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Borderline painful
From other reviews I've learned that the characters in the web novel this is based off were in their 20s while the characters in the drama are in there 30s and that definitely accounts for some of the problems I had with this.
For instance, there's a female work friend who dies things like gyrating around on a bed they're about to shoot a commercial for and going off on tangent about having sex in cars in the middle of a meeting about a car ad they're planning - the boss just lets her go off on this tangent without saying anything and then decides to end the meeting...? What in the world even was that?!
I felt no chemistry between these too at all. I kept thinking to myself this scene should be hot, but I've felt more heat in a single glance before than I was feeling during a make out session between these 2.
I don't know if that was because of the actors or if that's on the production team, but it was a serious disappointment.
Anyway.
Here are some notes I took while I was watching if you want to better understand why I gave this such a low rating.
Spoilers below.
Ep1- Borderline painful. The FL is rude & disrespectful to her Dr but timid as a mouse in front of an ill behaving superior. She does the trip & fall 3 times in this episode.
- The ML is a grouchy, exacting, perfectionist who physically pulls away instead of helping when she trips (this makes 0 sense & is not how he acts at any other time with her).
Ep2 - Wasn't obnoxious. Instead, it was kind of boring & I skipped through half of it.
- During an event he saves her from a piece of collapsing set & ends up with enough stitches in his back to leave a sizable scar.
Ep3 - The MLR I kind of feel bad for. Essentially, he's her ex because she had visions where she wasn't in his future, so she started treating him horribly.
He doesn't know about the visions or understand why she broke up with him.
Flashbacks have her acting like you'd expect from a psycho villain character. Confronting him at work, slapping his phone out of his hand & yelling at him for not answering her calls when she knows he's working.
There's also the scene where she breaks up with him, where they are in a room that is completely Trashed, including what look like broken/smashed cameras (he's a director & photographer).
- He comes across as pathetic showing back up 3yrs after she broke up with him, with a ring wanting to marry her. - According to flashbacks the ring was because she had told him to propose when he won a certain award.
- Her sobbing sounds So fake its borderline annoying.
- The ML isn't as grouchy; he goes out of his way to look out for & help her repeatedly.
He looks a little better with his haircut, but I still don't find him attractive.
- While drunk she tells the ML she can see the future when she kisses someone. She also tells him she's seen them sleep together - She asks to double-check the vision, so he kisses her, just your basic, frozen lip lock, after she is plastered.
Ep4 - He watches out for her the whole time she's getting drunk. Carrys her up to a hotel room. Buys her clothes & matching heels so she can change before work - She finds out at work the outfit is like a one of kind he got from the designer - and she doesn't thank him for Any of it.
- The MLR wants her to agree to go on 3 dates with him.
- ML now believes her visions, he says, "Okay, let's do it" "Tonight is good", but he has a condition...
Ep5 - Enter FLR being a nosy, interfering irritation yet again & he has to escort from the building, so instead of telling the FL his condition he says never mind we can talk tomorrow.
- FL tells him the only reason she wants to sleep with him is the vision, working with him since the vision is making her feel suffocated & she thinks she'll "feel more at ease" after she sleeps with him. He tells her to come over tonight.
- They're at his place (different clothes from the vision) discussing the details of the vision. This feels like a business deal - (snort) she even prepared a contract with a confidentiality clause. She thinks in the vision they sleep together because they're drunk, he says he only sleeps with women he's dating. If she wants to sleep with him, she'll have to date him, that's his condition.
- "Of all people, you & me, I can't imagine it" (she tells him despite constantly replaying the vision kissing in her head).
She is constantly low-key insulting the ML.
After telling him she can't see them dating she's on her phone looking him right in eye as she tells her ex she agrees to the 3 dates.
Didn't even make it to the end of ep5, I dropped here.
For instance, there's a female work friend who dies things like gyrating around on a bed they're about to shoot a commercial for and going off on tangent about having sex in cars in the middle of a meeting about a car ad they're planning - the boss just lets her go off on this tangent without saying anything and then decides to end the meeting...? What in the world even was that?!
I felt no chemistry between these too at all. I kept thinking to myself this scene should be hot, but I've felt more heat in a single glance before than I was feeling during a make out session between these 2.
I don't know if that was because of the actors or if that's on the production team, but it was a serious disappointment.
Anyway.
Here are some notes I took while I was watching if you want to better understand why I gave this such a low rating.
Spoilers below.
Ep1- Borderline painful. The FL is rude & disrespectful to her Dr but timid as a mouse in front of an ill behaving superior. She does the trip & fall 3 times in this episode.
- The ML is a grouchy, exacting, perfectionist who physically pulls away instead of helping when she trips (this makes 0 sense & is not how he acts at any other time with her).
Ep2 - Wasn't obnoxious. Instead, it was kind of boring & I skipped through half of it.
- During an event he saves her from a piece of collapsing set & ends up with enough stitches in his back to leave a sizable scar.
Ep3 - The MLR I kind of feel bad for. Essentially, he's her ex because she had visions where she wasn't in his future, so she started treating him horribly.
He doesn't know about the visions or understand why she broke up with him.
Flashbacks have her acting like you'd expect from a psycho villain character. Confronting him at work, slapping his phone out of his hand & yelling at him for not answering her calls when she knows he's working.
There's also the scene where she breaks up with him, where they are in a room that is completely Trashed, including what look like broken/smashed cameras (he's a director & photographer).
- He comes across as pathetic showing back up 3yrs after she broke up with him, with a ring wanting to marry her. - According to flashbacks the ring was because she had told him to propose when he won a certain award.
- Her sobbing sounds So fake its borderline annoying.
- The ML isn't as grouchy; he goes out of his way to look out for & help her repeatedly.
He looks a little better with his haircut, but I still don't find him attractive.
- While drunk she tells the ML she can see the future when she kisses someone. She also tells him she's seen them sleep together - She asks to double-check the vision, so he kisses her, just your basic, frozen lip lock, after she is plastered.
Ep4 - He watches out for her the whole time she's getting drunk. Carrys her up to a hotel room. Buys her clothes & matching heels so she can change before work - She finds out at work the outfit is like a one of kind he got from the designer - and she doesn't thank him for Any of it.
- The MLR wants her to agree to go on 3 dates with him.
- ML now believes her visions, he says, "Okay, let's do it" "Tonight is good", but he has a condition...
Ep5 - Enter FLR being a nosy, interfering irritation yet again & he has to escort from the building, so instead of telling the FL his condition he says never mind we can talk tomorrow.
- FL tells him the only reason she wants to sleep with him is the vision, working with him since the vision is making her feel suffocated & she thinks she'll "feel more at ease" after she sleeps with him. He tells her to come over tonight.
- They're at his place (different clothes from the vision) discussing the details of the vision. This feels like a business deal - (snort) she even prepared a contract with a confidentiality clause. She thinks in the vision they sleep together because they're drunk, he says he only sleeps with women he's dating. If she wants to sleep with him, she'll have to date him, that's his condition.
- "Of all people, you & me, I can't imagine it" (she tells him despite constantly replaying the vision kissing in her head).
She is constantly low-key insulting the ML.
After telling him she can't see them dating she's on her phone looking him right in eye as she tells her ex she agrees to the 3 dates.
Didn't even make it to the end of ep5, I dropped here.
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