This review may contain spoilers
This drama successfully made me hate her to the core.
I will still say Dear X is a successful drama, because they clearly wanted the audience to hate the female lead, and we did — completely and intensely. Ah Jin didn’t receive love in her childhood; she grew up emotionally abandoned and already damaged, so from the very beginning, I never expected real improvement or healing from her. In fact, it would have been incredibly cliché if she had simply moved on and lived happily with Junseo, because she was never written to live a happy life at all.
The drama showed again and again how every character around her was attracted to her beauty, and in a way, that was their own fault too. These were not innocent boys; they were grown men, fully aware of their choices, yet they willingly got manipulated by her. They loved her. She used them. They were blind — especially Junseo, who stood by her from the very first moment and gave her endless loyalty, only to be treated with the deepest kind of emotional cruelty until the very end. His kindness, to me, crossed the line into stupidity, and the same can be said for Jae Oh, who also chose illusion over reality.
While many other reviewers say they didn’t like the ending, calling it disappointing or unfulfilling, I honestly think they misunderstood the entire purpose of the drama. Dear X was never supposed to be a comfort drama or a happy ending story. It was written as a confrontation — with trauma, obsession, manipulation, and moral decay.
The final conclusion I came to is that the sinners were judging the sinner for sinning: yes, Ah Jin was a sinner, but the people surrounding her were also sinners, just wearing more socially acceptable masks. In the end, Dear X doesn’t offer peace or closure — it holds up a mirror, and that reflection is ugly, unsettling, and brutally honest.
The drama showed again and again how every character around her was attracted to her beauty, and in a way, that was their own fault too. These were not innocent boys; they were grown men, fully aware of their choices, yet they willingly got manipulated by her. They loved her. She used them. They were blind — especially Junseo, who stood by her from the very first moment and gave her endless loyalty, only to be treated with the deepest kind of emotional cruelty until the very end. His kindness, to me, crossed the line into stupidity, and the same can be said for Jae Oh, who also chose illusion over reality.
While many other reviewers say they didn’t like the ending, calling it disappointing or unfulfilling, I honestly think they misunderstood the entire purpose of the drama. Dear X was never supposed to be a comfort drama or a happy ending story. It was written as a confrontation — with trauma, obsession, manipulation, and moral decay.
The final conclusion I came to is that the sinners were judging the sinner for sinning: yes, Ah Jin was a sinner, but the people surrounding her were also sinners, just wearing more socially acceptable masks. In the end, Dear X doesn’t offer peace or closure — it holds up a mirror, and that reflection is ugly, unsettling, and brutally honest.
Was this review helpful to you?
