Right! Route change! I will take your advice and watch "My Fated Boy". A pity because of the actor Lai Kuan Lin…
Oooo I just looked it up. I think I may pass since I never watch SE dramas. It's just too heartbreaking for me. But I'm glad you are enjoying Fated Boy! I can't remember where I watched it now but the subs were pretty decent and I think it's on YouTube too? The FL is really good in that. She's not perfect like this drama, has her own flaws and is struggling with her own issues but she tries to learn and grow.
Oh also disliked the fact that this drama was 50% business conflict which was also written sooooooo boring. I was falling asleep in their boardroom fights.
At ep 8 and I'm dropping this. I was already not in love with how this was directed and filmed. It's supposed to be mainly a thriller but the director seems to think this is a slow burn? It's too slow paced to be a thriller that can keep you engaged. There are so many slow camera pans and long pauses in dialogue that would have worked if this was just slow burn romance but it's just not that...
But what really annoyed me was how terribly they handled the se*ual assault case. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for that to be treated more seriously by anyone. The main FL doesn't really, no one else does, and then it just get treated like something that is almost completely normalised. Like...no. Even if you want to show how justice is never served to the elite, how they treat this as nothing, you can't write it in a way that forces the audience to pretend it's not a big deal. It was just a complete disappointment.
IMO 7.6 rating is fair- I gave it a 6 but I dropped it so...
Can't even make it to ep 4. FL is really obnoxious after the 1st ep (which was so promising!) and judging by the rest of the comments it's only downhill from there. How can they make such a weak FL a gang leader....seriously...she's praying on a shooting star in prison instead of strategizing...what kind of gang leader is this ? Even the first episode she was so useless at the bet and we are told that she has the "respect" of all the men in her gang....ok.
100% spot on, I totally agree. I put this on hold at ep 8 after feeling so furious w/ the FL immaturity & how…
IKR! Sometimes I wonder what makes the writers think people react like this. Like have they interacted with humans before? Such poor writing!
You made the right choice by dropping this cause it will only infuriate you how quickly this drama devolves. FL is back at square 1 with her immaturity and has dragged the ML down there too. Totally a waste of time.
Dropped this at ep 13. I kept trying to give it a chance since it's got such good comments and I really wanted some non-angsty lightearted fun but this wasn't it for me. The leads lacked chemistry that is usually so important in a noona romance. Honestly most of the time I could see them as on screen siblings too.
The FL and ML characters are both very sweet and nice and that's the reason I kept trying to watch it. But there's just nothing interesting about either of their personalities. It's like I'm watching the first draft of a character board.
There's no real plot so there's no tension. Even the FL doesn't really worry about the age/sibling status much. Like...it's a drama where nothing happens but it's not presented as a slice of life so it all just came across as bland. I think I rewatched recaps from 3 different dramas whilst watching this cause I kept being bored.
Also Xiaoman's character is the reason I dropped this drama. I couldn't take watching her onscreen anymore. She's selfish, weird (not in a good way) and just completely lacks any common decency. First with just barging into someone's house, then what she does to the FL and just has so much thick skin to ask anyone for money. But the best thing is EVERYONE just laughs it off like "oh haha what a silly girl". Just wow. What was her character based on? A 5 year old who was never taught basic manners? Why do writers do this? Why do they include characters who are just super annoying/selfish/criminal but present them as comedic relief?
I don't recommend this. Go watch My Fated Boy instead. Now that's a great younger man-older woman drama with tons of chemistry, great acting and writing.
Episode 8 and I am ready to throw in the towel with this series. At this point, Hong Ye Sul as a character is…
Right? She never grew, never learnt. All she did from start to finish was run away constantly. Both guys are begging her to just communicate and she's like no I'm going to act like I'm 15 and not know what an adult conversation is. She was written horribly. I feel bad for the actress who had to read the script. Sometimes these actors must be thinking- Why do I have to act like this? It makes no sense.
