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Can't wait to binge this

I had a feeling before this even started that it was a bad idea to cast Yoon Park as SML next to a young, inexperienced ML. He is always excellent and funny and charming. Need him as ML next.

So misleading to lead with "drops in Netflix rankings" when it actually went up from 3.0 to 3.7 million viewers. The drop in ranking is solely related to other new releases, not LND's own performance.

No, he got a personal award. They simply mentioned that he was a co-CEO of Atelier In.

And it was the wedding invitation he had in the car; it had both her and the ex's name on it.

The whole thing with the ex is so weird because we don't have the full picture. There's so much information that's missing. And it didn't help that they cast someone who gives off psycho vibes.

I don't mind the cancer story in itself, but I'm struggling to suspend my disbelief about Seokryu, who was so close with Moeum and Seunghyo before leaving for Berkeley, not even contacting either of them upon receiving a serious diagnosis and undergoing surgery, with the risks that follow, and then chemotherapy. She could've died on the operating table, and nobody at home knew anything. No emergency contact being contacted at home, nothing about the crazy expenses related to medical assistance and treatment in America, just kept entirely under wraps. I have a hard time with buying all of that.

Especially when there are so many ways they could have done a story very similar to this, without the shock factor of cancer, whether depression, workplace issues (we know she had them), racism and so on.

6.5% Sunday TV rating. Lowest Sunday rating since episode 2. Much higher than yesterday at least, which was a series low opposite a strong Good Partner.

If they wanted to do a melo/life story then they should've marketed the drama as such, it's not hard to be transparent. But when you market something heavily as a romantic comedy, you don't then get to tell viewers that they're "obsessing" over the genre - that's called gaslighting.

QOT was excellent in that it knew exactly what it wanted to be and executed that to perfection. It was not for everyone, but it did what it did very well, and production wise everything felt carefully considered, such as the OSTs (which are virtually nonexistent here). Which is why it set records, as opposed to hitting a rating low on episode 7 like this drama did yesterday.

The second leads fr had me giggling and saved this week's episodes for me

Another small thing that for me shows how the drama has gotten away from the writer is how fun the little brother was at first. Now he's just The Worst, a walking stereotype of every annoying crypto-peddling man child gym bro you know. They couldn't let us have some comedic relief in this romCOM?

That lines up with what JHI said, that the final six are where the romance is at. So next week may be sorting out most of the other drama. But it still sucks a bit to have to watch 10/16 episodes of a romcom before they actually get past the miscommunication.

That something is realistic does not necessarily mean it makes for good television. 90% of the episodes this week was two people failing to communicate. It's not exactly riveting to watch.

A lot of things seem sloppy by the writers. The ML has been acting like a dick for several episodes and FL's mom has had virtually no character growth whatsoever for 8 episodes.

Did the production team forget to do music/OSTs for this? It's so baffling to be halfway through a drama and not have had a single memorable sequence with music that you want to look up on Spotify.

You may be right, but it's quite common for people in remission to have recurrence even after being cancer-free for years, so it would loom large on her family/ML. My biggest issue isn't with the cancer plot itself, but rather that it just didn't feel like the drama needed it. It will take up so much space in the next episodes, and there was already a lot going on.

I had to laugh a little when they kept showing us flashbacks of Seokryu and her ex. It was like, who asked for this? Who wants this? And then it really didn't even serve that much of a purpose. Silly writing.

At this point my lifeline to continuing this drama is the second couple. Adore them. I love melodramas and I don't mind some angst and trauma, but the writing for the main couple just isn't doing it for me. Nothing against the actors, they're doing the best they can with what is given. Everything is just frustrating and so slow-moving and it's not rewarding to watch. They're so bogged down in contrivances and miscommunication already that the last thing they needed was to throw *this* into it as well.

I'm going to need Yun Ji-on to book a ML role after this. 🤞

Nothing is confirmed; the drama has yet to air and we don’t know how closely they will follow the Chinese drama it’s based on. But it seems a reasonable assumption.