Gave this an 8, wanted it to be more, but the great start just got really challenging as it progressed. I’m so on the fence with the ML. I truly believe he can shine I’m just not convinced he’s right for romances. This is the 3rd drama with him as a lead that he is scrapping by as believable. He’s very stiff in his delivery and lacks emotional expressions, and I’m feeling this from the FL, who I adored in the Red Sleeve, I’m starting to think Mr Romance Lee Junho brought the chemistry to that relationship. Their romantic scenes felt really weird at times. What on earth is all this great chemistry some reviewers are raving about? I did wonder if its the way those scenes were edited? The minute they kiss ir get close the scene is quickly cut. The script felt weird at times too. Repetition, and strange lines. As soon as we knew her staying was going to lead to his death, my head went ok thats enough for me, so shes got to go back and now save his doppelgänger but she can’t just switch to loving the previous guy surely??!!! But hey these writers sure love to troll us so who knows!!
Needless to say the ending was happy but disappointing honestly. That could have been excueted with some passion amd excitement at least, but nah it was more of a big hug oh your back as wooden as most the romance throughout sadly. I did think in the last part before the first seperation that the chemistry did escalate a bit - so there’s that. Some may call me fussy. I don’t think so - I’ve seen hundreds of these shows and some couples have it and some just don’t. Watching the KBS Awards I did wonder if the deserved to loose to My Dearest in the couple award - because EVERYONE was saying this chemistry beat out red sleeve. Nah. I’m not buying it. My Dearest won that award HANDS DOWN.
I was disappointed in the lack of a decent OST. What we got was super typical kdrama romance singing from the olden days that was too loud at times made my skin crawl. Please no. Romances these days have better tracks than that.
Still, for the concept, I liked it. Skipped a lot of the latter part, I’m just not up for that - perhaps if I emotionally felt chemistry from this couple I might have cared more. I didn’t care much until the final episode and then I wanted it to resolve do much faster than that. Like for reals lets give the viewers a little bit more comfort time after destroying our souls with the sad tension they pull..
I quite liked this show, at times. It starts out really fun and engaging. It goes downhill once we get the side plot and especially the historical scenes. There is so much repetition and YES producers, we have good enough memories we don’t need to watch the same scenes over and over again, we remember them the last 4 times we saw it. The initial few minutes of each show were silly recaps too. I waited til this was all released before binge watching- so I have no empathy for those complaining about how only 1 episode a week released, its not that hard to just wait until its all out. The bad guy part of the plot was dumb, and doesn’t really make a great reason the family was cursed. I disliked there were no apologies. ML is great, I was a little worried we were going to get another typical wooden acting from him, but he gave a great performance throughout. FL - I swear she looks so much like Lee Junho in this show lol - portrayed her role equally well. They really do carry this show, which is admittedly really strange concept, that seemed off putting. Great support from the secondary characters especially Yool and FL best friend at school. I would have loved this to be more rom com than the suspense elements that became part of this show.
For sure you will probably want to skip the draggy historical scenes, but its still worth a watch. Not the years best tho, thats for sure.
Very cliche drama with a couple of plot holes. I’m glossing over all that because the leads looked great and had chemistry. Sadly, that chemistry wasn’t taken full advantage of.
Angst at the end for the heck of it in the name if cdrama, and the witchy stepmother and step siater are so overdone tropey, but hey I’ve watched and dropped a bunch of crappy ones lately so this one probably stands out just because it was better than those. 🤣 Nothing ground breaking. A tropey filler.
I’m so confused by the reviews giving this an 8. Guys I’ve tolerated this for 17 episodes and its sheer torture. A silly ridiculous childish FL, and a confusing as heck plot. I’m out.
Watched mostly on double speed, which is about as much time as you’ll want to give this show. Nowhere near as good as the other shows with more high profile actors in that have pulled off this trope of single mother being rediscovered by the long lost Dad. It was soapy and ridiculous for most. Why is the FL always leaving Kele? Why does the childish idiot 2FL always happen to be there to intercept things she has no right to access? Why is the mother so forgiving even after knowing the deeds of the 2FL? Kele is the cutest and a good thing the 5 year old knows how to speak because the leads can’t communicate for toffee lol. Chemistry with the leads is great. Please stop the incessant slapping and theres far too much sexual assault in this show that doesn’t seem to be taken very seriously.
