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.
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.
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.
Drama was fun at most times. Cases represented different issues in society. Big bad villain was weak and climax was meek. ML plays the same role irrespective of whether A Korean Odyssey, Vagabond or this. Fans get a final fan service episode.
The number of kisses and near sex scene is never directly proportional to so called chemistry between the leads. Hope drama makers realize this.
It was never good to begin with but got really weird at about 12th episodes. It got weirder with every passing minute and you just start laughing at the insanity of whatever plot unfolds. One thing for sure, I am not going to watch any drama that has misunderstanding as a tag.
I have a new appreciation of these types of drama. This drama is well-made and successfully side stepped all well-known cliches.
- Both ML and FL had characters who had known them for more than 10 years. It felt good that triangles were totally avoided. - Breakup and reconciliation - They side stepped it brilliantly. - Side stepping the mystery guy paying hospital fees with the obvious choice. Using that opportunity to convey "Dont drink and drive" message.
Beginning it felt like it would be light crime solving supernatural comedy. Midway they seemed to want to turn into a serious show but didn't feel it was the right choice. The tone was inconsistent even if they tried to go serious.
Best way to describe the drama is, if you take liberal doses of Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, mix it with Goblin and use Hotel Del Luna for garnishing, you end up with From Now On, Showtime! Even though it was fun, I don't think I will remember even one scene from this drama after few days.
There are no big heroes or villain in this. Just a comforting drama where first few episodes were hilariously. The drama sure had its moment. I rated it 7/10.
First 2 episodes were good but last 2 episodes introduced unnecessary complications, which I felt was not suited for a 4 episodes drama. The ending was as expected and happy. I rated it 6.5/10
I went in expecting it to be similar to Taxi driver. It was not. They tried to make it fun and light, but it did not work for me. There were some good moments but nothing that you will remember after few weeks. Most of the plot just happened and it ended in an expected way. 6.5/10 for me.
The rating in this web is a joke, I mean imdb give this show like 7.4
I stopped looking at rating sometime back. I look at description of drama and few comments on this site before deciding to watch or skip the drama. Most drama ratings have nothing to with the actual drama and just reflects the ratings based on star cast or fans of particular actors.
I rewatched this again to see if I feel differently about this drama as I had rated this 7.5/10 on the first watch.
Even after the rewatch, I still feel that this drama could have been a 9 but ended up being a 7.5, Breakup troupe is simply overused and senseless in Kdramas. While the breakup troupe makes sense in this drama (as the FL did give ML a chance to confess his feeling) but the way these breakups are done makes no sense.
Every drama wants us to assume that life has a pause button, where people can breakup without giving the other person no reason, life gets paused and the person can walk back into someones life with no repercussions. How these story lines keep repeating in almost all the drama with breakup troupe is just mind blowing.
Coming back to this drama, FL weaponized the worst fears of ML, knowing fully the past life experience of her partner. Somehow we are supposed to overlook the emotional manipulation, since they get back in the end.
Minus the execution of breakup troupe, I would say this is a top-tier slow burn drama.
I started watching this after reading the comments and assuming that I will feel bad about 2ML and hate ML. But in the end, I did not hate anyone.
This drama has a good premise and is character driven rather than star driven. All the leads are flawed including 2ML, Love is not rational and there are no reasons that anyone loves anyone. It happens. Also, I didn't feel this drama is romance heavy and so I was not invested in who gets up with whom at the end. I felt all the characters had their own story arc and redemption in the end, including the friends of the ML.
I felt the friendship between the ML and his two friends as the highlight of this drama. I liked how they stuck together through tough times and came up happy at the end. I also liked the fact that the 2ML and 2FL were not paired with each other or with anyone else.
I do not like the break-up without any reason and time jump troupe. But this drama used the break-up troupe to good effect, though I would have liked for this to be done differently.
I seldom over analyze the drama and the only gripe I had is the last episode's final scene in epilogue. They should have included the friends of the ML in the slomo walk, eventhough I get that the leads are walking towards some meeting. I felt this is indicative of the corporate world where the suits always gets the limelight and the grunt workers, who actually build the product gets no recognition. You need the suits to sell the product but you will not have a product to sell without the people actually building it.
This is neither a good or bad drama to watch. But the major issue with this drama was it did not pick a genre it wanted to be. It was funny at times but not funny enough to be a Romcom. It did not have enough fantasy element, thrillers/suspense element lasted for 2 episodes, became melo for 3 episodes, etc.
It had lot of interesting ideas, each of which the writer could have spent time in crafting the drama around. Some of the themes that could have been explored further where
- What does being human even mean? - What would a predator do when it can't control its hunger around it's prey? - FL Losing weight angle - What level of sacrifices can a loved one make, by compromising their health to save your loved one? - Race against time - What would it mean when the ML is nearing 1000 years? Does he wait and die? Does he give up the morality to live? As a viewer, I never felt that looming danger the ML felt that he could die. - Being a professor and student in a relationship provides an interesting premise if you want to make the drama as a comedy. The stage where FL hated ML, to both being in a relationship are 2 distinct scenarios, offering completely different setup to base your situational comedy around. - Second FL becoming a human is a interesting premise and never fully explored. What difficulties does one have to deal with when they no longer have their powers? How do they function in a ordinary mundane life after becoming human? Have conflicted does one become when faced with life's hardship?
