its probably a huge challenge to the writers, editors and director.
True, and they shouldn’t have been put in this situation where they had to compromise their own creation and vision just to avoid criticism. It also puts a heavy load on an actor who’s already struggling, to also feel responsible for the re-editing and the diluting of a project so many people worked on. All to please a culture that loves to kick people when they’re down.
Inevitably it will be less coherent when they’re trying to edit out the male lead. It’ll be worse than Bloodhounds.
It’s sad that art has to suffer because of an actor’s personal issues in a culture that won’t let people make mistakes. I would have watched this unedited, but now it feels like a waste. I just fundamentally disagree with this approach. Where is the humanity?
Their chemistry looks lovely in the table read video. Not sure I can handle 16 episodes of smiley, cheeky, flirty Wi Ha-joon. Jung Ryeo-won, how does it feel to live MY dream?
All I see here is bad take after bad take after bad take
Classic MDL. Too many children with no media literacy calling everything "draggy" and freaking out if there is angst or anything remotely stressful, putting it on hold for their "mental health".
I liked the FL and her acting early on but now I’m not feeling it. She has little to no romantic chemistry with the ML and there is nothing in the performances or characterization in recent episodes to suggest FL and SML have been close friends for many years. Of course, it’s hard to sell that when they’ve had barely any scenes together. I doubt the final week can salvage the drama for me.
it's probably more melodrama, than a romcom - I hope
Definitely melodrama, like all Ahn Pan-seok's dramas. Someone added "comedy" under genre (used to just say romance and melodrama), but people shouldn't expect a romcom.
No global OTT has been confirmed. I would guess maybe Viki.
Yeah, but this was meant to be a Monday-Tuesday drama. It only got moved to weekend very recently because Resident Playbook was postponed. So the OTT was probably decided while it was still slated for the Mon-Tue slot.
Not knetz trying to come for KSH for his high appearance fee, only for it to turn out that he actually significantly reduced his fee for this drama compared to his previous work to help keep costs down. 🤣
does anyone feel like things are progressing too slowly? the pacing feels really slow even with the 12 episode…
I think the problem is mainly that there's just not much plot in the drama? Like the entire story is basically just the fake marriage and Do-han's secret. They've hardly developed the families and there are few side plots. So because the story is so "small", it feels like it's taking a long time to just get anywhere. I don't know why they decided to wait so long for Ji-han to learn the truth; I think the drama could've been better if they had sorted out that between the three of them earlier on, like episode 6/7, so they would've had more time to focus on how to deal with the family. Now it just feels inevitable that the last episodes will be rushed.
I don't know, it just feels like the writers messed up. Having Ah-jung and Ji-han confess and have these moments *before* Ji-han knows that the marriage is fake just leaves a poor taste in my mouth. So you're hooking up with your brother's fiancée? You're okay with her (seemingly) cheating on him? It would've worked a lot better if they revealed the contract marriage before all this. Because now it's like, well am I supposed to root for anyone in this drama? Do-han maybe, despite his self-pity and somewhat selfish actions borne out of fear of not being accepted. But it's messy writing that has left me unsatisfied.
I found Do-han's five minutes of screentime in ep 9 more interesting than anything with the main couple, as their scenes didn't feel earned. Which is really not where you want to be with just 3 episodes left.
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It’s sad that art has to suffer because of an actor’s personal issues in a culture that won’t let people make mistakes. I would have watched this unedited, but now it feels like a waste. I just fundamentally disagree with this approach. Where is the humanity?
I found Do-han's five minutes of screentime in ep 9 more interesting than anything with the main couple, as their scenes didn't feel earned. Which is really not where you want to be with just 3 episodes left.