Crazy Love (2022)

so many despicable people

this show deserves a lot more love. the main characters are great and their chemistry throw the show is amazing. enemies to lovers.

that said... every other character (except the FL family and best friend) are just trash people. so many of them living under a victim complex. to the point that even when I'm supposed to feel sorry for them or try to see things from their POV I still think they're just trash.

I've read other reviews that lead me to believe that not all of these trashy people get the punishment they deserve. I'm writing this right before I watch the final episode.

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Crazy Love is a very fitting title…

The ML is a total math genius (which is definitely NOT something I can relate to 😂) who’s narcissistic & self-absorbed. He is extremely particular so when anything or anyone doesn’t meet his exact standards, he lashes out. He’s an unpleasant person whom his employees both fear & hate. Though renown & revered in the world of academics, those who know him personally are jealous of his success & eager to see him fail.

The FL, on the other hand, is his total opposite. Lacking in prestige & experience, she allows others to use her, though not always realizing they’re doing so. She’s optimistic & friendly, believing as long as she puts in the hard work, her efforts will be recognized. But when she receives a terminal diagnosis, she takes all her repressed emotions over her career & lays the blame solely at the ML’s feet… & begins to plot revenge. ‘Cause if she’s going down, she’s taking him with her!

And thus much insanity ensues. With them both lying for personal reasons (ML claiming amnesia, FL declaring she’s his fiancée) they’re surprised to find themselves falling into a crazy love.

Personally, I didn’t really enjoy the first half of this show. It was too OTT w/ all the adults acting immature & petty in their quests for revenge. Add the ML’s annoying, delulu ex to the mix & my enjoyment lessened. BUT I’m glad I didn’t add it to my DNF list because the Leads make up for a whole lot of bad once they get together.

Seriously, they’re such a solid couple. Lots of stuff gets thrown at them but neither of them ever waiver. They’re committed to one another & they take their relationship very seriously (as people should!) They had me grinning so much at their total cuteness together - their obvious & constant enjoyment of simply being together gives such couple goals vibes.

There are, of course, those who loved this drama from ep.1 & also those who DNF’d it. But if you’re like me then if you can just make it through their ridiculous antics & make it to their togetherness, I think you’ll find much to enjoy.

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The things I always want to know 😏😉…
- F(r)K : 8💋
- 2G : 12 👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻
- BU : Nope 💝

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The Fights in this Kdrama are Crazy

HAD TO BINGE!!!!
This drama has it all...
- deep painful pasts✔️
- lead has a cool fam ✔️
- stalker boyfriend✔️ (always coming out of nowhere weather she wants him there or not - cringe)
- stalker boyfriend is controlling at times✔️(cringe)
- perfect length epilogue✔️
- crazy and cringy physical fights ✔️
- amnesia✔️
- revenge✔️
- cute, but all-too-sudden romance
- overreacting male lead ✔️
- jealous ex ✔️
- betrayal ✔️

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Easily the most toxic relationship in all the kdrama I've watched.

Another one to add to the "pretty good early episodes but that's it" pile. Except this time, the 1st episode is actually hot garbage, then the next few episodes become surprisingly great once the script is flipped on its head, and after that, we're back to bad again.

Amazing to me how typical kdrama have had the same format of 16 episodes of 1 hour each for decades at this point…

And yet, most writers continuously can't manage to hit the 16 episodes count without adding pointless bloat. It's really not that complicated, just add side story elements that are relevant to the main narrative instead of boring slapstick that has nothing to do with it.

This one also has the additional problem of wanting to delay the main romance so much (because they hate each other) that eventually it becomes entirely impossible that they'd ever fall for each other. Their mutual dislike has been a central part of their character for too long, which is also an undesirable side effect of my point above on bloat. If they had properly mapped the story, this wouldn't have happened.

But it was doomed to fail anyway because they made the male lead way too toxic, like irreparably so. Somehow even worse than in Secret Garden and that's saying quite something.

It's a bit of a shame because the lead actors Kim Jae-wook and Krystal Jung were great, but their characters sucked. Unless your thing is emotionally and psychologically abusive men (I'm not judging)... don't watch this.

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Hit or Miss

This drama is a hit or miss. It isn’t a typical rom com drama it’s definitely unique and some people might not like it. The story isn’t that straightforward. It tries to be a lot of things by throwing all types of cliches, but ends being underwhelming. For me overall it wasn’t my taste. Just watching because I like Krystal and Kim Jae Wook.

There are a lot of scenes that I find boring. To be honest I just enjoy Krystal and Kim Jae-wook scenes. I don’t care for any of the side plots: who’s trying to kill him, the secretaries revenge, or the friend and the brother dating plot line etc. I skip those scenes. There are a lot filler scenes and this drama is draggy and gets boring at times. The comedy is a hit or miss and it’s mostly miss except when they are fighting.
Krystal’s drama choices have been so bad. I think I’ve only really enjoyed 2 dramas of hers (prison playbook & player). I would say that this drama is better then My Lovely girl and Police University. I did watch the heirs that drama was cringey but her character was cute.

