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TBH, I do not remember specific episodes. First episodes starts when they are adult but goes into childhood in the first episode itself. Few episodes of childhood continues and then we revert back to somewhere in future. After few more episodes, there is time skip to present.

There is lot of flashback to childhood throughout the drama.

Choices have consequence is the underlying theme of this drama. First half of the drama is good. After Episode-6-7, it seemed like a chore to finish the remaining ones. Second half got boring quickly and became more melo than thriller.

Decent one-time watch. Rated it 7/10.

Story seems to be over by episode-11. Episode-12 was just weird. Last 5 episodes seemed meaningless and did not add anything new to the drama. Episode-12 could have been the finale instead of introducing new characters and going round in circles.

Episodes are also under 60 mins, which makes them binge worthy. Only issue with this drama is the non existent OST.

On the second leads - It is better to leave the audience asking for more scenes of the second lead than actually giving them more space than needed. They are second lead for a reason. If people end up liking second leads more than the main, then there are major problems with a drama.

Rated it 8/10.

One question that did come up in my mind while and after watching this. Did FL punish the culprits that wronged her in another life or she created the culprits in second life to punish them? I felt it was the later on some level. Still an enjoyable drama nevertheless.

Not sure how to rate this one. It was not bad nor average or good. When the finale episode started, I already started to think about the next drama to watch. I am still unsure if this is a story about a self-sacrificing mother or a controlling mother who wants to remote control her boy.

Rated it 7/10. You can watch it once. I don't think it has any rewatch value.

You can guess the complete plot after the first 15 mins of first episode. But this does not lessen the enjoyment of the drama and I liked this one.

It was a good choice to make the rich FL a normal human vs a rich jerk CEO. Story ends perfectly, leaving each relationship where should be to. Credits to the drama for being able to successfully avoid the cliche of making the CEO as jerk, avoiding breakup+time skip, avoiding making side couples more interesting than main one, avoiding pairing ML brother with ML friend,

People keep giving examples of Romance is romancing. The first 8 episodes of this show was prime example of this. This should be credited. They also had the most natural progression of relationship given the premise of the story.

OST could have been better. I rated this 9/10.

You would have to watch both seasons for the story to end. Can't remember the specifics around episodes but leads are together for most of the season. Both ML and FL have different people interested in them but none of them were annoying.

Happy ending at the end of season-2.

Can't believe this drama does not have cheating as a tag. It's 2024 and I can't believe that I have to write it. Cheating is cheating, whether it is physical or emotional. Creating a new category called 'Emotional cheating' does not make it any less.

I did not know that the main plot was basically cheating and bunch of supporting characters glamourising it as profound love. People can breakup or fall out of love for any reason. The way the relationship progressed is cheating. There is no denying this if you watched first 6-7 episodes. FL takes a supposed break, went behind the guy's back and waited till her feelings are strong enough and rug pulled the guy. The second half of the drama with the guy being portrayed as some sort of big evil is just a cop out to make the audience feel sympathetic towards FL and overlook her actions.

The drama just became a comedy than melo and I just laughed at whatever scenarios were created in the second half, particularly with the FLs ex-boyfriend.

I can't believe this drama is rated 8.3 on MDL. Drama watchers seem to be more accommodating in general if trash behaviour is from main leads. Maybe a contributing factor is a large percentage of drama watchers are fans of actors playing leads.

I rated it 4/10.

After watching 140+ Kdramas, this was my first Cdrama.

This is a true slice of life. There is no plot. There are no serial killers, murder subplot, no side couples, no antagonist or jilted ex-lovers. First episode is a dagger to heart to set the stage. Next 5 episodes are the painfully boring. But if you get past 6 episodes, you will start enjoying this drama.

I rated it 7/10.

Season-1 was a good drama. The world building was good. Characters had arcs and it was never boring even for a minute. OST could have been better. For the first time, I saw a 100 year old dude in love triangle. It was really a good choice to make royal prince a character with different emotions rather than making him the template bad guy.

Season-2 was not required and felt unnecessary. Story should have ended with Season1.

I rated this 9.5/10

Happy ending - Yes. Don't remember the other two things.

I waited for this to complete airing so that I can binge watch. I am also happy to see that the ratings have started to increase from 8.2 to 8.3 after it has completed airing.

This is a satisfying 12 episodes watch. This may not have a great standalone OST drama, but definitely the background music is on point and worth mentioning.

I rated it 9/10.

Don't get me wrong. It's still a good series. It could have been a great series with some work.

After watching 130+ dramas for first time, I decided to pause the last episode and sleep instead of staying up to finish a drama. The story was over by 14th episode and we got 2 full filler episodes in a drama which was a filler. This drama feels like a wasted potential.

Would it have been a better story if they actually made the series about the subplot of 4 friends who went to Seoul to live their dreams?

Rated it 7/10 at the end.

This would have been a great drama too. 7 episodes of pre memory loss bickering, 8th episode ending with memory loss, 6 episodes of post memory loss romance, 1 episode breakup and 1 episode of finale.

I enjoyed this one and rated it 9/10

It's just meaningless, senseless, disjointed compilation of scenes. Plot is shit. Characters are together for no reason. Even for a 33 episodes drama, the relationship feels rushed and unrealistic because there was no real build up that warrant's relationships. Second couple was even more weird because they became couple for no reason. Leads bickering feels weak. So not great love/hate relationship either.

Most characters feel fake and forced. Just showing same trees did not make this a healing drama. Maybe this drama was suffering from Covid while being made.

Overall, I rated it 5/10

First half of this drama reminds me of Call It Love, even though the plot is not the same. It is difficult to fit this in a genre. Is it forbidden love? Serial killer? Mystery? Melodrama? I am not sure. There are not many dramas that portray the aftermath of a crime on Perpetuator's family and how it destroys them.

Second half of the drama totally undo's all the goodwill earned in the first half. This drama is unnecessarily long and has the most incompetent and cartoonish police I have ever seen. Seems like the drama makers ran out of material to fill 16 episodes and started using old scenes as flashback repeatedly. They could have spent some episodes covering other victim families, if they did not have material for episodes. The climax appears lifted straight from 'I hear your voice'.

This is potential wasted kind of drama. I rated it 7/10

Pure, unadulterated, undiluted revenge is one way to describe this one. Suspend your reality, ignore some character inconsistencies and questionable decisions by villains and you have a 9/10 drama.

First 7 episodes were the funniest and strongest in any drama that I have watched so far. Rest of the episodes were funny but in certain parts. It is certainly a enjoyable drama and worth watching. I am not sure who came up with the turtle premise and it was ridiculous and equally funny.

Rated the drama 9/10.

There is not one scene that will stick with you nor one scene that you would want to watch again. This drama is just a random compilation of scenes where even the MLs are side characters in their own story.

Rated it 5/10

It was a good drama overall. All the couples are basically love at first sight and all of them have a good backstory. Without overblown CGI, fantasy element was done well.

I understand why people complain about drama becoming slow in the middle. But I guess the makers tried to give background story for each character even the ones which don't have enough screentime. There are some things which did not really make sense like the return of the bullied girl. She had no impact or screentime after her return which makes you question whether it got cut while post-production or writers took a different path while making the drama.

I do have a lingering thought. Would the story have been even better if the order of episodes was done differently? Would it have been better for the parent's story to be shown first rather than as backstory? I guess the makers did the reverse to grab the eyeballs of the viewers. The hype of the younger couple did make the drama mainstream.

Overall, I rated it 9/10.