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I passed on this because the obvious love triangle in the synopsis isn't my thing but is it worth a shot anyway? How love triangle-y is the love triangle? One thing I find particularly frustrating with love triangles is they often feel like they end up spending more time with the second lead. As usual the comments on reddit are more positive than here so hard to gauge.

They're a week behind I think

That'll be disappointing honestly, I had my heart set on a sexy romcom for once. I feel like the only dramas that get a bit smutty are the dark and twisty ones that aren't my thing.

I realize a 19+ rating doesn't just mean sex but it's a romcom so I'm not exactly expecting copious amounts of gore or something.

It would be hilarious if I went into this expecting a sexy romcom and ended up getting violence and gore >>. Or American Pie esque humour (which is not my bag).

I'm not one that needs sexy times in her kdramas but when they promise "29+" (apparently slang for so 19+ we need a whole new rating?") they better deliver.

I don't remember that one well now but my immediate thought was "no, not really".

I think when the weather is fine had a more melancholy feel to it? This is pretty upbeat despite some heavy subject matter.

I started it last week and went into it knowing the lie gets dragged to the end. I definitely think knowing that going in was a lot better than wondering when that shoe was gonna drop.

I've binge watched it this past week and I've really liked it. Some folks are mad we're leaving all the central conflict resolution until the very end but that's pretty typical of dramas anyway so not really a surprise.

The girls mother was her daughter

Chan went to university in Boston, his roommate was Ha Ran's boyfriend. The boyfriend occasionally asks Chan to text her back in his place "tell her I'm in the lab" etc. or gets him to buy her a gift. He seems rather neglectful as a boyfriend. One day their laptops get switched while the boyfriend is gone on a trip.

Chan has a fight with his father, is actually thinking about killing himself, when he hears the beep of the boyfriend's messenger. It beeps a few times, shaking Chan out of suicidal thoughts. Chan starts messaging Ha Ran without telling her who he is. So Ha Ran thinks she's talking to her boyfriend.

Chan confesses to the boyfriend that he's been talking with his girlfriend. They fight. Later Chan sees a message from Ha Ran that she's coming to visit. He races to tell the boyfriend, his hand is on the door knob of the science lab when it explodes with the boyfriend in it. Chan gets gravely hurt and the boyfriend dies.

Fast forward 7 years, Chan ends up working with Ha Ran, he does not disclose at this time that he knows who she is. Ha Ran has spent the last 7 years closing herself off to people because she's lost both her parents and her boyfriend and that's left her scarred. Chan decides he wants to fix her, make her happy again.

The twist here is that Ha Ran never really loved her boyfriend, and didn't start to fall for him until she started messaging him in Boston. Only it was Chan she was falling for, unknown to her.

Chan lost some of his memories in the accident, he's been trying to piece it all together before telling Ha Ran the truth, only - of course - she finds out before he can tell and is, understandably, pissed off that he's been lying to her this whole time.

Ha Ran doesn't find out until episode 11/12 btw, so all the angst is left to the end of the series and we'll likely have some sort of reunion in the final episode.

Love Scout is one of faves!

I think we're in for a time skip here that magically ties up all the loose ends. I hope this ends at Ha Yeong's wedding to Tae Seok. We'll all think it's Ha Ran's or even Ha Dam's but then Twist it's Ha Yeong. I mean they showed us wedding dresses so one of the girls should get married in the end. (Or maybe Grandma!? That'd be sweet).

So Su Jin is obviously the one who actually caused the accident right? I'm not alone in thinking that?

She says herself that she doesn't know what messages were dead Chan or alive Chan which seems to suggest they had similar patterns? Otherwise wouldn't she have picked up that the person she was talking to wasn't her boyfriend? I'm not sure I buy that as an explanation.

Yeah that doesn't make it less creepy? Sending a text on someone's behalf is not the same thing as conversing with someone pretending to be someone else without either of them knowing you are doing it. She thought she was talking to her boyfriend and she was talking to a stranger. A stranger that then decided to hide that fact from her seven years later when they ended up working together, and insert himself in her life in order to "fix" her. He decided not to tell her initially because he wanted to "protect" her from old wounds which is infantalising of him imho. Who's he to decided what she needs protecting from?

His noble intentions don't make this less of a fucked up thing to do.

I'm surprised Ha Ran jumped to him pretending to her boyfriend rather than the creepier option of him reading their messages - which is where I definitely would have gone. But I guess it's not that kind of drama and they still want us to ship them so they can't highlight how creepy the whole thing actually kind of is.

Both Nice Guy and Call It Love (both featuring Lee Sung Kyung) end the drama with the leads reuniting after a separation right at the very end of the drama. They see each other across a room or a road or whatever and that's where it ends. Lol, I wonder if this drama will do the same and she's just collecting dramas that end this way.

I need the second leads to have their own show. I love their opposites attract dynamic. Anyone have recs on couples with a similar dynamic?

Canadian D+ is behind it would seem, I only have 8 episodes. I hate it when they do this.

In their conversation on episode 6 he says they only dated for 3 months and were barely a thing long enough to call it a break up.