strawgal

I watch this as a cheer up, the leads are both great comic actors and the female lead not afraid of using her facial muscles,
The story perhaps could have been condensed but its typical k drama.

If you like angst and self flagellation this is the one for you. Its good because the actors make it believable, in anyone else it would be a sticky mess.
It does have a happy ending but you think you have been put trough ringer for it.
All the actors are good but Kim Young-kwang and Lee Sung Kyung stand out.

This was a comfort watch for me, although the idea of living with your teenage self is a nightmare.
The comedy is based in reality and not too slapstick, and I think its one of Kim Young-kwang best comic roles. Yes you do have the inevitable family drama but its not over done.

We were obviously watching the same drama.

I completed but was not impressed. I found the plot messy and disjointed, it reminded me of an old an old Hammer horror film where it's so OTT you are bordering on laughing. Looks great most of the time, I just didn't believe any of it.

Just why? I watched it thinking perhaps this will go somewhere, it didn't. The main leads do their stock characters, the ML does his stuff like he has in just about every drama he has been in and that makes it a bit less painful.

Its OK but just too tropey to be good, and there is not a lot to like about the ML. The 2ML is a lot more fun, the friend who is not much of a friend, The message you have to 'look good' to be valued is a just a bit sh!t, but almost well packed enough not to notice.

I think you do not have to take this seriously, this was made in a time when things were made for just fun, and that is what it is, just a light teen drama. Its not awful, but its not that memorable apart from the cute faces and the songs. Now it would cost a fortune to get that cast in one show.

Not really in to the circle of angst, in real life I have never met a couple who behaves like this.

I like this so much because I like complicated characters who we often have to work out their motivation, because in life people have various reason for what they do.
Its one I rewatch parts of and out the whole DEI message I think the idea of people being neuro divergent and seeing things in a black and white obsessive way perhaps is the most important, because its often a masked disability.
It has it's faults, the end is a bit melodramatic but as a whole it gives you a feel for a place, age and time, when we thought if you just worked hard you would achieve your dream.
The OST is one of the best ever.

Not good for me, I had worked who done it early on and I found the FL an obnoxious idiot and my husband did as well. Not a clever enough plot.

This is one of the few drama that stands the time, each character is someone you could meet in real life.

This could have been so much better if it was less eps, there was a lot of naval gazing and filler.
I find Shin Sae Kyeong a two expression actress, and one of them is blank.

Pretty at times but so little sense in the content, skipped a lot.

How can you like something as a whole but hate the ML and FL, ML a self absorbed liar and FL just dumb, IMO. Hated the ending.

I liked this because the FL wasn't really that likeable and Bae Suzy seems to play the same roles. It was an OK watch but at times just a bit of a formula.

Could only give this 7,5. Bad wig acting at the start, and a plot that often makes no real sense if you have a brain.
Lee Jin Wook plays a plank yet again, wooden. I think he can act but he is a terrible picker of scripts, or needs to pay the mortgage.

I liked this a lot because it has a great range of female roles. The story is good but it has a hard edge, and often ambiguous.

Some bits of this are amazing and some are just filler, and I hate the ending, cope out and totally unrealistic.

When you watch this you have to remember when it was written, and its a bit like a soap opera with some OTT characters. I watched twice completely in three months, because the script is clever and the story apart from the set up eps never flags. You get to see actors at nearly at the start of their careers and learn why people hark back to old k drama.