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THREE Routes to romance.
This show is better than its premise. I started watching because I like romances with less than enthusiastic roommates. I watched through three times because the secondary couples are FANTASTIC. Part of the comedy of the show is that three female friends get married in the wrong order. The lead female knows nothing about Dating or Love. She is just looking for a place to live because her parents gave away her apartment to her younger brother and his pregnant girlfriend. The second female lead has what she believes are sound reasons for preferring one night stands to dating relationships. The other best friend has a long-term boyfriend and expects to be engaged in a matter of weeks. The friends intertwining stories are Shakespearean in their authenticity and eventual resolution.What is delightful in the journey is that except for Female Lead's bad decision in the next to last episode, everything on screen is something that could well happen to real people. Two of the principal male characters and one of the female characters are obsessed with financial goals in ways that interfere with the normal process of dating. The second Male Lead lets his chivalrous instincts toward his crush get in the way of his company's welfare. The marriage minded girl-friend suffers an epic disappointment because she assumes that sharing a vision of the future is the same thing as sharing immediate priorities with her live-in lover. Even the shared apartment is presented a natural mistake. Both parties have names that might be given to either gender.
The FL hears about the apartment from a female friend so she presumes the landlord and fellow tenant is an another female. The ML learns about the prospective tenant through a male colleague; he presumed he was subletting to a man. There is no crazy emotional scene when the pair discovers the truth ; the FL apologizes that she cannot remain a tenant and leaves to sleep elsewhere. but her efforts go seriously wrong in a way that is neither comic nor far-fetched. And the failure sets up another scene well down the road. And the central scenario is now set, two single people of opposite sex are sharing a living space but trying to keep this information from their respective families.
Of course they fail, and of course one of them thinks the solution is a secret contract marriage. And what follows is a comedy/tragedy of expectations by outsiders being imposed on a couple who basically just met. Meanwhile an off-screen fling at a holiday party is the starting point for an unrelenting but courteous pursuit of an unconventional female by a decidedly traditional male. The second FL doesn't need a rescuer, she needs a supporter who knows the obstacles she faces. The second Male Lead has to convince her to let him be a friend, not just a secret lover. The third couple is already in love, but neither understands why the other party does not already know what they are thinking. Its boring to write about but heart-wrenching to watch
The acting is great, the characters are three dimensional, and enough of what happens takes you by surprise that you cannot wait to start the next episode.
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