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Surprising

I don't really understand the other reviews. I liked the drama more than I thought. I had low expectations because of the note on kisskh, but I really enjoyed the drama.

There was a review that said that the drama mistakes maturity for a lack of personality and is unpassionate, but I didn't think so. I thought the drama gets its identity from its steadiness. The pacing is very consistent, and I was personally invested in the working aspect of the drama, that lets you experience a bit of everything, from the idea of the product to the development, the design, the meetings, the tests, the unveiling... I don't want you to expect seeing the whole process and going deep into it, but we get glimpses of everything and mostly the interrogations and drawbacks at different steps. I liked that.

Second, the characters weren't boring to me. I liked that they weren't as dramatic as we are used to and rather grounded and honest about their feelings and situations.
- I liked the ML because he was different than the typically cold / uncaring male boss that becomes a different person when falling in love with the FL and is often a tsundere. He stayed surprisingly the same direct and calm person, that does not smile broadly but is very caring.
- The FL was very retable to me personally and I liked that she was competent on her own. She has talent and being with the ML only helps her psychologically to get her ambition back and let her talent shine. She is persistent and hard working by nature, she only got dispassionate because of her uncompetent boss.

Everything is pretty polished, and only the first few episodes felt a little rushed and unnatural, with classic tropes/events.
Some might say everything is predictable and there's no tension because conflicts resolve quickly, but I would say that I liked watching something with less difficulties/drama/suffering. And the conflicts do not resolve quickly because of some unbelievable Deus ex machina. I would say that most dramas are very predictable because they always use the same tropes. With this peticular drama, I was on the contrary surprised because the characters were reacting more directly/groundedly to situations instead of doing something dramatic. It was different than what we are used to in Korean dramas I thought.

To me, everything did feel more mature, and that did not make it dispassionate and tasteless to me.

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