Loved the countdown and I totally love his character-- especially the way he goes all out despite the doubts!!…
I agree, I think the ML finds out and is upset she didn’t tell him. I hope the ex resolves whatever he needs to quickly bc his return just feels so out of place to me. But so does the cancer plot line.
I agree I love the ML efforts that was one of the highlights for this ep.
I’m so sick of writing that throws in 20 different plot lines and cliff hangers in a cliche attempt to keep…
This last episode really turned the whole childhood friends to lovers thing on its head in a completely ridiculous and unrealistic way. Who keeps something like that from all their friends and family for no good reason?
Okay the writers are trying to stir things up to build the conflict necessary to propel the relationship forward, sure. But this is a serious stretch and overreaching. It’s like everyone in this show lacks basic communication skills, it’s just not believable. There are SO many other ways to pull the two of them together without adding in ridiculous extra plot lines just for the shock factor. Come on.
There should be some character growth happening for these parents and their broken marriages too, I mean. The FL mother is shamelessly selfish. The ML parents can’t even manage to look each other in the eye. Why is everyone acting like 2 year olds without any progress.
The FL and ML getting together would have made perfect sense without this unnecessary drama. She’s under a lot of pressure and burnt out/hitting kind of a quarter life crisis and wanting to restructure her life. She was in a long term relationship and almost got married but they weren’t the best fit in the end.
He liked her as teens but was afraid and missed his chances to let her know his feelings in time, so he went and tried to move on and focus on his career. Now they are reuinited at a more mature time in both their lives and its time for them to face the potential and chemistry that’s there.
This is plenty! There are so many fun and interesting directions that the writers could take with this all on its own. There are so many fun ways to build up tension and propel emotions and progress. What a great opportunity. They’re in there thirties, life is different now from when they were kids or teens or twenty something. There is so so much to work with here.
There is zero need to delve into a whole complex relationship with the ex fianc and the sudden cancer truth bomb she’s kept secret for literally no reason. She doesn’t want to burden her parents? PLEASE. Be more original. That’s the stupidest reason. Just because her younger son is a brat and she’s the responsible older sibling? Are you kidding?
A responsible child would NOT keep something like that secret in the first place. I don’t care how strict her parent are on her. She’s an adult she can separate that stuff in her head now. She would have have the adult mind to be able to weigh things out and consider the bigger picture a little. Pity’s sake.
It’s like these characters were written to have the emotional maturity of a three year old. None of this is realistic. And its definitely not romcom.
I’m so sick of writing that throws in 20 different plot lines and cliff hangers in a cliche attempt to keep viewership. Here’s a radical idea: write an actually interesting and realistic story without all the embellishment and drama just for the sake of drama. Viewers aren’t stupid! If the story is good, we will keep watching. Why is this concept so difficult for writers nowadays.
He is being incredibly rude and dismissive to the FL. That is not a way to ensure that your friendship survives.…
It’s not that deep, you’re making him sound abusive almost. I mean what is he supposed to do and be in this situation, her sycophant? She’s yelling and acting inconsistent with him too. One minute hugging him the next minute talking about her new BF. One minute telling him she wouldn’t go back to her ex the next minute talking with her girl friend about how she still loves her ex.
I bet you would be singing a different tune though if the roles were reversed and she was the guy and he was the girl. Probably you just feel this way just bc she’s pretty and you side with actress. 100% if she wasn’t pretty or if the gender roles were reversed you and others like you would be acting very differently. Maybe you would be able to think for yourself if you weren’t so biased 🙄
He’s trying to sort out what he needs to do and he actually didn’t yell at all the first time in the parking lot of the police station — he pretty calmly and directly stated it can’t always be like old times and let’s please respect each others privacy. How is that not healthy? I don’t know how a person can lay down a boundary more straightforwardly than that. She chose to push and prod anyway (she meant well, but she still ignored his request) and it started to uncover some angst. Sure she’s confused but so what. She’ll live. I mean she can stand to be confused and give him his space for a second or she can deal with the angst and conflict of pushing that boundary for answers. He’s not in charge of her feelings. He’s only trying to navigate his own.
He’s avoiding her he’s not punishing her - HUGE difference. The guy is allowed to have secrets and emotions just as much as she is, and she LITERALLY treats him the same way on a regular basis. They bicker, it’s what they do.
You’re entitled to your opinion of course but I just don’t think this is a big deal. If he were manipulating her, intentionally trying to make her feel small, pushing her around, controlling her. Yea. That would be abuse. That would be a hell no dump his butt. But he’s not doing anything like that, in fact his behavior is pretty much the opposite. At most he’s being broody and moody and she’s confused by it.
