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180 on personality tropes, but was it enough?
By all means, objectively speaking I do not think it’s as low as 6.5 drama, but with how I personally did not enjoy the majority of it in the second half, that’s the rating it gets from me.
The only fresh thing this title presents is the flip on well known personality tropes - professional and cold male lead turns into a female lead, and empathic, well organized female lead is a dude. That’s honestly it, and it’s not enough for me.
Now that I finished the show it’s hard for me to pinpoint what it was exactly.
It’s not really a business show, since a lot of the business aspects were underdeveloped, especially in the larger scene and the relations between different companies and management. Out of all the cases I think only one was truly well executed.
The life and drama aspect of it was more of highlights of events, rather than a well paced story. Drama here, trauma there, some healing happening behind the scenes, some happening last minute, right before we roll the credits.
It leaves us with romance, and romance only. And that’s probably why I could not enjoy the show to its full potential - it did not sell itself as just romance, and it did not set up the story as just romance in the first two episodes. By the end of the day, the only well produced and written aspect of it was in fact… just the romance.
It tried to make many people from many different angles, and at the end everything was just: meh. I don’t want to even talk about the antagonists, because that was a failure of its own. Shallow, with little to no background, with basic schemes that should be obvious to the smart leads, and yet they were often not. The quick wrap up to give a resemblance of a closure. Was any of that even necessary? The story could easily exist and be improved without it all.
I honestly feel like they simply targeted the general audience, which means they did not really have a target audience in mind. They added a little bit of this and that, mixed genres, made it all mild and easy to consume and hoped people would like it. It’s generic.
I definitely liked the performances. Han Ji Min was the center of it all, giving a strong portal of Kang Ji Yun - be it at her highs, or lows, confident or insecure, brave or scared. Complex yet cohesive presentation.
For the directing, filming and editing - I was in love with how they used reflections, glass and forefront objects to frame the scenes. What’s more - great use of light. Love Scout wins in terms of visuals.
Overall, while it is a drama that focuses on healing, creating your own space, finding new priorities, learning and discovering yourself as a person, it almost never truly hits hard on any of these themes. Everything is overshadowed by the romance, a good romance, but not strong enough to carry 12 episodes.
The only fresh thing this title presents is the flip on well known personality tropes - professional and cold male lead turns into a female lead, and empathic, well organized female lead is a dude. That’s honestly it, and it’s not enough for me.
Now that I finished the show it’s hard for me to pinpoint what it was exactly.
It’s not really a business show, since a lot of the business aspects were underdeveloped, especially in the larger scene and the relations between different companies and management. Out of all the cases I think only one was truly well executed.
The life and drama aspect of it was more of highlights of events, rather than a well paced story. Drama here, trauma there, some healing happening behind the scenes, some happening last minute, right before we roll the credits.
It leaves us with romance, and romance only. And that’s probably why I could not enjoy the show to its full potential - it did not sell itself as just romance, and it did not set up the story as just romance in the first two episodes. By the end of the day, the only well produced and written aspect of it was in fact… just the romance.
It tried to make many people from many different angles, and at the end everything was just: meh. I don’t want to even talk about the antagonists, because that was a failure of its own. Shallow, with little to no background, with basic schemes that should be obvious to the smart leads, and yet they were often not. The quick wrap up to give a resemblance of a closure. Was any of that even necessary? The story could easily exist and be improved without it all.
I honestly feel like they simply targeted the general audience, which means they did not really have a target audience in mind. They added a little bit of this and that, mixed genres, made it all mild and easy to consume and hoped people would like it. It’s generic.
I definitely liked the performances. Han Ji Min was the center of it all, giving a strong portal of Kang Ji Yun - be it at her highs, or lows, confident or insecure, brave or scared. Complex yet cohesive presentation.
For the directing, filming and editing - I was in love with how they used reflections, glass and forefront objects to frame the scenes. What’s more - great use of light. Love Scout wins in terms of visuals.
Overall, while it is a drama that focuses on healing, creating your own space, finding new priorities, learning and discovering yourself as a person, it almost never truly hits hard on any of these themes. Everything is overshadowed by the romance, a good romance, but not strong enough to carry 12 episodes.
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