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It's not that I disagree with the positive reviews...
...but honestly I don't have the attention span for this kind of slow-progressing storyline.The slowburn romance was lovely. Ding Yu Xi absolutely blows it out of the water as the tsundere ML who is clingy and head over heels in love but unable to show it. I love a good grumpy/sunshine setup.
But the majority of the drama revolved around the FL's career in editing and her workplace troubles, which almost immediately got tiring and I started skipping scenes by like 8 episodes in. (Ironic, actually, since I personally have worked in the fiction editing business for years now. You'd think it would be uniquely interesting to me.)
Also, Esther's voice >.< I cannot get over the baby talk, it's just impossible to ignore.
TROPES:
- boss/employee relationship (author & editor)
- grumpy ML / sunshine FL
- ML falls first and is clingy, possessive, jealous, physically affectionate
- cheerful, hardworking but poor FL
- love triangle & eventual secondary couple
- workplace drama set in the publishing industry
- good skinship, great kisses, but be prepared to wait for it
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Like comfort food in drama form
ABP does a really great job of taking tried-and-true cliches and putting them together with high production value and good pacing.This drama to me is endlessly rewatchable and was really addictive when I first watched it. I was waiting every week impatiently for new episodes.
The acting is great - Kim Se Jeong is one of my all-time favorite actresses and she does an incredible job here.
If you're looking for a fun popcorn drama with enough cliches to comfort and enough freshness to entertain, this is it.
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Not a single likeable character in this drama.
Moreover, the main storyline involves a woman reconnecting with and once again being pressured into physical intimacy by her first boyfriend, who sexually assaulted her in junior high.It’s never outright stated that he assaulted her, but it’s hard for me to read that scene any other way. And it clearly leaves her traumatized well into adulthood, with the effects echoing out across all parts of her life. Pretty tragic.
All of this is romanticized, but in such a way that even if this weren’t a story about a rapist, I would hate it. There is zero chemistry between the leads, even though they spend a lot of time in physical/sexual contact and talking about sex. The FL is not so much a character as a cardboard box with eyes drawn on it. The ML is at least supposed to be stoic in character, but the ML’s actor took this as a free pass to not bother emoting at all and just looks like a personified brick wall in most scenes.
I also hated the second leads. Everyone in that house was a trainwreck. “Screw-Up Adults Sharehouse” indeed.
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