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I rec to stick with Crazy Love, though. Like you i struggled thru the first episodes due to its slow pace, but it does pick up a lot around the fourth-fifth episodes where it gets deeper into each character and the general plot.

Well that is not always the case and pretty subjective. Popular ain't equal with the quality of a drama/thing tbh, though for ABP it checks out. There are a lot of popular drama here on MDL or general media i don't vibe with or/and are objectively not of great quality (see twilight/50 shades of gray etc and so on)

Like personally out of the most popular top 10 kdrama shows on MDL i like maybe 3 of them. Hence why i stopped giving much of a damn about a rating/reviews/comments and just watch a drama if i like its premise to get my own opinion of it. ABP is fun to watch tho :)

I found the storyline pretty simple tho? What did confuse you?

Once again, MDL ratings/opinion do not see eye to eye because i ended up loving it. Sure its storyline is simple and stretched too thin for 16 episodes, but the main leads really sold me on their romance and love for each other. Great chemistry and super supportive, affectionate couple. Hugs, adoring looks, and handholding/small kisses/touches were freely used by the actors, which it made it really believable that their characters are in love and an item.

The drama reminded me a lot of Extraordinary You with its fantasy elements and themes of "fighting against a predefined fate/us against the world" and "I was born to love you." I love how ML essentially was more than meets the eyes and just as lonely as the FL. Who would have thought that Doom, the ender of all things, would make such an adorable and wholesome puppy boyfriend haha. They helped each other to grow and change through all the hardship faced, so in the end they both were in a much better place through their support for each other. I loved the bittersweet undertone of it because FL lived on borrowed time thru her illness. The acting sold me on the spectrum of emotions felt by the characters all throughout the show. The only big caveat i have is that it would have worked better as a 12 episode show and the whole love triangle plot of the SLs was stupid, boring and disjointed from the main story, so i skipped all their scenes. Otherwise it is a great drama if you search for something in the "grand/epic fated to love you romance" category and do not mind its bittersweet tone overall. OST is one of the best i have heard in a drama too.

Team Penguin 🐧 🐧 🐧 They are so cute <3

Now where i have seen it... there was an odd tonal shift from the usual melo to romcom at the end of episode 13. I feel the writer of ep 1 to 4 came back to finish the script of the last 5 mins of this episode lol 😂

That being said, i am really warming up to crazy love rn. I struggled to get thru the first four episodes quite a bit due to its pace, but especially the last two ones had been excellent as it goes deeper into characters, plot and their bg now. Plus ML slowly is becoming less of a jerk toward FL as he starts to relate to her and sees her as her own person, so the romance subplot very slowly rears up its head too now. Looking forward to the next two episodes and more of that tbh.

BP is just pure, light fun and owns up to its identity as a romcom and the tropes it uses. Like it does not pretend to be deep or something more than that but instead runs with it. It is also funny af and tightly paced. i had not one dull moment with the drama, also thanks to the twelve episode format which cuts out a lot of filler and/or unnessary wangsting. The chemistry between main leads is great and between SLs as well, the romance progresses at a good speed in general and is really cute. Plus I like how the characters are written and acted, like it could be very cliche but thanks to the acting and how they fill in their characters gives them a subverting spin and depth. It is certainly not the most original plot or drama in general, but it also does not pretend to be... you get what you see with it, and i find this pretty comforting and enjoyable, bc sometimes you just need a feel good show that lets you laugh/swoon along, yknow?

NP. I feel this drama sadly keeps being forgotten as it gets buried under the ABP and 2521 big names, but i came to like it. As said the first three or even four episodes are a bit slow, but rn it picks up speed as it goes deeper into plot, characters and their backgrounds. Plus the enemies to lovers progression is at a very slow, believable pace so far. But ofc it has the caveat of the FML having that terminal illness, so i dunno if it is getting a happy ending or if it does the curveball to melodrama like FLAW did. So far it is on track tho. Well acted too, in a deliberate over the top way (at times) to bring justice to its title lol. It takes the piss at a lot of the usual kdrama tropes in a satirical way, too.

