Is about the struggles of growing up, about friendship and first loves.
All the characters felt real and I could identify with them, specially with Bok Joo, being torn apart between people’s expectations and your own wishes is something I definitely felt back in high school and my first years at college.
And Joon Hyung is everything I want: a best friend and a lover.
The swag gang friendship was amazing too! I love them!
Definitely my favorite kdrama ever!
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Ended up loving this!
I started this series a long time ago. I was excited because of all the great reviews. I got about a third into it and I just couldn’t take it anymore.One of my biggest pet peeves is people lying and pretending to be someone they aren’t. This started out like that. Then there was so much yelling and screaming from the girls, I dropped it.
I finally went back to it after a few months and I have to say, once the two leads got together, it became a different show. I ended up loving the last half.
Nam Joo Hyuk has been a favorite of mine since Haebek. He was cuter than ever in this. He is such a great comedic actor.
Lee Sung Kyung was so annoying at first with her pursed lips and loud personality. During my break I watched her in Dr. Romantic 2-3 and really liked her. So I gave her another chance. She is very talented.
The two leads were so hilarious together and made a perfect match. I ended up loving this series.
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It's a cute story
I’ve watched this show a while back and I remember really liking it, I still like it, but I feel like it doesn’t hold up to the shows I’ve watched so far this year. But to be fair this is an older sure, it’s 5 years old now so that’s possibly the reason. The scenes between the two mains are really cute, I love their relationship from the beginning to the end. These two have great chemistry, this is a very peaceful drama and very cute. It’s a nice pass time, I really liked watching it but something the scenes just become boring. I love how in this show gender stereotypes were being shown and being broken it was nice. When watching the show though I kept called Jung Joon Hyung, Nam Do-son from Start-Up AHAHAHA MURDER ME FOR THAT. This show is really comforting so if you’re stressed out you should go watch it. It’s an old one but a really good one. There are so many cute scenes in the shows and Bok-Joo's relationship with her friends was just everything, I also liked how this show dealt with Jung Joon Hyung’s anxiety. Also, I really liked the description of first love in this showWas this review helpful to you?
Lovely
Cheerful, lovely and engaging, this show is easy to love.
The conflicts and character journeys all feel relatable and real, with the coming-of-age struggles taking centerstage. The friendship-to-romance is treated with sensitivity and good humor, and the search for meaning and identity underscores everything with a lovely heartfelt storyline . The excellent cast makes everything pop, and Nam Joo Hyuk is more melty – and more excellent – than I’ve seen him, ever. Let’s not forget about the chemistry that this two have, make my heart flutter some times.
I have watched this drama in one go because I was so engaged with the story.
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What more can I say then WOW
This kdrama is amazing, let me just start with that.I've been watching quite a few kdrama's lately and this is by far the best romantic drama I've seen in a while.
This drama also doesn't just talk about romance and the beautiful love story between the strong female lead and the male lead.
It talks about what college life can really be like and it deals with the stereotypes of weightlifting. It shows us that, even famous people or athletes, can have mental problems and that everyone struggles. It normalizes going to a therapist and talking about your life. It shows that women don't need a strong man and that they can be strong themselves. It also shows how rough being an athlete can be and how strict diets can be. It shows us eating disorders and so much more.
I really recommend watching this show if you like a little romance, it's amazing.
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A must watch!! Don't sleep on this one!
I absolutely loved loved loved this drama. It was reccommended to me by my friend and she did well in telling me to watch this one.I loved the leads the second leads
I loved all the damn actors and actresses
The great cameos too oh lord!
The story was cool, i wished i lived in that drama honestly lol.
I will most definetly rewatch this over and over again, and i reccommend anybody to watch this little gem right here.
I SELFISHLEY WISH THIS DRAMA DIDN'T END.
God i love it!
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You should watch this one (its sweet but a tad boring)
You would recommend this to others. (maybe)
You could watch this again, Not me.
While there is nothing wrong with this one, I wouldn't rave about it too much. The lead pair is really sweet but I find the chemistry missing. The story is slightly slow-paced but its worth one watch if you are the type who can give it time. The male lead is simply cute. Will be checking out his other dramas definitely.
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First I'll say it's the only sports drama that kept my attention all the way through.
Overall though, I thought the setup between ML and FL and how hard she'd already fallen for 2ML and was in love with him for so long made for a strange drama. I really liked Joo Hyuk in this though, it's the first role I've seen him play a character very different from his others. The chemistry between FL and ML was cute, but very minor because she was in love with someone else almost the whole time. I thought FL was a good actress but her character needed to be a little more down to earth and with more backstory. She acted bizarrely, walking stiffly and making funny faces, pouting and acting dumb, and being mean and cold to ML all the time. It was kind of funny, but after a certain point, the behavior got a little weird because they never showed any other side of her.
