Am I the only one who finds the SML annoying as hell? He literally serves as a tool to push the other characters and nothing else. Which, ok fine. But his constant gaslighting of FML is absurd. Like that mentality is toxic. Seo Jun’s account of events between Se Yong’s plan to go meet Su Ho and him taking his own life has massive gaps. He doesn’t actually know what happened, he barely even is part of the scenario at all. So the constant gaslighting is absolutely demented.
It makes ZERO sense to me that Su Ho puts up with Seo Jun’s constant wheedling and whining my god. What an annoying AF character.
Despite being Chinese I’ve never watched C-dramas for idk what reason but finally I was like “enough let’s watch something totally mild and easy to watch” and lo and behold I ended up watching Hidden Love. Anyway I’ve to say the whole thing felt like watching my family drama on screen, down to the Confucian “ge ge is protector” idk man it’s too real. In not a good way. I did absolutely adore Sang Zhi though. I’d totally take her as my mei mei.
It’s a culture thing.in Korea but also China and Japan. And you can’t refuse to go and drink. Unfortunately.
As I've said, it's considered workplace harassment. Legally. If you want me to provide proof that anyone who ever says "Yes" actually means to say "No" then I don't know what to tell you other than the fact that you've already made up your mind about what East Asia is like and no new information is going to change what you think lol.
Just read that summary and I gotta say... what on earth lmao
Honestly the names being a smorgasbord of Indo-European names while the ENTIRE cast is *very* determinedly Korean just makes me laugh. It sounds poorly researched and lazily written.
omg finally. Yes I am here too. I'm going to watch it just so I can cringe. But maybe I'll be able to acclimatize to it by sheer force of will or something. At least that's the hope.
This may change later, but the pilot episodes for this show are pretty milquetoast. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what falls flat in the beginning, but I realized it later into the second episode that it’s the script. The writing is extremely… on the nose. A crapload of exposition and very little “discovery” for the audience. Whatever Eun Ho thinks or feels, she says it out loud. Same with the other characters. The script isn’t organic. But idk. Things might change. Sometimes really strong shows that start really well end up in this end of the blandly plot pushing spectrum so maybe the opposite can be true as well.
Very polished and slick storytelling, cinematography and general direction. It was really well put together. Did NOT an appreciate the cultural appropriation of the tatreez in episode 6 by “the bad guys”. Like wtf is it with these people taking other people’s cultural clothes and making a political statement out of it. Ignorant and uneducated.
Anyway, other than that, Lee Dong Wook was pure eye candy loved that, at the very least.
This year, Kdrama romance has literally not been great. When you see that Genie Make A Wish, which is very good,…
It's because it started out really high and enouggh people haven't changed their ratings for it to dip low. Everything from ep 11 onwards was a flaming dumpster pile
I came here straight from Dynamite Kiss to say that this show has way more snap and excitement than DK and I freaking LOVE AND ADORE Kim Se Jong and Kang Tae Oh oh my god they are so good together more chemistry than whatever they’re doing over at DK forreals.
I dont know why, i think the chemistry between leads decreased with time. It was shining in 1st few episodes.
I agree. It is the fault of the director-editor team. The edits/cuts are random and mistimed, the set up for romance is lame. Pacing and dialogue has also gotten awkward/janky. Either the director-editor team got changed or they suddenly forgot to do their jobs. Either way, it's not good lol
the bed scene was way too dramatic and slow for me… they made it look like darim was dying or something đź«
LOL this made me laugh. It really was way too bizarre like there was was more chemistry in my glass of water than there was between those two in that bed scene.
Hello everyone. I mentioned it earlier but since my expectations were so high and the disappointment so steep, it really motivated me to write fanfic for Ji Hyeok and Da Rim. Ep 9 onwards! LOL https://archiveofourown.org/works/75635331/chapters/197796646
Enjoy! Will add more chapters as the show progresses đź‘Ť
Totally agree with all of your points. I'm glad I wasn't the only one annoyed by the ML and 2ML's behavior during…
Yes! I was thinking this the whole time. I mean Ji Hyeok is supposed to be an expert at litigation (which is what I think his job is? Because he doesn’t actually specify what his profession is except for “Mergers and Acquisitions”), his degree and education SHOULD have been in law for him to do corporate level mergers… and to see him behave like that just is bizarre and weird. Like, the entire Dynamic Kiss universe is so unbelievable, even for a romedy, the character logic doesn’t follow. They are literally doing and saying things because “the writer wrote it this way” lmao
If I remember correctly, she began studying at Noryangjin because her ex boyfriend told her she had no prospects. That was why. Not because she wanted to do well in life, but because her ex was a dick and Da Rim wanted revenge?
That probably should have been the first red flag for me as far as tempering my expectations for a sensual and emotionally mature show but once again, I was really sailing the hype boat lol serves me right.
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It makes ZERO sense to me that Su Ho puts up with Seo Jun’s constant wheedling and whining my god. What an annoying AF character.
Anyway, other than that, Lee Dong Wook was pure eye candy loved that, at the very least.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75635331/chapters/197796646
Enjoy! Will add more chapters as the show progresses đź‘Ť
That probably should have been the first red flag for me as far as tempering my expectations for a sensual and emotionally mature show but once again, I was really sailing the hype boat lol serves me right.