K-Drama 
Khobfa is a green forest and deserved better
I started watching because the whole curse/luck concept was genuinely fun and had me curious about where the story would go. That part got lost very early in show, and then relationship writing is where I started losing interest.
The biggest problem for me is the side couple. They get so much importance despite their conflict feeling extremely forced. They’re written as ridiculously hostile toward Rin and Khobfa, but the story never gives them a convincing reason to be THIS angry. Eventually their forced hatred started irritating me so much that I didn’t even want to see them on screen. There have been plenty of hostile or unlikeable characters in shows that audiences still enjoy watching because there’s something solid behind their behavior like selfishness, jealousy, revenge, whatever; and they actually add something to the story. Here, it just feels like the production did these characters so dirty by making their hostility the source of conflict without giving it enough substance.
Rin and Khobfa also needed more time to actually develop. Rin didn’t seem romantically interested in Khobfa until episode 5. Before that, he mostly treated him as a friend and someone he accidentally cursed, so his attachment felt more like guilt and responsibility than love. I actually think that could’ve made for an interesting slow-burn if the show had explored it properly.
Instead, Rin rejects Khobfa and then, basically in the SAME episode, suddenly decides they should date 😭 Like bro, can you process ONE feeling before making another life decision? The switch feels so abrupt that the romance doesn’t feel earned, and Rin ends up coming across as pretty self-centered to me.
I still like the curse premise and think there’s a cute story here, but the forced drama really dragged it down for me.
The biggest problem for me is the side couple. They get so much importance despite their conflict feeling extremely forced. They’re written as ridiculously hostile toward Rin and Khobfa, but the story never gives them a convincing reason to be THIS angry. Eventually their forced hatred started irritating me so much that I didn’t even want to see them on screen. There have been plenty of hostile or unlikeable characters in shows that audiences still enjoy watching because there’s something solid behind their behavior like selfishness, jealousy, revenge, whatever; and they actually add something to the story. Here, it just feels like the production did these characters so dirty by making their hostility the source of conflict without giving it enough substance.
Rin and Khobfa also needed more time to actually develop. Rin didn’t seem romantically interested in Khobfa until episode 5. Before that, he mostly treated him as a friend and someone he accidentally cursed, so his attachment felt more like guilt and responsibility than love. I actually think that could’ve made for an interesting slow-burn if the show had explored it properly.
Instead, Rin rejects Khobfa and then, basically in the SAME episode, suddenly decides they should date 😭 Like bro, can you process ONE feeling before making another life decision? The switch feels so abrupt that the romance doesn’t feel earned, and Rin ends up coming across as pretty self-centered to me.
I still like the curse premise and think there’s a cute story here, but the forced drama really dragged it down for me.
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