Another thing that worked for it was the way they presented the story. It was nice to watch the two persepctives and how the two characters actually felt. However, they didn't work well with the whole fangirling story, which they abandoned after the first episode. However, the performances were good.
So, overall, seven out of ten.
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This storyline is cliche and goes from a daughter and mother at each other's throats and when the daughter is gone they end up missing each other. I do like the fact that they didn't focus on the romance but rather on the mother and daughter's relationship!!
The romance is still somewhat satisfying, though, yet still cliche.
Now there's nothing wrong with the drama being cliche, because every now and then I find myself watching dramas like this to fulfill whatever cliche desires I have in me.
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The story is nothing earth-shaking, but I was impressed with Do Hee's performance as THOROUGHLY unlikeable character. Selfish and UTTERLY self-absorbed, her character also showed zero growth in terms of maturing and getting half a brain until basically the penultimate episode. She treated her mother despicably, consistently so, and even managed to provoke her somewhat implausibly tolerant boyfriend to rage by her thoughtless self-absorption. That's why I was impressed with Do Hee's performance. In the first 12-5-12 episodes, there's really not one thing about her character that evokes sympathetic approval. She's just a whiny, self-obsessed spoiled kid who truly has no idea about the real world or how incredibly easy she has it. And Do Hee nailed it, well done.
Happily, there WAS a character to like and root for, and that was Jin Ye Ju's Ha Rim, the BFF of Do Hee's character. Ha Rim was sharp, cynical, insightful, and clear-eyed, and a perfect foil to Do Hee's Da Mi. She made the show fun, even when Do Hee's great portrayal of a selfish slob was so good as to be vexing.
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