honestly after ep 8, this show could go on forever and ever and i would not complain i just wanna be a part of these lesbian’s lives. representation like this, outside of just romance and drama is so so important. a community of like minded strong friends especially for lgbtq folks is so needed!
I knew ShaGorya were going to be ult high stakes lesbian angst but this? Honestly Gorya saved her, she saved her life because Shasha was not going to be able to live with this for much longer.
They could have given us something insipid like a drawn out cycle of Sha hurting Gorya then Gorya discovering things and feeling guilty etcetra melodrama as is the common way of plot, they hit us with reality and gave us THIS Gorya who actively finds out Shasha's hurt and goes about making it right in the most Gorya way possible and how am I supposed to get over them
the cast looks good. should i watch it ? the ratings are so low
I have started - and paused on hold - and never returned to about 15 kdramas in the past year. I finished, I would guess, 4-5 of them??? Climax was one of the ones I finished. It's not for everyone. It is not perfect. But I looked forward to every new episode each week. This is definitely a case of "to each, his own." It's not for the rom-com brigade or the melo-drama fans. It's gritty but dang. the two main characters are smart/get up and fight another day types. So, I enjoyed it.
I really don't understand the low rating because this drama is so good.
I love the acting – everyone did a great job. Joo Young was the star of the drama for me – she totally nailed the character. Also, Ji Hoon shines in every scene.
I completely get why Tae and Sang started chasing power. They want to become people that others can't touch, use, or throw away. To the rich, regular people are just pawns. I love that Tae and Sang know what they want and will do anything to get it – even putting up with each other's shady methods. It's not an easy journey, as you can see from the ending, which was just perfect.
The storytelling worked for me. Corruption, abuse of power, sex trafficking – nothing new, and sadly, it will never go away. Money and power run everything. What I love most is that this drama doesn't sugarcoat anything. It shows the real world exactly as it is – people doing awful things to get rich, famous, or powerful.
I was hooked from the beginning and excited to watch every next episode. I don't get the low rating, but I'm not surprised – this kind of drama isn't really appreciated on this site.
Overall, I really enjoyed it. I loved watching Tae – life kept knocking him down, but he never stayed down. He always fought back.
Verdict: A powerful, underrated drama that deserves more love.
When it comes to strong female characters, this drama really delivered. If self-worth were a person, she’d be Oh Mi-Joo. She valued herself above all else — clear-headed, confident, and perfectly aware of her worth. Witty, straightforward, and refreshingly self-aware, she was confident yet kind, practical yet a little dreamy. She never chased validation or tried to fit in; she simply was — unapologetically and beautifully so. Characters like her are rare in dramaland, and even rarer in real life. Now, about the second female lead — most chaebol characters in K-dramas feel copy-pasted, but Seo Dan-Ah breaks the mold. She commands attention without even trying — ambitious, sharp, and endlessly perceptive, yet quietly caring beneath that cool exterior. She notices the small things, balances power with warmth, and feels real, layered, and deeply human. She’s more than a chaebol — she’s a story of her own.
the reason this is not rated 8.5+ is because sadly it lacks the absolutely unhinged psychopath in-laws, the white truck of doom, the out of nowhere kidnapping of the FL, the third straight accident that somehow leads to an amnesia and the over the top 120fps low motion scene every 10 seconds to show that they are indeed shooting the drama with top tier cameras.
They could have given us something insipid like a drawn out cycle of Sha hurting Gorya then Gorya discovering things and feeling guilty etcetra melodrama as is the common way of plot, they hit us with reality and gave us THIS Gorya who actively finds out Shasha's hurt and goes about making it right in the most Gorya way possible and how am I supposed to get over them
I love the acting – everyone did a great job. Joo Young was the star of the drama for me – she totally nailed the character. Also, Ji Hoon shines in every scene.
I completely get why Tae and Sang started chasing power. They want to become people that others can't touch, use, or throw away. To the rich, regular people are just pawns. I love that Tae and Sang know what they want and will do anything to get it – even putting up with each other's shady methods. It's not an easy journey, as you can see from the ending, which was just perfect.
The storytelling worked for me. Corruption, abuse of power, sex trafficking – nothing new, and sadly, it will never go away. Money and power run everything. What I love most is that this drama doesn't sugarcoat anything. It shows the real world exactly as it is – people doing awful things to get rich, famous, or powerful.
I was hooked from the beginning and excited to watch every next episode. I don't get the low rating, but I'm not surprised – this kind of drama isn't really appreciated on this site.
Overall, I really enjoyed it. I loved watching Tae – life kept knocking him down, but he never stayed down. He always fought back.
Verdict: A powerful, underrated drama that deserves more love.
If self-worth were a person, she’d be Oh Mi-Joo. She valued herself above all else — clear-headed, confident, and perfectly aware of her worth. Witty, straightforward, and refreshingly self-aware, she was confident yet kind, practical yet a little dreamy. She never chased validation or tried to fit in; she simply was — unapologetically and beautifully so. Characters like her are rare in dramaland, and even rarer in real life.
Now, about the second female lead — most chaebol characters in K-dramas feel copy-pasted, but Seo Dan-Ah breaks the mold. She commands attention without even trying — ambitious, sharp, and endlessly perceptive, yet quietly caring beneath that cool exterior. She notices the small things, balances power with warmth, and feels real, layered, and deeply human. She’s more than a chaebol — she’s a story of her own.