Kim Jae wook has a FLAWLESS filmography and I would say Crazy love puts a dent in it. The plot could’ve been so much better. Honestly Krystal and Kim Jae wook should’ve been casted in an Enemies to lovers Action Romance, something like Mr and Mrs Smith. Maybe a Bonnie & Clyde dynamic or Joker & Harley Quinn or a villain couple. The fact that they chose this script is mind boggling especially Kim Jae wook. I’d like to believe they chose it just to work with each other. Anyways Krystal and Kim Jae wook ARE THE PLOT. That’s why I’m watching otherwise it would’ve been dropped a long time ago.

There acting was good especially Kim Jae wook. Krystal’s acting was also good but there were some scenes that I find her acting lacking. Kinda expected more from her but she’s definitely improved A LOT.

OST’s are enjoyable and I like all the songs. Dive into you, Maybe, and Stay Alive are my favorite.

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Either you like it or you don’t ?

When I started this, it was quite intriguing. A really hateful CEO with people issues; quirky and narcissistic, a very bad temper and is full of himself. Then his personal assistant/ secretary who can’t stand him, but has held on and swallowed her pride for one year for the sake of her job.

How the story unfolds from this to her melt down and threatening him, to his accident, his memory loss, her pretending to be his fiancé etc.. all at the same time the people around him trying to find a way to destroy him and his company. It got quite annoying for me.. I had to FF here and there cos I found some characters just to cliche. It got better from Episode 10 onwards- better in the romance, better in the plot and theories, better overall.

One really good aspect of the drama is the character development of Noh Go Jin (ML). From being such a jerk- to realising all the awful things he had done, how badly he treated his staff and the ppl around him; and how he changed and turned a new leaf. It was really heart-warming to watch.

The final episode was good (at least better than Business Proposal 😭) A nice closure for all the characters involved, and a happy ending. The way the end was written was also sweet and memorable, a nice after taste to all the craziness. “You are my miracle that made me go crazy” 💜

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The story was interesting...

at first i thoght the story and actors were interesting and it was but in the last episodes i was so dissapointed.Stalking, hate mails and emails are really serious thing and how this drama viewed it was just wrong.This is a serious thing and honestly it was pretty awful how this kind of subject was processed as 'not important' When somebody stalks you, send you hate mails, a dead rat or makes lots of illegal things to make sure you lose your company you do not apologize and let it go! And you just don't take a worker who did almost everything wrong back because there would be never trust left.
The best ting was Sina's brothers and friend relationship.they were the cutest.

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bom...

Esse drama tem um estilo muito interessante de contar a narrativa, tendo a premissa uma vingança da secretária, apos descobrir um diagnostico de câncer terminal, para com seu chefe, um homem frio; calculista (trocadilho por ser professor de matemática) e perfeccionista as coisas.
O enredo é legal,mas ainda possui pontas soltas, além de se alongar demais em coisas que ja foi resolvidas nos primeiros capítulos da trama. Acho que poderiam ter diminuido um pouco desse enredo no meio da história pra que as informacoes dos 2 últimos episódios não ficasem so jogados.

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Era tudo para ser um dorama perfeito, mas a Prota deixou a desejar.

“Você é um milagre que me deixou maluco”

Não entendo a razão desse dorama ser tão pouco falado, tem um enredo muito bom. Na verdade eu amei a história em si, fui até pega de surpresa em alguns momentos por fatos que não esperava, e é isso que me faz gostar quando vou assistir algo. Esse elemento surpresa. O drama flui que você acaba nem sentindo, quando eu vi já tava acabando.

E qual foi a razão então da nota 7,5? Não consegui me simpatizar com a prota. Na verdade achei a atriz sem sal, sem muito carisma, a cara dela não mudava. E isso me deixava louca. Não lembro de já ter assistido um trabalho com ela, mas ao lado de Kim Jae-Wook (eu simplesmente amo esse ator) ela deveria ter reagido, não tem como não ficar encantada pelo mesmo. Não sei se também se a história não ajudou a focar nela, no começo eu até gostei da firmeza dela na vingança, mas no decorrer da história ela foi ficando sem graça. Ao ponto de eu até me perguntar como iniciou os sentimentos deles.

Gostei do desenvolvimento do prota, e como foi abortado. As vezes sofremos tanto por conta do passado que nos tornamos pessoas frias. Mas por conta do amor, ele percebeu os seus erros e soube pedir perdão para as pessoas que magoou. Achei linda a transformação do mesmo, não ficou algo forçado.

No mais uma história que vale a pena assistir e seria perfeita se não fosse a Prota. Mas essa é a minha opinião.

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