgotten that the internet, kakaotalk, planes etc exist, and the HE has to go running to France give me a break. She needed to get her behind back to Korea and beg for forgiveness because that was silly. He never wanted to break up. Bad storytelling, too much pointless filler stuff. Camille and Frankie were highly annoying. I’m sorry they didn’t seem anything like High end designers. And why is LJH still in jail at the end?
Dumb show.
Yes it gets a little draggy and could have done with some momentum at the halfway point. The plot around scandal of teachers dating seemed silly, since two other teachers at the Hagwon also liked our leads, if it was so risqué why on earth were they so upset they didn’t get to date them?!?! And at the end the nepotism seemed totally fine cute and supportive if you follow the comments, but whatever.
Overall I liked this show but I was happy to see it end.