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I don’t like the female lead character, there I said it.
Before I start, a bad girl/ bitchy FL is my favourite trope like ever. When she feels she’s been wronged and then gets closed off or lives her life anyhow. she gets all rough on the edges and soft to those she love, I love that kind of character in all my dramas.
I feel what makes this FL not good enough for me is that I didn’t believe her story, the reason that made her moral compass so messed up, idk if it’s because of the writing or the acting but I just didn’t believe it and now I end up with a second lead like female lead.
And before someone comes for me for liking it in males and not in females; if you know me you’ll know that I usually end up hating most asshole male leads. Also this in not because ‘I didn’t give the character enough chance to develop’; usually there’s at least something I’ll see in the way they’re written that’ll make me love them despite their flaws but for this one just nothing I just end up getting frustrated.
We’ll see how this goes from here, it can’t get worse, right?

From the flashbacks I can already see they’re really gonna go with the “shared trauma” and “fated love” tropes, it was really not needed. Same with the incoming love triangle, they’re so unnecessary.

I’m guessing that’s how the original novel was, but they could have done away with it.

It’s so cheesy and typical, I found myself rolling my eyes so hard. An arrogant ML and his subordinate FL (granted she doesn’t let anyone put her down). I think the leads are usually good actors but I find their acting to be so unnatural in this especially PMY smiles (both the fake smiles at work and the “genuine” ones when she’s with her family/ friends).

I think I’m discovering that I have a problem with Rom-coms in general, many of the things we’re supposed to find funny just seems extremely annoying to me most of the times.

Despite all this I’m looking forward to the beginning of their romance, I couldn’t care less about the side characters.

Ah what a waste of opportunity, this could have been one of the most realistic romance progression in kdrama land but the writer had to ruin it.
Ep 1-4 were great, we were seeing them fall in love, and finding each other attractive, push and pull for who will make the first move
Ep 5-6 good, they are building their relationship learning more about each other, being in that dating stage where they can’t stop thinking each other every minute of everyday
Ep 7-10 were ok, they are trying to balance their other responsibilities in life with their dating. Dealing with the reactions of others to their relationship.
Ep 11-15... uhm what’s going on. Why is the mom being so unreasonable? Why do they keep making such decisions?

SPOILER!!!!

They spent so much time building Junhee as the perfect boyfriend who could do no wrong while Jin ah was this troublemaker who kept making stupid decisions and then she’ll say she’s sorry and JH will forgive her unconditionally. They were so resilient in their fight against their families to be together. JH even refused a 3 month business trip cause he didn’t wanna leave her alone so why the hell did he decide to leave her at the end when she needed him the most and then proceeded to be angry at her? After JA fought so hard to make the assailants pay and keep her job, why did she suddenly decide to leave after JH came?
They really tried it with that 2 minutes long reconciliation after the long ass final episode, we deserved more sweet moments.

If I were to say something positive, the chemistry of the leads was off the charts, they acted out their lives and looked so in love. I wish them the best in their future projects. I wish they’ll team up with the PD again BUT with a different writer.

A short simple cute story

A love triangle/ square was really unneeded for such a short story imo. I loved the ending but didn’t like the build up to it.

My sentiments exactly. Like what was the point.

I don’t think the people’s problem is that she’s dating a younger guy but that she’s dating someone her family is very close to who they view as “son”

Netflix (not available in US and Canada till it finishes airing) but their subs are usually a week late. Or you can watch it on dramacool.

If what you care most about so far is the leads then I find that it gets more exciting in the following episodes when they start flirting and being jealous. I also found the rest of the drama to be a bit slow.

I think he’s the male junior colleague. The one who gets ordered around a lot and is under Jin Ah.

It’s on Netflix (in some countries). For the rest (US, Canada, Japan, etc), it’ll be there when the shows finishes airing.

You can go to the sub scene page linked below or you can just watch it from drama cool though I’m not sure if they have permission from the people who made the subs. Only eps 1 and 2 so far. http://www1.dramacoolfirst.com/something-in-the-rain-episode-1.html

If the person who made the subs is not okay with this I’ll delete the link.

Because they have the same theme? Noona romance. But other than that, it’s really not that similar.

More like mellow drama. So not much comic scenes but not a tear-jerker, just a real-life like drama.

At the press con they said this drama will be a “real life romance” that’ll cover all the aspects of dating. So since they’ve had all their lives to “get to know each other”, I’m guessing that’ll why the romance went fast and they started flirting immediately and then push and pull, timing game and now dating. I’m guessing taking it to the next level, their families problem (their families consider them to be one big family so I guess it’s gonna be weird if they find out they’re dating), etc are gonna come next.

He was gone for 3 years only and she knew he was coming back soon so she wasn’t surprised.

It was a good series that could have been so much better. They should have added an extra episode or two at least to tie things up better. I feel the second romance was left a big vague. Their situation could have been explored more instead of 6-7 episodes of angst, they could have spent those episodes showing how they are at home or at least developing their relationship more. And the conflict of the main couple was left till the very end, we deserved more lovely couple moments.
I loved the development of Yu Hao and he has a beautiful smile.

I wonder where it’s gonna go from here, when there’s only 2 episodes left and the main conflicts are not close to being resolved. I want some lovey dovey moments though, or is there gonna be a season 2?

Even though Han Hyo Joo is my girl, I felt he had more chemistry with Bong soon, one of the very few dramas where I had second female lead syndrome. I didn’t understand his love for Eun Chae. And despite being the female lead she didn’t even get much to do which also pissed me off.

Kdramas have taught me that if I accidentally fall on a handsome guy, we’ll accidentally kiss and naturally fall in love after bickering for a looooong time.