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A Fast Food-like Drama
As usual, I am sharing what someone my age and experience would want to know before watching a rom-com with a happy ending as a dopamine source. Using food as a metaphor, I'd say, “This is a fast-food drama.”
Explaining myself: with fast food, after a repetitive process, anyone with the proper training and sourcing the right ingredients gets food very fast with known quality, an expected, not complex flavor, and immediate satisfaction. The joy is brief; it doesn't do much for your health, and the aftertaste doesn’t last long.
This drama follows the same principle: a safe rom-com that relies on a mechanical, well-performed process, uses proven formulas, and offers little to project onto; you know what you will consume, what you'll receive, it is fast with no complex development, and, in the end, only temporary satisfaction, bringing little to your mental health beyond immediate distraction.
We found the usual self-improvement rom-com, featuring two almost 30-year-old virgins: the dominant CEO with personal traumas, and the nice, innocent, and kind FL, trying to improve herself after living through tons of unfair situations where people took advantage of her kindness, improving thanks to the CEO’s support and transformation.
As expected in the fast food process, here the production selected from the typical scenes to receive good reviews in the make-it-fast rom-com: the “accidental kiss”, the CEO with traumas to be rescued by the FL's kindness, the hardworking FL that overpasses all her coworkers with her smartness, the coworkers insanely supporting the FL, confessions while drunk, the ML appearing out of nowhere to save the FL, the first kiss and first time intimacy for both leads, bad guys being punished, people with wrong behaviors turning friend due to the good dees of the main leads, frequent repetition as memories, the unnecessary breakup and the reconciliation after the life risk of some of the main leads, the temporary split in search of self-improvement of one of the leads, (in this case with difficult-to-understand trip to France after stabilizing their relationship, without thinking about the message to your partner when you want to leave for few months?), the transformations and self-reflection of the other lead to support the dreams, and of course, the last episode’s proposal. I expected the rom-com scenes, but when they are too superficial, it made me feel like something was missing.
Even with the predictable plot, the leads' acting met expectations: the leads had good chemistry, the FL's expressions conveyed the irresistible charm that made the CEO fall in love with her instead of more beautiful and successful women, and the ML showed convincing expressions in his evolution and in how he managed his troubles and setbacks, and in how he slowly fell in love with the FL. Like many Korean dramas, the production was polished with few noticeable flaws. As for the antagonists-turned-friends, they were too stereotyped; at least they weren't portrayed as villains, but as “nice people understanding they had no chance.” The leads’ overly exaggerated friends came across as a cheap attempt at humor rather than genuinely funny. Nothing good to say about the FL’s mother, whose character could be deleted without any impact. The lighting, photography, and direction were good, and the OST supported the scenes as an integral part of them, with a good rhythm and no boring episodes.
In summary, the drama was enjoyable to watch and worked well as light entertainment, as long as you aren't looking for deeper emotions or dramatic situations, you can live with the plot holes, or you need something to connect with personally. It is a standard Korean product from the light rom-com drama factory: a happy ending, proven scenes, little artistry, nothing new to expect, and designed to deliver exactly what viewers want to satisfy the domestic market and foreign fans of Asian dramas. Like fast food, it offers immediate satisfaction through a known flavor and convenience, where you can’t expect a dopamine-lasting sensation that you would get at a good restaurant.
Explaining myself: with fast food, after a repetitive process, anyone with the proper training and sourcing the right ingredients gets food very fast with known quality, an expected, not complex flavor, and immediate satisfaction. The joy is brief; it doesn't do much for your health, and the aftertaste doesn’t last long.
This drama follows the same principle: a safe rom-com that relies on a mechanical, well-performed process, uses proven formulas, and offers little to project onto; you know what you will consume, what you'll receive, it is fast with no complex development, and, in the end, only temporary satisfaction, bringing little to your mental health beyond immediate distraction.
We found the usual self-improvement rom-com, featuring two almost 30-year-old virgins: the dominant CEO with personal traumas, and the nice, innocent, and kind FL, trying to improve herself after living through tons of unfair situations where people took advantage of her kindness, improving thanks to the CEO’s support and transformation.
As expected in the fast food process, here the production selected from the typical scenes to receive good reviews in the make-it-fast rom-com: the “accidental kiss”, the CEO with traumas to be rescued by the FL's kindness, the hardworking FL that overpasses all her coworkers with her smartness, the coworkers insanely supporting the FL, confessions while drunk, the ML appearing out of nowhere to save the FL, the first kiss and first time intimacy for both leads, bad guys being punished, people with wrong behaviors turning friend due to the good dees of the main leads, frequent repetition as memories, the unnecessary breakup and the reconciliation after the life risk of some of the main leads, the temporary split in search of self-improvement of one of the leads, (in this case with difficult-to-understand trip to France after stabilizing their relationship, without thinking about the message to your partner when you want to leave for few months?), the transformations and self-reflection of the other lead to support the dreams, and of course, the last episode’s proposal. I expected the rom-com scenes, but when they are too superficial, it made me feel like something was missing.
Even with the predictable plot, the leads' acting met expectations: the leads had good chemistry, the FL's expressions conveyed the irresistible charm that made the CEO fall in love with her instead of more beautiful and successful women, and the ML showed convincing expressions in his evolution and in how he managed his troubles and setbacks, and in how he slowly fell in love with the FL. Like many Korean dramas, the production was polished with few noticeable flaws. As for the antagonists-turned-friends, they were too stereotyped; at least they weren't portrayed as villains, but as “nice people understanding they had no chance.” The leads’ overly exaggerated friends came across as a cheap attempt at humor rather than genuinely funny. Nothing good to say about the FL’s mother, whose character could be deleted without any impact. The lighting, photography, and direction were good, and the OST supported the scenes as an integral part of them, with a good rhythm and no boring episodes.
In summary, the drama was enjoyable to watch and worked well as light entertainment, as long as you aren't looking for deeper emotions or dramatic situations, you can live with the plot holes, or you need something to connect with personally. It is a standard Korean product from the light rom-com drama factory: a happy ending, proven scenes, little artistry, nothing new to expect, and designed to deliver exactly what viewers want to satisfy the domestic market and foreign fans of Asian dramas. Like fast food, it offers immediate satisfaction through a known flavor and convenience, where you can’t expect a dopamine-lasting sensation that you would get at a good restaurant.
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