I love how this is turning into a reunion show for the cast of My Dearest! This show is still one of my tops out…
I just finished it last week because I was enjoying this female lead so much in Dynamite Kiss and, wow, one of the most beautiful dramas I’ve ever seen! I’m now having a Namjoon Min marathon. 😂
The interview with the ML and SML had me dying. The way the SML didn't even pretend throwing that water in his lap was an accident, then standing 10 miles apart for the photo lmaooo. 🤣 This show is so funny.
I'm almost done with this and just have to say the SFL is a great actress. I rarely feel this much hatred towards a villain, she makes the character feel so real that it's almost hard for me to even finish this but I have to finish because I must see her pay. 😂 Hats off to the actress.
The writing is great too. The writer has a perfect instinct for knowing when the villain is about to make me tear my hair out and always gives the FL a small win right on time to keep me sane and hooked. If this was one of those shows where the FL never got a win I wouldn’t have even made it past episode 2, the villains are that terrible, and this writer definitely knows that! Great pacing. So good!
Edit: Just finished and unfortunately the second female villain is nowhere near as talented as the first and dragged the show way down. We really didn't need another villain (the first two were MORE than enough) and this show was easily a 10 all the way up until about episode 14 when she showed up and then it became exhausting to watch. Once I feel the need to start fast forwarding it knocks off a few stars for me. All in all, it's an 8/10 for me.
coming here after so long bc I'm realising that perhaps, she didn't love yi san at all or all that much, and didn't…
That's what made this show so interesting to me because it could really go either way. She could've loved him or despised him (or loved him AND despised him) and both would have made sense in the narrative. It really captures the complexity of the human heart and human emotions. We are not spoon fed the right answers because there are no right answers. I really love the route the writer took with this character.
I really wish I had watched this one before My Dearest because, while The Red Sleeve is fantastic, it is nowhere near as good as My Dearest. The cinematography, the chemistry between the leads, the fight scenes, none of it comes close to comparing. My Dearest was simply a masterpiece.
I actually loved this drama, it's very well-written and thought provoking. A lot of people seem to have an issue with the FL not kissing the ML's ass (apparently she should've been eternally grateful for the honor of being his mistress) but that's what made her character so captivating to me. All the way up until the end I understood her internal dilemma completely, her need for control, and I think it's realistic that the matter of her heart was never fully resolved. Life is very rarely wrapped up in a perfect bow that way. Beautiful characterization.
its really weird how people only accept a story as good when the ending is happy. yes, the ending is not happy.…
I swear they hate any story with a real plot or real conflict/tension. They literally want 16 episodes full of perfect one-dimensional people who do absolutely nothing but make out all day and never fight and live in a world full of rainbows and sunshine where absolutely nothing goes wrong, ever. That's not what good storytelling is.
The ML is a ridiculously wealthy heir who’s had every material advantage imaginable—including the looks. Meanwhile,…
Too many women on this site are raging misogynists so they'll always treat the ML like a helpless baby who's so wronged by the evil heartless FL. I love seeing a rich ML suffer so this show is right up my alley.
Lowkey watching it just for lee junho. I am so tired of the other bully character that seems to be the only opposing…
The villain was very one-dimensional and that's what killed this show. A villain 's characterization is just as important to the narrative as the main character and they failed miserably here. Too bad, it had potential.
People can't read. They have eyes but are blind, lol. Just from the synopsis you know there will be A LOT of misunderstandings…
One of my favorite slow burns of all time was Jim and Pam from The Office. Even though Jim was madly in love with Pam from the very beginning and she had no idea until the end it was still very much a slow burn all the way up until their first kiss and it was flawless! I agree @peaponi, it is the simmering tension that makes a slow burn great.
This is such classic kdrama! Rich CEO, poor girl, childhood friend SML, a big lie, and pretty soon we'll see the…
I love tropes. I don't know why everyone hates them so much, they're the most exciting part of a drama for me and never get old. Rich man/poor woman, FL in distress, sharing a bed, trapped on an island, unhealthily obsessed SML, it all does it for me. Give me all the tropes please.
Goodness gracious it’s been a long time since a drama has had me DYING for the next episode like this. Can’t wait to see Ji Hyeok and Da Rim’s explosive reunion. Give that man his baby, he earned it. 😅
That scene is his apartment, when his trauma of not breaking the cycle comes to light, is great.
Agreed this writing and production team really hit this drama out of the park for me. I love the execution in showing the character's internal conflicts and motivations.
Omg the look on Ji Hyeok's face when he snatched her hand back from that man is one of the hottest things I've ever seen I fear. I love mess and I'm obsessed. 😂
Personally I even find 2ML flat out Ugly, while ML really handsome. 2nd Lead Syndrome really WTF here....
So many people on here are raving that he looks like Jin from BTS which is the biggest reason I find him so unappealing because Jin does absolutely nothing for me. 😂
The writing is great too. The writer has a perfect instinct for knowing when the villain is about to make me tear my hair out and always gives the FL a small win right on time to keep me sane and hooked. If this was one of those shows where the FL never got a win I wouldn’t have even made it past episode 2, the villains are that terrible, and this writer definitely knows that! Great pacing. So good!
Edit: Just finished and unfortunately the second female villain is nowhere near as talented as the first and dragged the show way down. We really didn't need another villain (the first two were MORE than enough) and this show was easily a 10 all the way up until about episode 14 when she showed up and then it became exhausting to watch. Once I feel the need to start fast forwarding it knocks off a few stars for me. All in all, it's an 8/10 for me.