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So many unsatisfying conclusions

Honestly, the show is alright, minute to minute its fine, but so many things just conclude in unsatisfying ways.
If it wasnt for Park Bo Young and the twins mom actress i would probably drop it around 6th episode.

The portrayal of the twins by Park Bo Young is well done, but the way their relationship is handled just felt off. Are they supposed to be super close to the point where they are able and willing to swap or are they not because if they are so much of the flashback stuff should not have happened.

And the flashbacks oh the flashbacks. They bring up some threads but then in current time it just gets waved away as misunderstandings. Miji basically ruined her life because of misunderstanding and not talking to her sister or anyone else. Her friend abandoned her when she was struggling but that was also misunderstanding i guess? Cause why would be need to deal with any of this, right? It feels like the writers started stuff in the past that they didnt know how to handle in the present without any conflict, so it just comes out that it was misunderstanding and now its all fine. SURE.

Then there was the sideplot of the restaurant owner, which was kinda pointless for the story.
The grandma dying felt like a padding for final episode. Emotionally honestly, it was like it wasnt even there,

Both sisters carreer choices at the end felt unearned and like they were just picked out of a hat, i guess Mirae working farm was just easy cause she already worked there, but it didnt feel right for her either and Miji going to college and doing psychology came out of nowhere, like how? How did the writers came to that?

I just finished watching it so its 6 now, but i feel like the score in my head might go down if i look back on it in a week.

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So tropey and annoying

This show has been quite a let down. Gonna keep it short and a bit spoilery

Once again i have been baited by a show presenting the FL as a strongheaded independent character only to make her fall for the ML one episode in. The ML is pretty much a stalker, following her everywhere, and being "helpful" when she asked him repeatedly to leave her alone. After she falls for him he ghosts her for 5 years and yes he had a reason to be away, but he could have picked up his phone and written her a message. Yay a trope of not talking for no reason other than plot demands it.
Then they meet again for work thing and he acts the same stalkery way and again she falls for that shit. He even bribes her childhood friend to help him. SHE SHOULD HAVE A RESTRAINING ORDER ON THIS MAN IF ANYTHING.
There is also a secondary couple, but i wasnt much interested in them.
They all have a movie related carreer, and the male lead is childhood friends with the secondary couple. FL by magical coincidence starts working with the secondary female lead. Also the secondary couple broke up 5 years ago and met around the same time again the main couple met. It just all feels so lazy and convenient.
The production seems ok, but who cares anymore.
Only real draw for me to continue watching would be the two FLs, but its just too annoying for me.

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Watch this if you want to be frustrated for 90% of the runtime after a few episodes.

First off the grandma is an evil cartoony villain and most of the supporting characters are just her henchmen catering to her every whim.

I have only gotten to the 15th episode while skipping through the last 4. Dropping this show because its just too damn frustrating, the grandma wanting to keep her promise of marriage from more than 20 years ago to a guy she met for like one hour is already bad, but her schemes and faking cancer to get them married is just evil. The show portrays her as kinda silly and lovable? but she is EVIL.
The female lead started out ok, she had a bit of spunk and was strong willed, not budging on selling her childhood home, and then she turned into a rag for the whims of the family and plot. She was trying to be a lawyer, but failed the bar exam 5 times cause she missed it for numerous reasons, then like a slap in the face to the viewer she gets pregnant (the pregnancy is fine) and in the last episode she misses the exam again by going into labour infront of the exam building (i just skimmed through the last episode).
The male lead was honestly whatever for me, kinda typical rich kid exec in a soap trying to make his family happy.
The other characters are kinda annoying too, though the ML sister started out ok, she became part of the cancer scheme, so she get lost.
Honestly, its probably like 4, but the granma and the last episode bring it down to 1.5.

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