Reviews

How to Make a Great Robot Love Story

What initially looks like it could easily become a clichéd and rather silly romance between a human and an AI turns into a surprisingly wholesome, emotional, and character-driven story. It doesn't reinvent the concept of falling in love with an artificial human, but it understands how to make that concept work by putting the relationship and gradual character development at the center of everything.

The biggest strength is Ai herself. Her development throughout the series is wonderful to watch. She doesn't simply start behaving like a human from one episode to the next. Instead, she slowly learns about emotions, relationships, jealousy, affection, and what it actually means to care about another person. The little robotic mannerisms, reactions, and even sound effects constantly remind you that she isn't human, which makes the moments where she starts showing genuine emotions even more effective. The acting does a great job of selling that transformation as well.

Just as important is the chemistry between the two leads. Gen and Ai are simply incredibly wholesome together. Their relationship develops naturally through all the little interactions between them, and the series gives them enough quieter character moments to make their growing connection believable. It also knows how to use familiar romance clichés without becoming completely dependent on them. Some situations are deliberately ridiculous, but that's exactly where much of the comedy works so well.

And that's probably one of the things I enjoyed most: the balance of tones. One moment the series can be genuinely funny and cute, and shortly afterward it can become surprisingly serious, emotional, or even tense. As the story progresses, the sci-fi elements and questions surrounding Ai's existence become more important without completely taking over the romance at its center.

The supporting story is interesting as well, particularly everything surrounding Ai's creation and the people connected to her. It adds some mystery and eventually gives the series a much bigger conflict than the initially rather simple premise suggests.

Not everything works equally well, though. Some character decisions happen a little too quickly, certain motivations could have been explored in more depth, and several supporting characters remain little more than exaggerated clichés. The later part of the story also introduces interesting ideas and conflicts that don't always receive the amount of development or resolution they deserve.

But those problems never really damaged what I cared about most: Gen and Ai.

It's funny, adorable, occasionally ridiculous, surprisingly tense, and at times genuinely heartbreaking. Most importantly, though, it's just an incredibly wholesome love story with two leads I loved watching together from beginning to end.

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My take on the characters and ending

All I can say is this was so so satisfying for me it has everything I expected some people are uncomfortable with the deaths but I think everyone in that line of work knows what's coming and also on kusanagi she was weird or whatever word u want to use she was simply someone that liked having everything under her thumb the moment things spiralled out of her control she started loosing it slowly and K leaving hit her down completely she's a smart vicious profit driven person so all of a sudden finding herself in a situation where she had suddenly lost everything so too much for her to bear I mean everyone should know just how little she cares for human life lol she even removed her bulletproof just to look pretty enough

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Not 'Overdo', but 'Overdone'

Living up to its name, Overdo truly overdoes every aspect of its writing. The characters suffer from a complete lack of development from start to finish. Ren Susu is stuck in a frustrating loop, making the exact same mistakes and poor decisions over and over again. The writer's pattern is ridiculously predictable: every choice she makes is merely a plot device to make Murong Qingyi suffer even more.
Meanwhile, Murong Qingyi keeps pathetically begging for her love despite being repeatedly betrayed. In the end, the sheer amount of forced angst makes the entire story incredibly overwhelming and tiring to sit through. The poor writing extends beyond the main leads. Li Boze’s sudden personality shift feels incredibly forced. He was established from the start as a logical character with a strong moral compass, only to abruptly turn into a ruthless traitor simply because Qingyi investigates his father's case. To make matters worse, a character like Ye Zhi Hong is suddenly killed off for no good reason. Her death felt completely unnecessary, and she absolutely deserved a good ending.

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definition of peak

to be really honest, after watching penthouse i thought there would never be a drama that will be my fav but this show really pulled it off, the amount of plot twists are like actually insane. I love how complicated and twisted the storyline was, as if i could predict it from the start but this drama manipulated me in a way i started questioning everything from the beginning. what shocked me how detailed every episode was. i noticed it when I saw this the second time. from the very start, talking about the first episode, every detail contained pieces of information that concluded everything at the end. ep 5 has to be best episode but what I really liked was the moment, when he said 'mom, you knew your son was a psychopath' MINDBLOWING..

