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This show has all sorts of issues but the one that truly drove me up the wall was the babyfaced cop's excited puppy dog act. Few MLs have annoyed me this much.

So help me, if I hear one more DONGBAEK-SSI!!! out of you I will DONGBAEK-SSI!!! you right in the 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 DONGBAEK-SSI!!!

I had to get this off my chest.

There were 40 TV episodes. Those were doubled up for streaming so Netflix counts two episodes as one.

If you came hoping for a second "Because This is My First Life" because of the most lovely Jung So-min you will be very sorely disappointed. She's given nothing to work with. The ending, in which her character's story basically implodes, has gone down in K-drama history as a notorious piece of garbage. However, it isn't even the worst part. The ML is.

There's pulling the pigtails of the girl you like on the playground. Not particularly nice but you get it. And then there's tying her braids to the monkey bars and leaving her there overnight. The writers missed the line between tsundere and asshole sociopath by about half the distance to the moon.

I thought I'd seen the worst of Kim Ji Suk as the SML in "When the Camellia Blooms." I was mistaken. Seriously, who gives him these scripts?

8.0

10.0 for a cogent argument on the points that matter to me, and the fact that you saved me from watching it. Minus 2.0 because my head is spinning from the wall of text.

Because 10.1 wasn't an option.

I've worked around actors who had different personas in every context of the camera. That's most of them. There never is an "off the camera" moment. But when there was no camera in sight they were none of those screen personas. Tae-goo might be the life of the party when we're not looking.

I don't see why a person could not make a huge difference. The essence of forming relationships is creating things that are greater than the sum of their parts. And while the potential may be limited to 1+1=2¼ in some relationships, in others 1+1=something so weird and wonderful that Neil Degrasse Tyson couldn't explain it.

Surely you have met someone with whom you can light up a room together and all things are possible. And they leave you a bit more outgoing and confident forever. If you have not met them, I wish that it may happen to you soon.

I score maybe 5% of dramas a 10. This is a 10. Your life is empty without it.

I don't think of Tae-goo as an introvert and it's really hard to judge from a drama character. Here he happens to play someone whose people skills do not yet include romance and who's very good at minding his own business.

I find the introvert/extrovert a very unhelpful dichotomy to start with. It's a spectrum and life experience can change one's long-term position on it. Been there, done that in both directions.

Yeah. I know I should have more confidence in this writing team. Maybe at this point it's like watching a gymnast nearing the end of a perfect routine. You grit your teeth a bit and hope for the best.

Ep 13 is crunch time. I know I went into this eyes wide open and knowing about it having gangsters with a past and stuff—but my tolerance for violence in rom-coms is low and I'm a bit anxious about this.

I'm crossing my fingers that they have not made the mistake that Law Café made when it took a deep and very unfunny dive in ep 15.

You'll change your tune when he makes you an offer you can't refuse.

It kept teasing me that there would be flavour and spice somewhere in this slice of life. I did not find much more than some will they, won't they and they were mostly too busy to "will-they."

After the final episode it felt like I'd eaten lunch in a retirement home cafeteria. I might as well have rewatched Nevertheless.

The show has gone from one high to another. I think at this point people are becoming confident that it won't disappoint in the end.

I feel ya. I'll be stuck on a bus trip that's long enough to break up the day but just a bit too short to watch the whole episode. Argh. 🤬

That was just what I needed. I'll leave it on hold and will consider the rest a prequel of sorts for a later time.

Greatly appreciate the elucidation. Thanks.

And then they pick him up like a broken piece of equipment. 😂 Classic physical comedy!

You don't really think that the Flower Boy will go home empty in the end, do you?

Emperor penguins *are* a protected species. 😊

Help me out here. After ep 8 the main storyline feels resolved. Why would someone want to watch the remaining six episodes?

DDS was not brilliant but it was cute and alright for a longer time. It might have been a 7 or a 7.5 if it hadn't insulted the audience's intelligence like that. MMH didn't really come together before it fell apart and a blah ending was consistent with the writing. I found the entire supporting cast bland and unrelatable, except for Kim Won-hae's character who was insufferable from end to end. But above all the writing of the ML took the tsundere about one mile too far. As a 35-year-old virgin he was the polar opposite of the Seo Ji-hwon character I'm enjoying in My Sweet Mobster this week: he erred on the side of going out of his way to be a total dick whenever he didn't know what to do.

I gave it points for production standards and, well, for Jung So-min's face being in it.