Kinda overrated. Underwhelming.
This drama was hyped so much in the media in my country that I thought we had an amazing masterpiece on our hands. But alas, it fell very very short. Contrary to many here, I'm not interested in romance dramas - I find them unrealistic, tropey and not a least bit romantic. The workplace bit here was interesting, but then again it just smeared the surface. Overall, there wasn't alot of depth all round.
What worked:
- The workplace bits. I actually really liked the FL's trudge through her toxic workplace and how she sorta "navigated" it, it just resonates on so many levels personally. I liked that she didn't like her situation but she didn't give up either, and was a very hard worker.
- The FL herself. The most interesting character in the drama. She was slightly more fleshed out than the rest, and I liked that she wasn't this immature, cutesy, girly sweet and defiant character. She had her own principles and followed them but wasn't stuck-in-the-mud stubborn. She's rather quirky and doesn't fall for men too easily.
- Some of the dialogue. Pretty quote worthy, I remembered noting down quite a few gems.
What didn't work:
- Very thin plot with useless filler characters and scenes. Nothing much actually really happens if you think about it. random characters introduced which you barely see, and why is there so much focus on the annoying FL's cousin? i dont give a shit about her love life! go away! just so much time taken up by all these people.
- The romance wasn't romantic. At all. It was 2 adults with their own baggage who didn't quite want to own up to it and be honest with their feelings. The usual miscomm ensues. This trope has been done to death. Also as both characters weren't very fleshed out I was wondering what they actually really liked about one another. Chemistry was so so, nothing sizzling or amazing. Also i didnt tink the ML was a good match for the FL.
- ML , i dont know if it was the writing or the actor's acting, but i couldn't vibe with him at all. i wasn't interested in his world at at all, neither was i interested in his workplace scenes, i ff-ed all of them. I also couldn't tell - was he genuinely a player or just someone playing at being a player? He was so wishy washy and noncommittal and gave off alot of emotional unavailable red flags but then you wouldn't really see him "go all out" being a player. So I didn't get it, please decide ML! And while I found elvis han attractive at the beginning, oddly the attraction just waned and died over the episodes, and have developed an aversion to him oops.
Overall just not a very impressive drama, though I found some of the FL's scenes in the earlier episodes rather comforting and rewatchable.
What worked:
- The workplace bits. I actually really liked the FL's trudge through her toxic workplace and how she sorta "navigated" it, it just resonates on so many levels personally. I liked that she didn't like her situation but she didn't give up either, and was a very hard worker.
- The FL herself. The most interesting character in the drama. She was slightly more fleshed out than the rest, and I liked that she wasn't this immature, cutesy, girly sweet and defiant character. She had her own principles and followed them but wasn't stuck-in-the-mud stubborn. She's rather quirky and doesn't fall for men too easily.
- Some of the dialogue. Pretty quote worthy, I remembered noting down quite a few gems.
What didn't work:
- Very thin plot with useless filler characters and scenes. Nothing much actually really happens if you think about it. random characters introduced which you barely see, and why is there so much focus on the annoying FL's cousin? i dont give a shit about her love life! go away! just so much time taken up by all these people.
- The romance wasn't romantic. At all. It was 2 adults with their own baggage who didn't quite want to own up to it and be honest with their feelings. The usual miscomm ensues. This trope has been done to death. Also as both characters weren't very fleshed out I was wondering what they actually really liked about one another. Chemistry was so so, nothing sizzling or amazing. Also i didnt tink the ML was a good match for the FL.
- ML , i dont know if it was the writing or the actor's acting, but i couldn't vibe with him at all. i wasn't interested in his world at at all, neither was i interested in his workplace scenes, i ff-ed all of them. I also couldn't tell - was he genuinely a player or just someone playing at being a player? He was so wishy washy and noncommittal and gave off alot of emotional unavailable red flags but then you wouldn't really see him "go all out" being a player. So I didn't get it, please decide ML! And while I found elvis han attractive at the beginning, oddly the attraction just waned and died over the episodes, and have developed an aversion to him oops.
Overall just not a very impressive drama, though I found some of the FL's scenes in the earlier episodes rather comforting and rewatchable.
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