The Punic

its sweet, its fluffy, its wholesome but its one dimensional even for its tone, there's absolutely no conflict or bad events, I don't even remember anyone getting angry or jealous or showing any kind of negative behaviour everybody acts like they're saints which made it boring and monotone, conflicts resolved themselves without even the people inflicted by them its weird and unrealistic to say the least. and episodes ends in the most abrupt way

Same, she nearly made me drop the drama. toxic families exists but the lack repercussions is what made me sick.

its such an outdated drama, the "bad" people live breath and act all their whole lives as "bad" people, they don't have an ounce of humanity or whatsoever. they are there to drive forward the plot which seemed to be lost without their over the top inhumane behaviour.

I love how healthy, cute and honest with each others they are especially in the first half when they started to build their relationship, they talk about their feelings and plan while healing together, its a good drama even it stalled and lost its way in like ep9 to 11-12

Its wild how normalized being a toxic parent is in asian drama. story wise sanha and his dad are the luckiest people, they found the best neighbour on earth who saved their lives from going astray

I'm sorry I didn't mean to spoil anything to you, hope I didn't make your experience worse.
YES redemption requires accountability, effort, and actual change, you put it perfectly!! Sadly I didn't see any glimpse of it.

I only watches jdrama and kdrama but I agree both have that "fetish", Sanha's mother is the worst I've ever seen, while she's not guilty, she's partially responsible for her daughter death, she went on to harrass her son for 20 years while disregarding her other daughter who just lost her dad like she didn't even gave birth to her, and tried to end herself just to guilt trip her son, but all is well because that son somehow misunderstood his mom and remembered how she took care of him when he had cold once and said sorry while she cried on the other side of the door, everything is forgotten and she can move on with her life and enjoy the rest of it with no repercussions.
I really not sure what's the lesson from sanha's mom story except, its totally okay to be more toxic than 1986 chernobyl reactor and ruin 2 families for 20+years as long as you're a mom and can cry

I love how while they're a lot of romance, it took a backseat later on the serie while other matters took priotity

just finished the trainwreck that is ep9 and I have the same exact feeling, the plot advances just by the 2FL hearing things just randomly and saying whatever she hears.

kdramas have this weird fetish that no matter what the mother did or how many lives she shattered for decades, all can be forgiven if she acts like a mother and acknowledge her life long victims of children. everything is ok

his sister Hwi is an absolute gem of a character, by far the most fun to watch, she steals the drama whenever she's on screen.

this is the quintessential drama of enemies to lovers, loneliness and betrayal especially loneliness, its beautifully crafted, edited and directed, the intro just perfectly sums up how gorgeously this drama is shot and acted.
one thing, in the last 4 episodes I find some character decisions questionable to straight up absurd, nothing major but the timing and sometimes the reason doesn't make sense except to drive the plot forward. the ending could've been executed better too.

a top tier story, masterfully written characters especially the ML & FL, the only two things that made me roll my eyes are first how disrespectful the sports industry is portrayed, coaches and olympic medalists acting like 12yo kids and the second thing is how NPC tier like are the parents of the ML they just don't make sense especially the mother who she arguably held the biggest plot power.

the secondary couple both are good characters of their own but their relationship is forced, they keep meeting on the writers' whim, almost every single meeting is based on a coincidence or him finding her without a clue especially when he was a designated driver for that guy. its just cheap lazy writing to put two characters together.

Love scout is really fluffy 95% of the time and just finished airing last week.

thats one thing I really don't like about asian dramas, parents are sacred and almost always give them a chance to redeem themselves.

such an underrated gem, Ex-athletes stories are always interesting because they were doing only one thing their whole lives and suddenly that one thing is gone. so they have to start to learn how to live again.
that episode 3 ending is a masterpiece of its own in every facade, the story build up, the characters involved and especially how it was masterfully shot and executed.

Anyone who watched things like mindhunter knows how serial killers behave they can imitate and blend into society easily, perfect culprit for the show even tho I think we needed just one or two more hints, but a masterpiece of a show on every façade, loved the romance too, people say not much chemistry, expecting every single couple to be fun or clash but love can be about the journey and their journey is unique.

halfway through this it got nice premise, some good characters but what's wild is that there's only one prosecutor, one attorney, one cop and one journalist in south korea, its one-dimensional how everything revolves around them.

The OST and the choice of non-original soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal. some episode endings are out of this world mainly because of the choice of the music.