blackphillip

This series should be studied as a case study on how to ruin an incredible story with a lackluster finale and a completely unnecessary final reveal.

I saw comments claiming that it was explained on Twitter that the ending was just Yeo Eun-ho imagining what he could have had in the past. But honestly, if it isn't in the show itself, then all that matters are those terrible final minutes that almost sank the whole series.

And I loved the show. The chemistry, the dynamic, the playful flirting, the way the romance between best friends develops—it’s all so interesting and fun.

The characters play off each other really well. One is quiet, serious, intense, and dominant. The other is immature, loud, extroverted, and feisty. And it works perfectly.

I think the series follows an excellent path, but it completely loses its way in the final two episodes. It gets boring and predictable—just the same old formula.

They run out of ideas, and the solutions they come up with are so uninteresting.

It’s still an incredible series—fun, sexy, and a joy to watch. But it could easily have ended at the eighth episode.

But then, in the last three minutes, they throw in that lame scene where he wakes up and says it was all a dream. Honestly, it’s one of the stupidest writing decisions I’ve ever seen. It’s literally asking the audience to disregard everything they just watched. It subverts expectations in the worst way; it feels almost like a betrayal of the viewers who stuck with it.

Still, let’s just pretend that ending never happened and enjoy the other eight episodes, which are a total treat.