He’s been nothing but supportive and having her back in ALL the essential moments of her life. He has one or two bad days because he’s wrestling with the timing and his feelings and suddenly he’s trash. SUPER harsh, imo. Especially given that the female lead fusses and yells at him plenty and pushes him away when she wants to be alone, etc. That’s such a double standard to me.
I kind of feel like in life if a person expects understanding from other without being willing to give much or any understanding themselves, that’s pretty selfish. No matter how close or well someone knows somebody else, there’s always a lot that we don’t know or see. And even the FL sees that and isn’t getting offended but just starts putting the dots together in her head to ask him directly. This is a normal conflict and conflict is just a part of all RELATIONSHIPS—assuming it is an actual relationship and truly goes both ways. It’s just a sign that their relationship is growing…or trying to. So long as they both work through this without crossing any REAL lines it will resolve and the relationship will be stronger and better for it. Or they will be at a standstill and it won’t grow at all, I guess we have to watch the rest to find out.
Also so what if he’s scared, that’s normal. They go back ages. There’s a lot to lose in his mind. So he’s more of a slow burn type…so what. People are allowed to be different in how they approach things you know. It’s not a crime for him to need to process more and build up the courage in his own way. He’s hurting himself more than anyone here by waiting and avoiding anyways so it’s for him to figure out. If it goes on for several more episodes, then I agree that’s annoying to watch but it’s not a reason to condemn a person or anything, lmao. It’s frustrating to watch, I agree with you there. But there may be more to it that hasn’t been shown too — like maybe he doesn’t want to burden her with his feeling since they are such good friends and it’s not really clear where she stands. There could be a lot of legitimate reasons for anyone in that position to avoid confessing.
Anyways if you watch episode 7 you’ll see how it pretty much gets resolved really simply…and in a perfectly healthy manner. So I digress.
Sick of this women can act however bratty they want with zero consequences trope — but if a man even thinks…
Still it’s better than the MLs parents who aren’t communicating AT ALL. I’m interested to see if these family dynamics will arc more satisfyingly over time.
Sick of this women can act however bratty they want with zero consequences trope — but if a man even thinks about looking at a woman “wrong” he’s trash. The FL’s mom should have apologized to her husband but instead she just smacked him around and blamed and scolded him MORE for feeling inferior 🙄. She was in the wrong not him. The woman has serious anger management issues and character disorder.
It really upset me that she never even bothered to say she was sorry. Just twisted into stop being down! Be cheerful! Like lady why do you think he feels inferior in the first place he literally said it’s because you treat him like a fool constantly backing him into a corner. At least she stood by him and clearly loves him, but it all felt so manipulative to me bc of the lack of accountability on her part. Like “let me just control my husbands understanding of his fault without even so much as acknowledging my own…but we’re in this together!! But let’s be clear he was wrong, so as long as he learns from me and understands and acts and reacts exactly how I think he should it’s ok”……Not healthy.
He is being incredibly rude and dismissive to the FL. That is not a way to ensure that your friendship survives.…
Nah we just don’t hate men or hold a double standard. It doesn’t matter how attractive a guy is, if he’s got a crappy character he’s automatically unattractive in my brain. But the ML isn’t being any more rude than the FL. Hes not punishing her either, he’s trying to communicate a boundary.
I agree I love the ML efforts that was one of the highlights for this ep.
It’s also the only part of this show that is actually consistent romcom so far
Okay the writers are trying to stir things up to build the conflict necessary to propel the relationship forward, sure. But this is a serious stretch and overreaching. It’s like everyone in this show lacks basic communication skills, it’s just not believable. There are SO many other ways to pull the two of them together without adding in ridiculous extra plot lines just for the shock factor. Come on.
There should be some character growth happening for these parents and their broken marriages too, I mean. The FL mother is shamelessly selfish. The ML parents can’t even manage to look each other in the eye. Why is everyone acting like 2 year olds without any progress.
The FL and ML getting together would have made perfect sense without this unnecessary drama. She’s under a lot of pressure and burnt out/hitting kind of a quarter life crisis and wanting to restructure her life. She was in a long term relationship and almost got married but they weren’t the best fit in the end.
He liked her as teens but was afraid and missed his chances to let her know his feelings in time, so he went and tried to move on and focus on his career. Now they are reuinited at a more mature time in both their lives and its time for them to face the potential and chemistry that’s there.
This is plenty! There are so many fun and interesting directions that the writers could take with this all on its own. There are so many fun ways to build up tension and propel emotions and progress. What a great opportunity. They’re in there thirties, life is different now from when they were kids or teens or twenty something. There is so so much to work with here.
