So much potential for nothing.
This was by far the most disappointing thing I've watched this year. It's a shame, really, because this had so so so much potential. It started cute and just a little bit angsty and yearning. I was sat. Then at some point, they started going off the rails, and I started to understand nothing. It got frustrating. Their actions, intentions, and thoughts were never made clear to the audience. They would just show a close-up of the actors and expect us to fully comprehend and piece together what, or why, was happening just by guessing what the characters felt. It felt like trying to solve a puzzle for which I didn't have the pieces.
I swear the writing was the issue, because the acting was great. And the cinematography was beautiful. But that's really all there was. Beautiful nothing. I think the drama tried to portray some hidden depth, but ended up just feeling like nothing.
The production was beautiful, but the writing lacked any real substance and made the audience feel more confused than anything.
They don't end up together, and I'm not against that, but I felt like in the effort to have a "realistic" and 'deep" romance story, they failed to make the audience feel anything at all, cuz I was too lost to focus.
For example, at the end, he goes to her house and changes her lightbulb. What am I supposed to make of that?? No context, just a random action with no explanation.
I don't need things spelled out for me; any good drama shows instead of telling, but I never truly understood what it was trying to show, because I didn't really feel like it did have anything to say, just hid behind beautiful scenes and confusing plots to hide the fact that it really did have nothing.
The fl frustrated me, and the side characters felt so surface-level, like their sole purpose was to be plot devices for the main leads, and they didn't have any development or even a story or depth of their own. For example, the male lead's brother. There was so much potential to explore him, and I was genuinely curious about him, but they didn't show his story, or his thoughts, dreams, or anything; he was just a reason for the ML to stay in his hometown.
TL;DR
Beautiful acting and cinematography, no essence to the story. FL was frustrating, and side characters felt empty. Waste of a good story.
I swear the writing was the issue, because the acting was great. And the cinematography was beautiful. But that's really all there was. Beautiful nothing. I think the drama tried to portray some hidden depth, but ended up just feeling like nothing.
The production was beautiful, but the writing lacked any real substance and made the audience feel more confused than anything.
They don't end up together, and I'm not against that, but I felt like in the effort to have a "realistic" and 'deep" romance story, they failed to make the audience feel anything at all, cuz I was too lost to focus.
For example, at the end, he goes to her house and changes her lightbulb. What am I supposed to make of that?? No context, just a random action with no explanation.
I don't need things spelled out for me; any good drama shows instead of telling, but I never truly understood what it was trying to show, because I didn't really feel like it did have anything to say, just hid behind beautiful scenes and confusing plots to hide the fact that it really did have nothing.
The fl frustrated me, and the side characters felt so surface-level, like their sole purpose was to be plot devices for the main leads, and they didn't have any development or even a story or depth of their own. For example, the male lead's brother. There was so much potential to explore him, and I was genuinely curious about him, but they didn't show his story, or his thoughts, dreams, or anything; he was just a reason for the ML to stay in his hometown.
TL;DR
Beautiful acting and cinematography, no essence to the story. FL was frustrating, and side characters felt empty. Waste of a good story.
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