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Super juiced with a ridiculous endless ride of never ending twists. It definitely started to feel overwhelming in the second half. At some point, I just wanted it to end already because there was nothing new or innovative about these twists anymore. I wish some characters had a bigger role in the story, like the detective's wife and the ex in-law detective.Was this review helpful to you?
Started good but...
It started off great, the likable characters were likable and the unlikable ones were unlikable. However, that didn't last very long before the drama started showing its cracks. Once we got a few scenes in the bread company I knew where things were going and what to expect. The usual cyclical corporate hell, love to hate them. The story wasn't eventful enough to fill its runtime, more often than not the writer ran into a corner and had to throw something random to stir the pot. An example of that is the end of ep69, completely random and unprompted. This also resulted into some strange pacing issues. All of the four leads got into a relationship and reached the "I love you" stage illogically fast despite them having a very recent ex-partner. Meanwhile, the next stage took a millennial to get to. How does the writer expect us to care about the couples if they don't let their relationship develop initially? The pacing issues continue when the main conflict of the drama concluded almost halfway through!Some characters were so damn worthless and redundant, such as Chae Won's friend (Bang Sook) who served no purpose other than being a feedback loop (literally) and then she was never seen again in the second half! Speaking of characters, Jin Woo's father had the worst plotline. During which, the drama hit rock bottom and the female antagonist was almost never seen. Therefore, there wasn't much tension after that and things got really stale. The lack of tension also resulted into a weak climax, or kinda no climax? I would rather watch Gyung Joo being a trashy menace and a headache over the cringy father. Most people would stick around just for the main couple Chae Won & Jin Woo being cute.
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Great sitcom
It's a great sitcom! Its strongest aspect is being consistent despite having a very long run which is hard to do especially with comedy. There are four groups in the cast: the ladies, the lads, the grandmas and the 2 older men, all of which were on a rotation giving each their turn to slowly build their character. However, the main stars were the three ladies, each one of them had a unique character that kept the sitcom lively and fresh. I think this is my favorite role I've seen from Ye Ji Won & Oh Yoon Ah & Kim Ji Young, and I've seen almost all of their other projects. One particular thing that stood out to me was how unbelievable massive the wardrobe was! Almost every character changes the outfit multiple times every episode for 232 episodes! Even the hairstyles were changing every 20-30 episodes. Despite being a sitcom there's also a story for the main characters that is very slowly and subtly progressing until the end. I really really appreciate that there was no younger/teen/kids cast involved, because including any would almost always lead to uncreative, uninteresting and cringy jokes. This sitcom gets a big plus from me just for that. However, it's not perfect, there are a handful of nitpicks here and there but I had a great time and I will be missing this chaotic trio.Was this review helpful to you?
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Typical
The usual makjang revenge nothing new nothing special. You stick around to watch them go mental and laugh at the absurdity. However, usually in these dramas once the character reach the bottom of the pit they either received a magical unforeseen help or make their way from the bottom all the way up by themselves. Unfortunately, this drama took the lazier route and spawn powerful elements to carry her through the revenge without putting in the efforts.The female lead swore on taking revenge 100 times over and over but in the end she forgave everyone and even befriended them further despite the infinite unforgivable crimes they committed. Kinda a big slap to the viewers on the face who stuck around for 150 episodes just to see the revenge finalizing. Did they really had to make the uncle turn into an obsessive psycho lusting over his nephew's girl in the last 3 episodes?
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Infested with unlikable characters
The female lead was doing an unbelievable amount of heavy lifting to not let this drama sink under. Both the actress and the character. The romance failed even at its climax, mainly because of the male lead. He failed to redeem himself from the jerk-ass status he established earlier on. Their love always felt one sided from the FL while the ML was there to give a reaction. However, the worst part has to be the fairy tale and its association with the older cast. One more thing, the incestuous brother was a bad addition to the drama.Was this review helpful to you?
okay
One of the most vanilla mystery/law/thrillers, it plays it very safe throughout. It tries to be as friendly to the viewers as possible. Not necessarily a bad thing but sometimes it can come across as too ordinary especially the 2nd half. Speaking of ordinary, the characters, none of them had the special spark or the x factor. They needed more "character" in them.Was this review helpful to you?
