Just finished this and the ending was NOT as touching as it could be in this type of dramas and this type of "love". And the main reason why is absolutely the INDIGESTIBLE AGE GAP and the horrible casting for the FL, which, I admit, IS charming and cute, but looks like the ML's 15-year-old daughter. That's why I've never imagined them in a romantic relationship. If only the FL had been/looked older, it would have been much better. And I couldn't enjoy them as a mentor and a mentee too, because they simply didn't show that much of that stuff. Certain important moments like declarations of love felt rather UNTIMELY and unbelievable. I just watched and thought that I DIDN'T BELIEVE one loved another.
Overall, the plot WAS entertaining enough for me to finish it, the characters were relatable and some songs were amazing and really pulled at my heartstrings, but the show just didn't manage to become one of my 10/10 favourites, unfortunately. What a wasted potential! For more details read my comment below.
Crap. Don't expect anything deep. Episode 2 was an unbearable drag with the novelist giving the FL stupid tasks that are obviously supposed to be funny, but they're not (especially the one where the FL had to shave and dirty a cat so that it looks like a stray cat). Oh, and the toilet poop-humour, of course — is the show aimed at pre-schoolers? They also wanted to "reinvent the wheel" by making a character like Jinsoo smile with the magnificent KJH smile throughout the whole episode, but it just didn't work. Better watch "Feel Good To Die" to see how KJH's smile can be used wisely, the character is very similar but a lot more complex (and funnier).
I'm on episode 7 and I don't know whether I will continue, the ML's character is becoming boring and uninteresting with his always sleepish/drunkish face, which is a huge problem for me. The 2ML, Soraichi's cock-brained, madcap character fails to fascinate me as well, he'll only pull the FL down and I really wouldn't like him to end up with her.
And as someone who tends to LOVE age gaps, I'd say that in this case the girl (though she's actually 20) looks like a 15-year-old, too young for the ML. For a couple, there's no sexual tension between them whatsoever. For a mentor-mentee relationship, for which I actually came here, their interactions are simply not engaging enough and don't make me smile, be at the edge of my seat or tremble. They're just bland.
As for the advantages - the girl's voice is amazing and the lyrics are beautiful, yet that song about wrinkles at the end of each episode is starting to annoy me.
The show has a depressive feel and almost all its characters suffer from unrequited love. Don't get me wrong, I realise that such shows can be beautiful in its own way. The first couple of episodes were right up my street (despite the smoking and stuttering FL, which is usually not of my taste) as I was in such a mood for something depressive and was in a similar situation of unrequited feelings. But at the moment (7 ep), the show just lacks the things I described above and because of these things I'm not so eager on continuing watching it.
This season had quite a promising beginning. There were a lot of intense scenes between the leads. Those scenes really impressed me and made me feel something other dramas can't. Trembling, I rewatched them a hundred times. Some scenes made me so happy, I smiled like an idiot all day after watching them. Family members asked, "Why are you smiling like that?"...
But the drama in the ending was an utter disappointment. It was full of clichés and unpleasant "surprises" that these clichés brought. You know, when in last episodes they suddenly reveal some extremely important new information about a ML. And the character feels like a STRANGER, a completely different person. These OUT-OF-THE-BLUE twists and turns suddenly make you feel very distant from the characters and you don't sympathise with them when you're supposed to. They felt SO unnecessary, they were just an annoying, boring time filler, as well as the 2ML, which, in the end, traditionally "allowed" the ML to be with the FL, that's ridiculous.
Why does the ML always have to be a CEO ? 😂😂 I'm looking for a boss-employee relationship drama and the search only suggests dramas with CEOs... EVERY single drama has a CEO male lead. It makes me laugh.... Why can't the ML be a team leader or something else?? The word CEO makes me sick 🤢🤮
Dropped at episode 4. What a wasted potential. I liked SO much the strict ML team-leader in specs at the beginning. It's so rare to find ML's like this. I absolutely love Yoon Kye Sang in specs, I like his facial features, I loved his appearance in Chocolate and wished he would repeat. This felt like a breath of fresh air at first despite the cliché of rich ML. But then they changed the leads' appearances and characters... and it became boring and annoying... and I dropped it... What a disappointment...
Watched this 6 years ago... such a disappointment.... I remember that the beginning while the ML was strict and no-nonsense was pretty interesting and he was such an eye candy to watch in those specs, but the rest after their first sex was boring and rather cliché (=most of the film), I really struggled to finish it. I really loved the ML in the beginning. It's so rare to find ML's like this. What a wasted potential. What a disappointment.
Cheap Chinese Copy. I liked much more the korean version which was funnier and where I laughed from the first…
+ horrible casting, they chose a man (45 years old) who is 9 years older than the lead actor (36) to play his father!!! I was utterly disappointed: he didn't look like his father at all. On top of that, the ML should be about that age. This seemingly little detail was the last straw and really spoiled my impression about the whole show.
