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Dinner Mate korean drama review
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Dinner Mate
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by kingsqueen
Aug 29, 2020
32 of 32 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 6.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 4.0

Relaxing type drama but not without flaws

I was really looking forward to this drama because I love Song Seung Heon, and I became a fan of Seo Ji Hye in Crash Landing On You. Seeing Ye Ji Won in the cast list was also a plus for me. I had a slow start due to having to watch on my laptop but I really did like the first episode. The cinematography was well done and the music was pretty good. The first several episodes were really great and I felt very relaxed watching this show. There were things I enjoyed about it, but there were a lot of criticisms as well and the plot just wasn't that great. I'd like to see SSH and SJH paired up in something better than this because the chemistry between them was pretty good.

So here come my nitpicks: I wasn't excited about the ex-lovers showing back up in the plot and annoyingly they never went away. That was a pretty old school trope/cliché - the ex that won't give up even though that person is in a new relationship. No Eul also seemed to be way too young to have been in a relationship with Hae Kyung - especially for such a long time. There are a lot of times that age gaps don't bother me. This wasn't one of them. It was awkward. I thought both exes were overly clingy and that the main leads coddled them way too much. It interfered with their relationship to the point that I was annoyed. The main couple were also mature age-wise but the script-writers kept blocking any scene they got cozy in with stupid interruptions that would have been understandable if it was a drama about a much younger couple. Add in to that a year time jump at the end where Do Hee starts acting a bit wishy washy about marriage...I was just super disappointed in the ending. There should have been a bigger payoff for all that frustration.

SSH, SJI, and YJW were the high points of the show. I think Son Na Eun and Lee Ji Hoon are both horrible actors and really dragged the show down a lot.
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