monstersnroses

I thought it was funny how in one of the later episodes FL says "we were too hot, and too cold", and I was like 'oh honey you were never hot' lol.

Park Shin Hye is so cute and a very good actress when it comes to certain things, but she is just incapable of bringing chemistry to her FL roles, and tends to dampen any sense of passion the ML is trying to create onscreen.

There was one passable kiss-scene in this drama, and it was around the midway point. The last kiss of the show was a dead fish. There were scenes that were trying to lift up out of the mundane quality of this drama, and they were promptly stomped on by an intrusive soundtrack.

It's labeled as a comedy, and I can't understand why. I laughed out loud once in all 20 episodes. I didn't need it to be a comedy, I just don't understand why it's tagged as such.

SLS is strong in this show. That combined with the flat quality of the ML/FL relationship made me lose interest about halfway through. I finished it, but it was sort of a chore after a point when one becomes certain that the tiny sparks of chemistry that rope a viewer in during the first few episodes have gone totally cold and aren't coming back.

Dear God,

I am praying to you now to ask you to make Lee Soo Hyuk the ML in the ultimate vampire (or gumiho!) kdrama. A drama that is dark and intense and lets Soo Hyuk completely out of his cage to ACT. A drama with a FL who has a fiery side, and doesn't dead-fish kiss. A drama that is so kilig you think you're gonna pass out at any moment. And with a soundtrack that doesn't stomp all over the best moments of the show. And with a cool ending that isn't sad, vague, rushed, or cringe. And really good stylists and art direction.

(Please also possibly could you put Kang Ki Young in it too with a good 2ML/2FL side-romance, and a really dark, sexy role.)

Is that too much to ask!!!

Yall, if Soo Hyuk got that kind of role, his career would rocket straight to the MOON! He is flat out out-acting and out-sexying every single person who's ever shared the screen with him. He even gave Seo In Guk a run for his money, and that seems like it should be impossible, yet he did it. He needs more challenging and beefier characters to play, and roles where his acting ability is the centerpiece of the drama. It's absolutely criminal that he hasn't done a ML role yet. He's pass-out level hot.

ML and FL have zero chemistry and no ability to convey passion or strength of emotion on screen. Plot was swiss cheese. Character psychology was 2 dimensional and inconsistent. The physical and action sequences are laughable. The people who die along the way make the ending feel like a hollow victory. One of the lowest scores I've ever given a show.

This show is so bananas, you'd think it was Taiwanese or Thai. In that sense, I liked it at first and it started off strong. by about midway through the show, Ji Sung is subtly pulling the entire show by himself, acting-wise. He pulls off some incredible acting here. He's supposed to be playing this obsessed Heathcliff-like character, and he does such a great performance, really believable.

But their kisses, which should have been passionate considering the storyline, are very sterile. As I have seen Ji Sung kiss well in other shows, I can only believe that it was Hwang Jung Eum that doused the romantic scenes with water. These kisses should have been the central part of the show, because they are trying to portray a Heathcliff-style romance that is torrid.

It's completely possible to look past this as the beefy plot moves along, and Ji Sung tows the show. But you start looking forward to the ending. And then it just didn't deliver. The last two episodes seem hodge-podged together, the story is tied up with a feeling of being rushed... and I think they had several potential ways to end the show that would have been more dramatic and feel-good. The ending they chose for the story seems like one big cop-out.

The show had a great potential that didn't get to be fully explored. It also had great Ji Sung potential that didn't get fully explored, as usual. That man can really act.

Dang, your wokeness jumped out.

I wanted to like this show. But I have never fallen asleep so many times watching a kdrama. How could they take vampires, medical drama, and Ahn Jae Hyun, and still mess it up so badly. It's about as exciting as watching paint dry.

I second this. After finishing this drama, that was the best part of the entire show. Everything else is just frustration trying to get that fluttery high back, but it never materializes again in later episodes. You get glimpses of it a few times, but they don't take it anywhere.

I thought the issue this drama had was doing a very awkward hover between 'soft and heartwarming' and 'dark and sexy'... it never really was one or the other fully, and the fine line was not balanced very gracefully. It just seemed like it held a lot of promise if it had gone in either one direction or the other, but by not committing to one style concept it just missed the mark in both directions simultaneously.

Some elements of the drama were totally badass, and I thought it was a good one-time watch.

Visually this is a nice drama, the aesthetics are pleasing. This is a somewhat racy drama, and like most racy dramas it has sort of a weird plot that barely holds together. But I think it's among the more enjoyable shows from this subgenre. The mediocrity of it stands out in a sea of other shows that are outright cringe. ML and FL are well cast.

It's a romance with no real resistance to it, like driving 80mph on a straight empty highway. It's pure junk food with no nutritional value. If dramas were food, this one is a 5lb bag of cotton candy. It may be tasty at first, but by the time you're done you're pretty sick of it, and still not satisfied.

I agree with most of the points made in the negative reviews of this show. However... if you are one of those people who can appreciate a bad drama, this is a good-bad drama. It's so horrible it's actually worth a watch. Captivating like watching water swirl down a drain, or watching a kid drop an ice cream cone in the dirt and try to eat it anyway.

Watching the FL slave herself to her profession like that imo is not really very romantic. ML and FL seem like very repressed overachievers to me, and even with the spicy scenes this drama has to offer, I felt is was overall a little bit flat. I've seen dramas with less raciness that are more exciting.

Pros:
That Eric Mun kiss scene is off the charts hot and his performance is solid; the side characters grow on you and become very charming; there's instances of unconventionality that are spicy and/or cute.

Cons:
FL goes through a string of constant humiliations and embarrassments that is too over-the-top, and to me it kills the romantic mood almost completely - I don't think the actress matched the role very well, and it was a pretty challenging role; instances of cheesiness that seem discordant with the general mood of the drama; overacting by Ye Ji Won is a bit much.

I have yet to see a LJS drama where I can sense any real chemistry. His kiss scenes, imo, seem sterile and flat. I dropped this drama about 2/3rds of the way through for this reason. I just wasn't feeling it.

However, the series itself is lush, clean and colorful. The plot is very good, and I didn't find any fault with the pacing. I may rewatch it someday.

I won't watch dramas with sad endings, but this show is my only exception to that rule. The end is so poetic that it almost doesn't make me sad. If it had a happier ending, I would have given it 10/10. In Shopping King Louie, Seo In Guk is so adorable and sweet, and here you get a completely other side to his acting range. His performance is intense, smoldering, and complex. I was blown away by his acting talent. The other actors compliment his performance well.

If this dramas were food, this one is expensive dark chocolate.

I was watching SA1%, and ended up dropping it for a while because Kim Hyung Min is so ridiculously much hotter than Ha Seok Jin that I just couldn't even get over it. It boggles my mind why he hasn't played a romantic lead yet. One of the most handsome actors in Kdrama, hands down.