It's also one of those dramas where most of the drama was spent walking around the same place; this reminded me of Cheese in the Trap in that way, where nothing much seems to be happening as they go about their days, but it's still entertaining because the pacing is so good...Cheese in the Trap was better in that regard IMO, this started to bore me a bit with them continuously running around the same place trying to find each other after making phone calls and silly "problems" that kept coming up. Not to mention the obsessed and unhinged ex of ML whose character was milked to death.
It did keep me watching though and I thought it was cute. But it's overrated. Don't go in expecting something 8.8 on the level of Goblin or something. Not sure why this drama was rated so highly, I have a feeling if it came out today people would think it was pretty average.
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Swag
This is a drama about love: romantic love, love between friends, familial love, love between classmates , love of sport, love of self, love from authority figures... almost any sort of love you can think of, there's an example in this drama. And it's a beautiful thing - as a viewer you can't help but feel embraced by all this love also, and it is a good feeling. The only sport where this sense of love and camaraderie was missing was with the rhythmic gymnasts - and they seemed quite miserable compared to every other student; miserable, jealous, and enjoying the problems of others instead of the more nurturing and friendly environment enjoyed by the swimmers and weightlifters. In some ways this also feels like a treatise on coaching methods.I'm not going into details about particular characters - each of the mains had a different trajectory, different obstacles to overcome, and different ways in which they finally learned and grew., whether it was finding their ways to the beginnings of their times as national athletes, or coming to realize and accept the end of their competitive career. I will say that Bok Joo and Joon Hyeong's love story moved me a lot - they were both such sweet characters, and romantic love based in a strong friendship is quite endearing to me. Most of the supporting cast ere also well-developed and had their own journeys and opportunities to grow.
Two small things I disliked:
1. Nan Hee was obnoxious, irritating, loud, consistently in the way, and essentially acted like she was still in middle school throughout.
2. The rhythmic gymnastic athletes other than Si Ho essentially disappeared from the show somewhere in the middle, and the contrast between how unhappy they were in the beginning compared to the others was striking - they took their misery out on the weightlifters at first, but then just kind of vanished midway through.
All in all, this is a refreshingly funny drama, and definitely worth enjoying.
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Definitely worth it!!!
This was the first drama that I ever watched back in 2017, this is the drama that started everything for me. Including now K pop. They need to make more dramas like this fr!!!Right in the episode first you fall in love with it, because of the visuals and just overall it's very relatable. After watching ep 1 I learned that the main leads were dating when they were filming this, which made it so much more emotional and exciting for me. They broke up long ago though :(. But still, their chemistry is EVERYTHING!!!!
This drama is as well super funny, and at the same time, it touches on themes such as losing a passion for something that is really important to you/ your career...
JUST WATCH IT<3
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An hymn to sweetness
I approached this show by chance, as usual. I use to listen to music from k-drama OSTs and this is a way for me to put in my watchlist new shows. Even this time the method worked fine and I had the chance to watch this sweet story.It's true: the story is a light one, and the drama within is not a tragic one. But that's a story about good feelings and sweetness and love. A fairy tale? Yes: it is. A modern one where the leads are not a prince and a princess but the two clumsy toads, the two boisterous ugly ducklings, the story of two youths and their transformation in young adults, of their feelings and their growth to a sweet love story. And sweetness and love are the key elements of this show, not only between the two leads, but also with the rest of their relatives, their friends, their acquainted too
The plot, nothing unconventional TBH, based upon the well run-out structure of several youths' love stories we can find in k-dramas. But anyway brilliant, apart some irritating support roles.
The leads, simply awesome. Lee Sung-kyung is constantly well identified with her character Kim Bok-joo, and she shows herself well talented and credible even during the weightlifting scenes, not having she exactly the phisique du role (I read an interview where she admitted having gained more than 10kg to play Bok-joo's role). Sweet, beautiful, charismatic, funny, loving. A special mention to her eyes, which in this show often stands out in all their stunning beatutifulness. Nam Joo Hyuk is in his typical role, seen again in Twenty-Five Twenty-One and Start-Up, just saying. His character is a perfect sweetheart, mature, fascinating. I liked a lot both of them and the way they shared together the scene all time long, being both fun, showing chemistry and never ending loving sweetness as a couple.
The support roles, some nice, other too much rough or even annoying. I appreciated the path to redemption Si-ho walked changing her being from an obnoxious frustrated negative gymnast (sharing the traits with her discipline mates) to a woman, who accepted to get rid of the past and the huge suffering it brought in her life and to face herself, turning finally to a more comfortable self well-being.
The music, nice OST, I have to say thank you to it for having let me finding the show.
Nice the phography and the direction.
Enjoyed till the end, tears included for the sweetness: recommended the vision.
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ive rewatched this show thrice and i could do it a hundred more times — this show is a gem. its cast, story, and humour are flawless, it feels like a warm hug to watch it and it never gets old. i can’t say it ever felt like the story was dragging for me, maybe around the plotline surrounding the protagonist and the male lead’s brother, but that itself has so much value to add. amazing shows like this make you feel like you’ve grown and matured along with the characters, and i will always treasure it.
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