I could go on but it is suffice to say that it had lot of good ideas but never fully explorer anything. Drama could have easily avoided the pointless drag of 'red thread' and been a good 12 episode drama instead. Overall, I would rate it 6/10.
I went into the drama apprehensive of the fact it being 4 episodes and whether it could convey the same emotions of a 16 episode drama. And yes, it was able to, which makes your wonder how much filler scenes a regular drama has. This drama has unrequited love, life long friends, a love triangle, side character couple, all of that and more that you find in a regular full length drama.
Drama started nice and I thought it tried to tackle some realistic issues of a divorced women, trying to find her life back. It's comforting to watch and the side characters are exactly portrayed. The flaw for this drama was the vanished child of the FL. It's really odd that you can remove something as significant as a child of the main character and make it have no impact at all on the story. This does not take away from enjoying the story overall but just seems a missed opportunity to add some depth to the story.
Fun fact was the side characters were in the last scene of the drama. Not sure when was the last time I saw that. Overall, I rated the show 7/10.
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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
Rated the drama 9/10.
Rated it 5/10
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.
The drama was good and I enjoyed it. Rated it 7.5/10.
The number of kisses and near sex scene is never directly proportional to so called chemistry between the leads. Hope drama makers realize this.
Rated it 7/10
I rated it 5/10 liberally.
- Both ML and FL had characters who had known them for more than 10 years. It felt good that triangles were totally avoided.
- Breakup and reconciliation - They side stepped it brilliantly.
- Side stepping the mystery guy paying hospital fees with the obvious choice. Using that opportunity to convey "Dont drink and drive" message.
I rated it 8.5/10
Best way to describe the drama is, if you take liberal doses of Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, mix it with Goblin and use Hotel Del Luna for garnishing, you end up with From Now On, Showtime! Even though it was fun, I don't think I will remember even one scene from this drama after few days.
I rated it 7.5/10.
Even after the rewatch, I still feel that this drama could have been a 9 but ended up being a 7.5, Breakup troupe is simply overused and senseless in Kdramas. While the breakup troupe makes sense in this drama (as the FL did give ML a chance to confess his feeling) but the way these breakups are done makes no sense.
Every drama wants us to assume that life has a pause button, where people can breakup without giving the other person no reason, life gets paused and the person can walk back into someones life with no repercussions. How these story lines keep repeating in almost all the drama with breakup troupe is just mind blowing.
Coming back to this drama, FL weaponized the worst fears of ML, knowing fully the past life experience of her partner. Somehow we are supposed to overlook the emotional manipulation, since they get back in the end.
Minus the execution of breakup troupe, I would say this is a top-tier slow burn drama.
This drama has a good premise and is character driven rather than star driven. All the leads are flawed including 2ML, Love is not rational and there are no reasons that anyone loves anyone. It happens. Also, I didn't feel this drama is romance heavy and so I was not invested in who gets up with whom at the end. I felt all the characters had their own story arc and redemption in the end, including the friends of the ML.
I felt the friendship between the ML and his two friends as the highlight of this drama. I liked how they stuck together through tough times and came up happy at the end. I also liked the fact that the 2ML and 2FL were not paired with each other or with anyone else.
I do not like the break-up without any reason and time jump troupe. But this drama used the break-up troupe to good effect, though I would have liked for this to be done differently.
I seldom over analyze the drama and the only gripe I had is the last episode's final scene in epilogue. They should have included the friends of the ML in the slomo walk, eventhough I get that the leads are walking towards some meeting. I felt this is indicative of the corporate world where the suits always gets the limelight and the grunt workers, who actually build the product gets no recognition. You need the suits to sell the product but you will not have a product to sell without the people actually building it.
Overall, I rated 8.5/10.
This is neither a good or bad drama to watch. But the major issue with this drama was it did not pick a genre it wanted to be. It was funny at times but not funny enough to be a Romcom. It did not have enough fantasy element, thrillers/suspense element lasted for 2 episodes, became melo for 3 episodes, etc.
It had lot of interesting ideas, each of which the writer could have spent time in crafting the drama around. Some of the themes that could have been explored further where
- What does being human even mean?
- What would a predator do when it can't control its hunger around it's prey?
- FL Losing weight angle - What level of sacrifices can a loved one make, by compromising their health to save your loved one?
- Race against time - What would it mean when the ML is nearing 1000 years? Does he wait and die? Does he give up the morality to live? As a viewer, I never felt that looming danger the ML felt that he could die.
- Being a professor and student in a relationship provides an interesting premise if you want to make the drama as a comedy. The stage where FL hated ML, to both being in a relationship are 2 distinct scenarios, offering completely different setup to base your situational comedy around.
- Second FL becoming a human is a interesting premise and never fully explored. What difficulties does one have to deal with when they no longer have their powers? How do they function in a ordinary mundane life after becoming human? Have conflicted does one become when faced with life's hardship?
I could go on but it is suffice to say that it had lot of good ideas but never fully explorer anything. Drama could have easily avoided the pointless drag of 'red thread' and been a good 12 episode drama instead. Overall, I would rate it 6/10.
Overall, I rated this 7/10
Fun fact was the side characters were in the last scene of the drama. Not sure when was the last time I saw that. Overall, I rated the show 7/10.