monstersnroses

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.