Do yourself a favor and watch The Love You Give Me.
Torn. I want to love love love this drama. But I ended up watching too much of it on skip. It’s a slow starter, which is fine. The characters are likable quickly. However, I take too much issue with the FL push back. Yes, she falls hard and I admire the perseverance she has. She’s smart and mature-which every time China turns the tables on the FL stereotypes of silly immature girls I applaud. However, she pushes the limits too far. I really didn’t mind the turmoil they go through, like any romance these days the break up always seems inevitable. Usually they are for dumb stupid reasons we can never get behind. This one is believable. The ML is an idiot for never talking to her about it, so he got what he fully deserved- but the reconciliation takes far too long and again the ML cannot open his freaking mouth to her. For that reason I felt like this show tanked for me towards the end. It is not believable to me that the 2 mature leads we were presented with for 85% of the drama would lack communication skills about the most important thing in the world to them. So I can’t give it a 10 like I would have loved to do.
Music is nice, I shipped the seconds as the show progressed. I don’t like quick make ups and sudden endings. This was nice but could have been so much better with another 30 minutes of all the feels.
Loved this show, the chemistry between the leads is 🔥🔥🔥. They filmed those closer intimate scenes really well. I was a little surprised they made the FL so uber shy and childish in the scenes you would expect a mature woman who has been in relationships before to not act that way. However, its a cdrama and they typically like their FL to be childish as usual. The side characters were very annoying- I mean you’ve got a grown woman angry, spiteful and depressed over being dumped 5-6 yrs prior. I’d understand feeling angry about plagiarism- thats fine, but she seemed more upset that he had dumped her. No one is still that messed up after all those yrs, because someone let you go. Taro also got annoying in his constant talking and behavior- like let it go man. No man would be that persistent through that much abuse either. I ended up skipping all those scenes. It was the side of this show that dragged it down from a 10 to a 9 for me. Cut the length of the drama and just give us the leads storyline. The 2ML was very wholesome and that made a nice change. He was a gentleman to the end. Would have been nice for a mature lady to be snapped up by him along the way.
The computer game plot stopped very abruptly but I suppose it served its purpose. 😎
Great show, loved the music, the opening credits were fun. Nice easy going and simple. A few stereotypical tropes, but thats to be expected. Was glad all the parents and grandparents were supportive. Glad no one made too much of a fuss of his age. There is only 4 years between them in real life anyway. No biggie.
why is this rated so low? I was hesitant to watch it but now I’m about halfway through and it’s really enjoyable!…
Not everyone likes it. Thats why. Why can’t you trust ratings? They are what they are. People rate how they like. If its not high that means not everyone liked it. The end.
Seems to me a lot of the reviews are written by people who are obsessed with Rowoon or wrote a 10 star review before the series finished. There were times while watching I may have given this a 10, but now it’s over I certainly can’t. I don’t know what some of these people saw but there was not the crazy chemistry some were saying. This show does drag, especially in the last 3-4 episodes- and the ending is rushed and for me, unsatisfying. Why is no-one calling out the weird match between a child and an adult? Like what on earth once her hair is up in that wrapped around braid she looks like his mother!! Like make the prince older or something to start with. That was just weird. An enjoyable Sageuk for sure, but has no rewatch value for me, and is fairly forgettable- certainly not one of the best of the year. I liked Destined with You far better than this one. Actor’s are not the problem here, they all did a great job. The problem was the script and pacing.
Absolutely incredible. Well done Japan for doing something no other US film has been able to do for the past 12 months…. put me inside the movie theater. ✌🏼
The tension, plot, music, and cast were fantastic.
Loved: Calm and peace this show exudes from almost the minute it begins. There is almost no drama here, and everything flows at an easy pace. If you need some mellow no stress love story you have come to the right place. Theres oodles of chemistry to go around, and the friends are a solid wholesome bunch. The scenery and music are outstanding here, in fact I think this might be my best OST yet.