Cheap Chinese Copy. I liked much more the korean version which was funnier and where I laughed from the first minutes. The male lead was more hilarious, touchy and more handsome. His acting was more believable, I really believed that he was a manager.
The Chinese version was a mess and it was like the author didn't really know what he wanted to show. Here we have this unnecessary childhood connection and trauma, the ML who is looking more like a k-pop boy band idol , a puppy, born for series about school (not to mention that they chose a man with a short height for this role and that here he wears designer brands with logos!!), and the ML's brother and the leads' parents who were absolutely a fifth wheel in this story. Oh, and they removed the beautiful age gap and almost everything that made the original story so unique. The whole story here was like the tea that the ML offered to the FL in the first half of the show. And the FL is also boring and pretty average, "copy-paste", nothing special, sometimes annoying.
I only liked the first two episodes, so I had to drop the show halfway through. The thing is, the first 2 episodes mislead the audience - the plot, how the leads treat each other, their personalities and the appearance of the male lead there are completely, incredibly different. In those episodes there is clearly subordination, they maintain distance, they are colleagues and nothing more, they never spend time together outside of work, he is a strict boss and mentor, he is shown as her team leader (his position in the company is not stated though) and she is his subordinate who hates him. And then in episode 3 (if my memory serves me right) it suddenly turns out that they've actually been friends all this time, they often spend time together outside of work, they have deep conversations and are quite friendly to each other. And they'd been friends long before the first episode. What a shame. The whole show suddenly turns into a mediocre cinderella story. He buys her expensive designer clothes and stays with her at a luxurious hotel as if he is the CEO of the company. Cha minhu suddenly becomes a stranger to me. And there's an annoying love triangle, and an annoying past trauma, of course. Oh, and the makeover of the male lead drew me up the wall, totally put a dampener on the show and ruined it for me. Let's be honest - they simply turned the unique, strict boss and mentor minhu into another handsome rich guy, which you can see in any other asian drama. I continued watching it only because I liked the story in the first episode - I thought it was realistic and unique enough and I loved the appearance of the male lead (I especially loved his specs and hairstyle). Why mislead the audience? So typical of kdramas, they always do that in first episodes!! Also also also the background characters were just plain daft. And they simply copied the plot of what's wrong with secretary kim. Just a POORLY DONE show, don't waste your time. One of the most STUPID shows I've ever seen...
Overall, the plot WAS entertaining enough for me to finish it, the characters were relatable and some songs were amazing and really pulled at my heartstrings, but the show just didn't manage to become one of my 10/10 favourites, unfortunately. What a wasted potential! For more details read my comment below.
And as someone who tends to LOVE age gaps, I'd say that in this case the girl (though she's actually 20) looks like a 15-year-old, too young for the ML. For a couple, there's no sexual tension between them whatsoever. For a mentor-mentee relationship, for which I actually came here, their interactions are simply not engaging enough and don't make me smile, be at the edge of my seat or tremble. They're just bland.
As for the advantages - the girl's voice is amazing and the lyrics are beautiful, yet that song about wrinkles at the end of each episode is starting to annoy me.
The show has a depressive feel and almost all its characters suffer from unrequited love. Don't get me wrong, I realise that such shows can be beautiful in its own way. The first couple of episodes were right up my street (despite the smoking and stuttering FL, which is usually not of my taste) as I was in such a mood for something depressive and was in a similar situation of unrequited feelings. But at the moment (7 ep), the show just lacks the things I described above and because of these things I'm not so eager on continuing watching it.
But the drama in the ending was an utter disappointment. It was full of clichés and unpleasant "surprises" that these clichés brought. You know, when in last episodes they suddenly reveal some extremely important new information about a ML. And the character feels like a STRANGER, a completely different person. These OUT-OF-THE-BLUE twists and turns suddenly make you feel very distant from the characters and you don't sympathise with them when you're supposed to. They felt SO unnecessary, they were just an annoying, boring time filler, as well as the 2ML, which, in the end, traditionally "allowed" the ML to be with the FL, that's ridiculous.
The Chinese version was a mess and it was like the author didn't really know what he wanted to show. Here we have this unnecessary childhood connection and trauma, the ML who is looking more like a k-pop boy band idol , a puppy, born for series about school (not to mention that they chose a man with a short height for this role and that here he wears designer brands with logos!!), and the ML's brother and the leads' parents who were absolutely a fifth wheel in this story. Oh, and they removed the beautiful age gap and almost everything that made the original story so unique. The whole story here was like the tea that the ML offered to the FL in the first half of the show. And the FL is also boring and pretty average, "copy-paste", nothing special, sometimes annoying.
1.0 for visiuals (=pretty faces, clothes and interior design)