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Started with a bang and ended with sounds of confusion
This started off so well! Cliche - yes, but so much fun! I haven’t seen the actress playing Go Da Rim before, but she did a wonderful job portraying the character. She was charming when she needed to be and had great comedic timing, especially during the chase scenes. The chemistry with the chief wasn’t the best at all times, but it was compelling enough to keep me watching most of the time.
The story really started to go off track around episode 10. Yes, things took off and slowed down to fill the episodes up to that point, but episode 10 is where I started to wonder if they knew how to end the drama. I was excited to see this didn’t have 16-20 episodes because a lot of dramas seem to flounder around episode 12 trying to fill unneeded time. This drama seemed to have enough material for 10-ish episodes and then just added a ton of unnecessary corporate espionage drama. There’s a fight with a masked saboteur, GDR carrying the chief out of a burning building (and apparently immune to inhaling smoke), female employees getting slapped, Go Da Rim gets framed not once, but TWICE?? Memory loss?? I literally got to episode 12 and no longer cared how it ended.
The plot you would’ve thought would’ve been a bigger deal - GDR seemingly stealing a position from a mother that needed it is pretty much shrugged off. Her family drama is also solved in like episode 4 or 5 with the chief paying off her sisters debt. I don’t get this show’s decisions.
After Love Scout showed such a self sufficient, competent single father, it made the chief a lot less appealing to watch. He’s a man child given a position of power because of pure nepotism. The business prowess we’re meant to believe he has is barely showcased. He whines, he throws temper tantrums, he was downright cruel to GDR and his team at several points because he kissed someone he thought lied to him about being single. He didn’t deserve to run a team at a successful company. The only thing I agreed with his half sister on was that he was unworthy of the position he was given.
The acting was a bit stiff at points. The acting of the young girl engaged to marry chief Gong was cringey and weird. She was also weirdly juvenile in her behavior. There are people in the clock app that think the single father wasn’t good enough for her - this girl couldn’t take no for an answer. It wasn’t about being unable to read hints - he outright told her he wasn’t interested several times (sometimes harshly) and she still pursued him. Even blackmailed him into spending time with her. She’s not a sad little pitiable character.
At the end, I was rooting for GDR because she’s a compelling character. The romance seemed to be mostly her going along with the chief and it wasn’t really all that romantic to me. However, the actress was great so… maybe just watch eps 1-9 and call it a day?
The story really started to go off track around episode 10. Yes, things took off and slowed down to fill the episodes up to that point, but episode 10 is where I started to wonder if they knew how to end the drama. I was excited to see this didn’t have 16-20 episodes because a lot of dramas seem to flounder around episode 12 trying to fill unneeded time. This drama seemed to have enough material for 10-ish episodes and then just added a ton of unnecessary corporate espionage drama. There’s a fight with a masked saboteur, GDR carrying the chief out of a burning building (and apparently immune to inhaling smoke), female employees getting slapped, Go Da Rim gets framed not once, but TWICE?? Memory loss?? I literally got to episode 12 and no longer cared how it ended.
The plot you would’ve thought would’ve been a bigger deal - GDR seemingly stealing a position from a mother that needed it is pretty much shrugged off. Her family drama is also solved in like episode 4 or 5 with the chief paying off her sisters debt. I don’t get this show’s decisions.
After Love Scout showed such a self sufficient, competent single father, it made the chief a lot less appealing to watch. He’s a man child given a position of power because of pure nepotism. The business prowess we’re meant to believe he has is barely showcased. He whines, he throws temper tantrums, he was downright cruel to GDR and his team at several points because he kissed someone he thought lied to him about being single. He didn’t deserve to run a team at a successful company. The only thing I agreed with his half sister on was that he was unworthy of the position he was given.
The acting was a bit stiff at points. The acting of the young girl engaged to marry chief Gong was cringey and weird. She was also weirdly juvenile in her behavior. There are people in the clock app that think the single father wasn’t good enough for her - this girl couldn’t take no for an answer. It wasn’t about being unable to read hints - he outright told her he wasn’t interested several times (sometimes harshly) and she still pursued him. Even blackmailed him into spending time with her. She’s not a sad little pitiable character.
At the end, I was rooting for GDR because she’s a compelling character. The romance seemed to be mostly her going along with the chief and it wasn’t really all that romantic to me. However, the actress was great so… maybe just watch eps 1-9 and call it a day?
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