Like others, I picked this based on the hype it received. First 10 minutes of the drama and radio show conversation is a dagger to the heart. I feel this is the highlight of the drama. Next 6-7 episodes uses lots of ideas and scenes from other drama and movies (Alchemy of Souls, Spiderman etc). Those episodes were boring and my least favourite. Also, I couldn't shake the feeling that a 30 year old women was romancing a 17-18 year old dude. I am not sure how I am supposed to overlook that. Second half of the drama (like last 4 episodes) was more fun to watch.
The biggest drawback of this drama is the paper-thin story. There is no denying the fact that this is not a well story written show. It does not explain anything and feel like a compilation of scenes for cuteness. Like how does the time stop ability never used to stop death? Objectively speaking, if the leads were different this drama would have bombed. All the hype were for the good-looking actors and their chemistry. FL out acts the ML in the entire drama. None of the side characters were of any importance and you will hardly remember them unless you are fans of those actors.
If you ever come across this drama and thinking of watching it, nope. Don't do that. Your TOMORROW will be glad WITH YOU that you skipped this drama.
There was no chemistry between the leads. Their relationship felt forced and fake throughout. Even if people are dying, you don't feel anything about them. As the other comment says, all characters have only 2 braincells and sometimes even one. I like watching slow burn drama but this is not it. You can forward or skip entire episodes and you won't miss anything.
Rated 5/10 because this drama made me feel something only for last 5 minutes of episode-7
Neither I like school drama nor school violence. But I tried this as it has been in my watchlist for quite a while. This is definitely every bit worth the hype it got. The drama was more than what I had expected. I have newfound appreciation for shorter dramas as they have to focus on the crux of the story rather than adding filler episodes to complete the quota of 16 episodes.
Neglectful parents, abusive parents and absentee parents. The trifecta representing the leads. Drama is a representation of adults failing kids in all parts of life whether it was home, school, police, hospitals etc.
Also, I am going to tell my future generation about importance of Instagram follow back and the consequences of not doing it.
Rating this 9/10 and looking forward to second season,
Very easy to watch, very predictable and really unnecessary 1 year time gap. FL looks and dresses same as Your Honor again ;D Not sure which one was shot earlier.
So romance were not really good in this? I watched 8episode of it and kinda lost mood. it was frustating to see…
They had good chemistry but as you said, it's a story of 2 individuals who have completely different goals and views on life. They don't have any kind of meaningful conversation throughout the entirety of the drama apart from the cliche reunion talk in last 5 mins of the drama.
First 30% of the drama feels like watching Meet Yourself again. This is not just because of the ML but there are many similarities between both the dramas. Middle 40% was just toxic relationship shown as romance. Then 15% which was the good portion of the drama. Next 10% of absolute shit and last 5% of the usual romance drama ending.
Romance between the leads is just a toxic relationship. ML may not be perfect but he deserves better. Both of them are wishy washy and this relationship wouldn't last few months if this was real life. But it is super weird for a person to ask removing prosthetic leg like removing clothes, out of nowhere.
Hearing things like this 'I like you but I like Shanghai more' every time you meet while not even in a proper relationship would feel like punch to the gut. Though this is not great, atleast ML is aware of what FL thinks and any choice he makes whether to pursue the relationship or not is his to make. I would also not judge FL for stating things clearly.
Then, FL does not want to breakup nor want to go into a long distance relationship, she decides to get engaged. She does not reveal that she is leaving for Shanghai few days later. This is trapping a person in long term relationship without revealing facts and giving the other person a chance to make choice. A chance which a partner deserves in honest relationship. This is toxicity and manipulation. And having a life changing discussion in a railway station when you are about to leave and telling your partner that you will be away for 2 years shows clearly the power balance of the relationship. If this was real life, the relationship would have ended in railway station.
The issue here is not about career woman who wants to live the life her way. This is about having honest conversation in a relationship and showing basic respect to your partner. This is about disclosing your life plan and future so that your partner has the choice.
I am rating this 4.5/10. This drama had so much potential but....
I went into the drama expecting some kind of apartment politics drama (Like Happiness drama but without zombies). But this was totally unexpected and turned out to be quite awesome.
I was bored in the first episode but got hooked from second episode. Till 12th episode, I felt bad both for kids and the parents because neither of them was right nor wrong. But at some point, I stopped sympathizing with certain characters and started seeing them as unredeemable. Felt really bad for Hye Na's character. The actress surely felt like she is playing her role in Like Flowers In Sand (I know it came later).
I would have rated it 10/10 but I did not like few things about the last 2 episodes. While I understand the intent, giving excuses or redemption arc to characters like Seo Jin, Kim Joo Young, etc, felt misplaced and did not seem true to the essence of rest of the drama. Redemption arc of Ye Seo made sense. Ye Bin should have been the plot device of exposing the details of the murder rather than out of the blue reversal of Seo Jin's character. Woo Joo becoming Dora the explorer also made sense. All evil does not need backstories nor need redemption arc. Somethings can be just left as evil is my personal opinion.
Totally would recommend watching it if you are bored out of usual Romcoms, childhood trauma, time travel, first love returns, chaebol and the other usual KDrama stuff.
After reading some mostly moderate or negative reviews I initially did not plan to watch this drama, but I saw…
There are 2 Kdrama troupes that I wish the industry could bid goodbye
- Non sensical breakup, time skip and reunion because writers do not know how to end a story. - Absolutely useless childhood connection between leads when the drama did not even have anything to do with their childhood.