I hope you did drop this and not continue til the end cause it just got worse and worse.
in the last few episodes, I felt like Pilyo and Jiyoung were cuter and had more chemistry than the main couple.…
Honestly first time I was so glad the actor playing the 2ML was the 2ML cause he deserved so much more than the crazy that was the character written for the main FL.
also what happened with the cousin? i thought they were implying she had a terminal illness. that's why she had…
SAME! Honestly in the end I began to understand that the writer had no clue what they were doing. Setting up character arcs and story development to only throw it all away in the last 15 mins. My only explanation for the cousin was - she was studying to be a doctor....so.....that's like ending your life....cause of all the studying? That's why she was "acting like it was the end". But honestly I'm reaching here. Because in the end nothing made sense anyway.
A joke of an ending, did the writer go through a break up whilst writing this and reflect it on their writing? These characters aren't in their early 20s or teens for them to have acted the way they did.
I mean the FL was selfish throughout the drama and even though I didn't particularly like her, I really am shocked but how she somehow became WORSE at the end. Both the male leads here are always open to trying to communicate with her, talk to her, and all she ever does from her student years to her now- is run away. Till the last 2 mins of the last episode where she still is RUNNING AWAY expecting the ML to chase after her, which for some reason he does!? I was like no man, let her gooooo. You got stabbed for this kinda woman??? You can do better!
To be clear it's not that I'm against this kind of not a 'bed of roses ending' either. This was an ending I accepted for Mary Stayed Out All Night (way back when) because it made sense. They were in their early 20s, still figuring things out and still they didn't fight like cats and dogs like the writer made the main leads do in this drama. I mean seriously, the man took a knife for you, saved you not once but twice, you were in so much pain when you saw him hurt in the future and then in the present and it was all a joke???? A better ending would have been for all of this entire drama to be a dream. This wasn't a "realistic" look at a 'happy ending' it was was a slap in the face of viewers who spent more than 12 hours watching this drama.
It's been a while since a drama has made me so angry for wasting my time ya'll. So this is a long rant with mild spoilers.
What a waste of cast, production and money flushed down the toilet for those unbelievable last 15 mins. I mean the FL was written like she was a preteen and so her character dragged the drama down already but man those last 2 eps were a disaster. Disney+ is seriously failing in the kdrama section. I fail to understand why a writer would set their own work on fire like this. It was completely uncharacteristic of both of leads after what they had been through. I can't take anything that happened in this drama in a positive light. Was the writer trying to be edgy or something? Cause they fell flat.
The FL was a selfish brat throughout the series and honestly has ZERO growth throughout. I hated the way she treated the 2ML and never once gave him any courtesy of closure despite her own mistake. Honestly for the first time I was glad Ji Suk was playing the 2ml (he often plays this role), because he totally deserved better than her. She treated him terribly because of her (understandable anxiety) but barely showed any remorse to what she did to him even later on. She was the same with the ML too. I didn't really warm up to the FL till around episode 10 and then bam - the writer made her even worse in ep 12.
The only positive that I found was the ML- his acting range is really good. He did it all, serious bossy type, comedy, romance. Good actor, poor writing so what can you do with that.
The plot had too many things going on at once, but if it had been executed a little better it would have been fine. I saw some people compare this to Business Proposal - NO WAY. It is millesssssssssss away from that fun fluffy romcom that was clear about their direction and writing. This is a jumbled mess that is stabbed by its own writer in the end.
Honestly so infuriating, I thought the comments were being harsh before but it's so much worse than you think it is. Do yourself a favour, skip this completely.
Ooo also I didn't know the history behind Lai Kuan Lin. That's interesting. His acting here is decent but needs improvement. Not bad though!
But what really annoyed me was how terribly they handled the se*ual assault case. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for that to be treated more seriously by anyone. The main FL doesn't really, no one else does, and then it just get treated like something that is almost completely normalised. Like...no. Even if you want to show how justice is never served to the elite, how they treat this as nothing, you can't write it in a way that forces the audience to pretend it's not a big deal. It was just a complete disappointment.
IMO 7.6 rating is fair- I gave it a 6 but I dropped it so...
Dropped.
