cherm

The Good:
- The actors are capable of acting well and I have seen the ML act in a different show and put in a good performance
- Music is solid
- Cinematography and visual vibes are strong especially in the nostalgic shots

The Bad:
- The two leads are the most incompetent people on planet earth when it comes to interpersonal communication. The first time when they were young it was fine but when they reconnect a decade later its clear that neither of them have grown at all.
- The conflict in the leads relationship the second time is completely ridiculous and if either of them was capable of communication it never would have happened at all.
- The actors I think CAN be good but in this show the male lead especially is written with two emotions, 1. neutral 2. slightly sad, this gets old fast and I would've loved to see this guy emote like a human one time.
- They don't expand upon or wrap up any of the side character stories.


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- The main villain of this story being the fact that the two leads are adults with schedules that they need to work around is frustrating to see play out especially when both of their circumstances are known to be temporary, FL: wants to get closure on her guest house and close it properly...doesn't communicate it at all and leaves out the fact that her ex was involved heavily. ML: grandma is hospitalized and he needs to visit often...knows that this event that causes another hardship in their scheduling is temporary but somehow can't work through it for the short-term.
-The ending. I do not care at all if the leads end up together and my whole perception of the show doesn't hinge on that but what the f**k was that ending. My thoughts going into the last 20 minutes of the last episode was that the two leads would finally have a proper breakup and get their closure......I GUESS I'M A STUPID JACKASS. Instead we get the male lead (who was written as the most passive, uncommunicative, self-loathing, loser of all time) professing his love and sending the FL off to Hawaii to start her new life and to call him if she ever sees a future with him in it. THIS GUY IS PATHETIC. He then decides to fix up her old house, take a job that his mom use to have near the city (he had said previously that he had wanted this job since he was a kid so I don't hate this part), and I guess just wait around for the FL to maybe come back?

Summary:
DO NOT waste your time. The show was only 10 episodes but it managed to make me feel like I spent an eternity trapped inside it. The show starts off strong enough but quickly loses all momentum and grinds to a glacial pace. I had to put this show in 1.5 speed in some sections and it still felt like it was moving in slow motion. The leads both being insufferable to watch interact and the complete lack of a real ending made me genuinely angry as I mourn the hours I spent, and will not get back, watching this steaming mess of a show. I have never written a review on any 30~ dramas I have watched, but I was genuinely raging at the end and needed to get my thoughts out somehow so that I could go to sleep.

Note:
A lot is left to the imagination so I guess if you're creative enough you can spin the ending any way you want to fit whatever narrative you want but this open ended style where neither lead gets a real ending is frustrating to see when you invest this much time into the show. A show that I felt did a similar end a lot better was **SPOILERS** Twenty Five Twenty One. In this show it feels like the leads were able to get closure and grow as people while not ending up together. It seemed like this show was going for that kind of vibe at the end but tripped over their own proverbial feet.