Didn’t love so much: Though I loved the easy going pace, this story solidly lacks a plot. What was happening here other than 2 people discovering each other and very slowly dating until the writers decided to call this quits! The food. There’s just way too much of it. I started skipping the cooking it just got so tiresome. I wanted more so much more of the seconds. Like really, we could have filled some of the monotonous cooking time with fleshing out their roles, because yes even those who are supporting the mains can bring alot to the party and feel of a ahow when given the time of day. They were rushed way too fast. What on earth is the time skip for if the characters are not given any growth? ML is same patient mature man he starts as, likewise FL is a babyish girl the entire show. With no conflict even time didn’t seem to bring about development in her character and that was disappointing. I would have loved to see a increase in maturity and depth in her character. But, sadly this is the cdrama go-to with FL. portray cutsie little girls even with women in their 20’s and sadly even 30’s sometimes.
Overall though this is certainly worth the watch, it doesn’t match up to the masterful Hidden Love, but it has that vibe. It’s unique enough in its use of showing the strengths of traditional chinese music and storytelling- and the voice acting leads was fun too.
Just be grateful the skip buttons are there for the exhausting parts. Enjoy!
Needless to say the ending was happy but disappointing honestly. That could have been excueted with some passion amd excitement at least, but nah it was more of a big hug oh your back as wooden as most the romance throughout sadly. I did think in the last part before the first seperation that the chemistry did escalate a bit - so there’s that. Some may call me fussy. I don’t think so - I’ve seen hundreds of these shows and some couples have it and some just don’t. Watching the KBS Awards I did wonder if the deserved to loose to My Dearest in the couple award - because EVERYONE was saying this chemistry beat out red sleeve. Nah. I’m not buying it. My Dearest won that award HANDS DOWN.
I was disappointed in the lack of a decent OST. What we got was super typical kdrama romance singing from the olden days that was too loud at times made my skin crawl. Please no. Romances these days have better tracks than that.
Still, for the concept, I liked it. Skipped a lot of the latter part, I’m just not up for that - perhaps if I emotionally felt chemistry from this couple I might have cared more. I didn’t care much until the final episode and then I wanted it to resolve do much faster than that. Like for reals lets give the viewers a little bit more comfort time after destroying our souls with the sad tension they pull..
For sure you will probably want to skip the draggy historical scenes, but its still worth a watch. Not the years best tho, thats for sure.
Angst at the end for the heck of it in the name if cdrama, and the witchy stepmother and step siater are so overdone tropey, but hey I’ve watched and dropped a bunch of crappy ones lately so this one probably stands out just because it was better than those. 🤣 Nothing ground breaking. A tropey filler.
Do yourself a favor and watch The Love You Give Me.
Music is nice, I shipped the seconds as the show progressed. I don’t like quick make ups and sudden endings. This was nice but could have been so much better with another 30 minutes of all the feels.
The computer game plot stopped very abruptly but I suppose it served its purpose. 😎
Great show, loved the music, the opening credits were fun. Nice easy going and simple. A few stereotypical tropes, but thats to be expected. Was glad all the parents and grandparents were supportive. Glad no one made too much of a fuss of his age. There is only 4 years between them in real life anyway. No biggie.
The tension, plot, music, and cast were fantastic.
Loved: Calm and peace this show exudes from almost the minute it begins. There is almost no drama here, and everything flows at an easy pace. If you need some mellow no stress love story you have come to the right place. Theres oodles of chemistry to go around, and the friends are a solid wholesome bunch. The scenery and music are outstanding here, in fact I think this might be my best OST yet.
Didn’t love so much: Though I loved the easy going pace, this story solidly lacks a plot. What was happening here other than 2 people discovering each other and very slowly dating until the writers decided to call this quits! The food. There’s just way too much of it. I started skipping the cooking it just got so tiresome. I wanted more so much more of the seconds. Like really, we could have filled some of the monotonous cooking time with fleshing out their roles, because yes even those who are supporting the mains can bring alot to the party and feel of a ahow when given the time of day. They were rushed way too fast. What on earth is the time skip for if the characters are not given any growth? ML is same patient mature man he starts as, likewise FL is a babyish girl the entire show. With no conflict even time didn’t seem to bring about development in her character and that was disappointing. I would have loved to see a increase in maturity and depth in her character. But, sadly this is the cdrama go-to with FL. portray cutsie little girls even with women in their 20’s and sadly even 30’s sometimes.
Overall though this is certainly worth the watch, it doesn’t match up to the masterful Hidden Love, but it has that vibe. It’s unique enough in its use of showing the strengths of traditional chinese music and storytelling- and the voice acting leads was fun too.
Just be grateful the skip buttons are there for the exhausting parts. Enjoy!