Why Am I Here

Another HIGH POTENTIAL show goes south. The promotional summary and the first two episodes are really convincing. The plot about two strangers work together to "keep" a house seems pretty promising. However, apart from the comedy, all things are going wrong here. It looks like the writer is trying to fit cliche tropes as much as possible into this show. Childhood connection, malicious betrayal, White Truck of Doom, triangle — I mean square love, family rejections, unecessary breakup, they somehow put it all together. Instead of focusing on how they keep fooling their neighbours and people around them with their scam (which I think will be more interesting and chaotic), they developed another cliche stories which are boring because they're reused.

There are a lot of unecessary things here: the childhood connection is totally unecessary, it is still very possible for them to fall in love naturally. Jin Gyeong malicious confession to U Ju and Me Ri is also unecessary, especially when she regrets it instantly. Is this confession coming just so U Ju and Me Ri can fight and amend? The story about the slush fund is too complicated. For me how they work together on the scam and Me Ri's problem with her ex is more than enough. Anything beyond should just be side stories.

More than half of the show has shown it's going the wrong direction. It's likely too late to take a sudden u turn, it requires something big (usually they pull a shocking makjang to do it instead). Watch it only if you're up for a fluffy comedy.