Kinda weak
It would have been much better if it was just a movie. Even though it's shorter, they still stretched it significantly. Aside from the initially set up, things didn't really start to move until episode 7.Was this review helpful to you?
Rough!
Not good! Characters, story, cast and pace were all pretty rough. Might be worth considering if you would like to check out one of Eugene's & Lee Yoo Ri's first works.Was this review helpful to you?
Too bland!
It's the usual love square quarrels of the 2000s, copy-pasted from every single one at the time but this time they're on the beach! It's also similar to Prince's First Love (2004) which also takes a place in a tropical-setting/beach. Anyway, I prefer this inexperienced newcomer Lee Chung Ah over the current more plastic-filled one.Was this review helpful to you?
Hmmm
The leads relationship was so frustrating, the equivalent of a teenage relationships problems. The female lead had only one voice tone that's silent whispering, this only added to the frustration. The drama in general was fine but the amount of small annoyances always got in the way.Was this review helpful to you?
Bad!
Straight up unserviceable junk!! Disjointed low-budget shallow story that had no redeeming qualities. There aren't many time-stops dramas but this is definitely the worst to adapt the concept. The drama took the concept of time-stop and ran it into the ground. The memes of time-stops in JAV hold more weight than this embarrassment. The worst power-fantasy junk anime is still better than this. The inexperienced cast only brought it down even further. It's not like they had a lot to work with but still couldn't sense any talent in their souls. You can blame one part of the production over another but in reality everyone involved was to be blamed here.Was this review helpful to you?
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She forgot everything and returned to the age of 18 but she behaved like a 13-14 years old all the time. I was expecting an actual drama but turned out to be a boring daily life of nothingness in the second half. Even if it wanted to go for a lighter rom-com route, it failed to capture that. I liked the set up and the cast but the 12 episodes in the middle lacked any meaningful structure. A bit of bad play with the amnesia part. Her memory came back way too late when it didn't even matter anymore. They had the opportunity to do a lot with what they had. At the end of the day I just want to see more main roles from Park Sun Young and even Ryu Soo Young.Was this review helpful to you?
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Watchable but....
I'm not sure what's the writer trying to do. There are 5 sibling who encounter every imaginable individual/familial problem every single episode. There was no period of recovery, problem after another until the writer ran out of episodes otherwise she would keep writing more problems. The problems didn't really help progress the story as much as just prolong its run. There's no real development. After the end credits they will get back to being their usual miserable selves but maybe they will drag more people into their misery now they're married. The formula is simple and the fix is even simpler. Reduce the amount of ridiculous problems, give the characters more depth and bigger problems rather than more problems. These problem should be characters defining type of problems.If I had to take a guess, the writer mainly writes daily dramas and writing for a smaller series was an unfamiliar territory for her. This showed by how things changed around the end, just like any daily drama. The change came because they ran out of episodes. I wanted to like the drama but it's in a non-functional state. Yet, it had some nice moments and some dark humor at times which makes it kinda watchable.
Shim Ran raped We Sang while unconscious, got pregnant, had a baby and gave him the kid to raise. In what world is that acceptable? The drama made a big problem of the smallest things but somehow they brushed off this matter like nothing and didn't get more than a couple of scenes. I think Shim Ran had a total of 4 scenes in the entire thing. There were several other examples just like that, this is how the writer treated most of the problems. They were added just for the shock value.
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It's the usual idol lead in a school with sobby troubled teens cliches done to the cringest degree. Not cute. Not entertaining. Not funny. Not romantic. And definitely not a good music themed one. This drama seems to serve as a promotion piece for Yong Jun Hyung.Was this review helpful to you?
Barely watchable...
It was unbelievably slow. It's the definition of uneventful. On the other hand, Jin Joo Hyung was unbelievably bland. The dude is stiffer than a plank of wood. Add to that his none existent chemistry. Nonetheless, the four leads relationships were boring anyway. And then there's Leo who spoke a few sentences in Italian and we never heard him speak later. Including a bit of Italian barely fit the budget!Was this review helpful to you?
