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a really great series. Nothing else like it. perfection on the technical side and great actors all throughout. Over and over again I am blown away. Loved the japan episode. hope/bets the ratings go up now that there a lull in romance.

Viki has us only at ep.17, guys. Use your spoiler veils pls. The pain of waiting is part of the pleasure.

Hi, I wept a lot too and I thought your review was a good one. I just looked for your other work..Maybe you have been busy with exams but I hope you write more. It is all about how we feel when we watch in the end isnt it. Objective schmectjective.

Ep.14 is amazing.

On a BJT walkabout after first frost. I really really really didnt like this. It drove me nuts. I stubbornly watched it to the end, and it is an interesting show, but no joy or heart to it.

I smiled every time I watched. Choi Hyun Wook is finally making his mark as a hot romantic lead with great cheekbones (not namby-pamby-western visuals).

loving this endlessly detailed plotting; so much intrigue

That is a very interesting soundtrack. Odd that it doesnt make one feel uneasy or anxious but rather quietly cautiously interested in events. The entering and ending theme song is absolute fire -- gets better and better each time.

(ep14) The actors themselves are excellent dancers, it looks like. The series is trashy at the edge of comical. Love the clothes.

I thought the series was complicated. I wrote a review and it was a difficult one to do. Read it and see what you think.

so far, racy, elegant, silly and a lot of fun.

Thank you for this review. I usually wait for a couple of good reviews before I take down anything I wrote abt a show I didnt really like. I apologize for writing in English but my Italian is awful, altho I am comfortable reading it.

I am so glad you noticed this...it is way out of the focus on the drama per se, but I kept worrying abt whether that could be misinterpreted by boys who get everything wrong and then encourage them to become total creeps.

The only way I got around it was by another probably unpopular opinion, Sang Yan was pretty insensitive in his coltish days, and what he did was plain wrong.

So, why? The director and screenwriter did my name engraved herein, why wasnt he more sensitive?

Well, the snooping sets up the slow discovery he goes through after Yi Fans second disappearance. (still doesnt excuse it for me).

And his final apology (ep29) really made up for this in spades although I would have liked to see it repeated about 5x. AND he should have come clean abt the snooping.

finally!!! The ethics and dearly beloved eloquence of cdrama finally broke through this deeply moving shroud of kdrama tropes!!! that conversation in the hospital healed me anyway! (obvio in the us I am only at ch.29)

I hate it that often women, especially the young and isolated cant feel safe even at home, or in our neighborhoods. We all struggle everywhere in this world in small ways and in big ones to improve this. I hated WYF's family with all my heart. That's fiction. They are caricatures. Cdrama usually shows much more eloquent female characters but these two never even articulate remorse. Women everywhere always fight for freedom in their own lives. That is reality. Cinematic enactments of happiness and freedom are good because they give us all courage and validate our right to dream. FF brings out raw feelings and truth, albeit in a story of true love. Laws are useless unless the forces which protect us are always under scrutiny and until women are equally represented in them. Yay Aunty Chen!

AMAZING COMMENT SECTION -- lots of viewpoint and emotions clearly expressed w/o too much off-the-walls conflict. This is as richly developed (if not more) as the show. Some brilliantly detailed and respectful comments on RL SA/SH, but also just as valuable, sincere feelings on the script/story/fictional characters. Pride here.

Loving this! "that was my first kiss"... choi hyun wook newly-anointed prince of the noona romance!

same here, could not continue. Really intolerably mean-edged comedic portrayal of country people. The fl emotionally is too hostile even for enemies-to-friends. Kang Tae Oh's energy level is way too low to match hers.

yes, those are good ones. They werent there when I started writing.

Thank gods for the comment section -- weeping and yelling at the screen is getting too intense in my space!
Hate the script/love the series aesthetically. Rhetorically (since we all know in reality how hard it is for SA victims), why oh why oh why doesnt she let anyone into her life? Her family gaslights her, abuses her and neglects her. Where are her reporter friends? why dont the police help!!!

The contradiction of the exact now situation in modern china: altho she wants to be independent and puts all of her energy into maintaining a bright public face and the old communal value of prioritizing group harmony over the health/safety of the most vulnerable/children women is supposedly done with, guess why she still feels so much shame!

Heartfelt thanks to all the chinese-speakers who have raised holy heck over this weirdly ambiguous take on SA and romantic obsessions. The director and scriptwriters deserve all the criticism for not respecting the victim enough.