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I get confused with these months in the titles

"typical Bad Boy or Rich pouting, demeaning to women, gets everything at the end of Storyline man. You also didn't make a mumbling, weak minded, you can jerk me around and I will not fight back FL." THANK YOU! you voiced my frustrations with cdramas in the most eloquent way. I'm beyond tired, I'm hurt with how women are depicted on screen in stories that we're supposed to see ourselves in. I loved that this show gave us romance based on a healthy relationship. Both the leads are looking out for each other and understand each other's dreams, so when they achieve them together, if feels earned and significant.
Thank you for your poignant review and have a great day

You described perfectly why I loved this series and thank you for reminding me of the "good boy" scene. Such a sweet and earned moment

Perhaps you don't have a functioning dick. That would explain this review

Beautiful poster! Can't wait

i want to watch this

thanks

excited fo this

is this still happening?

i want to watch it

Can't wait for Jiah's return!

I hope so!!

mistake, it's finished

Lee da hee inception! I'll check it out, thanks

You raised some good points I had totally forgotten about like the cheating that doesn't lead anywhere and Joseph's saboteur. This show was just some ideas stitched together and it could hold up with better acting but doesn't. I don't think it was supposed to be 16 episodes, from the lack of storylines, I think they were pitching it as a movie, a bad version of the Devil wears Prada.

And I enjoy fashion in dramas, when it says something about the characters and their journey. But this one just featured kitschy outfits that fashion people wouldn't be caught dead in. With the exception of the always elegant big boss.

Anyway, your review was super helpful, I wish I read it before watching eight hours of this year's most mediocre show

That was my exact reaction to them calling themselves old at 27! I was like "you look like a baby, and you're speaking like one now".

Sweet series, but couldn't finish

There are few people who truly appreciate Sung Joon's hotness and even fewer that know the tragedy of it being wasted on this boring of a show! So I know exactly your frustration.

I also started watching this after I need Romance 3, watching him have explosive chemistry with kim seo yeon, I was ready for another hot romance. As you may guess, I was horribly disappointed by... whatever this show was. I can't even remember how many episodes I watched, it was that dull and uninspiring. I almost feel bad that I don't remember it enough to pick it apart as you so eloquently did. The only things that have stuck are:

a) he looked and was too young to play a 35 year old professor. I didn't buy it for a moment.
b) when the romance is based on deception, its only saving grace is a heartwarming, sincere confession that makes the other person forgive the lie and accept the love. That never happened, they just kiss for no reason.
c) what was up with the fl's character? Girl, you're in your thirties, not thirteen. How did it take her so long to see when someone was playing her. The signs were all there!

All in all, the show was so bad it eclipsed Sung Joon's hotness and that's a sin I will never forgive.

p.s. about him being paired with older women. That's the only thing they tried to do right. Let me explain, Sung Joon exudes sexiness from every pore. He plays so well the flirty attitude and needs someone to bounce it off with. So it works when the woman is older cause in Korean TV, unfortunately, the only women who are confident in their sexuality are the ones over 30. God forbid someone younger can be more than clueless. And this strategy has been successful as his relationship in I need romance and Ms Perfect can attest . Hope his 2023 comeback drama gives him the storyline, costars and hotness level he so deseves!

Girl, same.

It pains me to rating a female centric show so low, but this was a wasted opportunity. And I can tell they meant to write an engaging story about the multiple sides of the fashion industry, but failed in every way. Except for the most bland two leads, Joseph was the worst written. I can tell the executives are boasting about writing a gay major character and hailing it as progressive, when his awful portrayal borders on homophobic. They made him stupid, dramatic in the bad way, image obsessed and shallow. And for the love of god, namedropping in English was what broke my ears. Made them tacky when they were going for sophisticated.

Its only saving grace was Park Hee Jung deciding to leave and expand into international markets, finding a partner who truly supports her and helping the other model rather than having the awful kdrama catty fights.

And for a show supposedly about fashion, the clothes looked like forever 21 rejects, thrown together by a four year old girl.

I'm glad I'm not the only one upset by this show

I agree with your review and for that I'd give it an even lower rating, around 6. Besides being unrealistic, which in some degree can be excused by the nature of the makjang, it's emotionally empty. There's nothing there! The show forces you to root for the fl but she does nothing to earn it except being wronged! That's something that happened TO her, not something she did and deserves respect for it.

I love revenge stories because the protagonist faces their inner demons in their blood filled journey. They face their closest enemies and chance in the process. She didn't and that left me more unsatisfied than with any of the show's misgivings.

Ultimately, the misogynistic attitudes you mentioned made me resent this show -that was made on Netflix and is supposed to be more progressive and global. The "good" housewife gets everything and the inexplicably "bad" mistress loses. Take for example the penthouse, it also features someone who cheats and someone who's been cheated. But because the characters are layered and fleshed out and not defined by their relationships, it delivers a revenge that satisfies the stories of both women (it doesn't necessarily end well for both, but their arcs are finished by their actions not the morality they're forced into by society).

Adding to the fact that Kim Hee Sun doesn't do love lines anymore, the show lost all its chance for deeper characterization. After this one and The Fabulous , I doubt Netflix is the way to go

"as spicy as flour" is the perfect insult for this drama, I laughed a lot while reading your review. I had some expectation, as Ha Ji Won has given excellent performances in the past (and after this). But wow, it was mind numbingly boring and made you wish the characters ended up alone and miserable