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This is SO GOOD!

Although it sounds berserk, I was relieved the series didn't shift to "But she's a robot!" midway through. They stuck with the robot concept and faithfully represented how a thing like Ai—a robot—once brought to life, has a life of its own. It did take me back to Frankenstein—realizing how we humans build things for our own comfort and needs, and then forget their value and importance so easily.

To see Ai as her own person—an individual who deserves all the respect, affection, and care just like humans do—through Gen's eyes was deeply heartwarming. Irene is such a good character, too. Even though her past meeting with Gen felt a little illogical, it was still highly enjoyable. Chanya was amazing in both her roles; I was awestruck by her beauty and acting.

The ending was bittersweet. I am glad they went all the way and showcased Gen's old age. Ai shutting down her system because Gen had died, and that means she had no purpose or reason anymore—that was such a beautiful way to show that they were both completely all in with their love.

Easily one of my favourite GLs of this year, I must say! ><

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One of worst C-dramas I've watched in 20 years of watching them

Horribly written, draggy and uninteresting script with so many plot holes it's like Swiss cheese but without the cheese. Performances are overly dramatic, while Yang Yang as Han Li is bland beyond anything I've seen (and I'm usually a fan, but not for his performance in this, it's awful), the characters are one-dimensional with zero character growth, and much of the story makes no sense.

We have a boy who wants to be a cultivator, eventually joins a sect and cultivates to become stronger, comes across a cardboard cutout villain who tries to kill him. and then there's a war, which we don't see much of before Yang Yang leaves to go to the capital and then we get a boring side story of a cult that needs to be vanquished. Then the war re-emerges, but none of it makes much sense especially when it comes to the behavior of the seniors in Han Li's sect, the villain (played by Wang Duo in one of his worst performances (I blame the director)) reappears towards the end and attempts to kill Han Li for the 97th time, and then it all ends on a ridiculous cliffhanger I couldn't care less about.

It's also one of those C-dramas with horrendously awful characters doing those horrible fake villain laughs all the way through as if they're people in a cartoon. Wanted to punch my fist through the screen every time I heard one.

Overall, it's one of the worst written, most badly-directed C-dramas I've watched in 20 years of watching them as it's bland and shallow and empty beyond belief. And yes, I dropped it at Episode 8 then went back to it and finished it. In retrospect, I should have left it dropped as, other than the pretty cinematography and the OST, the entire drama doesn't have one redeeming quality.

An easy 1/10. Do not recommend. I won't be watching Season 2.

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the ending SUCKED

the whole premise of the show was just questionable in the first place but i had hope that maybe Gen would end up with, idk... A HUMAN? i find it extremely weird that multiple people thought this was a good idea because are they trying to normalize AI replacing humans or like... its 100% not Myyu or Chanya's fault because they were absolutely amazing and i LOVED their acting (as well as everyone else in the show) but the concept of the show was just straight up weird so i blame the production team. i hate that no one insisted on telling Gen that Ai is a literal robot and shes absolutely crazy for being in love with her 😭 i had hope for this show but... 😶 i loved the OST though! Myyu and Chanya's voices are so amazing!

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Great Acting

I can't believe the show is finally over. I really had a fun time watching this every week however I must admit the first season did a much better job with the writing. I believe in the first season the suspense was better written like I geniunly didnt know what would happen next however this season I could basically guess what was going to come next.

Anyways I think the cast did a great job with what they were given especially Jeong JiAn. During those episodes where she was at the seaside town, her acting made me cry. Like her crying and screaming acting is just so good.

Overall I think this is a great show to watch and I would definitely watch it again sometime later in my life.

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Don’t waste your time

I watched the two main leads in Tide of Love and it was so terrible that I wanted to give them another chance. I blamed the production company and the script writers..

Nope it was everyone involved. These two never need to be love interests of the other. They did AMAZING in Sweetheart Service, probably because they didn’t have any kissing or sexy scenes. They work better with others.

I won’t watch anything else of theirs if they’re gonna be love interests of each other. I simply cannot.

This script was pretty strong. The direction, blocking and acting ruined it.

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