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The best i can say its watchable enough for 10 episodes that are 45 minutes. If it was the "standard" 60 minute 16 episodes i would have dropped it.

Actors and their acting are ok or even good at times.

The "romance" in the story hinges heavily on the main characters relationship as kids. They meet 20 years later and they are still in love, ok possible, but the dude shows up only to get revenge on her, and somehow they are meant to be in love. The interactions they have had throughout the show didnt add anything that should make them like each other, apart from a few forced ways that he has to help her. But thats after he almost cost her her job by humiliating her on her show. The way they split as kids felt very unreasonable and forced, but they were kids so okay i guess.
I also heavily dislike her dad, he made a comic/cartoon about her and she complains to him about how it ruins her love life and he makes jokes about it and then continues with trying to make more of the comics?

Spoiler:
I was hoping she would end up with her colleague, but nah, the two leads start dating for a bit in the final episode then he leaves again because of another stupid misunderstanding and then half a year later he comes back bankrupt and she takes him in again. If they have stayed split up living their lives it would have been much better ending at least.

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An okay show to watch over the week/end if you like the leads

Overall its an ok show that doesnt overstay its welcome. Wouldnt push anyone to watch it, but if you are interested in it, i wouldnt push you away from it.

The story is a bit basic with inclusion of mind reading. Which was handled in an okay way until the female lead gave way too much weight to one picture book and its story about her power. Some parts regarding the power dragged a bit and some were nice. I would rather have them focused on eating food than the power, honestly the power could have been more of a background thing and it would probably work better for me.
The male lead is a bit too pushy at points for my tastes, but not to a point of being creepy, though it gives weird vibes. The female lead is supposed to be a company boss (even though its a small company), but she seems rather meek even with her employees/partners.
The sideplot of the chocolatiere friend's romance was IMO more fun to watch. Maybe because it wasnt the focus, so it didnt have so much baggage with it.

Acting was decent overall. My main issues would come from the behaviour of the two leads, which i dont know if it was intentional or the acting so i wont be too critical there.

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A bit disappointing, but overall ok watch.

This review is mostly negative, because i was hoping for much more.
There are two big disappointing things for me here. The premise went unused for most of the show, its pretty much just tropey employer(chaebol)/employee kdrama. The second thing is the FL and the ML dont really work together, while they are both a bit stunted emotionaolly, the ML is on another level. ML seems very childish, and yes i know there is background explaining it, but that doesnt change things. She is super professional and driven to the point of apparently ousting 3 previous directors, but she relatively easily for the new guy? A lot of things just dont feel earned. Like how is the ML so good at everything? Him being so young, he didnt have time to master so many things and business while also leading secret nerd life.
The reasoning for grandma chairwoman being a hateful hag is flimsy at best, so her hating the ML feels just a convenient plot device.

From the premise i was expecting some workplace rivalry and bickering after they find out they were into each other as teens, but that premise was avoided for half the show, only to be resolved in one episode. "Oh no we hate each other, but we love each other now, oh whatever will we do?" "Never mind, we are over it now".
Its like they needed a hook for people, but didnt want to bother developing it too much. They even made the secondary couple keep them from finding out. Btw, the secondary couple feels much more solid and would have prefered they got more screentime. Though the secondary couple is another case of classic kdrama magical coincidence of the friends of the leads dating. They could have just made it that one of the leads introduced them, but no, just a coincidence and basically a secret from the leads for a while.

Honestly the last two episodes felt more as fulfilling a commitment to finishing a show than enjoyable closing of a story. Didnt feel like there was anything at stake, just gotta pad the last two episodes runtime. The FL got an opportunity for a job in US in much better position, from a former coleague we never heard about, but that got declined pretty fast and caused only a little drama with the ML, that didnt feel serious at all.

The acting from all the main characters was pretty good and enjoyable. Though i think the FL was played a bit too cutesy at times and the ML childish, but that could be due to the direction and script.
Production wise it was pretty solid, cant much complain there.
On a personal note i enjoy seeing all the product placement in kdramas and there is plenty here, so i had fun with those. I think they were mostly handled decently and incorporated into the scenes without much intrusion, but i can see people being put off by some of them.

Anyways while i have many complaints, its a decent show and enjoyable watch if you dont mind tropey stuff.

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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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