Can't they put fat people into fat people role instead of doing goofy fat suit? I can't understand many aspects of Kdrama making even after watching them for decades.
The drama kind of ends as expected. It was fun to watch and I found only episode-11 kind of boring. My personal opinion is that I won't remember anything from this except the proposal scene.
Nevertheless, it was enjoyable and I rated this 9/10.
The question that I had was, how does the life work for the leads once they are back to present? They don't have memories of the new present and their new present has changed significantly.
The drama was nothing like I could have predicted. At first, I was confused if it was parody. Then it seemed like a romcom but it tackled some pretty serious things about marriage. It was weird but a good kind of weird show.
I don't think I would have expected a drama to show excel sheet as the first scene but turned out to be something else entirely in the end.
The drama definitely had its moments. First half of the drama was slow but also was good. The second half started dragging and is very noticeable when they introduced the MLs wife back that late in the drama to add filler episodes. The repeated nature of ML and 2ML having to save the FL became tiring after a point. Finale felt forced and I don't think anyone would have been interested in royal coup at that point. The drama also had one of the worst choices of background music that I have seen in Kdrama.
But all in all, this definitely is watchable and enjoyable for about 70% of the drama. I rated it 7/10
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The biggest drawback of this drama is the paper-thin story. There is no denying the fact that this is not a well story written show. It does not explain anything and feel like a compilation of scenes for cuteness. Like how does the time stop ability never used to stop death? Objectively speaking, if the leads were different this drama would have bombed. All the hype were for the good-looking actors and their chemistry. FL out acts the ML in the entire drama. None of the side characters were of any importance and you will hardly remember them unless you are fans of those actors.
Rating it 7.5/10
There was no chemistry between the leads. Their relationship felt forced and fake throughout. Even if people are dying, you don't feel anything about them. As the other comment says, all characters have only 2 braincells and sometimes even one. I like watching slow burn drama but this is not it. You can forward or skip entire episodes and you won't miss anything.
Rated 5/10 because this drama made me feel something only for last 5 minutes of episode-7
Neglectful parents, abusive parents and absentee parents. The trifecta representing the leads. Drama is a representation of adults failing kids in all parts of life whether it was home, school, police, hospitals etc.
Also, I am going to tell my future generation about importance of Instagram follow back and the consequences of not doing it.
Rating this 9/10 and looking forward to second season,
Rated it 6.5/10
Romance between the leads is just a toxic relationship. ML may not be perfect but he deserves better. Both of them are wishy washy and this relationship wouldn't last few months if this was real life. But it is super weird for a person to ask removing prosthetic leg like removing clothes, out of nowhere.
Hearing things like this 'I like you but I like Shanghai more' every time you meet while not even in a proper relationship would feel like punch to the gut. Though this is not great, atleast ML is aware of what FL thinks and any choice he makes whether to pursue the relationship or not is his to make. I would also not judge FL for stating things clearly.
Then, FL does not want to breakup nor want to go into a long distance relationship, she decides to get engaged. She does not reveal that she is leaving for Shanghai few days later. This is trapping a person in long term relationship without revealing facts and giving the other person a chance to make choice. A chance which a partner deserves in honest relationship. This is toxicity and manipulation. And having a life changing discussion in a railway station when you are about to leave and telling your partner that you will be away for 2 years shows clearly the power balance of the relationship. If this was real life, the relationship would have ended in railway station.
The issue here is not about career woman who wants to live the life her way. This is about having honest conversation in a relationship and showing basic respect to your partner. This is about disclosing your life plan and future so that your partner has the choice.
I am rating this 4.5/10. This drama had so much potential but....
I was bored in the first episode but got hooked from second episode. Till 12th episode, I felt bad both for kids and the parents because neither of them was right nor wrong. But at some point, I stopped sympathizing with certain characters and started seeing them as unredeemable. Felt really bad for Hye Na's character. The actress surely felt like she is playing her role in Like Flowers In Sand (I know it came later).
I would have rated it 10/10 but I did not like few things about the last 2 episodes. While I understand the intent, giving excuses or redemption arc to characters like Seo Jin, Kim Joo Young, etc, felt misplaced and did not seem true to the essence of rest of the drama. Redemption arc of Ye Seo made sense. Ye Bin should have been the plot device of exposing the details of the murder rather than out of the blue reversal of Seo Jin's character. Woo Joo becoming Dora the explorer also made sense. All evil does not need backstories nor need redemption arc. Somethings can be just left as evil is my personal opinion.
Totally would recommend watching it if you are bored out of usual Romcoms, childhood trauma, time travel, first love returns, chaebol and the other usual KDrama stuff.
Rating it 9.5/10.
- Non sensical breakup, time skip and reunion because writers do not know how to end a story.
- Absolutely useless childhood connection between leads when the drama did not even have anything to do with their childhood.
Nevertheless, it was enjoyable and I rated this 9/10.
The question that I had was, how does the life work for the leads once they are back to present? They don't have memories of the new present and their new present has changed significantly.
I respect your opinion but I wrote the main comment few minutes after finishing the drama, on how I felt about it.
I don't think I would have expected a drama to show excel sheet as the first scene but turned out to be something else entirely in the end.
Rating this 7/10
But all in all, this definitely is watchable and enjoyable for about 70% of the drama. I rated it 7/10