Yeah, completely valid ☺

Yup. I had expected she would come forward when she gets more comfortable being in a relatioship with him/it getting serious over the course of the drama.... but that never happened. Instead she is/kept treating Siwoo like a dirty secret instead of an equal partner to her, which is all the yikes and red flags. He is/was definitely not getting the time/care he put into the relationship back on the same level. 😬

Yeeeeah, i was able to empathize a lot with her at the start, seeing how she got cheated on by her longterm partner and how hurt she must have been/how hard it must be to move on. Buuuuut even at a latter point, she is remaining stagnant and never really changed one bit. She is all talk and little substance and i hate how wasted the potential for good character development got with her, particularly after her breakdown in episode 11 which changed jackall afterwards. Argh. So yeah i don't get her character either, but the post is at least an attempt to explain it.

I love the buzz, discussion and theories of airing dramas each week, wish i were around when mr. queen (which is my most fave kdrama, ngl) to participate in the discussions. Would have been lots of fun i think.

And while this drama turned out to be rather meeeeh in regards of pacing/execution i still enjoyed discussing it and its (infuriating) characters haha. Also having only 2 episodes per week helps me pacing myself as i tend to bingewatch a lot lol. Which also helps to give room to catch up on older kdrama shows hehe☺

Yeeeah thinking the same here, well summarized once more. And no i have not watched "now we are breaking up" but i heard enough infamous things about it that i never want to, lol xD

It is too bad because a fast romance has as much potential to be good as the (usual) slow burn but sadly it seems kdramaland does not manage to get it executed well, sigh.

Faaair. As for me, I am more frustrated with its (latter) direction than hating it. And this reddit post explains well what the writers are trying to do with Hakyung in a cultural/societal context, i guess:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KDRAMA/comments/tohpau/comment/i26ceky/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

It is just too bad the execution of it is falling so very flat (imo) (Oh, should mention that two weeks timeline given in the post is wrong. They were dating longer than that. The passage of time in the drama is told by its weather and easy to miss tho. So seeing we are around July now in the drama, it is two months now, give or take, since their first night/them starting dating in late April/Start of May.)

Oh noice. Yeah most german shows are only airing domestically tho, DARK was kinda an exception. Tho tbh, i find most german shows lacking in quality too, so it is probs for the best foreign people does not get to see them lol.

Lol, truuuuuue 😂 😂 😂

Siiiiigh, i know. I *wanted* to love this show seeing it had an refreshing approach to the usual romance drama formula and i loved its realism in regards of relationships, but along the way its execution got worse and worse, alas. (particularly in the last 4 episodes it lost the plot when talking about marriage y/n instead of addressing the secrecy of their relationship FIRST. Like talk about doing thousand steps before the first lmao)

So my love for it was sadly not mutual or appreciated, and somewhere along episode 12 as the expected payoff fell flat like Hakyungs expression as she passively stared on, died down a lot. I am still here till its end tho, eating my humble pie, haha

Leads getting together fast can be done well tho, as a slow burn of another/reverse kind once feelings enter the mix and they have to navigate the emotions and all the circumstances/people around it. It all depends on the writing and how much you actually show as the writer of the relationship and the struggles to the readers/audience. With them both we sadly only ever got the latter part with next to none of the good moments (bar scene in episode 8 was the last one) which imo, made viewers care less about the main leads' relationship. They always said how much they cared for each other but showed it little which is not enough to be convincing. At this point why did they go thru all the struggle if there was no good part to it, leading them to where they are now? What was the point?

And hell, even as her mother came out catching them red-handed she still tries to deny having dated him bc it is not "suitable for her to date a guy like him" or some shit. Ha Kyung is too much about appearance and too little about substance, sadly. Which is why a breakup is for the best, seeing her words and actions never lined up and tbh Siwoo should find someone who fully appreciates him.

aw nooo, i am still going to watch but idk, with not much expectations anymore? I am just too curious how it ends and after investing so much time and discussion into this damn drama i am also too stubborn to give up so close to its end tbh haha