You made the right choice by dropping this cause it will only infuriate you how quickly this drama devolves. FL is back at square 1 with her immaturity and has dragged the ML down there too. Totally a waste of time.
The FL and ML characters are both very sweet and nice and that's the reason I kept trying to watch it. But there's just nothing interesting about either of their personalities. It's like I'm watching the first draft of a character board.
There's no real plot so there's no tension. Even the FL doesn't really worry about the age/sibling status much. Like...it's a drama where nothing happens but it's not presented as a slice of life so it all just came across as bland. I think I rewatched recaps from 3 different dramas whilst watching this cause I kept being bored.
Also Xiaoman's character is the reason I dropped this drama. I couldn't take watching her onscreen anymore. She's selfish, weird (not in a good way) and just completely lacks any common decency. First with just barging into someone's house, then what she does to the FL and just has so much thick skin to ask anyone for money. But the best thing is EVERYONE just laughs it off like "oh haha what a silly girl". Just wow. What was her character based on? A 5 year old who was never taught basic manners? Why do writers do this? Why do they include characters who are just super annoying/selfish/criminal but present them as comedic relief?
I don't recommend this. Go watch My Fated Boy instead. Now that's a great younger man-older woman drama with tons of chemistry, great acting and writing.
I hope you did drop this and not continue til the end cause it just got worse and worse.
My only explanation for the cousin was - she was studying to be a doctor....so.....that's like ending your life....cause of all the studying? That's why she was "acting like it was the end". But honestly I'm reaching here. Because in the end nothing made sense anyway.
I mean the FL was selfish throughout the drama and even though I didn't particularly like her, I really am shocked but how she somehow became WORSE at the end. Both the male leads here are always open to trying to communicate with her, talk to her, and all she ever does from her student years to her now- is run away. Till the last 2 mins of the last episode where she still is RUNNING AWAY expecting the ML to chase after her, which for some reason he does!? I was like no man, let her gooooo. You got stabbed for this kinda woman??? You can do better!
To be clear it's not that I'm against this kind of not a 'bed of roses ending' either. This was an ending I accepted for Mary Stayed Out All Night (way back when) because it made sense. They were in their early 20s, still figuring things out and still they didn't fight like cats and dogs like the writer made the main leads do in this drama. I mean seriously, the man took a knife for you, saved you not once but twice, you were in so much pain when you saw him hurt in the future and then in the present and it was all a joke???? A better ending would have been for all of this entire drama to be a dream. This wasn't a "realistic" look at a 'happy ending' it was was a slap in the face of viewers who spent more than 12 hours watching this drama.
/rant
What a waste of cast, production and money flushed down the toilet for those unbelievable last 15 mins. I mean the FL was written like she was a preteen and so her character dragged the drama down already but man those last 2 eps were a disaster. Disney+ is seriously failing in the kdrama section. I fail to understand why a writer would set their own work on fire like this. It was completely uncharacteristic of both of leads after what they had been through. I can't take anything that happened in this drama in a positive light. Was the writer trying to be edgy or something? Cause they fell flat.
The FL was a selfish brat throughout the series and honestly has ZERO growth throughout. I hated the way she treated the 2ML and never once gave him any courtesy of closure despite her own mistake. Honestly for the first time I was glad Ji Suk was playing the 2ml (he often plays this role), because he totally deserved better than her. She treated him terribly because of her (understandable anxiety) but barely showed any remorse to what she did to him even later on. She was the same with the ML too. I didn't really warm up to the FL till around episode 10 and then bam - the writer made her even worse in ep 12.
The only positive that I found was the ML- his acting range is really good. He did it all, serious bossy type, comedy, romance. Good actor, poor writing so what can you do with that.
The plot had too many things going on at once, but if it had been executed a little better it would have been fine. I saw some people compare this to Business Proposal - NO WAY. It is millesssssssssss away from that fun fluffy romcom that was clear about their direction and writing. This is a jumbled mess that is stabbed by its own writer in the end.
Honestly so infuriating, I thought the comments were being harsh before but it's so much worse than you think it is. Do yourself a favour, skip this completely.