For now ep 9 has to be my fav Eps, munjeong and jiseok lovely moments, more changwon backstory+screen time (face card is lethal) and sanggi's PhD story!! Lovee (and also the landlord's screen time too~}
Half way in and the friendship and everything else over shines the main lead's romance imo. I literally did not gaf about the romance bit cuz I was really invested on the rest of the friend group 's struggles including the main lead's personal struggles NOT involving romance. I swear this drama would be better off without the exes backstory part and just went with it from colleagues --> lovers because it would work either way. Making them exes did not build emotional depth like I expected it to be.
Ending was not perfect but still good as it is. it leads a "huh? Thats it ?" Moment. I hoped things wouldn't be so easy lol but it's fine since the eps are short it's meant to be that way. As someone who started reading the webtoon recently, this was more like a fantasy the study group wanted, and the actual reality...was something. Lol. Also, I don't remember minhwan being this weak lol ? (Even tho he was not the best in fighting?) Lots of characters got cut off (and sunchul didn't join the study group unfortunately 😞) and I dont get why did all of the students being on study group's side suddenly? (Except for that student council gyujin his redemption is awesome!) in the webtoon, lots of those students still kiss YB's a**ses even tho Han wul is gone. Pi Han wul redemption is missed :( but let's see if there's gonna be s2.
Let me add on a bit- this is so weird as suddenly jaehwang,sangin and anti only appears in the last ep? They actually holds a significant importance in the webtoon, but ig well they're just bonus characters to let the main characters fight with lol. Btw, jaehwang and anti looks so hot compared to in the webtoon 🔥 more bfs haha.
As it appears this whole drama revolves around a specific time frame (a few weeks/months) [since hyeon wu just got out after everything) and it's already squeezing in so much arcs from the webtoon. So it's kinda weird as a webtoon reader but if Ur not it's fine since you can still watch it as a stand alone drama. Han wul and minhwan wasn't as psycho or op as in the webtoon and didn't have much character background. Hope it can be explained in S2.
Let me add on a bit- this is so weird as suddenly jaehwang,sangin and anti only appears in the last ep? They actually holds a significant importance in the webtoon, but ig well they're just bonus characters to let the main characters fight with lol. Btw, jaehwang and anti looks so hot compared to in the webtoon 🔥 more bfs haha.
As it appears this whole drama revolves around a specific time frame (a few weeks/months) [since hyeon wu just got out after everything) and it's already squeezing in so much arcs from the webtoon. So it's kinda weird as a webtoon reader but if Ur not it's fine since you can still watch it as a stand alone drama.
Han wul and minhwan wasn't as psycho or op as in the webtoon and didn't have much character background. Hope it can be explained in S2.