There is zero need to delve into a whole complex relationship with the ex fianc and the sudden cancer truth bomb she’s kept secret for literally no reason. She doesn’t want to burden her parents? PLEASE. Be more original. That’s the stupidest reason. Just because her younger son is a brat and she’s the responsible older sibling? Are you kidding?
A responsible child would NOT keep something like that secret in the first place. I don’t care how strict her parent are on her. She’s an adult she can separate that stuff in her head now. She would have have the adult mind to be able to weigh things out and consider the bigger picture a little. Pity’s sake.
It’s like these characters were written to have the emotional maturity of a three year old. None of this is realistic. And its definitely not romcom.
I bet you would be singing a different tune though if the roles were reversed and she was the guy and he was the girl. Probably you just feel this way just bc she’s pretty and you side with actress. 100% if she wasn’t pretty or if the gender roles were reversed you and others like you would be acting very differently. Maybe you would be able to think for yourself if you weren’t so biased 🙄
He’s trying to sort out what he needs to do and he actually didn’t yell at all the first time in the parking lot of the police station — he pretty calmly and directly stated it can’t always be like old times and let’s please respect each others privacy. How is that not healthy? I don’t know how a person can lay down a boundary more straightforwardly than that. She chose to push and prod anyway (she meant well, but she still ignored his request) and it started to uncover some angst. Sure she’s confused but so what. She’ll live. I mean she can stand to be confused and give him his space for a second or she can deal with the angst and conflict of pushing that boundary for answers. He’s not in charge of her feelings. He’s only trying to navigate his own.
He’s avoiding her he’s not punishing her - HUGE difference. The guy is allowed to have secrets and emotions just as much as she is, and she LITERALLY treats him the same way on a regular basis. They bicker, it’s what they do.
You’re entitled to your opinion of course but I just don’t think this is a big deal. If he were manipulating her, intentionally trying to make her feel small, pushing her around, controlling her. Yea. That would be abuse. That would be a hell no dump his butt. But he’s not doing anything like that, in fact his behavior is pretty much the opposite. At most he’s being broody and moody and she’s confused by it.
He’s been nothing but supportive and having her back in ALL the essential moments of her life. He has one or two bad days because he’s wrestling with the timing and his feelings and suddenly he’s trash. SUPER harsh, imo. Especially given that the female lead fusses and yells at him plenty and pushes him away when she wants to be alone, etc. That’s such a double standard to me.
I kind of feel like in life if a person expects understanding from other without being willing to give much or any understanding themselves, that’s pretty selfish. No matter how close or well someone knows somebody else, there’s always a lot that we don’t know or see. And even the FL sees that and isn’t getting offended but just starts putting the dots together in her head to ask him directly. This is a normal conflict and conflict is just a part of all RELATIONSHIPS—assuming it is an actual relationship and truly goes both ways. It’s just a sign that their relationship is growing…or trying to. So long as they both work through this without crossing any REAL lines it will resolve and the relationship will be stronger and better for it. Or they will be at a standstill and it won’t grow at all, I guess we have to watch the rest to find out.
Also so what if he’s scared, that’s normal. They go back ages. There’s a lot to lose in his mind. So he’s more of a slow burn type…so what. People are allowed to be different in how they approach things you know. It’s not a crime for him to need to process more and build up the courage in his own way. He’s hurting himself more than anyone here by waiting and avoiding anyways so it’s for him to figure out. If it goes on for several more episodes, then I agree that’s annoying to watch but it’s not a reason to condemn a person or anything, lmao. It’s frustrating to watch, I agree with you there. But there may be more to it that hasn’t been shown too — like maybe he doesn’t want to burden her with his feeling since they are such good friends and it’s not really clear where she stands. There could be a lot of legitimate reasons for anyone in that position to avoid confessing.
Anyways if you watch episode 7 you’ll see how it pretty much gets resolved really simply…and in a perfectly healthy manner. So I digress.
The ML parents are breaking my heart over here tho 😭I’m anxious to know the real story there
It really upset me that she never even bothered to say she was sorry. Just twisted into stop being down! Be cheerful! Like lady why do you think he feels inferior in the first place he literally said it’s because you treat him like a fool constantly backing him into a corner. At least she stood by him and clearly loves him, but it all felt so manipulative to me bc of the lack of accountability on her part. Like “let me just control my husbands understanding of his fault without even so much as acknowledging my own…but we’re in this together!! But let’s be clear he was wrong, so as long as he learns from me and understands and acts and reacts exactly how I think he should it’s ok”……Not healthy.