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I like to think I’m fair, so I’ll try my best to be just that while also not boring you to sleep, so I’ll keep this concise. This drama takes on a lot of big topics: cheating, depression and mental health crises, suicide, grief, guilt, dysfunctional families, and corruption and crime. With that much ground to cover, the story naturally tries hard to let you into each character’s inner life. It does, but it can only go so far. I wished the writer had gone deeper so the audience could truly vouch for a character, but I see how that could have been a challenge, and it was still executed rather decently.

I know many people complain about the storyline and fixate on certain aspects, such as the cheating. To that I say, if you’re still fixated on that by the end, you’ve missed the point entirely. The writer portrays a plethora of characters, each one flawed but also admirable in other ways, just like you and me. This drama in no way follows the traditional fairytale K-drama formula, and I liked it even more for that. If you’re looking for a drama that goes against the grain, pushes through clichés, and does the things you wished you’d seen in other dramas, this is it.

It draws on beautiful metaphors that may take a second to understand, but once you see it, you see it. It’s about two people and their connection through life, and it shows that a relationship takes many layers of effort. It’s not simply love, but also communication, chemistry, and understanding. Everyone deserves someone who sees them for who they are, flaws and all, and loves them for it. Everyone deserves happiness in a relationship. Sometimes it gets hard, and there are ups and downs in every relationship, but issues can snowball if they aren’t addressed. Time doesn’t heal that. It just creates scars, and some scars are too deep. Sometimes you need to let go, and to do that, you need to learn to love yourself.

Just because a relationship fizzles out and ends doesn’t mean it was all in vain or meant nothing. People change people. Within us, we carry pieces we’ve gathered from every connection we’ve made, each one making us who we are in this moment. Those pieces can be good or bad, but it’s up to us how we move forward with them. We can let certain experiences eat away at us, or we can take them as lessons and gain humility from them. Just because it’s over doesn’t mean it wasn’t real. I think this was a beautiful drama, and it was never boring. Maybe frustrating at times, but life can be frustrating. If you’re open to following the characters as they come to realize this in the end, I’d say give it a shot. Keep an open mind, because sometimes things aren’t all they seem.