Jim Jong Jun

Love Next Door = Doctor Slump - Doctors

I do agree with that even though the drama is a romcom and it was going to happen between them anyway.

Would have been good if they continued with the chaotic friendship path for a while with both leads teasing and annoying each other but at the same time help each other to get their lives back on track and then slowly the romance factor was added instead of this overly used cliche trope of childhood crush.
Looking at the cast, It looks like there won't be some SML going for FL anyway, even the ex fiance's face wasn't shown or anyone was casted to make sure he won't be involved in story later on so there was plenty of time in later eps to go for the love thing.

- ML and FL's chemistry is quite to fun to watch. One is chaotic and feisty while other is calm and composed.
- I am glad they didn't drag and hid the reason why FL returned back home for long.
- The drama is quite similar to Doctor Slump especially in FL's scenario.
-Looks like ML's mom is suffering through some disease and going through treatment while keeping it hidden from everyone. Her married life isn't great either. I don't think she will make it till the end.

Maybe Shin jumped off the bridge and Goon jumped to save him but ended up getting hurt. Shin saved him from drowning and ran away after noticing help arriving.
Shin has too lived his life with a lot of mental suffering stemming from the extremely high expectations forced on him by his mother and the guilt that he in a way caused his brother's career to end.

Both the brothers wouldn't have lived such harsh life if not for their shit of a mother and joke of a father.

Finally this drama has started to improve a little.....the mother is still the most hated character for me. The care she showed for Shin, even if half of it she showed for Goon then he wouldn't have been in this state.

Looks like Shin and Sae Yan had a fling or dated for a while during their stay abroad and before coming back he ended it even though she didn't want to.

The drama is a mix of cliche tropes and generic story which has been shown so many times both in Chinese and Korean dramas. Even before starting this drama I didn't keep any high hopes cuz I knew how it will pan out. The only saving grace is cute chemistry between leads.

For a change it is good to see that ML's mom didn't change till the end to openly accept her fault and let ML stay with FL without creating any issues. She has been a cold and controlling person all her life and even till the end remains the same.

As FL said that ML's mom could do worse than simply suing him but she doesn't, also telling FL to come to US with her son as she knows how much he likes her showed deep inside her cold heart she did accept them being together.

(Kim Jung Nan is one good actress and I enjoy watching her act in variety of roles.)

Virgin folks coming out and crying over lead's virginity.

Gonna have to say this Ep went a little different from what I expected like the conversation between HJ and HY's mom. I knew there will be an argument incoming in this one but it getting resolved so fast in the same episode was nice to see even though it looks like a second breakup is incoming all thanks to ML's mom as I don't expect HJ to leave everything and go to US with HY.
Maybe they won't breakup and will do long distance for a while or maybe he won't leave at all.

As long as the person is a woman who is pretty and extremely rich

Oh yeah her too, she is quite fun and probably the only one who cares for ML and has been by his side.

Not even one character is likeable other than ML.

The most unlikeable and unredeemable character goes to Lee Gun and Shin's mother. She is selfish, cold and all she cares about his keeping Shin's reputation and wealth. Earlier she said she wants to do things right with Gun and make up for regrets but now she is back again as her normal bitch self. I don't think she even loves her sons but for her they are just trophies to be shown to world. SHE IS THE BIGGEST REASON THAT BOTH HER SONS HAVE SUFFERED.

Shin......I have mix feelings for this guy. I don't hate him but don't like him too.
FL is so bloody annoying.

The story hasn't improved shit but gotten worse.

Looks like JCW will only appear in first 1 or 2 eps and maybe shown in flashbacks later on,

I have a feeling that Shin pushed Gun in the heat of moment. For years he has been suffering inside of guilt followed by the extremely high expectation shoved on him by his mom may have turned in to hatred for his brother. He hates him for getting injured and due to which he can't live his life the way he wants as now the expectations which were on his brother are on him now.

Going and making out with the girl Gun liked for years or going for the doctor now is his way of taking out his anger on Gun and making him suffer more.

As for who saved Gun from the bridge is a mystery but in the past, looks like it was Ju Yeon and Gun mistook her for Sae Yan and fell for her.

Gun's mom has shown no signs of remorse or improvement till now as she is again busy with Shin and ignoring Gun. She really is intolerable to look at.

No, don't worry :

FL will give into temptations and hook up with SML while ML will watch from outside. ML will leave SK with his mom and FL will get pregnant with SML's baby. ML marries the girl of his mom's choice.
SML and FL will later name their baby son Hoo Young as to remember the guy who helped them fall in love again while ML has a daughter with his wife who he names Hong Ju to remember his first love.
He will return years later with his wife and daughter to live in SK and enrolls his daughter in a school. There Hong Ju will end up meeting Hoo Young...................

Still better than his role in MLL as a creepy gay manager obsessed over ML.

I am still trying to get over the image of YJO from MLL and SE didn't do much to help with it, hopefully this drama will make him forget his role of a gay manager who is obsessed over ML.

I loved KJE in BIS, ODL and TV, it will be interesting to see her in this drama.

Even in her KSH's previous drama "MLL" her ex hid about his illness from her and later on when he told her the truth it was just too late. In that drama SML was mature enough to let go of her and was quite a man about it, he didn't cry or beg her to not go for ML but instead told her to go with her heart.

I personally don't hate SML in this one as he hasn't done anything too shitty or played wrong tricks to get back with her till now. He is trying to mend things and asking for a second chance but still not being a bitch. Looking at the preview of him returning her letters back to her it looks like he will move on too.

ML needs to stand up to his controlling mom, looks like it will happen in E8. I do sense a breakup coming up to the one day relationship in E7.

So the cliche storyline continues, I think we all know how it will end :

E6 : Return of ML's mom , SML telling why he left and asking for another chance, Misunderstandings, Conflicted FL, will most likely end with a breakup to the one day relationship.

E7 : Staying apart, awkward encounters, FL and SML working together, ML decides to go back to US with mom,

E8: FL decides to end things with SML for good, Runs to airport to stop ML from leaving, ML finally stands up to his mom.............(HE)

WOW......not even one person in his family is likeable.

- A mother who neglected her son all her life expects him to call her mother.

-A brother who in a way was responsible for ML's fall both in sports and then goes on to make out with the girl he has liked for years ( maybe he didn't know his brother's crush or maybe he did). It looks like when his LS went to US to train, the girl went too and there they became close to each other.

-A father......he is just a joke at this point of time.

Atleast for now FL has shown some redeeming qualities and in future will help him get back to tennis later on but the family total shit.

WOW......not even one person in his family is likeable.

- A mother who neglected her son all her life expects him to call her mother.
-A brother who in a way was responsible for ML's fall both in sports and then goes on to make out with the girl he has liked for years ( maybe he didn't know his brother's crush or maybe he did).
-A father......he is just a joke at this point of time.

Atleast for now FL has shown some redeeming qualities and in future will help him get back to tennis later on but the family total shit.